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I do love movie popcorn so much! In different weight loss scenarios I would bring something more "appropriate" to substitute, but one day I thought forget that, I'll just make the popcorn work in my eating plan. And I lived happily ever after. :)

Down 17 pounds and a new NSV for me, my collar bones are becoming visible again! Yay!

Poor Justice. I hope the vet can give him something to make him feel better. All my dogs do is sleep after having cleanings/extractions so Justice not being able to sleep is concerning!

CC, glad your Dad has the meds he needs on board now! My Dad could be stubborn like that as well! We had to fight with him to get him to shower once a week! Glad you enjoyed the Twister movie!

Another hot day here. DH and I have dinner plans with another couple tonight. DH is getting a little frustrated with my lack of wanting to eat. 'You've changed" he says. Kinda like CC mentioned about her parents, DH likes that I'm losing weight but misses his let's go for ice cream friend or let's indulge in this or that friend. Hardly anything sounds good anymore so I'm always turning him down! I do tell him to go ahead and go get ice cream if he wants and I suggest picking up ice cream at the store so he can indulge if he wants. I guess it just isn't as much fun when you don't have a partner in crime! Personally, I'm loving not having those strong urges! First time in my life I can say no and not feel deprived!

Time to make my iced protein coffee and hop in the shower! DC 1 is visiting. Can't afford AC at their place so is resting in the comfort of ours! DS3 will come home for dinner tomorrow night. He only lives 1 1/2 hours away but we see him the least! I will miss the kids when we move! I love hanging with my adult children!

Weight 123.2. The same for 3 days in a row which as I recall from former daily weighing doesn't happen that often.

I am very worried about Justice. He has had his teeth cleaned at least 3 prior times and had extractions previously but bounced back really quickly. He had 5 extractions yesterday. He drank a lot of water last night but wouldn't eat. He was miserable last night and is shaking and moaning softly this morning, and won't even drink water. He is absolutely exhausted as he hardly slept from the time I picked him up until this morning which is also unusual. I need to contact the vet as soon as they open this morning.

I was supposed to spend the day with SILs and several other family members today at the beach, then a meal but right now my priority is Justice.

So I don't think I mentioned that my car apparently became home to some mice this winter. I knew they had gotten into the engine compartment because there were seeds. I was having a couple of weird electrical issues which I asked the service people to look into and they found seeds, chewed foam, chewed wires and one dead mouse in various places. I guess that's why it had smelled odd. They have to pull out a bunch of panels to examine all the wires. Luckily I stumbled on the fact that auto insurance comprehensive coverage includes rodent damage so an adjuster is going to look at it Tuesday. Initially I had a catch-22 argument with the claim person who said that no one should have touched the car until the adjuster looked at it. I pointed out that I didn't know there was a mouse problem until the panels had been pulled by the service guys so I couldn't have reported it and furthermore that the adjuster wouldn't be able to see it unless they were open. She finally got it. Yet another thing to worry about though.

I will report back on Justice. Have a fulfilling Friday!

Back from today's activities. We went to the house where JFK was born in Brookline. It is run by the National Park System, and has just reopened after being closed for many years due to a mix of Covid and renovations. DH was delighted. As an Irish Catholic, he is a big JFK fan.

Our next stop was the Isabella Stuart Gardner museum. Wonderful, eclectic collection in a beautiful Italianate building. It is probably best known for the robbery in 1990, where the robbers came dressed as police, convinced the guards to let them in, and made off with 13 paintings. The museum chose to keep exhibiting the empty frames.

I think the maintenance phase of these medications is yet to be carefully studied. And according to my WLS clinic, bariatric surgery patients are not part of any of the studies, so we are making it up a bit as we go along.

I'm not decluttering in the manner most of you are. Stuff leaving our house currently is my clothes, papers, books. DH has tried to let go of a few things. One closet in a spare bedroom has boxes of slides, in those plastic carrousels. DH has been working on transferring them to digital format (he has some gizmo that copies them), but I know he will NEVER dispose of the actual slides. He also has bags and bags of negatives from pre digital photos.

CC, I hope there is a quick answer to your Dad's health struggle.

Peps the weather this summer in Minnesota, and the upper Midwest has been crazy and not normal. Big swing from last year when you were cooking in Stillwater.

Tomorrow off to Minnesota, but not until 9pm. I sure hope we don't have any big delays.

Unfortunately very few of my pictures ever made it to albums, just boxes and bins.