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Ugh, the season of head colds and other charming viruses. There has been an outbreak of a viral pneumonia in this area. It can be scary stuff.

Ann thinking about how you and others who are moved or moving have to give up your medical people. I would find getting a new hair stylist daunting! Although in some cases it doesn't matter if I move or not, providers I really like are retiring or moving themselves.

Yes, the weather is full on crazy here. A reprieve tomorrow with a high near 30 (!) but Thursday, low of 6, high of 15, then possible 40s during the weekend.

Our Christmas tree is up courtesy of DH who had the day off yesterday. I'd like the garland up on the stairs, and then I'm not sure if I care about the other boxes and boxes of stuff get put out. But maybe I will feel differently this weekend.

DD left for Boston today, but she will be back in 3 weeks, so I am not too sad. We had a great family holiday. DS will come on December 21, and leave December 26 to join his girlfriend's family at their home in Palm Springs. Not too bad!

I'm using another sick day on Friday. DH and I are spending the evening at a hotel downtown, so we can attend a holiday show. We're also going out to dinner at a Minneapolis institution, Murray's (it's a steakhouse/ supper club), the kind of place where the servers have worked there for 30 years. The first time we ever dined there, was to celebrate our engagement. So I'm looking forward to a fancy weekend!

Muscle acts as "padding" too. With your low calories, I worry you aren't preserving muscle!

Makes me cold to think about your weather - I had a down jacket on at 62 degrees LOL.

I do think as we get older there is less muscle and that may be why we are bonier at higher weights.

146.8. Back down! I'm feeling bonier than usual at this weight (I think). I was happy when my collar bones made a reappearance but now I can feel my hip bones, my butt is so boney that sitting on anything but cushy surfaces is uncomfortable and I can feel my individual ribs on the side and back. I know I'm too thin when I can start seeing my ribs in the upper chest (not quite there yet!) One of my goals was to be able to fit in my long blue wedding dress for DSDs wedding in May. It fits now! I for sure want to get to a normal BMI (just a few pounds away) but may need to rethink my goal of 130. It seems like my body composition is just different now, which makes sense as I age.

Lots of errands to run today. Need to return a sweater, make a Costco run and go kitchen table shopping. We are seeing hard wood floor damage (scratches) under the table by chair that DC1 uses. The chairs are barstool height and he is short so has to scoot to get the chair in. They are about 300 lbs. and I guess that is too much weight for scooting. We took the little plastic buffer off the chair leg bottoms and added a pad but unfortunately the floor damage is already done. I think we may go with a standard height table and chairs (less scooting)!

Ann, we join you in the cold weather. 7-20 degrees with the windchill today. Have I ever mentioned that I hate Wisconsin winters?

Morning, all! :)

It's 19 degrees and sunny here with heavy frost on everything.

I saw my doctor yesterday about my postnasal drip and sore throat, and he diagnosed that I have HMPV (human metapneumovirus), this season's lovely head cold virus. See https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22443-human-m etapneumovirus-hmpv He prescribed Metamucil DM and (if I start feeling really bad) Azithromycin.

I've seldom suffered from respiratory illnesses, but in the last 24 hours I've learned that Metamucil DM does NOT like me. And I don't like it! Last night I felt like I was stoned--and not the good stoned, but the "Geez, I feel so much worse now than I did before I took this crap" stoned.

I'm about to take my second pill, but if it has the same effects on me as my first dose I'll happily just suffer my head cold symptoms.

Nonetheless, I got so much accomplished yesterday and feel good about that. This morning I'm going to take it easy and indulge in my favorite thing--soaking in my jacuzzi tub. At noon I'll head back to town to accomplish more to-dos--make final 2025 health insurance decisions, change my financial beneficiaries, cancel 2025 utility services, clean out my safe deposit box, pay my annual real estate and personal property taxes, line up furniture donations to Habitat for Humanity and Boys and Girls Club, etc. I know all this will end, but there's so much work involved in saying goodbye not only to a long-time home but all the services that keep it running.

So even with a head cold, it's a gratitude day. On frosty mornings like this I think of folks who don't have warm homes and beds. We are all so very lucky!