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Yikes! I think Kentucky might be colder than WI today! This sure is a crazy bit of weather!
I just heard Hump Day on the radio today, so the expression isn't obsolete!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Greetings all
More sun today. No dog chase. I spent the morning doing banking stuff for the gallery - setting up record keeping for the new year and bank deposit. I had three things to do but only remembered two of them so I had to go pick up w2's from the accountant later in the day. Went to the gym and did my waddling. My legs hurt from the dog chase because several times I sat on the curb trying to get her to come to me which she eventually did. But standing up from curb is major effort. Need to do something other than treadmill to increase leg strength. Maybe slow but inclined treadmill.
Went to the studio and did some glazing for the Friday fire. Gossiped about last nights gallery meeting. There is one person who gets up and talks about everything. Last night she was thanking other committee members for what they had done and it was sort of like an Academy Awards speech. I was giggling. Might have some progress with our landlord- from - hell lease.
Ann its so cool that you already have new friends and a book club. And that good stuff is being read. I envision you with a book lounging in your leopard chair with a glass of wine. Claret.
Yep we love Murders in the Building. Thanks for the tip on No Good Deed.
Liz your poor SIL. Hope she can get some relief. Good to tell the kid to help out. Meanwhile stay warm. Sounds like icky time to be in FLA.
DD I feel your pain. The VA has been advertising on television for workers. I can see no benefit from hiring freeze especially for VA. Can't do enough for our vets. So sorry for Ali.
Peps as my mother declined she slept more and more. She would often go back to bed after a late breakfast. She had parkinson's but also some form of demential. But she was mostly peaceful and not agitated so that was good. Hope your dad is comfortable.
CC drought indeed! Rain and lack thereof has been bizarre.
More chili tonight and that should be the end. But it's pretty good if I say so myself.
Diane S
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Today has been tough. As I posted on Facebook, DD found out yesterday at 5pm that her job offer was rescinded. They were just finishing up the last of the paperwork in HR. She went to graduate school every Saturday for 3 years to train for this job and did a 3 month unpaid internship. It is her dream job, and she was so, so happy when they offered it to her. She would have been able to move to a better apartment, one without mice. The only saving grace is that she hadn't officially resigned her current position so she is not out on the street and keeps her insurance while she figures out her next move.
So this Executive Order of a hiring freeze kills the dreams of maybe thousands, maybe 10s of thousands. People who already quit their job, sold their house, moved before they realized their new job was rescinded. And this is not in the name of efficiency and curbing waste. Does anyone think the VA has too many doctors, nurses and therapists? Would anyone think the VA might need to hire more doctors, nurses and therapists in the next 3 months? They won't be able to, because the hiring freeze is a minimum of 91 days.
The homeless veterans who she would have got housed (she was quite successful at this during her internship) will have to wait that much longer to get off the streets. But maybe heartfelt exclamations of, thanks for your service, will keep them warm.
Again, DD is better off than some who thought they were starting new jobs, so we can be thankful for that. But God I hate to see her dream crushed, and so unnecessarily. I can't bear to think about what's coming next for some families.
I did get some good news on Monday about a trip I wasn't expecting. But I'm compartmentalizing for now, because I don't want to soil it with my current angry, mournful and pessimistic emotions. More to come.
I also enjoy OMITB. I like the three detectives' chemistry.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
I liked the early seasons of Only Murders in the Building better than the most recent one.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
I think they are all different. Deceased DH did sleep more at one point (it reversed at the end) but not in the middle of the day (went to bed early). I think sometimes trying to cope with trying to understand what is going on around them gets very tiring.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
on 1/22/25 9:36 am
Definitely drought. When Pensacola, FL has gotten 3 times the amount of snow as Flagstaff, one of the snowiest cities in the country, you know it's a drought and a La Nina year! So far it's 92% below historical average. Everything is so dry.
I finally got my prescription straightened out. It wasn't a shortage, but a hiccup in their system allowing my savings card. When it couldn't reconcile the issue, it just was ignoring my prescription fill request. Grr. So we did the Costco run yesterday.
We're watching the 4th season of Only Murders in the Building. Such a cute show!!!
This afternoon I have my HOA board meeting, but that's all on the schedule. I think we're going out to dinner.
Take care all.
Thanks for the kind words about Berkeley, and sorry for any confusion between Lucky and Berkeley.
I am slowly admitting to myself that as much as I love the dry weather, we are heading towards a drought, so I am hoping we get some more rain soon. On my way to Santa Cruz on Monday I passed a reservoir that was over its banks in June. On Monday it looked to be only 3/4 full. Not good for the end of January. This is our rainy season and we haven't had much rain. I'm hoping that this mid winter dry spell means lots of late winter and spring rains.
213.3 this morning. Still going the right direction, but oh, so slowly. Though I was wiped out yesterday I did pull myself together and got to the gym. Always feels good when I'm done.
Liz, question for you: Yesterday my dad was asleep when I arrived at about 3:30 in the afternoon. He woke up while I was writing him a note. Usually he wakes up fairly quickly from his afternoon siesta, but not yesterday. He didn't want to visit but go back to sleep. Is that a common symptom in mid to late stage Alzheimer's? Did you see that in Paul?
Wednesday/Hump Day came very quickly this week for me. Makes me quite happy! LOL! This short timer would like to say, "4 months, 7 days!" But who's counting, right??? I AM!!!!
127.0 on the scale. Still hovering between 126-128 and trying to hammer down this new set point.
Happy Hump Day. At some point in the distant past that's what we called Wednesday, but I haven't heard that nickname in years.
Book Club last night was lovely. I've missed my Kentucky friends. We (six of us) are currently focused on Pulitzer prize winners. Last night's selection was "March" (yes, I know one doesn't put book titles in quotation marks, but I don't have access to italics here, so quotation marks it is). It's a book about Mr. March of "Little Women" (see above) and what happened to him after he went to war. It is an amazingly insightful book about so many issues, albeit a tough one to pick up sometimes because it's about some horrific events. Nonetheless, I recommend it highly.
Today I'll run some errands, shop for a little food, and snuggle up. Low here this morning was minus one degree Fahrenheit. There's a little sun, which makes it nicer than a lot of cloud cover.
That's all I got, folks. Hump it up!
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
