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201.0 down a few tenths, but big whoop...

Hope DD is safely back in Minnesota!

Back at school today for my band teacher colleague's emergency dental needs. Gotta be a friend in such situations. I've been requested for next week, too. Looks like it'll be pretty easy to make some pocket money subbing for my friends, if I feel like it. I think I will take the job for next Tuesday. What the hell? Gives me something to do other than puttering around the house and trimming dogs and working out.

Trainer kind of pushed me about body goals on Monday. She thinks I'm looking "little", but cut. She was pushing because she wants to design workouts to support my goals and she is getting conflicting messages from me. So, of course, me being me, chewed on that for most of yesterday. I have to admit that I want to be small. What large bodied person doesn't want to be small after being obese for so many years? Yes, I want to be muscular, but I prefer the leaner look on me rather than the bulky look. That means fat loss and keeping muscles as they are. I don't even know how to equate that to a number on the scale, so I'm not going to try, but I also have a number in my head - 188. But honestly, I've been toying with 181 because that would make it an even 100 pounds down after starting tirzepatide. Then that leads to having to look at what is realistic, what is body dysmorphia talking and what is eating disorder thinking and what is rose colored glasses thinking? It's this kind of stuff that makes the "journey" hard for me. Sometimes I think it was easier to focus on the scale, instead of all the psychological stuff that comes with becoming obese.

Enough of that!

After school I have more trimming on Buster, have to trim Aunty Kathryn's dog and get to the gym. Luckily it's a choir practice day for Ron, so I won't have to worry about getting something together for dinner. I'll probably just make some scrambled eggs for myself and call it done.

Winning Wednesday!

119.4 - unchanged. 33 degrees at 7 am this morning - colder. But it is supposed to reach 70 by early afternoon, then this cold spell will be over. DH got up at 6 am because he has golf this morning, then got an email saying that the start of it is delayed by 45 minutes.

I hope our DD finally got home! She and her DH must be exhausted, but what a trip they had!

My DD arrived at 10 last night instead of 7:30. Apparently so many planes were trying to catch up on flights cancelled the prior day that they didn't have enough gates to handle them at Westchester airport. Anyway, there was no going out to dinner or getting takeout because where we live the latest any kitchen is open is 9:30 and even pizza takeout ends at 8:30. So I cooked an easy bolognese which actually didn't take long and tasted really good with one of those prepackaged salads. Didn't get to bed until midnight though and sleep was rather elusive at first.

Cape Cod is still mostly out of power with tons of special crews working on it. Getting worried about DH's home because the pipes may freeze with the power out for a long time and there is no one there to shut off the water. The electric company sent a notice that it was targeted to be back on at midnight this past night but it is still out. The other concern is that someone will need to shovel a pathway for oil delivery if that is supposed to happen soon.

Plans for today are a Justice walk, probably the Beach Club for lunch then a mother/daughter dinner out this evening. Oh and a bocce game for DH and I sandwiched in between. Last game of the season.

Have a Warm Wednesday!

Yeah, hauling furniture used to be easy but not at this point in life. I hope Tesla can skip the dental cleaning. Justice has to have it done every year. The last time he had it up north something went awry and he had a terrible night after it. He had to go in for more pain medication and hydration likely because he had a large molar removed. This past year he was back to having just a cleaning and did really well again.

Justice gets me out! He doesn't even have a coat yet jauntily does his 3.5 miles in this chilly weather. The only thing he hates is pouring rain or snow/ice he has to walk on.

OH is being weird with oops, we're sorry pages...

191.4 today we went to Out of Africa, a wildlife park in a town nearby. Mostly it was disappointing, with hard to see animals. But at the end there was a Safari bus tour where giraffes ate leaves from everyone's hands and zebras raced the bus. So that part was fun. Then we went to lunch that was just meh (it was just that kind of day!), then came home and napped in the sun.

We have everyone's excess degrees. 72 today which is 17 degrees over normal. Near 80 this Friday which is 23 degrees above normal. My folks are thrilled!

Not much else to report here. Hope everyone is well!