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Love what your therapist said

130.5. Almost there!

I count 4 activities for you Liz! A Justice walk definitely counts and so does going to dinner even if it means you don't have to cook!

Still cold in Wisconsin! Yuck! DC1 and I are making lasagna for dinner tonight. Happy they like to help in the kitchen! Bonding time and they learn some good life skills! They learned quite a bit of cooking skills in scouts but Mom's foods are always the best. All my kids can cook and love the tried and true dishes of their youth!

I did do the treadmill yesterday and today did a walking and strength training DVD by Leslie Sansone. It was only 30 minutes but it felt difficult today. In a month it will feel easy. The DVD is intervals of stepping (marching in place, side steps, kicks) and then upper body resistance exercises with lighter weights as you are doing squats or lunges. I was sweating! Feels good to be moving the body again, even if I need to talk myself into it daily!

Not sure what else is on the docket for today. Maybe balancing checkbooks, getting ready to meet with our tax guy or editing Hawaii pics!

Your day sounds awesome Liz, water, socializing, and Italian food. If you have time for a good book, even better!

I read to books so far by Elizabeth Strout: Oh William! and Lucy by the Sea. I've read Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton previouslyby the same author. I think I will look for some more of her titles.

Yesterday we laid low, more sun by the pool. Its warmer today, but looks to be more overcast. We have dinner reservations at a place called The Summer House at Disney Springs. We will probably go.

Tomorrow we have to check out at 10am. Our flight isn't until 8:45pm. We initially planned to hang out at the pool, go have an early dinner, but now the forecast doesn't look too good. We might see if we can pay for a later check out.

Geez, poor DH! Unfortunately a percentage of surgeons seem to have a difficult time listening maybe because they believe they know everything. I have dealt with them in the past. Best to work with a level headed one.

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Snowing here again--started yesterday, still snowing. Diane, don't come back!

The much advertised-in-the-news Kentucky floods aren't an issue for us, but the Ohio River is really up. A monthly luncheon we usually attend (Louisville Committee on Foreign Relations) meets at the Boat Club, and it's been relocated due to high water down on River Road.

Yesterday was a booger! I left home at 7:30 and drove to Columbus, Ohio, (113 miles from home) in a bit of a snowstorm. It wasn't dangerous, but it required massive concentration. The reason for this trip was to be sure I was ordering the right IKEA components for my closet/dressing room. I had an awesome consultant and brought home some things that were in stock there, ordered some more that will arrive next week, and learned that the really big 8-foot cases that every closet requires are out of stock. They're supposed to be back online the last week of March, which means we'll probably have to have the contractor come back after we've moved in downstairs to install the IKEA containers/drawers/hangers/shoe racks/jewelry tray/etc.

I have an appointment this morning at 10:30 at a sister gym to mine where they have a big ole standing gizmo that will better evaluate my body fat. It's not the gold standard, but it's better than that silly thing I squeezed at my gym the other day.

DD, for some reason I've been obsessing about some things you shared a few days ago about your mother's (clearing throat) self-centeredness. Jeez, honey, I'm sorry you have had to navigate those unpleasantnesses. But the good news is that you turned out so very well, so kind, and so generous. In fact, all you guys who are parents--whether your own parents were saints or not--are lovely with your kids. Although I didn't have to develop those skills, I do appreciate what good parenting looks like, and y'all get gold stars.

The big news is that hubby has to have surgery this Friday to remove all the long screws in the four toes on which he had hammer toe surgery in late September 2023--17 months ago. The screws are gradually working their way out of his toes--one is already sticking out. He's been in pain ever since the surgery and said so every time we've visited the surgeon since his surgery. I'll not say here now what I think about the surgeon who has pretty much belittled the problem until two weeks ago when the first screw actually appeared outside his toe, and then he freaked out, saying, "We have to operate now!" No **** Sherlock. Needless to say, because of our remodel the timing of this surgery is awful, but there's no way to delay it, since otherwise infection will set in.

So now I'm channeling my deceased sister who often said, "The only way through is straight down the middle." Let's do this!