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Liz, we must know what SUV you are now driving! Congratulations on the new vehicle. I love having a new vehicle, too!

Ann, what exciting finds in the attic! I found a huge box of my aunt's photos on my last visit with her. I went through every photo and took some keepsake photos for my enjoyment and sentimental indulgence. I'm glad I did.

I'm with Paula on the "stuck scale". Mine really isn't stuck. My body is simply playing bouncy ball with it! 223-224 all week long (though I had the one day jump to 225...). I can see it's going to be slow going from here on out. I think I will increase my dose. Might as well get her done! I did shoot up a few extra units last night because my pharmacy always overfills the vial. Instead of 63 units (which is hard to measure precisely) I gave myself 70 units. Happily, I feel the difference today!

I shared my new mobility/fitness goal with my trainer and she jumped on it. We started practicing towards it last night. I am already feeling in my hamstrings and glutes. Yay!!!! I can already to a few in a row on the solid ground, but not an entire set of 8-12 without losing my balance. She promises that doing the move on the bosu ball is actually easier. I'm not sure about that, but we shall see.

Dog shows this weekend. I need to get some of my chores on my to do list ASAP so I can start ticking some of them off! I do not know why I feel like I am busier now than when I was a young teacher, but I swear I am! I never seem to have a day without an obligation. Ron suggested I take a full week off from everything following my last day of school. I don't know if I can! It sounds utterly terrifying! LOL!

Friday Frolics to one and all!

155.0. That scale just does not want to go down! Though like Peps, I definitely feel slimmer and the ?You?ve lost weight!? comments keep coming! Those are good things!

Laundry, baking corn bread muffins to go with the BBQ pork ribs for dinner tonight and scrapbook crap sorting on the docket for today! Such an exciting life I live, though honestly I have little to complain about!

DSD and fiancé visiting the sick aunt who is now out of the hospital. Still waiting on her biopsy results but the docs are thinking it is small cell lung cancer which is aggressive and 5 year survival rate very small. Most of the kids in that family (all smokers) have succumbed to cancer. Nasty addiction and nasty diseases it causes!

What kind of SUV did you get Liz? I have a Buick Enclave and like it quite well. I?ve always wanted a red Corvette but they are difficult to get in and out of. I had a red Firebird Transam (T top) when I met Ben. Didn?t have it for long though, we both sold our newer nice cars to make a down payment on our first house and the dogs and kids followed shortly and we became a van family!

Ann, love that you have been able to be a world traveler! I still need to get a passport to see something outside of the US. I did go to the Bahamas on a cruise trip while in grad school (before you needed a passport for such a trip), but that is the extent of my world travels! Heck, DS2 travelled to Europe the summer after he graduated!

Hope you are all having a Fabulous if not Freaky Friday!

Yes, that! Realistically, because my parents had 7 kids by the time I was in college, I can't imagine they had any leftover bandwidth to worry about me. I remember even as a child being amazed at everything they went through just to feed and house us. My dad grew a full acre garden of vegetables and fruits, and he and Mother canned their butts off in the summers. I still don't know how they pulled it off.

And of course, we always only ever had one bathroom. Can you imagine a family of 8-9 today having only a single bathroom!

And now I'm obviously deep in old codger land. But mostly I'm just having one of those "How much everyday life has changed in the last nearly 8 decades" moments.

I'll see myself out now.

Yesterday, with the help of the strong woman who for the last 5-6 years out here in the country has been my right-hand person, we got the attic emptied. She bounded up and down the stairs carrying boxes of ancient tax returns, emptied picture frames, forgotten clothes, and other crap I don?t need. Then we drove to town and donated stuff to the hospital thrift store that someone else may love.

What I did discover and am now plowing through and loving were hundreds of photographs, letters, and other memorabilia saved by my mother who lived with us for nearly 10 years before she passed. One of the best treasure troves are the letters I wrote to my parents in 1966-67 when I was at university in West Germany (that's what it was called then) detailing my wide-eyed enthusiasm for being 20 and 21 years old in Europe with no adult supervision.

During the ten months I spent overseas I never once talked on the phone to my parents or anyone else stateside. We only wrote and received letters written on thin blue paper delivered via airmail, which as I recall required a more expensive stamp. Nearly 60 years ago, the passage from youth to adulthood was unfettered by helicoptering parents, cell phone connectivity, requests for permission, or well-meaning, unsolicited advice. Back then, independence was so much more available to young adults than it now is. I realize that makes me sound like an old codger longing for the good old days (I don't), but I so appreciate how much that year shaped me and how I have lived my life since then.

I hope we all have a good, productive day today. I have so much more to get done. It seems there are layers and layers to moving on.

Foie gras -- ermagerd! I don't have it often, but I love every fatty molecule of it when I have a chance to enjoy some.