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You've got to get the new clothes! Its too much fun, and so nice for you and DSD to hang out.
A good hairdresser is everything! I had one DD and I went to for years, but during Covid she moved to Arizona. When Covid restrictions lifted, I asked my niece if she could fit me in after she saw her regulars, and I liked her work so much I decided to just keep driving the 60 miles one way to see her. Outside the metro, they charge a lot less, so I always give her a big tip. To me, she's worth more than she's charging, and deserves to be appropriately compensated.
Closing in on 6pm, and I've had a routine blood draw on the way home, been out to dinner, and am now getting ready to put on my jammies. I feel quite accomplished.
Our first sizeable snowfall is supposed to start tonight and everyone is losing their minds about a couple of inches. This use to be a nothing event when I was younger, but we're in the 3rd winter of below normal snow.
Today my previous supervisor was in our building and stopped by. He swiped a key card (where'd he get that?) and popped into my room. After I hugged him goodbye, I felt a wave of loss. He solved so many problems before they ever became problems. Its been 3 tough years with all the administrative turn over. He was a gem, and really had our backs and even better, a huge advocate for our students.
The music last night was outstanding. We've done 5 Pub Nights this year, this was the clear winner. Great evening.
We have no big plans. I wanted to visit my parents, but the snow will be heavier where they live, so I don't think we'll risk it. Maybe just a cozy day at home. No Super Bowl party on Sunday. We occasionally used to attend one hosted by a friend of DH, but they have moved. I am perfectly content to stay home, and I think DH is also.
Care to share your guacamole salad recipe?
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!
133.5. Went shopping with DSD today and got some cute clothes. Size 2 pants - yay! I still have lots of clothes from my closets to shop from but it is fun to get new stuff too!
Weather is cold. Already dreaming of somewhere tropical to go to. Won?t happen until next winter but something has to get me through this yuck!
Meatballs in mushroom gravy over rice for dinner. Family favorite! Hope DSD will approve. She?s a pretty picky eater!
Peps, I say go for the silver streak. I bet it would look fabulous. Diane?s purple idea would work too!
Miss 150, had to laugh at you being a hairdresser ****! I pick one and stick with her until I have to switch, even when I sometimes don?t love them. Very happy with my gal now though!
Liz, congratulations on 2nd place and what sounds like was a pretty good game of golf!
Diane, hope the vision clears up soon so you can do something more exciting than laundry!
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!
Hey Peps, why not do purple?!
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Greetings all
It's a sunny bright day with big puffy clouds. The bay is smooth as glass and bits of steam coming up through the forests. Looks like the land of faeries. But I would have preferred overcast today as I went to the eye doctor to see about doing my cataracts. Driving home with dilated eyes was a trip. So I have an appointment to do my left eye February 20. This doctor has been around for a long time and has done half the eyes in the county. A couple of years ago he had some health issue and now has to use a voice assist device. So he sounds like Popeye under water. But he seems knowledgeable and very with it and helped me with the decisions on what sort of lease and which eye first. So be it. I will start to worry about this later.
So no studio today since I could not do much art with weird vision. Came straight home. May go to the gym later.
Hairdressers! So hard to find a good one. I thought I finally had just before covid but that one quit and it's been hit and miss ever since. I am like you Bonnie - going to whomever I can find. Mainly I want speedy as I don't like sitting around the salon all day. Hope you get your art arranged. A process that should not be rushed - it will come to you.
Yay Liz on finding consistently good fish. Yum. Yes that club sounds so fun. A must for retired people. I have my studio but I wish DH would find a hang out. There needs to be such places that are not bars.
Peps I bet you will have a big drop one of these days. But every day you don't is muscle.
Guess I had better find something to do that does not require acute vision. Laundry it is.
Diane S
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I have a hair cut scheduled for the 20th. I was going to be bold and do a gray streak in the front (to match my silver sides), but I feel myself chickening out. LOL!
214 - Dag-nab-it! Boo, hiss... The bouncing back and forth like I'm "in maintenance" is becoming a bit old and frustrating. At least exercise is spot on. Maybe I'll do cardio today. Make it a "5 days in a row" week for the gym!
Shot last night. I was surprised that I had a complete 75 unit dose left in my last vial. I'm going to miss how the old pharmacy always added a little extra to each vial. I can tell by looking at the new pharmacy that those vials are on the money!
I'm sleepy again today. Not sure why my sleep is off this week. My dreams are vivid this week, too. Most are mildly stressful, too. Hoping for a reset this weekend.
Ron is down with a bad back. I feel for him. There is nothing else like a bad back that can stop life dead in its tracks!
We have a friends' dinner tonight, which is always fun. We are trying a new spot with great reviews, called Digger's Diner. Lots of protein choices, so I'll be happy.
Not much else in my neck of the woods...
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I hear you on provider issues. DH saddens every time a beloved tinker, tailor, sailor, barber, checker at the grocery store...retires or moves away; as if they have personally deserted him. In our case, we are (relatively) close enough to commute.
With hair, I am a regular **** and wander into any shop when the whim to mess with my hair moves me. The last time I purposely committed to an ongoing relationship with a hair dresser (deciding last year to go uber short) and give heart, hair, and soul to maintaining said style who, after producing the precision cut of my dreams, promptly retired. Heart broken, I have returned to my place underneath a street lamp going with any Tom, Dick, or Hennryetta with a pair of sharp scissors and comb.
Today is a play day doing whatever or not as it pleases me. I toy with the idea of getting the artwork onto the walls, but can't, for the life of me, decide what should go where and absolutely don't want to drive "nails" into walls only to change my mind. So I continue to procrastinate and will leave it for another day. Hopefully it won't take another 6 months to decide.
My totally phenomenally spectacular and tasty semi-deconstructed version of guacamole salad (picked up while living in Laredo years ago) is up center stage tomorrow for Superbowl Sunday. Go, Chiefs!
goal!!! August 20, 2013 age: 59 High weight: 345 (June, 2011) Consult weight: 293 (June, 2012) Pre-Op: 253 (Nov., 2012) Surgery weight: 235 (Dec. 12, 2012) Current weight: 145
TOTAL POUNDS LOST- 200 (110 pounds lost before surgery, 90 pounds lost Post Op.diabetes in remission-blood pressure normal-cholesterol and triglyceride levels normal! BMI from 55.6 supermorbidly obese to 23.6 normal!!!!
Welcome back! So good to "see" you!
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!
