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Waves to Lana.. Tess.... Saltine and everyone else... have a great evening0
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WEDNESDAY
Good morning,
Missy - where do you get Lemon/lavender/peppermint blend? Your balance ball almost looks painful.
Let us know if that gets the green light at work. A couple days off of exercise routine is a short term loss/ long term gain if it sets you up better at work ....
Sinus headache is drifting into my nose which is an improvement. Will spend today doing claims that require phone calls so I expected a whopper of a headache by the afternoon. Will plan accordingly.
Lurking from work - wishing all a great Valentine's Day - sending 6 more hearts to Chemotherapy today. Will try and avoid the HUGE calorie treats and find a compromise.1 -
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Good morning Ladies~~
You know the Cabana Boys have planned for us a day full of special treats!
Lana3 -
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Picking up new glasses tomorrow. Progressive lenses. Have heard they take some time to adjust to. Will probably be prancing around like a pony lifting my legs way up when i walk if the floor looks closer to me... LOL
Kathryn - be careful with curbs and single steps. They were the worst for me. Also, this will sound odd, but be aware of knocking your elbows into things, because some progressives will distort the depth perception from side to side as well.
Lana
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Lana - thanks for the pointers! hopefully i don't go traipsing around like a bull in a china shop!
work computer filters out the pictures so all i get the name of the photo like: Oo1cuv2m4giw/jpeg so i have to use my imagination! LOL
Will have to try the blend of lemon/lavender/peppermint. Usually for headaches I use only peppermint on temples. I do have a blend called "breathe" (no idea what all is in it) that is a tremendous help with congestion. i put a dot under my nose and on the roof of my mouth to ease breathing.
lurking from work until time for eye dr appt.....
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kathryn, happy valentines day with lots of small shiny heart on it.3 -
Happy Valentine's Day! May your day be filled with only no calorie, non sugary treats...Hugs2
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Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to stop in to wish everyone a Happy Valentines Day
Sara~Thank you so much for the dog treat recipe, I will try it this weekend. Just an fyi you can freeze dog treats, that is what I do when I make them in bulk, my pups also like them frozen as it takes a bit longer for them to eat.
Tess~Glad to see you are feeling better!
Yes my little Thumbelina is a cutie pie that's for sure
So I surprised my BF by making him lunch today (usually only make him lunch on Mondays) and woke up extra early (4am) to do that do my 5.5k run and pre-make hamburger patties for supper, he has no idea what I have planned. It is nice out (by Winnipeg standards...lol should only be about -11 including the windchill) so I want to bbq supper for him tonight, homemade bacon cheeseburgers with mushrooms, onions, peppers & a hot pepper saute'd together & potatoes and onions done on the bbq. He does all the cooking every other night of the year so I like to surprise him once in a while...however, once he sees what I am doing he will help out/take over...lol I also have a special heart shaped peanut butter marshmallow square (his favorite treat
) hidden in the downstairs fridge that I made for him late Saturday night after he fell asleep...heeheehee
Enjoy your evening all!
~Saltine~
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Saltine - you are a good Valentine. Enjoy your special meal and treat with BF!
Dawn - Waving over to you~~~
Sara - Pretty Hearts!
Kathryn - As I hurt my toes inadvertently kicking boxes and such on my apartment floor, I thought of you. I am terribly nearsighted, so that is what makes my progressives difficult. Odds are you will have a much easier time of it.
Missy - Thank you for giving some of your aroma-fragrances to the Cabana Boys--good idea!
Happy Valentines Day to Annie and Tess and Kristina and anyone else who visits our little beach club this evening.
Lana2 -
PS - I am traveling tomorrow - going back down to North Carolina. I will post if I remember, and the day is not stressful.
Otherwise, see you all on Friday.
Lana1 -
Good evening,
Home from work the "crazy project from heck" is almost done - until I get the next one..... Salad for dinner and will curl up with dog. Hot chocolate would be good, but I have had so much today.....maybe not.
Lana - check in when you get to your South home.
Wishing all a wonderful Valentine's day and a good night's sleep.1 -
Happy Valentine’s Day, all! Hope you were all kind and good to yourself.
Sweet dreams,
Tess1 -
THURSDAY
Good morning, had to delete my cookies to get into the boards. Microsoft updating monthly stuff on my computer as well. Luckily I figured it out.
Warm compress for eyes this morning - fell asleep last night and forgot.
Lurking from work. Wave to all who follow.1 -
Weeeelllllll...... these glasses are going to take a while to get used to. I feel like a bobblehead sitting at my computer moving my head up and down trying to find the sweet spot where I can read monitor clearly!
Lana - As you warned - have banged my elbows a time or two but - so far - no trips or falls or stubbed toes. (Am sure that may change as the day goes on)
Sara - a warm compress for eyes sounds sooooooooooo good right now. (however I doubt they would appreciate me doing that at work! LOL)
saltine - sounds like you had a big surprise planned! hope everything went according to plan and you had a great Valentines Day
Hope everyone enjoyed Valentines Day! DH and I ended up getting a private tour of Chip Gnassi Racing and a big bbq dinner afterwards. I brought home 1/2 the dinner so will have brisket again tonight!2 -
Kathryn, welcome to the world of progressive lenses! I understand what you’re going through. It does get better! Here’s a trick I learned the hard way about progressives and computer screens. I ended up with a pinched nerve in my neck this past June; my physical therapist suggested the computer screen was probably at fault. The screen should be about 24 inches from your eyes, and the bridge of your nose should be parallel with the top of the screen. This means the screen is a LOT lower than it is for people with regular glasses. Otherwise you will be tipping your head back, trying to read the screen from the bottom part of your glasses. I didn’t realize this is what I was doing until the pinched nerve.
Hope this makes sense! Good luck.
Tess2 -
Good evening,
Thank you Tess for the progressive lens and computer screen tip - we forget and move our necks and not our eyes....
3 day weekend coming up and I will make the best of it with cleaning/ dejunking and napping.
Quiche for dinner - boring I know but I am being lazy.
Wishing all a good night.1 -
FRIDAY
Good morning, Gung Hay Fat Choy-
Used to live in San Francisco and got used to hearing that on the radio....
Fruit/veg box - have blueberries this time so I will be enjoying those. Parsnips and carrots I will roast and put into fried rice for next week as well. Options are key at the moment as boring hangs overhead.
Wave to all who follow. TGIF!!2 -
Sara - Happy New Year! 2018 is the year of The Dog!
Waves to everyone else.
Running to get dressed to do errands (activity points!) before it starts raining.
Lana
244.4 today
250.0 highest
185.0 goal1 -
It was 66 yesterday. 32 this morning. Yuk! Just wish Mother Nature would pick a season and stick with it!
Tess- thanks for the tips! I have attempted to adjust my monitors as you suggested. also moved my chair up to the highest position to get bridge of nose even with top of screen (or at least it seems i have them parallel) will see how it goes. Had a bit of a headache yesterday.
My eye doctor said she would adjust my glasses if needed. How do you know if your glasses need adjusting when everything seems wonky??
Sara - good luck on the three day weekend of cleaning. i would much prefer the napping! LOL
Lana - hope your trip south was without incident. stay warm and dry!
Ate the rest of the bbq dinner last night. Scales were not kind this morning.
Hopefully, I will get enough activity this weekend to get those scales down. The family is getting together to clean out MIL house in preparation of her moving into an apartment. Not sure how things will work out. I don't think everyone is on same page about her moving. Will see how that all goes.
*waves to everyone who stops by*
*snapping fingers for Cboys to bring a round of beverages for everyone*
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Kathryn - at least your family is showing up to help, the details are always messy.
Glasses take awhile, if you do not notice a change after week/10 days call the eye doctor and ask.
Lunch on the horizon, yippee!!
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Good evening,
Baked potato and butter for dinner - too lazy to make anything else.
Dvd and knitting on tap.
Found out one of my contacts for NICU hats is a man!! I could not tell by the name - met a lady who knows him (same job title in company). Will start knitting 5-7 pound baby hats again (larger needles and larger yarn little easier on the eyes).
Got a perfect audit this month - have not seen one in awhile, so that was a nice way to start my weekend.
Fried rice question - my attempts to google are not working well - add fresh ginger?? Yes or no?
Wave to all who follow. Hope everyone has a good night.1 -
SATURDAY
Good morning, up with dog who is taken care of -- zzz time with any luck.
To do list is short but will divide up and do a little each day.
Quiche and fried rice this weekend will set me up - get salad makings for lunch salads and I am good.
QOTD: Those with a 3 day weekend - any special plans?
AOTD: dejunking, cleaning and rotate tires. Not things I do all the time and are needed to do. Okay not "special plans" but not everyday plans either.
BBL.2 -
Saturday!
Good morning everyone~~
Gray day here - waiting for big blob of rain to come.
Sara You asked "Fried rice question - add fresh ginger?? Yes or no?"
I like fresh ginger and pickled ginger (as often seen with sushi), used sparingly, a little on the side. I think that it should not be cooked (I'm no chef), but what do I know?
Also I would not add it into the rice because I feel that it can take over a dish and then make every mouthful seem monotonous after a while.
If your likes are different, and you would enjoy having it in your fried rice, I would add it after the heating.
Kathryn - the changeable weather is having a bad affect on the plants and bushes in my yard. They start to get leaf buds or flowers, and then the cold weather comes, and bam--everything dies.
Something happened to the back of my right knee late yesterday, and it is in quite a bit of pain. That surely puts the kibosh on walking today for exercise.
The pool is only at 56 degrees, so it'll be a long time until water exercise is an option. It seems as if it is April or May, but it is only mid-February. Yesterday it got up to 81 degrees while I was out on errands. I was dripping. Today the high will be 47 degrees. Jeez.
Lana
245.2 today
250.0 highest
185.0 goal2 -
Kathryn - Did your eye doctor bring up the idea of having "computer glasses"? A number of years ago, I got a second pair of glasses that were a middle-distance prescription for use only when using the computer, but they were a neck-saver.
I only got them the one time, and eventually as my eyes changed and I needed a stronger reading glasses correction, the computer glasses didn't work well any longer. My doctor has given me a fresh prescription for my computer glasses, but I have been cheap and lazy about having it filled.
To be clear, the computer glasses prescription is a simple distance correction; the entire lens is the same correction. They are not a transitional lens.
Also, at the risk of sounding quite negative, eyeglasses lenses are a dime a dozen item for the manufacturer: I saw a whole TV show on "How It's Made" about the eyeglasses industry. Companies turn out these prescription lenses all done by machine, and the quality is not very high.
I've had "Varilux" lenses, and some other brand name, but I've never had super-high quality. My sister (the software engineer) once opted for Zeiss brand transitional lenses, and she said they were the best pair of transitional lenses she ever had - that there was no comparison, their quality was so high. The next time around though, her financial situation had changed, and she didn't want to pay for another pair or Zeiss-lensed glasses.
Bottom line is, if you are uncomfortable or unhappy with your lenses, definitely speak up to your doctor/opticians.
It could be that there's too much or not enough lens-real estate spent on one of the corrections and not enough in the others.
Lana2 -
Went to get tires rotated biannual and guy said I might want to have oil changed - went to dealership all is good used $10 off coupon and found that as I do not drive as much a 6 - 12 month oil change depending on mileage is okay (it had been 18 months). I will have to do more driving and wanted to make sure my car was in good shape.
Trying to make oatmeal today crazy making first one the milk was off and I just scalded the milk - simple things are just so hard sometimes.
Will have more to say later- multi tasking at the moment......1 -
Snowing this afternoon in the nation’s capital this afternoon. Glad to be inside, watching the Olympics. Did make it to the gym for a good cardio workout (elliptical) and a light strength training. It’s been 3 weeks since I’ve done weights, thanks to this virus that doesn’t seem to want to go away.
Waves to all. Will check back later.
Tess2 -
Good evening,
Got lazy had frozen lasagna - glad I have Monday off.
Lana your top # is coming down - good work. Be good to your knee - do you have "urgent care" in your state? Might want to consider if knee does not get better.
Tomorrow is groceries / roast vegetables/ make fried rice. Quiche can be made Monday.
Curling up with dog early.
Wishing all a good night.1 -
Hi all! Sorry haven't been here, much. I've been reading posts but not posting myself. I've been spending too much time on FB promoting Scentsy, not enough time studying. Just been having a hard time getting motivated.. also, having hard time with new girls at work...I like them both... one just talks, and talks and doesn't sit still...I'm finding it difficult to even talk to anyone, cuz I feel like I am always trying to overtalk...the other, I want to talk to about her trying harder, doing more...I'm just not sure how or if it's even my place.. she's a good worker, but tends to sit or talk a little too much...I know, the Dr's are watching her...
I finally stepped on the scale, today... wasn't surprised, but not happy... since moving, I don't have much say on food choices. Yes, I can eat less... and, I do try... thinking of getting some better choices to at least have for lunch while at work... Will just have to leave there, as home food is now complete free for all and I will end up not getting any of food I buy... yes, this has already happened... incredibly frustrating... another reason I haven't made great choices...I have to eat what is available..good or otherwise..
Weather has not been much in my favor, either..72° one day, snow 2 days later... and, freezing rain and snow this week... yup, that's Mo for ya... blah
Waves to all... everyone have a good night...0 -
SUNDAY
Good morning - dog up and fed. Tempted to sleep in but knew I would be chasing my tail.
Groceries and cooking main items on list - did get a nap yesterday and hoping for one today. Dejunking/cleaning on list as well.
Dawn - when things are out of your hands, focus on other aspects of being healthier - walking breaks/ drinking water/ handling stress without eating if possible. Coworkers - well you said it yourself the Dr's are watching and the Dr's bottom line $$ could be the determination - stay under the radar as much as possible.
Weather had made allergies come early for me as well - got car washed when my oil was changed and all the yellow/green pollen I couldnt see was off my car. Yuck.
BBL1
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