Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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Saturday here. I'm about to go volunteer for Parkrun, then get a short 45 min run in. And I'm baking today.
I'm part of a charity that bakes every week for various other organisations around town. We bake for Taranaki Retreat - a place for people with cancer and other illnesses to go for some respite and wellbeing, woman's Refuge - a woman's shelter, the neonatal unit at the hospital. I try and bake every 2 weeks but fit it around my roster as its hard to bake when I'm working. It's something small I can do and I LOVE to bake. Let's me try and practice recipes.
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@swenson19d - I don't run any additional security software. We do keep our network/router/etc. very secure any way and the MAC has great antivirus built in and Safari also provides reports.
Screenshot - the entire screen use Shift-Command 3 and to select a portion of the screen use Shift-Commad 4. They go to your desktop and you can find them there with Finder. Also if you open them with Preview you can send them to Photos or send in an email or message. One of the hardest things for me to figure out was where all my files and document went because I was so used to Windows file structure, but now I have no issue with it. I set up folders either directly under Documents or on the Desktop itself depending on how I use it. You can also customize what is shown on your dock and the order the items are in.
I was more comfortable with the MS products especially Excel and OneNote but with improvements in Numbers it is very similar and I can now open most Excel spreadsheets with Number now so I could likely do without. I won't pay for a subscription for MS so if mine stops working at some point I will switch over. I just don't know of any Apps equivalent to OneNote though and I have so much saved there, recipes, books I have read or want to read, running articles and race info, the list goes on and on...
Hit me up if you have questions and I will help as I can.
Ashes - I can't imagine asking for ashes either - what's up with that. I understand if it is a close family member but other than that???
I am so happy the shoes are helping! Yay!!
@CMorning99 - Just my 2cents - I think it is really hard on your body to workout and not eat before or after. Your body needs to refill the glycogen stores and repair the muscles.
With the water, if you do try to do the easement the devil is in the details and be sure to have your lawyer review it. I would worry about it going dry, especially these days with the drought being so bad, and then I guess you have to pay for state water anyway.
@rheddmobile - I hope you and dh are doing ok. I am keeping you both in my thoughts.
I had a busy day yesterday. Dh informed me that the bug (fumigation) people were coming back to treat the garage and attic with something that will help to keep the bugs from returning. It meant we had to move everything down and away from the walls in the garage. We have built high, heavy duty shelves for storing Christmas stuff, old books, dd's childhood things, etc., etc.. He found an especially heavy trunk to move, got it half way down then needed me to help. I must not have been in place and ended up putting way too much load on my right arm. It hurt SO bad but I didn't drop the box, although I probably should have. It hurt most of the afternoon and evening and I thought I probably strained it. Got up this morning to find a huge dark purple bruise at the base of my bicep. I sent a picture to dd and she says she thinks I may have torn or ruptured one of the tendons and I should see the doctor asap in case surgery is required... ugh! After sitting on hold trying to make an appointment for 30mins the earliest I can get in to see my doctor is the end of the month. I did get an appointment for a video call with the nurse practitioner on Monday morning so hopefully she can refer me to ortho next week. I tried to go for a run and my arm hurt with each swing, so no run. I may try for a walk later or tomorrow, keeping my arm still.
I did eat yesterday. A lot! I went over calories for the first time in a very long time and I figured it would help fuel my run, oh well.1 -
Sounds like a great weekend @avidkeo! So what are you baking this time? I would love to find something like that to do here. I have also thought about maybe joining one of the groups that help kids start to run, although I guess I probably need to be able to run to do that.0
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Thanks @shanaber. Google answered the screenshot question, I’ve just been saving everything to iCloud or One drive (Microsoft) to find it. I had no idea what the preview was for. I don’t like anything on my desktop. Which makes it a little harder with a new system.
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Y’all know crazy aka Candice “candy” Saucedo wanted Alex’s ashes. I got a request from her ex-husbands wife who was the twins friend since kindergarten. Dd blasted her on FB, I told her to do what she needed. You got the audacity then you probably need corrected on manners and socially accepted behaviours.
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Idk. Beary wants shrimp. No idea how that’d happen landlocked. Goofball. Sure Dh would drive to the coast just to get him some! Lol!2 -
Sounds like a great weekend @avidkeo! So what are you baking this time? I would love to find something like that to do here. I have also thought about maybe joining one of the groups that help kids start to run, although I guess I probably need to be able to run to do that.
I'm doing a slice called coconut rough. Not sure if you have it there. I'll post pics when done1 -
Skimmed everything I missed on vacation.
Scams: the whole basis is built on urgency to not give you time to think. Hence why most are aimed at older folks, like the call that your grandkid is in jail in another country and needs bail now! They don't want the person to call or actually look into it. Or the you'll be arrested if you don't send us the money now! Well, that makes people poop their pants and not think, wait, I haven't done anything.
Property: I get texts and phone calls almost daily asking to sell my house for cash. It's been happening since I bought but it always gets more when houses are in demand. I'm often tempted to be like, yes for a million cash you can have my house worth around 250k just to see what they will say. Block and delete, move on. I'm sure it's some kind of scam.
Healthcare: Women, especially Black women, are often not believed. And as women, we usually wait longer to go in because well, we are used to pain and don't think we will be believed. For me, when I had appendicitis the ER doc was convinced I was pregnant. A friend kept being told she had gas and/or cramps when she had appendicitis. On average it takes women 10 years to be diagnosed with celiac disease. I was told in high school it was IBS/lactose issues. Later, the doctor didn't believe me when I described my symptoms which lead me to not want to talk to a doctor about it for a while. I just said ok, must be my IBS and there's nothing to be done.
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How is everyone?
Re: bias in healthcare. I absolutely believe its real. And as a healthcare worker I think it's heartbreaking. I try treat all my patients equally though admit there are times when I could do better.
One thing I'm always reminding myself is when a pt is in pain, the pain is real. It doesn't matter if I think they are being silly, or overreacting or seeking. They are still in pain. And the pain needs to be treated. That said I think that mental health is so poorly underdiagnosed not treated well enough.
Anyway it's Sunday here. I'm relaxing with the kids. Hubby is taking oldest DD to a basketball match this avo so youngest and I are going to chill at home. She's currently half way through A New Hope, and is keen to see the end so we may have a star wars afternoon3 -
I’m getting a free day at my own house since it’s what I asked for for my birthday (which is tomorrow). The mares aren’t getting fed but they won’t die in one day. It is irksome how much heaven and earth I have to move to get someone to cover me for just one day. And I am still going to spend most of today catching up on stuff I haven’t been able to do because of caretaking for my mom, like laundry and prepping her meals. She has been thinking though and is starting to come around and realize this isn’t working, and we are planning to have a conversation about it. Just not right before my birthday please.
One bright spot is that she has a working fridge now. I am so annoyed at Home Depot and their so-called delivery company. First of all, the delivery company had damaged the outside of the fridge and refused to deliver it since they would be on the hook if it didn’t work. Since it took a MONTH to get a fridge in the first place and would be another whole month of starting over from zero, we weren’t really willing for them to load it back on the truck and leave with it. Then they said they would leave it as-is but it would void the warranty, and we said no, that isn’t happening. We ended up talking to corporate, and they are giving us a refund for damages and we keep the warranty.
Second, we only went with Home Depot over their competitors because they were the only company that said it would remove the old refrigerator way out in the country. So the installers show up and refuse to take the old fridge, saying they have more new fridges on the truck to deliver still and aren’t allowed by corporate to mix the two since there might be vermin inside the old fridge! Makes sense but NOT MY PROBLEM, you signed a contract to take away my fridge and if you showed up unable to do that, tough. I know from my mother that this has happened before so we went around and around with them, talked to their corporate who said it wasn’t the company’s policy after all, it was the individual mover and it was up to us to talk him into doing his job. They ended up leaving the old fridge in the middle of our driveway. It’s annoying because they “refunded our money” for the removal fee - to the tune of 25 dollars, while the quotes we were getting to have it removed were about 350, since it’s a matter of coming from Collierville and then hauling it all the way out to the dump at Somerville which is like two hours away. Since their so-called courtesy service was the ONLY reason we chose them over their competitors it’s a good scam for them! It’s very inexpensive to promise to do something you have no intention of doing!
But it worked out in the end. I posted online and a guy who lives down the road wanted it for the parts and hauled it off for free the next day. So there, Home Depot!
After all this, they texted us with a survey asking how we liked their delivery service. Uh... yeah. Don’t ask if you don’t want to know.
So, at least I won’t be camped out in the middle of the living room trying to feed three or sometimes four people three healthy meals a day out of a dorm room fridge anymore. Next up is sanitizing at least part of the kitchen so I can at least use one counter and one cabinet.
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@rheddmobile dang. I hope your birthday day is exactly what you need!
@Avidkeo MMMMM cake!
nothing new here, 'cept Cori is a demon cat.
He insists on being out back with the dogs. Poor Bear just follows me around all day from room to room wanting attention, or to be near another living soul. He loves Cori, but Cori is his own man and has picked up a bad habit from Bean; whining when he doesn't get what he wants, out, attention, food, Bear want to play and he is a big cry baby about it... Yesterday he came in from the back with the dogs and wanted back out after eating and i said no. He will go to the back of the property where it is heavily wooded and tall grass with a pond (neighbors side). Snakes are prevalent, dh and I saw a copperhead squished on the road a house down. Cori got spooked by a nail bar on the back porch because it resembled a snake. I said "buddy, you need to be in". He wasn't having it at all. yowled and yowled and I ignored him. He got mad and walked over and shoved a glass ceramic vase over and broke it. hence, now he is the demon cat. I gladly opened the door with my foot at his rear and shoved him out. He's just at that age. bear went through this defiant adolescent stage too where if he didn't get his way or attention he'd shove stuff off the tables. I have a rebellious teenage demon cat. LOL! We still love him. He growled at dh yesterday when he was just loving him... oh too big for that too? I wonder if i can write my psychoanalysis paper on Cori? He's still the loveyist thing ever when it suits him.
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All the tamales! DD made breakfast, bacon eggs and hash browns. Weight is shifting downward. YAY!
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Pain is evolving or devolving. I still have less pain (back and legs dont ache as much). Hip is still so cranky. Ive been doing bridges and it seems to help with the strength. Dh said I should follow through with the baylor PT... ugh.. well okay i guess ill trek 90 minutes away for PT once a week then.3 -
@swenson19 yay for pain being better. I think PT is definitely worth is...
I remember I promised pics of baking.
This one is made with condensed milk, I'm not 100% happy with it. I prefer a firmer topping and this one is a bit gooey, and can really taste the milk. I'll do it again cause its so easy but maybe try a different recipe.
Working shift today so will go out for a run soon, then playing squash (racketball?) with DH. It's the first game in probably a year because of injury, first mine, then his. So this will be interesting2 -
@swenson19 further to your shenanigans with Bear and Cori, I'm sitting relaxing before work, doing some cross stitch. Leo is unimpressed. He keeps grabbing my work and pulling it down to look at me. Basically, oi you are supposed to pay me attention. Put your cross stitch down!
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Happy monday!
Oof what a weekend! The construction dumpster arrived Friday and it was HUGE! My heart sank a bit. I promptly ignored it and did some goodwill therapy and found some good stuff...I am going to have quite the pile of stuff to inventory when I turn back on my reselling.
Saturday I woke up determined to do my running! it was 5 miles with 8x200ms. After lounging around I finally went out around 10am and did it. Perk of living on the coast, it is a heat wave when it is 80 degrees. I dragged my feet for awhile longer and finally went up to the ranch with the promise of Thai food on the way back. I cleaned up around the area I am going to clean, all the big lumber, tarps (quite dead), and old tools that Mom was sure she could "fix" but had then gone out and bought 3 more. I got in a fight with a t-post and lost and have quite the lump and cut on my arm. I ran into my Mom's dearest friend who works at the local hardware store and she offered to come up sunday to help...she is an angel. Oh, and it looks like I got all the titles from the DMV! That was quicker than I thought. Cals burned 2,600 per apple watch.
Sunday I owned 7 mile run and had to get up and do it before my angel arrived. I managed 6.1 miles due to technology issues, the cell service on this base is terrible. I was happy to stop, but I wasn't dying. Got to the ranch by 11am and sprayed 4 gallons of weed control...that was like 1/4 of the driveway only (oof). We finally got to work in the single wide mobile home mom had bought 30 years ago to rent but it turned into storage. Thankfully we had cleaned it out/organized it maybe 15 years ago and Mom did it again maybe 10 years ago. So other than the ceiling falling down, it wasn't a disaster...a lot of stuff but easily accessible and toss able. I am pretty sure I threw away a small hardware store of screws, bolts, rusty seized tools, half used containers of who knows what...but I don't have time to sort it or wait for someone else to sort and decide if they want it. We powered for 4 hours and called it. Calories burned 2,800
Today is a rest day...at work LOL. My body has not hurt this bad in so long. I have a pulse in my feet, my quads are thrashed, and my arms are noodles. I came in normal time and plan on taking my fitness time in the afternoon and do horizontal yoga
Tomorrow is a 4 mile run, I don't like the plan my coach did ... I think she is done with me. I think after this race, we are going to part ways.
I have a long list of paperwork stuff I am going to do since I am sitting all day!
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@Avidkeo Aww he's adorable. Wow, I have no idea how you do that! Mine would be all knots and frayed thread!
I am trying to get our neighborhood together and organized a Fb page. I spent hours searching public records to stalk them out on FB and have one grand response. Least she seems friendly and relatively normal, we traded numbers and plan a greet and meet.2 -
Had the busiest night last night at work. So tired. Its 1030am and I'm still in bed - work again at 3pm. Was going to play squash with DH but I have no energy.
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@CMorning99 oof what a weekend. Yay for a paperwork day then and yay for helpers
@swenson19 that's a good thing to do! Sounds like a lot of work though.0 -
Today was so unproductively busy
Dh bought a swamp cooler for the back porch, for the dogs, it's already near 100F, and an AC window unit for the shed, for my noodle cat. I spent the day getting that all going after finding out my car was leaking oil and had to call for a tow so the shop could remedy it after Thursdays oil change where on Tuesday they had to order a new drain plug because mine was stripped... Sit finally and remember Bear is outside and try to find him again, he'd been playing "catch me if you can" in the bushes and I walked away leaving him to get snake bit again. Run to the vet close to closing time, emergency fee, medication and now dh is snake hunting with his legal "sawed' off shot gun thing... boys will be boys. I think he is just randomly shooting in the bushes...Disaster anyone?
Bears paw. Of course I'd been minding Cori today because he'd been acting hurt and thought he probably got in a scrap with a feral cat, poor bear bug.
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swenson19d wrote: »Today was so unproductively busy
Dh bought a swamp cooler for the back porch, for the dogs, it's already near 100F, and an AC window unit for the shed, for my noodle cat. I spent the day getting that all going after finding out my car was leaking oil and had to call for a tow so the shop could remedy it after Thursdays oil change where on Tuesday they had to order a new drain plug because mine was stripped... Sit finally and remember Bear is outside and try to find him again, he'd been playing "catch me if you can" in the bushes and I walked away leaving him to get snake bit again. Run to the vet close to closing time, emergency fee, medication and now dh is snake hunting with his legal "sawed' off shot gun thing... boys will be boys. I think he is just randomly shooting in the bushes...Disaster anyone?
Bears paw. Of course I'd been minding Cori today because he'd been acting hurt and thought he probably got in a scrap with a feral cat, poor bear bug.
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swenson19d wrote: »Today was so unproductively busy
Dh bought a swamp cooler for the back porch, for the dogs, it's already near 100F, and an AC window unit for the shed, for my noodle cat. I spent the day getting that all going after finding out my car was leaking oil and had to call for a tow so the shop could remedy it after Thursdays oil change where on Tuesday they had to order a new drain plug because mine was stripped... Sit finally and remember Bear is outside and try to find him again, he'd been playing "catch me if you can" in the bushes and I walked away leaving him to get snake bit again. Run to the vet close to closing time, emergency fee, medication and now dh is snake hunting with his legal "sawed' off shot gun thing... boys will be boys. I think he is just randomly shooting in the bushes...Disaster anyone?
Bears paw. Of course I'd been minding Cori today because he'd been acting hurt and thought he probably got in a scrap with a feral cat, poor bear bug.
Oh poor kitty! So glad we don't have snakes in NZ
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swenson19d wrote: »swenson19d wrote: »Today was so unproductively busy
Dh bought a swamp cooler for the back porch, for the dogs, it's already near 100F, and an AC window unit for the shed, for my noodle cat. I spent the day getting that all going after finding out my car was leaking oil and had to call for a tow so the shop could remedy it after Thursdays oil change where on Tuesday they had to order a new drain plug because mine was stripped... Sit finally and remember Bear is outside and try to find him again, he'd been playing "catch me if you can" in the bushes and I walked away leaving him to get snake bit again. Run to the vet close to closing time, emergency fee, medication and now dh is snake hunting with his legal "sawed' off shot gun thing... boys will be boys. I think he is just randomly shooting in the bushes...Disaster anyone?
Bears paw. Of course I'd been minding Cori today because he'd been acting hurt and thought he probably got in a scrap with a feral cat, poor bear bug.
Oh poor kitty! So glad we don't have snakes in NZ
No snakes? Want me to bring you a bundle of them?
Bahaha I'm ah I'm fine thanks! Unless they are candy. We have snake candy here they are yummy2 -
swenson19d wrote: »swenson19d wrote: »Today was so unproductively busy
Dh bought a swamp cooler for the back porch, for the dogs, it's already near 100F, and an AC window unit for the shed, for my noodle cat. I spent the day getting that all going after finding out my car was leaking oil and had to call for a tow so the shop could remedy it after Thursdays oil change where on Tuesday they had to order a new drain plug because mine was stripped... Sit finally and remember Bear is outside and try to find him again, he'd been playing "catch me if you can" in the bushes and I walked away leaving him to get snake bit again. Run to the vet close to closing time, emergency fee, medication and now dh is snake hunting with his legal "sawed' off shot gun thing... boys will be boys. I think he is just randomly shooting in the bushes...Disaster anyone?
Bears paw. Of course I'd been minding Cori today because he'd been acting hurt and thought he probably got in a scrap with a feral cat, poor bear bug.
Oh poor kitty! So glad we don't have snakes in NZ
No snakes? Want me to bring you a bundle of them?
Bahaha I'm ah I'm fine thanks! Unless they are candy. We have snake candy here they are yummy
I thought about buying him some little toy snakes, the kind little kids love. But thought would prob encourage him. He's playing this morning, not 100% but paw swelling is better. They all want outside to chase birds, It's gonna be a long day making these boys stay in.1 -
Good morning folks!
I was just thinking, I have made it 8 full days of IF! Skipping breakfast is not so hard anymore and I am drinking a lot more tea and water. I have no idea if it is working yet since I don't have a scale. I am generally hungry at lunch and want to eat all the stuffs, but my stomach has shrunk so jokes on me LOL But this is definitely longer than I have lasted counting calories.
Had another small breakthrough with the property split, my neighbor who is also splitting found a consulting company that will walk you through the process AND they routinely work with the survey company I already hired I submitted my "case" to see if they will take it...I have never been so excited to spend money LOL. So far we are at $7K for the survey, $12K for county filing fees, consulting fee TBD, well $25-45K (I am going to ask if I can just dig it and cap it and not put in all the tanks and power and such), tree removal for well $4K, lawyer fees for easement contract TBD...naturally all this will be rolled into the sale price of the land. Keep pushing...eye on the prize!
I feel better today, I left work a bit early and put my feet up and ate a good dinner. I went for a 4 mile run this morning and it started off stiff and sore, but by the end I was feeling better, although still quite slow. Next run day is 5 miles on Thursday afternoon.
I have meetings this morning, dreading them, they are the base emergency management drills and are such a production and chaos. Work is going better, slowly understanding what is expected of me. I now realize it is not a hard job, just a bunch of moving pieces and once you have them all on your radar...meh...
DH had to sit in on some phone interviews yesterday, he said the candidates were sub-par. I felt a little bad for them when DH was telling me that he was not going to hire them. Finding work is stressful. But he also told me why and he said they were very narrow focused, not opening to learning and broadening their skills...they wanted to be hired for what they already knew. Gov contracts always attract a large amount of lazy folks, they think they are easy money and I have seen that in some of the folks who are hired. I asked DH if he would hire me knowing my skills and how I am a jack of many trades but mediocre at most LOL. He said he would b/c I would figure it out and get after it. Nice to know...but I really don't want to work for the military when I retire. Speaking of retirement...I have been thinking of it more and more...this may be the beginning of the decline. Everyone told me it would come, no matter how much I didn't think it would come.
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Hello all - sorry I have been so absent. I am not running and I think it makes me pretty <bleh> about anything and everything. My arm is aching/hurting even with the Aleve - @swensin19d it makes me think about what you deal with all the time. I can't even imagine! I had the video appointment with the NP and she agreed that is looks like a tear. Sent me for an x-ray to make sure there is no underlying issues that I had done yesterday and it was fine. The real information will come from the ultrasound that is scheduled for this afternoon.
My healthcare system recently switched over to EPIC for their medical records system and I am pretty impressed with how it is working. I had the ultrasound referral almost immediately and the x-ray results before I got back home. Dh helped with the implementation of the same system when he worked for Kaiser Permanente and said that the biggest part of it was setting up all the workflow processes.
@rheddmobile - I hope you were able to relax a bit and enjoy your birthday.
@avidkeo - the cake looks delicious! I love that there are no snakes there. Is that true for Australia too? Also Leo is so cute! I used to do cross stitch, a lot. Haven't touched it for a long while but have a project I bought but haven't started and it is looking at me every time I go in or out of my office. I just need to get it going, although I think I may have a project already started put away in a cupboard that I should finish first.
@CMorning99 - Glad you are making progress figuring out your new job responsibilities. I am not sure how old you are but retirement is awesome and if you are still young but have enough years in the military to retire, you can find a another job doing something you love. Hope everything works out with the property split!
@swenson19d - I can't believe Beary got snake bit AGAIN! It is a good thing those cats have 9 lives! Maybe get them some toy mice to play with to encourage chasing rodents and not snakes!
Speaking of critters - when we got home from agility last night and I was taking Hobbes out of the car a big ol' skunk went walking across our street! I haven't even smelled one in our area in years and I was shocked to see it. I told dh we need to be careful letting Hobbes out in the back to potty in the dark. I would hate for him to get sprayed!
It is super hot here, supposed to be over 100F today 🥵 and stay hot until Friday. Dd is arriving Friday afternoon so I hope it cools off while she is here. We are also having so many earthquakes. Small ones but it makes me nervous. You'd think I would be used to them by now!
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@avidkeo - the cake looks delicious! I love that there are no snakes there. Is that true for Australia too? Also Leo is so cute! I used to do cross stitch, a lot. Haven't touched it for a long while but have a project I bought but haven't started and it is looking at me every time I go in or out of my office. I just need to get it going, although I think I may have a project already started put away in a cupboard that I should finish first.
Speaking of critters - when we got home from agility last night and I was taking Hobbes out of the car a big ol' skunk went walking across our street! I haven't even smelled one in our area in years and I was shocked to see it. I told dh we need to be careful letting Hobbes out in the back to potty in the dark. I would hate for him to get sprayed!
It is super hot here, supposed to be over 100F today 🥵 and stay hot until Friday. Dd is arriving Friday afternoon so I hope it cools off while she is here. We are also having so many earthquakes. Small ones but it makes me nervous. You'd think I would be used to them by now!
@shanaber I hope the Ultrasound goes well, I'm really worried about you and your arm! Australia is notorious for having all the creatures that are deadly, snakes, spiders, kangaroos lol. Our most deadly creature is... Actually we don't have anything deadly. At all. And no one gets used to earthquakes. We hade a big one in NZ 10 years ago that killed over 100 people, and I live next to a dormant volcano earthquakes definitely make me nervous0 -
I'm still here! Just reading through posts. Not much to add. It's hot out.2
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Also, why do they make the calculations for calories in full popcorn bags so difficult? It's like doing rocket science over here! (And why I usually buy the 100 cal packs but I wanted to try the llama cotton candy popcorn. Yes, I'm a child. 🤣)3
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@shanaber I missed what happened to your arm. My last doc visit he told me to get all the training I could on the epic system as a nurse, he loves it. I like that I get all my info ASAP, like you mentioned. Ugh on the skunk! I haven’t seen any here, but smell them er thought I did but it was just pot lol!
Bear and Cori have been in all day. Poor boys want out, Cori yowls at the door but I’ve just been ignoring him or throwing him some toys. Bear won’t play with toys anymore since he got Cori. He has crickets (cori’s fav), mice, birds, rats, a giraffe, strings, sticks, balls, paper, boxes… lord the wall shelves… you’d think they couldn’t possibly be board with everything and each other.
I did some research on how to keep the snakes at bay and found snake fencing. So perhaps Dh can do that at least on the wooded sides of the property. Noodle cat loves her ac building. Dh mowed last night to discourage snakes. Our yard stays wet and it seems to take a week longer to dry out than the neighbors… we have a French drain in the front, idk if we can manage that any better.
ETA @RunsOnEspresso who doesn’t love llama’s! I got dd a llama throw but the cats have taken it over.0 -
@RunsOnEspresso - I had to look up Llama popcorn... have to say the package is adorable but I don't think I would like cotton candy flavoring. Blue popcorn sounds really fun though!
@swenson19d - I hurt my arm trying to lower a heavy trunk with dh and didn't manage it well. Dd and the NP thinks have torn the distal bicep tendon.
Llamas in general - they are cute but can be really mean IRL. I do have a super cute llama mood light that changes colors.
aww @Avidkeo thank you for worrying about me! Arm is ok. I am really trying not to do too much with it because it makes it ache. I did agility last night and paid for it today.
Interesting on the ultrasound. I had a radiology intern who did it and I thought of you and your students. What is weird is she only did the area of the bruise and not below the elbow where the tendon would normally tear. Anyways the US didn't show anything so now they are scheduling me for a MRI. I kind of wish they would send me to ortho first so they could decide if it is really necessary.
Picture of my arm under the split.Again I had the US results by the time I had arrived home (maybe 30mins later) along with the MRI referral.
Like where @RunsOnEspresso, is it is hot here too but not quite as hot as it is for her. So many heat records broken today and it won't be better until Friday. I am hoping to get up and out for a walk pretty early tomorrow and take Hobbes at least around the neighborhood.
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@RunsOnEspresso - I had to look up Llama popcorn... have to say the package is adorable but I don't think I would like cotton candy flavoring. Blue popcorn sounds really fun though!
@swenson19d - I hurt my arm trying to lower a heavy trunk with dh and didn't manage it well. Dd and the NP thinks have torn the distal bicep tendon.
Llamas in general - they are cute but can be really mean IRL. I do have a super cute llama mood light that changes colors.
aww @Avidkeo thank you for worrying about me! Arm is ok. I am really trying not to do too much with it because it makes it ache. I did agility last night and paid for it today.
Interesting on the ultrasound. I had a radiology intern who did it and I thought of you and your students. What is weird is she only did the area of the bruise and not below the elbow where the tendon would normally tear. Anyways the US didn't show anything so now they are scheduling me for a MRI. I kind of wish they would send me to ortho first so they could decide if it is really necessary.
Picture of my arm under the split.Again I had the US results by the time I had arrived home (maybe 30mins later) along with the MRI referral.
Like where @RunsOnEspresso, is it is hot here too but not quite as hot as it is for her. So many heat records broken today and it won't be better until Friday. I am hoping to get up and out for a walk pretty early tomorrow and take Hobbes at least around the neighborhood.
Hope the MRI comes quick. I don't do US so hopefully there is a good reason for doing just the bruise. Do you still have power? What I mean is can you do a bicep curl? That's an important test to see if just a tear or full pull off of bone (which is what I'd be most worried about)0 -
Good morning!
@shanaber That is frustrating that the only looked at the bruised area. When I broke my arm they did the same thing, the bruise and swelling was all in my tricep but the break was actually just below the elbow. Alas they missed it and who knows what else till it was too late.
Nothing too exciting here. I was so sleepy yesterday afternoon! I even drank an energy drink (which I love ...Alani) They have fun flavors and don't taste too fake sugar. When I got back to the trailer I ate my leftover spaghetti and watched the Timeline series "Devils Brigade"...those guys were so tough! I slept well last night and woke up feeling rested today.
Today we have a big base exercise on emergency management. I am supposed to inspect and I think my first write up is going to be "did not provide training" LOL. Seems to be the norm here. I think that is going to take up most of the day.
Ranch task...I still have not called the tree guy and one of mom's friends sent me a text again warning about cal fire....they are real uppity this year with the drought. I don't need a fine.
DH is driving down on Sunday with both the kitties. He has to put them in separate carriers b/c it seems after 13 years of living with each other, they want their own space. He is also going to pick up some IV fluids to bring with him just in case black cat doesn't feel like drinking and starts that slippery slope. Black cats biopsy consult is in 12 days...I am so nervous, IDK what I/we will do if he comes back as cancer.
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@shanaber ouch! I hope they figure it out soon. Terrible!
@CMorning99 Hope the kitties manage the move with minimal stress. Cats just don't do well relocating in general.
Cori...
sentences to stay inside after the snake got bears, hears the back door this morning and bolts 40 feet at full speed to slip out. I cringe... dd see's him and just catches the door not to squish him, he makes it out back with his beloved dogs and birds. Then gets spooked and comes back in when the dogs bark at something. He's currently on the porch watching the birds, being a dog. He told me he was "el bastardo de Diablo"... the devils *kitten*??? no, he's a "devilish *kitten*". I said "I don't speak spainish buddy". Funny because that sounds like something Alex would call himself, being mr suave. Maybe Alex said Cori was a devilish *kitten*.
Bear is doing well.
Food
I've stuck to doing a little better with the calories. My weight is 3.7 pounds above "do something". I think my right leg continues to weaken and plan on finding the measuring tape and recording measurements of both thighs.
Pain
Still overall better since starting the vitamin D. The hip hurts the worst, but I suspect it hurt that bad before I just couldn't tell because everything else hurt worse. My mid back is trying to get grumpy again, like knowing a charley horse is lurking with the wrong move. But overall tightness and spasticity is better.
Hope the EMG place calls with a cancelation and I can get answers/questions sooner than August.
I have an appointment for a suspected cancer removal on my hand. Forever I thought it was a wart, well DH told me it was. But I think it's a SCC again.2
