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  • Snowflake1968
    Snowflake1968 Posts: 6,809 Member
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    LisaInNCNow wrote: »
    Morning, afternoon and evening, all,

    Woke up with a sinus headache for the third morning in a row, and the thought of digging my way out from under an avalanche of work has little charm for me this morning. I don't think I'm depressed, per se--but if you're a Little Women fan, and maybe even if you're not, you'll understand when I say at the moment I feel as if I'm wading through the Slough of Despond. It's an unaccustomed place for me--while still being terribly familiar. It's that stage of a diet regimen where I blow up, and binge, and sneak food while my husband's not looking, and watch the scale numbers rise, and feel like an utter failure. Struggling to extricate myself from it and find my path again feels beyond me.

    And then I read the words of you incredibly strong, amazing women, and feel inspired to just pick up the blessedly metaphorical shovel and start digging once more. Slowly, whinging, whining and complaining all the way, but digging.

    And not to mix my metaphors unforgivably, but you are indeed my leaning post, and I am grateful.

    Love y'all,
    Lisa in Arkansas (where DID I leave that shovel? :smiley: )

    Lisa I think we all have those days and sometimes weeks. You have the right attitude towards it though and that is a great sign! Helping you dig here.
  • Snowflake1968
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    okiewoman510 wrote: »
    Lanette - Thanks! So far I am keeping up with my exercise. I don't feel right if I don't get my steps in in the morning. I have taken a weekend off once recently where I still got movement in, but not my normal 5.5 miles walk/jog that I do first thing. That actually felt nice, it was the first time I had done that in 242 days (my streak I have going). I know I won't keep it going forever, but for now, it works for me. Also, thanks for reminding me that I need to contact the guy who cleans out my flowerbeds for me. I've been forgetting to do that for a month now. I'm going to shoot him an email now.

    Okie

    ETA: Email sent. Now we'll see if he responds.

    What an impressive streak!
  • spikeyhair
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    worrying about my DD and her DD at the moment, GD as some of you know has physical and mental problems. She was home schooled but has attended FE college this year to gain qualifications, so proud that she completed courses and is now doing exams. Because of her problems she has special help to enable her to complete exams, like extra time and special room etc. Which is great but each time they turn up for the exam nothing is in place and DD has to run around trying to get everything sorted. I worked in a college and know how disorganised things can be, but it makes me so angry. This kid has multiple problems and even getting out of bed in the morning is sometimes impossible grrr
    Rant over

    We are still enjoying our lovely summer weather here and today one of our visitor attractions ALBERT DOCK is now to be named ROYAL ALBERT DOCK LIVERPOOL, hopefully this will attract even more visitors, although we already get thousands, city centre is always full of tourists from all over the world. I am so proud to be a "Scouser"

    Well done everyone who has achieved their goals, whatever they may be

    HEATHER sounds like you have settled in on your cruise, look forward to stories and pics

    Get well wishes to all who need them and welcome newbies

    Kate UK <3
  • bwcetc
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    Lanette ... OS is just sitting tight right now in regards to housing. It seems a lot of our information regarding a certified setting was based on rumor. He plans to wait out the state certification process, give the new house structure a try, and if it doesn't work for him, THEN look for housing. His dad and I are encouraging this since moving to another location with the same aide situation is only going to result in the same difficulties he's had with retaining staff. A certified house situation guarantees he'll always have staff. We'll see ...

    Beth
  • bwcetc
    bwcetc Posts: 2,777 Member
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    ryenday wrote: »
    lhscapil wrote: »


    The older we get, sometimes it's easier just to hire someone to come in and get it done all at once. <3

    Lanette

    I find the opposite actually. Besides not having much budget (lol, ok I don’t have any budget for this) anymore to afford services people. I also find myself wanting things done in a more particular way the older I get so it is often do it myself or go without. I’m so picky I often will do without rather than have an expense for something I don’t think was done well or correctly.

    Rye

    This is our situation as well, but we're going to have to bite the bullet and find funds for some of the work around our house... roof (husband did it in the past), driveway (I helped pour the last one), rows of trees that need to come down (we always did this with a chainsaw), etc ... My husband's body just can't take it anymore and the work is becoming overwhelming. Husband will complain the whole time that those we hire didn't do it right ... but he's going to have to get over that.

    Beth
  • KetoneKaren
    KetoneKaren Posts: 6,411 Member
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    I am counting my blessings right now. While money doesn't grow on trees, if we have a cash flow problem, I can pick up an extra shift and bring home more money. For me, it is better to spend my time doing what I do best and pay other people to do what they do best. I had an amazing friend who bartered successfully all the time. She had an uncanny ability to figure out what people needed and propose a mutually beneficial barter. I have no interest in, or skill at, bartering.

    Lanette Mabel is the boss. Molly is the pest. Farley is the old man. Bailey is the sweet boy.
  • pipcd34
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    exermom wrote: »
    Did Solid Gold Cardio DVD. The plan for tomorrow is to go to the deep water class.

    Rebecca – I’m so sorry to hear you were in such pain and still are. Sending good vibes. What a majestic deer you had there!

    Jennifer – welcome. I bet Mary would have some good advice about the Keto for you.

    Question: I need facts to back up what I want to say to Vince. The other day right after he ate lunch he suddenly got dizzy and nauseous (it went away after a few minutes, he’s fine now). Like his father, he immediately attributed it to something he ate. Well, he ate the same thing for lunch that he’s had many times. He’s convinced that it’s these cupcakes that I put out for him. Now, I made the cupcakes, just froze some so that they all weren’t out and go stale. He’s convinced that that’s what caused it. He’s had cupcakes from this batch before with no problem. Same with the icing. What I want to say is “it’s not always what you ate, but what you DIDN’T eat. Our bodies are very amazing at telling us what we need. For example, when we need extra iron, even before the blood test confirms this, our body tells us that we need extra iron because we get tired very easily”. I just need more examples. Anyone have any?

    Karen in VA – go-karting is so much fun, just wish the cars could go faster….lol

    Rye – you poor dear. Please let us know what’s happening. Carol’s hypothesis sounds reasonable

    Rita – feel better fast

    Vince had these lights (rope lights) all along the railing on the deck, but they needed to come down since they were coming off. They weren’t rated for outdoor use. Well, I spent almost all day taking the adhesive off the railing. I would guess 15-20 feet of railing. Spent all day getting the adhesive off. Someone suggested that you put motor oil on a tree stump that you want to get rid of. What it’ll do, I have no idea. I put some of the spectracide in them a while ago and today I put this motor oil in them. I don’t know what’ll happen. We went to Lowes and got some more blocks that Vince put around the cantilever umbrella. He likes it, I’m not crazy about it. But he needed me to pick up the blocks, he positioned them. Then he went into the spa to have the jets on his back. Tomorrow I’m planning to spray paint the blocks that I cut yesterday to use for the Christmas decorations. I don’t do a fantastic job painting, just enough so that they blend in with the grass. Then I want to wash off the deck railing since there’s so much mold. Then I want to put down the extra rocks that Vince got up, there are a few spots where we need them.

    Thursday I volunteer at the green room, afterwards I want to go to the farmer’s market and see what they have. Hope they have honey since I need some. Then I’ll stop at Lowes and get this 30-minute stuff that takes off mold. I did put the wet & forget on the railing, but I’m a bit impatient. Also, if Vince is going to put different lights around the railing, I want it to be clean.

    Precious perla – welcome. Come in often for lots of support and motivation

    Pip – are you trying to outdo Kirby???? So glad you weren’t hurt

    Rebecca – don’t you just hate it when you have to wait so long to see a doctor? I called about my trigger thumb weeks ago. At that point it wasn’t real bad, only happened every so often. I can’t see him until next week. Now it’s gotten to the point where it’s like the trigger all the time and the strength in my right thumb just isn’t the same as the left (weaker). Now if I’d been able to see him when I first started having symptoms, maybe it wouldn’t be like this. Oh well…. I feel for ya

    Rori – happy birthday to your dh. Good for you getting all that swimming in. Are you impacted at all by the fires?

    Michele in NC

    hahaha!! good one
  • Vickil57
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  • coastalgosgal
    coastalgosgal Posts: 2,900 Member
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    LisaInNCNow wrote: »
    Morning, afternoon and evening, all,

    Woke up with a sinus headache for the third morning in a row, and the thought of digging my way out from under an avalanche of work has little charm for me this morning. I don't think I'm depressed, per se--but if you're a Little Women fan, and maybe even if you're not, you'll understand when I say at the moment I feel as if I'm wading through the Slough of Despond. It's an unaccustomed place for me--while still being terribly familiar. It's that stage of a diet regimen where I blow up, and binge, and sneak food while my husband's not looking, and watch the scale numbers rise, and feel like an utter failure. Struggling to extricate myself from it and find my path again feels beyond me.

    And then I read the words of you incredibly strong, amazing women, and feel inspired to just pick up the blessedly metaphorical shovel and start digging once more. Slowly, whinging, whining and complaining all the way, but digging.

    And not to mix my metaphors unforgivably, but you are indeed my leaning post, and I am grateful.

    Love y'all,
    Lisa in Arkansas (where DID I leave that shovel? :smiley: )

    Phew, glad I found this shovel just lying in da middle of this here thread now! Hmmm it's pretty fancy high quality steel, but the grip is yellow! I need to paint it MY neon green, oh with pretty flowers down it! Oh wait. Stop. You mean I havta USE this shovel not just hold it????? Well, I haven't been exercising because of my soreness, and blah blah..... Excuses! I know.
    I firmly place I foot on it then the other and HOP!
    Rebecca
  • grandmallie
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    Well the may bank statement is to the mortgage company,so now we can proceed ,just have to wait for attorney....so much going on at once...my head is swimming..between the wedding,the closing and my dad's estate.im going to need a vacation ...which I can I'll afford.
  • wildhorsewendy
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    Hi Sisters, just heading out for a run with Jock and Major before the threatening rain comes. I'm packing today as I plan to spend the weekend with my daughter and grandies. Such a treat for me! I will go to the office tomorrow, then drive on to her place two and a half hours from town...Then next week is going to fly by, because I will retire next Friday, Whoop! I am still feeling worried that the woman who is taking over my job remotely, from another part of NZ, will not be able to cope and I will get called back in to carry the load again...but I will just have to give that over to God and rest assured that all things work together for good. I am a 'go with the flow' don't make waves kind of person. I even drive around town always going with the flow, which means that I will go around the block, and turn the opposite direction from which I want to go, so that I don't cut across traffic. I am really great at the slightest bit of conflict avoidance. LOL

    Heather, thanks for the frequent updates. I am sooo enjoying your cruise. What is your first stop and what are the highlights at that stop that you are looking forward to?

    So I have been re-reading one of my favourite authors Ann Wigmore, who founded the Hippocrates Centre in Boston where she saved the lives of many dying people through raw foods and wheat grass juice. She had the most amazing childhood in Lithuania during World War 1, where she grew up with her Grandmother who was the village Healer. I glean so many insights from the story of her life which is freely available for all to read here: http://www.whale.to/a/whysuffer.pdf With this great gift, I'll leave you and love you, <3 Wendy
  • csofled
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  • okiewoman510
    okiewoman510 Posts: 1,297 Member
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    Barbara - Woo hoo for Joe getting moving! I'm excited for you!

    As for copperheads, at this house in the hill country, I'm more likely to find a TX Coral snake. Found one last year while I was mowing around a tree in the pasture. They are tiny, but I don't care. I gave that sucker a wide berth, if I ran over it, what if it got thrown up on me? I have seen one this year in front of a neighbors house, about a 1/2 mile up the road from us. I haven't seen any at our place. Hopefully I don't! I hate snakes!!

    Okie
  • LisaInAR
    LisaInAR Posts: 2,020 Member
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    Phew, glad I found this shovel just lying in da middle of this here thread now! Hmmm it's pretty fancy high quality steel, but the grip is yellow! I need to paint it MY neon green, oh with pretty flowers down it! Oh wait. Stop. You mean I havta USE this shovel not just hold it????? Well, I haven't been exercising because of my soreness, and blah blah..... Excuses! I know. I firmly place I foot on it then the other and HOP!
    Rebecca
    You are one of the many reasons I love this place, Rebecca... a puckish sense of humor goes a long way... :)

    From Lanette: Lisa - I have been into the snacks way too much in the past few days. I wonder if I was a heroin addict in a former life the way sugar sometimes (not always, thankfully) clicks something on in my brain that makes me want to eat everything in sight. I mean everything. I love your writing, by the way. Reminds me a little of one of my favorite authors Annie Dillard. I need to reread "The Living" about families settling in the Pacific Northwest up near Bellingham. Wasn't so much the story but the voice in which she wrote it that was, well, quite powerful.
    Lanette, you smacked into one of my favorite authors--when I am struggling to remember why I write, I pick up her book, "The Writing Life" and I remember. She and Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird" can always help me find my way back to the page. And sugar is a MASSIVE trigger for me... *sigh*

    auntiebk wrote: »
    Lisa metaphorical digging is my favorite kind. Will bring some tea (to ease your sinuses) and sympathy too. Barbara, the Southern Oregon Coastie AHMOD.

    Thanks, Barbara, and yeah, I'm more metaphorical on the shovel side of things, too... Hurts my knees when I hop... unlike Rebecca. :smiley: And tea and what in Texas they call a "po' baby" never hurts, as in "poor baby, it'll be ok..."

    Love y'all,
    Lisa
  • Snowflake1968
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  • Katla49
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    Peachy: Mary said she and her DH were going back to MN for a while. That is the last thing I recall from her. :flowerforyou:

    Lanette: I'm not sure how it will turn out regarding our reservation at the campground. I talked to the guy in charge this morning, & he said he'd get back to me. Haven't heard a peep so far and it is several hours ago that I called him. Waiting is not easy. :ohwell:

    Snowflake: I agree that the restriction on that particular camping site to people with horses should have been in the website. I'm frustrated. :grumble:

    Beth: I hope that your son is able to get certified and end up with the right kind of housing with adequate support. :flowerforyou:


    I'm still waiting for a call from the county about the park reservation snafu, & I think it is about time for me to call back. I want to get this situation taken care of. I either get my spot or my money from my POV. I'd like the spot best, or a reservation in an equally nice county park. We're making good progress turning the new to us RV into our new home away from home. We have been busy lining all the shelves with nonskid to keep things in their places and hopefully to eliminate rattling noises as much as possible while we're on the road. DMIL's RV sounded like the worst rattle trap around back in the day. I didn't enjoy riding with her at all. :noway:

    Katla in beautiful NW Oregon
  • coastalgosgal
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    Heather, your cruise sounds like so much fun!! I went on a Norwegian Cruise Lines cruise to the Caribbean Islands back in the 1980's. I participated in the talent show. I had a Jane Fonda leotard striped pink and lime green body suit. It even had a stretchy pink belt. I wore pink tights as well. I made my face up like a mime' and juggled. Even when I dropped a ball, I clowned around! It was really fun.
    I went with a girlfriend from the bank I worked at. As single ladies, don't think I paid for one drink while I was aboard. I became friends with a wine steward and at one of the ports we played tennis. He wanted more, I think, but tennis was the only thing I was willing to give him.
    I did have a bit of a fling with one of the Norwegian officers, and heck it was the crazy 80's so he snuck me into his cabin nightly! Crazy when I think on it now!

    I think it we were to ever contemplate going on a cruise it would be on a small ship, like with sails and all. I saw a show on the Windjammer cruise lines. There are rigging courses you can learn about and be on a work crew. The show I saw showed the crew repairing one of the sails. It was quite interesting!I
    Awesome travels to you!

    Rebecca
    Whidbey island
    Wa
  • pipcd34
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    Rrrrrr

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