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Connie - sending wishes for a speedy recovery 🙏. Nothing worse for the weight than boredom and confinement. Any chance of trying small efforts to get you by this difficult time? Reducing portions a bit? Just little things to mitigate the damage until you’re ready to work at weight loss full time?
Sorry about the chef and new pasta machine. Yet another hurdle in your recovery.
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You can challenge her to invent low calorie filling dishes!!!!😘🤷🏻♂️ Maybe she can figure out the perfect brownie like based on zucchini and pumpkin!
The closest I ever came was based on Japanese yams and unsweetened berry applesauce!🙈3 -
H Connie. Hold on there hot momma....your time will come round again - it is just around the corner.
PAV you crack me up with your search for the perfect brownie - eventually I trust you will find one that is in the minus calorie range
Today I'm hopefully migrating to my new computer. The thought has me pretty apprehensive. Like everything else in my life lately I'm taking baby steps. New machine on the left of my desk - old one on the right. At least the office if painted and has fancy new baseboards that look like they belong. Not sure of the final desk placement yet - because my new office layout eliminated a daybed under the window looking out at the front of the house. My pup is going to miss that bed...me too....it has be a sweet spot for a middle of the day nap many times (one of the reasons I wanted to lose it). Baby steps! A person can't be expected to figure out everything all in one month!3 -
Hey that sounds exciting! What did you get?0
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Went all Dell....because my old "employer" / partner? / not for profit organization I ran for years decided they have enough money in the bank to buy me a computer as a "thank you" - but really as a way to keep me on the helping out hook which I don't mind because I will be helping out forever anyway
Just over 5 grand later, I have all the machine I'll probably need for the next 10 years? and upgraded my 27" monitors to 32"
This is it + an extra 1tb harddrive for archiving
It is pretty exciting!
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And my lovely baseboards and door molding bottoms The house is old and the floors/trim have changed muliple times I'm guessing since the 1890's - leaving a significant gap between where the door trim ended and the floor began. So I thought I could incorporate some Arts& Crafts style and solve the problem....I'm doing this throughout the house, one room at a time. It looks so much neater in here now - though it took an inordinate amount of time to recreate these old baseboards.
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Not only is she an artist, she’s a master carpenter! I feel like such a slacker....
Beautiful work Laurie 👍2 -
That's pretty impressive!!! Both the computer... and the moldings!0
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Thank you both! It felt so good to do something with my hands! Until my shoulder kinda fell apart - landscaping + some reno was my halftime gig. This project was the first test of the shoulder. Emptying the room, painting and the baseboards. So far so good. But I'll only do it for me from here on in.1
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I forgot to post a link to the new beastie
https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-desktops-workstations/xps-desktop/spd/xps-8950-desktop/dxps8950_s103e?configurationid=068ab8cc-2be1-4f66-b5b6-bcb131fa9f0b
Most "cutting edge" computer I've every owned. And since my old desktop (well more than ten years old = upgrades along the way) died suddenly last fall and was replaced by a temporary used soldier I've been looking forward to this day!1 -
My fellow Austinite, Michael Dell thanks you Laurie. Not that I’ve ever met or seen him personally. That’s some impressive computer. Haven’t seen Elon Musk around either. I have met Willie Nelson a few times which was probably more fun anyway!
Went for passport photos this morning because it’s renewal time. What a difference between old and new photos. I forget that I’ve changed! We’re getting ready for more travel in the coming year. Maybe I’ll actually get back to Vancouver- look 👀 out PAV.
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Thank you, Yooly. I can't wait to actually use it - not just watch as files migrate
Share your photos?! They will be very inspirational I think!
We should all converge on Vancouver at once
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Well, not passport photos but similar poses taken 3 years apart. When I look in the mirror I don’t see it but the photos tell the story I guess. About as wide as I was tall.
Don’t know that PAV would be thrilled with a gaggle of ladies and my hubby showing up at his 🚪doorstep. Of course, hubby and PAV could escape to the nearest grocery store 🛒for some bargain shopping. 😂4 -
Wow, Yooly! You look great!2
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Thanks! I’d like to lose 20 more pounds but at 75 years of age I’m content to just maintain. Maybe very slowly lose weight - who knows?AthleteLori wrote: »Wow, Yooly! You look great!
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Good for you, Yooly! I love your smile in the most recent pic Must be so much easier to do what you want to do now! You look pretty wonderful! 1
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lauriekallis wrote: »Good for you, Yooly! I love your smile in the most recent pic Must be so much easier to do what you want to do now! You look pretty wonderful!
Thanks Laurie. I had already lost about 30 pounds in the “before” photo. Hard to believe!
And yes, everything is so much easier without the carrying so much extra weight. Wish I’d done it sooner but I guess I wasn’t ready to commit to the lifestyle changes I needed to make.
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Guess you had other things going on, Yooly. It sucks but it is reality isn't it? Taking care of ourselves takes some brain space.
Last weekend a neighbour put on his annual music event in the alleys near my house. It was his biggest "Stupercrawl" event in what feels like forever because it was put on hold for the 2 Covid years. He had 22 bands lined up on 3 stages (this is the work of 1 individual). The music isn't my usual cup of tea - tending towards maybe 80s style heavy heavy heavy metal - but this year there were a couple of bands more punkish so kinda of danceable. (it rained until about 8 in the evening so two stages were not able to open and many bands didn't show up expecting the entire event to be cancelled).
When things finally got rolling, I stopped by, bought a t shirt, but wasn't about to dance - carrying this newfound weight in a mosh pit type space seemed like a bad combination - but then...
There was a girl, maybe 7 or 8, the niece of someone on my street, who wanted to dance. But her aunt said no because she herself didn't want to, and the people dancing looked kinda tough (they all looked like something out of the 80s too).
I've spent a good chunk of my life going to live music shows - lots of ska especially - so the dance floor people didn't scare me
and I had some unicum in my belly the most intense tasting liquer from Hungary so I was literally feeling no pain and I'm in grandchild withdrawal...two hours of mad dancing later, the little girl went home with her aunt, a little while later the music ended, and I hop-limped home.
The tough people dancing made lots of space for us - the little girl was the star of the show with her huge smile and the endless energy to pretty well bounce straight up and down for two hours straight. I didn't do to badly myself - I kinda felt 30 years younger for awhile.
This morning is the first morning I can walk without grimacing
A good night's sleep does wonders.
I'm building up to weighing myself. I know it is going to be a terrible shock. But legs have been to swollen this week and I wanted to wait until I had a few weeks of fully undercontrol eating under me belt before I ventured into that territory. I'm thinking come Monday or Tuesday I might be ready.
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Laurie, you made a wonderful magical memory for that child! What a lovely thing to do!
And I’m sure it felt good to abandon yourself to the music and the moment.
Do not let the scale scare you - whatever the number. It is what it is! It’s not what it will be in a week, a month, or next year. Just a starting point. 🥰1 -
Thank you, Yooly. I needed that thought reaffirmed. I'm at a place where I have to establish a new starting point. Being sad (horrified?) that my weight is up and using my weight from last year as a starting point is just toooooo discouraging.
I will weight myself Monday and that will be my starting point for the new leg of this journey that even makes it sound like a good thing!
To be honest - I hadn't thought of the memory side of that evening. What a beautiful thought
She certainly gifted me with a wonderful memory, too.
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lauriekallis wrote: »I've spent a good chunk of my life going to live music shows - lots of ska especially - so the dance floor people didn't scare me
Ah Laurie, a woman after my own heart! Can't beat a good mosh pit for getting the juices flowing, and the best type of mosh pit is a ska mosh pit! You've never lived until you've pogod up and down elbow to elbow and armpit to armpit for a couple of hours with a bunch of fellow ska fans. My idea of heaven!
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Hmmmm ..... I see some beauties above!😊😘 And an awesome memory maker! But I now have to get ms google to help me out with the translation as a concert goer... I'm not!!!
Come on down all of ya! I'm gonna get my girl to take you out squirrel hunting🙀... while I go shopping for bargains with yooly's hubby!!!!🤣😂
Bring walking shoes and come on down!!!!😊1 -
Bella - let's go skank (pogo?) with PAV! and the squirrels. Yooly you don't have to - you can do your dance of choice. Connie? Lori? Alexandra? Dante? I imagine BC is beautiful in the fall. 2
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Nope - no dancing or concert going. Cuz if it’s too loud, you’re too old. And yes, I’m too old! Did all that in my youth - the dark ages of the 60s and 70s. Beatles, Stones, Hendricks…..
Seriously looking at a visit to BC next April or May with a Vancouver stop. Who knows?
Today is lunch out with a friend to celebrate both our birthdays. Lots of going out this month. But it’s been a long sad isolation for so long I feel compelled to celebrate at every opportunity.2 -
Hasn't it been a weird bunch of years!?
Have a good outing, Yooly.
This weekend we have the "official" SuperCrawl in Hamilton - an arts and music festival that my neighbour created a parody of last weekend with his StuperCrawl because the official thing has lost its community roots feel over the years.
This will probably involve more walking around and schmoosing and munching rather than any mad dancing. Alas, you can't be mad every weekend. (eh...wait a minute...perhaps I can?!)2 -
Laurie is extending her community roots! 🤣2
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Gym early morning. Then some laundry. Also putzing in closets and dressers to get rid of stuff. Time to move along what is no longer useful, needed or wanted.
Unless it’s so very sentimental, it’s got to go. Hubby is finally on board to help me downsize which goes against his acquisitive nature. Son neither wants or needs
our junk or mementos.
Life is easier with less stuff!2 -
Maybe I'll discover your mojo!1
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Way to go, Yooly.0
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Hubby and I both were will executors and had the difficult task of disposing of relatives belongings. Son doesn’t need to be burdened with weeks of hauling our junk out of the house someday.
My goal is to live simply. Minimal stuff. Keep the memories lose the mementos....1
