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We were surrounded by tornadoes Monday night.🌪🌪🌪 Lots of damage all around. Mercifully all my area experienced was winds and lots of rain. But many people close by lost everything - no deaths thank goodness. Springtime in Texas is a wild chaotic season!
Went to the gym this morning. 🏋️♀️ The workouts are getting easier and less tiring. May have to step it up a bit next week.4 -
Good work, Yooly!
I've heard so many jokes about everything being "bigger" in Texas - it makes sense that the tempest of spring would be bigger too. Glad you are okay...don't know how I would handle losing everything. Can't imagine having the energy to rebuild life.3 -
And sadly there are no basements here. All houses on a concrete slab foundation. So when the scary weather comes there’s no good shelter other than windowless areas. In my house it’s an interior walk in closet. Not much entertainment in there while waiting out storms.
I sure miss basements. For safety and for storage. Squirreling away junk is not easy if you have to jam it all in a closet.4 -
That's poor planning for tornado country!3
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What's the reason for not having basements or similar shelters?
Not sure what to say kind lady: my next door neighbor last night muttered she was on hour 20 of flying back from Central America to the Wet coast... on inquiry she literally buried the state of Texas and all Texas airports as "zoos populated by smelly philistines who did not wear their masks even when it was mandated" and that she would "rather travel through Atlanta any day". Sensing some degree of latent hostility during hour 20 of traveling, i nodded sagely, muttered "sounds like a long day" and gazed intently at my unconnected phone! Without any further exploration of her relationship with Texas!😹🤣👍3 -
Yeah well, Texas! Lots of “independent” thinkers. I’m not a native so there’s that. And I live in Austin - a weird island of free spirited liberalism smack in the middle of Texas disparaged by the rest of the state. It’s a university town too so lots of free thinking here. We’ve got Willie Nelson, Michael Dell ( computers) and Elon Musk ( Tesla) among others. Quite a mix there.
The lack of basements is due to rocky subsoil. We have many companies harvesting rock for concrete and various other uses in the state. It’s also why we grow cactus 🌵 and scrub oaks rather than green lawns and big trees. Very little actual soil.
So to have a basement would require dynamite or very expensive excavation. Many southern and western US states don’t have basements. Either rocks, sand or high water tables.3 -
A musician friend of mine, who is madly in love with Austin, adopted a dog from Texas yesterday. My pup is going to have a new friend!3
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Laurie - did your musician friend go to the SXSW music/tech/film festival held the previous two weeks in Austin? And I wonder if PAVs Canadian friend was caught in the midst of the bajillion people leaving Texas after the festival and spring break. The beaches on the Gulf coast and Mexico were also packed with vacationers. Most locals who have a choice avoid all Texas airports those two weeks. They’re crowded and there’s invariably bad weather.2
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She seemed to be quite a bit of a traveler.
Overheard me leaving a video note to cccgg, and commented on the Greek connection though she was definitely Vancouver grown.
Impression I got was that today was via Atlanta and 20 hours in order to avoid shorter ride through "smelly and rude" Texas airports (plural).
Surprised me because about 15 years back i had a long time friend doing a M to TH consulting gig in Dallas for the better part of a year and there was no mention of such depravity, whereas Atlanta was mentioned in vain by both him and his not yet wife who was also doing consulting at the time!2 -
Did someone say puppy?❣️2
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It's interesting to me how many travelers (including myself) have such opinions about particular places - that don't always require more than one experience to create!
I've not been to Texas, but I can wholeheartedly say that I would take the entire supposed zoo of maskless philistines anyday over spending even one more layover in Atlanta, Chicago, or JFK. 🤣 If it's winter, Boston and Philadelphia are also off the table - along with any flight OUT of Buffalo that isn't the first of the day (with the plane having been in place overnight).
I rarely travel for work now, even before the unpleasantness - and I plan all personal travel to avoid layovers in locations I've had bad luck. The last three times I've gone to Florida, I drove the 17+ hours rather than flying because my options weren't appealing.
I am evidently... High-maintenance and demanding. 🤣3 -
Impression I got was that today was via Atlanta and 20 hours in order to avoid shorter ride through "smelly and rude" Texas airports (plural)!
Well can’t speak to her unfortunate experiences but I’d suffer just about anything for shorter flights. ✈️ I’m assuming her flights were through Houston or Dallas hubs. Let’s hope she never has to go to Amarillo or El Paso! 😱2 -
All the things I miss by not travelling!
A new doggy - somewhere between 1 and 2 me thinks. Beautiful, beautiful, dog....
Nah...he didn't get to Texas this year...still slowly emerging from Covid Cave
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Cheers to new puppy friends! Furbabies are just the best. 😍4
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They are...and so freaking heartbreaking at the same time. The grown up pups who have lost their home/humans for whatever reason and are just desperately wanting to find their place. I often wonder if us humans deserve such loyalty. I see many dogs with their human half wrapped around their paws....but so many without.4
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Spent the morning shampooing carpeted rooms. Only three rooms but that shampoo machine is heavy and the constant refilling and emptying water reservoirs. Then there’s the furniture moving. I got my workout today! 🥴2
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And a clean house! 👍2
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That sounds like lots of work, Yooly. I still haven't given my place a serious clean...the arm is better, but still quite limited. Soon...lol....soon as in maybe June? July?....I'll do a good cleaning. Maybe fall?3
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I may not be able to delay my once every three years--or longer--cleaning that long! Dad is threatening a visit SOON!!! 3
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There’s always maid services! I’ve only used that once (broken leg, hubby deployed) but it was worth every penny.2
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There’s always maid services! I’ve only used that once (broken leg, hubby deployed) but it was worth every penny.
I am tempted to do this for my bathrooms and kitchen. I try, but with my back and hip issues along with the chronic fatigue things get away from me. I may have to look how much it would cost. It would be worth it to have someone who can mop the floors better then I can and can scrub the toilet and tub.4 -
There’s always maid services! I’ve only used that once (broken leg, hubby deployed) but it was worth every penny.
I had a couple of boys on my street come in to vacuum and mop a few times in the fall when I couldn't do anything. Nice kids and I payed them fairly which put them over the moon
But, unfortunately, the gimp arm = not being able to work for awhile. So though it would be worth every penny, the pennys are in short supply at the moment and I have to keep some on reserve for treats.
I just had a zoom meeting with Karin, my Disordered Eating counsellor (who spent most of her life as a GP and trained in disordered eating over the past few decades). Over the years (5?) I've been seeing her - she feels closer to a friend than a clinician. It is very strange to talk to someone who is trying very hard to help me be happy with my body as is and give up the idea of losing weight. But, she is making progress on helping me to adopt a healthier body image/lifestyle approach.
Talking to her today (on my birthday ) was a good reminder for me that at this stage I need to wrap my head around eating well and nonobsessively (?). Like many of us, I'm quite adept at losing weight and very good at gaining. My body seems to allow me to go up and down in great leaps and bounds. I need to find that manageable spot that PAV so bravely reminds us about.
That is no easy task though.
I've negotiated a bit of a compromise with her though from the expression on her face I can tell that she doesn't really like it.
I'm not willing to give up my goal to reach 75 kg. But that is a healthier, more achievable goal for me at this time in my life than my goal last year - that compromise gave me some bargaining points
I'm going to try to achieve that at a slow pace. Not by calorie counting or tracking (though like everyone else who had been on the diet rollercoaster most of their life my brain computes calories unconsciously so I'm not sure I will ever really give that up). But I'll continue with what I've been trying the past month-ish. From the past two years of tracking I know how to eat in a way that will allow me to lose weight, the portions/meals that I enjoy are all sorted out in my mind. The problem comes when I don't nourish myself enough - through determined restriction or carelessness. Then the urge to binge is irresistible. I'm starting to digest this knowledge that I've always "known" but not deeply enough? I'm maybe even starting to think of it as a strength. My body is hell bent on survival. And good on it. I've proven myself untrustworthy on food choices, no wonder it responds so strongly.
A young med student was part of our meeting today. It was fun. They both laughed at my switch to Kilos. The student maybe didn't understand how it might work. But Karin did. She understands that a lifetime of obsession with pounds is hard to give up and is open to the idea that upending that system might help a bit. (fingers crossed).
So that was my day so far.
Lots of love, fund, nice foods and drinks with some wonderful people lined up for the rest of today and Sunday when we will have our family celebration. And, I'm going to try to enjoy it without going bonkers as if it is the last time I'll eat in a year or something
Maybe I can fill up on the love????3 -
Happy Birthday, Laurie!2
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Many happy returns Laurie! Have a wonderful, well-deserved celebration! 🎊🥳🍻🥂🍾🎉🎁🎂
Your plan sounds like a sensible, balanced one to me... though, for curiosity, why are you so opposed in principle to just staying as you are? Why is reaching 75kg so important? Would it be the end of the world to stay your current weight forever? Curious minds need to know...2 -
Thank you!
The problem at the moment is those extra 30 pounds that came on since November. They feel bad. And...it would feel like such a defeat to have to buy all new clothes. Though - to be honest - otherwise I don't feel bad with this body 3 -
How is your low-fibre maintenance plan coming, Bella? Must feel strange?2
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Very happy birthday Laurie! Enjoy you special day. 🎂2
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Hey!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I wonder if we will have a liver cake equivalent showing up! Maybe I'll make one this weekend for you using Yooly's tricksy stuff with yogurt!!!1
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So interesting to sense some parallelisms and hear of different avenues of hamster management!
I hear from so many that the calories, the counting, has become a restraint, a burden.
From almost the beginning, from the day I decided that my primary mission was weight management and weight management was exclusively a game of calories with every other valid consideration only coming into play once weight management was on an acceptable trajectory, I viewed counting calories as freeing!
As a maximization as opposed to a minimization problem. My "mission" is to derive maximum utility within the "restraints" of the budget.
Now did I play hamster games? OF COURSE I did. Primary was to get rid of the notion of green=good red=bad by deliberately setting to levels I knew I wouldn't hit so that the green/red association broke. Now we have the "red=slow down" association which is a good one for me I believe.
While breaking red/green was NOT good in terms of short term pure caloric "wins", it was most excellent in terms of hamster manipulation. And... long term adherence will always trump shorter term considerations.
The interesting part is: do I think that what you're doing Laurie would work?
For me I think that trying what you're doing would potentially end up with me pushing more than I should. i.e. I would adopt more "healthy / filling foods" to lose weight.
And now that I know which ones work fairly well as filling low cal options for me, I can easily "clean up" the food side, continue the activity level, and hit 1000-1500 Cal deficits. Which, inevitably WILL trigger a hormonal response and over-eating down the road a few days later.
It is almost amazing but there is a very strong correlation for me (absent external cues such as dad or friends or people cooking things you can smell) between how per-occupied my hamsters are with food and cooking and whether the calories have recently been on the plus or minus side of the ledger recently!2 -
Happy birthday Laurie!0
