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I am back. I am going to nap. I think my shoes are worn down because my feet are hurting more than they ought from this. (sigh) And we're not buying anything like that soon because we don't get a paycheck for a month. (It's state government, they do what they do.) So my aching feet and I are going to be horizontal with a book on sabertooths. That's a happy place for me.5
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So... I ended up going shopping and had an amazing NSV. I was at Old Navy and trying on dresses. Just at the start of the year I was at a 3x (they have normal sizes XS to XXL and then plus sizes 2X to like 4X). Today I tried on a dress at a 3X and it was WAY too big! The 2X was still too big! The XXL fit great though. I seriously cried in the dressing room. I also was able to get a 2X in some pants and shorts.
But I spent way too much money.
I have also been going through all my clothes and getting rid of stuff again. I have filled 2 large garbage bags and started a third. Like the black bags you use for yard work. I have one more section to sort and then I need to get reorganize some stuff in general in there. But I had to stop because my back is bothering me and I need to not overdo it.6 -
I got tons of meat so I'll be processing meat (mostly pork loins) this weekend. I like having it done, so I have to do it at some point.... and maybe I can get some help from Son or Boyfriend.5
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Find a worthy cause and donate those too big clothes. Enjoy wearing the lovely new summer clothes!3
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Congratulations, Athijade! Woohoo. New clothes are fun smile:
Sounds like you are going to be pretty busy, Alexandra. Hope your feet hold out until you get them tucked into new shoes. I was looking at my soles today thinking they need to be replaced soon too. If only money (or shoes) grew on trees!4 -
They're just going to have to. I only have one pair of daily wear shoes at a time, and as I can't just go buy a $20 pair at Wal-mart, it's more difficult. I need a broad last, removable footbed, good support, and I don't like femme shoes. It's not that I'm questioning my gender, but....What is it with all the shoes that look like Lisa Frank threw up on them?! That is NOT my style. I usually handle the problem, since I wear a 10 wide in women's, by going and getting a quiet black men's athletic shoe. The last is broader, and all I have to do is make sure it has a removable footbed for my lift.4
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Find a worthy cause and donate those too big clothes. Enjoy wearing the lovely new summer clothes!
The clothes will be donated. I do have one bag of stuff that is going to be tossed but that is underwear or things that are stained. I still have to go through my winter clothes so may do that tonight if I have the energy or maybe this weekend. I would LIKE to do it tonight so I can take the clothes this weekend to donate but we will see.
Also, I am feeling 100x better today then I did yesterday. Just taking that one day did a lot to help.4 -
Orthopedic appointment this morning. More X-rays, more therapy, more steroid shots. The good news is it’s not bad enough for surgery! Back to the gym slowly next week.
Great quote from book I’m reading - “any morning you wake up looking forward to the first cup of coffee is a good day!” Sucked down 3 cups of black coffee this morning so onward .....4 -
Yooly - I had some extraordinary improvement working with an osteopath/kinesiologist. I'm not sure if it is the practice or the individual - but WOW. I referred him to several friends - including a cousin in her 70s who had both knees replaced yet still had a heck of a time walking, a mid fifties runner, an mid 40s workout/runner, and my daughter inlaw who was still suffering post pregnancy/delivery discomfort and everyone was blown away by how much better their body moved and how much pain vanished.
I've never been big on that sort of thing - but when I was told "just don't use your arm" until surgery and the pain was getting ridiculous everywhere else too from my body compensating because it was trying to function with a messed up shoulder through two years of the pandemic I felt kind of desperate. After visiting him once I was astonished - after 4 months I was considering giving up on surgery all together. But went for it so I could have the strength back.3 -
I 😻 you guys bouncing back ❣️👍3
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@luxia2020 it's almost the weekend, s'up?
@Bella_figura we are really trying to limit the food to the doctor's approved list. She is stable/not getting worse on these foods. When I've cautiously strayed the reaction has been there more often than not
Bread products no major reaction to the ones tried. Pasta dried was a thing for a while. But we are developing a weight issue.
Beef liver she seemed to be ok with. But I'm looking for something with a chew for teeth hygiene
Chicken or pork did not go over very well. Pizza which she loves loves loves the crust... yeah, not the next day.
Steroids two kinds really didn't work well for her. The (multi years of paw injuries are catching up) and that doesn't help 🤷🏻♂️🤔
Dried squash sounds interesting. The question is what kind and how
Pumpkin maybe too. Pumpkin apple "cookies" 🤔
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So today was precooking. One half pork loin into twelve chops (frozen in bags of four) and eight chunks of meat for country pork ribs for Char Siu (Chinese BBQ pork) and marinade into two bags. One chunk's about the same amount of meat as a chop, so it works out.
Made the teriyaki beef last night, and this morning made a little more white rice and made up lunches with the teriyaki beef, broccoli, and white rice for Boyfriend to take to work next week.
Made saffron rice for tomorrow night's Greek chicken.
Fried up a pound of hamburger so Girlfriend can have cheeseburger mac when the rest of us are having spaghetti with marinara and meatballs. (She isn't eating tomatoes as they make her fibro worse.)
Made myself blueberry muffins for breakfast. Two is about 500 calories, which I can afford if I'm not snacking, and that lets me have one about six am and then one about nine am, and that gets me through to lunch well.
Made a sausage, onion, mushroom, and spinach quichecake, which is currently sitting on the counter cooling fo I can wrap it for the freezer. I just took one out to thaw, so I wanted to put another one in. That way people always have a good solid breakfast option available.
Made pico de gallo because I used the last of the last batch in tacos tonight. Also we had patty melts for lunch.
I still have to cut one pork loin and make the fried pork bits for sweet-and-sour and such, but that is enough of a deal that I decided to do it tomorrow, and read a couple books and drink tea for the rest of the evening.4 -
I sure hope your household members appreciate what a GEM 💎 you are Alexandra!4
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I sure hope your household members appreciate what a GEM 💎 you are Alexandra!
They're pretty good about that. My son said the other day that (and he's autistic, so this is a BIG DEAL) "I'll try anything you make, mom, because you'll make it the best it can be made." They always compliment me when they see their plates and when they bring their dishes to the kitchen, and they are always happy to see me working in the kitchen to precook and plan, and are always willing to taste test, especially the spicier things that I don't like. They don't want to go eat out...not because of the pandemic, but because I make better food at home than most of what they can get at restaurants.
I guarantee after I make a month's worth of fried pork bites tomorrow (we have one meal of those a week, so four bags is a month, with thirty pieces per bag) I will get a massage and all sorts of other appreciation from my partners.
For now, I'm going to have a bath and head towards bed. Something about getting up at five-thirty has me thinking about bed at nine pm.
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Nothing makes a good cook feel as appreciated as a heartfelt compliment about their food!3
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Today is a migraine day. Good things are happening Monday, I'm excited, and so my body's response is to have a migraine. (sigh)
This is one of the reasons I try to live a very quiet monotonous life. Good or bad events always cause a migraine.6 -
Did some chores and therapy-recommended exercises. Will be back in the gym Monday. Getting more steroid shots before we go on vacation in May. Finally going to see family in Ohio after over two years. I’m hoping it’s safer now to visit the more fragile relatives.
Went shopping alone today - usually hubby joins as he doesn’t mind shopping. I do enjoy the rare solo time. Bought some snappy red sandals which made me very happy!3 -
Yooly in Red ❣️2
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They sound so summery! Hope you have a good trip...can't believe how close we are to May1
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Hellooo!
Sorry …Been AWOL but have had the most fantastic, amazing, emotional roller coster of a three day reunion with my bestest buddy who left to live in NZ in 1988, but has returned briefly to see us friends & family!
OMG …I didn’t even know she was here…
OH took us for a drive to the Dales on Thursday and it went from there!
Had a wonderful 3 day reunion, considering we’d done our nurse training together & then she married and up’d sticks!
So, so much to talk about / catch up about ….and feel so gifted she chose to spend 3 days (exclusively 🥰)those days with me…. her OH and D got on really well too!
Food wise was not so terrible… but was uncountable (🤫) …Debs is also on a healthy eating lifestyle change too!
But we walked, talked, swimmed, talked golfed, and got beautified, did more talking ..so must have used loads of calories too!
Cemented the friendship for another 20 -30 years I hope, even if probably will only see each other by Skype in the future, but hey ho!
And another bonus too….Scales down 2.8 lbs this morning despite the hotel food & some (😜) wine / champagne!
This is going to take some coming down from 💕6 -
I am up on time.... let's see what I can make of the day...5
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Hubby’s 75th birthday today. 🎂 Celebrated at a wonderful all-you-can-eat Middle Eastern buffet. Marvelous food. Restraint was exercised but I’m sure it was over my daily calorie allotment.4
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Hubby’s 75th birthday today. 🎂 Celebrated at a wonderful all-you-can-eat Middle Eastern buffet. Marvelous food. Restraint was exercised but I’m sure it was over my daily calorie allotment.
Woohoo! Woohoo! Woohoo! Happy Birthday to YOUZE!
C E L
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T I O N ! ! !
Hope you had loads of fun!!!
**youze is plural youze knowz!2 -
It looks like he may go to work tomorrow. Fingers crossed. I will have to ask him what to do about grocery money this week. I'm exceptionally creative, but in some places we will feel a distinct pinch if we don't go to the store at all.
My glasses broke so I stuck them back together and will just cope until I can get to the optometrist and get new ones made. Regretfully, "get Alex new glasses" has moved up the scale of things we need to spend on. I was hoping they'd go a little longer. My glasses aren't cheap since I wear a no line bifocal. (sigh) And I'll need a new prescription. I can tell. But I do have a pair of old glasses that I like the frames on, so I'll just take those in and have new lenses put in them. That works for me. And this time round I WILL be getting a pair of backup glasses because you don't need them until you NEED THEM.5 -
Yes I just love the new style where even if you're ready to drop whatever they're asking for, some types of glasses they can't make in less than a week no matter what!
By the way if anybody in Canada knows a cheeper way to get high index progressive "transition" lenses other than through Costco Loblaws after applying Canadian automobile association 30% discount plus stacking on a points promo.... Please inform inquiring minds would like to know!
Hey Alexandra, I think you've mentioned it once before but what does boyfriend specialize on? And has he ever done any Windows server/AD/RDS migrations?2 -
oh glasses....I need new ones too and my optometrist who I like has moved to I don't know where and been replaced by two snarky new ones.
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He's done a lot of Big Data work as a data architect, mostly with healthcare databases. He's pivoting to a lower-stress state job as a data analyst for now. It's hard when people can't decide what they want and then decide it's his fault because he didn't do what they want. (rolls eyes)
Down a pound this morning, which is always a nice thing to see. It feels like I'm getting back into the swing of things after the surgery again.
He's going to go in for his first day of work today, and the only thing remaining uncertain is whether or not I'm going to drive him. I would rather not, but we'll see.5 -
Expecting big thunderstorms today. Off to the gym early trying to avoid them.3
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Well, I drove him because he found he was dissociating heavily. (This is a symptom of one of his issues.) He also didn't sleep very well last night. I know this is because one of his personalities (he has DID) is freaking out about going back to work like an eight year old with emotional regulation issues would throw a fit about going back to school. Nothing we can say is going to get that personality to realize that it's totally okay and low stress and everything is fine except....experiencing for herself that everything is fine. Fortunately at orientation he doesn't have to be brilliant or insightful, so doing it on very little sleep and only halfway there is, perhaps not ideal, but doable. And I'll go pick him up so he doesn't have to drive home.
Fortunately dinner is pretty fast to actually pull together tonight, and I may ask someone else in the house to deal with putting it together so we can just come home and eat when we're hungry. That would help a lot.
Today I'm taking advantage of no one sitting in the front room to give it a good dust and sweep and mop Under and Behind things. Have to do this on occasion or the cat hair tumbleweeds achieve sentience behind the furniture. (grin) So that's done, it's 9:15, and I am sitting for my back and then I'll do an Under and Behind in the kitchen and sweep and mop in there. Though I may wait on the sweep and mop til after lunch because shredded cheese is messy.6
