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I have some hemming to do, but I have to get my boyfriend to let me mark the pants while he's wearing them. He has legs that are different lengths, so I have to individually mark each leg. It's not visually obvious, but when you sew you find these things out. He has kyphosis and scoliosis. He was in a brace as a teenager to help the scoliosis, and it's not huge but it's enough to give him a high shoulder and hip as well as the stoop he has from the kyphosis.
So my last few days:
Wednesday: Got paid and we were out of things so I went to the store a day early.
Thursday: Made pulled chicken of a whole chicken. Made pulled beef out of a three pound chuck roast. Marinaded and broiled skirt steak for carne asada, then chopped it and bagged it and froze it. Sliced sirloin steaks for two bags of stirfry beef, made the marinade so I could freeze the meat in the marinade. Made two bags of beef stirfry sauce and froze those. Also made General Tso's Pork with rice and broccoli for dinner.
Friday: Fried a pound of ground turkey and a pound of Italian sausage together for pizza. Fried together a pound of ground turkey and a pound of pork breakfast sausage, drained and cooled and bagged it for later use. Cut four massive chicken breasts into six cutlets, a bag of chicken in stirfry marinade, and a bag of raw chicken pieces for curry. Took one bag of the pulled pork and made a Mexican tomato-beef sauce to coat it. Made two meals of beef/bean/cheese enchiladas and wrapped and froze them. Also made and bagged and froze a bag of chicken stirfry sauce.
I still need to make pizzas, but it's within possibility that I might push that job off to tomorrow. I also need to reorganize part of the big upright freezer, as I've added a bit to it lately (grin).
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Once again Alex, I do not know how you do it….I would have such a mess!2
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Our daughter had surgery this morning and had her meniscus repaired in her knee and her ACL as well….surgery went well and she is home resting…4
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Our daughter had surgery this morning and had her meniscus repaired in her knee and her ACL as well….surgery went well and she is home resting…
Hope your daughter recovers soon. You’ve mentioned she’s a teacher? I remember during my teaching years we all put off surgeries and medical procedures until summer vacation! Not much of a rest for her but she’ll face the new school year with less pain.
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Once again Alex, I do not know how you do it….I would have such a mess!
I stop in between each and wash up. And I take afternoon naps. Next week the heat index is going up to 100 and I am going to be largely non-functional, so I need to get done what I can right now.4 -
Yeah for knee repairs2
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A good day….my brain and my stomach are currently on the same page….food has been satisfying and no cravings or binges….our mini vacation did me a world of good mentally, not so much physically….the drive their about did us in!…the cabin was great and we all had a good time…got home safely followed by heart tests the last three days!….results next week plus a dental appointment I am dreading, John has an MRI scheduled and johnnathan is having his last heart monitoring , too…Amanda is recovering from surgery for her torn meniscus and also the ACL was torn…2
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Hopefully EVERYONE in the fam is on the mend!!!!1
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@Bella_Figura GARFIELD: REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <- you don'tz getz to hidez!
Plus I have CA questions too.... except you chose to live at the wrong end of the pond!
@lauriekallis YO! Great Lakes and all that! S'up?
@Yoolypr ... are you still un-boiled? Or have you turned a lovely lobster red?!?!?!?
Making lasagna in the OVEN from FROZEN (thankfully it vents outside)! And a basic salad!!!!2 -
I’m feeling kind of lonesome here too. Guess everyone is doing summer, having a life, grappling with problems.... just want to know everyone is okay.
Hibernating indoors. It was 104 🔥today and looks like pretty much the same for the next ten days. No rain. Remaining unboiled thus far.3 -
At 104.... I have my doubts!1
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At 104.... I have my doubts!
Maybe parboiling 🥵tomorrow? The forecast is 107F with humidity about 70%.
I’ll head for the gym around 6:30am. Maybe a quick run to the store mid morning. But after that I plan on hibernating.
Dreaming about that first cool day sometime late November when I can open a window again.2 -
All the precooking is done. I'm a little surprised by this as so often I keep having to work at it into the following week. Huh. It means I can actually use my Sunday to tidy up downstairs and do laundry and generally get him ready for the work week.
It's looking like Girlfriend will be able to get her associate's degree by next spring, and then she'll go to the state school to finish it as a bachelor's. (The trade school and the state school are linked; all her credits will transfer.) So she's making good progress.
We also realized that the reason she's having manic episodes is a medication interaction, and she's going to have a telehealth appointment with her psychiatrist to talk about this as soon as I can set one up on Monday.3 -
Progress Alexandra, progress!
Two realtors have proposed that dad lists at more than 17% price difference. I finally convinced him to get a third opinion instead of just listing with the higher. There WAS a bias issue with the higher priced suggestion because he blabbed to the realtor what he was hoping for and it is not unknown for realtors to worry about getting the listing first and then just work on lowering the price.2 -
Progress Alexandra, progress!
Two realtors have proposed that dad lists at more than 17% price difference. I finally convinced him to get a third opinion instead of just listing with the higher. There WAS a bias issue with the higher priced suggestion because he blabbed to the realtor what he was hoping for and it is not unknown for realtors to worry about getting the listing first and then just work on lowering the price.
The longer the house sits on the market, the longer dad will be paying for upkeep, utilities and taxes for a house he is not occupying. And there will be new expenses at his new residence. I learned this lesson from my 10 military moves often trying to juggle cost of two residences. Having to travel back and forth too. Not worth the few extra dollars for the hassle. Price it reasonably and move it along.
Otherwise - my day will begin at the gym. Then hunkering down in the AC with a cool drink 🍹.2 -
Jeeze, you go AWOL for one lousy week and people think you've gone to ground!
Well...I did actually sorta go to ground...I was not at all happy with my eating during BIL's visit...I was like a woman possessed!- The good news is that BIL left directly after breakfast on Friday.
- The bad news is that at Saturday's weigh-in I was 2.6kg higher than when he arrived on Monday.
- The good news is that this hasn't sent me into a tailspin...I know that even despite my overindulgences, I DID NOT eat 21,000 excess calories in 4 days. My worst day was 2000 above maintenance, the other days were about 1000 above maintenance, so the most I should genuinely have gained is 1.5lbs.
- The bad news is that my eating felt out of control for the 4 days he was here.
- The good news is that I weighed, measured and logged every single guilty bite...including every lick, sip, taste, crumb or nibble.
- The bad news is that even the logging didn't halt me in my tracks.
- The good news is that took myself and Norman off for a long walk every day while he was here, so at least I burned some calories.
- The bad news is that it'll probably take at least a couple of weeks for my weight to stabilise at its pre-visit level.
- The good news is that between yesterday and today I appear to have lost 1.0kg of the 2.6kgs I gained...
- The bad news is that I still have 1.6kgs to go...
- The good news is that I got straight back on plan once he'd gone, and I had solid deficit days both Friday and Saturday (and today's looking good too...)
- The bad news is that I've been crushingly lazy since he left, as I felt wiped out after nearly a week of less than 3 hours sleep per night and too much booze
- The good news is that I don't feel the need to obsessively exercise for hours at high intensity to try to get rid of the 1.6kg in record-quick time
- The bad news is that I have a camping trip on the horizon, at a place with a fantastic cafe/tea shop...
- The good news is that we've deferred it a few days, which means I have a whole week to regain a little equilibrium before we head under canvas...I need the time to give myself a pep talk so that I don't espy the teashop and then start overdosing on cake and mainlining sugar.
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Happy to have our possessed woman back! 👹2
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Well so much for the gym. The staff girl could not get her key to work. She was waiting for a locksmith! 😤 It would be another hour, so I left and walked the entire length of the giant grocery store three time. Better than nothing and walking outdoors is impossible. 🔥🔥🔥3
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Well so much for the gym. The staff girl could not get her key to work. She was waiting for a locksmith! 😤 It would be another hour, so I left and walked the entire length of the giant grocery store three time. Better than nothing and walking outdoors is impossible. 🔥🔥🔥
I hear you!….it is 96 here and 100% humidity….hot is an understatement!….like you, I can’t wait until cooler weather in Nov. or Dec…..I also make extra trips to the grocery store to walk inside where it is cool…summers are getting hotter every year!…I miss not having a pool in our yard….although we have a pool installer coming this week to give us an estimate!….I don’t have much hope as we have huge Live Oak trees in the backyard and we do not want to remove them….maybe a small pool, I don’t know!2 -
Meanwhile here is the weather in temperate Norfolk... in Fahrenheit for you non- Europeans!
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Glorious! I’m moving there’s immediately. Hubby may miss me?2
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That sounds like what we were enjoying last week in Indiana.
Now, of course, it's 87 and very humid. (sigh) It's a good thing I'm done standing over a hot stove for a bit. Dinner tonight is going to be chicken quesadillas, which is a lovely easy thing on a hot day.3 -
CCCGG is despairing of me ever braving the crazy temperatures there. I knew there was a reason I am not heading back!
Run into high school yearbook. I was gifted a new pair of downhill skis and a rifle so I could defend myself from any stray polar bears... hmmm.....2 -
But CCCGG at any temperature might be worth the sacrifice. I’m here in Texas only because of 🥰 hubby. Sometimes you just have to go the extra mile!3
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It's 101 here today. Looking at 104 tomorrow. 10 day forecast shows around 100 every day.2
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We're looking at a week in the low nineties with humidity in the low eighties. That's enough for me. Bleah.
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Hi, all. I have a friend here visiting from your end of the country, PAV. It's been a crazy week. She's picking up a rental car and a couple of hours and venturing around southern Ontario to see other friends for the next week.
My office doubles as a guest room... I have a heck of a time using my phone for posting but it feels weird to venture in there to use my desktop while she's sleeping 🙂
Can't imagine the heat where you are at, Yoolie!
Glad everyone in your family is on the mend and that your vacation was overall good, Connie!
PAV, You're such good support for us all. How are things going for you right now?
I actually can't wait to log my food today. Some kind of reverse psychology going on in my head. 🙂3 -
Off to the airport later today to pick up son. Hoping he had a good time as this was his first out of town trip in three years!
At home hubby is getting ready for his routine colonoscopy tomorrow morning. The prep is nasty and he can’t eat solids today so I have a hangry, irritable old man to deal with. He’s not happy with following instructions. For better or worse ……4 -
Laurie, scrambling to schedule the re schedules3
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Hope you are resuccessful!
So...my NSL for today (non scale loss) is my freakin' neighbour, Bob. Who I have got to know a bit better during covid - because he is in his eighties, and alone, so I was picking up things midweek for him from the grocery store (his son did a weekend grocery store run for him). Anyway, Bob, who is 84 and lonely (widowed the year before covid) lives a few doors away from me - and he keeps an eye out his front door to catch you if you are walking by, and calls you over to stop for a chat. I always stop in and ask him if he needs anything from the grocery store when I walk by.
Today he stopped by my house for the first time when I was sitting in the backyard with another neighbour friend, John. I invited Bob to joine us. He said "okay" and followed that with "You have to stop eating so much."
***kitten*** *** kitten***
I asked him why he would say such a thing, and then asked him to leave before he stepped in past the gate. Just didn't have it in me to deal with that.
Bob isn't a trim man himself.
Nor a SMART man, apparently.
And I know I've gained weight.
And I was wearing a "sleeveless" tshirt and a skirt that is a bit snugger than I would like. Not particularly flattering clothing.
But.
***kitten***
Why are people such jerks?
And though I know I shouldn't let it. His words brought on a wicked wave of self loathing not so well remedied by the purchase of two hamsters when I went out to stock back up on some healthy food choices now that my friend has left for the week.
***kitten***
No more grocery runs for Bob.4
