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Hi everyone!….2 good days in a row….at least it is a start!…daughter and husband have had Covid but mild cases…johns second round of it!….he is having extensive testing on his adrenaline glands and seeing an endocrinologist….yesterday they took 17 vials of blood out of him SMH….today he got steroid shots in his knees and in two weeks in his hips…. I am doing better mentally and really working to get back on track…I still can’t believe I let myself gain back so many pounds after working so hard to lose them…a little over 3 years since joining MFP and I have only kept 57 of the 110 pounds off…that’s not very good statistics!….I am trying to focus on one day at a time and not think about the big picture…it is good to be back!3
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It's lovely to see you back Connie - I've missed you. 'Only' keeping off 57lbs is not a failure...the last time I lost a significant amount of weight - 40kg (88lbs) - I regained all but 4kg (i.e. I regained 90%)...hence why I'm not being complacent this time around! You've managed to keep off 52% which ain't too shabby!5
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Thank you Bella…it is good to be surrounded by like minded friends!4
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You really have to try to let go of the old and start from today!
To me it sounds that by sometimes dwelling on the could have been you are poisoning your efforts to appreciate the wins you still have and to go on and deal with Connie's reality today.
Unless you are extracting actionable intelligence (and I am not convinced you are)... continuing to dwell on what could have been is robbing you from your very valid successes today! Could have beens can't move you forward; but your daily incremental successes today and tomorrow WILL move you forward and should be celebrated without an asterisk or element of regret.
It is today. And all that past stuff is water off a duck's back unless you're using it to extract actionable intelligence! So waddle forward in improving health!!!👍2 -
Today was another good day….I hit the floor running and probably burned a ton of calories!….I wanted to go swimming but could not manage to fit it in and then it rained this evening…I made a quick dash to the produce market, ran a few errands, and went grocery shopping….regular house chores and prepared veggies and fruits for the next few days….we had to buy a new stove a couple of weeks ago and it has a double oven and a built in convection oven…I love it!….our other one was only 4 years old but it came with the house and it was a very cheap one…this one has all the bells and whistles!…our grandsons g/f was hired at a very upscale restaurant on the beach…she has her culinary degree and they were thrilled to hire a young person willing to learn more…a master sushi chef of 60 years experience is also training her…the pay and benefits are great….our grandson is starting college courses in Jan…..he is young but very mature and super smart…John got shots in his knees, daughter is still recuperating from knee surgery, and grandaughter getting ready for high school…currently life is good and I am finally finding some much needed “ me time “…4
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At least I didn't wake up with a headache today. Mind you 3 hours of sorting and logging expense receipts took care of returning that headache 🙀🤬
Coffee maker gave up the ghost the other day.
What's with coffee makers these days? They used to last forever. I've now had both an expensive and a cheap one basically stop working within a three and a two-year span respectively.
Spend half a day going through three separate stores and trying to find my Holy Grail which is an incredibly wide loading section so that I can just dump the water in quickly without aiming too carefully, reasonable price point, and then things such as cleaning and a preference to cone versus basket.
Found a Hamilton Beach that seemed to fulfill all the requirements. It was innovative too with the bottom container fully open to receive water, then you put in the coffee storage container, then you put in the filter section... and it dispenses the coffee from a front spigot a mug at a time while storing it warm internally. All for 79 of our dollars... and of course absolutely not in stock with no ETA🤬🤬🤬
So I ended up with a Black & Decker with insulated carafe instead of hot plate for $99.99 not sure how I feel about the non-glass carafe. On one hand it is less likely to break. On the other there's a lot of plastic involved in my coffee 🤔🤷🏻♂️
And it does look like I will have to experiment to get the taste right. Which I have been saying all morning even before considering that the carafe is no longer glass 🤔
Oh well definitely first world problems! 🤣3 -
Hope your new coffee maker works out. I like a thermal carafe cause it holds the heat well.
Don’t know if you’re a fan of flavored coffee. My Mexican friends add a dash or more of good cinnamon to the coffee ground basket. Has to be good cinnamon not the stale supermarket bottled stuff.
We drink coffee black so it adds just a very subtle flavor.2 -
This is my coffee maker... they’re workhorses that last forever...
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Unfortunately I’m a quantity 😳 not quality black coffee drinker. About 4 cups each a.m. Not that I use cheap coffee beans but really fine coffees or espresso are wasted on me.
Might have a a few more later in the day too! I’m usually well caffeinated.1 -
Oh... Bella: I am jelly!
I just use Lavazza on the strong setting using more or less 53.5g per "12" cups... which of course have nothing to do with real cups. But I may have to adjust as it was a bit too.... flat-ish today. Other people generally describe what I drink as vile!
I reserve the label for Starbucks
@Yoolypr since ~2015 I have moved to black...3 -
We have a plain old Mr. Coffee and use Folgers coffee….the machine lasts about 2 or 3 years….I toss it and buy another!….John drinks 2 cups in the morning and I drink one to wake up and one after dinner!2
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Connie the use of Folgers is worse than food touching!0
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Folgers has got better over time. We are moving to the "Black Silk" brand of Folgers due to it being at a better price per ounce and my partners liking it just fine. They really like Peet's Major Dickson blend, but that's about three times as much and they don't like it THAT much! lol.1
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I'm so not caught up on this thread but I have had the worst start to my summer and I just need to talk about it.
I am changing jobs in september and I found a really fun one but the pay negotion went horribly and everyone keeps bugging me about it and I feel awful about it. I already have confidence issues so my new boss showing utter disrespect really gave another heavy blow to it. I don't know who I can talk to this about because everyone is either trying to tell me it's enough money (which it isn't, even though it's a lot, it's almost as little as what they pay interns and people straight out of college) or telling me how I shouldn't have settled (as if I don't know that). But I am just so tired. I am exhausted of having to fight for every scrap. I'm tired of being told I'm not good enough for exhibiting behaviour drilled into me by their peers. I'm tired. I am so unhappy about this I feel on the edge of a burnout just from thinking about it. But I'm also so worried that I won't be able to find something else. The reason I settled is twofold: I know poverty and how it messes with my mental health so I need to do everything in my power to avoid it, even settle for a bs salary and my lack of self-esteem. The sad thing is that this level of self-esteem is the highest it's been since I was 4 or 5 years old. I don't know what a confident me is like. And it's also the reason why I can't show emotions because if I do I will fall apart and idk if I'll be able to put myself back. People can't know how close to breaking I am at all times.
The second *kitten* thing is that my vacation got called off. I am so tired of having things canceled on me and I am so tired of everything being hard. Can something please be easy in my life? I was reading Hollywood Homicide yesterday and the mc's life is falling apart and throughout the thing I was thinking how much I can relate. Except she lives in Hollywood and has rich friends she can rely on. I hate having to figure out an alternative and I won't be able to go to Thailand after all and I kinda just hate the world right now. Why do we put in so much effort when the results are the same if we just laze around and do nothing?
The only thing that this mental breakdown won't affect is my weightloss and fitness journey. It's not hard at all to not overeat right now and if I thought it wasn't detrimental for my physical health I would just be at the gym all day. My mind craves 3+ workouts in a day because my new coping mechanism is working out and other than crying there is nothing to do. I don't wanna work right now or eat or talk to people around me because no one says the right things. Now there's tears and snot everywhere but I do feel slightly less exhausted from writing this all down.
I'm upset, I am still not used to not being valued even though it's been the status quo throughout my life and somehow despite sweating throughout the day I still have so many tears left in my body. Maybe I'll sweat and cry out all the waterweight my body's holding on to and I'll see a new low on the scale. I'll try to go do something that I have some semblance of control over, like language learning (or exercising, but that's not due until 6pm) or reading a book because there's no way I can get anything productive done with my mind in such a bad place.5 -
(hugs) We're dealing with something similar. Boyfriend is working a job that is really good for him mentally and has good accommodations for his conditions as he is healing.... but the pay is BAD. It is SO tight moneywise, and that is hard for me because I was poor so long. I hope that things will get better for him mentally and that he can get promoted, and I know in a couple years things will be better because Girlfriend will start working after she finishes college, but.... the intervening time is NOT FUN.bojaantje3822 wrote: »I'm so not caught up on this thread but I have had the worst start to my summer and I just need to talk about it.
If you ever want to talk IRL you can DM me and I'll give you my number.
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@AlexandraFindsHerself1971 I've read some of your posts over my months here and you make miracles out of nothing, the way my mum did when we were growing up. I hope you and your family's situation improves quickly too!
You're so kind 🥺 I'll definitely keep it in mind!1 -
@bojaantje3822 I send you hugs!
I have "thoughts" but in the current turmoil you're experiencing I am concerned you might misinterpret them -- ask me how it went when I tried to talk with CCCGG about an argument she is having with her brothers about their mom -- uh-huh -- and I am personally not in a mental space where I can attempt to "craft" an air-tight message
So all I can do is send you hugs and the hope that you will find the ability to concentrate more on some of the good aspects of your current situation.2 -
@PAV8888 thanks! I'm sure you have insightful things to say that I'd value if I were in the right headspace and I appreciate that you recognise that now is not the time. 😊 the hugs are very welcome1
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Oh the scale did go down another kg from yesterday despite a bunch of factors that tell me I should be up instead of down but I don't wanna credit blood, sweat and tears for that3
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Grrrrr..... "thunderstorm" or "tornado" or "sheer winds" apparently... not sure which... but (computer) internet has gone bye bye! So... did you guys know that "samsung Dex" is a nice scam to get you to pay lots of money to buy "galaxy" class products... but it does allow you to display your phone on the laptop/main screen. Even if your phone is a lowly S9! And given mobile data plan limits this probably works out better than just connecting the computer via hot spot.0
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Well... hello Internet... just about 22 hours!2
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I’m assuming internet access is critical to your job? Otherwise 22 hours off is a nice vacation from technology.0
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I would boo you if I could!
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Finished clearcoating the board to top the dog kennel, and now just need to drill the cleat that's going at the back to stop things falling off the back (and necessitating me moving the kennel to get to whatever fell off) and attach it with countersunk screws. Then the kennel top is a large table next to my end of the couch, and that will help a lot in terms of home organization in that area. I'm going to put a cat bed up there, recognizing the inevitable, lol. (The crate is 42 inches by 30 inches in footprint, so it is not a small thing.)
Also got all occupied beds changed and the sheets washed, and did a lot of picking up in my bedroom, which needed it.
Tomorrow I'm doing a grocery run, so I have been making a shopping list, and I'll go "shop" my pantry and freezers tonight and make an amended list before going to the stores tomorrow. I am also going to go to the large pet superstore and get a dog bed of the sort the dog likes, and a couple of large wheeled plastic food bins. One will hold the dog food, and one will hold the cat food in bags so a certain striped gentleman will stop helping himself to the food. At the moment the cat food is living in a plastic box to prevent that, and the two food containers should fit just where the box is under the table in the pantry.
(It's not just that he bites a hole in the bag. It's that every time he bites a different hole, so you pick it up and get this interesting sprinkler head effect all over the floor...)
I will also get a couple dog toys, as one cannot expect a dog to not chew on your things unless he has things of his own to chew.4 -
I would boo you if I could!
Boo away! I’m old enough to be somewhat pre- technology. Although I did design online courses for the university later in life. Hybrid generation.
I still have a landline phone that collects all spam calls. Leave me a message and I might get back to you. My cell phone lives in my purse and is only turned on when I leave the house (gasp!! 😱).
Sometimes you just need to turn all the gizmos off and read a good book.
Alexandra not only are you a world class cook, domestic manager but now you can do woodworking projects? Wow, I am soooo impressed and feeling inadequate.3 -
I cannot be trusted with any cutting/blending/chopped appliance or tool. Lucky to still have fingers and toes!
Gym this morning. They turned down the blasting heavy metal Musak system but also turned down the AC. It was probably just a couple of degrees but very noticeable. Or maybe the AC is just giving up the ghost?3 -
Yes. Choppy, chippy, cutty, not at all goody!!! Didn't know musak came in heavy metal!2
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So maybe not musak but some other obnoxious heavy metal station with much vocal screaming. Sometimes it depends on who is manning the gym desk. But heavy metal at at 6:30 am is just ungodly.
It’s a no frills gym - Planet Fitness - no classes, pools or saunas. Just the equipment and good AC. But everyone wears their own ear buds or headsets so no real need for pumped up background noise.
If it wasn’t 85 degrees with 75% humidity at sunrise, I’d just as soon go outside for a walk.2
