Share Your Day
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Hoping you soon feel better soon @Athijade!1
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Remember a while back I said that one day I'd manage to complete the notoriously challenging Road to Sky route on Zwift? The route that mirrors the real life Alpe D'Huez in the French alps, with it's 21 hairpin bends and it's 1,060 meters of elevation gain in a little over 12km?
Well, today I got the route badge. I rode all the way to the top (where you're awarded the route badge) and then back down again to the valley floor - 31.6km in total - in a little over two hours. 805 calories burned. It may not seem much of an achievement to super-fit folks, but for me it was a pretty hard challenge. Feeling proud.
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Well, I'm impressed, Bella! I couldn't do it, myself.1
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Thanks Alexandra - I couldn't have done it 10 years ago - or even 20 years ago - but I'm fitter at 57 than I was at 37, so I guess that's something positive too.3
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Congratulations! That’s quite an impressive achievement. Wish I had been more active twenty years ago when all my parts functioned well. Good on you!
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So, many annoying med tests later, finally an answer. Nasty bacterial infection in the gut! Looking forward to two weeks of heavy duty drugs that should do the job. Hubby is also readjusting to being less than perfectly healthy- minor heart issue discovered by cardiologist.
But we’ll be fine with some minor tweaking. Not unexpected at our ages and could be worse. Onward!
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A diagnosis is better than uncertainty Yooly, and sounds as though both you and hubby will respond well to treatment plans. That sounds like a positive outcome to me!2
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Heavens, we have to respond well! We have some traveling to do. ✈️ 🚘 Off to a family wedding in two weeks. And then some fun travel in the fall.
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This is an AWESOME ACHIEVEMENT GARFIELD! No regular Garfield would be able to do this. So ya, know, ya ARE an athlete
Yooly: I am glad to hear you've got a mending plan! Planned mending sure beats unknown!1 -
Sargeant Pickles is a beauty!
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Congratulations, Bella - that looks pretty freakin' demanding.
Sending "well" wishes to you and hubby, Yooly and to you too, Athijade.
Glad you are back, Connie!4 -
I’m giving this gut thing two weeks to get better or else! Don’t have time for nuisances.
Honestly it’s a just relief to have a name for it and a course of action. Imagination is often worse than reality.
Should be good as new -or at least good as I was- by the end of the month. In the mean time, life goes on. Things to do, people to see, places to go.....3 -
To the store today.
I have seven personal pizzas to make for me and for my girlfriend tonight, and also to fry up the hamburger into mild taco meat, weigh it out and bag it. I am waiting until it cools down some. It is so humid and hot.
That's not all I have to do. But the rest of it is larger pieces of meat and can wait until tomorrow in the fridge. I don't like to keep ground meat around before using it, and try to get it dealt with the day I bring it home.2 -
as long as they don't hide the "dark" under the "red".... I hate stores that do that!1
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This is my morning so far. This is seven weeks of Wednesday night dinners, each being about 600 calories. Tomato paste on flatbreads, with chopped onion, green pepper, and button mushrooms and an italian sausage blend that is two pounds of ground chicken with Italian seasoning fried with a pound of Italian pork sausage. This makes the whole thing taste like pork sausage without the fat and calorie burden, and I still get enough protein to feel full. Shredded low fat mozzarella on top, 2 ounces each or slightly under. There are four more on top of the stove to the left of the picture.
And you can see Nyx supervising, which she feels is her job, as well as the chain that I hang my mini Giant Microbes on. (I have Black Death, Spanish Flu, Typhoid Fever, Cholera, and Smallpox. I need to get COVID in that size, and a couple other of the big epidemic diseases to complete the collection.)
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The cat REALLY IS supervising... I spent a "spot Waldo" moment there looking for Nyx! Nice looking flatbread... and unique "chain" collection!!!2
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This leads to me looking up from my desk, which is on the other side of the passthrough, and saying things like, "Jeoffrey, don't chew on Cholera's flagellum!"3
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Last day at my job. I have mixed emotions. Excited to start something new on Monday but also sad to leave my team. I cried last night about it. Just so many emotions.2
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Mourn the past but don’t let it dampen your new adventures. Life is a constant adjustment to variables and surprises. 😍2
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Transitions are tough - but this sounds like it will be a good one, Athijade!
Just remember: Don't chew on Cholera's flagellum!
Alexandra - I think I will throw that around a bit today, just for the fun of it.3 -
I am.... once more... impressed by the group. And I can assure one and all that I have not, to date, had ANY desire to chew on any flagellum, as far as I've been aware!
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Today had its excitement. Sergeant figured out how to open the screen and go AWOL. The back fence is not secure, as the stream has eroded an area and left a lovely big opening for most dogs. And out he went, and was found sitting four houses down, looking very pleased with himself. When he got in the car, he obviously had been in a ditch. So he had a bath. He then had zoomies. And now he is sleeping in dead cockroach pose on the couch, and snoring. He is also dropping gas bombs, which is why I'm not on the couch beside him.3
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Sounds like he had a good snack while he was out!1
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Getting ready to fly to a family wedding in Missouri next weekend. Trying to rest up for the inevitable airport hassles! Direct flight out but not on return.
It will be good to catch up with family we haven’t seen in years. Most haven’t seen me since the weight loss. Surprise!🤩2 -
Will you be off antibiotics by then?1
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Hope you have a great trip, Yooly. Going to miss you
though I haven't had much to say - I've been checking in and soaking up the wisdom and experience of you all. 2 -
and humour, and wit and fun and ....2
