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Hello everyone. Just a few minutes for commentary as I have to log in and get working....coffee and shower first though.
In SFL we really have no need to put away and take out winter clothes. We have warm and hot clothing. I have a few light jackets and sweat shirts I put up. Most of my clothes can be layered for cold spells. I have a few winter shoes (closed toe) I put in shoe boxes for the hot season. Yes spoiled in FL.
Chinkiri I'm so glad you're on the upswing. I know this year has been unusual but it also seems your weather sensitive. You may want to check into getting the lights that imitate sunlight for the next winter season. I hear they are worth the investment. If I lived where there was a real winter I would have to invest in them. I see sun year round and have almost forgotten the winter blues. Gosh, I've been in SFL since my early 20s.2 -
Thank you @SuziQ113 We have a similar climate to you, I think, in Florida, but this year's weather, beautiful during lockdown and then rain when we were out allowed again, got me down. We don't have a real winter either. Great again now, this is why I moved here, amongst other reasons!1
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@Chinkiri - I’m so happy for you! It’s looking like a good day here as well.1
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readyornot1234 wrote: »@Chinkiri - I’m so happy for you! It’s looking like a good day here as well.
Keep it up! I am struggling right now at this very moment to push myself to go out and do some exercise!2 -
On my mind today...so many wonderful things...but someone just accused me of being a "sell out" because I accepted the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance of $600 a week. I'm a self employed Mom...and that is a very helpful figure. However, if I go back to work at about a 3rd of my normal load for this time of year...I'm losing money because my clients don't want to use my services just yet... So... Anyway.... (lovely use of grammar I know) I have to slice and dice the numbers and pray through this.4
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Thursday 21st May
Another beautiful morning!
I am grateful that I live in this beautiful city with 300 days of sunshine a year.
I am grateful for my good health and that of my family.
I am grateful for my financial security, but I am also grateful that the taxes I am paying and have paid over the years are providing a much needed income to people who have lost their jobs or are in the process of losing them.
I am grateful for the support of all you people, helping by sharing or wise words when I am down and by cheering when I am doing well.
Have a good day everyone!3 -
dsgoingtodoit wrote: »On my mind today...so many wonderful things...but someone just accused me of being a "sell out" because I accepted the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance of $600 a week. I'm a self employed Mom...and that is a very helpful figure. However, if I go back to work at about a 3rd of my normal load for this time of year...I'm losing money because my clients don't want to use my services just yet... So... Anyway.... (lovely use of grammar I know) I have to slice and dice the numbers and pray through this.
No one has a right to make you feel bad about accepting what is your right. We pay taxes to provide for provisions we consider important and our elected representatives approve. My oldest son is a chef in independent business and cannot work due to anti-Corona measures. He receives government unemployment assistance. What is he supposed to do, starve? Do deliveries? He has a 9-year-old daughter and partner with Crohn's disease, who has almost no immunity and who has to stay in confinement.
People should think more often: "There, but for the grace of God, go I"4 -
dsgoingtodoit wrote: »On my mind today...so many wonderful things...but someone just accused me of being a "sell out" because I accepted the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance of $600 a week. I'm a self employed Mom...and that is a very helpful figure. However, if I go back to work at about a 3rd of my normal load for this time of year...I'm losing money because my clients don't want to use my services just yet... So... Anyway.... (lovely use of grammar I know) I have to slice and dice the numbers and pray through this.
No one has a right to make you feel bad about accepting what is your right. We pay taxes to provide for provisions we consider important and our elected representatives approve. My oldest son is a chef in independent business and cannot work due to anti-Corona measures. He receives government unemployment assistance. What is he supposed to do, starve? Do deliveries? He has a 9-year-old daughter and partner with Crohn's disease, who has almost no immunity and who has to stay in confinement.
People should think more often: "There, but for the grace of God, go I"
Thank you for the support Chinkiri! I agree with you. We all have to do what is best in each of our individual circumstances.3 -
22nd May
Oops, almost forgot!
I am grateful to have woken up healthy again and in good spirits.
I am grateful for the use of my legs. After a horrific accident 20 years ago, they were talking about me being in a wheelchair after max 10 years, and here I am, planning a nice long walk for today.
I am taking my partner, who has Alzheimer's, and usually that is a trying experience, but it'll be good to work on my patience and tolerance.
I am grateful for my friends. We're biking to the beach on Sunday. Without a bit of a push from them I'd find a new excuse every day!
Have a good day everyone! Sleep well, Japan and Oz!
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22nd May
Oops, almost forgot!
I am grateful to have woken up healthy again and in good spirits.
I am grateful for the use of my legs. After a horrific accident 20 years ago, they were talking about me being in a wheelchair after max 10 years, and here I am, planning a nice long walk for today.
I am taking my partner, who has Alzheimer's, and usually that is a trying experience, but it'll be good to work on my patience and tolerance.
I am grateful for my friends. We're biking to the beach on Sunday. Without a bit of a push from them I'd find a new excuse every day!
Have a good day everyone! Sleep well, Japan and Oz!
SOO glad to hear the ""chipper" tone back in your "voice"!3 -
23rd May
Another beautiful day!
Like I said yesterday, so grateful for my legs! I did a two-hour walk yesterday, with ups and downs, in a beautiful 'domaine' by the river, used to belong to the Bazille family, now owned by the Municipality. It was closed until Thursday.
I am grateful for things opening up a bit. It gives a little more normality to my life.
I am grateful for good food! Counting calories doesn't mean I cannot eat well!
Have a good day everyone!4 -
I’m sorry I forgot your name and couldn’t find it easily when I went back to look. You asked about what app I use to track earthquakes or get early warning. I live in Japan so the app goes off of the Japanese scale. Which is different then the what the USA uses. I don’t believe it would give you warnings but Information after the quake. It tracks all over the world, you can give it a try. The name is Yurekuru.( you can set to English in settings) Every cell phone in Japan has earthquakes and tsunami warnings based on location. I get one from the app and the government one. We don’t get them for smaller quakes.1
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my day worked out for room for 1/2 a Chapman's Yukon Ice Cream Treat. YUM!
Weight still stable Saturday-to-Saturday - I seem to have a decent handle on matching my daily calorie setting to my current average daily activity level (and this past week was only 20 calories under where MFP wanted me to set my maintenance goal with a "sedentary lifestyle setting" (which seemed the best choice given still more-locked-down-than-not work from home situation. )
A few more types of stores are starting to open up in a limited "controled-traffic" way or else re-opening but for curbside pickup or pick-up-and-leave. To be allowed to open, the retail location must have its own to-the-curb access. Strip malls but not enclosed malls. Places like car dealerships by appointment only - that kind of thing.
Non-medical masks are currently recommended for all situations where social distancing may be problematic (eg not necessarily for walk if in a wide-open setting (lots of room to pass and not many people anyway - but do wear if in more congested city streets / lineups / inside stores)
I have made two-each for myself, DH, and snail-mailed a pair downtown to my son.3 -
24th May
Still grateful for the use of my legs!
I am going to try them out today, cycling to the beach!
Grateful for good friends, giving me the little push I need to finally climb onto my bike.
Grateful for seasons and seasonal food: the shops are full of delicious fruit at the moment. Taking cherries and apricots with me on my bike ride.
Have a good day everyone!3 -
Hello UAC Friends.
Sorry that I have been MIA. Work is kicking my butt. I have been working since last Saturday. My longest day was Thursday. I started at 2:30 am and worked through until 8:30 pm.
My eating was a little off most of last week but managed to stay within goal range. This held true with recording and exercise.
I was finally able to get a hair cut on Friday. TG my boss appreciated the fact I really had to get it for my mental state. The only appointment I could get was during the later part of the work day. I typically keep my hair very short (above the ears and clipped very close to my head). I had an appointment scheduled for the end of March for both highlights and a cut. Well, as we all know that did not occur. I had been wanting to see what my natural color was at this point of life. And, guess what?! Lovely Covid-19 time allowed my hair to grow out enough so when I got the cut on Friday I could see and evaluate. My hair is 50/50 silver and medium/dark brown. And, it does not look too bad. It's actually freeing to think I am ok with not dying it. I have always loved Jamie Lee Curtis' fully silver, short hair.
What do you think? The first pic is from December when I had highlights refreshed....second is covid-19 hair and the third is natural. As you can see I am looking extremely tired in #2 and #3.
In celebration of restaurants and such starting to open (50% capacity) on Friday I took myself out to dinner at a local pub. It was strange sitting 6 feet away from everyone at the bar, but it was good to be out and about.
Well I have got to fly. It is 2:00 am here (yes, I am up at this very early hour). I have a few home things to get done and then it's back to work. Tomorrow is a holiday here and I promised myself I would not log in.4 -
@SuziQ113 - my friends and I have been having a recurring discussion over the last few years or growing out our natural hair colors (whatever that may be since for some of us we’ve been coloring so long we don’t remember). The change just seemed too much at the time. Mine was last done the beginning of March. Many of us are not going to get it colored again until we have lived with and adjusted to the grey. I’m liking it so far.2
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@SuziQ113, @readyornot1234, I applaud you for your willingness to go "natural". Not me. My "natural" is a really dull grey, but not even really grey...just dull!! So I will keep being blond for awhile. My hair in my profile pic is too blonde....haven't been that bright for a bit. Going with a more natural tone. My last colour was January 9th. I have no idea when hair salons will open up again. Have you heard anything @BMcC9? (We are in the same province).2
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@SuziQ113, @readyornot1234, I applaud you for your willingness to go "natural". Not me. My "natural" is a really dull grey, but not even really grey...just dull!! So I will keep being blond for awhile. My hair in my profile pic is too blonde....haven't been that bright for a bit. Going with a more natural tone. My last colour was January 9th. I have no idea when hair salons will open up again. Have you heard anything @BMcC9? (We are in the same province).
A friend sent me a gif or meme or whatever with 2 women side by side. One woman had beautiful silky shiny grey hair and the caption read “this is how I imagined my grey would look”. The other woman had wiry course dull grey hair and the caption read “this is how it looks in realty”. Only time will tell.3 -
@SuziQ113, @readyornot1234, I applaud you for your willingness to go "natural". Not me. My "natural" is a really dull grey, but not even really grey...just dull!! So I will keep being blond for awhile. My hair in my profile pic is too blonde....haven't been that bright for a bit. Going with a more natural tone. My last colour was January 9th. I have no idea when hair salons will open up again. Have you heard anything @BMcC9? (We are in the same province).
Here is the website for the Allied Beauty Association (national Canadian body for this industry)
Covid-19 related latest update. https://abacanada.com/pages/covid19
It includes province-by-province likely-tentative reopening plans, plus how the heck the "mechanics" might safely be adapted / negotiated both for the client and for the staff.
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I am currently faced with an interesting, not precisely common "dilemma"
I have to start wrapping my brain (sooner than anticipated) to a "semi-retired" lifestyle but only in the daily-routine sense, not the financial sense!Work in my sector (federal public service) is finally waking up to the fact that "work is what you do, not where you go" and that far more categories of business lines can be successfully done by distributed teams working offsite than the powers-that-be were originally willing to admit. Par for the course for a bureaucratic mind-set.
My post will continue to be work-from-home potentially "almost indefinitely" (DH is THRILLED that I will remain safely mostly-at-home as we watch the gradual reopening of "discovering what 'new normal' will look like from a safe distance"). No paycheck impact for us (just financial positives like no longer paying for commute-gas etc)
HOWEVER - what I DO have to make mental and habitual adjustments to are all the "at work NEAT step-generating strategies" are basically gone for good. My available non-work (yet no longer commuting) hours have changed and opened up. Not a HUGE amount, but still the whole "time needed for the activities required to support the actual work-hours" have altered.
Plus Stabilization is going well, so I have more-or-less arrived at the beginnings of maintenance. That means my exercise activities can change to less cardio-exergame based and maybe more balance/flexibility/range-of-motion, and yet I need to keep up with burning the additional calories I am now eating. So ALL my off-hour activities can't fall into the default category of "pretty much stationary" like reading, faux-cross-stitch, sewing etc.
I would love to hear suggestions on the transition-to-full-maintenance going forward from those of you who have already done so (and are still working or at most semi-retired). I am not ENTIRELY my own master for scheduling my time QUITE yet ...3 -
Monday 25th May
Lots of things to be grateful for.
- I am grateful for the use of my legs. Did a massive (for me) bike ride yesterday. Felt great!
- I am grateful I am alive and in good health. I told my bike mate the story of how I almost died or at least had my leg amputated.
- I am grateful I lost some 13 kilos, many thanks to support from you all. It would have been so difficult doing that bike ride with that extra weight!
Have a good week everybody!4 -
@SuziQ113 Your natural hair looks great! It goes well with your skin shade and eye colour. I have been trying to decide for ages whether to go natural or to colour it back to the vibrant auburn shade that actually used to suit me. I don't know yet. My hair has grown quite long, so I tend to pin it up. I certainly don't want to go back to my hairdresser yet, far too close during Covid-19, so I will wait a little longer. I think I will wait until my general 'look', i.e. weightloss, is stable and then I will decide what hair colour and style goes with the new, trim me!4
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@SuziQ113 Your natural hair looks great! It goes well with your skin shade and eye colour. I have been trying to decide for ages whether to go natural or to colour it back to the vibrant auburn shade that actually used to suit me. I don't know yet. My hair has grown quite long, so I tend to pin it up. I certainly don't want to go back to my hairdresser yet, far too close during Covid-19, so I will wait a little longer. I think I will wait until my general 'look', i.e. weightloss, is stable and then I will decide what hair colour and style goes with the new, trim me!
Thank you. It's always great to have options. I figured I can always color it, if I get tired of it. For now it feels freeing. If we continued being normal I would've gotten highlights again and would be wondering.
Congratulations on the weight loss. You're doing great and giving yourself something to look forward to as you hit your goals.2 -
@SuziQ113 I am embracing my grey, as I am about 40% there. I love the look in picture three!
I've been playing around with a color depositing conditioner because it isn't permanent and it really doesn't cover the grey. Right now I'm sporting Rose Gold for Brown Hair, which is kind of pushing the envelope for soon-to-be-removed hair color restrictions at work, but it left me with a nice burgundy shade, which is better than my dull brown roots. It's probably been since before Halloween when I last used permanent color, so with every trim, more and more of the dyed ends are coming off.
I was so thrilled to hear from my stylist yesterday that she's opening back up and that I can get a cut next week. My last one was in early February, so I am well past due.
Our state (NC) is in Phase 2 of the reopening, which means salons and restaurants can open up, but gyms and bars cannot. One county has decided to extend its stay at home order, and I feel badly for those residents. Folks are getting stir crazy and really want to go out and about.
I've got some thoughts on this virus, which I will share here when I get a little more research under my belt.
Hope you all are having a great Monday!2 -
I am currently faced with an interesting "dilemma"
I have to start wrapping my brain (sooner than anticipated) to a "semi-retired" lifestyle but only in the daily-routine sense, not the financial sense! I love working at home, and that looks to be continuing long-termish for me, it seems.
No paycheck impact for us (just financial positives like no longer paying for commute-gas etc)
Stabilization is going well, so I have more-or-less arrived at the beginnings of maintenance. That means my exercise activities can change to less cardio-exergame based and maybe more balance/flexibility/range-of-motion, and yet I need to keep up with burning the additional calories I am now eating. So ALL my off-hour activities can't fall into the default category of "pretty much stationary" like reading, faux-cross-stitch, sewing etc.
HOWEVER - I DO have to make mental and habitual adjustments to the going-forward fact that all my "at work NEAT step-generating strategies" are basically gone for good. My available non-work (yet no longer commuting) hours have changed and opened up. Not a HUGE amount, but still the whole "time needed for the activities required to support the actual work-hours" have altered.
So I need to do two major resets simultaneously - adjust my intake / activity level to stay stable (no longer shed weight) while at the same time let go of all the 'steps around the building' things I USED to be able to sneak into my day.
I would love to hear suggestions on the transition-to-full-maintenance going forward from those of you who have already done so (and are still working or at most semi-retired). I am not ENTIRELY my own master for scheduling my time QUITE yet ...
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@BMcC9 I cannot help. I am semi-retired in a funny way in that I work (normally) a few days every month full-time but nothing the rest. I don't classify my exercise, I just do what I can and when I can: walk, bike (now), go to a few classes (not many possible now), swim, (again, not now) and I count the calories burnt on MFP. I try and do some form of exercise for half an hour a day at least. I count calories, 1200 a day, try not to use exercise calories if I can avoid it, and so far this seems to work. I have lost 13 kilos since I was heaviest, but I still have another 8 or 9 to go.4
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@BMcC9 - I am semi retired. While I have more time due to less commuting, I’ve more or less filled that time with longer morning coffee, reading the news, a load of laundry - so many things. It took me a few months to fall into a rhythm but I did eventually. I get more done working from home because there are fewer interruptions and people stopping by my office to see how my weekend was, how the kids are, etc. it takes less time to accomplish the same amount of work. I tend to work for a block of time and then reward myself with a walk or something. I stay out of family room where the TV is because I go down a rabbit hole and find myself still there when it’s time to start dinner. You’ll get a routine going. It may take some time but you’ll get there.4
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I downloaded 'Libby' ( the app that lets me sign out e-books and audiobooks from my public library and successfully downloaded one of each (then put the e-book back - aiming for LESS 'screen-time' , not more! But nice to know that the 'print' on the tablet will be a more comfortable size to read for these older eyes than some of my tiny-print physical books are now)
Then I listened to an audiobook about a favourite character by a favourite author while doing some sewing after supper. I PLAN to start chipping away at my mending pile, including deciding what is worth altering and what would be too much effort / beyond my skills to even attempt to alter. Being able to listen while I sew is gonna be great!
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26th May
- I am grateful to have woken up healthy to another beautiful morning
- I am grateful for all your support! Almost made the whole month of May on here, only missed a few days
- I am grateful for my home help who turned up yesterday unexpectedly and did a great job
- I am grateful for the easing of Lockdown restrictions. I just read that the Botanical Gardens are re-opening today, a favourite spot for a walk. I can do another exercise class out by the river again tomorrow
- I am grateful for e-books @BMcC9! I have spent half of my Airbnb refund on buying e-books from Amazon!
- I am grateful for my 97-year-old Mum, who calls me every morning at 8.30 on the dot. She is the most positive person you can imagine. She helps a lot of 'old folks' as she calls them, all (much) younger than she is! She had a difficult Memorial Day yesterday, as she lived through the Occupation in Holland, was a courier in the Resistance and lost friends who were shot by the Nazis. Her brother narrowly escaped, jumped off a train bound for a concentration camp, joined the Canadian army, then helped to liberate Holland; my Dad was shot in the butt and escaped from hospital dressed as a nurse. She watched the Memorial service yesterday with tears streaming down her face. "Never again", she said. Let's look after each other in the world.
- Thank you for people like my Mum, who know the difference between right and wrong and do the right thing, often with danger to themselves.
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@Chinkiri - your mom sounds likes an amazing person2
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