MorticiaAddamsMSFS Challenge - Decluttering
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65 here today but super windy. We are in a tornado prone zone.1
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The tornado zone has extended. We are in the Dixie tornado zone now.
Last night the wind was fierce. Woke me at 3:30 am!
Just finished a super cleaning at the dentist. I'm scheduled for 3 cleanings a year. I was 3 months late this last time--a combination of my illness and how backed up the dentists are. I'm with a young one now. He gave me a thorough exam.
Been totally compliant with meds. Need more compliance on taking my multivitamin. CVS has a great formula.
I finally started working on all the boxes. Did about 2 hours worth of and on the other day. So much more to do. Sis keeps buying. She's been this way since the Covid outbreak.
I just have to pull up my big girl panties and do it. It's worse the longer I put it off, but I was recovering from my last illness.
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Great progress! And glad youāre over your illness.
My latest project (cleaning) is scrubbing the grout on the tile floor in my half bath and foyer. I had always washed the floor down on my hands and knees, with a wet rag. One day I made the mistake of. I wondered if I scrub the grout with a toothbrush, which sounds awful, but really, isnāt. Oh my gosh! Little did I know how light colored my grout was! Truly horrifying. Anyway, after doing a small patch, maybe a week ago, I decided to finish it. Iām done with the half bath, but have to still do the foyer, which I will start in a few moments. It only takes a few minutes maybe a total of an hour, hour and a half, which sounds really long as I type this, but the scrubbing is not really using very much elbow grease at all so, Iām good with it. My recommendation to others, donāt do a small patch to discover something because then youāll have to finish the whole project.1 -
I use a toothbrush to clean with a lot too. They do awesome work.
We don't buy much other than food now. I still need to get back to decluttering though now that I have the taxes done.1 -
It is such a satisfying feeling once you get your taxes done!1
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I hate doing them and put them off too long.1
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I think everybody hates doing taxes. I think this and I only prep mine to be done by someone else. I find prepping them is slightly less miserable by logging expenses (housing, medical, charity donations) on a spreadsheet throughout the year and then all of that is done when I do start my taxes. It is nothing to pull up a matrix on my computer and just add items as they happen.
To report out on my grout work, I did finish it as planned and the grout is so light colored! I thought wiping the floor with a wet cloth was sufficient. Like the Swiffer TV ad with an older couple...I have been living in a fool's paradise! Unfortunately, I also have tile in my master bathroom and laundry room. My dog eats in the laundry room, so I'm not overly enthused on getting around to that room.1 -
We have dark grout, thank goodness. LOL.1
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Fortunately my master bathroom grout is dark colored, but I often have to wipe an area here or there on the solid white color of the tiles, grrrr!1
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Our tiles are either blue in the kitchen or gray in the bathroom.
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Petey is coming home today! He's on vetsulin now, and will be starting meds for Cushing's.1
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Howdy Tish! Hope all is well. You've been very busy lately.0
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I'm hanging in there. Not losing weight but staying in the same area.0
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Iām with you @MorticiaAddamsMSFS I really irritate myself with continuously bouncing around the same 3 pound range. I mean, just get it done already!1
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Same feeling here! I know what I have to do and don't do it.0
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I have trouble losing anymore weight as I am still on rapid insulin. I eat less carbs so I don't have to take as much. Frustrating. Sending hugs.0
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I've been thinking about this for a bit...I think because weight loss has been in the news so much because of the newer injection meds.
I don't eat that many calories, when trying to lose weight or not, and I am fairly active (due to exercise, sedentary other than purposeful exercise, though). I am in my early 60's and post-menopausal, so that may be something. I think my day-to-day movement is similar to when I was young (desk jobs with minimal running around, starting at age 23 years). And all those years when I was working, I would exercise in bursts, a few months on, a few months off, with longer off's than on's (meaning, less than now, which is pretty much every day).
Why is it so hard to lose weight now? I have been tested for hypothyroid numerous times as an adult because I have a few of those symptoms, but is has always come back normal (yay), even the few times when they did extra thyroid tests. I get and understand CICO, but I do wonder about the impact of other things, unknown to me (aging?). I guess I'm feeling a little defeated. I just want to lose 10 lbs and it just seems so impossible. I take weeks to lose 3 lbs and they can come back on in an instant. Eating at the lower calorie amounts to lose the weight just leaves me hungry, so I can only sustain it for a month or so, it seems.
Well, off to exercise!
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I can relate. I don't tolerate hunger well.1
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Now that I am on trulicity, I have trouble eating enough. Funny. I still have an appetite, but my stomach is full as the drug slows down the stomach emptying.
The good news is that I am weaning myself off the rapid insulin!
I want popcorn with butter! š¤£0 -
You are doing awesome!1
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I just can't imagine the problem of not wanting to eat enough. There was, however, 2-3 days of decreased appetite for me with COVID, but nothing of that magnitude.1
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Same here. I struggle with hunger. True hunger.1
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Tish, send some decluttering vibes over my way! š
Pray that I get more energy.
At least I like to read a lot and watch documentaries for the time periods I find it hard to move.
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I know the feeling. I need to get back to decluttering. I am reading plenty and watching T.V. some.1
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I will hopefully be trashing quite a bit tomorrow. It got cool here again. Can't say I don't enjoy it. š
I enjoyed the fur balls today. I need to get them appointments to get their shots and rear tests for a possible boarding for a few nights in June. I really want to see my other sister who can't travel. We haven't seen her since before Covid, about 3 years. Then, our third sister is driving to St Louis to see her mother in law, and then on to visit us! I haven't seen her for about 3-4 years too.
Next week, I get to see my sister in law, who is driving down to scatter her husband's (my brother's) ashes up in the mountains where all our other family members have been scattered.
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I love temps in the 60s and lower to mid 70s. You have some good plans coming up.0
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Sending hugs today and everyday Tish. Spring is just around the corner. The sap is rising in my young male pooches who are charging around and having a good time! Daisy, being an older Miss, enjoys sleeping in the afternoon.0
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Thanks for the hugs. Doing the best I can here. Benny is trying too. I enjoy laying down in the afternoon like Daisy.1
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Good to hear. Doing your best is all one can do sometimes. š0
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Thanks!0
