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leanstrongsexy

I’m so sorry for the loss of Charlie. By thankful you did get to see him before hand and you were able to bring him comfort and a friend to him so he had someone with him at the end. I’m sure he appreciates that more than anything.

You look like you were all having fun in the parade.

My son brought me some THC chocolate and I finally slept 10 hours. Surprisingly though the deep the REM sleep sucked.

I’m gonna have to go to the store in Lambeth and buy the CBN oil so I can get a deeper more restful sleep.

on the housing front I looked at 5 more houses. I have a favourite out of today but still nothing is speaking to me yet.

endurovet

A little behind schedule this morning, but I got the upstairs bed stripped & all those bed linens in the wash - Step 1 in getting ready for Catie’s visit this week. I’ll be driving to Greenville (about 1.5 hrs away) this afternoon to pick her up. Christina offered to drive her all the way down, but that felt like an imposition - while Christina “says” she’s fine, I know her health & stamina are not what they used to be either (aka join da club!)

I took Peran out for pizza last night as a reward for him finishing mowing the pasture - this left me bloated & miserable, and at 4 o’clock in the morning it was Judgement Day!!! Thankfully P is fine - so it was either the Chick-fil-A snack I had for lunch yesterday, or my body rebelling against overindulgence. I think the worst of the storm has passed 😳

https://youtu.be/Ku42Iszh9KM?si=4N4ZgLHMef5UcyMG

leanstrongsexy

Oh dear. It could be the white flour in the pizza crust. I know when I eat anything made with white flour, I suffer.

Where are you compared to where the flooding has been happening?

I took my THC chocolate and some oil I found I had and slept better but didn’t fall asleep too early.

endurovet

You’re probably right about the flour (aka gluten) - funny thing is, Zach & I went to a different pizza place last week which didn’t bother me at all! However, they advertise their homemade, hand-thrown crust…

“Our dough is naturally leavened with a proprietary starter we’ve named ‘Romo’. This isn’t even close to an ordinary pizza dough, trust us.”

https://pie-tap.com/locations/design-district/

We’re a good solid 200 mi away from all the disastrous flooding - we’ve had a lot of rain but the worst we’ll get is mud, with maybe the N end of our farm to market road flooding out (doesn’t appear likely at this point as the worst has passed)

But my heart bleeds for those families; it was obviously a “Perfect Storm” situation (my how that book still haunts me!) & I am disgusted by anyone trying to make political hay out of it…

endurovet

Whelp Sun night was miserable, but last night I suppose I was exhausted “enough” to get some deep sleep early on… Also figured out a way to sleep wearing my noise-canceling headphones; I played a singing bowls track & only heard P snore a couple of times.

My weight is holding steady at 189, which I’ll take since we went out for our last taste of “real” Tex-Mex last night (couldn’t go grocery shopping hungry, now could we?!?). Catie had slept in yesterday morning, so she hadn’t eaten much of anything. P expects these kids to more or less fend for themselves, I’d give him a C- for caretaking. I’m the momma bear always encouraging my guests to eat & drink…

leanstrongsexy

I slept but again I’m getting more light sleep than anything else.

yesterday’s meals involved bbq chips

leanstrongsexy

This is not a restful night. Maybe after the move is completed I’ll start to get better sleep

leanstrongsexy

Now it seems I’m getting over an hour of REM sleep and light sleep but no deep sleep

endurovet

Oi, sorry about your miserable sleep. I didn’t sleep very well for our first night in NM (I drove straight through; we got in a little after 9 PM & I think I was still amped up from the drive), but did much better last night…

It’s a tossup how things will go tonight - it’s warmed up a little bit (it was a perfect 61° last night); I was running the AC earlier but have shut it off for bedtime. As always, it’s a beautiful place to be - I just wish my staff wouldn’t have been blowing up my phone yesterday! Not much I can do from almost 600 miles away - I suppose I needed to know about Dr M’s car accident; if she had been injured I would’ve had to pack up & come home early.

Here was Tues night - surely didn’t feel like an hour & a half of deep sleep!

leanstrongsexy

Be lucky you are getting deep sleep. I have another night of crap sleep.

Nothing seems to work anymore

endurovet

I went ahead & came home yesterday to simplify “the Catie transfer” today (I’ll be driving to Greenville again to meet her dad this time; Christina has to travel to NYC) - Twoie got a little bit of a sore back 🤦‍♀️ & Baraq got girth galls so I’ll have to tweak tack for both of ‘em… However, Catie did great riding B-boy & is excitedly planning her first “real” endurance ride with him. (She rode a good solid unofficial 25 mi on him Friday; I’ll see if I can post my friend’s video clip)

https://fb.watch/APxQeVuPtG/?

(Catie is the middle rider - no, I’m not in this video! I had peeled off since Twoie’s back was sore)

I weighed in at 188 which ain’t bad considering a long day of driving home yesterday, a bag of Fritos & a fried chicken sammich! But spent last night clinging to the edge of the bed; it’ll be good to get my lil’ upstairs retreat back tonight.

leanstrongsexy

I finally had a decent sleep. The prescription stuff doesn’t work for me. So far THC & CBN seem to do the job with a little help from Gravol.

my food has been really off lately too. I’ll be working on that this week.

endurovet

That’s a great feeling, getting a decent night’s sleep…

I’ve gotta lock down my nutrition, I’ve been entirely too permissive with myself. (Yesterday I “drowned my sorrows” at having to return to work by having Chick Fil A, which equaled 2 lbs of bloat & misery today)

There was my Sunday night, “Fair”

leanstrongsexy

Oh wow. I get where you are coming from food wise. I get into these ruts with food that sometimes blows my mind.

Night before last my sleep was so bad it felt like I was hungover. I didn’t trust myself to drive so I had my son pick me up and take me to town.

It took a while to fall asleep last night but he did. I got more deep sleep than REM sleep

I put an offer on a property today. I’ll keep you posted. This is the listing

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/28240107/1802-longwoods-road-southwest-middlesex-wardsville-wardsville

For sale: 1802 LONGWOODS ROAD, Southwest Middlesex (Wardsville), Ontario N0L2N0 - X12115020 | REALTOR.ca

endurovet

Is this property something for mixed use: business as well as your residence?? It’s certainly got tons of potential, but makes me tired just looking at it! If I had to move, I would be up *kitten* creek with all the clutter & disorganization around here. I’m so discouraged, I don’t even know where to start!

I went to the doctor this morning - fortunately she didn’t get a chance to gripe at me for not scheduling that damned diagnostic mammogram; I distracted her with my aching knee! She prescribed me some Voltaren gel… (I’ve made an appointment at the sports medicine clinic but of course that’s not until next month) It was a pleasant surprise that she got down on the floor to manipulated it a bit, but I didn’t think it was the cruciate ligament - it seems to be the medial collateral ligament on the inside of the knee. It hadn’t been bothering me too much but she certainly made it ache!

Here’s last night, “Fair”:

leanstrongsexy

Yes Val it has a front that can be used for a shop of some kind. I’m going to turn it into my bedroom bc there are fewer steps involved. To be honest I really not happy I have to move. So I’m making do with what I could get. After all the houses I looked at I wanted to be in town not somewhere else.

Your sleep doesn’t look any better than mine. I got 2 hrs

We will see if now that everything but the move is done I’ll sleep better but I doubt.

endurovet

188.6 this morning, back to baseline! I dinked around yesterday & didn’t go visit my mother, that’s probably contributing to my generalized anxiety/heightened sleep difficulties… But I finally arranged for my guy Ernest to deliver a short load of hay for me last night - I was sick & tired of paying $15/bale for stemmy, crappy hay at Tractor Supply! Nothing feels as good as having hay in the barn ❤️💕 but despite that security (& the lil’ bit of exercise, although Ernest, his helper & Hubby did most of the work!), I was awake again at 2 AM. This has got to stop, it has happened to me every night this week.