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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.
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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 😳
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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.
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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.”
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…
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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…
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I slept but again I’m getting more light sleep than anything else.
yesterday’s meals involved bbq chips
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This is not a restful night. Maybe after the move is completed I’ll start to get better sleep
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Now it seems I’m getting over an hour of REM sleep and light sleep but no deep sleep
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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!
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Be lucky you are getting deep sleep. I have another night of crap sleep.
Nothing seems to work anymore
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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.
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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.
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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”
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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
For sale: 1802 LONGWOODS ROAD, Southwest Middlesex (Wardsville), Ontario N0L2N0 - X12115020 | REALTOR.ca
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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”:
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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.
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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.
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219 today. Just under 3 hrs sleep. Nothing works anymore. I don’t what to do at this point. The prescribed meds don’t work. Weed CBN doesn’t work.
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Ai yi yi, I’m sorry honey…
Meanwhile I’m so down & out that I didn’t get off my butt & ride this morning. I had invited Tony but he didn’t respond until 3 PM - it’s gotten to where I just won’t take the risk of riding alone anymore. Forced myself out of the house to go see my mother (I hadn’t visited her in 3 wks, negligent daughter that I am), dragged myself home & had to take a nap which will probably screw up tonight’s sleep…
Trying to cheer myself up by rewatching Star Trek IV, at least it appears that Hubby got the dishwasher fixed after a solid week of tinkering around - I was going to call a repairman mañana (!!)
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& of course I was wrong about the dishwasher, P says it’s still leaking 🤦♀️… Time’s like these are when I actually miss my ex-husband: he would work doggedly on a project until it was either finished or we had to call in an expert (which was rare; I’ll give the man credit, he could fix practically anything!) Yet P parked his butt on the couch, glued to his phone again?
So that meant I only ate a Lean Cuisine TV dinner; this morning I was 187.6 - that’s a plus!
Sleep was “Fair”, I knew I was sabotaging myself with that nap.
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218.6 today. I figured out the Trazodone is causing my hot flashes and night sweats. So I stopped taking it. It’ll take a week to get that out of my system. And the Mirtazapine causes nausea every day like morning sickness all over again . So I stopped taking it too. Too many side effects.
Last night it took melatonin at my usual time and took Gravol at 10. These are the results. Mind you all those ‘awake’ tmes was probably night sweat from the trazodone. Almost 7 hrs
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218.8 today and another lousy sleep I got 1 whole minutes of deep sleep. I texted my son and asked if he would got to a weed store I’m going back to the CBN pills and oil. The stuff from this store worked best for me so I’m going to try it again. I’m going to have to look back at my sleep cycles when I was getting good sleeps to figure out what worked best. I’ll keep you posted.
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218.6 today. Sleep was more hours today but not much better. 24 minutes of deep sleep. REM over an hour but still I need more deep sleep to feel rested
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I feel as if a great weight has been lifted off my shoulders - I took Tiny Tina Fea to my colleague/old vet school classmate at the Surgery Center (he’s a specialist, surgery is “all he do!”) since I just didn’t feel like I had the expertise or the equipment to perform TF’s gallbladder surgery. She came through her procedure without incident, will spend the night in their ICU, & hopefully I’ll be able to scoop her up mañana… “It’s only money” after all…
& P gave up on the dishwasher so I bought a new one at Lowe’s tonight - I’ll get it faster by having it delivered & installed by them so it was kind of a waste of time for me to drive the truck over there! So we celebrated with dinner out at the food truck yard; that was a better lobster roll than what I got when we visited Cape Cod 6 yrs ago…
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I’m so glad Tina Fey had her surgery and is on the road to recovery. Smart move on the dishwasher. I have to buy one and have it installed in my new place.
I got 8 hrs sleep. Still no significant deep sleep yet but I’m working on it. My REM was better. Even after 8 hrs I’m still yawning. Deep sleep really makes a difference
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I’ve just restarted MFP again. How is your journey going?
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I’m struggling along, pretty much stuck in the same spot but at least that’s better than the rollercoaster!
I don’t know if you’ve read any of my recent blog entries - this week has been taken up with Tina Fea’s surgery, she is doing great. I scooped her up triumphantly yesterday, sat down last night to relate to Peran my little anecdote about Zach, when he said he didn’t think P liked him very much. P scoffed but he said he’d talk to Z - now whether he will or not, let’s just say I have my doubts? He has never been a man for deep conversations…
And now I’ve got to finish my coffee & get on with my workday.
Blog link for Brianna:
Another yoga dude I follow - liked this meme!
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That is a very nice meme.
Bhrianna, I’m suffer from severe insomnia right now that I am trying to get a handle on. I’m also in the middle of processing and packing because I move in less than a month and I am not handling the stress well.
Sleep I think was better last night. Even though it was not as long as the night before it was better. Almost an hour of deep sleep. It’s interesting just that extra bit of deep sleep makes a difference. I’ll keep working on getting more.
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Sleep was not great last night. It’s worse than I figured. My meals were good though
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My sleep has been on a fairly even keel, I’d call it “Fair” since I generally get one good stretch of deep sleep early on…
I splurged on cheese sticks & a large cherry limeade Thurs which caused me to bloat up by 5 lbs overnight! Weight slowly creeping back down in an “Easy come, hard to go” scenario… But the good news is, Tina Fea is eating well, still a little stiff & painful but overall doing great after such invasive major surgery.
Friday was a fairly fun day since we got an actual lunch hour - I took the crew out for lunch because Amber’s teenage daughter Shyanne (who is working for us part-time this summer) had never had “real” seafood. She polished off a plate of snow crab legs like a pro after we gave her a few helpful hints. But I thought it was very disrespectful of Kristy to order a basket that had fried gator (JK; I made a few jokes about how tender & juicy Aphrodite probably is)😜😳
Kristy offered me a piece as I shrieked in horror - I was happy with my catfish & shrimp! (Again, no surprises as to why I haven’t lost any more weight this week)
Zach wants to go see the new Fantastic Four movie, so I’m down for that…
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