LeanStrongSexy's 'NO MORE NEWSFEED' BLOG
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That was real nice of you to do that so she could try real seafood. I haven’t tried gator but I do like my seafood. Although squid I’m allergic too.
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Hmmm, MFP wouldn’t load a photo from my phone last night (Shyanne w/her crab legs) - I was doing anything to occupy my mind while I was waiting for my son to stagger off the trail from his ill-advised 12-mi hike! We were supposed to have our movie date, but he also wanted to meet his friend & go for a hike at the state park…
I told him 6 miles would’ve been plenty in yesterday’s heat (94°); he set out around 4 PM but decided to go on the 12-mi loop! (His friend misunderstood and went to the Audubon Center - I’m sure if Josef had been there, he would’ve convinced Z to be sensible) Z ran out of water halfway through (whaddaya know, 6 miles?!?) - I got to the state park a little after 6 PM, intending to do a short hike myself & then hang out waiting for Zach…
Tick tock: (Z called me at 6:30, he estimated he was halfway through, even though his location was shown to be 1.5 mi away - obviously that was as the crow flies!) 7 o’clock, 7:30, 8 PM - I was becoming concerned because we were losing daylight! I texted him at 8:27; Z replied at 8:35 that he’d be back in 14 minutes. 35+14 = 49 & he finally staggered off the trail at 8:50. Obviously he was wrecked & in no shape to go to the movies - I was worried about his ability to drive himself home! but after drinking a bottle of water, he was ready to go get a pizza. Not the healthiest choice but obviously he had earned it - this morning I was 189.6, I’ll take it!
(Comparison: we only rode 9 mi in yesterday’s heat, so I told Zach he’d outpaced the horses)
Transferred photos to the iPad:
Shyanne & her crab
Cedar Hill trailhead at 8:45 PM - I was pacing back & forth, deciding whether I was going to go get the park ranger
One tired puppy
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Wow, oh wow. That was so dangerous of Z. I am glad that turned out better than could have.
I slept better but not deeply. That is disappointing. I heard thunder during the night so we must have had rain too for a while.
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Last nights sleep wasn’t as good as I hoped.
2 sleep sessions and I only got 4h 23 m
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Ugh, that’s rough! My Fitbit initially clocked me at 4 hrs/20 min because of my long awakening in the middle of the night, then it added on a couple more hrs. It was still damn hard to peel myself off the mattress this morning - tonight I’ll try again going to bed early, meditating for a while, stretching out with a little yoga - basically throwing everything at the wall & seeing what sticks!?!
Today’s project was supposed to be making an optometry appointment for myself, but somehow I never got around to it -hopefully I can get on their website & get something booked. 🤞
Let’s not even talk about my diet, it’s been pure crap. I shouldn’t link my desperate need for a good night’s sleep to food rewards 🤦♀️
At least Tina Fea is doing well & loves her mommy 🥰
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Ha! So much for “going to bed early” (I forgot I had to feed the snakes, which doesn’t take long - but when I am detoured from “the way I wanted things to go” it irritates me!)
I’m 191 this morning, fair enough considering my dietary indiscretions. Carrying on w/plans to haul out to Mineola to ride some new trails w/my friends on Saturday; I haven’t heard anything about Derrick’s funeral…
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Wow. My eating habits lately involve ice cream. Cookies and cream by Hagen Daz it’s great. Sleep I feel like I didn’t sleep at all.
Over 6 hrs but with very little deep sleep. I feel like I haven’t slept at all.
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Sleep was more today but deep sleep seems to allude me
Light sleep is a plenty.
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I didn’t even look at my sleep quality last night, from the way my head feels this morning, it was pretty poor…
Of course Derrick’s funeral is Saturday, but I’ve already promised Catie a ride - I think I will just have to send a nice floral arrangement. Looking for our new dishwasher to be delivered today, which has been my stated excuse for not cooking at home (not that there’s much involved in grilling a steak, but I haven’t even defrosted one) Tina Fea has taken a turn for the worse - I hope to hear something on her biopsy reports today. I certainly will not prolong her suffering if the outlook is poor.
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Yay on the new dishwasher. I am going to pick one out for my new house after I get moved.
I’m sorry to hear about Tina Fea. That is heartbreaking 💔.My sleep sucked last night. I wish I could get back to the deep sleeps I once got.
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Deep sleep was almost an hour last night and almost 6 hrs total. I have a friend here for the weekend. A one last chance visit to my pretty home before I move.
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Whelp Tina Fea is obviously part cat, she’s on about Life 6 now… She has perked up & started eating again, which I blame on getting near the end of the bag/her food being a little bit stale! So obviously I will just have to buy the smaller bags & go to the store more often.
My colleague (Dr L the surgeon) called me last night when I was trying to figure out my way into horse camp - fortunately the gallbladder tumor was benign, everything else is basically OK with mild stomach inflammation. I will need to give her another round of antibiotics. She even begged a piece of cheese off of Christina after our ride today, the little fart! Unfortunately, I slept poorly because I still have an infestation of little black ants in my horse trailer - I went and bought some new ant bait tonight. Gonna hit the hay early tonight!
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Tina Fae does seem to bounce back often.
Black ant. Jeepers. That would be annoying.
My sleep was better but still not getting a lot of deep sleep.
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I wish I knew what in the hell I did to my L ankle, but it has been killing me today! The pain is localized at the bottom aspect of my lateral shin but it’s not a bruise? It’s as if I have a shin splint right above the ankle - it’s not in the joint itself or the ligaments…
I bought myself a neoprene ankle brace from Walgreens which has helped a little bit, but I’m still very crippled. It’s frustrating because I have basically accomplished next-to-nothing that I wanted to do today. Hopefully it will be better tomorrow or it’s gonna be a long ol’ day. At least we should be getting our new dishwasher installed 🤞
In other news, the lovebirds are disagreeing about their pseudo-elopement plans so there may not be a wedding after all?!? I am trying to stay somewhat neutral but I think Victoria needs to recognize the grandiosity of her plans may not match up with the reality of what they can afford. Zach spoke harshly to her when she was whining about not having her grandma there, but as I said, what they had lined up had 16 members of her family while Zach had 5: Peran & I plus his 3 best friends (aren’t you required to have a bachelor party in Vegas?!?)
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Whelp, I had several paragraphs - the iPad just glitched & lost it all; I don’t have time to retype everything…
Ankle wasn’t too bad when I first got up, but it gets more & more painful with more walking around, so it’s gonna be a long ol’ day!
Z is traveling to San Antonio & from there, proceeding down to the border town of Harlingen. Hopefully absence will make the heart grow fonder, but I’m gonna keep my nose clean & stay out of it. I said my piece: I added up a wedding party of 10 (bride & groom, parents & V’s GP’s, best man & maid of honor) - I think we could get everything done for less than $10K, but it really boils down to whether Victoria will be reasonable?!?
I really need to worry about the things under my control: 188.6 this morning, not bad considering I spent most of the day camped out like an invalid in the recliner. I guess it really does all boil down to diet!
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Wow, with Z and Victoria. Hopefully she will come to terms with a small inexpensive wedding or call it off completely and save until they can have a wedding she wants. Or Z will escape. I vote for escape.
I had company for the weekend. It was nice uneventful. We visited and she got to relax.Sleep last night seems to be nonexistent for most of the night.
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Escape sounds good to me too - but at this point Z seems hopelessly committed? & I really can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, I’m as big a sucker for the star-crossed lovers’ fairytale as anyone… Honestly, if Z’s dad hadn’t divorced me, who knows how many more years I’d have put up w/his BS?!? I was hopelessly committed myself to those marriage vows that said “till death do us part”…
Victoria‘s parents were mere teenagers - 17 & 18 when they had her; their shotgun marriage didn’t last any time at all. Andy & Adela wound up fighting an extensive court battle to wrest custody from Celeste, who had neglected Victoria badly. “It’s complicated” as most family matters are, but Zach fears that inviting Joe & Celeste (V’s bio parents) could ignite a firestorm, spreading to the aunt, uncles & cousins and taking the focus away from what it should be, which is Zach & Victoria‘s union. Besides, it’s no longer a simple elopement when you have 23 people involved!?!
In other news, I’m so discouraged at the many ways my body seems to be failing me these days. If it’s not my ankle, it’s pains spreading up into my knees & hips! I was awakened several times last night just by shifting positions. Part of this I can blame on a crappy old mattress, but still?!? Guess I’m going to have to start taking preventative ibuprofen or naproxen at bedtime. I have been following several tai chi practitioners on Instagram, but I still need to do the exercises - it’s discouraging when I’m out of breath after half-a-dozen arm swings, or falling off balance from simple calf raises! “The longest journey begins with a single step” as I well know; but even as a weekend warrior I’ve never found myself as far down in the hole before! I am dismayed every time I walk past my rusting tricycle in the garage, still haven’t made the time to take her into the bike shop.
Participating in the MS 150 5 or 6 yrs ago (I never completed the entire distance, but it was a worthy cause & I enjoyed it)
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I understand knee pain. I fell in my house in December of 2019. That gave me so much pain. I had physical therapy, and light therapy, which really helped. I also had an injection of hydronic acid in my knee that was the best help. I wasn’t a surgical candidate. My X-rays showed that the fall on to my knee exasperated my osteoarthritis in my knee that they could see. Now I’m getting twinges if my knee is bent too long so I sit with my leg up and do not drive long distances anymore. My right knee doesn’t like that.
Sleep was a long time coming. It wasn’t the greatest either.
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Last night’s sleep wasn’t bad; my FitBit called it “Good” while I personally would call it “Good enough (to get through another day)” -
I seem to be stuck with those middle-of-the-night potty breaks - as long as I can get back to sleep fairly quickly, it ain’t too bad… But it took me a LOOOONG time to get to sleep Monday night (fretting about the kids, mostly). Fortunately whatever the hell I did to my L leg, my ankle pain has receded & I didn’t have any twinges in my knee or hip which didn’t help my sleep quality Saturday, Sunday, or Monday nights!
I have resumed my assisted stretching sessions at the clinic in Waxahachie which I count as a pseudo-fitness activity for the temporary sense of well-being it offers me. Hubby just headed out to the county courthouse for jury selection - I joked that he should wear his most offensive T-shirt, but he was nicely dressed with a crisp dress shirt & jeans…
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I had to go to jury sale last year. What a waist of time. I wasn’t chosen either. I’m good now for another 5-7 yrs. If chosen you never have to do jury duty again. If not you name is paused for so many years but can always be on the list until a certain age. Here in Ontario. I’m don’t know the rules for other provinces or if it’s the same across Canada. Keep me posted. If he is chosen I hope he gets something really interesting.
im feeling a bit more rested today. It was late to get to sleep but I got over 2 hrs of REM sleep but less than an hr of deep sleep. My son is picking up my sleep weed oil today so I am hoping for better sleep soon.
It also looks like I got at least 3 solid hours of sleep before my first pee break. That is always helpful.
Food is so so. I’m no not going to worry about my diet until after moving day. August 21.
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Slowly but surely most of the ankle soreness has resolved - I went to my assisted-stretch clinic yesterday which helped a lot… (also had weird pains going up my L leg, extending into knee & hip, so I guess I must’ve torqued my leg in the stirrup as we were riding?)
This is distressing, but more disturbing was the fact that I woke up in the middle of the night & couldn’t recall what day it was, Wednesday or Thursday?? But I damn well wasn’t going to look at my phone; I’d know by what time my alarm went off! My brain is definitely softening…
Just had the nice surprise of my boy calling me as he drives back from San Antonio: he’s had a productive work trip to the Rio Grande Valley & really enjoyed the San Antonio Riverwalk (we were there with the AERC Convention when Z was probably 8 or so, too young for him to remember much of it)
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Well I can’t believe the amount of sleep recorded. 10.5 hrs of sleep. Over 3 hrs of REM sleep but less than an hr of deep sleep. I have to figure out a way to improve my deep sleep. Because I’m sitting here after 10 hrs of sleep yawning. I need more deep sleep.
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have you checked to see if you have sleep apnea?
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I was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea after a home study & made an attempt in having a conventional sleep lab overnight study, but there’s no way I would be able to sleep with a CPAP device strapped to my head! (I did not know they were immediately going to shoehorn me into a CPAP or BiPAP; I thought they were truly just gonna monitor me to make more recommendations!)
I thought I had made a blog entry about the home study, which wasn’t too bad at all: I had a chest strap, a nasal cannula & a fingertip O2 sensor. I purely misunderstood the purpose of the sleep lab - silly me, I thought it was to gather more information about my sleep patterns, not just figure out a way to strap me into a device!
I’m doing what I can at home, with sleep tracks from YouTube & a neck brace device, which there again is too stiff & uncomfortable for me to sleep in…0 -
That is interesting but no I don’t have sleep apnea. Mine is about stress and insomnia. I sleep but I don’t get enough deep sleep. I’m hoping since this seemed to get worse when I had to move that I get the move done and things settle down the stress will lesson. I think it’s just me not being able to shut my brain off enough to sleep.
Last night I got 8 hrs sleep but less than an hour of deep sleep
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Last night Victoria was working, so I talked Z into meeting me at a trivia night event at the brewery - we had fun even though the questions were way out of our league; we even played a little ping-pong. Of course it was worth it - not sleeping well with some indigestion from the junk food I ate, slightly hung over this morning after drinking (I swear!) only 2 beers… My tech Misti** came out as well as my riding buddy Sam (he had to cancel out on riding last weekend because his wife had to fly to Indiana when her sister was hospitalized - it’s been a rough week & I figured he needed something to distract/entertain him) & yes, even my non-fun-loving husband came! So I had my legal husband, my trail husband, my son & sort of adoptive daughter (I’ve got a horrible habit of befriending my employees, but what else are you gonna do when you spend so much time with them?!?) I enjoyed myself even though I was alarmed at how much shortness of breath I suffered after flippin’ playing ping-pong! But my pO2 is 96 this morning (finally replaced the battery in my sensor), nothing to do but continue my Level 2 Cardio plan…
** her husband had gotten called in for a service call
Of course this has made me bloat up by 5 lbs, so I’m doing a therapeutic fast today.
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Last night was my first decent night sleep in a long time. 8 hrs with over an hour of deep sleep and almost 2 hrs of REM sleep.
2 weeks until the move. I have more packing to do. All the things I haven’t packed yet.
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Awesome! Do you credit your THC oil, or sheer exhaustion?!? Last night was “Fair” for me, but I knew I needed to be up early so we could get in a short ride before the punishing heat (81 degrees when we rode out & probably pushing 90 when we finished up shortly before noon)
What I’m actually proud of is the fact that I resisted temptation to buy deep-fried junk food & defrosted us a steak for dinner (it was a little freezer burnt, so the dogs got a few bites but it was perfectly edible)
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And I threw out one tiny hint yesterday, asking if Z & V wanted to go see a movie yesterday afternoon (they did not). They were at the mall - Victoria was buying undergarments to try on wedding dresses today. My feelings “could” be hurt (but they’re not) because she had previously asked me about joining in on the wedding dress shopping - I told her Mondays were basically out of the question for me: it needed to be Wednesday afternoon, Thursdays or the weekend. That’s pretty wide latitude, isn’t it??
But honestly, I am already steeling myself for the fallout: between me & my closest friends, I am calling this “Zach's first marriage”. I hope they can prove me wrong, but I don’t see any way for this to work out with their dramatic differences in values. Zach has finally reached the stage in his life where he is working hard, trying to save money & staying within his budget while Victoria is happy to skate by with the bare minimum number of hours, spending lavishly on her own self-care (manicures, eyelashes, hair & makeup - not to mention the clothing! An entire bedroom in their house is basically her walk-in closet)
Speaking of work, I’ve gotta quit my bitchin’ and get on after it…
My FitBit didn’t give me credit for lightly dozing between 3-6 AM? I don’t feel too rough this morning…
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