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What a great bunch. You all look great. Halloween was interesting in town. Only one knock. I didn’t hand out candy. With three dogs, I’d have to lock out of the house in order to do it. I wasn’t in the mood. Nathan went trick-or-treating with his dad. Felicia had to work. got a later start than I thought they would, but come back 10 o’clock and they made a real killing in the candy department.

Saturday my brother-in-law and nephew came over and with my son pulled all the carpeting out of the kitchen and the dining room room. My Floor Guy comes to 13th he’ll do the kitchen in the dining room and then we’ll move everything out of the living room remove the carpet and all the padding and then he’ll do the floors on the 17th and 18th. I had the awning over the dining room window and the living room windows removed. The reason I did this is along that side of the house is a sidewalk. When I removed all the bushes from the area between the house and the sidewalk became obvious that the sidewalk was too close to one of the awnings and anyone over 4 feet tall could hit their head and I didn’t want anyone to sue me because they were on private property. The sidewalk is too close to the road and there could be too many civil arguments against me. One of these days I’ll take pictures and show you what I’m talking about. The dining room window is the best window for all my plants so I’m not gonna cover it with the curtain instead I’m putting stained glass film over the window so that when the sun shines through it, it looks pretty but no one from the outside can see what’s going on on the inside. Since I’m on a corner of a major road, I feel exposed. As I have mentioned before the furnace fireplace come tomorrow and then Wednesday I get my new fireplace.

Last night sleep came into sessions. Apparently I got a whole five hours and three minutes of sleep. I do not know what woke me up in the middle of the night because I have no recollection of it. Maybe I was dreaming and I got restless.

That is an hour and 26 minutes between the first sleep session and the second sleep session I don’t remember getting up to pee. I don’t remember waking up so, I’m going to say I must’ve been dreaming and got restless. I have no other explanation for that hour and a half roughly awakness

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You know since MyFitnessPal doesn’t have the dashboard where you can communicate with your friends see what they’re up to that sort of thing I don’t see a point in keeping the app. I don’t really use the app to keep track of my meals. If I remember to post them, my meals are not normally the kind you can measure and figure out how many calories. I don’t keep track of my exercise because I have a Fitbit. I think I might delete my fitness pal app and just keep using their blog, because personally you can’t get to the blog through the app so the app is useless now as far as my needs are concerned.

IF anyone is reading this other than myself and Val, who has been a very constant companion in this blog of mine, which I appreciate immensely knowing I’m not going through this by myself, does anyone feel the same way?

leanstrongsexy

I deleted the app. I sent the page to my screen so I made ‘app’ sort of. This is what it looks like on my iphone

Now this has been save like this starting at page 31, so after a while, maybe at page 40 I’ll save a new one.

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I’m disappointed that little app didn’t work like I thought it would

endurovet

As long as my app on the iPad keeps working, I will keep it - even though it takes me a few “clicks” to get here! (I am really minimally tech-savvy).
But it would be a big adjustment for me to have to move back into town, worrying about people looking in my windows & so forth! Certainly can’t do any trick-or-treating here at the house since it’s a half mile walk down my driveway - I raced over to Victoria‘s grandparents house after work Friday night to hand out candy; their neighborhood was mobbed!!! “Tricks” at my place would consist of fending off my big dogs as they tried to slobber on any & all visitors… I roughed up Mr Winston (the new dog) a little bit playing around & he looked at me with big startled eyes - he’s forgotten what the concept of play is!

We gave out three big bags of candy by a little after 8 o’clock - even wound up giving a few kids a few pieces of our pizzas that I had picked up on the way!

Z & V were “Chicken Noodle Soup”! 😂🤣

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They are so cute. Yes I’m not a big fan of being in town again. I am also on the Main Street of town on a corner.

endurovet

Perhaps after all these years of dinking around w/various health n’ fitness theories, something is finally “clicking”?!?

I bought another new pillow & while my FitBit only gave me a score of 71 - “Fair”, I actually got up feeling rested…

Still had to get up 3X to urinate, diurescing from last weekend’s indiscretions I presume. Reactivated my DDP Yoga app a mere 8 yrs after I let it expire - I’ve been watching his new reality show “Change or Die”. I seem to be the closest to Mildred, the 67-yr old although I am impressed by the beaten-down old athletes Butterbean & Buff as they struggle to regain mobility & health. I’ve only done the initial “Breathing” session since I couldn’t disrupt lil’ dogs last night. I’ll do “Beginner Beginner” tonight.

Saturday night was fairly miserable

Last night may not look much different, but I feel tremendously better!?! I think the real truth comes out looking at heart rate variability - the lower your heart rate drops, the deeper your quality of rest. My heart rate hasn’t dropped lower than 70-something for almost 4 yrs now which I blame on the high parasympathetic tone of long Covid.

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So what have added my heart beat slide on my fit bit. I usually just have weight showing in the Health section. I’ll see what my heart beat is for a few nights.

I cannot get over how much the awake/restless was. My sleeping is all over the place. It’s obvious my brain is not shutting off.

endurovet

Tell me about it! Last night my sleep score was 58 - “Poor” - although I don’t remember being “Awake” all of that time, guess I was restless? But I don’t feel too terrible - I think the new pillow puts me in a better sleeping posture so I don’t creak out of bed so stiff n’ sore?

I lazed around in my recliner too long** so I only did half of DDP’s “Beginner Beginner” workout last night, but I was utilizing my vibration plate in hopes of increasing the intensity somewhat. I did break a light sweat. **Watched a couple more episodes of “Change or Die” after my usual Star Trek fix.

& now, just to get my day off to a better start, poor Tina Fea jumped up in my lap & vomited! She ate 100% dry food last night (she went upstairs to bed before I got out her special Fresh Pet stuff) - she’s resting comfortably now but the other 2 little dogs understandably bailed out 😳 Obviously being toothless she can’t chew her food, I guess the dry kibble didn’t sit well in her tiny tummy?

She seems perfectly fine now, go figure!

leanstrongsexy

The poor thing. Maybe next time she will wait for her fresh pet.

My sleep was so bad. I am beginning to think that maybe since it’s only been a few week since turning on the furnace in my room. It makes a lot of noise and I think my subconscious brain awakens when it hears the furnace come on. It m hoping with the new gas fireplace to bring heat and no motor turning on I’ll get a better sleep. I like the dark and the quiet. The guys are not done installing it so I’ll take pictures tomorrow and show you what I had removed and the fireplace that replaced it. It will be a while before the my room is fully renovated.

endurovet

Tonight little Tina et her full portion of Fresh Pet, no problems! & probably 2 T of dry kibble as her “appetizer”

But our excitement tonight came from Corey getting himself on the wrong side of the neighbor’s fence - had to rope him & drag him over the top rail again! Maybe he will learn this time?!?

I continue to work my way through DDP’s “Change or Die” reality show; I could go for more yoga & less interpersonal drama. I know they’ve got to create “X” hours of content, but I could do without the photo shoot & silly juggling challenge! Dallas has had several success-story folks come in to offer support & inspiration, those have been good. Unfortunately I had to “read all about it” & learned that the youngest morbidly obese young man, Taylor Sowers, was in essence running a scam to build up his own social media presence. I’ve got to see it through to see if any of this makes sense?

And now I’m way behind on doing tonight’s workout - “something is better than nothing”, ain’t it??

leanstrongsexy

That would s true. Anything is better than nothing.
I woke up feeling good. I felt like I slept well

I slept longer than any day this week. I got some REM sleep but the deep. Nothing.

I’ll keep trying.

leanstrongsexy

if Steve wasn’t so important to my brain health, I would just quit trying

My sleep last night was so crappy. I don’t know how to make it better. But I will figure it out. Scale said 224 this morning. I want to get under 220 and stay there for a while.

endurovet

Who’s “Steve”??!!?? 😂🤣
Even though I’m spending hours in bed, my sleep quality feels poor as I drag my reluctant self out of bed each morning…

I know this is complicated by my Bad Attitude, stuck down this deep dark financial hole which I’ve partially climbed out of, but still kinda precarious as I rebuild my retirement account. Not to mention if my dear husband remains gainfully unemployed, I might as well forget about retirement entirely… I know those issues need to be addressed, but that’s hard to do when the man will hardly stay in the same room with me! (Right now I’m watching my nightly slice of Star Trek while P has retreated to his office upstairs j

At least I’ve got sweet little dogs 🥰❤️💕

leanstrongsexy

I sometimes do voice to text. Steve is supposed to be sleep. If sleep wasn’t so important to my mental health I would just give up trying.

As an outsider and from just what you tell me sounds like P has already left the marriage. He’s not working you’re looking after him. Might be time to tell him to get a job or get out. Sleep last night sucked.

I don’t know how to make it better. I might look into seeing a natural path specialist.

endurovet

I knew you meant “sleep”, I’m just easily amused! I usually do voice to text also & it’s amazing, some of Siri’s transcriptions of my Texas drawl!

After my Thurs-night phone conversation w/Z, I was extremely worried about him - he spent most of that time once again rehashing “What is wrong with my dad?” since M makes no effort whatsoever to maintain a relationship with his son.

I drove across town yesterday afternoon on the pretext of taking him the title paperwork for the Impala - he is selling it to Victoria‘s dad, but wound up having to wait for him about 4 hours as he got himself involved in a Warhammer game. But the good news is, even though he got destroyed by his opponent (!!) he was in a good mood afterwards, so obviously those social interactions were good for him. I didn’t intend to stay out so late but I did feel greatly reassured after buying him dinner & hearing him back on a more even keel…

Peran had made some disparaging remark when I disclosed these things, as well as mentioning another friend’s problems with their adult offspring - I said, you don’t understand that they’re always our children and we are going to try to help them! Of course I understand the concept of not setting yourself on fire to keep somebody else warm…

leanstrongsexy

Of course we continue to be there for our kids. I think especially as mothers once a mom always a mom to everyone.

My sleep from last night I think is a lie. I am sure I fell asleep long before 4 am. I feel like a slept well

I think I’m going to take my Fitbit off at night and see if I sleep better if I’m not worried about my sleep subconsciously. Just an experiment.

My eating habits have been all over the place. Having to get these new floors and the process to go through getting these floors is stressing me out. I’m spending more days in bed until crap is over with.

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Oh I forgot to tell you that when my brother-in-law came over on Saturday with his son and his son biological brother, we were able to organize the garage enough to empty one of the storage containers into the garage. They’ll be picking up the container on Wednesday and I’ll be able to park my new vehicle in my driveway. Then after the floors are finished, we can finally start unpacking some stuff. Not books or DVDs but most stuff.

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We got our first heavy snow fall yesterday and last night. School busses were canceled. I didn’t even consider what the snow could do to my canopy.

We got about a foot of snow. Straight ahead you’re looking at the roof of my canopy sunk down. My barbeque and a table with what looks like more than 12 inches of snow on it.

My hot flashes have been brutal lately. I think it might be caused by sugar. The more sugar intake the worse the hot flashes. I recently figured this out. Without trying.

I didn’t fall asleep until almost 6 am but my Fitbit recorded very little because of low battery. Fitbit say that slept a whole hour at 8 am. I know sleep was bad but I woke up to pee at what time thought was 20 minutes to 1 was actually 40 minutes after 7 am. My eyes apparently didn’t read the time right. I jumped out of bed to pee thinking I slept half the day away. After I pee I look at my watch again twice before I realize the correct time. I then went back to bed and slept an hour which Fitbit did record. I’m going to charge it and then leave it off for a while and focus of my food intake. It’s been sugar loaded of late.

I hope all is well with you Val, and any others that read this.

Because of the snow there is a delay in picking up the empty storage until. So tomorrow I’ll finally be able to pull into my driveway.

Also we are now into Mercury’s retrograde. Which in general means murphy’s Law. If there is something that can go wrong it probably will.

2 days and the first stage of flooring goes in. I cannot wait for the floors to be finished. Then I can start to really unpack stuff.

Stay warm and dry where ever you all are.

endurovet

Fortunately the cold front has already blown through here - it’s been frosty these past two mornings, but tomorrow it’s gonna be up in the 40’s, 50’s & 60’s again… As far as I know there’s only a slight chance of rain this weekend (upcoming ride scheduled near Ft Hood, army base in central TX) so fingers crossed for a reasonable outcome! Hopefully this will be ”3rd time’s the charm” for to Twoie & I to complete our 25-mi distance within the requisite 6-hr time period.

A lot is piling up on me but I’ll do the best I can… I think I will break the trip up Thursday by going partway to Lamesa tomorrow night. I was just looking at the map to decide how far I will feel like driving tomorrow evening - I should be able to make it to Abilene (a little over halfway), no problem. I’ll rebound home Thurs night, switch over to the big trailer, pack & load up for the weekend’s recreation. I’m already tired but I haven’t even gotten started yet!!!

At least I figured out that my Fitbit won’t transmit data to my smart phone when the battery falls below a certain level - maybe it’s 20%, but honestly I don’t know for sure! I charged it up & suddenly I had sleep data for the last 2 nights - there still seems to be a lag between when I first get up in the morning before I can actually retrieve the data, nor does sending my screenshots work, but those are problems for another day! My sleep pattern has been fairly consistent - I don’t know if looking at the same patterns over & over & over again does me very much good?

endurovet

I had about 25 minutes to grab some lunch yesterday & wound up at Dairy Queen - in Ferris we have DQ, Taco Bell, McDonald’s or Jack-in-the-Box, then there is a diner & a couple of Tex-Mex joints. Oh, and a little Chinese joint that in my opinion isn’t very good - I will go there every once in a great while if my girls want to go! Anything fancier, we’ve got to drive down to Ennis or across to Red Oak…

I must admit I have an unhealthy attachment to Taco Bell quesadillas, other than that I’m trying to avoid the fast food although yesterday I got the chicken strips at DQ: today my weight is up another 2 lbs which I know is mostly bloat. I was thinking about just dragging the horse trailer to work w/me & proceeding on my westward journey from there, but I didn’t finish my laundry & get my suitcase packed last night! It’ll cost me about 45 minutes, taking the car to work this morning, then bouncing home this afternoon to get the horse trailer & head for Lamesa. In reality, I think I’ll aim for Sweetwater which is about 2/3 of the way there. I stayed in a nice Microtel there during one of my expeditions to Lubbock… it reminded me of the compact little hotel rooms in the UK - “a place for everything & everything in its place”. It will be a minor splurge for me - I can do a mini spa night if they have a decent bathtub.

leanstrongsexy

That sounds like a wonderful way to treat yourself on your journey.

Tomorrow is the first day of the floors. Kitchen tomorrow, Dining Room Friday. The move everything out of the living room, tear out the carpet, padding and felt. Monday the first half of the livingroom Tuesday the last half. Then move the furniture back. Oh my gosh. I’ll be glad when this is over.

im not sure how I slept but I felt good when I woke up. I’m still not wearing my bit. I’m still watching what I’m eating. I’ve been avoiding sugar as much as possible. I understand unhealthy attachments. I have one to Hagen Daz cookies & cream flavour. Actually to anything sugary and cakey and gooey stuff.

How are things going with Z and V. I really hope you have good weather for your ride? And you get it done within time. Check in if you can on your trip.

endurovet

Ha! Best laid plans & all that - of course I got held up at work, didn’t get on the road till a little past 5 o’clock - that meant I rolled into Sweetwater close to 10 PM. So no pampering, I just did my usual “soak feet in bathtub while I take a shower”…

Nice hotel room but I did have a bedbug 😉🥰

I wish I had Tina Fea’s ironclad self control when it comes to portion control 😳

leanstrongsexy

Crap. I accidentally deleted a long post. Let’s try this again.

I’m glad you got to your next place to sleep with Tina Fae. Good luck with the ride this weekend. I hope the weather is kind to you and all the riders.

Today is the first day of floors. All the dogs are with me in my room. I think today he lays the sub floor and gets it all measured and placed and then tomorrow he’ll glue the new floor down. This is such a cluster fudge. If I’d listen to My Son when I first moved into this joint I would be done with the floors then. From now on, I’m listening to My Son when it comes to ideas. Obviously he’s smarter than I am when it comes to this stuff. The only reason I avoided it was because I knew it would be a good chunk of change and I really didn’t want to face the fact that the carpets had to go. Next time I’ll make it a condition of a my next house buy. Although I never plan on moving again unless it’s to a nursing home. That’s why I’m trying to make this house as perfect as I can because I don’t plan on moving again.

We are order Chinese tonight because the stove is in the living room in front of my chair. So the kitchen table and the deep. The fridge is in the dining room which the man is trying to work around. I just came up with an idea. I wanted to share with doing my floors, and he thinks it’s a great idea and is going to move the fridge and let me borrow an extension cord. And just because I don’t have enough going on I just found out that the toilet tank in the living room bathroom is getting instead of water.

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Sleep was better last night. Yesterday and the night before I was in a very pissed off mood. So much so that I actually thought when I got up today, I was going to go away. I didn’t know where I would go. I was gonna drive get away from it but when I woke up this l this morning, my pissed off mood had left me now all I wanna do is hibernate. I have no idea what brought on the pissed off mood for two days, but I seem to be over it now.

After today, the kitchen and dining room will be done floor wise. We can move the appliances back where they belong and the living room into the kitchen and out rug. My weight was 221 the morning. We had Chinese food last night for supper. Because my stove was in front of my chair in the living room. I tried to be as good as possible when choosing my Chinese food, I had four egg rolls, two servings of rice and two servings of beef w veggies. I tried to choose food that would be kind to the body. Although I don’t feel any from eating Chinese food last night so far.

endurovet

For some reason my Fitbit is no longer coordinating with my phone - I even had techie husband look at it but he couldn’t figure it out either?!? Just as well - I actually slept through until 6 AM but then Izzy came & got in bed with me to put me back to sleep right before the damn alarm went off at 7 AM so I am groggy this morning.

Weight was 194, not surprising considering road trip + junk food. My Pretty Pony Moonie is back home where he belongs, and I did NOT cry when they led him up from Dr B’s paddock! I’ve missed him terribly, I was so worried but he is doing pretty good although still profoundly crippled. I’ve got to inject his tendon sheaths in two weeks as we hope to see gradual improvement…

Drinking a little coffee before I go finish loading the big trailer to go to the ride this weekend - Christina is bringing Catie, she will ride Baraq with me in the 25. Getting done within the timeframe should not be a problem - instead, I will likely be begging her to slow down!!! 😳

leanstrongsexy

I slept 9 hours. I don’t know if it’s because I was up very tired from too many short night but I slept so well. When I woke naturally before 8 am I couldn’t believe I slept the whole night.

I may not see numbers like this for again. It’s not my hope but I really slept well. We had Chinese food Monday night. I had some left overs today. I can’t remember what I had yesterday except that the have been eating raw walnuts for breakfast lately. I’ll weigh myself tomorrow or Monday. Today we tore out all the carpet from the living room and took down the canopy and sent the metal to scrap.

endurovet

Wow, that’s great! As you said, may be just sheer exhaustion?!?

Catie & I finished our 25-mi event with two minutes to spare & I am also exhausted! Didn’t get a good night’s sleep because Christina & Catie had car trouble and didn’t get in until 11:30 last night (we had to get up at 6 AM to feed & saddle the horses for a 7:30 AM start time). So I’m going to hit the hay early tonight (as soon as we have the ride meeting which should be about 7 PM), then I’ll load up tomorrow morning & probably just go on home. I had originally contemplated going up to meet my trail riding buddies but I think that would be pushing my luck! Victoria had mentioned riding tomorrow, but I think for her first ride she needs to come to my house & just meander around the round pen.

leanstrongsexy

That makes so much sense about V. I wouldn’t want to go riding unless I knew the horse.

Well I think my Fitbit is on it last leg like yours possibly. I fell asleep last night I’m sure before or around midnight and yet my Bit says I fell asleep at 5 this morning and only got about an hour’s sleep and I had to pee at 6:30. So it’s off its rocker. I’m going to pick out a new inspire 3 and see if it goes on sale for Black Friday this week.

I’m pretty sure I slept better than this.

endurovet

The frustrating thing is, I bought a new Fitbit ($100 at Best Buy) but now it doesn’t want to communicate with my phone?!? My phone needs an upgrade too but I just haven’t gotten “around tuit”…

I’m home with the first load of laundry going & haven’t heard from the kids yet. Z was playing Warhammer yesterday & for all I know, he signed up to play today also? AAAAAAND, whaddaya know - Z just called, he’s begging off since “he’s got a lot to do & he’s gotta fly to Tulsa tomorrow morning”. Yes, I know son - adulting be hard, but at least this way I can do laundry & watch football! (Dear Tina Fea wet the bed when she wouldn’t come to Christina 🤦‍♀️)

Kerry made these little plaques for 1st time riders - I can’t wait for Catie to see it!!!