@RangerRickL
So happy you had a wonderful birthday celebration. It must have been wonderful being able to spend quality time with your family!

@RangerRickL So pleased for you that you could meet with your family to celebrate your 70th! I am jealous! I would give my right arm to be able to go camping with my kids, daughters-in-law and granddaughter, even if my knees would creak! Might just give that knee as well! Used to love camping!
I celebrated, if that's the word, my 69th on Monday, but just with my partner who has Alzheimer's. I got lots of touching messages, calls and sweet little presents and cards in the post from my kids. While they made me feel happy and blessed, they also made me cry, because I still have no idea when I will be able to see them again. So, 14th July, Bastille Day, when I had booked for my birthday lunch at our one and only Michelin starred restaurant in Montpellier, with Joseph, my partner, an annual pleasure and planned #Skip Day, I ended up in tears, feeling sorry for myself that instead of having a joyful lunch with my kids, daughters-in-law, granddaughter and stepson and girlfriend, or with my Mum, sister, brother, in-laws, nephews and nieces, I was scheduled to have lunch with my partner. Our relationship has broken down to the point where I look after him, his finances, organisation of his life. I have been lucky in that I have been able to call in outside help and that I have managed to organise him a studio of his own around the corner. I see him every day, but he gets extra outside help and I don't have to be his main carer. His Alzheimer's is still not so bad that he cannot do normal, simple, daily things for himself. His only son, who I am very close to, is very supportive, but lives in London, while we are in the South of France, and is coping with a girlfriend with terminal Stage 4 Breast Cancer, second time round within two years.
It didn't help that my usually very positive Mum in Holland also had a bit of a dip!
But, counting my blessings, Montpellier is still opening up. I went to work today, examining in Toulouse! Ridiculous: Train@ 7am, back at 8.45pm, examined 4 (!) candidates. It did me good to get out. Also pleased to see most people wore masks and kept their distance.
Sorry about long rant.
Exercise: Yes, 40 minutes walking, 5 of which lugging fizzy water
Calories: Surprisingly, yes, stayed under budget, thanks to canny choices at stations (work!)
Tracking: Yes, logged everything. This is usually the hardest of all ...
I'll keep going in spite of dips and blips.

exercise > 20 ✅ 100 walk/jog, weights
calories < budget✅
tracked everything ✅

3️⃣ Pass Days

Third pass day. Did lots of swimming in the sea but only loosely tracked and am a bit over calories.

Third pass today. It has been a very stormy, lazy day. Much needed.

@Chinkiri - no apologies necessary. That’s why we are here. Doing any of this without support - even on line - is so hard. I’m sending a PM.


Saturday, 7/18

Tracking: Yes
Calories: under
Exercise: Yes, cycle 45 minutes

Pass days to date - 3

@Chinkiri
I just wanted to let you know we’re here for you. You’re handling a lot - a few years are allowed I think you are very strong. Anniversaries & birthdays & other regular family & friend events raise a lot of feelings for many of us.

Prior to COVID, my husband & I began saying “Everything changes.” I have found it lets me release some of the sorrow, stress, etc. By expecting changes, possibly we are less “thrown” by them. Might not be for you, but it helps me SO much, I thought I’d mention it. And Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!

PS I don’t know when I’ll see our grown son again. He lives overseas. I keep busy, and stay positive during our weekly calls. He offered to fly here & quarantine 2 weeks in an AirBNB, but we all agreed the risks of the airplane weren’t worth it. I’d never want him or his wife to get COVID. It helps to see his face. For Mother’s Day they invited us to a Zoom dinner party. Gave us a tour of their place etc.

Times like these call for creativity - just as Rick’s family did

Big hugs & best of luck to you partner’s son’s girlfriend.

No
No
Yes

Pass day 2, over by 53
Exercised
Tracked