Serial Starters

Sara in UK: Ah - I had never heard the term cream tea; definitely familiar with afternoon tea - what a wonderful thing it is!!

Sara on the Left Coast - Congrats on your weight loss. That is so fabulous 💓👍🏻😁

Welcome to Wulf~~

Waves to everyone else who stops by today. 👋🏻

*tossing beach bag onto favorite lounge chair for later....*

Lana

Well, I waited too long to get myself out of the house for a mental health joy ride around town. Thunderstorms are here. *kitten*

Sara - there's that cheeseburger casserole - sounds SO good.

Solitary confinement today is bugging me.

Lana

Dawn, my heart goes out to you. I've just been through something similar with my dad and he passed last November, at age 91. He was adamant about never going back to a hospital or using any heroic measures. CHF is a difficult thing to live with and he was just done. I spent as much time with my parents (in a different state) as I could, and now I visit and call my mom a lot more. I encourage you to go, for yourself. This is your experience, too, and if your mom is alone, she will benefit from the support. If you can get your hands on a couple of N95 masks, for flights, just do it. I was with my mom for 3 weeks and didn't hug her until after day 14. It was hard but doable.

Welcome to Wulf and hello to Sara from the UK.

Sara (CA), did it eventually cool down a bit? We had really hot and humid here today, but the wind cooled me b/c I was so sweaty at the dog park All that walking is good for my soul, too. Having to back off a bit--from 5 to 3 or 4--and waiting to be able to jog again.

I've been doing pretty well in general. Got really anxious feeling today--not sure why--but was on FB and figure it was all the bad news people face. I'm pretty privileged in a lot of ways and I just feel bad that there are so many in much more difficult situations than my own. I know that getting upset doesn't help anyone, of course. So I took a deep breath and a nap and felt better after that.

Still doing well with the weight loss; down 26 since the beginning of March. I should count the weeks and see what the weekly average is. It has dropped a lot in the last few days after holding steady at, and after, my time in FL.

I need to start thinking about my plan for the fall since our district has announced all virtual for quarter 1. Probably I can keep close to the same schedule--better to get up and walk in the am with the dogs, do a short (0.5 miles) at lunch with Skye, and take them both to DP again in the evening, or run in my loop depending on the activity there. It's not too bad if I wait to go out at about 8 pm, but harder to fall asleep if I wait to do intense exercise then. Oh, well; I'll figure it out.

It is good to see so many folks posting here. I wish we could all meet at a lovely pool somewhere and really get to know one another. Wouldn't that be fun?

I am so sorry Dawn 😦 Huge hugs and prayers. My Dad had been so sick this year and this stupid virus is making it so hard to plan a visit 😕 it seems a lot of us are going through a rough step of life. Praying LORD JESUS to comfort us all through this time.

*** SUNDAY July 19th ***

Good morning everyone~~

Welcome Ash! Waving to Dawn and Kathryn and Sara and Sara and Wulf and Maureen and Lynn and Tracy and Holly and everyone else who stops by later on...

Time to get out there for a walk before the temperatures go UP!

Lana

*** MONDAY July 20th ***

Wow, how can it be the 20th of July already?

I may have found a new thing for me: Strawberries🍓 They make a good nighttime snack, if I sit down with the package and a knife and, one at a time, cut out the top, cut one in half, and then eat it; then repeat. The difference is that I'm not prepping them in the kitchen and then sitting down to wolf them in one minute. The new way is a little "process" that takes time.

Now where is Antoine🏝 with the half-caf?

Lana

Monday is off to a rip roaring start - first thing was discovering all the slides I made for presentation this morning suddenly have broken hyperlinks. Had to correct all of them 6 minutes before the meeting. GAH!
Storms moved through last night giving us much needed rain. Unfortunately, that also means more humidity. Temp is registering as 71.7 degrees with 83% humidity in my office at the moment. So much for taking a shower this morning. Am sweating just sitting here. UGH!
Jeep club meeting at a restaurant tonight. Want to make sure I eat before I get there so I only need to order a drink. Scale surprised me with a 1 pound loss this morning. I'll take it!!!!
Happy Monday everyone!