@CMorning99 - would they allow you to put a water softener of some sort in, maybe just for the washer? I am sure all the hard water isn’t good for your clothes either.
Also if you have AAA they can do the title submission and lots of other DMV related things for you. We never go into or try to call the DMV since AAA can handle most of what we need to do and they can check on things for us too. It took over a month though to get the title reissued when we were selling the van though.
@RunsOnEspresso - when I first read your post I was thinking oh this isn’t good! I was hoping it didn’t pop when you were miles
From home!
I always go back to basics, measuring and logging and eating what I know worked well before. Not that I eat much differently now. I am up 2 lbs and am ok with that. I didn’t run or workout much in Oct/Nov with all that was going on but now I hope to get back into it consistently.
@swenson19d - love the pictures! The pups are going to be big that is for sure. I have read about dogs who licked walls and soften toe plaster to where they could chew it. That and chewing on door and window frames. Maybe try redirecting Sandy to a chew toy? Sounds like Kevin gets the no barking command. I wish I could use a squirt bottle in the car. Hobbes always wants to bark at ‘someone’ he sees in a yard or whatever and it startled me. I hate it. He also barks at a knock on the door, a truck or even a car going by our house… I want him to bark but stop when I tell him enough. Clearly my training is only partially affective. I know he thinks he is protecting us, the house and the car.

We are on our way to No CA. Going to have dinner with friends tonight and pickup dd at the airport tomorrow before heading further north. Hobbes has been asleep pretty much the entire drive - recovering from Beaux 😂

@shanaber yes, getting back to basics is my plan!

Good morning!

@shanaber We used to have AAA and never used it once in YEARS! I finally cancelled it probably 10 years ago. I have thought about going back since I have the travel trailer now and would like road side assistance. We have 3rd party satellite offices here that are fast and easy, but they charge their own fees.

Yesterday was court day. I actually enjoy going and seeing folks, they are all so friendly and nice. The Detective who was the lead on the case was there for other cases and we sat and chatted about retirement stuff. Even the officer who found mom was there and he came by to say it was nice to see me again. As for court...I don't know if LS lawyer is an idiot or a smart snake. He didn't file the motion to be LS's court appointed attorney until 10:36pm the night before! He had known for TWO weeks! I don't know if that was laziness or if he was trying to rush the judge so he would just agree. He went into this long explanation talking about how LS "tried to hurt himself last week" and that as a result he "is being medicated for previously unknown mental conditions". And here we go. The DA was shocked he said that. I don't understand but he tried to explain that he should have never said that because it shows that he did not? have a mental condition at the time of the murder? Or that there was no reason to believe that any mental condition existed severe enough to warrant diagnosis previously? He said it opens up a HUGE evidence discovery burden on the defense. But also, it is sus b/c it was 1 week for an alleged diagnosis and then LS's attorney turns around and says it would be 6-8 months of psychiatric evaluation for an insanity plea. The DA is wondering if they have already started evaluations with a private doctor...which is expensive. The Detective said he would check visitation logs. The Judge (who the DA loves) was not pressured and will make his decision next Tuesday, but he said his initial ruling is the case goes back to the Public Defenders. I chuckled b/c he also said "this is not a hard case, they should be able to figure it out"

After court I treated myself to the Goodwill Bins that is up there. It is so small, but I surprised myself with finding 25lbs of stuff! They charge by the pound there $2.79 (In Sacramento it is only $1.59 lb) but I got good stuff and it was worth the trip. I also had to drop off the $$$ for the demo. I was telling DH it is interesting that I know more people with COVID right now (3) than I have known the entire pandemic! My contractor is one of them so I did a porch drop off and ran back to my car and he came out and got it. I got back home by 3pm and was so hungry, I had been living off of trail mix and candy corn. I somehow managed to eat all my calories and then go over between then and bed time Ugh.

No running this week. I did find it interesting I was not tired yesterday when I got home. Makes me wonder if I am tired from work (or lack of). I am going to try and move around more at work and take walks.

Tracking calories again today. I have been lazy to try and add stuff I don't know (recipes). Weight has gone down a bit, but nothing to write home about. My weight smoothing app says I have gained 1.3lbs in 7 days but lost .4lbs since I started 1 month ago.

DH has friend visiting this weekend so this afternoon we need to clean, nothing like forcing us to actually unpack like a visitor!

Have a great weekend!

We are way north in CA and visited the Humboldt Redwoods State Park today. It was cold (for us) but we had fun hiking and seeing the huge amazing trees. Dh even joined us to hike one of the loops and Dd caught this picture of me that was really fun 😊. It was gloriously beautiful and so quiet! I am hoping to get in a 6.6mi run for my birthday in the morning but it is supposed to be in the 30's 😳 and ia really don't have the clothes for that. It may have to wait until we get home or maybe on Tuesday when we are heading back down the coast.

My weight was down over half a pound from yesterday. I was very surprised since dinner last night consisted of Ruffles potato chips and 8 oz of French Onion Dip.

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Are any of you friends with @HonuNui? They are having some horrendous rain in Hawaii and I am hoping she and her dh are safe and all is ok with them. I know they are on the Big Island and the news was focused on Oahu where there was extensive flooding but I think all the islands were hit.

On the run the year challenge activities I see she ran on the treadmill on the 7th.

@shanaber Thanks for thinking of us: Lots of rain but not catastrophic here as on Oahu and Kauai. DH is on mainland visiting mom so snowbird Henry and I are obsessively checking the battery power/need to run generator.

I'm still recovering from my accidental gluten eating on Thanksgiving. Mostly fatigue and depression. My run this morning was hard. I had 16x200 and I was supposed to run the recovery part but after 5 just walked them. Then my cool down went from 1.5 miles to .5 mile. My body was like nope, go home, drink some coffee. So I did.

@RunsOnEspresso I hope you feel better soon.

@shanaber Sounds like you did great with food on your trip. Hope this offer on the house goes through.

I had a horrible episode with my back last night. All I did was sit on the arm of a chair and stand up. Horrible pain...like worse than any I had earlier. After that, every time I bent at the waist, even a little, I would get a catch and not be able to stand up straight without gritting my teeth and making myself do it no matter how it hurt. This lasted about an hour. I did walk slowly on the treadmill after and it seemed to help some. Iced it last night. It still hurts this morning, but at about a 2, not 9 or 10, so I can deal with that. Mom and I are going Christmas shopping today and then have a party tonight. So, a busy day. Not even going to worry about the food I eat.

I would guess the mental health is more for mitigation reasons than insanity plea. Those are really hard to get. Well, in AZ at least. I can't speak to CA.

We are supposed to have rain Fri/Sat so probably the stuff you have today.