@swenson19 so sorry about your husbands elbow! That's a decent fracture.

Good afternoon

Not much going on. But I did go out and do a 1.5 mile WOG (walk/jog) this am. I need to stretch tonight LOL.

Grey cat woke me up at 5:15 dry heaving...I think his nausea meds wear off in the early hours of the AM. If this keeps up, I might give a sliver of a pill just before bed, annoying since the pills are a couple dollars each. But since I was up...out I went.

Big winds again tonight...they were 40+ mph last night, I thought the house was going to start shaking.

I got on the scale this AM, 165...so hopefully not to much damage in the month I took off. Maybe I can be down under 160 by my holiday in 5 weeks...as I snack on redvines currently...why do I even like them?

Back to it! Another round of deployers going out.

@swenson19d - Have you tried giving Sandy some pumpkin. It seems to help Hobbes when he has diarrhea/loose stools. I seem to recall you were giving them some already though.
I am so glad Eric didn't hit his head! I hope getting back to work even with one immobilized arm, will make him calmer and less angry.
@CMorning99 - The winds have been crazy! I sat out back with the pups early this morning and it was bad but by this afternoon I was watching the palm trees really swaying and was wondering if they were going to come down. I saw on the news that they are supposed to calm down by tomorrow morning. Glad yo you were able to get out for a little wog!
@quilteryoyo - I hope you can get into a better sleep schedule and it helps. Does the magnesium help with your sleep too? I take magnesium oxide before bed mostly for leg cramps but it definitely also helps me sleep.
Beaux has been waking up and whining early. At home I guess he sleeps until 8am. Here he hasn't slept past 6:30-7 and usually starts in whining around 6am... my sleep schedule is way off and is definitely affecting how tired I am in addition to all the walking/running.
We will miss him but I don't know when we will have him again. Dh isn't a big fan of puppy exuberance except from a distance, even though he isn't really impacted by it, it just inconveniences him.
One disaster we did have yesterday... Beaux and Hobbes were happily playing in the family room with a new toy. Beaux was squeaking it and Hobbes was literally singing to the squeaking. I made a little video and sent it to Beaux's parents. Dh had walked into the room and was laughing at them when Beaux stood up and just peed and peed all over the new rug! I shoved him out the patio door, still peeing and dh just stood there. I finally yelled at him to get some towels while I used a towel we keep by the door to wipe paws. We had a huge argument about it... Long and short - the ruggable worked as expected. I pulled the cover off and put it and the towels I cleaned up with, all in the wash and it came out good as new. I am sure Beaux was just over stimulated and he is still a puppy. Was having too much fun and it hit him that he just had to go.

@shanaber I'm sure Beaux was out of sorts. Sounds like he may be homesick or just out of routine. Sandy peed on the rug while I was in and out taking care of DH in the hospital. It was just stressful for her to have the major changes. Ive washed the living room ruggable 4-5 times and it is great, I washed both of them yesterday actually. They seem to get softer with each wash.

Sandy is not sure how to exist without Kevin. She doesn't play. I thought about taking her to day care, but she just hangs out with the dog minder all day, same thing she does here. I took her for a walk yesterday, very short- maybe 2 blocks before she was overstimulated and we turned around. She still has a week and a half to figure it out. It so quiet around here without Kev. Sandy is really a good dog and doesn't get into as much, and listens better. Kev is just an excited pup.

Caretaking extra for my mom this week because the woman who usually helps with my mom is helping out extra with a debilitated neighbor while his wife takes a vacation.

@swenson19d you talking about your husband acting out because of being gimpy reminds me of this guy.

He’s the husband of my mother’s closest friend, and officially the person I look at when I need to be reminded why I run and log food - he is upwards of 600 lbs and completely immobile because when he broke a hip they were unable to operate due to him being unable to be anesthetized. He’s diabetic, in kidney failure, and unfortunately for all concerned a really bad patient. My mom’s caretaker is a saint, and the other day she came home cussing which I have never seen from her. She said she finally had enough and told him that she was going to start keeping track of the times he was rude to her and charging extra per episode. He is just constantly demanding and noncompliant and he had an absolute hissy fit at the idea of his wife leaving him to take a vacation - which would be her first time away from their house in 15 years. Wife said, too bad so sad, and didn’t look back. So now he is taking it out on the nurse, caretaker, and dialysis people. It’s sad because while he has always been huge, he used to be an interesting, funny person and functional human being who wasn’t disabled, and he 100% did this to himself. I have seen him eat literally an entire spread intended for a party of 20 people by himself in about 10 minutes, before anyone else got to the food. It’s probably some sort of mental illness, but honestly it seems more like he just really wants what he wants and doesn’t care about anything else.

I’ve been logging everything but despite being under calories my weight is creeping up. I need to tighten my logging, but it seems that doing less running is the problem. I always thought I was over counting running calories, but it seems like if anything I was undercounting them, because running less is having a huge impact.

I skipped my run yesterday. I don't think I got enough sleep this past weekend. We had a hockey game Thursday, a baseball game Friday, and a hockey game Tuesday. Sunday we had breakfast with friends and ran errands. And the dog would not sleep past like 430 each day. Today I finally got 7.5 hours of sleep, much better than the 6 I had been getting but dog still woke at 3 am and I had to cuddle with her until she fell asleep.

@rheddmobile I'm sure there's probably some mental health issue with your mom's friend. Yah, it sucks when you're injured but you gotta help yourself and not just complain. I'm glad his wife finally got a break and the caregiver told him she was gonna charge him more. Neither should have to put up with that.

Good morning!

Always a party here LOL

Grey cat is still hanging in there...what a tough old bird for sure. I have no idea what his eye is doing, as long as there is no puss or blood I guess that is the best we can as for. Last night it was really teary, like tears dripping off his face and the eye was noticeably smaller. I am not sure if the scar tissue is disappearing or if the eye is slowly shrinking and rotating and we just cant see it anymore. No point in taking him to the vet. I split his nausea pill in half and did half in AM and half in PM and that seemed to do the trick, no 5am wake up yack. I decided to call in a hail mary and see if I could put all his meds into 1 dish and see if he would eat it. I tried each antibiotic and to me they tasted like chalk so nothing was bitter (that I could tell). He didn't touch it, but he may also be very wary in the AM b/c he thinks I am gonna get him with meds. We are still separating the boys so I put it out for him and hopefully it will be gone by lunch time when I go back. Risky to do for the antibiotics but after nearly 2 weeks and 10 more days to go...we are ALL over it.

Got in a 2 mile WOG yesterday. Used the Peloton app...been paying for it so might as well.

Not tracking calories but like many of you, it is too stressful. I have however made a rule of no snacking after dinner.

Debit card number was stolen last night and used in Canada. Thankfully grey cat wiped me out this paycheck and all they could manages was $36 of coffee at Starbucks. I am curious how they got the number, the card is not attached to anything on the internet so whoever got it had to have access to me or the fast food restaurant I used it at...it is just my run around town card.

Still on my Red Vines kick...why did I buy a 1lb bag..ugh.

@CMorning99 Probably one of those scanners by someone in the parking lot then sold online. If you use it for gas some of those skimmers have gotten really hard to spot on the pumps.

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@CMorning99 Probably one of those scanners by someone in the parking lot then sold online. If you use it for gas some of those skimmers have gotten really hard to spot on the pumps.

When ours was stolen it turned out to be the middleman who processes cards for gas stations. Nothing you can do about that!

I too have heard about restaurant workers copying/stealing credit card and debit card numbers. As much as possible now we use Apple Pay if a merchant accepts it. I do the same with online purchases so it limits the number of places that actually has my cc number and we don't use the debit card except at the ATM.

@swenson19d it is interesting that Sandy is so different with Kevin not there. I am sure they play off each other. I hope you got your swanky hair cut! You will have to post some pictures!! I hope you are feeling better and that the good cry helps! Did you get the steroid shot, did it help?

Had my MRI today... Now the wait is on for the results. Interestingly I was talking to the nurse supervisor who mentioned (completely unsolicited) that one of their biggest issues is with the scheduling department. They only have 6 schedulers handling 1200 calls per day. Not an excuse but it is also an entry level position and some of the people are really bad (her words).