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While I think I’ve got everything ready to go this morning, there’s always this anxious, unsettled feeling - I’m afraid I’m gonna drive and forget something important!

But there’s a tack vendor at this ride (which will be a welcome diversion, they don’t come to very many of our TX rides) as well as Walmarts and truck stops along the way - maybe I’ll buy Twoie a nice purple headstall to match Scarlett’s breastcollar! Poor thing, he’s like the neglected stepchild in all this mismatched tack…

Very sorry to dislodge my lil’ dogs, but gotta get moving! Making a big loop to pick up Tony & then stopping by the clinic since there’s a couple of patients I need to see before we hit the road (fingers crossed that we get on the highway by noonish)

Sheesh! I guess if he has no one else? but that’s awfully nice of you…

We had a beautiful weekend at Mount Pleasant, but Twoie banged his leg in the trailer & was lame so I had to ride Silas while Catie’s dad brought one of their other horses (who did fine, BTW, even though they were worried about her ability to ride longer distances). I’m “starting out tired” this morning bcz that was a moderate amount of driving, not to mention it’s always stressful to have to skirt Dallas traffic with the big horse trailer! After the ride on Saturday, I drove 40 miles further to the NE to visit my cousins - had dinner with them** & spent the night which was very nice…

I was amazed to see 188.6 on the scales this morning - let’s see if I can keep it below that 190 mark & keep on edging downwards now! ** Dee made homemade lasagne which was great; that’s why I’m pleasantly surprised! But we had a big green leafy salad with homegrown veggies from Margie’s garden - Dee relayed that my cousin Joe gripes about her homemade basalmic vinegar dressing - “he can’t SEE it!” - Joe prefers ranch dressing which is a sacrilege in her book! 😂🤣

Saturday night - felt well-rested

Sure ‘nuff, weight holding steady at 190 lbs even this morning (Easter Monday) - yes, we had some chocolate, also 2 of the airline’s fruit & cheese plates during the course of our two big-hop flights (from Chicago to San Fran, & then yesterday coming from San Fran home to Dallas)

Gotta finish my coffee and get ready for my work day - more later!

I can’t believe I just navigated away from this page in a moment of ignorance & lost a big long post!!! I will try to duplicate it later; picking up my equipment for a home sleep study tonight!

Ha ha! Well I’m glad you found it - I need to fix the strap holder on mine or it’s probably going to be lost also…

Just had my telemedicine consult with the sleep center doctor - she says I have mild sleep apnea (stopped breathing 10 times per hour)** so she is recommending I come in for the full evaluation where I try to sleep at the center all wired up with a CPAP. Ugh, that sounds absolutely charming - great for my mild claustrophobia!

But actually my FitBit thinks I didn’t sleep too badly on the night of my study - almost 2 hrs of deep sleep?!? (I doubt that figure, I think I was just holding myself very very still to avoid dislodging the tubing!) - but I felt terrible when I got up, very groggy!

I’ll have to post more later about my Ethical Dilemma of the Week…

I need to type out my blog post to organize my thoughts - I found out the husband of a former friend of mine died this week… I seriously considered driving to the funeral which is almost 6 hours away, but in the end I did not. We had a falling out almost 10 yrs ago because this man was passing information (I considered his wife to be one of my closest friends at the time) to my ex-husband when Zach was having his “teenage experimentation/self-medication” phase - they told me I was too permissive & I would wind up “ruining him”… so while I’m sorry for her loss (kind of! - my honest opinion is she’s better off without him; I thought from the very beginning he was trying to isolate her from friends & family) - there again it was her life to lead! but I wound up just sending a plant & a sympathy card.

So I’m gonna lead my life by lounging around with my coffee this morning, & then getting a few things done…

I didn’t finish my earlier asterisk’d post - I ask about the delineations for sleep apnea; she told me less than five times per hour is normal, 5-15 is mild sleep apnea, 15-30 is moderate, more than 30 is severe! But they still advised me to come in for the real deal - trying to sleep in their facility will be really entertaining & I doubt I will get much rest… But I went ahead and scheduled for 5/14.

https://www.robertsonfuneral.com/obituaries/mark-schrader/#!/TributeWall

My diet has been marginal; nothing to be especially proud of except that I’m able to do my morning fasting interval without much difficulty (trying to stick to a 16:8 routine)

Meanwhile, my sleep quality is getting progressively worse & worse… I want ahead & signed up to do the full-scale study at the sleep lab in two weeks; maybe I’ll be so tired by then that I will actually sleep for them a bit?!? I know I was anxious last night because Z & V were returning from their little vacation: they got in after midnight - I was wondering if Z would drag on into work this morning, but apparently he did not! Wish I were sleeping in - I finally got some REM sleep around 5 AM, ugh!

But warm lil’ lap dogs make “slowly gearing up for my day” more bearable 🥰❤️💕

Pleasantly surprised to see the scales at 189.4 this morning - my diet has been so-so! Last night I finished up w/a scoop of elote & a handful of tortilla chips; I honestly don’t recall what I had for my main meal? I was driving back-and-forth across town, picking up snacks along the way…

I had to reclaim 2 reptiles from my friend Donna. I was seriously alarmed at her haggard appearance; she has not been doing well mentally or physically & needs to lighten her workload. So I picked up Bonnie the tegu & Buttercup the ball python - we’ll figure out when I’m going to get Barry the dwarf retic after she feeds him, when he will be easier to handle!

I’m going to pass Bonnie along to a client who is excited to foster her, because I just don’t have the space! Many folks make the mistake of getting these animals who are going to grow quite large & need large habitats, and they wind up in a bad space. A tegu really needs an enclosure the size of a small bedroom all to itself, and I already gave Claude the beaded lizard the big iguana cage! That 6-foot iguana cage was cramped for Bonnie, but I tried to let her out to walk around the house whenever I could. She had lost quite a bit of weight** at Donna‘s because Donna said she didn’t eat consistently? I’m sure this was a temperature/humidity problem because she always ate voraciously for me - she ate 2 tins of dog food right after I got her home & soaked her in the bathtub!

I’m not looking forward to judging the competitive trail ride this weekend (giving up my weekend in essence), but a girl’s gotta do what a girl promised to do! Brownie points & all that - Tony’s going with me to check out the vibes.

** of course when I gave her to Donna she was pretty plump, so it didn’t necessarily harm her to lose a little bit of weight 😳

Finishing the last of my coffee so I can start getting dressed for work - I was shocked that they did not have a coffee pot in the cookshack this weekend at horse camp; thank goodness I had my espresso powder & could boil some water!

For some reason my first screenshot was not saved? I wanted to show the contrast between how well I slept in horse camp, versus last night which was restless again… Tina Fea is getting the hang of this camping routine & thankfully did not wet the bed! My weight hanging at 190.4 which I know is partly inflammation since I hiked 3.7 miles on Saturday & 3.5 miles on Sunday. Ate a few chips & cookies in horse camp “because they were there” so I’m looking forward for the “whoosh”** when my muscle soreness subsides (I’m feeling it in my shins, calves, hammies & glutes)

** my friend Jonni has gone low-carb - she was excitingly talking about how she lost 8 pounds in the first week which as we all know is mostly fluid retention

Yep, thyroid issues are miserable - while all my numbers have looked good in last set of blood tests (in January), I will hit a low spot in the late afternoon/early evening with low energy & feeling chilled… Last night I could not get warm!

Finally piled into bed with my little dogs & a doubled-up blanket and I actually didn’t do too badly, sleep-wise. Did a brief stretch on my yoga mat & my hamstrings were trying to cramp up - still pretty damn stiff & sore from all my hiking around last weekend.

& there goes my washing machine, signaling my last load of laundry - I need to move it to the dryer & get on with my day!