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Our weather has warmed up this week in what no doubt is a mini “false spring” - but I was very pleased that Aphrodite Alligator came out, Peran got her fed because it was 74° the other day. Of course they go into semi-hibernation over the winter, but I was still worried about her. Somebody posted a wildlife cam video of a…
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Fortunately I partially caught up on a little deep sleep last night before I completely lost my mind! I know there is underlying stress about my medical tests Thursday - some of it is catching up on routine stuff like a mammogram & Pap smear, but also doing a lung scan to see if I have pulmonary fibrosis. Nothing to do but…
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Unfortunately I have little-to-no room in my freezer since my hubby has stuffed the drawers with his little baggies of brown rice, salmon, & turkey from the carcasses he dismembered after Christmas… Granted, there is a lot of miscellaneous stuff that I really need to go through, defrost for the dogs, or throw out. Ugh -…
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Ugh, I knew I couldn’t string together 2 decent nights in a row! Yesterday was a stress-fest because Zach drove out to visit his dad** - Z had asked him to help fix the grill on his car even though I advised Z that “juice probably wasn’t worth the squeeze” - I’d be happy to deal with the little body shop in Mesquite who…
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Last night was a little better - but boy am I jealous of 2 hrs of deep sleep!!! I had a 5-ounce steak from Eatzi’s that looked so good in their display case, but the flavor was a little disappointing. At least my weight is back down to “baseline” at 191. I pulled something below my left shoulder blade riding Baraq…
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Whelp today has been not-so-very-good… I offered to bring Silas for my friend Linda to ride on what turned out to be a beautiful 70-degree spring-like day, but slept even more poorly than average (17 min deep sleep, are ya kidding me?!?). Silas was his usual gentlemanly self, but Linda hasn’t ridden all winter & complained…
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Yes indeedy… I’ve always hoped to find some alternative way to reward myself rather than thinking of food first & foremost. Bcz I am ashamed of myself for looking forward to a particular restaurant meal as much as socializing with my friends. I am looking into TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) to see if I can “fix my…
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Back down to 191 - I’ll take it, especially since I dived into the bakery yesterday for some emergency cookies! Got a distressing phone call from my old friend Charles who is quite certainly dying - he’s now lost 65 pounds; they are fairly certain it is cancer although he hasn’t undergone all the diagnostic procedures. I…
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Dunno if you’ve been keeping up with my blog, but the first weekend in March I’m going to go help my cousin transport her cats from the San Francisco area (she’s been a medical librarian at Stanford for almost 30 years) to South Bend, Indiana. Our flight has a brief layover in Chicago & even though we won’t have time to do…
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I was wide awake at 4 AM so not especially coherent this morning - I tried to give myself an extra 45 minutes (I figured I could just get dressed, get the ponies fed, & go straight to work instead of taking my normal coffee break after barn chores) but I was still only fitfully dozing so I got up at 7:20… I’m stressing…
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My sleep has been restless**; I don’t even see the point of posting the screenshots anymore. It is what it is! ** little to no deep sleep and not much REM Just got my blood test results - fortunately my thyroid levels are fine, which doesn’t explain why I’m freezing to death all the time?!? Guess I’m just gonna have to…
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I really liked Dr. P - no wonder Misti has done her best to adhere to her dietary recommendations! She had no dietary recommendations for me, just lots of testing! it’s not surprising, I’m years behind a lot of my routine healthcare stuff: bloodwork, mammogram, Pap smear, etc. But the main test will be the CT of my chest…
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OMG, I would be D*E*D in those temperatures!!! Thank the Lord it warmed up to 48° so I actually felt human for part of the day - of course when the sun went down, temperatures have dropped again and I am suffering again… So right now I am wrapped up in the recliner with two little dogs, wondering how early I can reasonably…
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Thankfully, I managed to catch up on a little bit of deep sleep: an hour and 55 minutes last night, which has me feeling a little more human this morning! Still damn cold at 19° but it’s supposed to get above freezing today and stay there most of the day. New doctor appt tomorrow, so I’m feeling guarded optimism there?!?…
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I found the quote: “This quest for precision is often just sophisticated procrastination” Sophisticated or not, I’m sick & tired of my own BS - always an excuse of one form or another, I need to just accept this as my life. I’ll see a new doctor Thursday - an osteopath that my girl Misti has been seeing. She’s made a lot…
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Disgusted/disappointed in myself - met friends for dinner, ate deep fried crap, got indigestion, thought cheap frozen custard would fix it?!? What a maroon!!! No point in posting my poor sleep - why should it surprise me when I keep falling in the same hole(s) over & over & OVER again!!??!! I’m on the email list of a guy…
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Yesterday wasn’t too bad (high temp of 48) but dipped down to 23° last night. Very very hard to peel myself away from the stove to get the ponies fed/get anything else done! & then Idiot Luke jumped on poor Dum, puncturing a hole in his face that bled profusely all over the garage AGAIN!!??!! (I haven’t even finished…
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I was dumb - I did not wear my longjohns yesterday so I came home chilled; it takes me hours to warm back up after that. Peran thrives in this weather - he is never happier than being down in the woods getting firewood and keeping the stove fired up! I promised my young man Tony we would go for a short ride today, but that…
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Pleasantly surprised to see 190.6 on the scales this morning… My top priority needs to be scheduling a dermatologist appointment, but yesterday we got hung up in a tremendous traffic jam coming back from visiting my mom - apparently there was a police chase, then a crash, and they ultimately had to shoot the fugitive - it…
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When’s yr birthday, ar ar? I’ve already given up on my minor experiment of 4 ounces of red wine at bedtime - I am instead concentrating on my meditation… I also slept fairly well last night, but I think a large part of it was knowing I did not have to have an alarm set this morning. My son called me last night after having…
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My girls scheduled 2 farm calls for me yesterday afternoon - I suppose they wanted to get outside while this weather was fairly pleasant? But I was really tired, stiff & sore afterwards - I stopped and picked up a pizza for dinner! Surprisingly enough, my weight stayed stable… Social worker finally called me back…
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I can’t explain why I was seized with anxiety last night at bedtime, so it took me a long time to go to sleep & my sleep again was poor & restless. I haven’t even bothered to look at last night’s statistics - I know how I feel, which is crappy! And I’m with you on the cold intolerance - I feel as if I could live in the…
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Yeah, my sleep score last night was an 80, but I don’t feel like an “80” this morning - I feel like a solid C- !!! At least I’ve got the three little dogs piled on my lap this morning which is very pleasant. And I unbandaged Dominic‘s ear which has finally quit bleeding… I scrubbed most of the blood out of the garage but…
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CBD is legal in TX, & we now have a plethora of “smokes & edibles”-type head shops - a lot of them are selling products with THC. Also loads of Delta 8 & other synthetic THC analogues - I know you can get busted with this stuff, but I don’t know all the legal ins & outs? I don’t have a dog in this fight, especially since…
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I think I’ve found the secret ingredient which is 4 oz of red wine right before bedtime… I slept very well even though the FitBit shows restlessness, I only recall having to get up twice to urinate, around 3 & then again at 5 AM. This morning we had to wrangle a round bale out into the muddy pasture - our “Itsy-Bitsey”…
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Ugh, I feel for ya on the crap sleep… I’m trying to sort out my best options for stringing together a few decent hours of sleep tonight. On a few nights when I’ve rationed myself a half-glass of wine, it has seemed to help? But tonight, I sliced up a slightly tough Costco ribeye & made Korean bulgogi out of it - I think it…
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Feeling particularly demoralized because I feel as if I wasted my entire day yesterday getting mom to her doctor’s appointment - in the end we decided to continue to manage her wrist fracture with the Velcro splint I bought!!??!! While it’s wonderful that we took follow up X-rays that showed her bone is healing, it was…
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Ordinarily in the evenings after I watch my allotment of (original) Star Trek, I scroll through PBS & wind up w/a cooking program or a travelogue… But Monday night they showed “Essential Stretch” which is modified yoga-inspired stuff; I got up out of my recliner to give it a go! My R knee was making the most alarming…
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Well I shouldn’t have jinxed myself - of course I didn’t get to ride yesterday; I was running around trying to prep for the relatively mild winter storm we’re gonna have: everybody freaks out when temperatures drop below freezing around here, whether or not we get precipitation. Clear skies, but windy and cold this morning…
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So, Chewie lives up to his name?? My sweet Willow lost her first two happy homes by being a destructive chewer. Thankfully by the time I got her, she was about 8 mos old, had probably outgrown the worst of it, and had lots of buddies around here to preoccupy her & help keep her out of trouble! Now she’s the perfect lil’…
