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I think everything here is going to mold over - we had more rain this morning!  Enough with the rain already!  There was a bad train derailment in a city out to the west of us on Saturday night, caused by tracks washed out by the rain. 

The weekend was alright.  Saturday I picked up my contact lenses, went to the pedorthist, went to Walmart, puttered around the garden, walked the dog, and in the evening bf and I walked downtown to the blues fest and met some friends.   

The pedorthist visit was fine.  He agreed w/ the podiatrist and recommended a pair of athletic shoes and an over-the-counter orthotic insert.  He didn’t feel a custom one was needed.  I ended up buying both items recommended, but didn’t find a casual lace-up type of shoe for my work commute that felt good.  I want to keep my athletic shoes for the gym and have a non-sneaker type of shoe for my commute (aka, doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb with dress slacks).  In spite of the price (grumble, grumble), I’m glad to have the New Balances and we’ll see how the insert works out.  I might have come out better with a custom orthotic - according to the podiatrist office, it’s covered 100% by my insurance.  This non-custom (non-rx) one cost me about $90!!  If I don’t find another pair of shoes that those things fit into besides the athletic shoes, I won’t be happy.  And the shoes have to have enough “depth” to fit this thing into it.  It’s somewhat limiting, and of course the ones they fit into are not the most attractive shoes!  Sigh. 

Didn’t really look for regular work (dress) shoes, but the pedorthist advised that since I don’t walk a lot at work, I could just make sure I have good fitting shoes and don’t need to try and put the orthotic into every shoe I wear.   I might be able to salvage the shoes I bought last summer that dig into the back of my ankle - this shoe store said they have a machine that might soften up the part that digs into my foot.  That would be nice - other than that problem, they are nice comfy shoes.  Barely worn by me, I’d listed them on craigslist, but had no responses. 

So I have more shoe shopping to do, but I need to recover from the outlay on Saturday, LOL. 

Sunday was really lazy - read my book, looked at the paper, picked up the next book club selection at the library, bought milk.  Read some more.  Oh, I also made spaghetti sauce in the crockpot.  Didn’t eat dinner, so I don’t know how it turned out. 

I weighed myself on Sunday morning.  The number was horrifying - 5 pounds over my usual weight.  So of course I stepped off the scale and thought I’d try again, but then the readout said “Lo”.  The battery was low.  Not sure if that was the cause of that number.  The bad part is that the number was not out of the realm of possibly being somewhat accurate.  Especially since I’m not exercising enough or eating properly (past 6 weeks have been awful for both). But I weighed in maybe a couple weeks ago, so that’s a big jump, even if it was the tail end of TOM.    Anyway, I yanked the battery out, but didn’t dash out to buy a new battery.  I can wait until next weekend.

My cold has been very mild, knock wood.  Still have a bit of congestion, but feeling generally okay.  Tonight I will go to the gym. 

Okay, publish and back to work.