I was surprised by how little muscle soreness I've had. Decided it means I'm not as old as I thought I was.
Ahhhh... glad you like the colors. They look nicer than I thought, subtle but very fresh and crisp.
I've gotten touched with the happy stick this a.m. myself Also due to working through some things, with the help of Reiki and a Deepak Chopra book. Life is very sweet!
I was not touched by a Happy Stick, but instead I was smitten by the Regain Demon who stole all my joy at the Ceremony o' the Golden Scale 'n now it's just an ordinary bleak deadline Monday (which I need to get back to working on).
However, no sympathy, please, as I have been consultin' with Diet Wise Woman 'n we know the drill for such unhappy surprises 'n are gettin' on to the next goal: 130s in September.
Huzzah, huzzah! I must stop postin' and work soon.
Well, a good day here yesterday. Felt like I did well foodwise and feel I've lost some of that water already. Even did some pruning.
Then good news - BIL is somewhat stronger and doesn't need/want caregiving (as Sis says "hope he's right") so I have a clear day today to putz around and do whatever strikes me. Thought now is that it will be lots of "the dumb stuff" but who knows. Looks like weather will be lovely again so you never know.................
I've vetoed going to the pool today though. I'm planning to hit that heavy next month and just feel today's not the day - that I'll fare well with this as sort of a "vacation" week and then next week "back to routines". Not a vacation from basics, instead really trying to concentrate on food, water, moving - just not water moving.
Maybe look at a sale or two - not been moved to do that for a long time. Don't NEED anything in the literal sense but maybe in the mental health sense I need a shopping trip (not that I usually even buy - but might).
I know that I posted in here yesterday....it is the cosmos driving me nuts.....
Ah well....don't care, that is the beauty of being oblivious I guess
You see Arabella, you've inspired me!
So on that note, I shall go and rake grass clippings...they are going to kill the stuff under them. maybe I'll haul some mushroom manure around to the front too...great plans, little initiative. And I should work on the grooming girl...shows this week-end.
So here is an array of greens....I didn't get them all though! Must be off! Sheets...whenever the fancy takes me...usually a couple weeks...I bath before bed, and hubby showers, so they stay fairly clean...except when a dog decides to jump up there.....
All goes well here on the Eastern front. Had a nice dinner with DH and my friend last night and was perfectly well behaved Didn't truly get enough sleep but feel okay. 'Tis almost the full moon and I often don't sleep well around that time.
Did my run through the woods and a set of tai chi. Doing some work and then knock off for the day. DS and her daughter and my friend and my DGS are all going to be here for a while this aft. Should be fun.
Still happy. I feel like I've just gotten some concept that allows me to:
a. stop trying to control everything
b. accept whatever current situation gracefully
c. not let anything spoil my day/hour/minute
I've been working on Reiki precepts, which is partially responsible. Paraphrased here:
For today:
Do not worry.
Do not anger.
Be grateful for my many blessings.
Honor all life.
Live and work with honesty.
Combined with Reiki self-treatment and integrated concepts from "Seven Spiritual Laws of Success," that's really helping me.
AND I'm losing weight!
Ceara, absolutely! Reminds me of Steve Martin's formula for changing doggy-doo to gold: "I just decide that it's gold to me."
Anagram, vacation week sounds like a SPLENDID idea! Enjoy!
Amarantha, thou shallst reach your September goal. And may you be sweetly smacked upside the head with said happy stick!
K, have a couple tasks to get through and then I'm outta here. Love to all!
No Happy Stick today but laughing at silly puppy anyhow. I take her antics way too seriously and worry that she is out of control, but she's just being a baby. She's asleep now.
Arabella, ye have lost 8 pounds in July and August, that's great. Kudos to ye!
I am not unhappy re my goal falling through. I'm just regrouping. I believe I will change my weigh-in day again, either to Sunday or Thursday ... not sure.
Will be embarkin' on the Mother of All Streaks, will blog it ...
And 1 away from 10 off between July and August. DH seems to think I should average the two, so that'll be goal. I'm doing it!
Gorgeous, gorgeous big old orange moon last night. I drove my friend out to the country and it suddenly appeared. I was sooooo tired but it was worth the trip to see the moon.
Just before that, I'd taken DGS to the pool in the park. He kept asking me to get my bathing suit, but I didn't even consider it (not wanting to display body so publicly). But we got there and I wished I'd just gotten over myself and into my swimsuit. I deprived myself of that joy -- and I won't do it next time. Joy, in any case, seeing his in the water. Such a water baby he is!
Amarantha, thanks so much for pointing out the two-month total. I was so focusing on the five I wanted this month that I sort of wasn't seeing that. Now I'm ultra-impressed with myself.
Oh, the pups and the babes will bring joy to life, won't they.
K, I'm off to the gym. Taking little extra walk with DH to try and catch the moon on the horizon as sun rises around park on the way back.
So many congrats to you, Arabella - on wt loss and on adopting precepts.
Pup will keep you "in the moment" if you let her, Empress. So much joy if we look in right direction.
Well, I had my vacation day yesterday but was suddently so tired (allergy, I think - I had foolishly gone outside and done some yard work) that I blew food earlier than usual. NOT joyful re that.
Then had word DBIL ended up in ER. Reminding me it was NOT my choice that I was not with him. If he's home from hospital by tomorrow, I'm on call to go up to be with him.
I didn't accomplish a lot yesterday but did complete a chore I've had on my list for at least several years. I'm definitely going to take a little shopping trip today as my reward just for living.
hi kaylets. welcome back! i change sheets once or twice a week-love nice clean sheets. if back and energy permitted, i probably would do even more often. when i was a little girl and stayed over at my grandmother's house, i used to love the clean sheets she put on my bed-if nice weather, they were fresh from the clothesline outside, and then she'd iron them. interesting what good feelings pleasant childhood memories can bring up. i used to love to stay at my grandmoter's house. she is the one who got me interested in reading, and that has proved to be a lovely gift throughout my life.
anagram-glad to hear good feeling still lingers, and that you had fun in princessvile. i loved "the Happy Stick Bonks all around" wish for us all. i definitely need a good bonk on the head with a super-size happy stick.
hi arabella! glad to hear happy stick struck you. congrats on how well you have done in july and august!
greetings, amarantha. i love hearing about thy royal puppy.
hi ceara! hope the shows go well this weekend. ---and to all our royals, menioned or -un: salutaions!
had dinner with a couple friends on sunday, which was very pleasant. they came over in the afternoon for a visit, and then we went for an early dinner. they came back here afterwards, and we played scrabble, which was fun. i had dinner with another couple of friends last night, and really enjoyed seeing them, as well. i am just so overly tired from several doc appointments this week, that i woke up again in the wee hours, and wasn't able to get back to sleep---well, not yet, anyway. i still have a chance at a few hours of rest, even if not sleep, before i have to be up for the day. i think the heat plus overdoing a lot (mostly unavoidable) has caused my sleep issues of late. anyway, i will have doctor-less time the next few days, and plan to enjoy my little reprieve. food has been pretty good the past few days+, and i seem to be getting back in to my better eating habits routine again. hopefully, eventually scale will start to reflect this. i'm going to crawl back in to bed now and see if i can get a few hours of zzzzzz's. thinking of you all, royals. take care.
Wow wsw, you were up early. I find the moon affects my sleep along with life...although last night was pretty good. Still feel groggy this am.
Have a breakfast date this am and I am supposed to get the recycle out. DH called me from work and "forgot" it was this week... I did mention it but didn't nag. If it gets there before the truck then it does. I'm busy. Waking up!
K, I have a in hand and I need to finish up in the kingdom far away...have a great one ladies!
Lots of socializing going on in the Royal Realm. Sounds lovely. And hope the beach was fun.
Spent day with BIL - got some good calories into him - seems so strange - I'm trying to stay under 1500 and goal is to get him UP to 1500. I've given myself today off as well - at least mentally - it wasn't a tough day yesterday - just a long one - and fatigue is my BIG food prompter. Note that Sis has put on a lot of weight she had lost just before all this turmoil began.
Weather to be more pleasant. A maple in neighbor's yard is greeting me w/some dullish color this a.m. and I saw a tiny bit of color on trip north to BILs yesterday. Our days in the Summer Palace are numbered, s
So - the holiday weekend beckons. DD to bring her posse up for a day or two. And I don't feel like doing one thing re food. Maybe later in the day or tomorrow morning before they arrive.
And today is my DS birthday - can't believe he's such a loverly grownup fellow these days. So there - I really do have something to celebrate - was just thinking that DH and I hit the hospital about this time of the morning and DS was here before lunch which was a turkey dinner. Ah, the things we remember. But more than enough to put a smile on my face to start out this day - which was also my Mom's birthday.
So (on behalf of Queen Punkin) - COME ON, FRIDAY, COME ON! WE'RE ROYALLY READY FOR YOU!
End of month but also last day before three-day weekend which I AM taking.
Little bounce up on the scale today which needs to be gone by tomorrow if I'm to make monthly goal. But maybe DH will allow me to fudge .4 of a pound and claim the month a success? We'll see. In any event, lots of water, veggies and not a lot of carbs today. Shall do my best and see what happens.
I'm a bit weary -- it's been a busy time lately. I've been to the gym and done my tai chi. Going to give self Reiki treatment soon and hope that energizes, which it quite often does. O/w, I'll intersperse work and rest and remind self that trying to plow on through when I'm tired is generally not a success.
Anagram, me too -- fatigue is the worst. With low-level stress (like that of preparing for and having company, e.g.) being a close second for me. Kudos on DS! I was just thinking yesterday what a fine human being mine is. It was such a joy to see him playing with his own sweet son at the beach. That's what it's all about
Also due to working through some things, with the help of Reiki and a Deepak Chopra book. Life is very sweet!
who stole all my joy at the Ceremony o' the Golden Scale 'n now it's just an ordinary bleak deadline Monday (which I need to get back to working on).
Yo Queenies!
Didn't truly get enough sleep but feel okay. 'Tis almost the full moon and I often don't sleep well around that time. 
Announcement: New decade broken into
I did mention it but didn't nag. 
If it gets there before the truck then it does. I'm busy. Waking up!
in hand and I need to finish up in the kingdom far away...have a great one ladies!
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but also last day before three-day weekend 