Happy August, yo! I slept until 8, pretty much unheard of. But I'm thinking I must have needed it. I geared up and walked over to hot yoga -- fourth day in a row! Now, and a little catching up.
I went to the Body Shop yesterday because they give you $10 off any purchase on your birthday month. Ended up buying 2 great new lipsticks and a couple of big bottles of shower gel -- pink grapefruit and olive oil. They both smell like heaven. I also found a sale on tank tops and bought 4 for hot yoga. Ah, retail therapy.
Scale has me slightly under ticker this a.m., not enough to count a pound down but still...
We've got a gorgeous day here today and it's supposed to rain for most of the week so we're heading out to the beach before too awfully long. YAY!
Amarantha, yeah, plant nursery sounds good to me too except not lucrative enough. I'm a little trapped in my job because it pays enough to keep the wolf from the door and keep us on track to be able to -- at least partially -- retire some time. Sigh. Stupid money!
Anagram, sorry to hear 'bout the back and leg problems! Probably physio is a good idea. Hope the computer issue is solved soon, too. They seem to have some pretty good deals out there.
Salt does it to me also, Anagram! Sorry ye are having back and leg problems and hope ye find just that right computer soon.
Wood Nymph, hear ye on the need for lucrative. What I am doin' now isn't but s'ok as I am actually (though I don't think about it as such) partially semi-retired (don't ever say I said that lol). In one year I will be unretired and stay that way forever (don't say I said that either lol)! Woot!
I am taking a walk break at the moment and need to get back out there as I do have a lot to do on the job today.
Another day here, but that's okay. We had a beach day on Monday and we can do puttery rainy day things today. Maybe I'll take my mom out to the thrift store.
I just learned my favorite hot yoga teacher is moving to LA, which almost made me cry, to my surprise. Ah, life is change. He's teaching this a.m. and I'm off to class soon.
Amarantha, funnily enough, when I thought about it, I realized that the financial pressure is all from my DH. I would be happy enough with less money. He's very determined to have enough to travel and etc. and as partner, I guess I've got to work towards that too. But interesting to realize how I actually feel about it.
I'd never actually retire, would always want to write. But maybe not about software...
K, time to pack up and head out. all lies -- let's make this a good one!
I will never actually retire, have NOT actually retired, although it is a long story that many people thought I had retired lol.
But writing, dunno. The job I have now is writing but it is the flip side of the kind of writing I did before, I am sitting in the same chair at meetings, actually, but working for a different entity.
We'll see how she goes lol.
I just want to lose 10 pounds. This is DAY 3 OF MY new challenge.
Said favorite hot yoga teacher had us sitting cross-legged and trying to balance selves on hands and lift entire bodies off the floor. I could see how it will be possible someday. But, ah, not someday soon.
The scale actually had me down a full pound today. I've been OP for almost a week -- coincidence? I think not.
Amarantha, you will get your 10 pounds gone again, for sure.
Roamin' lies --
Let's take this day we've been given and make it work for us!
Hello all.....
This may not seem about food but bear with me; it takes me awhile but I get there....................
Been distracted; DH's very close friend/mentor from cancer support group passed.
He was a retried Brigadier General who had a lung disease. Side effects of the treatment became leukemia. He was always discreet yet honest about the gravity of his health yet, loved to entertain with funny stories and reading aloud from his notebook of his own limericks. He was selfless, courageous, and so loving, you could not help but fall in love with him yourself. He was there in the support group when my husband first joined and then, when that group turned out not to be a good fit, introduced my husband to another group which I also joined.
I see both DH and the General entertaining all of our beloveds in the afterlife, both of them so delighted to make someone else smile.
The second group I mentioned : the facillitators had been asked by the General to give remarks "when its time".......Every word had been chosen carefully; both were practiced and sincere.....So proud of them for such a fabulous tribute.
I sat in the church with the last remaining "couple" of the group. The General had been there for us so many times, now we were proud and honored to be there for him and his family. We understand how so many little things are unimportant. At the luncheon, we witnessed a couple from the first support group becoming annoyed with each other regarding when to leave the luncheon, now this second or in 2 minutes when the spouse finished his story.
I know this couple very well. He is terminally ill. I see that his wife is still w/ both feet in each dimension......she works in a law firm and .'on call this weekend & job just called" ....Employer would have never known if there were more stoplights or traffic....or if she had rushed out the door or took the 3 minutes to enjoy her husband's story. I wasn't the only one who noticed.....we didn't exchange glances but rather, we all looked down at the table or our hands, embarrassed and wishing we could say something.
Perspective is so interesting...........I wanted to shout " enjoy! embrace!" .............
About 30 minutes after they left, the luncheon ended.
Later, at home, I remembered a 2 slice chocolate cake in the freezer..........and sat down and ate it all, frozen. Never had a chance to thaw.
Could have been worse. Not even sure 2 pieces of cake constitute a binge.
And considering why I was 'comforting' I have no guilt or even regret.........
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I am moving mentally closer and closer to 'producing' a seminar for both caregivers as well as people grieving. I am able to spend longer time thinking of formats, topics, etc. Its so fascinating to look backwards and see how so many places on the journey have only been in preparation for what I see before me now.
I do expect that in addition to writing a speaking presentation, I will also be
doing a blog, etc, etc. Have to keep up with all these newfangled inventions..........
And one of the topics, is about nutrition when stressed/grieving. I never grasped the impact of stress until DH passed. I enjoyed the idea of 'can handle stress'...............
I was brainwashed, a victim to the corporate propaganda......
Intense stress needs extra nutrition and I have experimented with myself and truly saw the difference when I ate/took supplements vs when I didn't the last few months.
On that note, I will go have breakfast.
To all Royals, my very best and hope things are well!
Kaylets, thank you for a well-written post from the heart that brought tears to my eyes for a couple moments. DH and I recently lost a good friend who passed on, much too soon. I can still see him in my mind as I last saw him before he became ill ... laughing across a cafe table from me, sunlight streaming through the window making him look like he wore a halo. He lives on in our memories, and the memories of many others, and will age no more ...
You make a good point about our needing extra nutrition during times of stress -- a time when, ironically, it becomes easier to not pay attention to what we're eating. Good thing for me to keep in mind as my mother-in-law ages ... eventually there will be hours spent in hospital waiting rooms ...
Saturday again... I'm in favour. Was feeling a bit under the weather this morning so I gave 90-min hot yoga class a miss and just walked a five-miler with DH. O/w, it's been a putter-y kind of a day doing stuff around the house.
I've been mostly OP, although I did have a run-in with pie and ice cream on Wednesday. Still, getting my 10k steps in every day and getting to hot yoga about 5 times a week. Have I mentioned it's TOUGH?
Our weather continues as it has been -- mostly gray and cool, often wet. What are ya gonna do.
Amarantha, wise as ever -- we do need different paths at different times in our lives and it's good to be aware. Yah for mojo!
Kaylets, I don't think two pieces of cake constitutes a binge -- at least not within the world-class standards I've established. I know exactly the frame of mind you mean when you say you don't regret it. I've had a couple of those incidents lately, eating and well-aware of why I was doing it. But also not eating huge amounts. So maybe not the ideal way to deal with the situation but I've given up obsessing over incidents like that, which is probably why they're not turning into binges.
I say to myself, so you ate a big piece of pie with loads of ice cream. People do such things from time to time.
And I also know that kind of very uncomfortable situation. You must have wanted to shake the wife. It amazes me how blind and self-centered people can be in that kind of situation. I know a man whose wife died and when she was sick he demanded a lot of attention because this was a terrible thing happening to him.
Anyway. On we go, doing the best we can. Love to all!
Woke up to deluge, must have been raining very hard for awhile, enormous puddles everywhere.
We had very little rain spring and early summer during those hot, hot days and the vegetable garden did not survive. I was ambivalent about the garden most days but lately have wished there were vegetables to pick. Earlier this week, I began 'weeding out" the biggest weeds ( its an instant gratification game I play with myself, I house clean the same way.....whatever works right??)
Earlier in the week, I realized that the vegetable garden had more than just tall weeds, I found some blue and red morning glories here and there.
Then, yesterday, as part of my "pull the biggest weed first", I was back at the vegetable garden and to my surprise realized now, the morning glories were using the tall weeds as a natural trellis, climbing round and round.
And then, near the compost pile at the far end of the garden, I found a couple of tomato plants that survived. And had a couple of tiny cherry tomatos ripening.
Has to be a lesson there somewhere.
so, as on this rainy Thursday, the Royal Proclamation remains the same.....
Enjoy!! Embrace!!
And here is today's Good Morning Thought:
Thought of the day:
Insurance Claim
Wednesday, July 11, 2001
(Straight from the Virginia State Police, Insurance Fraud Division, Dinwiddie County)
A Charlotte, North Carolina man having purchased a box of very rare, very expensive cigars insured them against fire among other things. Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of cigars and without having made even his first premium payment on the policy, the man filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man stated that the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires." The insurance company refused to pay,
citing the obvious reason: that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion. The man sued and won.
In delivering the ruling, the judge agreed that the claim was frivolous. He stated nevertheless that the man held a policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure against fire, without defining what is considered to be "unacceptable fire," and was obligated to pay the claim.
Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid the man $15,000.00 for the rare cigars he had lost in the "fires."
After the man cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on twenty-four counts of ARSON. With his own insurance claim and testimony for the previous case being used against him, the man was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and sentenced to twenty-four months in jail and a $24,000.00 fine.
Source: Emmitsburg.net
A rich man goes to heaven...
Monday, August 20, 2001
There once was a rich man who was near death. He was very grieved because he had worked so hard for his money and he wanted to take it with him to heaven. So he began to pray that he might be able to take some of his wealth with him.
An angel hears his plea and appears to him.
"Sorry, but you can't take your wealth with you."
The man implores the angel to speak to God to see if He might bend the rules.
The man continues to pray that his wealth could follow him.
The angel reappears and informs the man that God has decided to allow him to take one suitcase with him. Overjoyed, the man gathers his largest suitcase and fills it with pure gold bars and places it beside his bed.
Soon afterward the man dies and shows up at the Gates of Heaven to greet St. Peter.
Seeing the suitcase St. Peter says,
"Hold on, you can't bring that in here!"
But, the man explains to St. Peter that he has permission and asks him to verify his story with the Lord. Sure enough, St. Peter checks and comes back saying,
"You're right. You are allowed one carry-on bag, but I'm supposed to check its contents before letting it through."
St. Peter opens the suitcase to inspect the worldly items that the man found too precious to leave behind and exclaims,
"You brought pavement?!!!"
Apologies for the pass throughs. I am around! I am takin' steps to simplify my too extensive internet proclivities. Just cancelled FB. Stayin' at the old-fashioned sites, but the career and friend and family mix on FB was beginning to create drama I no longer need.
Woot! I am now trying to remove 13 pounds also!
It has been an up and down 13 pounds. It is outta here! Woot!
So, still learning all my new bells & whistles. Find I sort of lost some of my computer interest while being "disconnected". Not my palace interest though. Just a lot of catching up needed in every direction.
The whoosh fairy lives. He flew in overnight and left me at 197 - ALMOST my lowest date to date (I think I glimpsed 196.8) a few months backj.
My second goal (after reaching 200 sometimes at home) was to reach that # at the doctor's office. Last week I reached 200 even on his scale. A little bit less the day before and maybe I'd have made it.
PT seems to finally be helping back/hips/leg/knee. Hope to be done with it this week. Then I'll go back to water exercising. Bad news is that Tai Chi class has once again been cut to once a week (budgets). May consider going to one more class at another location. But what a royal pain (no reference to palace inferred).
Woot, Royals! Sorry, always missing something in my comments but was just rereading and realized did not mention the cigar story. Anagram, I loved that. Spent a lot of time trying to figure out human nature after reading that the first time, meant to comment.
Really a silly man lol.
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I am just doin' a howdy. My current initiative is called Limestone Cave. It embraces my still present desire to lose, now, 11 pounds, since I did lose 2 of the 13 regains I had, which was once less regains so that's the way it is going.
The Limestone Cave embraces all the goals in my life and things I still have left to do (not that I'm going anywhere lol, just trying to sort things out).
Hot here, can't sleep, life is good, though. Woot!
I geared up and walked over to hot yoga -- fourth day in a row! Now, 
and a little catching up. 
day here today and it's supposed to rain for most of the week so we're heading out to the beach before too awfully long. YAY!
day here, but that's okay. We had a beach day on Monday and we can do puttery rainy day things today. Maybe I'll take my mom out to the thrift store. 
He's teaching this a.m. and I'm off to class soon. 
lies -- let's make this a good one!
Hahahahahahahaha
I could see how it will be possible someday. But, ah, not someday soon. 
I've been OP for almost a week -- coincidence? I think not. 
What are ya gonna do. 
I know exactly the frame of mind you mean when you say you don't regret it. I've had a couple of those incidents lately, eating and well-aware of why I was doing it. But also not eating huge amounts. So maybe not the ideal way to deal with the situation but I've given up obsessing over incidents like that, which is probably why they're not turning into binges. 
