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649848 tn?1534633700

Sunday Weigh In December 15, 2019

Good morning... How is everyone doing this morning?  It's clear and cold here this morning, but I think it's supposed to warm up, so it shouldn't take long, once the sun comes up.  That will give me a chance to open up the windows and get fresh air into the house - love being able to do that.

This has been a busy week, but pretty quiet, all in all.  My husband has been out of town, so I've only had to deal with my own issues - that's nice for a change.  That probably sounds selfish, but there are "extenuating circumstances" that I don't talk much about.

Anyway, I've spent the week getting ready for Christmas and I'm almost done.  I have the Christmas tree up, but no decorations on it.  It's a prelit tree and I kind of like just the clear lights on it though I'll put a few decorations on it this afternoon.

I had a cardiologist appointment on Friday and we discussed my low heart rate.  He's decided that I need another stress test and they just happened to have an opening for that next Thursday, so I'll get that over with.  

I've been walking most days and having some trouble with shortness of breath (one reason for the stress test).  My cardiologist says to "keep walking" so I give it my best shot.  Of course, I'm walking with my neighbor and she goes like she's going to a fire, so I'm having to just set my own pace again.

Other than the walking, I've been working other projects I've been wanting to work on and haven't had time for.  I haven't gotten to as many of them as I'd  have liked, but that's the way it goes when we get behind.  Eventually, I'll get caught up - maybe...  :-)

I haven't weighed this morning, but so far this week, my weight has held steady.  With my husband not home, I've eaten a lot of fish (can't eat fish when he's home, because he says the smell makes him sick) and other healthier foods.  I don't feel as sluggish as when I'm eating all the other meat, bread, etc that he prefers.  I'll weigh and post my weight later today.

So that's my week - pretty bland.  How are things in your world?  Let us know how you did.

~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~

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It's great to hear you got to eat what you want. I sometimes don't eat what the guys in the family eat, and hope I'm not setting up a peculiar meal role-model for our son (a family having dinner is not supposed to resemble a restaurant where everyone is eating something different) but really, my husband likes to grill burgers and eat other heavy stuff. I'm down two pounds today from when I bought that new scale a couple of weeks ago, mostly from simply watching what I eat. I don't want to blow it on burgers and meatloaf.

I'm going to a funeral this afternoon, for a lifelong friend (our mothers were high-school friends, and we kids literally grew up together). He was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail in August and September, didn't feel well, got a diagnosis of being at Stage 3 of a rare cancer, and died in November. He was a wonderful person. Life can feel so hard sometimes.

After that, my husband and I (and maybe my sister will help) have to put the rush on for Christmas. We've got to get the house ready for two parties (we have no decorations up, and husband has begun to nag me about unpacked boxes lying around from having moved in October), and we still have to address and mail Christmas cards (there won't be any unpacking boxes when Christmas cards are waiting, that's for sure), and so far the only thing we have done about gifts is to figure out what we are going to give our son. It should be fun to have to shop and decorate in a big, festive rush, but it's beginning to feel not so fun, partly because I anticipate it's all going to be expensive and rushed, and also because my husband just seems so cross about the moving boxes. I know I won't be unpacking them when more immediate needs are pressing, like, people coming over on Christmas Day expecting a party, so have to think of a way to get him to understand that we do first things first.

Off to get ready. I'm afraid this funeral might be the saddest one I've ever attended, since this was an early, sudden loss of a good person.

Have a good week!

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Congratulations on your 2 lbs down.  That's great.

My husband and I often don't eat the same things, so some days it does seem like we're running a restaurant but just for the 2 of us.  My MIL was often willing to cook separate meals for each member of the family if they didn't like what she fixing.  I refused to do that when our kids were growing up, though I did try to cook things that everyone liked.  

The fish is just something that my husband says he can't stand to smell (though it doesn't seem to bother him when we walk by the fish counter at the supermarket or other places).  Sometimes I feel like he does that simply because he knows that seafood is good for us and he doesn't like most things that are healthy (including vegetables, exercise, etc), so he's decided he can't tolerate seafood...

I'm so very sorry to hear about your friend.  I have spent way too much time at funerals this year so my sympathy is with you and your friend's family.  

I lost a nephew and a good friend, within of a month of each other, both in their 50's, right after losing my brother.  I totally agree that life can feel so hard.  

My sympathies are also with you in regards to the unpacking, getting ready for Christmas, etc.  I'm slightly ahead of you as far as getting ready for Christmas is concerned.  We don't have that many to buy for and most of those get money - the big question is just "how much" to give each one.  They only one we really have to worry about doing gifts for is our 9 yr old granddaughter.  Our daughter and her significant other will get small gifts to open along with their cards with money.  I don't like doing just a card with money, but when that's what they need, that's what makes sense.  Our son and his family are in another state and it doesn't make sense to try to send gifts to them either when we don't see them often enough to know what they need/like.  It does get expensive though.  

I'm getting ready to do Christmas cards this evening, too if I can find my list.  It seems I've misplaced it, so I might have to try to figure out who gets cards, off the top of my head... That might not be good.  :-)
lol Right? We worked on Christmas cards this evening. A couple of weeks ago, I was SO GLAD to see my box of Christmas addresses on my desk, not lost in the move, which wouldn't have been surprising. (They are on 3x5 cards, how quaint. I record on the backs what year I've sent a card and whether we have received a card from them, so I can decide to cut it off if time shows they are no longer interested). My problem is that most of our friends with whom we exchange cards want to hear a little bit of family news, possibly with a few photos, and while I have time to address cards and sign them, finding any good photos of the family and writing one of those cheerful Christmas letters is another story. This year everyone might just get our bald names and that is all, which is almost worse than not getting a card.
I didn't find my list, so I've had to do it out of my head.  I'm almost finished, but I'm sure I've forgotten more than a few.  I'm not so organized as to have them on 3 x 5 cards... I, typically, go by who I usually get them from the previous couple of years (per my list).  This year, I had to go by my address book, but I know there are some missing from that.  

There are only a few that I write notes in and sadly, too many of those have passed on.  I'd said I've had 4 deaths of people close to me... I was wrong.  There's been more than that - I think it began to get so overwhelming I simply blocked out a couple of them until I started going through my address book and realized how many names I need to remove.   There are even fewer that I send pictures to.  We rarely even print photos anymore.  

I often just put a note in saying that we'll talk soon to catch up and let it go at that, then I try to make a few "catch up" phone calls after New Year's.  :-)
Not a bad plan. I'm trying to figure out how to email a photo of my son that my husband has on his (phone) camera to Walgreen's to get printed, and it might be too much for me.
If you haven't figured it out already, it's probably easier to just take the phone to Walgreens and print the photo.  They should have a way to hook up to the phone.  You have to go pick up the photo anyway.  But why not just print it yourself?  You can transfer the photo to your computer, then print it.  That's what I do if I have any I want to print, unless I have a lot, then I transfer them to a thumb drive and take that to Walgreen's (or Walmart) to have them printed because it's less expensive than doing several on my printer.
My Google Photo app won't send them to Walgreen's, so we went there phones in hand. It wouldn't connect because we needed to do something to load the Walgreen's app into our phones. This is irritating because many times before, I've sent my photos online to Walgreen's and they have printed them, but it was always via my laptop, not photos from my phone. So we went back home and sent them online to Walmart, and I picked them up today and went from there. Prints on photographic paper from a photo processor (even if it's just at a drugstore) are always much better than my printer will print. Next year, I'm going to go online to one of those all-in-one places where you send your pix, edit them and size them up and down on the page, do your layout, and then place an order for X number of cards and they mail them to you all complete. I haven't learned the sites yet and it's too late for this year, so we just did it by going to pick up the pix and doing layout at home and running them off as color copies at FexEx Office. What a nuisance, but it's done. The cards they go in are lovely, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, of pop-up doves in a tree. All we needed was a sheet of recent pictures to go in with the cards, because last year we sent nothing at all. :)
Got the cards addressed, signed and out (with photos) in two batches, the last batch yesterday (the 20th, but whatever. Even with the weekend there is still time for people to get one before Christmas, right?) Had the cookie bake today, and that worked and was fun, but oh dear, I did eat some cookies. Not looking forward to weighing in tomorrow. But at least the party went well!
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