Amusing Anecdotes From a Lady of a Certain Age

Once again, I'm sitting on my porch, enjoying the weather this morning. It's a bit overcast. I think we're supposed to get rain this afternoon. The only thing that saddens me about that is the fact that I'm going to be out watching a movie and having dinner for my anniversary so I won't be able to sit on my porch to watch it. The humidity isn't terrible at the moment, especially with my fan on me. It's a good morning.

Hubby made me a smoothie for breakfast. Because he's wonderful. I had an appointment on Tuesday with the weight loss clinic to find a way that may work to help me lose weight again. I'm currently 235 pounds. At my heaviest, I was 275. Not long before COVID, I was on Rybelsus for weight loss and over 18 months, I lost 60 pounds. And then the insurance companies said they wouldn't cover it for weight loss and I've been scrambling ever since. I've tried diet and exercise alone through the years and I never really saw any loss, just frustration. So the loss of being able to take my GLP-1 was a hard hit. At the appointment on Tuesday, the doctor gave me some diet and exercise guidelines to help, completely understanding that I have no teeth so sometimes eating can be problematic, and I've got a bad back and bad knees. So my goal is to keep my caloric intake between 1400 and 1500 for the day, with a total of 90g of protein during the day. And to go out and walk for just ten minutes a few times a day. He also put me on a med to combine with my wellbutrin that seems to help with weight loss. I haven't been able to go pick up the meds yet (I may see if Hubby and I can go by the Medical Center to pick them up today) and I've been iffy with the exercise. I'm trying to make better food choices, but I really need to get into the habit of logging my food. I blame a lot of my lack of success in starting with the hell that this week has been. But I'm trying to remember that stumbles don't matter as long as I get back up.

One of my goals for tomorrow is to make lists. I have people I want to get back together with, local friends that I have been neglecting thanks to the hell of the summer. I have a lot of big projects around the apartment that I want to get done, so I need to list those out. I need to get a cleaning schedule started, not just for me but for the rest of the family. I need to look through all the goals I have in my Finch and see which ones can come off because they're things I do almost every day anyway. (Things like "Smile at a stranger" or "Get out of bed") That last one is "homework" from my therapist. I need to work on my organizational skills, which is really difficult with executive dysfunction. I've got books and workbooks and plans that are supposed to help but at the moment, all they are doing is just adding stress. Maybe that's something I need to make a list about too.... which ones to get rid of.

My hope for this upcoming week, while I'm sans car, is to hole up in my room and go through everything shelf by shelf. Pile books to be sold. Put aside things the craft station might be able to use. Bag or box up things that should go to new homes. Find a place for everything and make sure everything has a place. If I can get through my room before the end of the room (I only have one appointment this week, but I also know that the quickest way to burn out for me is to overdo things on one day, then not have the energy or mental fortitude to continue), I'm going to move to the bathroom. It shouldn't be as long to get things organized - I did not that long ago. But we have a shelf down, so a lot of the things that I would normally put up on said shelves are ending up on the floor of the linen closet, spilling out into the rest of the room. So if I can add it in, all the better.

I want to post more pictures with my entries but I need to figure out how the best way to do it. I uploaded a couple pictures to DreamWidth but I'm not sure the easiest way to put them into an entry. Especially since I'm using the beta version of the entry page, which doesn't have the handy short-cuts for things like adding a link, adding a picture, etc. This morning, for no reason in particular, I took a picture of the stickers on the top of my laptop. It's much geekier that the stickers on my car (those are more political though not exclusively so). Maybe I can figure it out if I ever get a prompt that has me writing about stickers.

For now, I should probably get a shower. The movie starts at 1345 and I want to smell pretty for my date with Hubby.