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Tree Carving Art – BoredArt.com – R.K. Shilpi
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I’m feeling very lucky that I’m using MyFitnessPal.com to plan my eating for the day.
We eat basically the same lunch every day, so the big thing is planning dinner.
I first planned for us to split an individual serving of “The Porky” a wonderful frozen dinner from Stu’s Clean Cookin’. I found, after entering it, that it was way too high in carbs, even eating only half of the individual dinner. SO –
I chose another dinner from Real Food for my husband tonight, and I’ll eat a slice of leftover Simply Keto’s “Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Bake”. I tried adding 1/2 cup of green beans or 1/2 cup of leftover broccoli, but both of them threw my carbs total too high, so I’ll just have the sausage bake and my keto bread roll this evening.
I really like being able to juggle things, finding out the numbers, until I come up with something that makes me right for the day.
I also discovered a good snack for keto people – Margherita Hard Salami. The package contains about 80 small slices. 6 slices are a serving. 1 gram carbs.
While I’m juggling, I found a video with some exercises with weights I’m going to start today, doing them MWF. Since it’s rainy today, the video plus my yoga will be it for my exercise today.
Filed under DIET!
The rain will continue off and on here all day.
So far today, I’m feeling quite slothful. I just want to snuggle down and sleep. I’m hoping some coffee will perk me up. I hope you’re having a good day.
Filed under Thoughts on a ________
I just came in from working in the garden a bit. I strung pink neon-colored stretchy surveyor’s tape all the way around the garden, working it through the fence in spots so that the deer will ‘see’ there is something weird there in the dark and hopefully won’t run into the fence.
Then I mixed up our two-gallon sprayer with KillzAll and sprayed it under the planter boxes in the veggie garden. My back started yelling, so I’m listening to it and taking a break for awhile. Later I’ll mix up another container full and hopefully finish the job.
Filed under Gardening, Square Foot Gardening - Raised Beds
I’ve told you that I spent 8 years doing medical transcription for a group of 8 really busy general surgeons. I was a ‘necessary evil” (exact quote) that they basically took for granted until I heard them say, “All you have to do is type what we say,” too often. The rotation of doctors in our office took two days. I spent two days doing my regular job, but also typing ‘what they actually said’ and printing it off. At the end of each day I printed off what they had actually said and left a copy on each doc’s desk.
At the end of the two days, the docs’ were laughing, but also begging me NOT to type what they SAID, but what they MEANT to say. At the end of my work there, I said my goodbyes and gave each doc a copy orf what I had kept over the years. Their copy showed who said what. I could hear the laughter all the way down both halls. It was a nice ending to a nice job.
Here are some more of the ‘bloopers’ than made me laugh out loud –
Filed under Dying to Laugh, Funny Signs - Humor
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
Filed under Amazing Animals, wisdom
This is the end of WEEK 1 in my RENEWED ‘getting-serious-about-losing-the-lard-and-exercising.’
I’m trying to eat low carb and do 30 minutes daily yoga stretching. On good weather days, I’m trying to do yard work to add more movement and exercise.
RESULTS – WEEK 1:
WEIGHT: Down 3.4 lbs this week, down 26.8 lbs since my heaviest.
MEASUREMENTS: No change this week.
REACTION: I’m feeling happy that the scales noticed my efforts. This is motivating to redouble my efforts to continue. My weight loss seemed to settle into .2 pounds daily toward the end of the week, and that’s fine with me. I’m hoping to see some change in measurements by the end of April.
I found myself ‘hungry’ a couple of times, having to talk sternly to myself. I drank a bunch of lemon water and the hungry-ness passed. I’m fighting some bad habits, plus my pull toward eating when I’m stressed or angry. My worst times for this are mid-afternoon and when I’m up in the middle of the night. I’ve figured out a good keto snack for me for mid-afternoon, and just drink water if I come downstairs at night.
Figuring out what I will eat for the day using MyFitnessPal.com is really helping me. I add what I’m planning to eat, adjust it if I’m not meeting my macros on low carb, and then stick to it. Sometimes I’m getting big surprises on what we HAD been eating. I’ve crossed off some frozen meal choices from two different sources for me. My husband, who is closer to his goal, will eat those while I stick to what I NEED to be eating.
On to WEEK 2!
Our son also wanted to know who my dad thought was the WORST radio voice was. There was a woman who ran a flower shop in Tulsa when my dad was doing the radio ads. I THINK her name was “Christina” and I THINK her business name was “Christina’s Flowers.” She had a low, gravelly voice. My dad thought it was wonderful because everyone else on the radio (except she and him) had voices with round, mello, smooth tones. So he billed himself the Second World’s Worst Radio voice. Wow. how MUCH I miss him.
It’s funny that our son sent these this morning, April 3rd. It would have been my parents’ 80th wedding anniversary. I had been thinking of them yesterday, missing them, so it’s amazing our son sent this.
He also sent me an image from Google Maps showing our home in Tulsa as it appears today. The people did a lot of work to the house and put a fence around the perimeter of the property. I wish I could share it with you, but I can’t get the URL to embed here. I’ll add it here – just in case you are able to make it work.
We’ve had a long, hard day. Bottom line, we couldn’t make our private network work. His computer can’t see mine, and vice versa.
SO, he made me a CD of the main program I need on a daily basis. We’re going to stop beating our heads against the wall – and each other – and move on for now.
We’re both exhausted. So each of us will do our own thing for a bit and then share dinner and a quiet evening.
Some days are difficult.
Filed under Challenges
Long story shorter – My husband got a new computer with Windows 11 on it. We share files and some programs across a private network. His computer can see ME, but I can’t see HIM, so my computer activities are really cramped right now.
We work on it a long time yesterday with no success, so will continue that today. I’ll get back here as soon as I can.
In the meantime, have a wonderful Saturday.
Filed under Thoughts on a ________
The day is finally warming up quite a bit. It’s now sunny and 67 degrees, according to my computer. I’m still washing the wet sheets I brought in from the garden freeze cover up. The last load is in the dryer now.
I took a nice nap on my heat pad and then took some more Tylenol, so my back and hips are starting to ease up. I added a longer a session of yoga stretches and that should let me feel more myself tomorrow.
I keep hoping that we have seen the end of winter. THEN, sooner than I would like, I’ll start to gripe about how HOT it is, when I burn my arm on the car door… :0)
Filed under Matt Dixon, Seasons
Happy April!
We had a freeze overnight, so I’ve just come in from taking the sheets off my veggie boxes. Everything seems to have come through the freeze fine, though I need to wash the sheets now before storing them again. I really hope we’re finished with winter. Having spring one day and winter the next, and back again, is stressful.
I’m not REALLY complaining – or at least not loudly – because so MANY, MANY people are having a really hard time right now, with wars, severe weather, and more.
I hope that this month brings people some good things.
In an effort to bring in April with a happy smile –
Have a great day.
Filed under Thoughts on a ________
I spent two hours yesterday weeding our rock beds that run along the front and back of the house. I finished, and even my husband was impressed, saying they look, “Great.”
The only problem is that my back is NOT so pleased with my efforts, even though I sat on my garden stool part of the time, used a padded knee pad part of the time, and stood part of the time, trying to vary my position often to avoid problems.
NEXT time I’ll only do the front OR the back, not both in one day.
Maybe I can do TWO sessions of yoga stretching today….
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