OMG I am posting before
LORI- I might just need to post this very fast post to get the "spot"
Lori- you PARTY ANIMAL!!!!!!!- WHOOT!!!!- HAHAHA
LORI
I so agree that gentle IS so much better for our bodies. "They" are doing studies that the rough and punishing exercise is hard on our bodies and results in early DEATH. Yup that is what I wrote- EARY death. The theory is that your body can only take so much and if you use it all up in the gym you're done!!!
Now this study also went on to say that SITTING all day was like smoking a pack of cigarettes. So the answer is exactly what you are doing- easy, daily moving! Walking and moving, stretching- YES and YES!!
You wrote you are close to 60- that blows my mind! Hardly!!!!!-
I am so resistant to "getting old". Note I did
not say aging gracefully. But it is funny that I was recently on the dating site and most guys I was interested in are 50, 51, early 50's. And anything older than that I thought- OMG. Then I had to REMEMBER I am MID 50's!!
I really do forget I am that number. I FEEL 30's.
The interesting thing- have you ever taken that test called "your true age? You plug in stats, Sleep, weight, movement, stress, etc and it spits out the age of your body- I scored 62. WHAT?!?!?!-
You NAILED it - STRESS= Corisol= weight gain!!!!! I am more and more and more convinced I am not losing weight and have stopped losing weight about a year ago is right about the time our dept was under a hostil take over. It was last Oct. That the hair puller boss was forehand the new management took over our program and sh*t has been hitting the fan ever since.
Sorry I just had to go there. But I do agree about cortisol.
Humm podcasts: I had listened to Dr. Lustig, and Jason Fung, I like listening to TED talks too! I listen to the ones that are positive.
What do you listen to?
NIC- - Wow you have some big travel coming up! I would trade you!!!!! I know it can be tiring and overwhelming to always be "on the road". However it sure beats sitting hunkered over a computer screen all day!
You are coming to pick up the car right? Then off to see your dad and THEN to Amsterdam? That is a lot!!!! But I know you will love that trip!!!!
That sorta sucks regarding your DS20getting his bike impounded. That is harsh! Was he parked in a no parking zone? What do you mean he didn't secure it properly? That is crazy to me!
Glad though he had a great time in Brussels!!!! He will be more than ok despite a few knocks here and there!
Happy the rest of your chicks are doing well!!!!
BLUE-- You are sounding back to your spunky self!!! Tell me about this table top tree!!! I was thinking believe it or not the other day about Christmas and I am not feeling it to decorate this year. I know I won't be here anyway. I was thinking as I read your post a table top tree would work so well on my hutch as well. Do you have the link?
I just don't feel like lugging out a huge tree. Seriously it is just "one more thing". I am too that point. So your solution might work for me too!
I love that home and cozy feel! Chicken in the oven, rainy and cool! I would take that about now!!!!!! I am MELTING!!!!-
Have you given the holidays much thought? Maybe you could do a quick trip to CA for a few days! Sometimes Airlines have sales.
I bring it up because it is a topic in our family right now! Who is doing what. And of course there is the issue of my mom. Nobody wants to go to her house including me this year. I have yet to inform her I have other plans. It will go over like a lead ballon. Oh well that is another post.
I am glad you are getting your mojo back. What is up in the project world?
TRIG- - Nope looks like you are first poster!!!!! HEHEHEH- How is that 5:30 am schedule working for you? Do you really need to get up with the kiddo? I think it great you do! I was always up with the kids because I was getting home from working 3nd shift about the times they were getting ready. Then off they would go and I would go to bed and sleep until I heard the bus pull up in front of our house. Then I would get up and have my "first cup of coffee at 330pm! DAM that seems a life time ago! It goes fast my friend!!!! TRUST ME!
Did the kiddo ever get her school clothes in order?
So are you camping in Helen? I will be interested in what you think of it. I plan to take the "kids" maybe in Oct as well. They would like that- ESPECIALLY if I am buying lunch!! HAHAHAHAH
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Another day of melting oppressive heat. I was thinking if there is a word that can truly captures what this inferno feels like. Maybe that was the word- inferno!!!! Volcano, furnace, FIRE, ......... Hot molten stagnate air.
So I got a call last night that another casualty of a awesome co-worker put in her resignation. This one will come as a huge blow to our program. It is one of the managers. Remember I was one of 4. The 4 of us worked together. Then I lost my position. Then there was the 3 of them.
Well the one who is leaving is the one I had the MOST respect for, She was the one that encouraged me to go back to school. I have the utmost respect for her. Not her fault they took that option from me.
She and I have have done much a few times. She is a good and hard worker. "They" have got to SEE. I flat out told our VP that the rotating door will not stop until this program gets it act together. It is BRUTAL.
My co-worker told me that she put up with the 15+hours a day until her marriage started taking its toll. She was on the ledge. We all are!!
She is quitting with nothing else lined up right now. she just wants to put back her marriage. This job robbed her of time. It is robbing us all- and they just keep pushing and pushing. They are also not going to replace her. Equals more work for the rest of us.
BLUE- They are going to keep on keeping on until it is totally broken into the ground. They are no longer talking about layoffs, we are now a beyond a skeleton crew.
It reminds me of a rocket plunging towards Earth at warp speed and pieces are falling off in flight. The different is there will be no soft landing. The pieces are FLYING off- safety net gone. It will crash and burn and the management will just try a new project and leave carnage for the buzzards to finish off.
Yup-
So yesterday I ended up not doing CEU's in the afternoon. No, I saw this patient who desperately needed and advocate. So I took the afternoon and worked on getting the state and Ombudsman involved on her behalf. She ask me to help her do it. She is a YOUNG gal. She is 55, and had a massive stroke at 43. Her entire Left side never recovered. She has no family or kids. She lives in a group home. They abuse her. I noticed a huge bruise on her face and arms. They dropped her and then scream at her for being to fat! She weighs 140.
The place was a H3ll hole. The roaches and filth was more than I could take. The smell of urine was everywhere. Nobody should have to live like that. Nobody!!!! -
I am sending in the SW today to start paper work for alternate housing and services.
I also want to SHUT that place down. So that was my day yesterday.
I had no appetite after that visit. I ended up having 3 scrambled eggs over 1/4 cup ground sausage. One 6oz once glass of wine. That was it. I woke up today feeling less bloat. I am thinking about having another LOW DAY- too. I am not doing the up/down thing. I am doing what my body feels like.
The heat and stress and making my stomach churn. No heat relief in the forecast yet. 90's for another week- no rain. SCORCHED EARTH.
Will I will take my cheery self to see my first of 4 patients. It will be a driving day as well as I will be in the hood.
Check in later- Have a good one ladies! What ever happened to Greg?