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Especially when they like to bite your fingers. Simon for some reason thinks my fingers are his favorite chew toys, but has left holes in them, along with deep scratches where he hung onto his prey. Last night I walked into my bedroom to find both cats lounging on my sets of pillows, YouTube on, and watching birds and squirrels chitter. The glares they sent me warned me I better not touch the remote. Reminded me of two old men dozing in front of the TV while Sunday sports droned on.
On a more serious note, I am worried that I may have an aquisition problem. MicroCenter's email has an ASUS Laptop for $4999.99 plus tax today. I want. I am crazy. I am going nowhere near the store for the next month to protect my sanity. This is rediculous!
Cats: That's ridiculous. I suspect your cats are spoiled rotten.
'Puter: That's ridiculous too. In a different way.
Regards,
Richard
Sorry for your loss. Losing a furry friend is always hard, and even more so after so many years together.
I'm not doing well. I am currently at a local hospital emergency department waiting to be seen.
Hope they can sort you out quickly.
thanks.
I'm back home. I don't have Covid or the flu. Just a stupid cold virus probably.
I had a stupid cold once.
Instead of coughing or sneezing, I just went, "Duh."
On such lofty subjects, I am without comment.
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And now for something completely different:
Non-complaint: Nothing demanding my attention this week or next, requiring a mini-adventure. However, spring fever is knocking at my door and I'm going for it anyway.
Just scheduled an exciting trip to the nearest big grocery store tomorrow morning. Will catch the 8:00 bus to the TOPS grocery near my laundry to pick up some fruit, milk, eggs, chicken, hamburg, ham, bagged salad greens, cheese, orange juice and my new favorite snack, cottage cheese. Mmmm... curdled milk. Not gonna stop anywhere else, no BurgerKing, no laundry, no drugstore, just groceries. I'm taking two of my big cloth grocery bags which will be filled to the top and barely liftable, but I'll take an Uber back to home directly from the grocery. Yeah, it's like a $20 fee but when I have a friend drive me uptown I always pay for their breakfast or lunch anyway. And I'm running short of friends. They either die or move to Florida.
So, tomorrow the weather will be fine up until afternoon and then it will be rain for days and days. Might as well have a mini-adventure while the sun shines.
Complaint: Cottage Cheese is my new favorite snack.
Gone are the big bags of Lay's "Wavy" potato chips. Gone are the big bags of Hershey's mini-chocolate bars. Gone are the big bags of pretzel thin-sticks. Gone are the boxes of ice-cream snacks. But also gone is 60 pounds of fat, and chaotic heart rhythms, and immediate threats of diabetes causing my feet to fall off. It's taken me months after my heart attack to get to the point where sweet and salty stuff is too sweet and too salty for me(*blech*). Should'a done it 40 years ago.
Yeah, yeah, I ate my post-Easter, discounted, dark chocolate bunny, but that's a tradition, not an addiction.
You know very well it's futile. You know it and you will indeed visit BurgerKing again!
And again ...
And again ...
And again ...
And again ...
I'm not getting forum notifications anymore.
DAZ is aware. Richard told them.
Yeah, you're right. It's baked into my laundry day. But who knows how long even Burger King will survive?
The days of shopping malls are over. The days of big department stores are over. McDonald's are closing left & right. We lost two of them last year. Mid-scale restaurants are closing left & right. And even the ubiquitous "Tim Hortons" are downsizing their facilities even if they haven't closed any here yet. And remember both Tim Horton's and Burger King are Canadian companies now. It's your guess and mine as to how that's going to play out in the next few months.
The times they are a changin'.
Thanks!
Non-complaint: I found a chocolate whey protein that is reasonably pleasant! At the very least, it's not horrid and doesn't make my stomach go all woogy. Saw a study that it helps with elevated cholesterol... recent check-up had me on the high side for the first time ever (stupid getting older) and heart issues run in the family, so... better get on that since my kids need me to live forever. Oatmeal, too. Thankfully I like oatmeal.
complaint: Kiddo's sleep schedule has now shifted enough that we can't get out for a walk and get back before the sun sets... which means a sun-up walk right at the end of the day, when I'm tired as heck. And also he's currently used to going shortly after we wake. Transitions suck.
Wavy Lays. The only chip I'll eat.
Speaking of weight loss: Non-Complaint: from a recent high of steady 220ish, I'm down to 195 so yay.
Diabetes is better, Dr. Just cut my Metformin dose in half. Cholesterol pill dose in half.
I think I may have reached the age (nearly 72) where large amounts of food are not so appealing anymore. Good.
Congratulations! May you get to where you wish to be and maintain it with ease :)
I'm 76, and 5' 10" tall. In my 20s, 30s, 40s & early 50s I'd been a serious amateur bodybuilder and displayed a taut 220 pounds. But when my world collapsed I stopped going to the gym and slowly edged ever heavier. I reached my peak weight of a rotund 249.6 pounds about 3 and a half years ago (I've been keeping a spreadsheet) and kept seeing a sign I'd put on my refrigerator years earlier. It was the number "250" surrounded by a red circle with a diagonal line through it. When I realized that I was in imminent danger of crossing that ungodly number, I knew I had to stop kidding myself and get serious about losing weight. It was the snacks, the wonderful, everpresent snacks. So I started cutting down on them. I discovered that regardless of the size of bag of Lay's "Wavy" potato chips that I bought, I could make it last two days, no longer. So I stopped buying the "Party Size" for it's cost savings on a per ounce basis. The "Family Size" took over for a while, then I was down to the lunchbox size, and finally just stopped getting them on a regular basis. And as I think of it now, I don't think I've bought even a small bag of chips in six months. The chocolate bite-sized mini-bars were harder to wean myself from. I tried rationing them to two or three a day, but I found myself cheating frequently. So, I finally had to just stop buying them too. I also used to make a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, or a ham sandwich for mid-afternoon snack and perhaps one for 8:00 PM TV snack too. Too much bread, too much sugar. I haven't bought a bag of sugar in 10 years and thought I was being a careful eater, but sugar is in everything. I've cut down to about one loaf of a quality whole wheat bread per month(I keep it frozen).
I try to buy low sodium and low sugar canned fruits & canned vegetables. I eat about four apples(Honeycrisp, Mmmm...
) a week, I also eat about 3 or 4 bananas a week. I get grapes when in season. My salads come in a bag (I hate the mess of preparing whole vegetables). I'm not a cook. Simple is my mantra. Breakfast is either Quick oatmeal with honey, or Post Grapenuts with a little hot water & honey, or a bowl of Wheaties & milk. Or I'll scramble one egg along with a third of a can of corned beef hash or a slice of ham. I have one cup of regular coffee in the morning, but decaf coffee twice during the day.
I've given up keeping ingredients for my mother's chocolate chip cookies. I'd make a batch of 3.5 dozen, thick, 3-inch diameter cookies and they'd be gone in 4 days.
Now my 8:00 PM snack is a single Vlasic dill pickle spear. But I admit that I spend a lot of time standing in my kitchen scanning my shelves and the refrigerator for something to snack on, but despite having shelves full of food, there's nothing else to snack on except fresh fruit and that has to be rationed to last until the next time I go to the grocery. I think I've won! I came down from 250 to 185 in a year, but edged my way back up to a semi-stable 210-220 for a long time, then I had my heart attack about 7 months ago and came out of the hospital a week later at 185 again, but have now stabilized between 190 and 195. Big meals make me feel bloated. Cookies and candies are too sweet, and you've heard me complain about the local tradition of putting lots of salt in everything. It does make a gravy tasty, but proper (i.e. non-franchise) restaurants & beaneries around here go psycho with salt. That, and the fact that they think that one shouldn't be able to see the plate for the food, meaning big meals. Which is reflected in the size of the people sitting at the tables. Country livin'.
Glad you have made our diabetes manageable - I'm a long time Type 1 (Insulin dependant) and 75 years old. lots of finger stick testing and 3 insulin ( 2 types) shots per day - Carb counting and knowing your carbs to insulin ratio is key!
...never was a big fan of lots of salt even when I was young. McDonald's and other fast food places hated me a I'd' always order my fries wit no salt and that meant they had to make up a fresh batch (there was salt in the burger and ketchup and anyway but not a gross amount). There was one regional chip maker, Old Dutch" who's crisps were not as salty as others and they were the only one who made ,my favourite, garlic and onion crisps. These days I usually don't bother as I find them too greasy..(though Kettle Brand has come out with an air fried crisp which I tried and found rather good and rather low in salt, (particularly compared to Lays and other brands) A standard 8.5 oz usually lasts me several days.
I do use a bit of salt in cooking but a 17 oz container lasts me over a year.
As to sweets pretty much don't bother with candy anymore save for a square now and then of a Lindt 90% cocoa dark choccy bar. I do ft a bag of unbleached sugar primarily for my morning strong British tea, but that also lasts me many months as I use maybe a half teaspoon. just enough to counter the bitterness..
I also have moved to having smaller portions at mealtime as well, as a modest amount of food is satisfying while overeating almost makes me feel ill. Guess that is a good thing as I have lost a bit of weight though not enough to get down to the "lanky" 168 - 175# of my younger years.
I find I need a fair bit of salt, more in hot weather than cold. There are times in hot weather when I get a certain type of headache that I now recognise, it'll only go away when I have a glass of wather with a teaspoon of salt stirred into it. If it's one of those headaches, I simply can't taste any salt in the water - it just feels brackish on the tongue but I can't taste any salt. Once with a hot day when working on the leadwork on my last house's roof, I was needing a teaspoon of salt an hour, and did get rather erm.. crusty.. by the end of the day with the salt I had sweated onto my skin. My glasses were a crystalline mess from drips off my forehead.
I'm not built for any weather warmer than 25C (77F), and that's when I need to supplement my normal relatively low salt intake with extra.
Regards,
Richard
Non-complaint: Mini-adventure done at 9:30AM. Came home with three heavy bags of groceries. Grocery list exhausted, finally. No more big grocery bills for at least 4 months. Yay!
Complaint: Shelf space in my larder is overflowing and semi-unorganized. So many things shoved into any available space. However will I tolerate it?
Image attached: Full larder. Boxes on top are computer parts & tools. Boxes on left are computer parts. Yeah, yeah, it's a small larder but it has a Persian rug in it, and it's 1/4 of my kitchen.
Not shown are my three wall mounted kitchen cabinets above the stove, sink & trash area. Those cabinets are also full to bursting with food too. I'm ready for a short apocalypse.
And if you were wondering..., yes, those are round Danish butter cookie tins but they are an 8 year collection, mementos of days long past, and are now used for storage of dry powdery stuff like flour, rice, tea, and other things that mice like to nibble through cardboard into.
If you were my eldest daughter - easily!
She's 28, and still lives like a student. Most of her bedroom is feet deep in stuff (up to 3.5ft), the walkway she keeps varies between clear to carpet and 6" deep. She does, admittedly, have about 5000 books and shelf space for 1500. However, if she had enough space she'd probably end up with 3000 on the floor and empty shelves. It's not my problem, though. It's her room & however much I want to tidy it, it's her problem.
Regards,
Richard
Complaint: Twenty years ago today I got married. We had a cheesecake instead of a traditional wedding cake (super small ceremony), and at the time decided we'd make it a tradition. A year went by, and he got so angry at me for wanting to do something to celebrate our first anniversary that I never brought it up again.
Non-complaint: Today there is a whole, entire cheesecake in my fridge, and my eldest and I are going to split it... because that's how we roll in the Shire. Being divorced is freaking awesome. (Youngest would be welcome to some if he wasn't entirely grossed out by it... but he doesn't have a concept or memory of things being any way but how they are now, so... not like he's missing out.)
NM, wrong end of stick firmly grasped.
I did a quick doodle. This creature has a tail but it isn't drawn in the picture. This creature has fangs and eyes that are not human like.
what would you do if you find such a creature at your front door?
Take it to my leader.
^^ this. And how friendly it's acting determines how far I throw the food,