Good Morning!

I could have used a few more minutes of sack time this morning, but Gabby wasn't having it. Sigh.... 5:15AM Long day ahead. Going to the golf course for a 9AM tee time. There will only be 2 of us, so we should play in about 3 hours.

Yesterday I did a little strength training and then went for a 3 mile walk. I can feel it this morning! When I think how I used to do boot camp workouts 4 days a week! Good Lord.....that would kill me now!

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Trig.....Maybe we're going to have to accept where our bodies are and not reach for that magical number on the scale? Good advice to focus on protein...I've been trying to do that. Keep moving and eat protein for most of my diet....that's all I can do. I can't be as strict as you.....wish I could!

It sounds like your land deal is coming together....thank goodness! I'm sure DH is feeling super stressed over it all. You are wise to keep things between you and your daughter. You don't need him melting down over that!

Jaz.....Oh man....they want you to work for nothing...classic! Corporate bullsh!t. Hope things slow down for you soon.

Nic......Were you out hiking yesterday?

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Well, nothing on the agenda for me except golf. I did laundry and some house cleaning yesterday. DH has a scrap guy coming at 8 o'clock this morning to collect some metal stuff that we cleaned out of the attic/barn etc. He also has a friend coming to help him around here with some stuff. We got a new dehumidifier that needs set up in the basement. His friend works with him at the Rec Authority, but they've cut their hours so they need some stuff to do to keep them busy. We have plenty of projects around here!

Over & out!

Good Morning Ladies!

I SLEPT so good. I slept 11 hours. I was THAT TIRED. Stress makes me tired. Ya well..........

Lori- I love having a "do nothing" day. Laundry is sorta fun actually. I love the smell of clothes drying. Putting it away is another story! LOL

Nice your hubby can get to some of your projects! You ladies with those big clean out house projects! You and Trig!
I agree with Trig on the tight shorts- Cut the carbs a bit and up your protein. You got this. I know,,,,, Carbs taste good. LOLOL

Trig- Awesome on the land deal coming together in fine fashion!
I so agree those Round up chemicals are just BAD NEWS!

Momma and Kiddo stuff. Yup some stuff should not be shared with hubby. It just is.

Pool issues........wow.....sorry about all that. Good on you to just walk away.

WOE- We don't diet anymore when doing Carnivore. It is really basic and so so simple. That being said I too want this scale to move a few more notches! I'm SO close to goal!!!!!!
Hiya NIC!
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I have a dentist appointment today for this cracked tooth. IT is just an evaul today. I am sure they are going to talk about PAYMENT PLANS! Oh GAWD!

Then meeting a GF for happy hour. YAY on that. I need to chat her up. She is a nurse as well!

My boss wants a pow wow tomorrow to "discuss my future". We will see if I still have a job by the end of the day............ I need to smile and nod. But truly I am fuming. I hate being taken advantaged of. I am doing the entire "QUIET QUITTNG" thing here. I need to keep this job until I walk into another one.


I see nothing wrong with it. The expectation was I work until the work completed regardless of how long it takes.
Not my expectation.

I truly apologize for constant complaining about it. It is just stressing me out......... Sorry I will be more mindful. I am over of thinking about it too!

It is going to be 88 degrees and beautiful today.

Have a good one!

Jaz is your job hourly or salaried? I am guessing hourly and yet they want all work completed within X hours or else you work outside of those hours for no pay?

Glad ZC is going well for you and you are feeling good on it. Yay!

Lori I hope your golf day was good today. It's hot but really nice out.

Trig it sounds like things are coming along in fits and starts. The pool, the property that you own, the MIL's house etc- it is just a lot. I'd be feeling overwhelmed for sure. You crave a simple life but you are not quite there right now! In time!

Things are fine here, just busy. Did an overnight Tuesday night. Was fairly tired Wednesday but slept an hour and a half and then just got busy getting stuff done. All good. Did some errands, took a walk.

Today I met a friend and hiked. Probably about five miles for this one. So yay for that. It's DD's birthday today- 29! Last year of her 20s and same for SoIL. That feels crazy to me, that they will be turning THIRTY on their next birthday. I don't feel like I am old enough for that!

Doing take out at DD's house bc of the Bellini and watching a movie. I baked a cake and we got her a couple of small things. I think she'll be happy with that.

Wishing you all a great day!

Good Morning!

Slept in this morning for a bit since Gabby decided she wanted to be outside overnight. This time of year, she enjoys prowling around all night. She came in for breakfast and wanted to go back out! She'll soon come in and go upstairs and sleep the day away.

I'm heading to the golf course again....last time until Monday. There is a tournament at our club tomorrow that ties up the course and then Sunday it's supposed to rain a lot. Monday we're playing in a tournament that benefits Camp Cadet, a State Police youth program. Our son is the president of the organization and it's a good fundraiser.

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Trig....How's it going? Have you gotten the pool figured out? They are a lot of work.

Nic....Happy birthday to your DD. It sounds like you'll have a nice family party for her. Take out and cake? What could be better?!

Jaz....I'm so sorry your job has turned into a super stressful situation. I had high hopes that it would continue as it started with a good life/work balance. What did the dentist say about your tooth?

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Well, I soon have to get moving. I need to eat a little something before heading out. I've been walking a lot on the course and that takes energy!

Happy day!

Good TGIF+ TGIF!!!!!! YAY

One fast thing and then done- No I am salary, and a low one at that considering I took a 30K cut to stay at home. yea...........

Nic- thanks for getting us caught up! What type of shoes do you wear to hike? Do your feet bother you afterward?
I so hear ya on the kids getting into the 30's! Trust me- then you will lose track of how old they are. I just shrug- 30 something! HA

You feeling good these days?

Lori- You getting out to the course today? Any plans for the weekend? Did you P finally "get it together" enough to play with you? Wow........
You still go the dumpster at your place? Funny between you and Trig- with those dumpsters!

Trig - Speaking of Dumpsters- how is the clean up going? Any chance Chop with hire it out for that trailer? Is that trailer on the property you are selling? Anyway, to haul it away in one fell swoop? Ughhhhhh Feel for ya on that. I couldn't do it. I am too claustrophobic.
I need open spaces. I would also be thinking the entire time something would crawl out from it all!

When is kiddo done for the summer. It should be close now. Sometime in May I think. At least for the kids here.

We got storms rolling in for tomorrow. Hopefully it will take the cottonwood pollen out of the air. It is flying like snow here! Have you seen that yet????
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Met my gal pal for Happy hour last night. It was great. She is such a hoot. We just still and laugh and laugh. Love having her as a great pal here.
She has introduced me to a ton of people.
We are supposed to meet downtown tonight (her boyfriend in tow) to listen to a good band that is rolling through. It might get rained out. I wouldn't be sad if that happened. She is a Chemo nurse. She works in an outpatient center and starts people Chemo. Has done that for years. I don't have the training it would take to do that. I gave it a fast thought. IT take alot of experience for that.

I am going to work on some writing this weekend, job hunting, and putter. I can't wait. I am also looking for a stretch video.
I have noticed all the sitting I have been doing with driving and working my neck and shoulders are tight.

WOE- I have a BEAUTIFUL Tenderloin for tonight. YUM and YUM. Left over Taco meat and a carton of some really good farm eggs. I have come to know that an egg is not an egg. There really is a difference. Pasture grazed are the bomb. I am willing to shell out the $$.
ADD that to I watched a Julia Childs video on how to make the PERFECT SCRAMBLED EGGS. I now do it exactly the way she did it. FABLOUS.
High end egg
Cool pan
Kerry gold butter
egg spatula
remove from heat almost as soon as you start. They keep cooking. Amazing.

That was my cooking tip for the day.

Well off to serve the man, I have that meeting with boss today at 10:00 to discuss my willingness to get it all done....... I might be out of work by 10:15. The answer sweetly is NO. 8 hours is all they get. Keep ya posted. I am good either way- I no longer care.

Well that is it. Poured another cup of coffee and off to look at my emails before the day gets rolling.

Have a good one.

EDITED: Tooth- I need a root canal, then a crown= they have payment plans! - I told them they can have their pick of my two kids! - they declined that offer.

Update-
So, when I got on that Teams meeting with my boss and the director was on there, I knew it was BAD news. Not MY FIRST Rodeo. So I say Hummmmmmm- (out loud of course) good thing I saved all those packing boxes for the computer and office equipment. No laughter on their part. NOPE.

All this to say two hours of being TALKED AT- do I have any questions?
ME: Nope (why bother they said it all)
Them: We have talked about it and want this to be good for you and us. We can either let you go today (we fire you) OR we will take your resignation and we will give you a grand referral when needed.
ME: I will resign- But as I need a minute with nothing lined up- I need a few weeks.
Them: Oh yes sure....... your last day is the 24th. We hope you will help transition the files to whoever we hire (job already posted)
ME- yea sure

I am too tired to fight it. I just don't have that energy anymore.

back to the drawing board.

Just the update.

Eating steak and drinking good wine today. Tomorrow is hamburger and boxed trailer park wine! LOLOL (that is what my friends call boxed wine! I laugh over that.

Not much else to say- well dam.
The music is cancelled today due to weather...............

And the beat goes on, yeah the beat goes on...... Yada yada yooooooo

Ugh Jaz, big hugs to you.
BIG HUGS.
I raise my glass of whiskey on ice to you (legit, no lie, I'm raising it)
Tomorrow is a new day. Will catch up then.
xoxox

Lori, do you know every morning I look forward to the first thing I read on this thread is how Gabby has treated you LOL (I think of it as Adventure with Gabby) I love this cat, how it directs you totally and I am always wanting to know what Gabby has done to you and get a kick out of it. funny

we got days of more kinda icky weather on us so coming your way probably so golf might be off....but weather is flipping so it seems your golf schedule should become more stable soon I would think. Are you basically always playing at the same course? Or do you guys put in a new course every now and then? Like are you a course member of a place?

Nicco, yea crave crave simple life, can't seem to get it LOL
Happy bday to your DD! She already got her best present
you are doing some great hiking. I wish I hadn't stopped my hikes because I find it almost so hard now to get back into that groove I was in. Like Lori said above, her boot camp was great til she stopped and my hikes were fab til I stopped....ugh I guess we need to find our way back maybe

Jazz, raise a glass to ya too. You are a veteran at this. No biggie, sucks rocks all of it but you also 'let it all go' from that company and just saw the uselessness of bothering to get too damn emotional and just move forward. Move forward is always the direction we should face. Don't worry, a job will hit cause your skills are wanted/needed out there.

hold your zc tight....be it tenderloin or burger, it is all yummy to us carnivores LOL

------------so pool, hmmm. might not be liner. I got the filter part leaking along the first built-in filter so gonna address that and see, but right now none of this is a huge problem actually. pool is leaking down very slow and I can still function with this issue so....eh, will deal later with it all LOL Hubby said buy a new sand filter and I am like hell no. either all this old pool stuff and pool hangs in there or in the bitter end all will be dismantled and move forward in like toward my wonderful spa I keep in the back of my mind.

weather went icky. few days of gray/maybe rain. had big scary wind and fast rain hit, sky got so black. then boom, gone and sun....crazy

store had Tbones on sale. bought 15 of them. ate one first meal and omgosh SO SO good. got some pork ribs, roaster chickens, hit packs of beef ribs on sale, my 90/10 burger meat. omgosh don't even ask about the bill...frightening literally. Bought 'supplies' to in this shop, a big one, and hit near $500, wth? right, and with my sale items I got off alot, but still the bill was $327. ???? I know I hadn't shopped hard in a while, but again, come on! but freezer is full and finally restocked stuff I have been low on so eh, while bill is scary, I don't have to shop for a good bit in the near future. bleck, I despise the grocery store now...

ok off to relax and chill a bit. see what disasters come my way tomorrow HA