Good afternoon!
What a week! After I quit the steroids I was finally able to sleep and crashed for 11 hours. Gradually been feeling more human since I have been able to sleep better. :)
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This was the bird cafe the beginning of the week with a little frost on the glass.
Funny how well the partridges blend in when they're just sitting around in that brown grass.
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Leah came over on Tuesday night. We discussed oxylates and oxylate dumping. When I added back in some oxylate rich foods to slow down the dumping (almonds and chocolate) my pain level subsided noticeably within a day. All new information to us and we've been doing a lot of online research.
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I know--we had never had heard of it, either. Can search online if you're interested. The weirdest thing is that oxylate buildup could possibly be another cause of my health issues the past 20+ years...along with the carb overload. Time will tell. Anyways, since I have been having dumping issues, I will slow down and stay with Keto for now. I don't have a scale but I am losing belly fat and a bit of my double chin--LOL! Oh, and same thing with Dagan--belly fat and chin--and we both have had excessive watery eyes (apparently another of the many ways to oxylate dump). I have even had the hard crystals in the corner of my eye stuck in my tear duct, but Dagan hasn't had that. Well, it's a slow process and I feel I have nothing to lose. :)
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Anyways, Leah finished another page (both sides) for the bullet journal on Tuesday night. Friday Dagan stopped by after work to dump a 40# bag of kitty litter in the bin for me. Saturday afternoon Leah popped in to help me go through my supplements for setting up my pills for another two weeks. (She has done a lot more research than I have.)
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Then yesterday I finally had a Gramma Day. Was a very quiet TV day. Caroline (cleans and groceries) had told me about a cartoon show her little boy loves on Prime called The Stinky and Dirty Show so I had checked it out and figured Ian would love it. He did!! I love that it has all kinds of vehicles, they are all friendly, no villains (like DinoTrucks), problems arise and they keep trying ideas until they figure out some way to solve the problem. It's a happy show with learning to think things through and work together. Was a great day!
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Dagan picked Ian up and shoveled off my patio before they left. But then we had snow again--LOL! And it's been really frigid out there!
I love seeing the tracks.
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Last night Leah came over and the bullet pages were finished!! Leah printed off a year-plus worth of pages, cut them in half, and punched them for me!! I am so excited!
I have my monthly calendar spread pages...
...the monthly tracker page and the monthly goals & correspondence page...
...the weekly goals with doodle boxes & extra space at bottom page and the weekly Monday-Sunday page.
Now I can work on figuring out what lettering I want to use for each month to fill in the headers. Then I'll fill in all the dating, birthdays, reminders for repetitive tasks, etc, for the year and then finally fill in monthly goals and the monthly habit tracker for January 2020! Whoohoo! Once I get some done I'll show you how it looks. I do so love my minimalist bullet journal. (And, as Leah reminded me last night, now it will take less spoons!)
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This morning Caroline brought my groceries and filled me in on her trip to Mexico (cousin's wedding)--what fun!
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Yes, Dagan did shovel the patio off last night--LOL!
But more snow.
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I sprinkled catnip all over a toy for Annie and she's kind of in a catnip coma right now.
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Worked on Christmas cards most of the week. Hope to be done soon. Leah plans to come over tomorrow night. She said she'd help me reorganize my bathroom shelves!! Awesome! (It is sure nice one of us has more energy--LOL!) After that she said she wants to work on putting the gatefold table together--probably start that on Thursday night. Nice!! I will help as much as I am able. :)
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I can hear the soft sounds of the partridges through the patio door glass as they dig with their feet and beaks for seed. The dryer is tumbling softly. The dishwasher is humming and rumbling. The sun is shining on this cold-cold day (-2 F or -19 C) so it looks just gorgeous out there with the fresh snow. Have a grateful week, everybody! Life is good. :)
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Notice how the word "temper" has changed over the years...
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"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."
Charles Dickens