October 24, 2020
weight -- did not step on scale today -- just forgot.
My toe blister is healing, did not stop me from putting on my boots to go for another walk in the woods. I chose to climb up that overlooked a pond to watch the sun set. I never have any luck getting photos of sunsets because whenever I am ready with a camera, there is no color. While I stopped to enjoy the beauty and faint color, I called my brother to see how he is doing. He said he feels like crap and cannot wait for all this to end. (He is the one that tested positive). I hope he recovers without any lingering issues.
At the facility where my parents are, there are staff members that are testing positive. The last message made it sound like some one was around a known case but came to work anyway. Kind of ticks off all my brothers and sisters. D2 works in a facility where they send the worker home that had contact with a known case even if they test negative.
Did I tell you we adopted a kitten -- feisty little thing. I am hoping she will be company for our dog, but our dog seems to ignore her. But every now and then we catch them laying together in the doggie bed.
I followed my meal plan yesterday, but am still working on better snacks. Hubby keeps buying candy and I am not exercising self-control, even though it is his stash. It is because he went and bought the biggest bag of Halloween candy -- I asked him to get a smaller one but no, he had to get the big one. If it would have been the smaller one, I would have exercised more self-control out of respect for it being his stash and it would have been in his little hiding spot. Instead, he left it out in the open. Passive aggressive and I fell for it. I need better ways to handle this. Hence, my woods time -- but sometimes he calls me when I am on my walk --- I swear it is just for the reason to annoy me. Woods = my therapy.
Can you tell I am frustrated today? Mainly at myself for letting it get to me. I need to accept the fact that he is not going to change. Afterall, why should he? Nothing is ever his fault. He is just like his father; one thing I learned from my mother-in-law is to learn to pick your battles and choose wisely.
Well, enough of that. I am cooking up some of our squash harvest and am freezing it for future use. It turns out some of the squash ended up being a hybrid of possible delicata and spaghetti squash. During the summer, I watched the bees go from plant to plant. We save our seeds to replant and the seeds we planted were from the year before when we planted delicata and spaghetti squashes. It is kind of a bummer because we thought the seeds were butternut (our favorite). Even the butternut seeds we purchased from a seed harvesting company were wrong and we ended up zucchini plants.
Today, my meal plan is:
coffee
spinach
carrot, onion and potato mix (leftovers)
fried rice - again leftovers
broccoli
apple crisp
Exercise - resist that candy sitting on the counter
treadmill - I want to get on that thing and run, run, and run -- I know it will actually be walk, run, walk, run, walk, run, walk.