Sunday, July 13, 2014 @ 6:36 AM
Good morning Dr. Marvin.
We’re back to writing because it still feels like the right thing to
do. Maybe today’s message will be more
open and we’ll be able to post to our blog.
We’ll see by the end. The biggest
thing happening yesterday was in writing to you and in the end we did some more
direct work on the computer and phone with systems that go with the
exercise. Mainly, we were looking at a
tracking system from the new treadmill called “ifit” and then we fell back in
love with “myfitnesspal” (MFP) which is one of the ones you had recommended and
that we already had on our phone from back in 2012. So far two days and we’re still using MFP and
have been delighted with some of its abilities.
I think one of the most titillating is that it comes with an
easy to use scanner, so we just have to place it over food and drink barcodes
and it automatically loads it, asks for our quantity AND then it’s absorbed
into the program. We’ve got a lot to
talk about, BUT I also want to say that we are offline right now. For some reason our Internet seems to be
down. We’re less frustrated with it
because we’ve got the cell phone with a hot spot, and we’re in the writing mood
this morning that doesn’t require Internet.
BUT we continue to check. It did
rain pretty good last night, we did reboot the computer just to check, and it
is before 7 am, AND on a Sunday, so it would be of little use to call our Internet
provider. Right?
LUCKILY for US – We’ve got the new MFP on the phone! Works like a charm. J
Hmm, we just read over what we wrote yesterday – think it’s
about 9 pages and we saved it as private.
There seems to have been some grumbling in it and a few complaints. I guess we’ve taken it up with the management
as much as is going to happen and it should have helped us move on. I think we’ve made the decision that our goal
for today will be to add this entry into our blog to get things started, but to
be safe, we’re still directing it to you Dr. Marvin. I know … it’s ok J
Part of our complaining is because we haven’t gotten to the
part where we’re up and at it in taking care of ourselves better or the
house. I know we’ve been here
before. One of the better things was
that I went to bed and got about 7 ½ hours of sleep. I might have had to go to the bathroom once
or twice. But, as restful as we get –
especially, without Rich next to us.
Rich did call last night and we talked a little bit, but he
was really tired and down on his luck.
He smiled and appreciated the comment that I think he needs newer and
more sensitive poles … we’re SERIOUS about that! Maybe he’ll be able to pick something up with
Tim in MN. That would be the time to ask
since Tim is a pro. Rich seemed to enjoy
talking and he listened to a little bit of what we’d done for the day and that
made us feel content.
I don’t think we really talked to Linda much if at all – our
Linda. There is Bob’s Linda and there is
Los Vegas Linda – WHO we talked to on the phone for about 45 minutes. It was a really fun call – mostly about
quilting AND then followed up by a conversation about nutrition and vitamins,
because by then we were questioning our potassium level shown on the tracking
program. That will be a question for Dr.
Marvin on Tuesday. First did our
potassium level show up on the last lab work, and then too, when was our last
appointment with Dr. Albright? Are we almost
up to three months since the last time and then should we be making an
appointment? I know she’s going to ask
about our diabetes numbers and we’re a bit scared of that, but all you can do
is start fresh and start tracking as soon as it comes back to our space. MFP allows you to add things you want to
track, so we added blood glucose for morning, afternoon and night. I think it will be as soon as we wake up,
2:30 pm, and then 7 pm. We should
probably then confirm what times with Dr. Albright. I know first thing is good, and it would seem
that the other two times cover us two hours after meals – IF we were on
schedule. I’d have to cut out some
snacking if we were going to figure out where we really were.
I’m pretty excited for being excited about the programs
especially because it is something that Dr. Marvin and us talked about as being
a good first step. First we have to
track our food intake no matter what. He
said at first don’t worry about the food coming in as much as just getting used
to recording it. Fine tuning can come further
down the line. Like do you know that 10 –
2 tbsp. of light whip cream is only about 150 calories. I’m pretty sure later down the line that’s
going to be a no-no. *sigh*
I think that the ifit program is going to be very important
with the exercise equipment, but other than calories taken off through
exercise, it is really going to be more on the MFP program, because its got
such good communication and community functions AND it includes the diet
portion of tracking food. We’ll probably
go on for a bit about the program, but it’s a little harder with the computer
version being down. Before that though –
it is now 7:11 am, and we’re being such a good Ann we’re going to take our
morning medicine J
Good good done! I
know being this efficient … like waking up not as bumbly in the morning – we are
going to get toward our chores, but not sure if we should start yet. Usually, we would put a load of clothes in
the washer and check the dishwasher, which means at this point, we’d have to
empty it. Hmm, maybe we would have
enough clothes for the washer if we did Maury and the girls’ beds proper . Wouldn’t hurt to throw in Rich and my bed
linen too, but thinking that might be too much.
BUT, wouldn’t it be a good place to start? PLUS, we could rejumble the clothes in the
dryer that never got folded. Thinking
that would be a good start too. We’ll
save the dishes for the next round. No
sense getting crazy about this right?
Here Dr. Marvin you would smile J
Hmm that was a good trip up.
We just put in the linen from the girls beds and Maury’s. We’ll do our linen next with any stray
clothes. We had washed everything before
Rich left so there won’t be much in there.
It’s debatable, but we might push ourselves into a shower and getting
dressed for the day? Hmm, we’ll have to
argue out that point. BUT, while we were
in the laundry, we tripped on the scale.
Oh yeah forgot about that … shoot.
We’re down .4 pounds which isn’t a lot, but point would be is that we
didn’t go up AND we’ve had two cups of coffee and a bottle of water. That’s right its water weight. J THEN we thought maybe the blood pressure cup
we tried to use in our metrics last night just needed batteries – WALLAH it
needed two triple A’s and that’s all the new one’s we had. Perfect AND it worked. When the computer is up again we’re going to
have to add more metrics so we include top and bottom number AND the pulse –
though thinking heart and pulse are the same, right? *sigh*
Ok, we’re not great at this! We
had recorded yesterday that we were going to record at rest times and at
activity times, so we’ll throw that in sometime today when we’ve been up for a
while. Only other thing we did was to
throw a wet hand towel in with the dryer clothes to refresh that load. Good Anns!
We also noted that we need to do some picking up yet in the girls and
Maury’s room. That might be one of the
next trips up. I don’t know if we’ll
vacuum right away, but that might seem a good idea too to break into it slowly
room by room. We’re so excited they are
coming again this weekend (Saturday)!!!!
See if not for me, or Rich, it would be GREAT for the girls
to have done this work we’re now starting right? Hehehe … we’re ALMOST ready to start with all
that fur on my floors and carpet.
Thinking we really are going to have to take a shower and get dressed to
do all that work. Maybe, THIS time we
can wait as long as one more load through the washer – to adjust the heat in
the shower, but then AFTER that! SO we’re
talking a goal of 9-9:30 into the shower.
We can do it right? At this time
we’ll say just how happy Rich will be!
Ok, and us too, but Rich sets the time … we’re thinking he’s home about
4-4:30 pm. That’s 9 hours down the
road. I think we can do this! Here again you smile Dr. Marvin J
Shoot … no Internet yet?
YAYYY!!! INTERNET!
I was on my phone doing a little communicating and I was
looking through facebook updates, and the (8:10 am) I put it down and
WALLAH! INTERNET on my COMPUTER!!!! Happiest as all get out!
OK, we’ve progressed things.
We wrote a note to our Linda, then we went in the bedroom and got
everything dirty out of it including linen, towels AND a few clothes
stuff. Unfortunately, it was pretty hard
so we’re going to have to wait a little to change loads. Hoping maybe in just five minutes, because we
don’t plan on being up long. BUT, we
will have to then fold some clothes, we’re not going to “blah” it, we won’t! Just a regular doing Ann stuff right?
Good good … we’re back.
We changed loads in the laundry, folded a load of clothes emptied the
dishwasher and then put dishes back into it …. Not many. We’ve been trying to keep dirty dishes down
because of the flies. We opened the
sliding door today for the breeze and so far we haven’t seen any flies
YAY!!! We also checked out our email and
found we had to reset some settings in MFP because we were getting WAY too many
messages, but we should be good now.
Ok, and then we took another short computer break, and then
we went back to the bedrooms and finished cleaning both the Girls and Maury’s rooms. There were scraps, artwork, table tops and a
couple extra boxes, plus we put the quilt in Maury’s room out on the back porch
to air out. I might have to send it
through the washer though – noticing dog hair on one of the corners I was
folding. I’ll check it next load
changed. I also opened the windows to
air out. It’s not going to be long –
next time up before the sheets for those two rooms are out of the dryer. I might run one more load through the
washer. There were some spare pieces from
the kids’ room, Rich’s robe, bathroom towel and maybe two lap blankets from the
sitting room. Definitely, room for
another load. There … we gathered those
things and put them in the laundry room.
BUT, putting out the blanket, we must have let in a fly, DRAT! Ok, letting that go – the rooms are starting
already to smell aired out. The girls’
room still has smells from the plastic on the air mattresses, but can’t help
that … I’m going to have to do something with the mattresses too. I want to blow them up a little more, because
there’s been natural use and time gone by.
Better to do that before I replace the mattress cover, sheet and
pillow. I’m thinking though after being
in there that I gave Maury the pillows that were in there accidentally. Shoot.
Forgot. Ok, maybe that in about
10-15 minutes. We’ll say then by 10 am J
Doing well so far. I
saw online that Property Brothers are having a marathon today starting at 10
am. SOOO, we turned on the TV. We don’t usually listen to it while we’re
writing, but we figured that it might help us pay more attention to the house
today. Again so far so good!
I haven’t had anything to eat for breakfast though, so
thinking we’re going to do that next. I
like to thing breakfast should certainly come before 10 am, right?
Good good .. finishing the chili for breakfast … hmm, ONE
more meal – we have one more bowl left over for lunch, and then Rich said we’re
having frozen pizza tonight.
Back back. It’s
almost 12:30 pm. We communicated with
both close Linda (Bob’s) and Our Linda (WI).
Last night was Los Vegas Linda. I’m
on a roll with our Linda’s!
Ok, moving on. That
took a little time, so we had to reevaluate our cleaning missions. Let’s see no shower yet … figure we’re going
to have to do that right before 4 pm if we can live with ourselves for 3 ½ hours. Just there is a lot of sweating and we don’t
think we want that AFTER our shower.
Like to be fresh for Rich. I’m
looking forward to him being back, but I’m feeling a little ancy over the work
done. We’ve agreed that we can cut
ourselves some slack. I’m not sure –
but, will probably not vacuum the whole house, but we will finish the back bedrooms. We changed over a load of clothes so the last
one is in the washer now. AND the last loads
of clothes from the dryer were the sheets.
We’ve fixed up both the girls beds and their room only needs to be
vacuumed, and then before that we’ll try to make Maury’s bed, and then we’ll
vacuum BOTH floors! Neither of them is too
big when furniture is considered.
Feeling pretty good about having at least SOMETHING done and
we know we’ll be able to have all the laundry done before our shower at 4
pm. It will have to include folding
clothes and putting away laundry, but probably not steaming clothes. Maybe that will be done after the shower, but
then again, we might still be writing.
No pressure. I did at least 4-5
shirts already for Rich so we are thinking we’re pretty good though never sure
on pants. Let’s think it through what
else will we be able to finish? We’ve
stated both bedrooms are getting done.
Maybe we should include at least a full pick-up of all the rooms. Think we need to do some work in the sewing
room, the kitchen table, our desk. Dusting/table tops in LR, making our bed,
doing cat litter and garbage … and that will probably be enough for the
time. We might check any clutter in the
sunroom too, but for the most part beside dishes, kitty litter and garbage for
tomorrow (second time), we would only have to vacuum and make our bed Is this
doable? Maybe we should check our time
again. How fast are we going to have to move?
Why is this so hard … let’s make a list.
Must have today
SHOWER!!!
Yay!!!! Got it down … it’s 1 pm now so that means that each
of these five groups a new section has to be done one each half hour from now
til 4 pm when we take the shower, and then the rest is for tomorrow J
Must have by tomorrow
Steam Clothes
Vacuum sewing room area
Vacuum sitting room area
Vacuum dining room area
Vacuum desk area
Vacuum kitchen area
Vacuum LR area
Vacuum master bed/bath area
Vacuum sunroom area
File paperwork
Finish cutting work on kitchen table
Wow! Keep adding to
it, but I think I have to stop making longer lists! The goal is to be caught-up by the time we go
to Dr. Marvin’s (11 am) on Tuesday.
Maybe we should have started these projects earlier – like Friday or
Saturday – but, to tell you the truth, just couldn’t make ourselves go through
it and there were other things especially with the fitness program that came up
and also had to be done. Lastly, there
has been keeping up with people like Maury, Thom, Joe, Rich, and the three
Linda’s. It’s just enough family and
friends J I
thought of calling my sister or my Mother, but I would like to save that toward
maybe Wednesday – AFTER picking up and doing an extra load or two of
clothes. Just want to get the place up
to my code and then keep it there for the girls. Like to think that Wednesday will STILL be
more of a relaxing day! At least the
bedding and two back rooms out of the way along with carpets. I know JUST until the dogs come again –
PSWHOO!
I letting the breeze pass my forehead … shoot only 4 more
minutes before the next round.
Anything else critical that needs to be written at this
moment? I’m going to get it done,
right? Hope Rich isn’t early … we’re
pretty gross. Hehehe – thinking of the
laundry … can’t believe how many loads have found odd or missing socks from the
girls. I guess putting them in the
laundry isn’t priority one?
Hmm, not sure if we’re behind or ahead – we’ve actually
skipped around a bit, because we were better balancing sitting down vs standing
up jobs with the time allowed for each set.
It’s now about 2:15 pm, we’ve taken our medicine and are down to the
tasks of vacuuming Maury and the girls’ room, sewing room, doing the clothes
and making the bed AND showering! If I
had ANY extra time, I would put it into the vacuuming of the sewing room and
the master bath/bedrooms. Not sure if we’ll
have that kind of time … resting next 10 minutes, 2:30-3:00, 3:00-3:30, and
3:30-4pm. Just three cleaning periods
left. It’s going to be tight. We’ll see how it goes. Lots of clothes to process. Hopefully the other three tasks won’t be too
hard. PLUS bed sometimes takes a whole
trip up – maybe we can though do it WITH vacuuming. REALLY need to get the master bath – just not
sure if we can haul the vacuum across the house. BOTH Rich and us are going to want showers
and it be good to have the floor clean … still a little messed up from Maury’s
crew being over and Missy in JUST the bedroom space. I know I know … I way over think these
things. BUT something practical has to
happen between being up and down, right?
How do other people get through housekeeping? Do they save it up like us? We went two weeks after the girls left – one week
after Maury left without doing anything.
It showed! *sigh* we had caught
up with Laundry and dishes through last week, but not much more. It’s a kind of funny thing about houses and
how people live. We have a set standard –
of when our house is in good shape and what fall apart means. I know if we don’t get everything picked-up,
washed, and cleaned, we’re not at 100% - Maybe 90%. Rich is now into saying
that he does everything 90% which means he’s not finishing perfect. We’re probably like that … we could find more
to clean if we gave it that last 10%.
Looking back I’m sure I could find more to clean. There are things not even the ones on the
tomorrow list that should be done.
.
Were done!!!! Almost …
we still have to take a shower. That’s
the easy part. Got the towels all set and
am feeling SO HOT
Pswhoo! DONE!!!!!
Everything on the today list is done!
The shower felt WONDERFUL. It’s
4:30 pm now and we’re in cooler might we say a little more SEXY Pajamas! Ok, that’s maybe more a secret. Now the only thing to do is to prepare for
welcoming him in the door. That’s my
favorite part. We’ve got an Elvis movie –
real old – black and white on in the background. I think we’re about 85% done. I was watching the property brothers, but the
signal went out for a while and I could only get the DVR to work. Yeeks … watched the show where we were really
watching it. It was an alley scene where
Elvis kills the two thugs who beat up his father. He also beat up the main mobster, but that
guy got to a phone so who knows what happens next. Afraid to turn around because the scary music
is on.
Hmm, somehow he got out saved by the mobster’s girl, but
thinking that wasn’t the final battle because the whole town is owned by the
mobster and he’s pretty frickin mad. It
was a nice few moments though without the heavy music. Then Rich called. He’s going to be home in about 40
minutes. He’s almost to Sandwich, but he
has to go to the other guys house also in Sandwich to exchange gear, and THEN
he’ll be home. Whoops mobster’s girl
gets shot and now we’re back between the mobs drinking establishment and the
good guys … the bad guy framed “Danny” into singing for him instead of the good
guy and of course there is always the “good woman.” YAYYYYYY!!!! Finally a song! You know in an Elvis movie there is going to
be singing. It’s a swoony love
song. He must be at the good bar.
Ok, we should look around to see if everything is in
order. Rich laughed at us when we told
him we planned our whole day for him to arrive between 4 and 4:30 pm – instead of
5:30 pm. It was a nice laugh. He told us we’d make pizza when he got home
and we made sure he knew he had to take a shower while it cooked. Hmm, maybe we missed something with the bad
guy because the show ended and it was a happy ending at the good guys place. Whoops sometimes people lose the bad guy and
there’s not much to be done about it.
Now we’re watching our Property Brothers … thinking we’re losing our
focus … the current couple at the 5 pm hour was a nice black couple that know
what they want and they get along and are funny. A lot of couples are like YEEKS screetchy
brakes… Too many obstinate problems and
downright B-like.
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