Healthier Living Thread Part IV

I haven't seen any skunks around the place, but have seen them on the side of the road.......now armadillos are another thing. We kill everyone we see. They are so bad about tearing up the yards and plants.

I learned along time ago.....not interested in expensive things or too much of anything.....just causes stress.

Garden Dove, the bike ride sounds absolutely fantastic! Good for you for cutting down the cherry tree too, it is very hard to say goodbye to things that have sentimental value, but sometimes very good for us to do so.

Blue, sounds good with the exercise! I am trying to pick up my pace with that too. I took my kids to the park after my clinical on Saturday for a couple of hours and then we went back again yesterday. We walked to and from the park and I made a point to play on the equipment with them so that I wasn't being sedentary. Then I worked on trying to clean up some of the tumbleweeds and brush that had blown into the yard from our previous windstorm. We are finally starting to find it again - yeay!

Hi Hiker! How are your classes coming along?

Zoe, sounds like you are getting on the right path to your trip to Paris!!! I know you will succeed. :) How do you like that book, I have heard of it, but never read it.

Etravelrn, what state/area of the country did you move to? Oklaholma? I can't figure out why so many Coloradoans are so nasty tempered either? I mean, we live in a pretty state (and I live in the ugly, flat part - hehe) and yet it seems that nobody is ever happy. I live in extremely rural Colorado (my town has somewhere between 60 and 80 people and they are like your town, mostly retired folks) and yet they are still so unhappy and in general, mad at the world. I wonder what does that? I was in complete and total shock when I went out to visit my Dad in California and people were acually happy. People smiled and were nice, and not "fake nice" but the real deal. It was wonderful! I had almost forgotten that existed. It's sad.

Hello to anybody I missed!

I have been good over the weekend and I am very happy with that! The nurses brought pot-luck for clinicals and I managed to restrain from eating the cheesecake and filled my plate with veggies instead. Yeay! (That was a big triumph for me as cheesecake is one of my favorite foods.) Then I had a big salad for supper that night. Yesterday I picked up my Mom and we went out to eat and I was good and limited myself to a taco salad without the shell. It was yummy, filling, and pretty healthy without all that fried stuff. Then we had a white-meat turkey roast for supper last night. I am feeling pretty good this morning and ready to take on the day! :)

Hi y'all just checking in, had a friend over for lunch (and the pre-requisite house cleaning beforehand!) and I am beat - we were yapping for far longer than either of us had planned lol

Anyway - will be back - loved the commentaries on skunks hee hee

Kind of down in the dumps lately. I hate a bag of Doritoes just because when I'm down in the dumps why not make myself down further. LOL sigh............

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Sorry you are feeling bad

((((((((Tweety))))))))))))) Sorry you are down, anything we can do to help chipper you up? (I'm horrible at joke telling, so I will spare you the pain of that.)

Hey Zoe, hours on end talking with a friend sound wonderful!

I am so excited! I weighed myself today for this week and I have lost 5 lbs. since last Tuesday - WooHoo!!! I think I am on the right track again, so yeay!!! Now to just keep it up. It is really nice out though and that motivates me to be outside playing with my kids, so that should keep me in "good mode" - hehe.

Hi everybody, wishing you all mental and physical health today.

Kind of down in the dumps lately. I hate a bag of Doritoes just because when I'm down in the dumps why not make myself down further. LOL sigh............

Was the "h" in front of ate intentional? Go to the gym, my friend and get that serotonin going that way instead of through CHO. I mean that in the nicest way (although I have been told I can be a tad bossy).

Hi y'all just checking in, had a friend over for lunch (and the pre-requisite house cleaning beforehand!)

That house cleaning is the worst part :) My brother and SIL came over the other day and both needed to use the bathroom--which was through the main floor and up the stairs in our room. As much as I love (and crave) order, it's not happening while I'm in school, and all I could think about was "It's only an hour trip, can't you just hold it until you get back home?"

Sarah, classes are going and that's all that matters! Some students from second semester (out of four) meet in the classroom after we do and I looked at them and realized how fast it all goes. Probably because you're too busy to look at a clock, much less the calendar :). Do you really think people from Colorado are a bit, ahem, cranky? It's funny; over the last couple of weeks, I've run into a good half dozen people from Colorado who have moved here. I gues there's a reason, hmmm?

Guess what? I bought a bike today, got it fit and brought it home and realized I didn't know what the heck to do with it. The last time I rode a bike it had a sparkly green-yellow banana seat and pedal brakes. I spent several minutes in the driveway trying to balance, knowing that ultimately only jumping on and riding was going to get 'er done. But still not really wanting to do that, heh.

I rode a little over a mile on what I had previously thought was a flat street, fell down twice (I'm OK as long as I don't have to get on the bike, stop, turn or get off), bunged up my knee a bit, but I made it home. My arms are killing me--maybe a little tension there? LOL But like the first time I ran, right in the middle of all my "I can't do this, this is too hard" was the little thought that this might be kind of fun once I get the hang of it.

I'm proud of myself for trying and maybe next time I can make it home without bloodshed

The last time I rode a bike it had a sparkly green-yellow banana seat and pedal brakes...

Ha ha hikernurse - snicker...

Don't they always say "it's as easy as riding a bicycle" or some such nonsense?

I had pretty much the same experience getting back on my bike, how embarassing to ride around the parking lot til I got the hang of it again!

Tweety - if that's all it takes to get you out of a funk, here you go.

"SNAP OUT OF IT."

There. Hope that does the trick. Let us know what else we can do for you, we all want to help!

Sarah, just saw your post......been busy with my daddy lately.......people in Colorado are upset because it is so crowded. The cities didn't plan on the growth and you cannot crowd that many people together without their being some problems. I moved back to Oklahoma, where I am originally from, but moved to Kansas, Ok....or better known as Little Kansas....I hate giving my address out, people always think I am giving my state before my city.

I have been staying in OKC with my Dad for the last few weeks and I really miss my home in the woods........