Tuesday July 16th 2024

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 16, 2024

Another hot day, with a temp of 98 degrees, feels-like 101 degrees, and 75% humidity. Summer has never been my favorite time of year, though since we didn't have AC when I was growing up, I was acclimated to the heat, and I didn't like to be in an AC'd room. Going to a movie theater in the Summer required me to bring socks and a sweater, as their AC was cranked up soooo high it was excruciating! (But I haven't been to a movie theater in YEARS.) Now that I am older I endure the summers and am thankful for AC!

Dianah, hope your back starts feeling better SOON! And Ado, hope your hubby's eye calms down. I know getting a spouse to go to a doctor is difficult. Hubby always waited and waited, as if a condition would disappear if he waited long enough. 🙄 Me, I wanted to get treatment started and/or over with ASAP; couldn't stand being in the limbo of that 'wondering' stage. ("Git'er done!) Thankfully, my chronic health condition (gypsies, etc) is and has been responding to symptomatic OTC treatments, when the aches and pains get annoying. I know my 'chronic tiredness, feeling bored out of my mind, and being so often irritated' is situational. 🤨 This too shall pass, ONE DAY!

Not sure of my itinerary for today. I should go out and make a deposit into my checking account, but other than that I don't much care to do anything (often the case!). There's tons of things to done around the house-------maybe my energy level will pick up in a while and I can get into something that needs doing. I have been a procrastinator 'par excellence' for years, and only get into "the big stuff' if I wake up inspired. But, I don't feel particularly inspired right now, so it remains to be seen if I will accomplish anything helpful today. Whooooo cares??!! .... "Not I, said the Little Red Hen." 🐔

I suppose I should get up and dressed, at least, and go do the same to Nannie. Then what I might do depends on if Nannie goes into one of her deep naps after breakfast. Lots of my days are spent passing time until Nannie's bedtime, which is just as exciting as it sounds.

No more lolling in bed 😔.*sigh*

Hope all the fur-babies are well------

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 16, 2024

Nannie won't quit using her casted left hand now, to push down on or pull herself up by. I gave up telling her to not use that hand so much, and I've given up trying to keep the hand elevated because she moves it off the pillow(s) so frequently. I could spend my whole day making sure she does what she should do and doesn't do what she shouldn't do, but it is a useless proposition. Maybe it has healed enough that she can't do any more damage to it. If *I* try to move that arm, she inhales sharply, and makes her "Oooh!" noise, as if it is killing her to have me even just touch the cast. But, then, whatever she does with that hand/arm doesn't affect her in the least.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 16, 2024

G'day!

Joe, hope you're having another good day.

Dianah, hope your back is feeling better by now.

Stars, it's so funny how people whine and cry when you touch them but then move around like everything is fine when they think you're not looking.

Ado, I think one of the reasons we're so overweight compared to prior generations is our affinity for ultra-processed foods like cereal, microwavable meals and fast food joints.

I think my German mother got from my father the habit of always having a bread with dinner. Since he was Texan she sometimes it was tortilla, cornbread, and biscuits. But sometimes it was a white slice of bread with butter. Our version of garlic bread was the same bread and butter with garlic power toasted in the oven. So I grew up eating a type of bread at every evening meal. There's a lot of cultures like in India and the Middle East that also eat bread with meal

I eat Ezekiel bread but only when I make a sandwich or burger and infrequently enough I freeze it. It's expensive.

I added some kamut for a grain that I eat with my lentils and have for some meals in the days to come. My staples are beans and grains at every meal. (But no beans for breakfast but oatmeal for the grains). I'm glad I can eat carbs. I made some tofu and rice (again beans and grains). Next I'm going to make some whole wheat spaghetti that has harissa and the sauce is made from cashews and roasted red peppers (which I roasted in the air fryer) with some chickpeas. Again with the grains and beans theme.

Last night I had pizza. LOL

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 16, 2024

It has been thundering lazily for the past 3 hours, but no rain has come of it all. I parked out from under the carport, hoping to get some water from Mother Nature's Car Wash. I hope Mom Nature dumps her dishwater SOON!

Nannie woke up and said, "What's going on?" and I said, "Nothing" (so far) She shrugged and went back to sleep. If she wakes up again, I will have to close the drapes for her; if the storm can't see her, she will be safe. Yuh.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Jul 16, 2024

Joe, I'm glad the storms weren't too severe where you are.

Stars, we can put a lot of "shoulds" on ourselves but somedays you "should" give yourself a break. It is possible that I give myself too many breaks. Last night I planned to weed the garden but talked myself into believing I would get up early this morning and do it. I didn't. Now it will probably rain before I get to it tonight. Oh, well. I've been reading about tomatoes and apparently the heat is to blame for them dropping their blossoms without making fruit. I haven't really seen evidence of any pests so that's what I'm going with. I'll keep trying to coax some tomatoes out of the ground. 😉

Tweety -- yes, fast food is a big difference from when we were young. My mother frequently said in the last 30 or 40 years that there just weren't fast food restaurants everywhere back in the 60s and people didn't have money to spend on them, either. I looked up Ezekiel bread. It *is* expensive. Slightly less expensive is Dave's Killer bread, which I've had, but it does have sugars in it and the Ezekiel bread doesn't. My family barely tolerates me buying anything that says "whole grain" on it. And I never used white bread when my kids were small! Except that we'd buy cheap hamburger buns when we'd have burgers and the like. I think I've said before that my late father-in-law would make bread in a bread machine and it was always good.