Dianne's Ponderings for the day

12:33:26 PM CST
Feeling Quiet
Hearing Nothing what so ever

It seems as if I am back on track once again with my lifestyle change (as a friend puts it, thanks Kim). Anyway, I am proud to report that as of this morning I have lost 3 pounds since I began recording on extrapounds on 11/10, I am so happy.

But let me tell you it takes a concentrated effort on my part to do this. I have to conscientiously think about what I am doing and why. I find myself spending most of the day thinking about how and what I can eat that is low fat, low cal and still tastes good and that the other family members would also enjoy. That does take some work and I am not always successful in that but am working on it.

I have also realized that if I stay busy like doing laundry or cleaning house or even on the computer looking for good recipes or even just playing games that I don't think about if I am hungry or not.

Yesterday I made myself so proud I outdid myself on my water intake for the day I actually took in 11 count em 11 8 oz glasses of water. Then this morning I made what I would like to consider another major break through for me. I'm one that has to have sugar and creamer in my coffee, well this morning I made the decision to try and change that, so I replaced half the sugar I normally use for splenda and you no what, it worked and the coffee still actually tasted good to me. I'm thinking I will try that for a time and maybe try switching out some more of the sugar for splenda until such time as I could use just the splenda. I know that I do prefer splenda on my cereal instead of sugar so maybe I can make the switch to my coffee as well. That will save me a lot of calories in the long run. Wish me luck.

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7:39:27 PM CDT
Feeling Anxious
Hearing No music but a movie "Post Impact"

Sorry I've been so long in making another journal entry since  I've been back from vacation to Osage Beach for a week and things have been going wrong almost since the minute I returned.

First thing we had a super stopped up sewer system that required 3 days to get going again, and it turned out to be a 7 foot tree root inside the pipe causing all the trouble. GRRRRR

Then I was "drafted" to help a friend paint her salon. I busted my ass for more than 6 hours only to have someone come in behind me and redo what I had done because they did not like the way I had done it. Pissed me to the max.

I had a flat tire one morning as I was preparing to go into town.

Oh, to go back to Osage Beach were everything was going right. But alas, I can not do that as Mike has a load going to Fallon, Neveda tomorrow and he has asked me to go along. Go I will because I have never been to Nevada this time of year and am anxious to see the mountains and the desert and see the changes the seasons bring.  More on that when I return.

All in all the vacation was great. We were in bed and sleeping by 8:30pm most nights and would sleep until about 6am. We were tired is putting it mildly. We did eat to much but we did eat well. We went around to several different antique shops and fela markets were I made a few good purchases. Nothing big like the last time I was in Missouri and I brought back an antique buffet.

Hope you enjoy the pics and I will write again soon.

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7:07:59 PM CDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing News Program

Hi,

Just a quick entry here to let all know that I am still here. Sorry I haven't been making my entries like I should, but sometimes it's really hard to get on the journal site. I promise to try harder in the future.

Mike and I are getting ready to go on our last vacation of the year. We leave on Sunday, well, maybe Saturday. Seems the couple we are going with want to leave early and get the vacation started. And, I must say I'm ready.

Things have been kind of topsy, turvy around here because of my eldest daughter, but that's a story that's to long for this entry. Maybe when I return I can post about it.

Until then take care out there in J-Land and I will "talk" to you all at a later date.

Dianne

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4:36:01 PM CDT
Feeling Angry
Hearing Something on Discovery Channel

Hi, it's just me again. To give you advance notice I'm going to blowin off a lot of steam in this one.

The latest news from Boston Pool is this, I'm being taken to court for what's called a Hearing of Assets. To make a long story as short as I can, I had a credit card that was not paid off as it should have been (another long story) and I was sued 2 years ago. Seems according to a phone call I received last Wednesday (the first I heard in 2 years) a judgment was given against me and I was not notified. Not even by the attorney that supposedly represented me at the hearing.

So a call the attorney was in order. He finally returned my call today and again to make a long story short, he has no idea what he did even as he was looking at my file. Today he was telling me something totally different than what he told me 2 years ago. So now here I sit worrying and wondering what in the hell is going to happen. Are Mike and I going to lose something we have worked very hard for, or will they just go after something that is in my name only? If that's the case the only thing I ownoutright in my name is an old dilapidated house that I have been trying to sell for the past 2 months so that I can pay off my medical bills of almost 3 years ago when I was life flighted to a hospital in Tulsa for what they thought at the time was a heart attack (another story). All but about $10,000 has been taken care of, this $10,000 they will not budge on. They want every red cent of it. And at $20 a month I will never have it paid off.

To top of everything else I have some medical things going with me now that I am afraid to go to the DR for. Afraid of what he will tell me. Plus, I am somewhat worried about Mike, he isn't acting quite right again. Complaining of constantly being tired and wanting to sleep all the time. His lower legs and feet swelling (like he is holding fluid like CHF patients tend to do) and he will not tell the DR about it. Sounds to me like he could be heading for another heart attack.

Other than the things mentioned above things are just peachy keen in Boston Pool America.

Dianne

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3:02:31 PM CDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing Nothing at all

Hey folks, just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. My life is boring anymore that I forget about the journal. Plus, I do most of writing on Yahoo 360 lately.

Things in Boston Pool are about the same. Daughter Keisha and her family have set up tents in the front yard to live in while they work on their house. You see, she picked out a spot in the pasture last year to build a house and they made a good start on it then ran out of money. We all know how that goes. Anyway, they are about to get started again. Their plans are to have it liveable by the time schools starts the end of August. I'll try and keep you posted on the progress.

Other than that things are the same ole same ole. I'm not losing any more weight just kind of holding my own. I don't have to desire nor the willpower to get off my arse and do the exercising I do I need to do.

I would rather be spending the summer sitting on a lake somewhere in my camper. LOL  Maybe I'll get to go again here soon. It just seems to me that we aren't using the camper as much as we should be. With it just sitting in the yard and us making payments, that it's wasted money.

Gotta go, got things I need to do.

I will try and post on here more in the future.

Dianne

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7:51:00 PM CDT
Feeling Chillin'
Hearing Garfield of all things

I ran across the 2nd picture and realized just how big I had gotten before I started this diet thing. Well, actually I didn't realize it at the time. But as they say pictures don't lie and there worth a thousand words and not all of them had to be good.

Thought I would share the changes in me with my J-Land friends.

Looks like I went from not bad in #1 to OMG what happened in #2 and hmm could be she's trying to get back in #3. As a friend said, I know there's a skinny person inside because I ate her. HAHA

Back to the old diet grind just as soon as I can find the energy to do so.

Dianne

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9:56:37 AM CDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing Something on TV

Just a really short entry to let all of you know that I am still here. We have been on vacation and I posted a few pics here for your enjoyment. I did not take many this year as we did not get out of our campsites for the first 4 days except to buy more ice and beer. LOL

We had 2 other couples with us this year and we all had a great time. Hope to make it an annual thing for the 6 of us.

The last 2 days we were in Missouri we did some scouting around and found a couple of places we want to go back to and take the grandkids. These places looked like a lot of fun for kids.

Guess that's all I have for now. I need to get to town and argue with the business office of the local hospital. They have once again got my accounts so messed up I'm not sure they can be corrected.

More later.

Stay safe and be blessed.

Dianne

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7:06:18 PM CDT
Feeling Frustrated
Hearing Everybody Loves Raymond

I spent most of the day trying to help Keisha get things packed and up and ready to move to storage and then get out here so they can begin work on their house again.  Then it came lunch time and that's when I guess I asked for trouble. LOL

OMG!!!! I'm having one of my worst gall bladder attacks yet. At least, worst in that this one is acting differently. Instead of the awful "pressure" in my chest, this one is in my side, kind of under my rib cage on the left side going through to my back at times, and feel like I really could be sick at any time (if you get my meaning here).  The ribs feel like I've bruised them or something, and I haven't. I know exactly what brough on this attack, I had fetticuni and salad along with 1 slice of pizza and a piece of stromboli for lunch (which started the pain) and I knew better. I  guess this is my punishment for really screwing the diet today.  The pain is changing even as I sit here typing. I now feel like I need to (pardon the word here) belch so bad and I can't. I guess I'll squig down a regular pepsi and see if that will help like it usually does.

I know, I know. Why don't I go to the Dr? I have and had the tests run, every thing came back as within normal limits, no disease found. I have had these "spells" now for about 2 years or so. Sometimes I can go for quite a long period with no flair ups and then boom one will hit with a vengance.

Since I screwed the diet so bad at lunch I guess I better not even consdier having anything for dinner, unless it's a Slim Fast Shake much later. Cross your fingers, toes, eyes and anything else you can think of that I haven't messed up to bad. I hate it when I back slide and gain back weight I have worked so hard to lose. But you know sometimes nature just takes hold and over rules our common sense. LOL

I've been sitting her sucking on a real pepsi and am feeling some better. It seems as if I might beat this attack after all.

Sorry if I bored any of you but I needed to put this print so I can go back later and read about how "stupid" I was and hopefully learn from it. (Yea, right).

More another time.

Be safe and blessed.

Dianne

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8:48:24 AM CDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing Good Morning America

Hi folks, I'm back again. Sorry about the repeated pictures, I guess AOL pictures messed up and put 3 of them on here twice.

Anyway, I had a g time going out to Nevada with Mike this past week. I have to say though that it looks as if they have been missing rain just as the rest of us have, The one lake I thought was really pretty 2 years ago, looked very different this trip. You could tell where the water level was down quite dramatically. Apparently, they did not have the mountain melt off this year either. But in the far distance we could see quite a lot of snow still atop some of the mountains. Unfortunately, I was not able to get pictures of them. But they were extremely beautiful to look at.

I must tell you that the dry lake beds in Nevada still fascinate the heck out of me. To imagine that at one time there were lakes all over out there.

And there was this one place that looked like a salt bed. I feel sure that's exactlty what it was.

One other thing that I found interesting was the geothermal areas around Fernley, Nevada. It makes one think about the fact that Yellowstone is sitting atop a super volcano and wonder is part of Neva also on a volcano? There are signs everywhere warning people to stay off the ground because of the geothermal areas. One would suspect it must be extremely hot. Very fascinating to see the steam escap from the ground. As we drove and looked around it would seem as if you were indeed within the caldera of a volcano.

Same thing in New Mexico, west of Albuquerque where the number of old lava fields abound. You can see where the caldera is or was. I am anxious to go back some day in a private smaller vehicle to have a tour of the Bandera volcano.

All in all the views coming south out of Nevada, and east out of New Mexico is far prettier to look at than the northern and eastern views.

I thorough enjoyed my trip and look forward to my next trip to another state.

That's all I have for now.

Stay safe and blessed.

Dianne

 

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8:41:04 AM CDT
Feeling Quiet
Hearing Good Morning America

Thought I would share a couple pictures of a few of the many hummingbirds that have taken over my yard. The one on the front porch was about 4 feet from me when I snapped the photo. The one on the old light pole was about 4 feet from me as well.

The little bugers are very agressive this year. The ruby throated ones are the most agressive running off the little green ones.

In researching the agressiveness, I found it's because the males are defending their food source as well as "courting" the females. They must have expended a great deal of energy in their return trip from wherever they winter at.

I have 4 feeders out at this time and may have to put out a few more. Seems like I get more and more hummingbirds each and every year.

They don't seem to be quite so scared of me this year as in years past, coming to within just a few feet of me when I sit on the porch. The other day I was standing in the doorway wearing a bright red t-shirt and one of them came right up to the door. Had the door not been between us it would have been mere  inches away.

I do enjoy watching these little birds, hearing the "buzz" their little wings make and be in awe of how fast their wings beat and how fast they can fly.

That's all I have from Boston Pool at this time.

Have a good day and blessings to all.

Dianne

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