It was a good week for many reasons but the best part was
that I finally broke 40 pounds. I feel great and am so psyched to keep going.
The fact that I managed to lose weight in a week when I ate out 3 times is just
icing on the cake. Getting dressed when nearly nothing fits can be a chore but
it’s all worth it.
Otherwise, it was a pretty uneventful week. The weather was
what it’s been all month – rain and more rain – plus there were also a couple
of truly cold days when the high was barely above 50 degrees. So it was all
about getting to the long weekend. My cleaning lady was coming a few days early
because her daughter was visiting so I started the weekend with a clean house
plus stopped at the market on the way home so I would have everything I’d need to
stay home all weekend. Nice.
Unfortunately the weather wasn’t being particularly
cooperative for my gardening to do list. I had to try and fit things in between
rain storms. I managed to get the berry bed prepped, which involved digging the
bed, sifting and adding 4 wheel barrows of compost and adding sifted potting
soil from last year’s containers on top. I was on that last step when it
started raining so I headed inside and started slogging through the spare room.
I was needing to try on my spring clothes to see what fit but they were all
over the bed with a bunch of yarn so I had to sort that too. That was much more
fun than sorting clothes.
I started with the clothes in the spare room and when very
few of them fit (I tried on absolutely everything, which worked up a sweat), I headed
downstairs to dig through the ironing baskets and 2 small dressers of ancient clothes.
All of this took until Sunday night. I had found quite a few tops that fit but
it was looking dire in the capri department. I had enormous piles of clothes in
my bedroom when I went to bed and tons of laundry to do. At least I’d still have
the holiday. It was supposed to rain again in the morning but clear later so I
was hopeful I could get outside at some point. I had hope for Memorial Day.
Stay tuned.
When I woke up on Monday morning, the rain they’d predicted
was forecast to hold off until evening but the ground was still so saturated
that I focused on inside stuff again. I started the many loads of laundry from
the musty stuff I’d pulled up from the basement. Between loads I prepped tons
of produce for the week and make a strawberry/rhubarb pie for Ed to thank him
for working on my ceiling fan. With the laundry hung on the line, I decided to
take a ride to get rid of stuff, dropping recycling at Region 5, the pie at Ed’s
and the produce scraps at Lori’s then stopping at the other Lorri’s to water
her plants and pick asparagus for dinner. As soon as I got home, I pulled in
the laundry, planted the berries and mowed, which was very muddy but had to be
done. Only when I turned the mower off did I hear the rumble of thunder. It
started raining again just as I was sweeping my grass from Cara’s driveway.
Perfect timing! I jumped in the shower and made dinner, happy when I sat down
to eat that I’d gotten so much done. It was a satisfying Memorial Day all in
all.
Work was pleasantly busy on Tuesday morning and I taught all
afternoon so the day flew and it was time to swim before I knew it. It was going
to be sunny on Wednesday so I asked for the afternoon off. Wednesday morning
was over in a flash and I was home and ready to garden by 2:00. Containers were the mission. I hadn’t been
outside 2 minutes when I was swarmed with mosquitos. There had been none on the
weekend but clearly a zillion had hatched on Tuesday and working without bug
spray was not going to work. Despite being in socially unacceptable clothing, I
headed to Dollar General for bug spray and was back home in minutes. After
spraying my entire body, I successfully potted up every single container,
twenty or so that line the driveway, hang from the garage and are all over the
deck. I love my containers and my fabulous chicken poop laden compost heap from
last year, which has been added to every garden bed and container and still isn’t
gone. Life is good!
Dodie and I went thrifting at lunch on Thursday and I scored
2 beautiful, hand pieced, vintage quilt tops (they need filling, backing and
quilting) for $5 each. I was so happy and almost said to Dodie that the only
thing that would be better was if I found sock yarn. But I didn’t. Well, when
we got to St. Louise’s what did find but 16 skeins of sock yarn! Total thrift
score. I brought the quilts into work for show & tell then spent the
afternoon training then swam after work. One more day and it’d be the weekend.
For a 3.5 day week, I still couldn’t wait for the weekend.
I was working on a perfect Friday project for Mary cleansing
data for a new database and had planned to run errands over lunch since it was
my last Friday without Layton, who’s in Scandinavia on vacation. I had seen a
big chair at St. Louise’s that would be perfect for my back room but had
completely dismissed getting it because it was too big for my Fit. Well, when
Mary mentioned her truck, which I had no idea she had, I brought up the chair
and it was quickly decided that we should go get it and she and Ted would pick
it up after work and deliver it to Wahoo. So Mary and I went to St. Louise’s to
pay and arrange everything. Talk about Plan B but I was excited to replace my
ratty old chair at last. It’s almost 16 years old and has shown its age for
years.
I headed home at 5:00 to clear the route to the back room.
We ended up having to use the front door because neither chair would go through
the side door. It didn’t take long before the chairs were swapped and we left
for dinner at Chips with the old chair in the middle of the front lawn. I had a
small nacho basket because there was nothing remotely healthy on the menu
except salad, which I’d had for lunch. After a nice dinner, Ted drove us around
Lake Wanahoo, which he’d worked on the wetland plans for so we got an expert
tour. What a nice way to start the weekend. And isn’t my new chair great? It
goes perfectly with my couch and walls and has a much smaller footprint (no
huge rolled arms) but is just as comfy. Excellent. Clearly the cats are fine with it too.
A front had come in Friday night and it was cold! The sun
wasn’t out Saturday morning and it was windy and chilly. Too cold to work
outside so I finished slogging through the clothes, bagging up tons for
Goodwill and pulling a bunch for Helen to try on. Then I finished organizing
the yarn, which I bagged up in zippies so it would stop getting tangled. By the
time the yarn was all put away, the sun had come out so I headed outside to
weed and mulch the marigold bed I’d put in along the garden fence and the new
berry bed. I only had 2.5 bags of mulch (I had planned to stop on the way home
Friday for more) so ran out mid berry bed but at least I got something done
outside. I then sat down to a modified Saturday snack supper. I hadn’t eaten
much all day so figured I had saved enough calories for Guinness, which I ate
with sticky toffee pudding cheese and shrimp. I really wanted some ice cream
but I only had one more day of this rotation so had a pear instead, which was
delicious. I’ll have ice cream on Monday.
I had the radio on while I was sorting clothes and must have
switched it to alarm instead of off when I was done because my alarm went off
Sunday at 5:50 a.m. I considered getting up but it was just too darn early so I
rolled over and didn’t wake up until 3 hours later. I hadn’t slept that late in
decades and it felt great. When I finally got up, I was determined to be
productive so made a to do list and got busy. I had more gardening to do but
every time I went out, which was mostly to hang laundry, the mosquitos drove me
back inside. I kept telling myself I’d go out later, deciding to cook until
then.
The last time I took a week off rotating, I didn’t cook on
Sunday and then didn’t have time early in the week so went days eating whatever
and none of it particularly yummy. So this Sunday I decided to cook all kinds
of tasty food even though I couldn’t eat it until Monday. I started with a loaf
of whole wheat bread and while that was rising, I made 3 bean salad, potato
salad, a strawberry/rhubarb pie to take to knitting and banana bread for work.
I thawed ribs to put in the crockpot Monday morning and am looking forward to a
bowl of mini wheats in the morning. Between the laundry and all the cooking, it
was evening before I was done. I’d called Ed to see if he could fix the fan
since it’d be warmer next week. He said he’d come later and didn’t arrive until
almost 8:00 and didn't leave until after 9:00. The day was gone and I hadn’t
gotten outside but my fan was working again just in time for the coming hotter
weather.
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