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THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER IS SPECKLED WITH MEDICAL APPOINTMENTS. The most I have ever had in one month evah. Between HUBBY and me we are actively attending one appointment after another. It is becoming OUR SOCIAL LIFE.
Marking up my calendar with dates to remember...it's chalked full of appointments that I check daily to make sure I don't forget any. Just because one is older does not mean one is less active. The activities change.
My next weight loss goal is to turn loose of a few pounds before my Endocrinologist appt. at the end of the month. I'm not sure I'll be successful on this one, but I am going to try. Doing my best to follow a food program for LIFE.
Last night when I was working over at the COTTAGE, I came across a 1983 book THE BODY PRINCIPAL
by Victoria Principal. I've hung onto this book for years and began reading the chapter about her 30 day diet since I am in hopes of being more suave about the matter.
She remarks how we are what we eat and doesn't believe in crash dieting. I agree.
She was a gorgeous woman at one time. Now in her 70s I'm sure she has morphed into someone different than the young television character Pamela Ewing from Dallas.
TIME MARCHES ON.
Progress on the COTTAGE included going to MENARDS yesterday to purchase some sheet rock and hauling it to the storage shed. Renting a truck we drove across the Prairie to take the sheet rock to our storage shed. I did help my husband unload the 15 sheets that weighed 44 pounds each.
It took me by surprise that they were so heavy. I'd scoot the sheet rock off the stack that we were hauling and inch it to the edge of the truck bed so that hubby could get a quicker and easier handle on it. Then he'd stand it on it's side, rotate it to the ground and I'd help scoot it into the shed.
The little bit of work I could do had to be enough. We managed to get all 15 sheets into the shed. 15 x 44 = 660 pounds. I think this should be counted as lifting weights for health purposes. grins. I'll feel it in the morning.
I'd stay behind while he returned the rented truck to Menards then drive back to the COTTAGE. While he was gone, I shredded papers galore. Made progress. Ate supper and drove back to our main house. Work some more on PAPERWORK and watched a light hearted movie, OUT TO SEA.
In order to take a FREE cruise, two brother-in-laws pretend to be Dance Instructors. Light hearted enough. Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Dyan Cannon starred in this 1997 film.
I'll be setting up a table along the Dining room wall to place all the paper piles so I can work at organizing the last of it. Praise the LORD...I'm getting close to being done with all this sorting, shredding and filing away important papers. I'm down to a few piles and a large cardboard box.
If I put my work on this table then I will be freeing up the Dining room table and getting the mess of of the Living room floor. Mentally it will be better to have the table back so we can dine at it once again and also not be tripping on the messes on the floor.
After I get this HUGE TASK completed then...then I will continue clearing out the JUNK room upstairs, turning it into our TV room while we live here working on doing what we need to do to get this house on the market as well as working away at the COTTAGE.
HOME ON THE PRAIRIE is a busy place to be for an old woman. I shouldn't be as FAT as I am as busy as I am. Forge ahead honey and change my food intake and choices of what I eat daily. It doesn't hurt me one bit to eat organic veggies. Not one bit. I need to be HEALTHIER not just skinnier. The healthier part is far more important than skinny.
Balancing out my LIFE is requiring change with being PRO-ACTIVE with food changes, movement, activities, decluttering, organizing, cleaning house, doing daily chores, spending time with my Sweetheart and family. Spending valuable time in prayer and meditating on God's word are very important and needed.
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