It's August. Sigh. July disappeared in a haze of brain fog, and now, it's August. I think I go back to school exactly one month from yesterday (Tuesday after Labor Day).
We're still in condo chaos mode--I get rid of one pile of boxes and another pile comes in. There's not much left at our old place, but it has to find space here somewhere, and it has to find it soon. I spent today consolidating stuff, and every time I planned to bring stuff out to the car, the heavens opened. Thunderstorms most of the day and torential downpours the rest. Back tomorrow for more.
Weekend was fun--we went to upstate NY to visit my college roommate Jules. We split up the weekend--Mr. Wonderful brought his fire truck to a convention in Syracuse, and Jules and I spent Saturday scrapbooking. The fire truck made it out and back with no problems, and I took my car "just in case" the truck broke down. Glad I did--when I got to Jules' house a half hour after Mr. W, he was sitting on the bumper looking like he was in some serious pain. He said the noise, heat and rattling got to him after about the first hour. On Friday Jules and her husband both had to work, so we drove around, hitting bookstores, ice cream and farm stands along the way. The area was beautiful--it was hard to believe that we were only 20-30 miles or so from the state capital, and in the middle of ruralness. Is that even a word? I had a massage on Friday (aaaaaaahhhhhhh) at a place that Jules goes to, and she went on Saturday morning while I played games with her 6 year old son. I am not happy to say that he beat me at Uno, Sorry and Concentration. I had no chance of winning the concentration game given my current level of cognitive functioning! It was great to hang out, eat good food and catch up. And, I think I finally finished scrapbooking my actual wedding. 5 years later. I'm in the middle of the honeymoon pages now...
I even snuck in a 45 minute walk on Friday. I missed doing exercise on Saturday and Sunday, but I got right back on my bike this morning and pedaled away for 32 minutes. I finished "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" and am now reading "Senior Year" by Globe reporter Dan Shaughnessy. It's pretty interesting because he's from the same home town as Mr. Wonderful, and his high school basketball coach is a family friend, and the book is dedicated to him. The descriptions are wonderful, and the inside glimpse of a star high school athlete being recruited to play baseball is fascinating.
Also, Gena Lee Nolin has a group on Facebook called "Sexy Thyroid" or something like that--if you type in her name it will come up. She is working on a new book with Mary Shomon--that would be a good read. Mary Shomon's stuff has been incredibly helpful over the years.
There was a rather large outcry on the Good Housekeeping website over the thyroid disease article. I finally read it, and disappointing doesn't begin to cover how it felt while reading. The author needs some help and should have interviewed a few more people, or at least seen a few more doctors before putting pen to paper (or fingertips to keyboard). She seemed willing to go along with the doctor's claim that she was testing in the normal range, so she was ok. Her answer was to drink more coffee, take a spinning class and I forget the third thing. In the meantime, she's only going to get worse. What bothered me and few other people was that this article was very misleading, and if some poor person picked it up looking for answers, the information was outdated and in some areas just plain wrong.
Shame on GH--they should have retracted the whole thing.
And, I've been eating my Irish Flahavan's Progress Oatlets again with slivered almonds, dried cranberries, brown sugar, cinnamon and flax seed. Talk about filling--I'm not hungry again until late afternoon. Today I felt like the Energizer Bunny--I definitely feel like I have more energy lately, a nice change from the beginning of the summer.
Off to bed for more tomorrow....I'm seeing all sorts of boxes in my sleep!
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