Repeat Offenders, Tuesday, 6/25

Good morning ROs. I slept badly last night (maybe I should stop reporting on my sleep habits - it's getting boring even to me!), was up at 4. Couldn't seem to get the a/c on the right temperature, first night I had to use it in awhile. I'm stewing a bit about the loss of vacation and holiday and sick time my staff will get if the merger goes through, can't figure out how to resolve this. Sometimes the responsibility of it all weighs on me, and I guess last night was one of those nights when I couldn't turn my thoughts off. Another meeting about the merger today, looking at HR and finance issues. I think everything looks good except that people will be working days/weeks more per year and will have much less flexibility in dealing with weather, sick time, etc. Ugh.

Another thing that contributed to my poor sleep was watching Law and Order reruns and then some cable news, which always upsets me so much and makes me feel so rageful that I can't calm down. I guess I better go back to my no TV habit. It's bad for my mental health. I also overate last night, which often happens on TV nights, so yet another reason to avoid the TV, and of course it makes it harder to sleep when I'm overfull.

Have a hair appointment today for color and have to schedule future appointments for the perm/American wave and cut. I want to grow my hair out a bit but don't want to give up on easy care.

Have a great day all. Will be back later if I can.

Also... happy birthday Susie!!!

Good morning friends,

First things first.....Happy Birthday Susie!! I hope you have a wonderful day and it turns out to be everything you're hoping for!

Thanks again to all for the kind words yesterday. I do apologize that I was so wordy, I was just excited to see some positive changes for the first time since mid October. Lol


Andi - so sorry for your poor sleep. I almost never watch any network or cable news anymore - just because I no longer consider it "news", it's opinion. Every single one is so over the top and slanted to one side or the other. In my mind, "News" should not have an agenda, but it's nauseating how far every outlet seems to lean. I really believe that anything reported form any "news" source is accurate. Like the old saying that there are 3 sides to every story.... Your side, My side and the truth. I think we rarely here "Truth", what we get is darkly colored by that particular outlets political leanings and opinions. As to yesterday's comment about feeling the loss when my coaching ends, I don't think I will. Or at least that's the hope, anyway. They've given me lots of tools and strategies that I'm working, and many of them I will continue to use once it's over. I'm actually amazed at the difference just dropping the stevia in my coffees and dropping nuts has made for my inflammation. I think I'll probably re-introduce occasional berries, but I didn't eat those very often anyway. It's not like they were daily or even weekly at our house.

Anyway, so through Mark's recent trials and tribulations in the dental world, they finally found that there are two issues. One is the fractured molar on the bottom which now has a temporary crown and will get permanent soon, and we also need to deal with what they finally diagnosed as a cyst around the roots of two top molars on the same side as the bottom tooth. He has had zero pain, sensitivity or other symptoms from the top situation, but it appears that it has been brewing for quite a while. It has caused root damage and a good bit of bone loss. He now has to have a fairly invasive surgery (like...in the real hospital under general anesthesia), to remove the cyst, those two molars and they will reconstruct that section of jaw bone and close an opening that it has created in the sinus cavity. Scary stuff huh? The surgeon couldn't believe that he's had zero pain, swelling, drainage, sensitivity etc. related to this situation. He also said that there are several varieties of cysts that this could be, he won't know until he gets in there, but it is highly unlikely that it is anything other than benign - especially since it appears to have been there a long time with no symptoms.

So, that's about it from here for the moment. I still haven't made dog food, so will need to do that sometime today, as Lily will be completely out after her supper tonight.

I'll check back later. Hoping that Tuesday is treating everyone kindly.

RobinMD - Grrrrrrr!  So frustrating!   Have you tried opening notepad/wordpad/ or a word document and typing your post in there, and then copy & paste it into the thread.  At least that way if you lost that, you'd not have to retype everything.   It's not a perfect solution, but probably less frustrating anyway.  I used to have to do that on the old message boards that WW hosted.  I was forever losing posts there, even worse that here.    Here, I think it's a particular key sequence that I'm hitting accidently.  Back then I think it was WWs antiquated web platform..Lol

Jana - I didn't realize you were headed out of town this week. Be safe and have a wonderful trip. Enjoy the time away from the construction meeting chaos at the office.

Happy Birthday, Susie!!! Are you celebrating this evening?

I'm back from my various meetings and hair appointment. It's hot and muggy here now - so much for spring, we're now into normal summer weather.

Lora, my issue isn't so much the news being slanted because I do think there is objective news being broadcast out there, although there is certainly a lot of opinion too. My issue is children, separated from their families and held in squalor with no soap, toothbrushes, showers, and sleeping on cement floors. And a president who thinks if a woman were attractive it would be ok to rape her or assault her. Stuff like that. OK, done, no more politics here, just I alternate between rage and despair all the time and I'm exhausted and hollowed out and it gets harder and harder for me to contain my emotions about it.

Safe travels, Jana, and I don't blame you for being happy to be out of the office. Btw, how's DSister doing? I don't think I've heard an update in awhile.

RobinMD, so frustrating to keep losing posts! When we were on the old WW board I would start a Word document, write and save (frequently) and then cut and paste into a post. I never figured out notepad. Sorry we don't get to read your full post. Happy Birthday to your DD.

Amanda, enjoy your spaghetti squash.

I plan to get to the gym tonight. Not a good food day again today. I'm not sure what to do with myself...

Hi all. Having trouble falling asleep. It's just an overnight trip for me out of town. 

I kind of wish I brought a swimsuit with me and I could have taken a dip in the pool. 

There's a 2 year old boy that went missing here late last night/early this morning  I can't even imagine what the parents are going through.  

DS is doing very good. She is talking to her Dr about going back to work. She's going to start 1/2 days every other day and work up to full time. 

Hope everyone is having a good evening