The Sandcastle

Dave does not like change. In the nearly 45 years we’ve been married his daily breakfast has been cereal and juice. True he had to substitute orange juice for grapefruit juice when his doctor changed his medicine. And he had to give up Grape Nuts when they started breaking his fragile teeth. But his breakfast is still cereal and juice.

So, when I said I wanted to go fulltime RVing he was not happy. But, he loves me so we went. For more than three years we went.

But, every summer, when we went back to visit friends and family in Minnesota, he talked about how much he’d like to live there again. Every time, I refused to consider living through any more Minnesota winters.

Now we’ve compromised. We’ve signed a lease on an apartment about a half mile down the street from the house we sold to go fulltiming. We plan to both live there for at least seven months of the year. In the winter I will become a snowbird heading south to warmer climes. We will be selling our current RV with the plan being for me to buy a small one similar to the one we started out in but custom built for me. After all, during my winter escapes, I won’t have Dave available to reach the things I can’t.

So watch this space for our ad. We’ll be taking our current RV to PPL in Houston in late October to sell for us unless we sell it privately between now and then.

TTYL,

Linda

When I worked an all day desk job I had a picture of Snoopy laying on his dog house looking hungover. The caption said, “I think I’m allergic to morning.” Now that I’m retired, I still don’t like mornings.

This morning I think I figured out why. It’s so much easier to stay in bed living in my perfect fantasy world than it is to get up and live in the real one.

So I stayed in bed until about noon today. Missed my Weight Watchers meeting so no weight update today. In my fantasy world I lost a couple more pounds, though.

TTYL,

Linda

Last week at a Weight Watchers meeting the leader asked me to share a tip regarding how I lost eight pounds in a couple of weeks. This week a woman thanked me saying she used my tip to loose three plus pounds in one week. We just never know in advance what we say that will be of value to someone else.

Oh, the tip? Consider bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes to be occasional treats instead of daily needs. Try it, it works.

TTYL,

Linda

ps. Just holding steady this week letting my body recover from that massive loss the last couple of weeks. Yeah, that’s my excuse. The bag of Cheetos yesterday had nothing to do with it. 🙂

Who says ham and eggs have to be fried? Or that you have to get your morning vitamin C from orange juice? I choose this.

TTYL,

Linda

ps. I missed a couple of weeks of Weight Watchers meetings but no problem–I am down another 8.6 pounds for a total of nearly 20 lbs in three months.

 

Still sitting in Minnesota working on getting healthy. Am enjoying seeing friends and family. Am not enjoying all the medical appointments but the results so far have been good so I’ll settle for that. Sorry I have nothing fun and exciting to say today but thought I should at least let you know I’m still ticking.

TTYL,

Linda