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We always had cats, so a dog is a whole new experience for us! DS's girlfriend works at the Humane Society & they needed someone to foster a little puppy for a week or so until the paperwork was completed. All their usual foster parents were full so we said we'd take the puppy during that time. Obviously we flunked foster care!!
Well, right about bedtime the booster shot side effects kicked in; very cold and achy. I didn't sleep much all night, so spent most of the day napping. I feel fine now, and even went for a short hike with the dog after dinner. I am looking forward to an early bedtime tonight, and should be fine tomorrow.
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Good idea to get the booster, Ruth. Hope the side effects go away quickly. My booster was in October so probably wore off when I got sick in April.
Covid kicked my butt! Miserable and mostly in bed for about 12 days and then the weakness/fatigue hung on for a total of three weeks! I missed a week of school, all of school vacation and was moving really slowly for my first week back.
We have a cat and both DD have dogs. Gets a bit crazy when everyone comes over at the same time but I love it
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DH wants to get the second booster - we had pzifer. But he had a horrid reaction, I worried about him getting the second booster. My oncologist and few other doc friends are sitting on the fence about it, so i"m hoping DH will wait. WE were also told to get the Moderna for the second booster. I'm going to wait to what my pcp says at my annual physical early next month then decide. Ruth, glad you are feeling better. Ginger- what an ordeal to be sick so long from Covid. Glad you are finally better.
My end of year evaluation is at 8 - I don't have everything ready, but it is what it is.!
Have a great Tuesday.
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Good luck on the eval, Karen. I think the concern with the second booster is that the protection doesn't seem to last very long. know I am going into situations in the next two months where I know for sure that there will be many unvaccinated people, so I need the protection now. If I need another one later, so be it. I did Moderna & other than one night of being cold & achy (and another half day to sleep), I didn't have any horrible reaction.
Errands, dog walking, Barre Sculpt & Zumba are on my schedule today (making up for yesterday's 'day off'!).
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Hi All,
I walked 3 miles this morning and lifted legs, thenveged out on the hydro massage table. I had Moderna and first booster 11/01 but I got Covid in January. I will probably get the second booster but I am on the fence about how effective it is. I wasn't hospitalized but I was sick and I don't get sick, except breast cancer I guess. I saw my gyno today and it sounds like I will have my prophylactic hysterectomy and oopherectomy late this month. Let the good times roll, lol
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DD#1 birthday is today - she is the gingy who made me a mother 36 years ago! I ordered her a pretty butterfly necklace from Brighton and she loves it. It was mailed to my house when she was here - I should have opened the package to see it in person. I've just seen in line. Two more birthdays and Mother's Day in the next 9 days. May is always busy with 3/5 birthdays.
I had my "End of Year" meeting with my manager and it went well. I had a folder to put all my artifacts in for my evaluation but I couldn't figure out how to move some of the documents, so I started a new folder and share it with her and I sent her emails with some pictures. Thankfully we've worked together for years and she knows I struggle with technology at times and she doesn't hold it against me
. Now I need to do my self appraisal and probably a second observation. I was pleased with myself last night as I didn't stress at all about everything not being done. I was able to say, "I have what I have". Good for me!Beginagain - good luck with your surgery.
Ruth - when we travel this summer, I wonder if we should get the 2nd booster a couple weeks before we leave. Time to think about it. We won't leave till July but we haven't even looked a tentative dates or flights or AirBnBs. I guess we should look at it on Sunday.
Waiting for our evening walk. I have work I need to do, but it can wait!!!Have a great night.
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beginagain, you will be glad when you have your yucky surgeries over with!!
Karen. congratulations on your evaluation. A nice thing to have out of the way.
I will spare you the gory details, but Bruno has a GI Bacterial Infection. He is on antibiotics for 10 days & probiotics for 7. Luckily, he happily eats even the largest pill if it is surrounded by peanut butter!
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Karen: Congratulations on your evaluation! May is full of lots of special events in our family also.
Beginagain: I had the same surgery years ago. Happy to have it all taken out.
Ruth: Oh no! Bruno! Hope he quickly improves.
Well, all this talk about the 2nd booster made me decide to get mine today. So far just a slightly sore arm at injection site. Today was hot: 85 degrees and more humidity than we have been having. Walked with dd this evening. Also dh and I planted the garden - okra, tomatoes, cucumber, zucchini, yellow squash, and potatoes. We buy the small plants. Have tried planting seeds in the past but not very successful with it.
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Wonderland,
Your garden sounds amazing! I’m sorry to hear about Bruno, sounds like no fun. Hopefully he will be on the mend soon!
Karen, I feel you, 3 kids birthdays are in May. Last year my oldest daughter also got married and graduated from college in May, at least this year it’s just the regular bdays. Have a great week ladies
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Ruth - hope Bruno feels better soon. My dogs loved peanut butter.
Wonder - your garden sounds wonderous. When we lived in Ohio we had a large garden and also planted from small plants. We never tried seeds.
Have a great Wednesday
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The Wednesday Walking Women declared SPRING, and bundled up to walk outside. When I got home, DH was ready to take Bruno for a hike, so I grabbed the neighbor's dog (the neighbor is getting ready for a big moving sale so her poor dog needed something fun to do) and we tagged along.
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Bruno and his, soon to be moving away, girlfriend Ivy.
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Apparently the avators are turned off and no pictures are going through either. Madding!
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Well, the day after my first treatment I was able to do my full walk and at full speed. Something about all those steroids I'm sure!
I didn't do more, and I could have. This morning I felt fairly wired, almost jittery. I think the buzz (not a fun one, either, not like good wine and warm friends sharing a great meal), is wearing off though. It was good to be able to move today. I expect tomorrow I will still feel okay. A little dread for the weekend, but I'll make it.
I'd post my picture in my cold cap, but alas, that function seems to be broken, along with our avatars. We're a pretty colorless bunch tonight. I also have some graduation pictures to share. This is a nice place to do that.
Overall, it's been a pretty good week. As Tom Petty said, I'm still standing.
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Glad you are feeling okay, sarahmaude, and took advantage of it!
I went to Pound this morning & Barre Sculpt before our second-to-last Obedience School Class. I've dragged out all my summer clothes & am weeding through them trying to get organized in case summer ever comes.
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Sarahmaude - glad to hear you are feeling decent to good after your first chemo.
Ruth - we have summer this week-end!!! My summer clothes are mixed in with "winter" clothes as the only difference is the length of the sleeve on my tops. My jackets are mixed in my closet with my clothes!! I have some clothes in my office/spare bedroom, but I tend to forget about them - there are a few summer skirts and a couple dressy skirts.
I came home to two beautiful petunia hanging baskets - early mother's present from my wonderful son. One purple and one red. Petunias are my favorite. They are out front so I see them every time I leave or come home. He said there is more to come - must be my birthday present. I told my girls what to get me - but they had several things to choose from. Also told DH what I wanted. No real surprises, but they are all things I enjoy and use. I won't spoil the surprise till Mother's Day and my birthday.
Going to be near 80 tomorrow and in the 80s on Saturday, a little cooler on Sunday. Way too hot for me in May.
Something to make you laugh - I'm by far the oldest member of my float team - I sent a text at 9pm last night and one of the team members go, "you sent it at 9 - we go to bed at 8"!!! On the float team everyone is in their early 30s or younger except for me who is twice or more their age. On the whole central team there are a couple people late 50s early 60s but otherwise they are younger than 45. We were talking mortgage rates going up and I mentioned when we bought our first house in the late 70s how high interest rates were and one teammate goes, ya, that's when my parents bought there first house and had 11% mortgage rate. Talk about making me feel old.
Have a great rest of the night.
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Karen1956, I love hanging petunias! So pretty, what a great gift. I’m also amazed at how young some of my coworkers are. I still feel like I should be one of the younger ones as I was decades ago.
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I got a huge pot beautiful red geraniums from DS for Mothers Day, I would post a picture if the site would let me! I am getting very frustrated with the lack of progress in cleaning up the website!!
I did some raking and cleaning leaves from around the perennials since they are bravely poking their heads above the ground. That flet like exercise! I also took Bruno for his training walk & DH and I took him and the neighbor dogs for a hike this afternoon.
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saramaude- I hope you are feeling ok this weekend.
Karen- congratulations on finishing your review. We aren’t there yet as we have about 6 more weeks of school. I have the same experience with my team. Most are 15-25 years younger than me. They are having babies and raising kids and teens. It looks exhausting to me at times.
Ruth- I hope Bruno is on the road to recovery.
Wonderland- your garden sounds great. We are still too cold up here to get ours planted. We also start from seedlings and not seeds. Impatiently waiting for spring to arrive.
Still on shaky post-covid legs over here but I am trying to build up my walking distance.
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Ginger: Hope you continue to gain your strength back.
sarahmaude: Thank goodness for those post-chemo day steroids! Hope this week is uneventful chemo-wise for you.
Karen: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Ruth: Hope Bruno is improving.
Happy Mother's Day to all my wonderful ladies! We are all mothers in form or another - sometimes I'm a mother to myself! Going to the NC mountains today for 3 nights with 7 friends I've known for most of my life. Two of them I've know since I was 4 years old. We live in different NC cities but get together once and occasionally twice a year. I describe it as 8 women getting together with 10 conversations going on all at the same time. So much fun! Have a good week everyone!
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Wonderland, that sounds so fun! Enjoy!
GInger, hang in there. When I had Covid (back in the beginning before vaccinations), it took me forever to feel normal again.....and I did not have a severe case.
Bruno still has another 5 days of antibiotics & is hopefully on the mend (he felt good enough to give me a nice Mothers Day present
). Yesterday I went to Yoga after-which DH & I spend several hours cleaning the garage (yuck!) and did some more yard work before the next round of rain came through (it rained quite a bit last night & more is predicted for tomorrow). I hope to get to Yoga again later this afternoon.Happy Mothers Day to all moms of kids & animals, favorite aunties, mentors and role models for young people!! I really, really, really wish I could post a Mothers Day meme. Maybe I will go over and complain to the glitch thread again.
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Saturday we broke a record at 89. Yesterday a more pleasant 73. Will be 90 again on Wednesday
Have a great birthday yesterday. My family spoiled me - mani/pedi (I always ask for my b'day to start sandal season off), flowers, earrings, flowers beautiful plant for the garden Bougainvillea - I planted it in a pot so I can bring it in the house in the winter) and great pair of Chaco sandals. Since it was also Mother's day, I get it all in one swell swoop. Our traditional Sunday dinner - grilled Beyond Burgers. Got to talk to all my kids and my bonus son!!!
Now back to the grind - 4 weeks to go and now need to get serious about doing paperwork at night or I'll never catch up.
Have a great Monday.
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I am finally getting a lot faster on my bicycle which means major progress. Not as much cycling as I would have wanted this past weekend with intermittent downpours and a bit of hail yesterday. It's still unseasonably chilly here, but it should warm up to the 60s by the end of the week.
I am enjoying the pansies and sweet allysum that I planted, and my herbs are very happy. I have a bouquet of the most gorgeous late daffodils ever that I got at the farmers market. More gardening pots are coming this week. Can't wait to put in geraniums which I think I will be able to do shortly.
In addition to 15 miles of cycling yesterday, I worked on cleaning my Haitian cotton sofa bed getting out most of the grime. I have some deep cleaning spray stuff coming. Even now, I am very pleased with the results.
Back to cycling: I can also see progress in what I look like. Much more sculpted on top, not to mention my butt and legs. I have a great 15 mile route that I can cycle right out my door, something that I was never able to do in my old place. (There was a route, but it wasn't much fun to do.) I can also cycle into Coeur d'Alene, but it's not as good for conditioning as lots of stops and few long stretches.
Anyway, a major trade-up in places to cycle, some with great lunch spots. Others have great places for a picnic lunch. Plus the most glorious scenery imaginable. I am super-stoked! - Claire
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I guess we have to imagine it since we can't post pictures right now. GRRRR!
It rained most of the day (quite a few people have water in their basements.....yikes! Bruno & I took our walk in the brief window of dryness. I went to Pound tonight.
Happy, Happy Birthday, Karen!!
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Hi All,
I ran a mile and walked 2. Stair climber and lifted legs. After work I mowed the lawn. I got a new car last week so I had to take a little spin with the grand girls this evening with the top down. It’s hot all, 96 today. I am hoping spring comes back soon, I am not ready to jump straight to summer
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ginger, hope you get your pre-COVID legs back soon. That’s got to be frustrating! I had faux-vid earlier this year (negative rapid and PCR, negative flu, negative strep, but positively miserable) and it still took a while to bounce back
Wonderland, that sounds like a very chatty bunch, and fun! I might need a vacation after that vacation.
Ruth, a garage cleanup, yard work and yoga! That is a lot of exercise and getting things done.You amaze me.
Karen, your family found some very thoughtful gifts. It sounds like an enjoyable weekend.
Claire, glad you weren’t cycling in a hail storm! I don’t like being cold, and cycling definitely adds a wind chill factor. I’m a bit envious of everyone’s planting and flower baskets. I may put some flower shopping and planting on my list for the weekend.
I was able to do my whole 30 minute walk tonight after working a full day and preparing a quick supper. Our weather was perfect tonight for walking. In the mid 70s I was able to wear shorts and a t-shirt. Cold capping hair care is still a learning process for me. I got to wash my hair again in tepid water. Used a microfiber hair wrap towel to start drying and located my hair dryer that blows cold air to finish.
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it's a beautiful day here. We took Bruno & the neighbor dog for a hike this morning and went to Barre Sculpt this afternoon.
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Hi All,
3 miles on the treadmill at incline this morning and lifted biceps and shoulders. Went to work and then came home and washed and waxed my new car. It was 96 today which was a little warm for this time of year
Ruthbru, sounds like Bruno is on the mend♥️.
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He has a couple days of antibiotics left, but is definitely on the mend. He's lying on the couch with his head on mu lap right now snoring like a drunken sailor!
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ruthbru, I love it when my dogs snore. Probably because they softly snore. It’s such a peaceful joy to see them relaxed and settled.
Beginagain22, you are kicking the exercise! Car washing, 3 miles and arms.
I got my 30 minute 1.75 mile walk in after working a long day and preparing an easy evening meal. We’ll be getting our AC replaced on Thursday. Original system is 25 years old so it was at the end of its life for sure. Not the most fun way to spend money, but in the Southeast US it’s totally necessary. Glad it went now and not in July.
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