BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:55 PM

I wasn't using IE when this happened, I was using Firefox. It took a couple of hours and I did system restore to put my settings back; I didn't want to turn off the computer before system restore for fear whatever bug got in there might write itself to the registry.

Back to work, now that I think (hope!) I've recovered from that assault.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 02:17 PM

I prefer Google Chrome to IE. It doesn't give me any probs, except with forms on some websites.

I have also bought McAfee, because I will have VPN on laptop so I can access my stuff at work. McAfee is required.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:28 PM

I was sending a PM to John Hardly this morning (an embarrassing photo of my long-suffering pit bull in a jersey dog jacket in our very cold weather last month) and all of a sudden a file started downloading and opening in Adobe Acrobat. I told it not to, and kept refusing the file, but it still managed to get in and reset several values and try to write to the registry. I set up Spybot to search it out and refused to follow the bait as it tried to tell me that Windows wanted me to do this. The misspellings in the instructions of the dialog box were a clue, along with my not initiating it. I have the scan running now in the Microsoft antivirus program that didn't notice this thing. Thank goodness for Bill D's Winpatrol and for Spybot. But I am going to do a system restore and I may put AVG back in. It doesn't play nicely with IE, but it does a better job of noticing this stuff.

So, I'm waiting on that and the work I have to finish on that computer. I might as well work on rewiring the last two phone lines, and be ready to switch to the cable company for my phone service for a while.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 01:18 PM

In agreement with LF's post: HUZZAH and HEAR-HEAR!!!

Also true in sports nutrition, plus never forget recovery calories (sm bowl of cereal sz). If you skip them you get major hungries later when you are tired enough to overeat as comfort food. This is well known in the sports nutrition field, tho I did summarize it pretty tightly, there. When Search here goes back to working you will be able to find many posts of mine about mini-meals (which is the best known way to make metabolism work for just about everyone). But the posts have tips about how to do them.

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Another really important declut for me is being able to function, after decades otherwise, on very short sleep. Yeah. So I have been actually enjoying this few days' sleep disturbance, and that is VERY cool.... Fixing a longstanding vision issue turned out to change my brain function, totally. That plus how cold it's been-- well, adding in the stimulants from chocolate, and the need to keep moving to stay warm-- well I did get a lot done, din I? :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:51 AM

I use the The Daily Plate for tracking calories.....

when I remember.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: LilyFestre
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:50 AM

Hey Mary,

    Munchies at night are OK as long as you plan for them. If you know your body is hungry (and not just wanting snacks as a habit) at a certain time of day, you just make sure you alot calories/points (or whatever) so that your nighttime snacks are not only OK but a necessary part of getting in the calories and nutrients you need.

:) Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:27 AM

I have teamed up with a buddy to lose 12 to 15 lbs by mid June, when we plan to go for a weekend to the beach. I don't have a reliable scale so I'll get my starting weight at the gym when I can get dug out from all this snow. Spark People has a very useful tool for tracking calories (also protein, carbs, etc.) and I plan to use it. I do okay during the day, but get serious 'munchies' attacks at night. As soon as I can get to the store I'll pick up some permissable snacks.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:24 AM

2 loads laundry done, still editing and publishing videos from Lower Stoke (see lower coke thread), onto my you tube.

Made 7 more fairies today.

Walked my Mamma (over the phone) through setting up Skype. And we skyped yesterday as the snow fell in my home town of Hopewell VA.

Spent some time on facebook posting up some pics of head dresses and fairies. Also searched for and poked some old high school mates on facebook.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 10:00 AM

Duh, PPS--

I decluttered TIME by discovering and USING new settings on my cell phone alarms, to portion off the days into ships' bells or monastic bells if you prefer).

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:55 AM

PS, one home-office-kitch shelf-ful sorted, shelf lined, sinkside drip drainer reinvented.

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Four MP3 recorders charged (contents stowed for processing).

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ANimaterra-- The caution-point now is to go toward the fun and avoid filling time with another big project-- keep the baby steps on the other balls in the air. And catch up on that hated task: correspondence.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 10 - 09:40 AM

A daily declut of the mind has been co-counseling sessions rather creatively managed, since trained co-counselors in this necka the woods are scare to nil, and this is not a good time to train one-- I used to teach the classes and it's fairly easily done.

I do have one "learner" started at the pool, which is a great place, for me, for sessions on one particular set of topics; outside of that narrow area I have to be creative. And I finally figgered out how to do THAT so it works in this normatively-isolated clergy lifestyle. It's been working very well for more than the last 30 days, so a new goal to track is the daily habit of 5-30 minutes of taking out THAT old trash.

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Hardi will be away for several days, so there will be time and focus possible on some downstairs tasks.

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Upstairs tasks also can probably proceed, during that time as well, if I can remember to ask him to carry up the card table he fixed, before he splits.

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Last night before church the Band met, and did a HUGE declut of old songbook insertions, sorted old players' book to start giving a set to our newest member (and a big thanks to LF for taking on one of HIS old jobs-- she's a superb greeter even from a comfy chair and I'll move the set of people's books to her chair area-- no wait! We have a new sexton that can do that!!!)... The new Band member is a developmentally disabled, middle-aged adult. We had a SUPERB group conversaton about how that has notherng whatever to do with his Band role, becuase ALL people can play MUSIC, and about how important it is for us to be clear and vocal about that. He was a full and beaming participant in that conversation and well able to tend the boundaries of what he is willing to do with us.... he experiences us as a place to do more than "family" can relax about.

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Last night I also declutted several lay ministries I've outgrown, by soliciting volunteers who WANT to do them-- BIG success there with a long-pending new item getting off the ground as well.

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I declutted my personal life early this AM when I awoke too early-- a local gal who makes jewelry has agreed to tutor me. She started in email by asking me what I wanted to learn. I am a self-directed learner, lifeloing, but no one's ever asked me that-- everything else I have learned, I had to set up my own study plan. She took charge, so now I do not have to! Yay! I get to show up for LESSONS, and take home skills and ways to have FUN. She is also forming classes and groups, so I requested one with all-strangers so I can meet some NEW PEOPLE who live far outside the "ministry fishbowl" we clergy spouses talk about when we actually find 5 minutes at major events to connect. So this is a long-overdue action on a longstanding goal, YAY.

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I declutted a clusterf*cked, proliferating personal conflict by consulting with a trusted Mudcatter privately who gave his usual brief and stellar advice that will work because he actually KNOWS ME. I referred the matters that are others' potential AFGOs to their supervisor. There is one person left in that group to whom I am contemplating a PM, as PMs with her have generally gone quite well IMO. There is a very funny personal story from HS that goes with this one.

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Animaterra-- in the last week or two, I decluttered a church-related conflict similarly t the point just prev.. I headed another one off. I nudged another one toward health in the baby steps THAT one requires. I degoofed some boundary issues with one of the folks who is caught up in another one; this clusterf*ck includes the "consultant" they'd chosen (who'd promptly got himself stuck in it). I presided over another one's resolution. (These things do not take a lot of time when one holds the correct tool for the job.)

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Oh and I figgered out why I was suddenly SO THIRST ydy and SO AWAKE on only 3 hours' sleep. I discovered how much "juice" is in hot chocolate, which I had WAY overindulged (sugar free). Since I had so much awake time on my hands, I simply put it to use and got caught up on a LOT of stuff hanging fire (another normative part of fishbowl life).

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 11:13 PM

I have tasted gravies that I suspected were made with wallpaper paste just never really believed anone cooked with the stuff. So...recipes, Linn?

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 08:27 PM

One of the items on the tippy top shelf was an unopened bag (safely ensconced in a Zip-Loc bag so still probably usable) of wallpaper paste. It had a Rich's price tag on it -- Rich's went bankrupt and closed all its New England stores early in 1996.

Time flies...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 08:12 PM

Mary, there has been one of those really long-drug-out colds going around. I had one that killed most of my December. I'm sure it resulted in my paying more for the holiday than I planned because I just bought some things I would have shopped for more carefully or made myself.

All of the holiday lights are now at least inside the house. And the extension cords. It's cold out, so I left the cords on the floor where they can warm up and will be more supple to loop and hang up in their regular place (these are the thick orange ones). And I've checked out the phone wire in the kitchen. I need to replace a couple more lines to rooms before I'm finished and can maybe switch to the cable company for my phone coverage. If a tiny bundle (Internet and phone) will make them happy so they'll give me a low rate for a long time, then I'll consider it. The AT&T phone sounds like crap right now, and gets worse every time it rains. My next door neighbor has the whole big bundle and says the phone sounds great.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 05:22 PM

SRS, I do not expect you to solve the issue-- I know it's "my" issue. Just pls "see" the issue so you can include it in your excellent leadership's thinking, is all I was asking.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: SINSULL
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:22 PM

Unfortunately, about two weeks ago I did the annual declutter of my medicine cabinet and, convinced that I would not get my annual January cold as it was almost February, I didn't replace the old OTC meds.

How's that for a run on sentence?

So I caught the cold and suffer less than quietly when I could have been sleeping peacefully with the aid of outdated Nyquil. But my medicine cabinet is organized.
LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:19 PM

There's trace and untrace, that's all I can offer. I don't read all of the threads so I haven't seen the strokes one. Following threads is out of interest, not obligation, here at Mudcat.

Okay--out the door, I need to get that tree disentangled from a lot of mini lights. I should probably take the step ladder because I think I used it to put them up.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 04:00 PM

Here's an example of the integration between issues that I think is healthy and that, for me, is part of decluts.

With only 3 hours sleep-- not, usually a good start for me due to health issues-- I sorted thru a huge stack of our songbook players' books Hardi found all over the house, to annotate with to-do tasks on their way to our new music librarian who also, I believe, will find the found books themselves a HUGE and immediate help in his own new-instrument-learning.

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That could go, in pieces, in at least 7 specific, existing threads I have in mind-- 7 different threads. Or it could have been expanded so as to be OF USE TO ME, right in the one series of declut threads I was already tracing. I do not need a personal page clutted with traces I forget to go see.

See?

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What is also more-cluts in trend IMHO is that people have added support-exchange, here-- to what started as a tracking program for each's own use.

All that said, these remarks are intended to be DESCRIPTIVE, not PEJORATIVE. But W Y S I W Y G .

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM

SRS,

As you know I value your leadership, but I wish you had waited for a good night's sleep (mine) before you went ahead. As I posted earlier, part of decluts goals for ME is fewer threads, more PMs. Anyone with whom I have been exchanging contact in this thread is welcome to move any of those talks offthread into PMs, but reconfiguring any of it NOW is an additional barrier for me here, and some thread-participants have put themselves out of my "hoop" until they clear up some issues they have caused with me.

One thread that IS (already) open is the "Small Strokes" thread where a few of us have been exchanging thoughts; some additional chat occurs on that topic offthread.... I'm going to put a Sjogren's item there which actually fits any kind of memory issues, and sleep issues, if anyone with those wants to join that discussion.


SRS, I will say tho that this division of topics sounds like more-Catting, not less-Catting... and in the direction of more-cluts, not less-cluts. It "thinks" like that, but it "feels" very strongly like control and boundary issues.... I hear a sucking sound in the background, to which I suspect some folks in this thread will relate. Please give that some thought. I continue to enjoy our PMs and their thought-provoking, respectful mode of discussion. It's part of what I so respect about your leadership.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:25 PM

Isn't it astonishing what you can find on forgotten shelves like that? I've evicted some really really old (but not collectible old) spices and such that way. And when you look at the medicine cabinet after a long time, it can be a real eye-opener, what has been sitting there getting old (and did you not buy a new bottle of whatever because you know you have a perfectly good one at home). Updating is not only good, it can be healthy.

I took a quick spin around the back yard to see what needs doing back there. Police the grounds and mowing, but I am pleased to report that the Japanese flowering quince thinks it is spring already--it is covered with buds.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM

Here is an aches and pains thread, to let folks working through some of this stuff share their remarks without having to trip over the boxes left in the hall by de-clutterers. I've started by adding a little more info about the kiddo.

Michelle has made some great progress through all of this, but it must feel just a little odd at times to post the news about surgical staples falling out following a description of the stuff someone has discarded from a hall cupboard. And Michelle, as you feel better, we expect you back over here with your cleaning and redecorating (remember when you were redecorating last summer?) and such. This is kind of the same as what is going on with maeve, the recovery of her homestead is so much bigger than de-cluttering that it really needs a place of its own, the way it's set up now.

The sun is out, my yard is a mess of leaves plastered on the turf. I suppose if I was really organized today I'd put fuel in the mower and mulch those leaves. But I think I'll start with taking the last of the xmas lights out of the Italian cypress in the front. Table clearing and cupboard stuff can take place once the sun is down.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:59 PM

Just went hunting for the hot chocolate mix (which I couldn't find this morning) in the difficult to access cupboard behind and above the dishwasher. Not only found it (!) but decided to clean out the top two shelves which are almost impossible to get at. Dragged the step stool over and proceeded to clean it out.

Yikes! Stuff that hasn't been touched in YEARS! Threw a lot of it out. One container will be cleaned and Goodwilled (unless I decide to keep the beach glass in there instead of the container it's in now). The ashtrays go, too, except for the cool one with Queen Victoria on it -- a new place on his nightstand for Tom to toss pocket stuff. Haven't needed (thank goodness!) ashtrays since I've not allowed smoking in the house for years. (And now Tom's quit for good, too.)

After I scrub those shelves again, I've got a place to store other items not often used (but can't bear to part with yet) and thus have some more room in the lower shelves of the hutch. Got some rearranging to do -- and prolly more decluttering.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 02:44 PM

I think perhaps we DO need an aches and pains thread, where spirituality stuff can weave through if it wants. My son was in the ER this morning with a bad stomach ache, it might be appendicitis, we'll wait 24 hours to see if we will take him down for the surgery. But I'm not going to share any more of that here, because this is the de-clutter thread, not the surgery speculation thread. It was kind of an organic migration of things before when Michelle got sick, but this is just too confusing for more casual de-clutters to sort through.

This afternoon I need to go through papers on my big dining table (in the living room) and file all of the ones we've finished with for my son's college applications and give him a list of the stuff he needs to finish. Since he's back at his dad's house now, he can write an essay. And I'll finish some paperwork and get things mailed. I am planning to have my dining room table cleared of these papers this weekend. I can set up a smaller file thing (you know--those desktop stands with thick wire dividers that you can set folders upright in). Once that table is clear, I'll work on the shelving next to it and put some table setting stuff nearby. So far the upper open part of it is full of collectibles, but there are cupboards down below that don't have much in them. I could put some china in there, for example, and empty one of the trunks in the front room that way.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 01:42 PM

I got a large load of clothes together for Goodwill, but haven't had time to take them over. RE Scarves - I love scarves and have a ton of them. Some are pretty but I never wear them for one reason or another - don't go with anything, etc. I can't bring myself to part with them. However, I often see scarves I want to buy, but then tell myself I've got too many already. Maybe if I resolve to give away a certain number of the ones I don't wear, I can promise to allow myself to buy a new scarf - one new one for five old ones?

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 01:07 PM

New resolution for the new year (despite fighting back urges to reboot 2010) is to get back to reading this thread on a regular basis. Maybe I'll have some time one of these days to read the declutter threads of the past few (ach! more than a few!) months.

Last Monday while bailing out the manager of JCPenney Optical at the other end of the mall (where I work for Sears Optical -- we're both licensed businesses within our host stores and are owned by the same company), I got talking to one of the JCP managers and discovered that her set of dishes is the Pfaltzgraff Yorketown pattern -- and I've been trying to de-clutter some Yorketown serving pieces that have been totally unused for over 30 years. I said I was planning to sell them on Craigslist and she said, "No you're not! I want them!" Wow! Getting rid of cubic footage AND gleaning some $$$ at the same time! (Still have to find the casserole, but I took her the soup tureen with ceramic ladle and the bowl and pitcher last Wednesday while Jeri waited in the car.)

Been getting some small items (bagged over a week or so as I find them) dropped off at Goodwill, especially while Tom was in hospital in Dover and I had to drive right past. Also have been giving stuff to friends lately -- a bunch of shortbread molds and cookie stamps (keeping my 2 faves), scarves, books, and last night a snow globe of a woman reclining in a bath tub with a glass of wine at hand. (Cute kitsch; got it for a nickel at a yardsale; don't need it cluttering the bathroom shelf anymore.)

Also doing daily de-cluttering of the woodpile, but I don't think that counts.

If I finally get Christmas presents mailed, does that count as de-cluttering? Felt so un-Christmassy and stressed this year that only my SS gift got mailed.

Speaking of de-cluttering the woodpile, need to bring some more in and then wake Tom from his nap.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 06 Feb 10 - 09:28 AM

sniff....

I shouldn't listen to the Silly Sisters..

too many sad memories...


sniff.....

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:47 PM

Mary, I may have spoken too soon. My Rog says he's not sure we still have it. He is going to check the storage area tomorrow. I hope it is there as I'd like to give it a good home. It is really nifty with a handle on the spine so it's like a small briefcase, kind of. I'll let you know..sorry about that.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:44 PM

Kat that binder might be just the thing! I'll pm you.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 09:29 PM

PS-- NONONONONO

NO!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:46 PM

NO I do not want more threads to keep track of!

We can use sensible subtitles and subkect lines???!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:34 PM

Mary, I have a 3 ring binder which zips closed and holds a bunch of CDs and their inserts. I quit using it because it was so heavy. If you want it, it's yours. I can send you a photo if you want to see it first. You could help me declutter!:-)

SRS, I put all of my inserts in alphabetical order in a small box which was for CDs. I used my own system though as to whether I put it in the section which went with the artist's name or the album title. The 300 changers are neat!

This week I have started a small walking regimen with a step up and down several times at the end of each ten passes.

I also lost 2.5lbs last week.

Thanks, SRS, for what you posted. I'd like to see us get back to more of the goal posting and positive achievements, NOT that the other stuff isn't valid...I just think a different thread might be a good idea, as you suggested. Or, maybe the two, accountability and decluttering, should go back to being separate?

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:10 PM

Are you willing to trade off the plastic of the case with the liner notes for the cost of a new folder? I have seen some CD mailers that would hold the disk and notebook, but I don't think they'd take that much less space and they're not cheap. At least, not at Office Depot where they sell them a few at a time. Maybe you can find an online stationer who sells them cheaper.

I found one of those large 300 CD changers and have printed out the instructions, but even if I fill it with my CDs, I plan to keep the cases, notes, etc. I need to somehow number the cases so I can find them if I want to read up on the disks playing in the changer.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 07:01 PM

Ok I've gone through half the CD collection and sorted through them. Just taking a cyberbreak, and I'll do some more. I rediscovered a lot of CD's I'd forgotten I had. I would like to find a good system for organizing CDs in some kind of small folders, where I can store the CD, cover and booklet together, instead of in the plastic CD cases. Anybody know of something like that (affordable?). I really like the cardboard CD jackets that a lot of performers are using now.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 06:29 PM

I do come from maternal grandparents who were from West Virginia. But they were extraordinarily healthy and long lived. My mom is 82 and in better health than I am, though she has suffered all her life with lung problems.

I was born and raised (as was my mom) in what was once called (with pride) the chemical capital of the south. Often the very air was yellow and acrid. What I have is a compromised immune system due to that exposure and probably a cocktail of drugs army doctors fed my mom when she was pregnant with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 06:13 PM

For starters on my weekend, I spent a few minutes in the front yard and took one set of lights (three strings together) out of a juniper next to the driveway. There is still a set in the Italian cypress and some I laid down on the front porch to organize that had been running up over a hook to make a tall pyramid shape of light. I'll remove and organize those this weekend. I should have the xmas lights in by Valentine's Day, don't you think?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:59 PM

We've kind of spiraled this thread down to cover the winter blahs and aches and pains, haven't we? But guess what--the sun is out here!

This morning I came across a brave soul running a garage sale. She's selling stuff that they probably thought they were pretty savvy about collecting years ago--action figures, beanie babies, etc, which have no value now. And for those who were paying attention, we knew they didn't have much then. What I bought from her were 8 shepherds crooks for supporting stuff in my garden. It helps to put the tomatoes in a cage and use something like this to keep the cage upright.

So this weekend I'm going to be pulling on my coat if I need it and organizing my gardening stuff in the garage, I'm going to be clearing out the planting area in my sun room window, and I need to clear out some of the unused pots that are collecting leaf litter outside my door.

Since we've kind of clumped a bunch of stuff into this de-clutter and weight loss tracking thread, I propose we split off our aches and pains to the recovery ward (Sinsull keeps it so ship shape, I hate to see it not being used!) and maybe another one for some of the non-corporeal spirit-boosting exercises (Susan's specialty). And I need to quit posting my de-cluttering remarks in LilyFester's recovery thread. (I see she's making progress--soon she won't need that recuperation thread, she'll be picking up where she left off, pardon the pun.)

I know, I know, some of you are going to be under several inches of snow over the weekend. There will be some suitable remarks to do with heavy weather--but what are you doing with yourselves while you're stuck inside to make that indoors environment more habitable?

Since it should be nice here I need to get out and walk the dogs this weekend. If it doesn't stay warm I probably need to get a pair of goggles so I can walk more easily (without my dry eye complication of watery eyes when I'm in the wind or cold).

What progress does anyone else have to report? Kat, has Morgan come over again to help you? That child sounds like a wonder! My oldest (Moonglow) is coming by this afternoon, and I may have her take some time to box up some of the loose toys in her room that she doesn't want so I can sell them for her on eBay. She has so much stuff in there, and it was mostly for display. But she'll want to give her kids some new stuff, so perhaps we can clear out some of this (or put it in a place for our own garage sale later in the spring). I'll be using her room as the sewing room, so I can use the space.

I have a lot of extra cloth in there--is there some quilt planning going on for maeve? If anyone is sending quilt-sized pieces, what are the measurements you're using? I can probably come up with something (or many somethings!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:52 PM

I'm not sure I got new cable service because with this digital conversion thing I would have had not TV reception. It's something called "TV Land" that shows all old reruns.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:37 PM

Bonanza???? What channel?

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:26 PM

I am now officially snowed in and have a mildly sprained ankle that needs a little TLC - probably just need to stay off it as much as possible but it isn't a bad sprain. I visited this thread to inspire myself to either: 1)Go through my music and organize it 2) Sort through photos and organize them 3) Sort through and organize my CDs 4)Do my taxes (might not be up to that) 5) Clean out the linen closet and refold and organize the towels and sheets.

All could be done without any trauma to the ankle. So far I've just been sitting on the sofa watching reruns of Bonanza.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: mg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 04:01 PM

If you have ancestors from the Appalachians, you might be Melungeon, (my favorite topic this year) and they have ailments that are Medeterranean usually -- like some sort of Medeterranian fever, usually found in people of Mideast descent. It is often mistaken for fibromyalgia. This is due to Medeterranean (sp?) ancestry, Turkish/Syrian/Puetoguese, Jewish etc. mg

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM

Lucky me. My company got in some new monitors which arrived in suitcase style boxes - easy to carry and lots of room. I got three of them. With my cold, I will have no company or interruprions this weekend so I can finally tackle the sunroom. Hopefully by Monday I can freecycle a folding hospital bed, a small refrigerator and tons of crap while putting the saleable stuff in the shed for a yard sale. Wish me luck.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:29 PM

Just inhaled Showgrin's site. I may also have it!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 03:10 PM

OK, but antihistamines are gonna make it worse.

I gotta Google Sjögren's. Any "good" links you have, please PM or post.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 02:10 PM

The hangover-- that's the ami's. 100% of it.

Well Susan, I have been having the hungover feeling since I was put on metotrexate (low dose chemo to knock down immune system) for the RA sometime in late 2005. I have bee off the metho since summer 2007, but the horrible feeling on waking is still with me.

It is no worse or better with the amitrip ta thingie. So I am thinking it is combo of RA, Sjögren's and the palpitations, plus hormones or lack there of and stress re job.

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: maire-aine
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 02:00 PM

Just got home from a meeting, and I don't feel well, but I can't quite put my finger on one thing. I feel achy, bloated, gassy, feverish (slightly at 99.4F). Plus had a large salt bagel during the meeting, and my pants are really tight. I didn't sleep well at all last night—kept waking up about once an hour. Fortunately, nothing more on my calendar until next Monday. Hopefully I can kick whatever it is my then.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 11:34 AM

Michelle - that's a fantastic acheivement - be proud of yourself!

VT "She just made diagnosis that I am old, out of shape and overweight and need to make lifestyle changes. No tests ordered. " Sounds very familiar.. Ever notice how they say do this and that, but never actually direct you to anyone who will help you with it? They tell you to lose weight but never refer you to a dietician or excercise classes.

As for sleep apnoea - I don't have it, but I'm pretty sure Manitas does (but of course, does nothing about it), and it's his snoring that keeps me awake. I can - and have - slept 12 hours straight, a couple of hundred yards from the concert tent, through mega decibel concerts (just Google Shooglenifty), lying on the cold hard ground at folk festivals, but only when he isn't there. Hypnotherapy has helped enourmously with my sleeping, but it's the physical tiredness, the muscle aches, tight chest and lethargy that is the problem at the moment.

Having said that, it's getting better and I'm following up on the 24hr monitor referral next Monday. I may even get some decluttering done next week!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: LilyFestre
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:15 AM

I had a Dr.'s appointment yesterday, went to church, crashed on Mom's couch, took my car to get inspected, did a little grocery shopping, made a visit to a dear friend who had flowers waiting on my front porch when I got home from the pathology visit on Wednesday, went to WW, lost .8 pounds this week (because I'm finally able to EAT a bit more), and made a visit to the yoga studio/lounge just as a class was wrapping up. Had a great chat with my yoga teacher and how we are going to work me back into class with restorative yoga.

At WW I have a habit of wearing the same thing I did as the first day I started....shorts and a t-shirt....always the same shorts and t-shirt. So last night after I got weighed in (I was the last person in line and the meeting was already in progress), I threw my slacks and shirt on over my weigh in clothes and went to sit down. Before I could, the leader called me to the front of the room and gave me a certificate of achievement for my (now) 102 pound loss. She totally caught me off guard and I was kind of embarrassed to stand in the front of everyone and talk...but I did.

It was a good day. Probably did too much but I'm home for today and will take it easy. And putter. *GRIN*

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 05 Feb 10 - 08:07 AM

Oh, LTS, I wish I could come help out a bit- but more than that, I hope you can find a doc who will listen and above all, I hope you FEEL BETTER SOON!

maire-anne, keep posting those walks- one of these days I'm-a gonna take one!

WYS, love, I do know about CPE. Never did it, meself, but it seems like something you were made for- or perhaps a direction to pay attention to, while the collar dangles in the distance? Other unexpected doors (or windows!) might be poised and ready to open?

SRS, best wishes on the insurance stuff. I'm uninsured at the minute, hoping to correct that in the fall, once a bunch of monthly costs are over with. Just have to stay perfectly healthy until then!

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 11:26 PM

VT, took my Thursday AMi early-- we'll see if it shortens the duhs tomrorrow.

Pool tonight 45 minutes, on top of a very busy day processing meatsale items and writing a first draft of a homily that will condense down to a meditation.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Healthy Feb-2010 Declutter & Fitness
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Feb 10 - 06:38 PM

Sleep Apnea really is a candidate, Liz. Any way you can get tested quickly? It requires an overnight with multiple thingies stuck to you - Jacqui had the test and they ruled it out.