Thap Lan National Park Thursday @ TDD - C&C

[kitkat]

Good morning! Here I am, joining the Early Risers' Club a bit late - after a miraculous 8 hour sleep.

trissie thanks for the start, hope you are well.
Kittykatt sounds like you are organized for your busy day
Have a good sleep Dogged - love your sense of humor
I used to eat steel cut oats exclusively for breakfast, helia - I'm thinking satiety is factored in? Definitely not zero cal:)
LAnn I see you like morning walks, too:)

Another day...
morning: walk pup,
shopping with DD
afternoon: DGD pu
gym class
In between: laundry mountain
garb/rec etc OTD
:15 DC

BIAB

[L.Ann]

I like to get walking done early, KitKat. Way too much eating out this week, helian. Too much of my socializing involves food! Even with careful choices eating out tends to cause at least temporary weight gain.

1-take Little Bit to school
2-quick house pick up before my sister comes
3-visit and lunch with Dsis

Menus
Thursday-chicken burrito bowls
Friday-pizza
Saturday-kale chicken Caesar
Sunday-middle Eastern chickpea bowls

Events
Thursday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 bocce 4:30-5:30, DD33 late for dance, Dsis coming, 1 or 8 summer book review on zoom
Friday-Little Bit 7:40-5, Little Bit school 9:15-3, DD33 dentist 11:20, marine museum 5-8(boat ride@5) Little Bit beach day
Saturday-
Sunday-


Weekly House Blessing-mop dining room, bathroom, kitchen
Detailed cleaning of living room- detailed vacuuming
Death book-update DD33’s pages
Phone calls-
Extra stuff-


Accomplishments
-stretching and knee exercises
-breakfast for dog and me
-diet sites
-dress and pick up bedroom
-meds and temp for DD33
-walk a mile
-pick up Little Bit
-breakfast for Little Bit
-vacuum

[helia]

I can relate, L Ann. Social get togethers are hard for me too. They always involve food, often very tasty higher calorie foods!
kitkat, wow - 8 hours! Yay! I switched to the menopause program at WW, and lo and behold - the steel cut oats are now 4 points (I get 23/day). They do fill me up, kind of like a natural GLP drug, maybe.

I'm pfutzing around, but now I need to get ready for my meeting at 11. I have some work todos that I haven't done yet. I'm off to do those, have the meeting, and then see if I can make progress on other things.

Our laundry hamper isn't very full, actually. I have new sheets I need to wash, though. Maybe I'll do those so I don't get a back up of laundry when I do need to do laundry in a couple days.

I did not s2s before I went to WW. I'll do that after my jog this afternoon. No point in doing it before the jog.

Next:
- some qt
- payroll: email LH re: meeting
- payroll: email LH re: exam edits + make the edits?
- payroll: email CM re: IW course pack changes

TaDas!
- teeth care
- 8 - 8:30 WW meeting
- reclaimed the kitchen
- texted SS; I couldn't help myself - I'd like to know if I have something at 6pm today or not.

[kitkat]

So many options with toppings, helia! It can be fun:)
LAnn I prefer getting it done in the morning as well.

Having said that, we only had a 25 min. walk as DD was waiting for me... but pup had fun with the pylons and she really tried her best to ignore the dog walking in our direction.

DD and I shopped for her upcoming kiddie party, plus, gifts for fam, plus, groceries. It was fun and productive.

Just ate - next:

lol - keep it moving
pup out/in
:15 DC

[kitkat]

Groceries pa
2 lol done
coffee:)
supplements
DDog out/in
DDog fed:)
talked to DD

Moving onto calls and DC

[Bama]

Good afternoon!

Thanks for the educational start, trissie. I do appreciate preserving resources as much as possible. Hope you’re having a calm day.

Kittykatt, hope you remembered everything that you needed.

Dogged, I hope Germane’s internal issues clear up. She and Tux have a lot in common. Coffee and bed, there’s an oxymoron for ya.

Lann, all I could focus on was “boat ride and beach day” and how nice that sounds.

Helia, good luck with the change of ww programs and the steel oats. I find them so chewy, not my thing. I changed one thing on my weight loss app ( I can’t remember what it was now) and my caloric intake went from 2,000 to 1,299 which is proving very hard to meet, especially with grabbing food in drive thrus lately and no time/energy for exercise.


Kitkat, yay for a solid 8 hours of sleep. Any tricks for getting in enough fiber?

I spent the morning tending to dh and we watched a couple of jack benny episodes. Now I need to find some mojo and give my much neglected home some tlc. Yesterday in a burst of rash haste I invited dd and her new boyfriend to supper tonight. Why on earth would I do that lol??? Might have to reschedule but let’s see what I can get done before I change plans.

First up, kitchen. Unload dw, load with breakfast dishes, cook beef for stew, general tidy, pupa, all the things. Hand wash pet bowls and refill with food/water…

[Doggedly]

Hello, all. I am back at it. I don't seem to have accomplished anything that I set out to do yet, but A for effort.

Thanks, helia. Boo hiss boo at uncooperative scale.

Thank you, kitkat. Woo hoo on eight hours of sleep. I'm a little short on sleep today, so I'm glad that someone picked up my lost hours.
Where do you buy your steel cut oats? I used to find them at Bulk Barn, but they have become notorious for refusing to say where their products are from.

Social meals offer a lot of temptation, L.Ann. We all understand.

This moron enjoys a certain level of oxygen, Bama, but her true love is caffeine.

Thursday
Cleaned up after Germane
Mopped the floor again
Put away the mop out of unwarranted optimism
Hung more laundry
Cleaned up after Germane
Mopped the floor again
Hung the laundry
Cleaned up after Germane
Spot-cleaned the floor
Fresh water and kibble for Germane
Gave Germane her heart pill
Changed the pee pads
Called medical centre to try to register with new doctor: must call after 1:00 pm
Called animal hospital to renew Germane’s prescriptions: that was more successful. Pick them up tomorrow.
Cleaned up after Germane
Went through grocery store web sites and made shopping list
Called the medical centre again: they don’t answer the phone and offer no other options
Tried to complete grocery purchase: can’t register either of my credit cards, so cannot use the delivery app

[helia]

Doggedly, since we're keeping our house GF, I buy certified GF steel cut oats. The only brand I've found (though I haven't done a thorough search of multiple grocery stores) is Bob's Red Mill. I can get them at Whole Foods, which is practically next door to us.
Bama, how is dh doing? I'm curious if you'll stick with your dinner invitation or punt to another day. WW has my calorie range at 1200-1300/ day. I don't make that very often. Maybe that's the reason for the weight gain.
WTG getting groceries and laundry done, kitkat. Since dh is out, I can eat what I want and might have some steel cut oats with my dinner tonight!

SS doesn't need help with the ESL class tonight, and AC cancelled our weekly check in meeting. SO I've had the day to myself - and will continue to have the day to myself until dh comes. home around 8/ 8:30 pm.

I have made progress on payroll stuff. My brain is now feeling like it needs a change, so back exercises and then a jog are next. It is sunny outside!!

Next:
- back exercises
- dress to jog
- JOG

TaDas!
- teeth care
- 8 - 8:30 WW meeting
- reclaimed the kitchen
- texted SS; I couldn't help myself - I'd like to know if I have something at 6pm today or not. --> reply from her
- some qt
- payroll: email LH re: meeting
- payroll: email LH re: exam edits
- payroll: made edits to IR Exam
- payroll: edited AR Exam draft and sent it off for review
- found and ordered a pair of hiking boots orthotically designed (so they say)
- lunch
- after lunch clean up
- payroll: AIR Exam draft made and sent off for review

[Harriet]

Thank you for all that good information, trissie. I know that Namtok means "waterfall", but that is the extent of my Thai on those names! Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if that potentially extinct mammal/bovine could be existing there, plus perhaps help with modern cattle disease (breast cancer research for humans would be a beneficiary, too).

Hmmm... .. helia and Doggedly, although we don't need it, I'd thought my McCann's Irish steel cut oats were probably GF, but you're right, I don't see a certification of that on the packaging. 100 percent whole grain oats and non-GMO, but no mention of gluten. helia, you are a good researcher.

Kittykatt, what did you forget? ( ducking and running)

[Doggedly]

Thursday
Cleaned up after Germane
Mopped the floor again
Put away the mop out of unwarranted optimism
Hung more laundry
Cleaned up after Germane
Mopped the floor again
Hung the laundry
Cleaned up after Germane
Spot-cleaned the floor
Fresh water and kibble for Germane
Gave Germane her heart pill
Changed the pee pads
Called medical centre to try to register with new doctor: must call after 1:00 pm
Called animal hospital to renew Germane’s prescriptions: that was more successful. Pick them up tomorrow.
Cleaned up after Germane
Went through grocery store web sites and made shopping list
Called the medical centre again: they don’t answer the phone and offer no other options
Tried to complete grocery purchase: can’t register either of my credit cards, so cannot use the delivery app
Put away dry laundry bags
Checked laundry and put away dry. Rearranged the rest to dry better.
Collapsed dog pen to get at back of desk
Did physical set up of my computer that I had brought on vacation for my db to install Linux.

Now for the big reveal: turning on the computer.