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Post by Opti on Jul 29, 2024 22:44:55 GMT -5
Opti , remind me what sort of baby Moon Shadow was. Unfortunately, my computer is showing a very dark picture, so it's hard to make out details. Would you believe I've done over 2700 steps today, just by doing housework? I'm sure going up & down the stairs doing laundry has added some, but I've had such a full day I haven't taken one of my normal walks. I hope to squeeze my normal walking time in tomorrow. After I get through a meeting. Hairless guinea pig. I wanted to post Crestie who at least is having a better night. It was really weird I fixed up his carry case a little and held him briefly which warmed him up. When I put him back in the carry case on the piece of wood, he twisted his head around a couple times, sounded like he was going to hack up a hair ball and then went into his typical Snoopy pose. I hope he's doing better and starting the long road back. Which would be logical given what this high heat did to me. Tonight, it's a little cool but the weather peeps assure me the heat and humidity are back as of tomorrow and Wednesday.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 29, 2024 23:14:46 GMT -5
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 3:17:36 GMT -5
Crap. I think Crestie is dead. He slid down the wood in a position he wouldn't do while alive. His tail feels spongy and non reactive as if he died just recently. Because of their eyes, its hard to tell alive or dead.
Was hoping that wasn't the last burst of energy before death, but I think it was. Not sure how long he was with me, Perhaps 6 to 8 years?
I hope I can find that dad IRA paperwork today. With so much going on I've moved them several times and did not find them yesterday. I have so much to do and file as well. Eectronic check in for my Friday appointment. Consider emergency finance stuff and/or tell landlord rent will be late because of when disability money will land in my account.
Trying to feel stoic about this death. Not as hard as Moon Shadow TG, but still tough. Crap.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 3:51:29 GMT -5
Still alive, but not sure what to think. The batteries on my thermostat died. I think I only have one of the right type, so replaced one of the two and its powered up again for now. Hope it can last until the grocery trip as I already have been pushing my right leg too much. Hopefully this will be better in the short term. In my tiredness or intentionally, but did not fix it, I had the fan on ON not auto. Energy drain. Oops.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 3:54:07 GMT -5
TY. I think crested geckos are very cool as an animal.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 30, 2024 4:16:37 GMT -5
Yikes! The trauma of what you've gone through, thinking he died, would be hard! I'm glad he's not.
What a roller coaster.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 4:26:23 GMT -5
Yikes! The trauma of what you've gone through, thinking he died, would be hard! I'm glad he's not. What a roller coaster. More to come probably. If he was a Bearded Dragon, I'd encourage him to hibernate for several weeks. Not sure if these guys do that, and if so how. If he pulls out of this, i.e. recovers from this like I need to, perhaps I will get a couple female crested geckos. They now are almost as popular as leopard geckos which can be very portable. Going to eat and recover a bit, alarm goes off in less than two hours.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jul 30, 2024 8:25:20 GMT -5
Morning, peeps! I ran this morning, in an effort to get ready for the race season, which will be hot, so might as well be realistic about it. Finished bowl #2 of overnight oatmeal. I think I feel better eating for adding it to my regimen. I plan to keep doing it, though I want to top it with some fruit and nuts to take away the monotony. Had to move my eye doc appt up a month. My eyes are dry as heck, scratchy and miserable. I do get plugs every 6 months, but it seems I need them sooner.
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Post by busymom on Jul 30, 2024 11:22:30 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! Good grief Opti, what a scare! Got a meeting early this afternoon about DS. Then we've got thunderstorms arriving later this afternoon.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 12:07:33 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! Good grief Opti , what a scare! Got a meeting early this afternoon about DS. Then we've got thunderstorms arriving later this afternoon. Yes, very much. If I touch him when he isn't expecting it, his white portions on his tail and body turn a brilliant light yellow. I know when he was angry and full of his maleness in better times that orange-red tiger coloring would start to reappear. I'm trying to take cues from him. I'm trying to save Crestie stuff for non-business day hours. But I think I'm past needing to drip water on him every hour or so. So, if I am up to it, I will clean up the 5-gallon tank that used to house fish. Probably plant it up like a terrarium, but TBD. But it could be like a hospital tank for Crestie. Bigger than the carry case and I can create a temperature gradient which should be there for most herptiles.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 12:10:51 GMT -5
I think he was mostly asleep when I though he was dead because of how his tail reacted. I know when I first got him, I would ask "what does tail say?" because he seems to communicate many emotions through how his tail is. When he is sleeping, he curls it around him, which is why I had hope after getting him to drink up some water. His tail wasn't just following the contours of the dish, but he had curled it around to protect his lower body.
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Post by Opti on Jul 30, 2024 16:10:14 GMT -5
Not doing great at hydrating myself. Should hit 40oz by 530pm which is pretty dismal given my height and weight. Crestie seems to be almost hibernating in place, so I am just checking on him and the humidity of the carry cage about every two to three hours. We are both still alive, so that should count as success for the almost end of July.
I think I am going to do a simpler dinner than I was thinking. The blueberries did not survive the grocery trip that well last week, so I think some of them are going to become blueberry syrup for my vegan French toast. I have lots of eggs and some semolina bread that needs using up.
I might just put in the oven the last veggie burger with some curly fries. I am very low on fresh produce too. Wish I had some lettuce, radishes or something in the house that wasn't the onions and the last piece of fresh corn. Frozen veggies are low too. Prepping grocery wish list for my next grocery trip on the county bus.
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Post by busymom on Jul 30, 2024 20:32:11 GMT -5
Good Evening Kids! I just got back from a walk through the neighborhood. The humidity is brutal, so I actually walked at a slower pace than I normally do, but I didn't want to overdo it in this heat.
The meeting went well, and this evening I'm going to relax some, and maybe watch some more Olympics.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Jul 31, 2024 8:43:27 GMT -5
I was awakened by hail hitting my roof this morning. This weather with rain every other day is not typical summer weather.
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Post by Opti on Jul 31, 2024 9:07:20 GMT -5
I was awakened by hail hitting my roof this morning. This weather with rain every other day is not typical summer weather. Wow on the hail. Hopefully it was small and gone quickly. We were predicted to get rain, but I guess the probability is down. Not sure what to wear today, but it will be hot. Feels temps high 80s to mid 90s while I am out.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 31, 2024 10:01:24 GMT -5
I'm up, dressed, and hopefully prepped enough. DD will pick me up in about half an hour to take me to my colonoscopy. This was the first time doing this type of prep and it was awful. I ended up getting sick to my stomach about mid-night and was shaking with chills. I crawled into bed for bit to try and warm up and did fall asleep for a while. When I woke up I felt better but was way down on my water consumption.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 31, 2024 11:06:34 GMT -5
I'm up, dressed, and hopefully prepped enough. DD will pick me up in about half an hour to take me to my colonoscopy. This was the first time doing this type of prep and it was awful. I ended up getting sick to my stomach about mid-night and was shaking with chills. I crawled into bed for bit to try and warm up and did fall asleep for a while. When I woke up I felt better but was way down on my water consumption. Good luck. I hope it goes well and you get feeling better.
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Post by toomuchreality on Jul 31, 2024 11:09:36 GMT -5
I was awakened by hail hitting my roof this morning. This weather with rain every other day is not typical summer weather. Weird. Yeah, no such thing as global warming. Right.
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Post by Opti on Jul 31, 2024 17:31:17 GMT -5
I'm up, dressed, and hopefully prepped enough. DD will pick me up in about half an hour to take me to my colonoscopy. This was the first time doing this type of prep and it was awful. I ended up getting sick to my stomach about mid-night and was shaking with chills. I crawled into bed for bit to try and warm up and did fall asleep for a while. When I woke up I felt better but was way down on my water consumption. Did it go OK and are you feeling more like yourself yet? I'm down on my hydration as the county bus trip today was just under 4 hours instead of 3 hrs. of last time.
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Post by Opti on Jul 31, 2024 17:48:24 GMT -5
Crestie is hanging in there and I am trying to. Not much accomplished except screwing up my knee even further because the county bus came even earlier! I think this might be the regular driver. The first time I was given two times which I thought were the pickup times and the drop off times. Not entirely correct. I learned the town that has some affordable housing I am interested in has a better bus schedule, the morning, so it would be possible to work a half day in the afternoon. Not this though. So now I know to expect to be picked up a full hour earlier than what I was told was the earliest pick-up time. I was not ready as I needed to drink enough to get my feet swelling down and put on my sneakers. So yeah 15 minutes earlier than last time was not on my dance card. And since I am not on the first floor, I lost track of my shoes and everything. I was very very angry. Would have been nice to get a call first thing in the morning they'd be that bloody early. And to punish me for being late and angry, I was the last one dropped off even though I was the first one picked up. Almost an hour after we left the parking lot and my frozen veggies and tater tots were slag. Even though we are limited to a certain number of bags, it turns out buying something big is allowed. A woman bought this shelving unit type thing probably 5 to 6 feet tall and maybe 3 feet wide. I did have too much, and heavy because I bought Zevia and beverages. Still have to finish putting everything away. Hope I do not go next week, or if I do it will be a very targeted buy plus roaming the grocery store aisles to see where things are now. Need to spend much less.
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Post by Sharon on Jul 31, 2024 22:52:38 GMT -5
I'm up, dressed, and hopefully prepped enough. DD will pick me up in about half an hour to take me to my colonoscopy. This was the first time doing this type of prep and it was awful. I ended up getting sick to my stomach about mid-night and was shaking with chills. I crawled into bed for bit to try and warm up and did fall asleep for a while. When I woke up I felt better but was way down on my water consumption. Good luck. I hope it goes well and you get feeling better. This one went well and they have said 10 years until the next one. After DD picked me up we also picked up subway for lunch. The babies went down for naps and we turned on the olympics. The bigs were coloring and playing with legos. I fell asleep in my chair for a while and DD fell asleep on the couch, so a fairly quiet afternoon all around. We had a quick dip in the pool late afternoon and they headed home. The guys will be here tomorrow to start my massive tree removal project. We are starting to heat up again and are expecting temps of around 107 degrees for this weekend.
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Post by Opti on Aug 1, 2024 1:00:39 GMT -5
Yikes on the temps Sharon and a dancing banana for it all going well. We have high heat index warnings yet again starting later today. I did not do well at a heat index of 107 so I am glad to not have to deal with 107 as a starting temp. <- melted Opti Going to a laundromat with a friend later today. Laundry is on site for me, but it requires several sets of stairs and more walking than I feel safe with in this heat. So since I will only have to get laundry from the vehicle into the laundromat and back, I should be able to do slightly larger loads of laundry. I'm going to limit myself to two as I already made my arms do too much work yesterday. Did manage to get my hydration closer to what it should be, but also realized since I don't fully mimic my working day, I am hydrating later overall than I would at work. I am also taking longer baths than I would on a work morning because it makes my right knee and leg feel better if I soak a bit longer.
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Post by busymom on Aug 1, 2024 9:47:17 GMT -5
Good Morning Kids! The heat has been brutal here. I don't need a 100 degree heat index, followed by heavy rain. The "pond" is back on the property behind our place, and we're supposed to get more rain a good chunk of the day.
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Post by Opti on Aug 1, 2024 10:32:16 GMT -5
Yikes Busy. I don't know if we have hit the heat index of 100 or higher yet but the warning/watch was for 10A to 8P. Its brutally humid. Got a load of laundry done due to my friend and even got to see the location I'd like to be promoted to. Nice laundromat. Haven't had to use one since the last year in my old house.
Its also nice to have someone coach as to how the do things at a laundromat so you don't need to waste quarters or time. Do need to put stuff away, but want to make lunch first.
Crestie did a 90 degree turn while I was gone, so I hope that means he is improving. Was hanging down looking at the open end and turned to hang down in the artificial plant leaves I think to sleep.
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Post by busymom on Aug 1, 2024 21:07:42 GMT -5
Good Evening Kids! Considering I didn't do a lot of physical activity today, I'm exhausted. I went to check out a home respite center for DS. Once again I hit a LOT of road construction, and when I was within a mile of my destination, the road was dug up, and the pile of dirt where the road used to be was higher than my house. Luckily, I had both my Garmin and my cell phone maps app with me, so using both of them, plus some advice from a helpful construction worker, I managed to find my way there. The house, in a residential neighborhood, looked like a normal house on the outside, but inside was remodeled beautifully. It actually looked like something from the Parade of Homes inside, but set up nicely for folks with just about any disability. The only thing that would make it better would be a wider bathroom, for say, someone in a wheelchair, but otherwise was very well thought out. It turns out a private family has set up several houses just like this one. (They used to work with special needs kids in their school district, and realized that there is a shortage of both respite houses & group homes.) I might use this place for DS someday. We've managed for many years to get by without respite, but DH is almost retirement age, and it would do DS some good to be away from home a night or two now and then. There's lots of planning to do when you've got a child with special needs.
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Post by Opti on Aug 2, 2024 7:00:26 GMT -5
I'm up and getting ready for my day. Gave Crestie just a little watered down powder with some powdered minerals in it too. He was underwhelmed but he did at last take about 4 licks of it in, so its a start. Last night he got some olive leaf extract in his water to drink. That he drank more of, and he actually held his head up off the wood for sometime after drinking it.
So hoping he is still on his path to being better. My knee appointment is later in the day, so need to plan things out soon. Scared and hopeful on the knee front.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 2, 2024 7:15:10 GMT -5
Good luck at your doctor appt, opti.
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Post by Opti on Aug 2, 2024 7:55:30 GMT -5
Good luck at your doctor appt, opti. TY!
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Post by Opti on Aug 2, 2024 7:58:03 GMT -5
Need to figure out what to do today. My Buster Brown anklet socks came in, and I think they are going to work. Probably should wash at least one pair before calling it a success. Wondering if I should return the other socks I bought as they are too tight by the elastic and exchange them for another set of Buster Brown socks in different colors?
Might be smarter than cutting up the other ones a bit to see if they might work for me.
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Post by toomuchreality on Aug 2, 2024 8:47:27 GMT -5
Although I want to see my grands and DD2, I really don't want to drive that far today. I hate driving in traffic.
I need to get my car washed, first thing, this morning. I can't stand the filth any more. EVERYTHING shows on this car.
I'm going to DD1's tonight, for dinner (chicken breasts, cooked on their smoker and rice). To celebrate DD1's birthday, that was Tuesday.
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