Progress = My Pants Falling Off:
Well, there’s some progress on the diet…I’ve lost 14 pounds as of a week and a half ago, and some of my pants are getting baggy enough that a small yank would send me into HELLO! territory. The dietician-types were quite happy with what I was doing, gave me some refineness and suggestions, and I’m trying to work those into the day-to-day stuff here at home. I do very little of the cooking, and I’m really NOT a good cook, but I know good food. Susan and her mom do the cooking, but (1) her mom is not a terribly organized or good cook, and tends to throw some familiar stuff together at the last minute, with loads of starch or carbs. And (2) Susan’s a far better cook, but too tired or preoccupied to really be very inspired about it. And too used to a higher starch/carb level than I really can do, and lower levels of fiber. So I’m doing a lot of scratching together of stuff during weekdays, and some weekends, depending on how busy Susan is.
The hole in my foot has healed up some since the basement flood, but it’s still 17 by 7 on the surface, 9 deep (all in mm’s). It’s really getting to me, since I can’t walk much or for long without stressing it, and I’m a little stir-crazy. Every week, I go in to see the doc who works it over a little and keeps passing back to me the paperwork I need for work that say ‘let him work at home’. But there’s no end in sight. *big big sigh*
Everyone in the household has been really racked over by allergies - both Susan and Mere to the point of going to the docs for sinus infections or other allergic stuff - and while I’m not hit as bad as they have been (Susan’s been at home two days this week sick, which rarely happens), I’ve been out of it with this rot - including a ongoing case of allergic conjunctivitis, which makes it hard to read or look at things like the TV or the computer.
Add to that ongoing computer connection problems; there seems to be some sort of transient problem in the router that is hashing up transferring bigger files through the network or outside, and screwing up connectivity to the office. I can still do stuff, but you never know when something’s going to go blooey or the internet is going to fail. I need to make sure EVERYTHING on my end is straight before I go after Comcast, because if I don’t, there will be a ring-around-the-rosy of ‘well, it’s your equipment and setup, not ours’ crap with them.
And that has eaten a colossal amount of time.