Thursday September 4, 2025

 



Since 2025 has been a horrible year so far (from a diet and exercise perspective), I decided to restart the year in early August. I'm titling my blog's with the date, because I tend not to write every day and it gets hard to keep track of the days. I will still try to capture everything I've been up to when I do write.


I haven't written since Saturday 8-30 and not much has changed. I celebrated my 63rd birthday on Sunday at Kim & Joe's house. We had a nice meal (burgers, pasta salad, corn, cake & ice cream) and made some "friendship bracelets" for the Swifties boat cruise we're going on Saturday 9-6. I'm not really a Taylor Swift fan, so I'm just going for the boat ride and (hopefully) dinner afterward  ! I did nothing much on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday was rock & roll bingo and that was fun. We didn't win and the categories were really hard but I enjoyed the night out !


That brings to me today ! The day started off warm and sunny but around 2 pm a blast of heavy rain moved in. It didn't last long - maybe a half hour total. It's still gloomy out and the radar shows another storm to our southwest, so more rain may be on the way. Today was the first day of school and I happened to be up in time to see the neighbors 4 little ones file across the street to get on the bus. Mom was out there taking video and it was so cute. The neighborhood will be quieter now that they're in school all day.


I spent the morning watching YouTube and playing the online slots. I got a shower in early and had lunch about 11:30. It was the leftovers from the pizza I had last night. It was delicious after 5 minutes in the air fryer !


My new security cameras are supposed to be delivered today. I'm looking forward to having cameras that actually show what is going on outside, like my laundry room camera. My hot fix glue tool came the other day so I'm going to read how that works and get the stones replaced on my shoe.


I've decided that I'm going to cancel Nutrisystem and try to eat sensibly on my own. I still have a lot of lunch & dinner items, so I'll finish those off before I go crazy buying a bunch of food to meal prep.



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