Weekly status report, and a little bit of whining

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Wow, - what drama, you must be exhausted from the stress and worry. Do take care of yourself...

Weekly status - T (sis) and I went to WW yesterday; I lost 1.2 lbs; she found them. Given the week we had (with Mom in the hospital and rehab unit, and still trying to clear out her house for sale), it's amazing that we went in two different directions.

I did a little bit of movement yesterday; reorganizing Mom's bedroom so it will be easier for her to get around once she gets home. She had 6 or 7 banker's boxes of stuff to keep from the house, but that and the recliner chair made it an obstacle course to get to the bathroom. I then took those over and loaded them into the newly rented storage unit.

Today, I still need to box up some more stuff in her trunk, meet T at the house, and continue to pull stuff out for the storage unit. A couple of the siblings have set aside roughly a carload of stuff each they want from the house, but neither has a car and they are not arranging so far for someone to help them move it. Sis and I are getting pretty tired of the process; we've been working on the house as we could for the last 9 months. She and I have each sucked up 3 weeks of "vacation" time to work on this, without much help from the other 3 sibs; together we've done 85% of what's been done. Taking dozens of trips to Goodwill and recycling, and hauling, at last count, nearly 60 yards of junk to rented dumpsters at different times.

My workload at the office has also effectively doubled over the last week or so. I need to get in some extra hours, but will probably just go in extra early tomorrow to prep for the 8:30 meeting. Maybe I can work 6 to 3, or something like that. Since I have Mom's car, that would make it easier.

Cancelled the beach weekend for the second time; there's no way we could do it next weekend, even if Mom was able, the house isn't done yet.

My plan last week:

Get back to doing water - better but not as good as I was.

Take the thyroid meds - yes, except I forgot last night

Let go of anger towards my brother and sister-in-law - there is no UP side to it; they won't change - this is much harder. Years of bad history there.

Use cardio to help with the anger issue (stomp stomp stomp) - did not do ANY formal exercise this week. More on that later.

Get to bed earlier during this stressful time - eh, sort of. Watched less TV so I was better able to get to sleep at night.

I kept begging off the exercise last week because I had no meal plans in place, because of visiting Mom, because I was fed up with lack of wt progress, etc. By Wed AM, I decided to hell with it - I'll just take the week off. Mom can get settled in rehab, we can figure out the new routine for visits, etc. and we would get some exercise working on the house. I'm still taking Thurs-Mon off even though we're not doing the beach trip, so I can put in some more time on house. T really should not be lifting much; it's only been a month or so since her injury (rib fracture, collapsed lung).

This week's plan:

back to cardio, at least once, preferably twice

back to the pool, twice

update logs for MD appt on the 13th, to show weight plateau, but that I'm (mostly) doing things right with exercise

Get better on the water thing

OK, now it's off to box stuff...

Eileen in OR