Hello!    Things are really good thanks! The car did get sorted! I have my freedom again and I will celebrate that by leaving my house as infrequently as possible. I haven't been updating but I have still been doing my challenge and I actually earned my first prize today so it's timely you checked up on me!      I can also get my second prize tomorrow - I didn't expect to be doing so well but here we are!     

That is what I've heard. I was unsuccessful at that, but I had a friend whose raspberry bushes were wonderful

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I would 100% be asking them to leave the second it happened. Politely, but firmly. It's dangerous and it's violent, and without consent it's absolutely assault. Trust withdrawn. I would not want to be touched at all after that.

It's hard to resist bbq but it seems like this no-stress is working well enough.  Got to enjoy life too!     Great progress!     vacation is hard!  And coming back to routines is hard too.  

Starting Weight (6/14) 252.8  W1 6/17: 252.3 (-0.5) W2 6/24: 251.0 (-1.3) W3 7/2: 254.8 (+3.8) W4 7/8: 251.7 (-3.1)   Almost recovered from my long weekend trip to Seattle.  I was with my college bestie and our eating habits did not mesh well.  She was a bad influence but I own my choices.  No worries though, I dropped the vacation weight very quickly but then more poor choices this weekend.  I'm hoping to get back to normal again and have the scale recover again.  I am seeing weigh ins in the 250 range so I am pretty sure today's weigh in includes some additional bloat from my weekend and am not that worried.     We officially move in 2 weeks so making an effort to eat out of the freezer.  Some of the freezer food fits my meal plan well, others don't really but we plan to get through as much as we can.  

Yuck.  Get rest, feel better.

I made some last year, and it turned out delicious.  And then I ate it all. 😋     Yeah, it isn't that difficult, but soooo time consuming with the peeling and the boiling (twice!) and the drying.  At least by getting it this way, I save myself a lot of trouble and support a local business, so win-win.   My new oven is finally here!  It is installed and steam cleaned to remove the funky chemical smell and is now ready for an inaugural bake.  I'm thinking chocolate chip date cake.  And then jalapeño jack focaccia, since the sourdough has mysteriously vanished (and I don't do sourdough...yet).   Monday is my weekly cleaning day, so not a lot of time for chilling, but I am hydrating, so there's that.  Maybe some art will happen later this afternoon/evening.  I have hopes that I can finish this piece today and move on to subjects that interest me more.   More of my new dahlias have bloomed.  Half of the ones that have bloomed are the correct type, and about half are singles instead of doubles.  There were 2 different packs of 3, so I am wondering if one was mislabeled or I grabbed the wrong thing 🤔  But they are the same color, so maybe some of them are "sports"?     The one on the left is correct.  Ish.  Iirc, it was supposed to have white tips.    

Okay want to share of another life goal... awareness The vacation was a double edged sword...     So going to write down what I believe will be my next personal goals.. after defeating 2 sleep demons.  So to work on tools in the future: Join Codependent Anonymous meetings (goal is 2-4 meetings a week), Meditation, Journaling... being in the moment. Its the mental/social health that seems to get me more lately.  I will hope to find space to show up the above but will not be tracking currently. Sleep demon always makes me think its not that important to defeat...

7/7   45 min walk    5/8 45 Ruck (30 lbs)