Brekky- 2 cups loaded coffee, 2 eggs, 1 peice deli meat, raisin toast with pb Lunch- 2 low cal yogurt, granola Snack- 1 loaded coffee, chocolate milk  Supper- Cereal Snack- Chocolate milk   Afternoon    So the old me only ate twice a day, but I remember how bitchy I used to be. Probably from always being hungry. I never had loaded coffees either, just some milk and splenda.    So now I'm eating multiple times a day. For lunch today I had yogurt and granola. One of my fav foods!   Well, I'm not quitting vaping. I was able to get my own vape juice today. The parking lot at the store is tiny and I suck at parking, so I actually parked at my church and walked across the parking lot. So yay for being an adult and getting my own juice.   ----------   MIL picked up the kids from school, then we took them to swim lessons and my one kid did great! The other..was very defiant. And remained defiant the rest of the night. I'm missing my hubby, he's my rock and I hate when he's not around. But he has to do jobs like this sometimes, good money tho.   I'm gonna try and do weights and treadmill tonight when the kids are in bed. Hopefully I'll feel better then. I still feel a little under the weather from Thanksgiving.   ----------   So I am making a promise to myself to make sure I start working out again. I'm honestly tired of all the pacing and thinking that should be my only form of exercise, it's not what I want. My goal (and I have to keep reminding myself) is to become fit. So I need to prioritize working out 5x a week. Weights 4x and interval training 5x. Weekends off.    I want to do a body recomp. Not caring about the number on the scale anymore.   My MIL and SIL go to a fitness class twice a week at church and the instructor uses 20lbs! She's tiny and not bulky, so hopefully I won't become bulky when o get to lifting 10lbs. I won't be eating at surplus so I shouldn't bulk up. Instead I will eat 1800 which is just below maintenance when I'm not pacing a bunch. I'll cap steps at 15k, which I achieve this by pacing first thing in the morning, dog walk and treadmill. Let's gooooo.   ----------   Had an afternoon snack of a loaded coffee and chocolate milk.   ----------   Got the kids fed supper, cleaned up and in bed. I had a simple but yummy big bowl of cereal for supper!    Got my workout in! Did 7lb weights at 7 while the kids watched and joined in.   Got them in bed and went on the treadmill once they were asleep at 9:30! Late night workout, made me sleepy after. Then I had some chocolate milk and bed for me.   Nighty night 🌙 😴   

Unrelated: Who drew your avatar, @titsworth? Love it.

Sending vibes for a smooth transition to new servers. Yay for new servers! (I mean, I guess. I suppose that it’s a good thing.) Anyway, huzzah!

Great news about the hip! Sorry (and solidarity) to hear that other things are being wonky; maybe from compensating for the hip? Bodies are weird.   May you have better rest tonight.  

Watched tonight’s episode of Agatha All Along,  and it’s getting pretty good, if you like that sort of thing (which I do).  Also, after having watched two seasons of Heartbreaker,  I would have thought I was in a bit of a Joe Locke overdose, but in fact just the opposite is true. He’s just an amazing actor.   I haven’t read any of the Dewey that James and I will talk about next week, but that’s next week. I’m mentally and emotionally spent. I hope I can recharge enough to get to the sauna tomorrow morning. There’s a lot going on tomorrow, and I really need the centering that I find in the steam room and sauna after a mile-long walk. I think I’ll be prioritizing this in the morning when I wake up, regardless of what the clock time is. I’m not going to sugar coat it: I’m nervous.   All will be well. The Universe loves me and wants me to be happy. ❤️ 

Today was a rough day. I was lost in bad memories and feelings and there was brooding. We got to Dark Knight Tier of Brooding.     My dad was telling me about Fun Batman and how he really hates the serious Dark Knight stuff. He misses the Fun Batman       Fun Batman does sound like fun.   One more Batman.. but actually my favorite Robin and Batman   .   Okay I think we're good here.  Have a good night!

That is awesome! I'm so relieved to hear you've had positive benefits from it. Notifications are so disruptive. I kept feeling like I had to be available all the time, and then I realized "No I don't!"  Right now, I still feel like I'm on hold, so I'm looking forward to that feeling going away.      Honestly, I felt like I was doing okay yesterday but today I struggled hard and while I don't regret sharing, I don't want to spend any more time on him.   Thanks for the welcome!! To answer all your questions. It's a 5 string banjo, with metal strings and a resonator that I can remove once I find instructions on how to do that.  it has frets, no tuning levers.. I don't know about a tone ring, I had to google what that was even with your description and I'll check if the banjo has it. Heck, I'll just take a picture of it next time I practice it. It took forever to wrap my head around the 5th string, like it's just this thumb in a hand of strings lol.    Your banjo sounds great! That's  really cool you've been playing a whole year now. I am an absolute beginner so I couldn't correct you if you are wrong about anything. It sounds like you've learned quite a bit in just a year, so that's super cool! Did you take a class or did you do an online tutorial or how are you learning banjo?  I've been playing for a few weeks. I'm doing a 30 day tutorial, and have been on day 7 for 2 weeks. I'm really enjoying taking my time, and I love that the instructor encourages this too. This is the tutorial I'm doing. I like this dude, he is slow and thorough and he shares songs to listen to that are interesting. I don't have picks yet, that's going on the wish list. do you use picks? Do I really need picks? I don't really want them.  Capos. Oh man, okay. I don't know about those either.        YAY! I hope it helps a lot!

+ Thank you...it's really hard for me to do things like this and it's nice to have some confirmation that I'm not crazy for feeling this way! ❤️    I have some magnesium cream with vit d and pain relief that I rub on my legs before bed, I can tell a difference in how relaxed I am but I still tend to wake up 😕      Thank you, ❤️ 

Of course you do! ❤️ 

CW: You are going to sob and be healed and experience joy.    also the producer took the approach of painting all the surfaces in the movie as if an abstract canvas. This is apparently (CGI is not my field) a departure from the standard approach of wrapping textures around objects. Either way, the art is striking.