These are both by full-time employees.

OMG, someone on my hometown Facebook group just asked if anyone remembered an ice cream place called something like "Hagaaz." Multiple people have commented that it was Hager's. Eastern Mass!

Tim's dad's diet sounds pretty much like mine. Frozen dinners and things that can be microwaved or otherwise prepared quickly with little mess, few things that will rot before I bother to eat them. I eat out a lot. If someone came in and threw away the food I bought and gave me kale and rice, I would be furious. Also, even if kale could cook itself, I wouldn't eat it. Who said your SIL sounds more guilty than worried? That seems correct to me.

In health-related news, I saw the doctor this morning. Still slightly elevated blood pressure, and high cholesterol. He wants me to take a low-dose statin. I always said I wouldn't but he was persuasive, with all his "science" and "double-blind studies", so I guess I will. Am I changing my diet significantly? Eventually, maybe, but not now. I just can't make too many changes at one time.

The doctor's scale confirms I've lost a few pounds, on a steady downward trend from last September, which I guess is the right way to do it, slow and steady. It makes me feel like all my effort is not for naught, and I'm feeling much better since we found a BP med I can tolerate and my BP's come down about 20 points systolic. Adding Singulair to the asthma regime helped tremendously, too. There may be something to this modern medicine thing.

Glad to hear it, Zen!

What do we want? Incremental change! When do we want it? In due course!

I'll post it when I've finished.

I am so not looking forward to this bikeshedding meeting this afternoon.

Oh, Liese, I meant to say, this:

Working on this new song. It's about the concept of kintsugi where you repair broken ceramic pottery with gold, emphasizing the damage and honoring the object's passage through time instead of hiding or discarding it. So, kinda intense.

sounds marvelous. I love the concept, and I might be about to do a little sobbing myself just thinking about it. I'd love to hear the song when it's done!

Like I'm going to say no to photo references.

Insent to profile addy.

Go soft butch, Shrift, choose soft butch.

Right?!

My reaction on Tim's dad is "leave him the fuck alone except for when you want to bring over a healthy dinner and eat it with him." And perhaps introduce him to/bring him some healthier frozen options. It's a big deal that he at least understands his limitations enough that he's choosing not to cook. Was it Ginger who said the bag of kale is basically a bag of guilt? Agree. And also a waste of tasty kale.

re: weightloss--I have been in the same 3-4 pound range for years. It's way too much, but it's stable, which is better than gaining, I suppose.