and posting about it solves the problem. The foster that was coming here hurt herself today and had to get stitches, so she is postponing the transfer a couple of weeks and she is staying with her parents. (I am greedily hoping that the parents realize that they can manage having this foster dog with them and the transfer will be called off).

Bottom line, I do not have to get everything cleaned. Still gonna vacuum though,

Phew, msbelle!

I am feeling very virtuous because after work, I went to yoga and then church.

Wow, Jesse! Impressive virtue.

I just got to experience that great joy when you are counting calories when you have worked out the calories for a dish, but then actually use less than you planned. Oh yeah I saved the calories of 1/8 of a cup of pasta sauce!!!!

Oh the joys of measuring every. single. thing.

Woo msbelle! Sorry about the lady getting hurt, but yay for the reprieve.

That is quite virtuous, Jesse.

My moment of virtue today was not having wine when out to dinner. I've been giving up the things on my nutritionist's hate list one at a time. I gave up coffee a couple weeks ago. Now I have given up wine. Next is cheese so I am weaning there a bit. It won't be forever, just until I get my metabolism right.

Oof, Laura, that sounds like a brutal list!

Yikes! Of course, I had dinner with friends tonight and one is gluten free and one can't have cheese, so we got one vegan pizza and one gluten free pizza. It was a little ridic (and pricey!) But I don't want to give up things I like even if they're not good for me! Like ice cream.

I bought a heating pad this weekend and I am loving it so so much. I can't beliebe I didn't have one before this.

But I hope the hyperbolic advisors at least gave you some decent tips. (I've taken a dried out lipstick and mixed it in a little pot [that formerly held some other beauty product sample] with clear lip gloss [the kind that comes in a squeeze tube]. Had to use a lip brush to apply, but saved a gorgeous color!)

I am currently looking for the laziest way possible to do this (reddit suggested coconut oil), because "just buying a new similar shade" is good enough for me, especially if the melting and mixing will require buying more products that I don't have (lip gloss, for example) and the chances of ruining a pot when trying to revive the lipstick.

ION, I'm replacing the battery of my smartphone for the second time in 6 months and my phone isn't with me and I feel the withdrawal. Time to buy a new one, or return to my old dumbphone. Considering how much I am bloody hooked to that ever-self-affirming screen and Twitter, returning to dumbphone does not sound like a bad idea to my grasp of reality and self at this point.

I bought a heating pad this weekend and I am loving it so so much. I can't beliebe I didn't have one before this.

So good! I use mine for an electric blanket, basically.

Oof, Laura, that sounds like a brutal list!

It is. Mostly I think it is shaking things up. In a rut where various dieting efforts just don't do anything. Nutritionist says the cycle of coffee every morning to get going and wine in the evening to unwind creates an external rhythm rather than my internal metabolism doing its thing. Or some such. The dairy denial I think is just because she is mean. Really most everything that is a common allergen is on her list. Boo.

ION, I'm replacing the battery of my smartphone for the second time in 6 months and my phone isn't with me and I feel the withdrawal.

Probably my discomfort with reading stuff on a tiny screen keeps me from using my phone for much of anything. That and sitting at a computer all day every day!