I found three more options for ltc today to replace yesterday’s three options. If she doesn’t like these, she’ll have to shop her closet again.

Maybe show her pictures of girls who made their dresses out of flour sacks in the depression?

Ozempic update: Semaglutides were no match for the power of pie, mashed potatoes and the damn box of See's candy sent to us. Backsliding occurred. The plan is to try to hold serve during the holidays but I'll have to do better than that.

Stitches Update: The stitches on my forehead have dissolved and the scabbing is done and it looks fine. I still have the steri-strips on my arm stitches and still trying to keep that from getting wet in the shower though it should be healed by now.

Matilda is off in Santa Cruz with her beau until the 18th, so I should do some wrapping while she's out of the house, and get some presents under the tree.

Things That Must Be Done Today:
Wrapping Presents
Clean Guinea Pig Cage
Vacuum
Wash Dishes
Do Laundry

So taskful! I also have Pilates this afternoon.

This year has been both impossibly long and impossibly short.

AHAHAHA. Yes.

Hope you are holding up ok, Plei

It's our office "Merry Mingle" office party this afternoon, apparently they are giving us beer and wine! That has never happened before, not during office hours. I think they served wine during one guy's retirement party but only to specific people. I imagine it is because we probably aren't having an offsite company party in January (we didn't this past January, we got mass layoffs instead, hopefully that will not recur)

Hec, if I do that she’ll decide she is a horrible person who everyone hates and cry for the rest of the night. Preteen hormones are not to be trifled with.

I came really late to caring about clothes. Which made my Endoraesque grandma despair of me in another direction , but I've upped my game a bit now. I thought it was, like, really quiet for the holidays on here, but I got logged out.(I was about an hour from climbing through the thread ceiling like Bender all "You didn't come here to hunt, did you?" and, also, yay for my huge list of passwords)

Ozempic update: Semaglutides were no match for the power of pie, mashed potatoes and the damn box of See's candy sent to us. Backsliding occurred. The plan is to try to hold serve during the holidays but I'll have to do better than that.

This is why I have to track my food. That way I have a ballpark idea of where my intake is for most days. (On Thanksgiving I didn't bother to track what I ate, since it's one day and I was by god going to eat pie and then eat pie again watching football later that night.) But I also know some people don't track food because it makes them too obsessive and makes them feel like they're on the outskirts of eating disorder territory. My own personal brain is a little too lax to not track.

I increased my dose from 2.5 mg to 5.0 mg this week, and so far no bad GI side effects have happened, hooray! Still holding steady at 28 pounds down since May, 18 of which is since I started Zepbound in August.

Two glasses of wine and brought the third back to my desk to finish the day. Successful mingle? Perhaps, I only mingled with people from my department, but I don't get a lot of chances to chat with them so that was actually nice. 'This calls for a spreadsheet" Christmas sweater was a big hit, thanks, Hec! we all agreed the no fanfare demise of the Turkey coupon for Thanksgiving was disappointing, but one of my department-mates won $500 in the Outlet sale raffle, so that was nice.

Our new contractor starts tomorrow, and my boss is on vacation after Friday, and our VP is out week after next, and our new manager starts before my boss gets back, so this will be an interesting couple of weeks. My boss said I'd be in charge and I said I would try not to crash into a tree, so I feel like expectations are ok.

I still have most of a glass of Cabernet and, like, 5 little dessert type things to see me through the next hour...

I'm definitely tempted by the crossword tournament. I'll need to check on my semester schedule, and when spring break is, and when Passover is, and all of that, before I can decide, though.

I'm nearly done with everything I need to do for this semester. Only thing left is submitting the grades for one class. That should take about fifteen minutes, max. But I can't do it until someone else finishes up a spreadsheet first, and so I'm just waiting on that.

Oh, man, waiting for someone to finish something before you can finish your part is a trial!

ltc is keeping three out of the six items I bought her today, and she has something to wear for her holiday concert tomorrow. I’ll take that as a win.