GM Nostr friends. I moved up to the 7.5mg Zepbound shot this week, and man, it is making me so tired and anxious. Can't stop yawning even as I type this out. Ugh. Come here, coffee.

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Found this just lying on the sidewalk on my morning walk with Lu. Didn't touch, but it was so pretty. Very small, maybe the size of a deck of cards.

GM Nostr friends, and happy Juneteenth to my US-based Nostriches. I work for a university, so I have today off. Planning to get some cleaning done around the house, including sweeping away all the spiderwebs that conveniently appear all around our front door. It needs to be done, but I absolutely dread it. Very afraid of spiders. I know, they're good for the environment and control the pests, but the way they move just absolutely creeps me out. Taking some time first thing this morning to just enjoy my breakfast and coffee before I get moving. It's only just after 8am here, and the world is just waking up. It's peaceful. Have a great Thursday, all.

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GM all! A nice icy glass of protein coffee, some good tunes, and a puppy sleeping her bed next to me. It's a pretty good morning. Enjoy your Tuesday.

Long hair dilemma: my hair tie hurts my scalp today, but it's also very humid. If I leave it down, hot. If I put it up, hurt. What do? 🤨

GN Nostr friends. Hubs and I are home from our weekend trip. I was pretty sick with side effects from my Zepbound shot yesterday, but thankfully we had a good day Friday before our concert. The hotel was awesome and we had a great view of Duluth harbor. Glad to be home in my own space, though.

GM Nostr friends. Happy Friday! Hubs and I are up at the North Shore again. Got to watch a ship come into the bay first thing this morning. He was so excited. Windy and cold , but we have a ten minute walk to our concert this evening.

GM Nostr friends Church for us this morning looks a little different. It's Serve Day, where the congregation is encouraged to sign up for an area and then go out and do something. Hubs and I were originally going to help with the church garden, but then switched to going shopping for items for the local food shelf. I'm looking forward to it. I hope all the activities today help out around the community and show the love of Jesus!

I just came across a note talking about how the GLP-1 drugs are a total cop out, and people need to just eat better and exercise. Just wanted to add my thoughts to this, as I both somewhat agree, and also got fairly upset. Diabetes runs in my family. And when I mean runs, I mean everyone minus my dad. I grew up with a mom who was morbidly obese, and three of us lived off one income. That led to a lot of cheap hamburger helper/mac&cheese dinners and heavily processed bologna sandwiches for me for the majority of my childhood up until high school. I was an overweight kid with some bad genetics to back it up. However, the older I got the more interested I became in nutrition. Unfortunately, some of my genetics have caught up with me so I now have high blood pressure, borderline high cholesterol, sleep apnea, and diabetes. A lot of the habits I learned growing up have been so, so hard to break - even though I know they're slowly killing me. Every day is a learning process. For a long time, I lived with a lot of self-loathing and didn't care what I put into my body, as long as it tasted good. I know, the damage just continued. I blew up to 270 lbs (122kg) a few years ago, tried to get things under control and made it down to the 220s. Then my mom died from the years she had been suffering from kidney failure, and I was left living with and taking care of my distraught dad who had been her primary caregiver through years of heart surgery, hospital stays, and then 20+ months in a nursing home watching her kidneys fail. I got back up to the 270s after some health issues of my own (non-cancerous tumor on my bladder) and hip issues. All this backstory to say, for a lot of people on these same GLP-1 drugs it's very very hard to do the right things for yourself, even when you know it's portion control, exercise, strength-training, and not sitting behind a desk 8+ hours a day. Do I want to be on a med that makes me nauseated, exhausted, and that's looked down on by the "skinny" people of the world? Hell to the no. I want to be healthy. To not wear size XXL and be uncomfortable in an airplane seat, and I'm not even as big as a lot of people on Wegovy/Ozempic/Zepbound/Monjaro. Just...please. When you want to shit on the drugs and the people taking them, remember that for a lot of us, this is the second chance we've never been able to hope for. I feel like I have a second chance at living a normal life. Are the side effects worth it? Some days yes, some days no. But I can see a future now when I have learned when to put the fork down, and pick up my dumbbells and get my sweat on.

GM Nostr friends. We're being lame today and staying home from church (watching online instead) because Hubby is embarrassed about how long his hair is getting and needs a trim. 😆 So grateful for my life today. I'm sipping my iced coffee and enjoying time with Hubby and Lu.

GM Nostr friends. Well, we're definitely not in a fire zone anymore. It's absolutely pouring and the wind is blowing hard. Lu was so excited for her morning walk, but as soon as I opened the front door, she started backing away. I ended up dragging her outside for a quick pee. She was very disgruntled when we got back in. Poor girl hates being wet. I've been working on getting a query working on and off for almost three days now, and it's driving me nuts. Maybe the crappy weather outside will keep me focused and possibly have a breakthrough with the fields that aren't playing nice. Fingers crossed on that. Stay safe, have a terrific Tuesday all!