Made it through my 18 hour fasting today. It was a lot easier than last week, and I only cheated yesterday with an iced coffee. Stomach rumbling getting to a minimum!

Yesterday morning, my thinking prior to leaving for church: Hm, things have been going well with leaving Lu for a few hours while we're at church. Lu (thinking): I'm done being a good girl for today. *Myself and Hubby checking on Lu via camera before church starts, note that kennel door is somehow open and Lu is nowhere in sight*: 🤨🤔😒🙄 Upon returning home, we find she managed to not only get out of her kennel, but poop outside her diaper on top of my heating pad (thankfully the diaper caught her pee), which was folded up on the floor near Hubby's couch. Commence him freaking out (he is a germaphobe, and barely handles having the dog around at all) while I try desperately to balance Lu being terrified out of her mind while he yells at her and clean up the mess. No way he would allow me to just clean and wash the heating pad, it had to be thrown out and then he was pissed the rest of the day, insisting the house smelled like dog poo even after I sprayed everywhere and lit a candle. I really hate Sundays.

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GM Nostr friends! Sipping my plain (bland, boring, acidic k-cup) coffee this morning for Day 3 of my new Intermittent Fasting process. Made it 18 hours yesterday, hoping to get to 20:4 for my ratio and just see how I feel. So far, it's been pretty good. I feel energetic and once the hunger pains go away, it's not hard at all. We'll see if I stick with it long-term. I do love breakfast. Other than that, it's Friiiiiiiiday! Hubby purchased the audiobook of Project Hail Mary some time ago, so I'm listening to it now. Pretty dang great story so far. Lots of humor, and even if I don't follow most of the science-y stuff, it's still very well written. Hopefully I can finish it while the movie is still in theaters! Have a great day, y'all!

Chillin. #dogstr

GM Nostr friends. It's Tuesday, the birds are chirping, and I'm finally no longer sore from moving furniture this past weekend. (Oof.) Not a ton going on around here. I'm getting the final worrisome mole excised this morning off my left thigh, so excited to be almost done. Hubby's mom let us have their solid oak headboard and side cabinets, which we moved into our bedroom this past weekend. (Hence the soreness and various scratches getting that monstrosity up the stairs.) We finally have a grown up bedroom - what a difference from the headboard I had used since I was in middle school! Started doing some reading into the whole intermittent fasting process/way of life, and I'm going to try it for a while as I slowly get off my GLP-1 shot. We'll see how this goes - I'm hopeful. Enjoy your Tuesday, all!

Loving the themes on Ditto, @Soapbox team!

GE Nostr friends. Well, Snowmageddon 2026 didn't happen. We're supposed to continue getting snow through the later evening, but it's mostly done. All said, we got probably about 11", which is nothing to sneeze at. Hubby is still disappointed. 😜 Made a roast in the crockpot and just finished dinner. It was delicious. Lu was quite upset we didn't share, but Hubby made it with french onion soup mix so she would've been sick. I still feel bad telling her no - she went to the end of the couch and pouted and wouldn't respond. Watching a Banana Ball game - Coconuts vs Clowns - to round out a pretty good weekend. Have a good evening, all!

GE Nostr friends. Just checking in. The last few days have been busy for me at work, so I've just been head down. Everybody doing okay?

GM Nostr friends. Back to the fiat mines today. Anyone have a Wavlake playlist for focus they'd be willing to share?

GM Nostr friends. Finally Saturday! Last night I went to dinner and bingo with some friends, and had a great time. Didn't get home until almost 10pm, which is crazy late for me. Hubby was so sweet - I did some of my laundry earlier in the day, and he took it out, folded, and put most of it away. Also cleaned up around the house and took Lu out. It was lovely. Oh, and I also won $100. NBD. ☺️ Today so far has been some chores around the house while listening to the Once We Were Spacemen podcast. Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion just chatting with each other and guests? Sign me up. Trying to get some of my dad's saved recipes and old photos sorted and scanned this morning so I can have them for always. Lots of feels, but I mostly made it through without any tears, so props to me! Have a lovely Saturday, all.

GA Nostr friends. I had a tough last couple days. Hubby and I have butted heads many times over Lulu. Monday night he was in a bad mood already due to some miscommunication between us earlier about the dog earlier in the day. We ended up working it out by bed time, but it was still tense for several hours that wore on us both. I ended up bawling, because this is the kind of thing I used to talk through with my dad, so I just ended up missing him intensely in addition to being stressed out. Tuesday morning I wasn't feeling good in the stomach region, and ended up losing it all over the carpet and bathroom. Literally the worst mess I've ever had to clean up, and it was my own doing. Nothing like trying to clean your own vomit out of the carpet when you already don't feel well! Now our carpet is permanently stained. I just ordered a runner rug to cover it up until we eventually get it replaced. Feeling better today after a decent sleep. Nice to have some calories in my system too. I still have to look at the carpet and feel awful about it, though. Every day is a new day, right? Just trying to get through a tough start to the week. Hope everyone is having a decent week.

#AskNostr What's the best non-KYC option for buying bitcoin using US-based options? (Venmo/Cash App/Zelle) I was using BitcoinWell, but even if they're non-custodial, they're still KYC. RoboSats very rarely has any offers with payment options I can use. I'm not signing up for Strike, and I for sure will not buy USDC or Monero just to swap for BTC.

GM Nostr friends. Maybe someone can interpret this for me? I have a recurring dream that I'm wandering around in a parking garage (I'd assume the one I use for when I have to go into the office), and I can't find my car. Often I'm alone, but sometimes someone else is with me, and I'm frustrated, walking up and down the rows trying to find it. I distinctly remember parking and knowing where the car was when I left, but whenever I get back, it's not where I left it. I spend each dream doing everything I can to find my dang car while getting frustrated to the point of tears. Wandering up and down and through each ramp, asking people for help, and just not being able to find it until I finally wake up.

Hubby is in the bathroom cleaning, and started singing the Katy Perry 'I kissed a Girl' tag line of the song, off-key, and then starts over. He doesn't know any more of it. Cracks me up. 🤪

I'm looking to try out Keet more, as an alternative to Signal. Tired of Signal going unresponsive anytime there's an AWS outage. Only using Keet to follow their main news and bug discussions right now (and @oshi's store updates), so please feel free to message me! Keet.io : @j0jobaer

GM Nostr friends. Just ran across a funny photo from a few nights ago on the rare occasion that Lu stayed on Hubby's lap long enough for me to snap a photo. (She usually goes to him for about 30 seconds to get some butt scratches, and then jumps down to come back to me.) Love these two. 🥰 Happy Friday, all!

GM Nostr friends. It's Thursday. Hubby and I are starting to talk about becoming semi-permanent snowbirds after retirement, hopefully somewhere in northern Arizona or somewhere similar. (We don't want the Tucson degrees of heat.) Despite living my whole life in Minnesota and being "used to it", I've always hated winter. We got another couple inches of snow last night after having almost a week of Spring-like weather. I'm so excited at the thought of being somewhere warm in the colder months. No more snow. No falling on tricky patches of ice. Just warmth and not a flake in the sky (or maybe just a dusting - I'm okay with that.) Ahh. 🌵☀️

Deleted my Whatsapp and Discord accounts a few days ago. Toooooo much creepy oversight and AI slop getting thrown in without users' consent. Now if I could get rid of FB (Hubby and his fam all use it), and find my good memes somewhere other than Instagram, I'd be all set. (Already don't use Tiktok or any of the other "kiddie" social media apps.)

GM Nostr friends. Happy Saturday, and Valentine's Day. 🥰 Tired here today. Hubby just left to go work at his mom's house for part of the day. I have claimed my spot on the couch, with Lu right next to me. It's going to be a good day.