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Ok, so it’s been another busy week or two.  I’ve not gotten to swim the past week cuz the water’s just too chilly.  The daytime temp gets up to the upper 70’s, but at night it’s been getting down to the 59-60 degree range.  And the water temp is now down to 70.  I tried a couple of days, but the chill of the water causes me to hurt too much.  So we’re shutting the pool down for the season.  We’re hoping to enclose and heat it before next winter.  That will be a very good thing.

 My diet isn’t going too good at the moment.  I’m bored and lonely.  Micheal had to go up to southern Indiana for work, and I’m home alone.  Not good when it comes to dieting.  I don’t do alone very well, which has a direct effect on my diet.  But I’m working on it.

 I am trying to get some alternative exercise in.  I’m shopping again…something I’d virtually quit doing when I was able to swim every day.  And I’ve been doing a few things around the house that I’d been putting off.  One of our neighbors offered to mow the front lawn while Micheal’s gone (if it’s gonna need mowing again) but I’ll still have to take care of the trimming and the back yard.  Gee, it’s been years since I pushed a mower or handled a trimmer!  I wonder if I still know how…LOL!!!

I’m still into my photography.  I’m thinking I may go out tomorrow with my camera and do some drive-by shootings…LOL!!!  I was at the drive-through at the bank yesterday and got caught by the teller pointing my camera at the wall of the bank.  She wanted to know what I was taking pictures of.  There happened to be a Luna moth on the wall and I was snapping pictures of it.    I guess that would be called a drive-through shooting…haha!

 Well, guess I’ll read a few blogs then see what kind of trouble I can get myself into.

I have to get back into this blogging!  I get busy during the day doing other things and forget to take time out for this. 

 I’ve been staying pretty busy this week.  We fared well during Hanna last weekend.  She just brushed us.  We got a little wind and a lot of rain, but that’s it.  We still don’t have everything back out of the shed and in its normal place, but we’ll get there.

 I haven’t even gotten to swim most of the week.  Sunday and Monday, that’s it.  The rest of the week it’s been raining and/or storming, so I’ve been trying to keep myself busy inside.  I did go shopping one day, but other than that…

I always have little things to do here around the house.  I’m still working on decorating, but that will come a little at a time.  I’ve enlarged several of the photos I’ve taken, framed them and hung them in the living room and dining room.  I’m not even done there yet.  I have a lot more I’m gonna enlarge and frame.  But my keychain map is up in the den and all the keychains are in place and Micheal hung shelves in the den for my frogs.  My big antique cherry desk is also in there along with all my books.  Hehe…I gave him the biggest of the two spare bedrooms for his office, but I took the other bedroom for a sewing room and I took the den.  Well, what was I supposed to do?  The den is open to the side of the kitchen, and you have to walk through it to get to the pool.  It’s the first thing you see when you walk in the front door.  Micheal wanted to turn the dining room into his office (the dining room is next to the living room with a 5 ft. open doorway between) and make the den a dining room, or just make the den his office.  I really didn’t want to look at all that computer equipment while I was sitting in the living room or walking through to the kitchen or pool.  Besides, using one of the bedrooms, he can close it off if we have company…especially kids.

 Ok, I gotta get dressed and go to Wally World and pick up a few things before it gets too warm out there.  If it doesn’t rain all day I’m gonna get in the pool!

We’re preparing for company.  Hanna’s coming to see us and we have to get ready!  She should be here sometime Friday.  Her brother and sister will be here not long after her and we have so much to do!  We have to put the patio furniture, BBQ grill and pool toys in the shed, cover the pool, pick up any small loose branches in the yard, finish the video of the interior contents of our house, get our important papers locked away.  Yeah, I’m talking about hurricane Hanna.  I wish it was a person named Hanna, but it’s not.  We’ve never been through a hurricane before.  Our neighbors say there’s not been damage from hurricanes in this area since Hugo, 18 years ago.  We’re not quite sure yet if we’ll head inland or just hang out here.  We’re about 25 miles from the coast, but I’m not sure that’s gonna matter that much.

But, if I go unheard from for a few days, don’t panic.  If we evacuate, my laptop will probably go with me.  If we don’t, we may be without power for a few days, so my laptop will be useless because the battery is shot.  Oh well. 

Ok, so I’m gonna try to curb the stress eating.  Actually, I don’t think there’s gonna be any time for stress eating today!  There’s just too much to do!  I did have some Fiber One for breakfast, so I did good there.  And if we evacuate, I have a bunch of yogurt I’ll pack in my cooler bag and take with me.

 Well, off to get busy.

I know, I’ve been away a while.  Things have been really busy in my life.  I believe I told everybody that we’d moved to South Carolina.  Well, we did one better.  We bought a house in South Carolina…specifically, Goose Creek.  And have I been having fun!  I finally have everything we own unpacked.  When we first moved to SC, I didn’t unpack everything because I didn’t see the use in it, the way we’d been moving around.  Well, now I don’t have to worry about that.  This is home!  And I’ve been decorating…something I’ve not bothered to do in the past.  I’ve even enlarged and framed some of the photos I’ve taken and hung them on the walls.

We’re in town in a very nice subdivision, but we have a full acre of land.  Our house is 1650 sq. ft. with 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths and a den.  But that’s not the best part.  You’re not gonna believe this.  Now hold on…here it comes…we have a 16×32 ft. inground pool in our back yard!!  And guess where I’ve been spending most of my time!  You got it…in the pool.

 Ok, here’s the skinny…I gained back every pound I’d lost since first starting Buddy Slim.  But since I’ve been swimming almost every day, I’ve lost 22lbs of that, so I’m within 8 pounds of my lowest weight on here.  I can get in the pool and exercise my heart out, and it doesn’t hurt me!  And if I’m hurting more than usual, I can get in the pool for a while and the pain eases.  Oh, and another benefit…my psoriasis is gone!  I mean completely gone!!  No more itching!!  The pool?  the sunscreen? the sun? a combination of all three?  I don’t know.  It just disappeared, and I’m not even gonna try to figure it out.  But the pool has been so beneficial to me that Micheal is planning on installing a heating system for it and enclosing it so I can swim when it gets cold!

 Can you tell I’m happy?  You better believe it!  We finally have a place to call home that’s all ours (well, ours and the mortgage company’s), the weight’s finally coming off again, the pain has eased up, the psoriasis is gone, I’m getting brown as a bug and I’m having a blast!

 I’m gonna try to get back on here regular.  If any of my old buddies are still out there, give me a shout!