All these stories sound awful. I'm going to be careful tonight. The Caps game is on now. Gotta go!!!
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**Hermes Chat**
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Do not feel alone. Something like this happened to me not that long ago. My eyes did not adjust and I was entering the master BR and ended up in the sitting room that is part of the suite! My DH was already in bed and I had to wake him up to rescue me! lol! I was so totally discombobulated!
EB, that is one heck of a story! You and I need to stay away from ladders and buckets and racehorses!
Scared now. I am sitting. . . Very. . . Still. . . .
Sorry about your head @lulilu !
My family and I are big fans of dinners out on holidays and even catered meals at home. No one ever feels like cleaning up so I say go for it, it's way more fun and relaxing for the host in my opinion.
I am home with the drywall contractor finally patching up all the holes from the bedroom/bath renovation. In a few weeks the final trim work should be done and we're ready for painting and the final finish on the hardwood floors. DH is making me wait till apres Tax Day to purchase our bed but we agreed on a bed from Hypnos, well I decided. We have tried every mattress known to man, we are best pals with mattress salespeople all over our region. I knew DH was like this when I married him but I'm more of a 'I like it, we can afford it, let's buy it' person. He's a let's ponder this monumental decision until our current bed sinks to the floor, read every review online, grill the salespeople on the origin of all the materials inside the mattress, go home and research some more, try to find a better price and then ask me to tell him why I like A vs B more many times to see if I change my answers. To which my response is always, I don't know, I just like it
To destress from slow times at work, the house being under construction for 7 months now and The Great Mattress Decision of 2017, I have become hooked on spin classes. I just signed up for a challenge to complete 20 classes in a month. After 3 weeks of classes, I can finally sit normally again and I find myself looking forward to the two classes a week I'm doing while still working out at home the other days. I was feeling all proud of myself and went to hop on the scale for the first time in a while today and it's dead. New batteries didn't help, I'm guessing the cats knocked it around too much while I was giving it the silent treatment. I don't like to weigh much but didn't realize it had been so long the thing had died. New one arrives tomorrow but my clothes are fitting differently and that's what matters most to my rational self. The vain part of me would like to see a new low number as well.
Our weather is great and I do have a fun project coming up and some work celebrations in the next month or so to look forward to. I'm going to spend Sunday at a spin class and trying to avoid Easter candy!
I have not had any chocolate Easter eggs or a chocolate bunny for the past several years. Or Peeps. I feel your pain, Mrs. O. I reported that I lost 5 lb (or 10, depending on what my start date was) here and it is time to gear up and try to lose another 5. So, no Easter candy, evidently. But anyone who could go thru a spinning marathon can turn down Peter Rabbit, that's for sure.
What a story!
I can tell that my balance is gradually getting cock-eyed. I suppose I should try to improve balance by standing on one foot while waiting for elevators but I forget to. Anyhow, my legs are reasonably strong due to the kind of exercise I do but I think the balance thing-y around my ear is starting to need recalibration. My legs go one way, my ears go another.
Thanks for sharing your mishaps everyone! This is only the most recent incident of mine and at least it involved no broken bones. In the years I commuted to NYC, I broke my elbow and knee, and suffered a serious hand injury. These followed a badly broken ankle (slipped crossing the park on my way to the gym) and surgery after it hadn't healed in a year that effectively ended my running career. The ankle is weak and has had several sprains as a result. My kids are always grabbing my elbow and warning "don't fall Mom." If I was young, I would't' feel so self-conscious. Makes me feel old.
I've got one...I'm staying at a friend's lake-side cottage and decided that I needed to sleep in a tent on the front lawn. Multiple bunkies and cabins are available, but oh no....night one passes with torrential downpours, lightening and thunder. On day two I vacillate all day about sleeping indoors or in the tent. Around 10 pm, I decide - I'm going out there, with my sleeping bag, flashlight, water bottle, phone and pillow. In my flipflops, on wet grass on a steep slope. I twisted my ankle and fell right down onto my foot - after calling out for my friend I ended up scooting up onto her deck on my butt, and had her drive me to the nearest hospital,0 two hours away, in the middle of the night - two broken bones and a severely dislocated ankle = 8 weeks in a non-weight bearing cast and crutches, and hobbling around at work.
It took me three years to be able to wear heels again.
Lesson: listen to your gut. Which is why, when I was freaking out about zip lining through the Costa Rican jungle, even though I really wanted to do it, I did a hike instead.
It took me three years to be able to wear heels again.
Lesson: listen to your gut. Which is why, when I was freaking out about zip lining through the Costa Rican jungle, even though I really wanted to do it, I did a hike instead.
So sorry to hear about all these injuries! Lulilu, you definitely need to only make reservations for your holiday meal! [emoji1360]
So sorry to hear about your head. Wow, sounds like a doozy of a blow. Heal quickly.
Wow. what an adventurous life. Sometimes the most exciting thing I do all day is pickup the day's mail. Ankles are tricky. I know someone who injured hers and she put on quite a bit of weight that she never lost.
Well, I went to get the staples out and was sent home until Wednesday. This is getting annoying.
Yesterday my sister let me know she and her family will be visiting over the weekend. It will be nice to see them, but adds to the number for dinner.
Yesterday my sister let me know she and her family will be visiting over the weekend. It will be nice to see them, but adds to the number for dinner.
Phooey, lulilu! But I suppose better to be sure the wound has healed adequately before removing the staples. That's very last-minute news from your sister--Can the restaurant accommodate the newcomers? At least that should be more doable than if you were trying to cook and serve the meal at home. Maybe you should send everyone out on an Easter egg hunt and sit back and sip some scotch. And since you haven't actually hidden any Easter eggs, they will be gone for some time. 
My trainer's wife's family has a GREAT Easter tradition--an adult Easter egg hunt. The eggs are filled with money, everything from change to $5 bills. The adults run around as much as the kids. My trainer made $10 last year. It sounds like a hoot! Especially if you have adult kids.