Playing catch up - I stayed home in bed yesterday due to a headache on top of the tired/crappy from the bug I've been fighting for over a week. I got up at my usual 5am, and soon realized "nope, not going to happen today", went back to bed and slept until 9:30am, got up had a breakfast bar then went back to bed again and slept until 1pm. I feel much better today, but do need to get in and get my neck adjusted, as that was the source of the headache.
Thursday QOTD: What inspired me to get going? I think I've mentioned a couple times having been sick with one thing or another all last fall/winter: around New Years I was home curled up on the couch watching TV and feeling sorry for myself and after seeing 5 or 6 of Orprah's Weight Watchers commercials realized, hey, she's talking to me, she's telling my story. It was comments about losing yourself in the weight that particularly stuck home. I signed up there and then, and did really well the first three months of the year, losing 30 pounds. It's been rough going since then, due mostly to taking the same old approach to weight management of being on a diet instead of making life changes.
My spring trips to Texas and WDW were the catalysts that drove me off path, so I'm approaching the upcoming fall trip as "mulligans" that are going to close that chapter: I'm calling a do-over, with a new approach to the whole thing.
Friday QOTD: I'm not a parade person and will usually avoid them as much as possible and take advantage of shorter wait times when others are watching. The one parade that I love is Boo To You during
MNSSHP, because it is edgier and the cast seems to be having so much fun, and heck, it's during MNSSHP.
The first of our two storms is blowing over the city this morning, lots and lots of rain. During the day and early tomorrow we are supposed to get a break and then the really bad storm hits Saturday afternoon/evening. The local news always sensationalizes these things so much that you have to cut what they are saying in about half, but yesterday the Mayor did a news conference about preparation so that's more indicative of the power the storm is going to have. I have plans to go out to a fiber festival about an hour drive north east of home and think I'll go ahead and jet out there Saturday morning, planning on being there at opening, then getting back home mid-day and hunkering down. There's really nothing I can do to prepare, except to park the car as far up the driveway as possible... there's a large tree kitty corner across the street that is tall enough it would fall across the street into my front yard, if it came down... but if that happened it would also take out the light pole at the end of the drive which would do more damage. Other than that, I do my civic duty and make sure the water drain in front of the house stays clear, as the street will flood else wise.
Hope everyone has a happy and healthful weekend.. after we get thru the weekend storms it's off the our happy place for me!
EDIT: I just checked the website for the fiber festival and they aren't going to have animals there, which is what I really wanted to see, so I'm going to take a pass and not take the chance on such a long road trip.