Thread:Llyssa1020/@comment-35594152-20190824143017/@comment-38558458-20190828034104

Hello Sue! ~  Yes, today is much better. I was sadder last night upon reflection and thinking about memories. We have some good ones of Nick. We picked his sister out first and brought her home. Then my Dad said we needed to go back and get another one. We let my Dad choose and he picked Nick, who was sitting in the litter box. Then he was my best pal ever when I was laid up with a broken leg and was recovering.

I made some progress on my study the other night, but I'm not done with the book - I have 30 pages left. Maybe I'll do some of that tonight. I think these last 3-5 pounds are going to be a challenge in order to get to 50. Since Mom and I went out yesterday, we didn't go out today. Yesterday, we split a frape coffee and danish and shared a dinner, but ended up each having a dish of ice cream (we should have stopped with the dinner). Tomorrow afternoon we are going to an educational meeting about Alzheimer's. My Dad might come and I'm not sure if we will grab a bite to eat then or not. It would be better to just go home and stick to my plan. Then, today, we decided that us girls are going to go on a road trip on the 20th - leave Friday and come home Saturday. It's all centered around food though - lol. We are going back down to Peoria (1.5 hours from here) and spend the night like we did in April (but with less anxiety since there is no surgery this time). We had a lot of fun the night before (Sunday), but several of our favorite places to eat are not open on Mondays. So we thought we would do the trip again in a few months and now we've set a date. There is a supper club that we have been to since I was a child that has the absolute best fried chicken. It is served family style, so...yeah, there's that. And then we'll go to our favorite pizza place on Saturday and come home. It's very thin style crust pizza, so that helps. I don't think it should be too bad as long as I try to stick with my plan all the other days of the weeks in between. I'm sorry you didn't lose this week. Maybe it will come off by next week.

One of my traps went missing from last night. I will set them out again and see if anything more happens. I'm glad to hear that Cheese is still under heavy guard and protected - poor girl. It might take awhile to get them all. A friend of mine who lives in the country said they got around 8 racoons in total when they were rounding theirs up. I'm going to call it a night for now. Busy day tomorrow and then I'll be with Mom again on Thursday in the pool. These weeks just fly by - one thing after another. Take care and big hugs to you too! ~  Llyssa