Morning, Happy Saturday. Last night I just felt so exhausted and so blah and not motivated to do anything. I'm better this morning. I slept okay last night so no longer exhausted. I'm almost done with the prednisone, which doesn't seem to have helped the issue that much. And now that my CT scan is at least temporarily cancelled, I'm thinking about what I could do that might help both issues. I know I need to get back to yoga, so I'm going to put alarms on my phone to do that in the morning. Get really good about going to the Y and at least walking. Both issues seem better if I'm active so hopefully that will help.

Taylor ham, egg and cheese on a hard roll is a standard diner breakfast (or middle of the night) around here. I'm in the diner capital of the world.

I had a CT scan scheduled for Monday morning to see if the cramping was diverticulitis but I just got a call it was cancelled since the insurance denied it. I guess I can change a more radical diet change and for longer and see if it helps. I've had the cramping to various degrees basically since Thanksgiving.

It's hard to say because I'm having stomach cramping problems and I pulled a muscle in my back. I think usually I feel the loosened muscles for a week or so.

The numbers it that are off for my area. It says you can get a two bedroom apartment for $1800 and that's not possible. I think the creep can be a factor especially if someone has been saving up for something or putting off plans until they were affordable, like fixing up a house or buying a better car (although I'd argue those fall more under putting off things that are important), but I think the increase in the cost of pretty much everything is more of a factor.

Hello, It's Thursday night which means tomorrow is Friday!!!!! I'm so glad this week is almost over. I do have one 2 1/2 hour class to teach tomorrow but it's pretty easy. It's been a long week.

I've used the OpenStax PreAlgebra very extensively, the Elementary Algebra pretty widely and the Intermediate Algebra a little bit, and haven't had that experience with any of them. I've seen the very occasional wrong answer in the back, but I've also never checked for updates to see if they've been noted. I have hard cover copies of PreAlgebra and Elementary Algebra but use the pdfs mostly.

Pretty much everything mentioned. Just going with what I'm comfortable wearing, letting things go, more relaxed about what the future may hold. Carrie - your style and mine sound very similar. I'm in the leggings, hoodies and tshirts stage, but definitely plan on the bohemian/Stevie Nicks, long white hair in a braid asthetic when I'm done working. More because flowy doesn't work teaching science from a safety perspective.

We still have a bunch of woodpeckers around. I don't remember if they are usually here in the winter or not. Downys, Pileated, Red Bellied, Red Headed are all still around.

I'm not sure, I always assumed they went south but don't know. We just never had them here past mid-October. We have had at least two mating pairs in our birdhouses for the last 4 or 5 years. They are usually gone before it's getting cold. ETA: We do have some birds that stay all year round. Blue Jays and Cardinals are always here, lots of sparrows and grackles are still here.

Today was much better. I bought the stick-on head pads so I could have it on my back at work, I had my normal morning tea and breakfast, classes went well. Although I did accidently give the wrong lecture in one class. Nobody noticed and it didn't effect the lab but it was still an oopsie. The rain has started here. A bunch of stuff closed early, all kinds of afterschool programs were cancelled, schools are already calling delayed openings for tomorrow. Evidently it's supposed to be really bad and they expect widespread flooding and trees down and power outages. So I guess we'll see how tonight goes.

We have a couple bluebirds that are still hanging out in our backyard which is very unusual. They should be long gone by this point. They are acting like its Spring and checking out the bird houses where we've had nests the past few years. It's really strange. And I just read an article about a particular species of very large spider that is moving North and will be here soon, plus mosquito-borne diseases are expected to become more widespread as they are able to survive farther North for longer seasons.

Phy Ed is mandatory in NJ so gym every day of the week, recess every day, I walked to school about 1 mile in 6th grade, just short of 2 miles in 7th grade. I also played street hockey on roller skates a lot, and just ran around the neighborhood. Would walk to stores and the library (about 3 miles) all the time.

Today sucked. I pulled the muscle in my back (AGAIN) on Sunday, but with lots of heat felt okay this morning. I went at 8:30 to get fasting bloodwork done figuring I'd go back home to eat breakfast, have my tea and take my prednisone. But was running a little late since there was two inches of ice on my windshield that still wasn't coming off after running the car for 15 minutes. Couldn't find an ice scraper so used a plastic box lid but then found some windshield deicer spray and that helped. But then one of my teacher's called out because her daughter was sick so instead of not needing to be in until 11 (although I would have tried to get there earlier), I had to be in by 9:15am. So ended up quickly eating a sandwich in the car on the way in to work after my bloodwork, then taking my prednisone at work. No tea, no caffeine which led to a headache. Then hurrying to set up, pulled my back and made it even worse than it was on Sunday. So back pain, headache, stomach icky from prednisone, can only take small amounts of advil and only hours after taking prednisone (doctor okay if its on full stomach, lots of water and hours later). Loooong day. Now I'm sitting on the couch finally having taken some advil with a heatpad on. Tomorrow has to be better.

My mother was big on no preservatives, no artificial colors or flavors or anything in an attempt to help my brothers adhd. Plus we were pretty much poverty level at that age so few treats. Mom cooked from scratch, homemade chili, eggrolls stuffed with vegetables, etc. Lunches were generally sandwiches, on wheat bread. Peanut butter and jelly, tuna fish (for my brother, I can't stand tuna fish). School lunches in middle school would be sub sandwiches or pizza usually.

Here too. Feels like the flooding just went down from the last storms a week or so ago and now here we go again. We live on a river so it's really easy to see the effects of the flooding when the river comes up to my neighbors back deck instead of being 100 yards away.

So is this a better way to take calcium/D than just together with the multi? I take them all together in the morning. I keep trying to look up things about best timing but it's hard to get a straight answer.

We currently have about 5-6 inches. It was actually still coming down pretty well. An hour or so ago it was a bunch of large fluffy flakes, now it's finer and misty but still coming down pretty steady. I would say we'll finish up with 7-8 inches. It doesn't seem icy at all, temperatures are around 34 degrees so not super cold. It looks really pretty for right now. Tomorrow it will be in the 40's so will melt, just to freeze when it's in the 20's overnight, just to all melt into mud on Tuesday when we get massive amounts of rain. Super fun.

I'm back to work tomorrow so this weekend is all about getting ready for classes. I'm hoping to have everything set up for the next three weeks, which is when we have another break. But right now we have registration for our next session going, plus getting summer camp schedules set up, plus working on next year's schedule, plus we're doing an open house in a couple weeks, plus I have all these doctor appointments. This is easily my busiest time of year.

Morning Happy Sunday. I woke up with really bad acid reflux at 3am, probably due to the prednisone I'm on, and sat on the couch trying to doze until 5am when I went back to bed and slept until almost 10am. Then one little twist and I pulled that darn muscle in my back again so I'm sitting with a heatpad again.

We have about 5-6 inches and it's still coming down but slowly so it appears to be tapering off. We will probably have a total of 7-8 inches. It's pretty but combined with the rain on Tuesday is going to make things very muddy.

We have about 3 inches so far and it's still coming down. We're right on the border between a 3-6" band and a 6-8" band so who knows what we'll actually get. We're on the side of a mountain on a river so we sometimes have a mini system of our own going. We are also supposed to get the rain Tuesday, which I'm sure will cause the river to flood again.

For right now she's okay with it, but said to watch carefully for any signs of things changing before my CT scan. Taking it once a day is enough for it to help all day so I'm taking fairly low doses (with food, lots of fluids, etc). Unfortunately Tylenol didn't even touch the pain and I can't take most other painkillers.

I know he didn't wind up in Tartarus with the other Titans, but yeah he seems to just fade away. He was hanging with the Gods on Olympus so maybe he still wherever they are. They didn't really go anywhere either.

Hercules/Heracles freed him from getting his liver eaten every day but I don't remember any myths going into what happened to him after that.