Allergies are no fun! C25k with the kids on Monday and today. I did fast finish run on Monday and an easy run today. Tomorrow will be my last solo run before the marathon. My last pre-marathon run will be on Friday with the kids. This week is flying by! @stephanier.1765 - a food diary sounds like a great idea! I find they help me be honest with myself. Sometimes even writing things down without needing to quantify anything like calories or macros is helpful.

My carrier-related suspicion seems warranted - https://heavy.com/tech/2018/10/why-didnt-get-presidential-alert/ - I have an iPhone 7 running the newest iOS on AT&T, but the article lists other carriers and devices that did not recive it. Apparently you can send feedback, but egads it looks like a lot of work to send it all in. I guess I’ll take my chances in the zombie apocalypse. ? When I asked ds if his phone got one, he told me not to worry, he’d send me a text message so I didn'tget eaten by the zombies.

I didn’t get it either. My sister (US Cellular) got it as did the kid cellphones in the house which are on Tracfone and not on my AT&T account which makes me wonder if it’s a carrier issue. Dh didn’t get one either. I figure this is a sign of who the government wants to perish in an emergency. ?

Oh no! Cancer sucks!

Thanks, all. ? C25k with the kids today and just that. Tomorrow dh and I are going for a 10mile run before soccer. Sunday will be a short run and then more soccer. This weekend’s game count for the kids is 5 games - two on Sat for one kid, two on Sunday for another, and one game on Sunday for my third kiddo. Marathon is one week from Sunday.

It’s a Hulu issue. We had issues with it tonight and this isn’t the first time it’s happened. There’s nothing you can do to fix it other than watch something else and try again later.

You’d think, but that’s not been my experience. To add the kids phones to my AT&T wireless account, even if we bring our own phone, it’s at least as much per month per phone as I pay per quarter with Tracfone. I know because I’ve gone in thinking this has to be the case. Surely it must be less expensive to just add the lines to my account - at least with AT&T here, the answer is that’s the more expensive way.

We use Tracfone and pay ~$21/quarter, tax included. Originally, wegot the phones from them that gave you triple the minutes and then as long as we kerp the account current, any unused minutes roll over and accumulate. We've had them for awhile now so I think ds has over 1,000 minutes. Eventually we replaced the cheapie phones with old model smartphones. I have two Tracfone lines this way and it’s still way cheaper than adding them to the AT&T account dh and I have for our phones. The $21/quarter is for text or data. The kids have been told to only use data in an emergency and use WiFi whenever possible.

Went for a run with the kids this morning and then an interval run by myself. I ended up with SVT at the tail end of my run. I’ve had them before on an infrequent basis (and a family history of them), but the last one was a long time ago and they’re usually pretty short in duration. This was the first time I was wearing a heart rate monitor and had visual confirmation of just what it means when you’re heart is racing like that. I didnkt know there was a max HR the strap can measure, but mine’s 254. Since it didn’t stop like it had in the past, I called dh. By the time he got to me, my heart was already back to normal rate. He insisted I go in so off we went to drop what I felt was an unreasonable amount of money on a visit to the Urgent Care/ER. Short story is I’m fine and it’s a fluke so sayeth the ER doc and the Cardiologist/Electrophysiologist. We inspired the ER doc to get more active since I had recorded it all on my Garmin and talked about my marathon training. I’m clear for that at least. Still annoyed. I don’t like owing money every month to the health system. I had just about paid our account off too. Stupid September can go away anytime now. Grumble, grumble.

I’ve found them longer, but not nearly wide enough. The exception being the expensive set I got on super clearance when our JCPenney closed several years ago. I’ve never bern able to find them since and my set’s seeming threadbare. ?

40 minute foundation run today. I have fallen out of love with my running shoes and I know looking for a new shoe now is probably not ideal, but I went to the running store while the kids were at class anyway. I learned quite a bit about the wear pattern on my shoes and went for a more responsive midfoot, smaller heel to toe drop, and more of a curve to the toe which shoud maybe address the wear issues. Plan is to run the new shoes - default is to run the marathon in my old shoes with an option to run the new shoes. And yes, strength training. Gotta find something that I enjoy better so I can build the habit. I was feeling kind of down on myself about not doing better at working it it, but I really need to take my own advice. You make time for what you love and what you love becomes the new normal. I have also given myself permission to stick a pin in that until two weeks after my marathon.

@peacelovehomeschooling - soror is right. There is no one way. There is no magic cure. Whatever you pick has to be something that you can sustain. I thought this blog post from a doc who deals with weight management put it well - http://www.weightymatters.ca/2018/01/when-weight-loss-makes-you-stupid.html. Sustainable means not just tolerating a diet, but liking it well enough that it becomes your new normal and replaces what you used to do. Exercise is very similar. You can lose lots of weight with interval training, but if you don’t really love it, it’s not a good long term solution. In fact, you could burn more calories and have a greater result doing something lower impact you love and keep doing. It’s not what works for any one person here, but what works for you in the long term, rest of your life, I can keep on keeping on forever. Ran a recovery run on Sunday and the C25k with the kids plus an additional ~20 minutes by myself after that. Marathon taper is here! I’m the one who had dryer problems in that mine tried to burn down the house and has resulted in learning about some very concerning electrical issues at my house whose resolution is tbd. I did, however, get my new dryer delivered today and I have never been more excited about doing laundry!

Brother - I’ve owned several as I’ve traded up for features. First for duplexing, then for color, then for color duplexing. Love every Brother I've owned.

Hey, you’ve met my MIL! Not on her self-professed non-judgemental, live their own life thing, but everything that follows. Dh has reached middle age and his parents still treat him like a kid. Drives me nuts because dh is and always has been the most responsible, mature person. Their treatment of him is undeserved. They blame me for everything they don’t approve of, but I’m often the one who makes sure cards go out on holidays, etc. One of these days, I’m going to tire of doing that. tbh, I’ve about reached my limit.

Ran the last double digit run of marathon training. Kid had two soccer games today and one tomorrow. I’m a bad soccer mom, if the lose tomorrow morning, thatks it for the tournament. You can guess which one I wouldn’t mind.

I did roughly the same thing to lose over 100lbs. I would have said that my diet wasn’t so bad before and it wasn’t quality-wise. I didn’t eat a bunch of junk food and soda and sugar laden foods. I just ate too much quantity-wise which I recognize now because I eat way less than I used to. Like it’s just not possible to eat the amounts I used to and dh and I have become “people who split things” when before we each would order our own thing. I have lost less weight now in year...four or five (?) than I did in previous years, but I also have other goals (fitness related) that are incompatible with strictly losing weight. Which is anecdotal as all get out, but it’s still my true, lived in experience. Having tried to do this multiple ways, I am keenly aware of the “being miserable, this is so hard” experience, but I also wasn’t successful any of those time either. Temporarily, but never long term and never to this degree. So my take away is there is, quite frankly no “one way” and I’m not surprised the article had no solutions to offer because the framing of the article assumes there’s one way. And yeah, doctors need to treat overweight and obese people better. They just do. They tend to fall into the “one way” trap and make all sorts of moral judgements about character that are just plain stupid. And the diet industry could end tomorrow and I’d be just fine with that. I actually think it’s not so much that we know nothing about it, but that what we do know is deliberately muddied by people who have financial incentive to do so. I’m looking at you, whatever the newest diet craze is.

@soror - mentally harder is still harder! It’s amazing how much your brain can affect the physical! I didn’t run on Monday because dh and I had to get the repairs done on the one end of the house finished (trim work, caulking, and painting) before the rain came. We had thought about doing it Tuesday morning, but chose to do the long run on Tuesday morning instead. No running on Monday and then the rain came Tuesday morning. No long run on Tuesday, but I did get 6 miles in around the rain on Tuesday. c25k with the kids yesterday. We’re in week 6. Then a run by myself for a total between the two of 5 miles. I’ll run something today. Tomorrow wil be tricky and may not happen. There’s another soccer tournament this weekend. First game is at 9 on Saturday and then the second is at 4pm. Dh and I plan on finally getting that long run in between the two games. We’re running out of time. Marathon is October 7th.

Ugh is right! Yours sounds more expensive! Right now we’re waiting on the boss to get back to us with the quote. The electrician that came said he figured it would be around $1500-$2500 depending on what all needs to happen. The good news is the bits that run from the overhead power lines to the house and running from the meter all looks good so that’s a plus. it probably wouldn’t have been so bad, but we spent $1000 on much needed exterior maintenance (paint, new window, new exterior door to the garage, new trim, etc) plus $450 to move the shed that was causing water issues with the side of the garage and $1600 to take down a massive tree in the back yard (the neighbor is thankfully paying half). Oh, and then the new dryer. Plus whatever the electrician visit cost us for yesterday. My emergency fund has been hit. The emergency-emergency fund has been hit. The home maintenance fund is now zero. Staying home with the kids and homeschooling is for the first time feeling like an expensive luxury.

Our district uses an “integrated math”approach and based upon my readng of the course catalog for the high school, it looks like the honors level students take Integrated Math 1 in 8th grade which would push some geometry topics down to 8th.

You’d think, but dh had a coworker recently who sold his house and the buyer chose the same home inspector he used when he bought the house. They identified a semi-major issue this second time around. His coworker complained, and they shrugged and basically said “yeah, sucks to be you.” We’ve been here for over 10 years so I have a feeling it won’t mean anything to them. I might let the realtor we used know because she recommended him to us. It wasn’t all that cheap either.

The electrician got us up and running back to where we were before the dryer shorted and caused those issues so that part has been taken care of. Realistically, it’s been like this for probably around 20 years best as he can figure so it’s at least not an emergency. The panel is an all in one go kind of thing unfortunately. I’m going to have to get a loan. In hindsight, I don’t think I’d ever pay for another home inspection. So far I’ve mostly found them to be worthless. The home inspector’s report references two mains. One of which is not actually main, it’s the breaker for the air conditioner. The other doesn’t cut power to all the breakers, just some of them. Even if you manually shut off all the breakers, there’s still power in the panel. One would have hoped the inspector would notice that.

My dryer flipped the main breaker, but the dishwasher kept running which it shouldn’t have so the electrical-y inclined people in my life said I needed to hire an electrician cuz that’s not safe. The dryer is toast and I had to replace it. When the electrician came, he said something like “In my 27 years as an electrician, I have never seen anything like this.” Apparently we have no main disconnect. Like at all. And the steps to the deck are too close to the meter and I probably am going to have to do something about that. So much for home inspections. It’s sounding expensive and I don’t have the money to fix it. I resign from adulthood. To whom do I tender my resignation?

I would get a copy and once the copy was in hand, I would file a police report. I would not expect anything to happen from that report, but I would want it on record in case anything happened in the future. A lot of times people wait and want the LEO to do something , but options mfor action may be limitd because while that incident is one of many, as far as the LEO is concerned, it’s the first report. Better to get it on record now, imo.

I did manage to get a run in on Tusesday and Wednesday this week. Took Thursday off. Did C25k with the kids on Friday. My long run got pushed off because dh got subpoenaed (he’s a LEO, this happens often) for Friday morning. Then the time slot we had to fit it in was too small so 17 miles became just over 6 miles instead. We all had a late night while dh, two of my kids, and several of my family members went to a baseball game. One of my kids and I babysat my sister’s kids. Today the girls had a girl scout thing and two kids had four soccer games between them. No running. Tomorrow the three kids have five soccer games between them, my oldest has some lawns to mow for his lawn mowing job, and someone at this house needs to go to the grocery store to buy food or none of us are eating. Or rather we’ll all be eating the random things one has left when it’s time to go grocery shopping. Tonight my circuit breaker kept my house from burning down when my dryer decided it had had enough. My BIL says since it tripped the mains, which shut down everything but the dishwasher, that there’s something unsafe I need to hire a professional for. So, no dryer. A week’s worth of dirty laundry. An outside project that just won’t quit. A giant tree in the backyard has to come down. Oh, and my marathon is in three weeks. I’m thinking my next chance to run is Monday, but my track record at this point of prognosticating isn’t all that great. I feel a little frazzled and a lot overwhelmed.

Well, it doesn’t matter what the place who turned us down wanted or why they wanted it because we’re not going there so it’s a non-issue as far as I’m concerned. Crossed off the list, moved on. Our appointment is with the neuropsychologist the ped told us evaluates all the kids they send out for evals. There was no offer of meds on his part. My assumption there is that he won’t do anything until the neuropsychologist does the eval. We had two to choose from. The one does three appointments. The other does one big 4-hour appointment. We have an appointment with the second one because the first was booked out to February. The third place I have a call out to has a psychiatrist on staff, but I’m not sure how they handle evals nor how much it will cost nor even if they can see us earlier than January. I’ll have to ask when they call me back. At this point, it’s looking like my January appointment the ped referred us to is the best I can do. I was trying to save some money by not doing three separate appointments given how my insurance pays, but the recommendation I got locally says the better of the docs is the one who does the three appointments. She’s booked out until February.