Is anyone out there in the blogosphere? It has been a hot minute since I have even thought about posting here. Well, I did think about posting a couple of months ago, but then my password didn't work and I had to try to reset it and somehow this blog is attached to Chip's account and technology is hard. But today, I had the time and the patience to work through the password reset business and here I am!
The whole Blogger site looks different and I have no idea if I will even remember how to do this, but I am going to give it a try.
How have y'all been? There is no way in the world I can catch you up on all my antics since my last post taking Cooper to the vet almost a year ago, so lets skip the first 10 months of 2020 (don't we all wish it was that easy!) and just pick up from here.
Since we last left off with Cooper, let's start with an update on the old boy. He is almost four! He is better, but still earning his stripes as The Worst Dog In the World on the regular. In fact, last night he snapped at me and Chip while we were sitting on the couch. He hasn't done that in a very long time. It was probably because we were yelling at the television during the Bama game, but UNACCEPTABLE Cooper! We fashioned a pretty elaborate barricade to keep him out of our cheering section and he pouted for most of the night. Maybe I should give him two Prozac on game days so he can go sleep somewhere and leave us to our hollering. Otherwise, he still needs a walk most every day to keep him sane, along with his daily dose of prozac and apoquel for itching. But hear this, one day a couple months ago he let me touch his paw to pull off a sticky burr and that has NEVER happened before. Finding improvement where we can. He is still a unit....weighing in around 95 pounds. Maybe a little more since the quarantine. Aren't we all?
Harry is doing well. He is still working for the Rangers. The Rangers were pretty stinky this season, but on the upside the NLCS and the World Series are being played at the new Globe Life Park where he works. He has seen some pretty good baseball in the post season. He is a little weary though. Aren't we all? Long hours. Quarantine. Off days have been few and far between. I haven't seen him in person since he headed back to Arlington at the beginning of May. He is ready to wrap up the season and have some down time with his people to get recharged. I can't wait.
Chip is also good. He deferred his first semester at Texas Tech and is taking a couple online ACC classes. He is really ready to start at Tech so hopefully he can be on campus for the Spring Semester. Outside of school he is working out regularly, doing his SlawEdit graphic art, doing a little dog/house sitting here and there. He has been pretty bored. Aren't we all? It is just a season, but it feels long and he is ready to get on with it.
I am good. Still working from home, as usual. Working proposals which is steady work most of the time with burst of insanity. Not much has changed on that front. Personally, I am solid. I love being home and quarantine has not been too bad for me outside of missing outings with friends, volunteering and I really miss our Love Box family. With the holidays coming up I am sure I will be missing my family too. We text all the time and have started a regular Sunday morning group phone call that has been lovely and keeps us connected, maybe better than before quarantine. I keep up with Callie and the girls regularly via text and the occasional phone call.
I got really sick in May although I had been seriously quarantining and had not been anywhere. I tested negative for COVID and my symptoms didn't line up perfectly for COVID, but I was very sick for a couple of weeks. Whatever it was, I do not want any part of that again. It was awful and scary.
I have been walking really regularly with my neighbor Judy. We take the dogs out for a walk most every evening. That has been a nice habit and we laugh and get into all kinds of tangles with those mutts.
I also got a Peloton bike about six weeks ago and I am obsessed with it. I am riding about five days a week and keep setting new PRs and am trying to build up to more 45 minute classes, instead of 20 or 30 minute classes. It is the most fun I have ever had exercising. The instructors are varied and amazing. The music is great. I holler and cuss when it is hard and talk back to the screen like they can hear me. It is hard and I sweat like a beast even with a fan cranked up on high! But I can squeeze in a quick workout even when I am busy at work because it is right upstairs.
Day one.
I have also been eating Plant Based for about 13 or 14 weeks. I watched "What the Health" on Netflix and thought it would be a good jump start to fight back the quarantine free eating and be more responsible with what I was putting in my body. My nieces are vegan and mostly vegan and on every girls trip we take we eat at great vegan restaurants. I didn't think it would very hard to make the switch and it hasn't been. That is really why I want to get back to blogging. I have so enjoyed finding new recipes to make and sharing them with my family, but I think they are sick of me. I sent a photo of my breakfast taco to my Dad yesterday and he said "It is too early to look at that." HAHA! He said it had too much green in it for him. Looked like I mowed the yard and put that on a tortilla. Funny Bob.
I also want to do a better of job of documenting the recipes and where I found them so I can browse through the blog and find yummy things to make again. So, if you don't want to see food pictures you may want to unfollow this account! I will, of course, also keep you up to date on all the other adventures we are up to, but things are pretty quiet on the adventures front.
That is enough for today. I feel very accomplished for having gotten this far. I hope this blog posting still works the same and I don't lose all this when I hit the publish button! If you ever get to read it, then it will have worked!
Welcome back! Still here!
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