Randomness

I was so very excited to read that my hometown beaches got some recognition.
I tell people all the time that while my hometown is not so great, this peninsula of nature trails and 11 miles of beaches is awesome.
It was cool to see it get the recognition it so deserves.
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My hairdresser gave me a very bad haircut. Honestly, consistency is so hard to find for me in a stylist.  I am getting it colored this week but we are not cutting this for several months until this grows out.  Do you know how you know for certain when it's bad? When your husband notices and says, "What the hell did she do to your hair?"  He got his cut the same day only later that day, maybe that was the secret.  His haircut is perfection.
While in Florida a friend of my cousins who is recovering from cancer surgery and had just gotten out of the hospital a day before I saw him, asked me what I was doing with my hair? See he was being nice about how he said it compared to Rick.  He is a stylist.  He said, "if I wasn't so weak I would fix this" as he was running his fingers through my hair. Great.  I didn't even mention my hair. He just brought it up.  Nice huh? Thankfully it grows but not nearly fast enough - and I own a lot of hats.
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We don't watch Dancing With The Stars. But my husband had to watch his girlfriend, Ginger Zee, dance. I think it had nothing to do with her dancing as much as seeing her in teeny tiny outfits. So he FF through the whole thing until he got to watch her. Then he deleted it. That made me laugh. I see why he thinks she is all that. He excitedly proclaimed while watching, "ooh, she still has her baby boobs!"   Honestly, that man is crazy. My thought was, 'she just had a baby a mere 2 months ago how the hell did she get so slim so quickly?'
As you can see we were not on the same page.
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A year or possibly more ago a blogger reader was in my area and called to see if we could meet. I don't even recall now what we were doing but we weren't here to meet her.  I was really disappointed.
She and her hubby moved from the north to Florida for the winters. We made arrangements to meet when we went down there. But all of you know what my winter was like with Rick's health so we didn't go on the original weekend planned. I let her know and we made arrangements for the weekend we would be there. She contacted me and told me where they would be and to meet them. Then the night before we got a text saying they couldn't do this and the reason was rather vague.  I understood and that was that.  They don't need to give me a reason for Pete's sake!
My husband tried to tell me that they didn't want to do this and to let it go - forever. To him it was "obvious" that this was not something they wanted to do and for me to move on.  As usual, that hadn't occurred to me, but now I see that he was probably right and they just didn't want to meet. That is so okay, I get it.
We all have lives and we can't always do what was planned and besides, who the hell wants to meet me.  So we enjoyed our rainy day and it worked out perfectly.
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Rick has found that he can't over eat or drink too much or his heart skips a beat.
We can't have that. He had an issue while we were away.
Stopped him immediately!
That has really changed his life, let me tell you.

The other evening he ate what I ate. I have never seen that in 29 1/2 years!
I asked him if he was full, he said, what do you think?
So later while watching some TV I sliced some fruit and put it in a small bowl and handed him his "fruit salad."  He looked at it and said, great call, it's sweet and not so bad for me. (Mostly berries and some melon.) So now he has done this in the evening instead of nuts, chips or whatever else he was eating. He has asked me not to bake anything. That in and of itself is remarkable and I wonder how long that will last. I will be the strong one and not bake!

He remarked last night that living like me sucks, how do I do it? Sadly I have to do it to maintain chubby, not even skinny. If I ate all I wanted I'd be 500lbs in no time. For the first time in his life, it occurred to him how little I eat and how women have to do this all the damn time.  As we got into bed he rolled over and began talking to me. He said, "do you go to bed hungry all the time?"  No, not really but there are days. I asked if he was hungry and he said, "I could eat my arm."  I said then let's try eating a bit more and see how it goes until we figure this out. He sure was happy about trying that.

This morning I sliced some turkey breast into a sandwich bag with some cheese. (no bread is killing him) I also put some fruit in his lunch.  No cookies, no sweets and all the things he loves. He looked at it and said, Thank God I can still drink! That made me laugh.  Hard liquor also seems to affect him more than wine.

This is all a new process and we'll figure it out. In the meantime, it wouldn't hurt him to lose some weight so his doctor will stop bitching at him.  To diet for the first time in ones life at age 60 must be a shock. We gals sure know how awful it is from years of experience don't we?