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We had an overnight houseguest last night. The husband of a friend who passed away in May. Mary took him to the Moose for Tacos and he got to talking (and crying) about his wife and the two of them tipped back some tequila shots and they came in around 8:30 a little goofy. While they were out, dude made a play for my Mary. I’m not angry about it because he’s out of his mind with loneliness and grief. It also served to remind me how fortunate I am and it will help to remind me not to take my sweet Mary for granted. Now that I'm feeling more fit, I think I'll tag along on future trips Mary makes to Seattle. Soon we'll be moving across country, something dude was not happy about.
Mary is feeling a little under the weather this morning (Smile), so I’m thinking the second coat of kitchen paint will be happening tomorrow. I think I could also use a day of rest to recover from all the recent activities. I have a bunch of small bruises on my legs & no idea how I got them.
Anyway, it’s another cool and rainy morning on the Washington coast. It’s 7am and dude has already hit the road headed south along the Oregon coast. I haven’t made any more smoothies since my blog entry yesterday, so no recipe today. I’ll leave you with stats and food facts.
Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 103.6 pounds (46.99 kilograms)
Weight today: 424.6 pounds (192.6 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 425.0 pounds (192.8 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)
Mary is feeling a little under the weather this morning (Smile), so I’m thinking the second coat of kitchen paint will be happening tomorrow. I think I could also use a day of rest to recover from all the recent activities. I have a bunch of small bruises on my legs & no idea how I got them.
Anyway, it’s another cool and rainy morning on the Washington coast. It’s 7am and dude has already hit the road headed south along the Oregon coast. I haven’t made any more smoothies since my blog entry yesterday, so no recipe today. I’ll leave you with stats and food facts.
Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 103.6 pounds (46.99 kilograms)
Weight today: 424.6 pounds (192.6 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 425.0 pounds (192.8 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)
Food Facts
 | "Milk consumption and acne in adolescent girls" by Clement Adebamowo in the May 2006 issue of Dermatology Online Journal found after studying 6,094 girls, aged 9 to 15, that those consuming two or more glasses of milk daily compared to girls consuming less than one glass, had 20% to 30% more acne. Source |
 | Celery's potential for reducing high blood pressure has long been recognized by Chinese medicine practitioners, and Western science researchers may have recently identified one reason why. Celery contains active compounds called pthalides, which can help relax the muscles around arteries and allow those vessels to dilate. With more space inside the arteries, the blood can flow at a lower pressure. Pthalides also reduce stress hormones, one of whose effects is to cause blood vessels to constrict. Source |
4 comments:
Well, it's very compassionate of you to cut Dude that slack. He must be so lonely and sad.
Hope Mary is feeling better!
Yes, your compassion is awesome. As your ability to make the best of a situation. This fellow is evidently in his own world of grief, everything/everyone revolves around him. Good on you and Mary to have given him kind hospitality. I say, send 'im on his way and look forward to making some trips to Seattle with Mary.
Who knows - maybe this little incident was EXACTLY the launching pad needed for another shift in the transformation. Remember how cool it felt to go inside the grocery store? Get ready for another new venture!
:-)
Jean
Hi Wendy & Jean,
Thanks for stopping by. I do feel a lot of compassion for dude as he’s going through the toughest months of his life and despite his bad behavior there is still a part of me that wants to rescue him. But we weren’t really friends with him before his wife passed; we were friends with his wife. Plus he has a couple of good friends that he’s had for many years, a couple of brothers that have invited him to stay and an adult married daughter. So even though he’s been leaning on us, we are not his only resource. I’m counseling myself to maintain some boundaries which I have a hard time doing when he starts crying. He still hasn’t disposed of her clothing and other personal things and there is a part of me that wants to go up there and take care of it for him to spare him the pain of it. But not only are we not close friends, but facing up to these terrible tasks is very likely going to be part of the healing process for him.
VW
personally i think he should apologize to you both for disrespectng your relationship ... whats done is done i guess :)
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