Beautiful sunrise this morning

I woke up before sunrise this morning and got to see a beautiful sunrise. This is making my day that much better.

Hopefully we will hear that the part for Linda’s scooter is in and we can get our scooters tomorrow.

Now to my weight, well it is down just a little this morning. I am adjusting my eating and slowly adjusting to a lesser amount of calories. I am trying not to deprive my body and myself but to adjust down so I can get my weight back to where it was. I know this goes against the intuitive eating, but I am just adjusting to now being able to walk as I have bee in the past. And I am doing this by portion control and not by removing foods I love. Linda is also learning new recipes and that is making it interesting. 

Update: 

We got the call we were waiting for, we are going first think in the morning to get our scooters. It will be a very long day about 500 miles round trip.

Still raining this morning

I am struggling with my weight at this time. Most of it is due to us moving and the stress and what has to be done when moving out of state. A lot of it is no walking at this time. Some of it is the adjustment to the weather, and the new neighborhood. And then there the fact there is no super HEB here to get the bulk foods that we were use to eating. We are making the needed adjustments and to be honest we love the area and our neighbors. I am slowly working my calories down some. And I can honestly say that each week I have been at are just below calories in VS calories out. And while I know have truly gained some weight, most of the extra weight is water weight. I am much smarter and on top of things now than I was back in 2014 when I gained so much weight back. And even with the weight I have gained my jeans, and other cloths still fit just about as good as before this gain. I also have to be honest with myself and say I am not sure I need to lose the weight that I gained. I am feel great, I just need to get my head straight and allow my body to adjust to what it knows to be its happy weight. And I just need to work more on eating correctly and listening to my body’s needs. 

We may be going to get the Scooters Saturday? I am not really crazy about drive the highways around larger cities on a holiday weekend. But I do want to get our scooters. I also want to feel like I can go my way and my wife can go her way at times. Sure I love going places with her but time a lone is also good. And I miss my walks that I can be allow with my thoughts and God. 

I worked today on the garage, and have cleaned up enough to be able to get the scooters in the garage. And boy have we got a lot of stuff that needs to be gotten rid of. 

Woke up to rain

It was rain when I got up and has been raining off and on all day. 

We called the motorcycle shop and we maybe getting our scooters on Friday, it depends if a part makes it in for Linda’s scooter’s front rack. The part is ordered and may make it in tomorrow if not it will be on Friday. Not sure if I will agree to drive there and back on Saturday. But if we wait it will be Tuesday before we get them. 

Now to my weight and eating issues. I am slowly getting my eating under control. But I still am not getting my walks in. I hope after the scooters get home I can start walking. But I do have a day or two that I need to put the mud flaps on them, and I need to make sure I take care of them so they do not rust. 

Have you ever been so mad you want to scream?

For over a week now I have been trying to get SuddenLink to fix my services. Every time I call can them to get answers and to get something done it is another excuse and another lie. They have never followed through with what they said they would do. I finally went to the SuddenLink store here in the Village and was able to get the modem that was left here on Friday taken care of to get my internet up, but I still do not have home phone service. I have been told a number of times they would have a service tech out to find out later that was a lie and it would not even happen or it was going to be even a later day and time than I was told. I do not know how a company that runs their business like this can stay in business.  Oh, yes I do! They are the only choice we have here in the Village for cable and high speed internet. Sure I could get services from AT&T for my phone, then get a Dish Network or some other satellite company in here to put a dish on the roof, and to run cable all around the house, but that looks like crap. But I would still have to have Suddenlink to get my high speed internet. I have never figured out what the satellite companies will not use the cabling that is in the house, and that was even true where I moved from and all of the homes were brand new. It was so sad to see new homes that I knew had cable installed when the home was built with crappy looking cable running around the house and holes drilled to put the satellite cables beside the cables already there. I even get into a fight with a Dish network guy about it. He could not understand why I was using cable when he could put in the Dish network service, and it made him mad when I say I was not going to allow the crappy looking cables to be run all around my new home. The house has new cables already in the house and it was going to be used. His commit was the company rule was to only use their own cable installs. So I told him to take a hike.

My weight is up again, I do not understand it. I do know that I am eating less than I am burning off. But I also know that my salt is still up too high. I also know that my muscles are sore and I believe they are holding water too. I can say this my cloths are not fitting too tight. 

It is the last week of March and we should be hearing soon that Linda’s scooter has made it to the states. Then it will be just how long it takes to get to the dealership. 

Update

The tech that came out this morning knew what he was doing. He had to completely redo what the tech Friday night screwed up. We do not have any bad cables like the tech Friday said. The only problem really was that the filter and the splitters did their job and was taken out from the lightening strike. The tech today replaced the filters, and grounded the cables they way they need to be something else that the tech the Friday did was leave the ground off. 

Update #2

Just got an email that my wife's GTS300 (Scooter) is now at the dealership, so it should not be long now.

Finally

We have finally gotten our Jeep and camp trailer registered in Arkansas, as well as having our drivers license. I cannot believe just how much cheeper it is here to register the Jeep and trailer, we paid less than half of what it would cost in Texas to register the Jeep alone to register both here. And that is not even including having to get an inspection for both in Texas. Here in Arkansas we have locked in our property tax for ever to what it is now, and it will not change by increasing the value of the house. We are paying about one-tenth of what we were paying in Texas for property taxes here in Arkansas. We did have a bit if confusion on what we needed for our information but really and truly it was not a bad process. 

I have been running around today to get the registration done and to get an appointment to get the jeep maintenance appointment. I will be at the Jeep most Monday to get that taken care of. I also stopped by the VA to see about getting an appointment and will have to wait for them to get approval from me to use the VA in Hot Springs, I really thought that had been taken care of. 

I also stopped by Brenda’s shop and found out that my nephew is in bad health and we are not sure what is going to happen there. 

My weight is up again. I am getting really worried that I am not going to be able to reverse it. Somehow I have got to get where I can walk again. Or I am going to have to figure out how to stop eating. 

What a week

The week has been great with so much I have down and things I have seen and learned. But the week has been bad too, my diet has suffered very badly. 

Sunday evening we had a storm roll through the area and our internet, house phone, and cable has been down ever since, and they will not have any one out to fix it until tomorrow evening. I know that part of the reason is that we have not been here so they could work on it. 

Monday we set up our banking here local, and we got our drivers license changed over to Arkansas. 

Tuesday I went on a men’s retreat up north of here to a monastery, and Linda went to a sewing class, where she ended up trading in her new sewing machine for a better one, I figured she would be doing it. 

Wednesday I finished up the retreat and returned home to fall a sleep while waiting for Linda to get home from the sewing class with her new machine. Then we went out to eat. 

Today we went to count votes for the POA election, that is a stressful job that Linda and I both feel we do not want to do again. Sure it was a good experience but not think you. 

My diet is crazy and out the window again this week and still not able to get any walking in. 

Sunday and cloudy and trying to rain

Saturday was a really lazy day I spend some of the time reading. I also did not really feel great. I believe that I have allergy issues. My weight yesterday morning started out really high, I was very bloated but after taking my diuretic I begin to get rid of the water weight. This morning my weight is back down to 192, I am still two pounds heavier that at the first of the year, and I am still not getting my walking in. I know it is not really going to happen that much until we get this house in order. We are going to be really busy for a while. We have both have a list of things this coming week. Monday we set up back accounts locally, and we will finally get our drivers license, and registration taken care of. Tuesday I go to a Men’s retreat that is mostly Tuesday afternoon, night and Wednesday morning. Linda has a sewing class all day Tuesday and Wednesday. Then on Thursday we count the votes for the POA board election. Friday hopefully we can work on the house some more. So I am not sure how my eating is going to go this week. Hopefully I will at least be able to eat reasonably. I do not hold out any hope to keep the salt level down. 

My blog this week more than likely will not happen until Friday then it will be a summary of the week.