Well, Ms. Moon, how's the Zepbound-assisted weight loss going?
Funny you should ask. I was just thinking about that very thing.
It's going well. Slowly, slowly, but consistently. I continue to suffer few, if any side-effects except that I'm losing my hair but hey! Who needs hair?
Sigh.
Can't complain. Won't complain.
I'm learning something about myself as I go about this business which is that I have body dysmorphia and of course, I've always had it. Being 71 rather than 17 hasn't changed a thing. One moment I can feel almost sylph-like, while an hour later I can feel like a heifer.
"Heifer" is a thing a friend of mine in nursing school used to call almost everyone. It was a term of endearment and not a description of appearance but in this case, I am using it as a pejorative. I logically KNOW that I am neither sylph-like or heifer-sized and actually, just about at a highish normal weight for a woman of my age and stature. So am I done trying to lose more? No. And why? BECAUSE I WANT TO WEAR MY SKIRTS!
I have several skirts that I love so much I was not able to throw them out and I was not a skinny woman when I wore them so I think this is doable and not an unhealthy idea. And I am still eating plenty and getting what I think is good nutrition so all is well. And trust me- the weight loss is going in very, very slow increments. I am in no danger of suddenly keeling over from malnutrition.
So that's that. Glen and I sold a house today. Don't get excited. It was a technicality involving Lily's house and she's the one who now owns it so that's very good. She had to wait until certain parts of the divorce settlement were, well, settled and fulfilled and that time has come. While we were at the attorney's office, we asked a few questions about how we need to proceed with estate planning because we have got to get that done.
Yesterfuckingday, as Lis would say.
Oh my goodness but it is complex. Anyway, the process has begun and we shall make our way through it. And any time I start getting anxious about it, I just think, Well, we shall do the best we can and when we die, we'll be dead and it won't matter to us anymore."
But I've just seen how inheritance shit can rip apart a family and the very last thing on earth I want to do is cause rifts in my children's relationships with each other because the way they love and respect each other is the thing that probably makes me happier than anything else on earth.
Hopefully, if we cross all our T's and dot all our I's, it will all work out.
I did love how the attorney kept saying, "Now. Should you die..."
I really do not believe we are immortal so yes, let's plan on that contingency, shall we?
I've made Glen's cookies. I could do this in my sleep.
There are a lot of reasons but that's a main one. Well, that and I'm not British.
Phew. Better him than me.
I'll let you go now. Really. I'm serious. Get on with your bad self.
We'll talk tomorrow.
Love...Ms. Moon
Love you MM!! -sj
ReplyDeleteAre those raisins in the beautiful cookies? Now that I am an empty nester, "mummified grapes" (as my darlin daughter calls them) are going back in my baked goods!!
ReplyDeleteIt's great that Lily now owns the house in which she is raising her children so well. An important step for her. I wonder if Glen will bring you back a moose's head from Canada. You could put it up in the kitchen at the lake house - very useful for hanging kitchen towels and oven gloves etc..
ReplyDeleteYour weight loss journey has been successful and being able to wear your favorite skirts is a great achievement.
ReplyDeleteYour cookies look delicious. I've never baked anything that was perfectly shaped, so I leave that for other people.
Estate planning is a good thing to have in place. I especially like "life estates" for transferring real estate without requiring probate.
You are right, family ties can be challenged when a death occurs.
Inheritances can get complicated between the Heirs. Glad your Zepbound Journey has had decent enuf results and no serious side effects, tho' Hair Loss can be just part of Aging, I don't like embracing that fact, but it seems it is something that happens, that and shorter Eyelashes. Le Sigh.
ReplyDeleteGood idea to get everything sorted and clear now, papers signed, all that.
ReplyDeleteI have body dysmorphia too, a friend pointed this out to me when I was very skinny and bitching about my belly, my tiny belly. The world (run by mostly men) has done an excellent job of convincing us we should look like NOT OURSELVES. Now I actually do have a belly and I'm trying to love it. Nobody fucking cares, except me.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you'll get to wear the skirts you love again.
That first photo, that glass is beautiful.
I'm sure the cookies will be eaten very quickly, regardless of their size, and cookies don't care about their size:)
I think I have most everything sorted as I have a will but my lawyer retired and now I don't know who I am supposed to contact or actually who my kids will contact when I die but I guess that will be their job. I think about it but then I do not follow up on it.
ReplyDeleteI was in Texas this past weekend with grandchildren and it was LOUD and hot but also fun. I am glad to be home but also tired.