Wednesday, March 22
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Beautiful weather today. I love being able to go outside in a lighter jacket. My winter chore coat is wonderfully warm, but also very heavy.
I called the vet for some information, since I know I stopped being able to process her words part way through our appointment.
I wanted to know if the lump we need to remove was a lymph node, since removing lymph nodes can cause other issues down the road with circulation and swelling.
She said that the lump was not connected to the lymph system. I know that doesn't mean that there couldn't be other issues, but at least not with her lymph circulation.
I talked to Trainwreck on the phone for a while, which was still mostly her "worrying" about what everyone else in the family was doing. While I understand her being upset with our Sister N (who had a knee replacement surgery a while ago) for taking huge amounts of pain medication and not doing any physiotherapy or walking, thus negating the entire point of having knee replacement surgery, it is also incredibly typical of Sister N to do these things. Sister N has been addicted to pain medication her entire adult life, and really never was one to exercise for the sake of exercise.
Bottom line, it is all frustrating, but Sister N doesn't take responsibility for her life. Hmmm....sounds familiar.
The rest of the conversation was about how Trainwreck "never wanted children" (but managed to have three all by different Dads) but "Took care of them anyhow, and was a good Mom" (she was not), and how the entire human race should just stop having kids because the whole world sucks and no one is happy to be alive. Totally reasonable, right?
So many times our conversations just confirm that her maturity level is stuck at about twelve years old. More and more I notice how in our conversations, I feel like "the adult" talking to an impulsive, emotionally erratic person who seems more like a teenager. Except that I've known teenagers that make better life decisions.
So, I tossed all of that into a box and put it away with all the other boxes of crap I compartmentalize, and went to my riding lesson.
Today we recorded our test that I have been practicing for, and according to R we did really well. I forgot about the dress code for the show (long sleeved shirt with a collar) and I was wearing a long sleeved shirt with a turtle neck, and I don't know if that's going to work. Either way, I am proud of how well we did today.
We started dissecting the next pattern, and broke some of it down to look for areas of challenge.
In the ridden work, we once again looked at his turn on the haunches, trying to understand if there is any way we can make the cues clearer for him, or do we have to change our approach? He will do it, but not cleanly, and not consistently.
Overall, we did well today.
I came home and noodled around on the computer after my nightly call with my Sweetie, had a nap, then just watched some more "House", which is still pretty interesting. Mainly in the characters, which is really what these shows are about. It's a medical soap opera.
I learned about Sensory Specific Satiety; you can eat a meal, feel full, yet you end up continuing to eat when presented with something different, like dessert. This is why people tend to eat so much at buffets or special meals like Christmas and Thanksgiving where we tend to have many different dishes and several desserts.
People trying to manage their weight can use this knowledge to their advantage, by eating meals with fewer different items, and a more monotonous diet over all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory-specific_satiety
Beautiful weather today. I love being able to go outside in a lighter jacket. My winter chore coat is wonderfully warm, but also very heavy.
I called the vet for some information, since I know I stopped being able to process her words part way through our appointment.
I wanted to know if the lump we need to remove was a lymph node, since removing lymph nodes can cause other issues down the road with circulation and swelling.
She said that the lump was not connected to the lymph system. I know that doesn't mean that there couldn't be other issues, but at least not with her lymph circulation.
I talked to Trainwreck on the phone for a while, which was still mostly her "worrying" about what everyone else in the family was doing. While I understand her being upset with our Sister N (who had a knee replacement surgery a while ago) for taking huge amounts of pain medication and not doing any physiotherapy or walking, thus negating the entire point of having knee replacement surgery, it is also incredibly typical of Sister N to do these things. Sister N has been addicted to pain medication her entire adult life, and really never was one to exercise for the sake of exercise.
Bottom line, it is all frustrating, but Sister N doesn't take responsibility for her life. Hmmm....sounds familiar.
The rest of the conversation was about how Trainwreck "never wanted children" (but managed to have three all by different Dads) but "Took care of them anyhow, and was a good Mom" (she was not), and how the entire human race should just stop having kids because the whole world sucks and no one is happy to be alive. Totally reasonable, right?
So many times our conversations just confirm that her maturity level is stuck at about twelve years old. More and more I notice how in our conversations, I feel like "the adult" talking to an impulsive, emotionally erratic person who seems more like a teenager. Except that I've known teenagers that make better life decisions.
So, I tossed all of that into a box and put it away with all the other boxes of crap I compartmentalize, and went to my riding lesson.
Today we recorded our test that I have been practicing for, and according to R we did really well. I forgot about the dress code for the show (long sleeved shirt with a collar) and I was wearing a long sleeved shirt with a turtle neck, and I don't know if that's going to work. Either way, I am proud of how well we did today.
We started dissecting the next pattern, and broke some of it down to look for areas of challenge.
In the ridden work, we once again looked at his turn on the haunches, trying to understand if there is any way we can make the cues clearer for him, or do we have to change our approach? He will do it, but not cleanly, and not consistently.
Overall, we did well today.
I came home and noodled around on the computer after my nightly call with my Sweetie, had a nap, then just watched some more "House", which is still pretty interesting. Mainly in the characters, which is really what these shows are about. It's a medical soap opera.
I learned about Sensory Specific Satiety; you can eat a meal, feel full, yet you end up continuing to eat when presented with something different, like dessert. This is why people tend to eat so much at buffets or special meals like Christmas and Thanksgiving where we tend to have many different dishes and several desserts.
People trying to manage their weight can use this knowledge to their advantage, by eating meals with fewer different items, and a more monotonous diet over all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory-specific_satiety
