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The tree has been ordered…
Well, I placed the order. We’re getting a Fraser Fir from New Hampshuh. It was $77 w/shipping. I ordered from a farm, rather than go via Home Depot or L.L. Bean. L.L. Bean only has Balsam, and we weren’t overly joyed with that species last year. We also didn’t end up with a very nice tree, but true to their word, we were given a refund when I called to complain. Home Depot has Frasers, but they charge way more than any of the direct shipping farms do. Hopefully we end up with a very nice tree. It ships via FedEx on Monday, so I imagine we’ll get it by Wednesday. My hub is a bit concerned that’s too early, but I pointed out that the trees on the streets are cut two to three weeks ahead of being put out there, and this one will be fresh cut within 24 hrs of shipping.
So, I lose but win. My hub gets to give me a tree, and I feel spoiled rotten, especially since he also took me to see Harry Potter this week. Which, in all fairness, he did want to see and enjoyed very much, but he’d have waited for it to be on DVD if I hadn’t wanted to go so badly. I liked it, and think they did a pretty good job of staying true to the book with the storyline they chose to focus on. A lot was cut, obviously… when you have a 700 page book, it’s hard to transition to a 2.5 hour movie without losing a lot. The writer managed to do that without destroying the essence of the book, unlike Peter Jackson’s atrocities in writing the scripts for Lord of the Rings - but don’t get me started on that man. I did miss the house elves, though.
I’ve been feeling sort of blah. I’ve been working on Christmas shopping, and between closet shopping (yes, I regift, but only nice things that I just don’t want/need) and store/online shopping I’m done. My hub has a few people left to shop for, though. He gave me my gift last night, which is $50 to spend at All of MP3. It’s a wonderful site, where music is dirt cheap. The site is Russian, and Russian copy write law is such that it doesn’t cover online music rights. So for now, the site lives. $50 will probably get me 30 albums… seriously, it’s that cheap! Anyway, he gave it to me early because he knew I wanted some more Christmas music. :) He’s so sweet.
My stomach is miserable today, as a result of the tension headache I’ve been battling since noon. I’ve been eating weird, since I can’t tolerate much. Yesterday was the first day in well over a month that I really struggled mentally. I’ve been mostly so “on” lately, and it was a shock to struggle, but probably good for me. I made it through, too.
The best news of the week is that there is probably nothing wrong with my husband’s heart!!! We’ll find out for sure in January, but he went in to talk to the cardiologist, who finally had gotten the echocardiogram results from his regular MD. Anyway, it turns off that this particular problem, which is determined by a measurement of the heart, is generally scaled to body size. Since my hub is larger than the average person, he’d be expected to have a larger measurement, and frankly, the measurement isn’t even at the point where they usually start to get terribly worried. The doctor told him the symptoms he has (light headedness, short of breath) are probably the result of various other things (getting up to fast, poor circulation, weight, etc) and not the heart condition we thought he had. However, just to be careful and cover all the bases, he’s going to do an echocardiogram himself. He has more sophisticated equipment and will be able to do a better reading than the tech. He’s also going to have my husband wear a halter monitor for a day or so… the bottom line is, he doesn’t feel there’s any reason my husband needs to believe there’s anything wrong with him until proven otherwise!!! I’m so happy, but will not be completely relieved until January, after the final test results are in. Still, it was marvelous news and such a relief to us both. There could be no better Christmas gift, frankly.
I was about 388 on Thursday morning, but only 386.6 today, so that’s actually a bit less than last Thursday and a bit more than the low I had the day before Thanksgiving, of 385.6. All in all, I’ll take it. Two days “off” last week, and only a pound up… plus, though I tracked everything I ate this week, and was basically within my calories every day, I had a high fat day on Tuesday (movie theater popcorn, but oh, was it good) and Wednesday I had Burger King (but went for the grilled chicken and small fries) AND pizza. Still, even with all that I was basically in an okay place. Nonetheless, I was eating a bit more than normal, and I also had more fat than normal. Plus, for several days I was a little unusually sloppy with my journaling. I’ve been really easily distracted lately, I don’t know why. So, I’d forget to put something in, and then remember the next day. Thankfully, it didn’t cause any major problems, but nevertheless, I don’t care for it. I don’t, however, think it’s related to my Thanksgiving Adventures in Eating, because it didn’t start until maybe Tuesday, and I was right back on track Saturday. All in all, I’m happy and pleased with how the week went. It would’ve been so easy to slip off the wagon after two days off, and I was worried about it… but I think I handled it well and the scale would seem to overall agree. I was prepared to see a gain, and was just pleased it was a relatively small one… and as I said, before I even at anything on Thanksgiving, I was “up” nearly two pounds from the day before - and I’m below that by .4 already. So, maybe the 385 was an “artificial” low. Who knows? The scale can be so damn fickle, which is why I’ve finally learned not to weigh my success entirely by it…
Well, this headache isn’t going to let me remain coherrent and at the computer much longer, so off I go.