No More Travels!

I had to return a purchase I made at Target, so I got that out of the way right after lunch and then came right back home so I wouldn't spend more money.  It is a beautiful sunny day today, although not as warm as I'd like it.  I need to put something down to kill the grass and weeds that the rains produced, but most products need to be applied at at least 60 deg.  We should be hitting that soon, and I'll have a lot to do.  What I really should do is hire someone to pull up all the gravel, replace the old plastic underneath, and then get new gravel to top it off.

I baked chicken last night according to a recipe that I found on the back of a package of shredded Tillamook cheddar.  It was good and I made enough for two meals, but I'll have to say that I'm so used to eating wild-caught Pacific fish that even chicken doesn't taste as good as it used to.  I had a good friend back in the 1990's who had a massive heart attack - took months to recuperate - and his doctor told him from then on to eat only fish, no meat at all.  Instead of dealing with cardiologists who are more interested in prescribing Crestor than anything else, I decided to treat my own self mostly with diet and nutrition.  I'll never be totally ok, but I'm happy to be doing as well as I am.  Fish is so much easier to digest, by the way.

It has now been a week and two days since I had the flu shot, and never felt so much as a twinge until this afternoon.  Three times a week I do a few sets of weight lifting exercises - only a 2# weight in each hand.  Today I noticed that when raising my arms up in an overhead press I could feel an ache at the injection site on my arm each time I raised the weights.  It didn't really hurt, but I was kind of surprised that so much time elapsed between getting the shot and feeling the twinge.  I haven't noticed anything with the weight lifting except just tired arms up until now.

You may wonder like a woman of my age would be interested in lifting weights.  Well, you ladies know how the lower part of your uppper arm gets jiggly when you hold your arm out straight?  The exercises I do include a couple of routines that firm up the triceps.  Vanity, thy name is woman!  (Don't know who to thank for that quote, but somebody said it, although it's a little misleading because I'm sure more men lift weights than women do.) 

I mentioned that I had difficulty selecting a couple of books at Barnes & Noble recently, but I was looking at serious non-fiction.  Yesterday I visited the library and checked out a couple of mysteries - always good for just relaxing and not taxing the brain too heavily.  I'm reading a Sue Grafton book - she wrote the alphabet series, i,e., "A is for Alibi", etc.  I've always enjoyed her characters and situations.