Lots of goodies arriving!

This has been an excellent week for me, in my mailbox. All sorts of things, that I'd ordered, started coming in. Some, quite unexpectedly quicker than they were supposed to!

Kudos to KMart - my wire shelf unit for the kitchen arrived in only 2 days! I was amazed, I thought it would be at least a week or so (their site said up to 15 days). Nope, it arrived Thursday, and hubby basically erected it that evening, and then it was in use!

From Francis Frith, my book "Taste of London" arrived, with old recipes and photos, and my personalized calendar for 2019. I'd chosen pics of places that meant a lot to me over my lifetime, some from childhood memories, others places I'd lived or visited. I'm thrilled with it and already have it up on my living room wall.

As part of trying to get organized, in my business as well as my life. I invested in a planner from the folks at Multibrain, who are overseeing the social media aspect, and training, for AVON. I am a very erratic person, I am also very forgetful. I am productive but not really in any organized way. It's something I'm trying to work on, so I'm hoping this will help. Just scanning through it, it looks really awesome.

Then, there are my AVON tee shirts. Oh I love them! And I love they are 2-3 sizes smaller than I used to wear! That feels so good.

I'm now 81 lbs down from when I started this journey, that's about the size of a 10 year old child! It's terrible that my weight had ballooned that high, but getting my walker has definitely helped as I am able to get out and about more now. That, and my seated elliptical, are the mainstays of my exercise right now. Trips to my favourite supermarket, Lidl, are an exercise session, as I walk around the store, and sit when I need to.

I'd love to have spent more time down at Cedar Falls and done more walking there, but it's been too hot and muggy for me most days. Shall have to wait for the cooler Fall weather.

Hubby's also been getting mailbox goodies, I'd ordered him some aircraft mechanic tee shirts, and a veteran one, and he likes them. He has another gift coming but I can't say what it is as it's a surprise. It'll be kind of bittersweet.

So that's what's been going on Chez Dempsey this past week.

Learning the new website and other ramblings

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and that bears true with me in today's techy age. I know how to do what I know how to do, and may even look like quite a pro doing it, but change something, and I'm lost!

So it has been with my new AVON website, LOL. It IS lovely and everything is at your fingertips ... but I struggled all day, yesterday, to figure out where to find things that weren't where I expected them to be. And they WERE in plain sight ... just my brain was accustomed to a certain way of doing things and seeing things, and totally missed what was actually right in front of me.

I'm just plodding along. It's taking me a bit longer to get my head around it that the younger, more tech savvy ones, but that's ok. I'll make it in the end, even if I'm last over the finish line!

Today is hubby's off Friday, so we got a lie-in ... not as late as we'd liked as a certain four-legged fiend was meowing for her food at 5.30am when we are normally getting up, but we did snooze again a little, afterwards.

We made a delivery to one of my ladies, took back a library book that I'd finished reading, dropped off recycleables at the Conestee Park collection bins, and then headed to see my lovely crew at Hu Hot, for lunch. It's like family when we go there, they are smashing!

After lunch, we went grocery shopping at Lidl ... I love that place too. I get my exercise in there pushing my walker all over the place, up one aisle and down the next.

I'm so thankful for my walker, it's definitely helped me regain some of my mobility AND my weight loss journey. 81lbs gone now. WOW. That's a whole maybe 8 or 9 year old's weight! I still have a long way to go but I'm just a tortoise plodding along, day by day, and as long as I'm going in the right direction, it's all good!

Enjoy your weekend!

Another anniversary today

It's August 7th, and I woke up this morning remembering that 33 years ago today my hubby left me, on the 4th day after our marriage. It wasn't a choice. He was in the Air Force and had to fly back to Little Rock AFB with the rest of the crews who had been over in England for TDY for around 65 days.

That spawned other thoughts, and remembering that in the first 15 years of our marriage, we spent about as much time apart as we did together.

It's almost odd to think that the last 18 we've spent mainly together.

I've sent him on overnight jaunts to air shows and he's worked away a couple of times for a few weeks, but nothing like the forced separations of those early years.

He works hard. Still loves his C-130s after working on them all these years. His Herky Birds.

It's quite a day in history as well.

In 1573, Sir Francis Drake arrived back in Plymouth after a year spent raiding for Spanish treasure.

In 1606, Shakespeare's Macbeth was performed at Hampton Court for King James 1 (which may have been the very first performance of the play).

In 1782, George Washington, as Commander of the Continental Army, created the Purple Heart. Its original name being the Badge of Military Merit.

In 1820, the first potatoes were planted on Hawaii.

In 1882, the Hatfields of West Virginia, and the McCoys of Eastern Kentucky, feuded and 100 were killed or injured.

In 1888, a man named Theophilus Van Kannel, of Philadelphia, patented the revolving door.

In 1909, the first Lincoln Penny is issued.

In 1914, the famous poster "Your Country Needs You" spread all over the UK after Lord Kitchener uttered the words.

In 1914, Russia invaded Prussia.

In 1919, Babe Ruth tied the MLB record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games for the 2nd time, in a 13-1 win against the Philadelphia As.

In 1939, millionaire Howard Hughes was presented with a Congressional Gold Medal.

In 1940, Alsace-Lorraine was annexed by the Third Reich (Germany) in WW11.

In 1942, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, was the first American offensive in the Pacific in WW11.

In 1944, IBM dedicated the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, better known as the Harvard Mark 1.

In 1946, the Booker T. Washington half-dollar was issued, making it the first commemorative coin featuring an African American.

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and the crew of the Kon-Tiki crashed into a reef in the Tuomotu Islands of French Polynesia after crossing the Pacific in 101 days.

In 1954, Roger Bannister ran the "4 minute mile".

In 1957, The U.S.Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

In 1959, Explorer 6 transmits the first TV photo of Earth from Outer Space.

In 1971 Apollo 15 returned to Earth.

In 1990 Operation Desert Shield began and the U.S deployed troops to Saudi Arabia.

In 1992, The Orlando Magic signed NBA #1 draft pick Shaquille O'Neal.

All in all, quite an eventful day in history.