Weezee,
Glad to hear everything went well for you! And yeah, definitely a good thing but always kind of scary too anytime you go under the knife.

Weezee, Hopefully you're black eye is pretty much better by now. Glad it didn't hurt at least. And also glad to hear that while it was cancerous, it's all been removed, that's very good for sure. Though, something you definitely want to stay on top of and make sure to get check ups every so often. I'm sure it's a relief to have the growth gone though and being on the mend. Do you have more follow up visits anytime soon or pretty much good for a while?

Heck yeah, that's awesome and I bet you do feel quite a bit better both things considered! And YAY YOU exactly, that's definitely something to be proud of I'm so happy for you.

Also, liking your doctor helps quite a bit for sure. I moved to where I am now from a small town and had the same doctor for most of my life so moving to a bigger city and trying to find someone I really liked took a long time. I finally found one though and been with him for a couple years however, I really didn't go in regularly like I should have been. I recent went though and did blood work and also had the discussion about getting on antidepressants. I had tried Wellbutrin once before when I was a little younger and it made me highly irritable so this time the doc prescribed Lexapro. Just started taking it last week so too soon to tell anything really but here's hoping that it helps or at the very least doesn't have any adverse effects like the Wellbutrin did.

So far so good, no adverse effects anyway. I have also noticed that I'm able to focus a bit better too so far so that's good as well.

Yeah, I have to take blood pressure meds as well and it seems they are not helping much anymore so that's something we're watching now too. (Prolly doesn't help I'm a smoker and know I need to quit. I have before but just with everything that's gone on in the last year or so my hearts not in quitting yet) Bodies suck. That's awful that it go worse for you though that's messed up! The waiting game, bleh. Still waiting to hear back about my vitamin D levels which I'm sure are low but still want to wait for him to tell me the dosage on supplements I should take.

I hope I never get to the point where my parents are grandparents are with their meds that they have to have alike a weekly organizer with am, noon, and pm slots for all their meds on a daily basis. Thankfully I only take 3 regularly: blood pressure, birth control, and now the Lexapro. I do have prescript meds for my migraines that I can take as needed too.

I know my main issues are that I smoke and am overweight. Honestly though, those aren't easy things to tackle with depression. I'm hoping here in the next month or so I'll have enough of the Lexapro in my system that I'll get a little more energy and push to work on those things because other that I'm not in too bad of shape health wise. I don't really eat terribly but I sit in an office all day and don't really exercise. It's hard to though when you're just mentally and physically constantly exhausted all time.

That's a long time of smoking, congrats on finally being able to quit! I started casually, like socially at parties and stuff, when I was about 19 then by about 21 was a full on smoker. Quit when I was pregnant, picked it up again a couple years later. Quit again and picked it up again lol. I'm just about ready but not quite there yet hopefully it's for good this next time though.

Ugh, that's annoying, when you're trying to do the things and it's just not working. Hopefully you've some pretty easy or simple options that will get it lined out for you. The potassium levels can effect your blood pressure to, can't they?

6 isn't too bad, especially if some are just vitamins. I'm used to taking nightly meds but it's taken a bit to form the habit of taking one it the morning now too.

I've seen those and wondered how well they work. You'll have to let us know what you think of it!

Dancing and walking/jogging are probably the best exercises that suit me, the motivation though as of late, ugghhh lol.

Yeah, I get that. The habit is a hard one to break and your exactly right, I always smoke after eating and when I don't have any kiddos as soon as I get in the car I light up.

Nice! Glad to hear you're making some progress on it. Our yard and well just everything outside is a mess. Overgrown and unkempt. I need to do so many things at home aside from your typical reoccurring usual stuff like laundry and dishes ect.

No I hear ya, weeds are annoying and it's a constant thing. I enjoy that type of stuff as well, it's just finding the time. I'm glad you have the opportunity to keep up with it though. I can see kind of what you are talking about by looking at the skirting and wow, that must have been sagging quite a bit! It looks great now though! I love all your decorations by the way.

I like your beds too and I think that's a good idea to help with the weeds, using rocks. Eventually when we clean up the back yard near the patio I think that's what we will do as well, put down some rock. The person who owned it before us were an older couple who, to my understanding spend most of their mornings out there tending things. It was really pretty when we first moved in, there's a little coy pond (though we don't have any fish in it) with a fountain and water lilies, daffodils, daylilies, peonies, spiderwort all types of things. However, they only had mulch down with no barrier underneath and since we definitely aren't out there all the time tending to it become a jungle. Our neighbors also have mimosa trees which are really pretty but extremely evasive and annoying so that means now we have them constantly trying to pop up all over our yard.

My plan for this year though is to at least prep everything for how I want it to look next year. Get the weeds and mimosa sprouts under control, prep the ground for a garden next year, and rips up everything by the back patio to redo the landscaping with rocks and then raised beds that the dogs wont be able to get in. We'll likely redo the little pond as well because the dogs think it's a small pool for them :-/ and theirs a leaks somewhere that prevents the fountain from running properly so it's just stagnant gross water.

Yeah, mulch can look nice and has it's uses but unless you're out there upkeeping all the time I've found it's more of a hassle and waste of money in the long run. That's really annoying, that it was growing in the mulch! lol Nice that it's not in a highly visible area though so you can kind of change it more at you leisure when you have the time.

The pond was really cute but yeah it is a lot of upkeep. They had even groomed an eastern redbud tree to kind of grow bending over it which looked kind of cool at first by they went a little drastic with it and now it's about to fall over an uproot itself. Hubs wants to try and keep it and just like prop it up but I feel like it's not going to be doing so well as it gets bigger.

That's true as well. Even if your DIYing things materials to do the things can be very expensive.

I really like your current avy!

They are heavy, bags of any landscaping stuff is heavy. I don't blame you for not wanting to put it in your car. That's the type of stuff you need either a friend with a truck or a trailer or something to help you out with. Doesn't help that over the last few years building and landscaping materials have went through the roof. I mean everything costs more with inflations but I know those areas got hit hard. They are finally starting to calm down a little though.