Ins and outs and ups and downs

For some reason, I have had a day of pretty substantial GI disturbance at the lower end of the tract...translate: many trips to the ladies room.  Now of course this has in no way interfered with my appetite, and I feel completely fine.  So far I have kept the food totally on plan and am feeling pretty confident that the way things are "going", my weigh in tomorrow will be pretty decent.  No massive loss like the 9 pounds in 6 days prior to my trip to Texas, but I've done okay this week, even before this day of...evacuation.

EXCEPT...I am going to dinner with a close friend tonight to...P.F. Changs.  Just typing the letters makes my myriad cells start to take on water.  I'm hoping that the fluid retention effect of the nouveau Chinese cuisine will be offset by the day I've had where virtually nothing that has been ingested has stayed in the system very long.  Isn't this a delicate way to dance around describing a day of diarrhea? 

I've been eating tons of fruit and salads all week, and often when I do that my wittel tummy rebels.  Not like it isn't made of cast iron, but after so much fruit and produce for so many days, sh*t happens.  Hahaha...I do crack myself up...hey! No pun intended!!

Not much else going on this week except our home internet connection continues to flicker between on and off with increasing lengths of time in the off category.  Comcast has been here no less than 4 times, and each time (according to Hubby who works out of the house) they have found significant f-ed up aspects of our connection and allegedly fixed each.  I'm actually using wifi in the house for now but fear it could go at any second.

My exercise has been okay this week, but I can definitely tell that the heat and humidity really affect my knees...they've been stiffer than usual.  I'm at the 5 month mark from my R knee arthroscopy and 8 months since the L, and they have yet to return to their pre-meniscus-tear statuses.  Harumph!  For awhile I was almost without any pain or stiffness, but summer has caused some of those unwelcome symptoms to return.  And since my 5 mile walk on Sunday at the hilly park, my R hip has also felt a little off.  No pain - but minor soreness and weakness.  Man...this being 50-something (alright dammit, 55-something) is not for the feint of heart.  Until the cartilage tears in my knees this past fall, my body still felt pretty normal.  And I'm just enough of a magical thinker to still hope for a return to that status.

Finally, speaking of being a woman of a certain age, cough cough, just yesterday I passed a new development of really beautiful town homes that finally has put up their sign that advertises "Luxury Senior Living for Ages 55 and Up", and I felt like I'd been socked in the stomach.  The age categories of demographics almost all stop at "55 and Up".  Now senior communities have "lowered" their requirements?  Gheeeesh, here I've been excited about my upcoming birthday (next Thursday), and certainly I'd rather be this age than not.  But I am in no way a senior citizen.  It's hard to believe that I'm where I am chronilogically.  That being said, I really hope to be around long enough to hold and spoil not just grandchildren, but GREAT grands too.  So I'd better get used to being a used up old broad! 

Wow - this was a rambling and disjointed post...very much in keeping with where my head is today.  Now I'm off to get ready for my dinner out.  Beat the heat, blogging friends.