Made it through my 18 hour fasting today. It was a lot easier than last week, and I only cheated yesterday with an iced coffee. Stomach rumbling getting to a minimum!

I'm not going to disagree. It's frustrating for me because it's not a big deal in the least so I don't understand. I feel for him, as he loves me but never signed up for being a dog step-father. My dog is the child of my heart and I want to protect her as well. It's not a great situation.

Yesterday morning, my thinking prior to leaving for church: Hm, things have been going well with leaving Lu for a few hours while we're at church. Lu (thinking): I'm done being a good girl for today. *Myself and Hubby checking on Lu via camera before church starts, note that kennel door is somehow open and Lu is nowhere in sight*: 🤨🤔😒🙄 Upon returning home, we find she managed to not only get out of her kennel, but poop outside her diaper on top of my heating pad (thankfully the diaper caught her pee), which was folded up on the floor near Hubby's couch. Commence him freaking out (he is a germaphobe, and barely handles having the dog around at all) while I try desperately to balance Lu being terrified out of her mind while he yells at her and clean up the mess. No way he would allow me to just clean and wash the heating pad, it had to be thrown out and then he was pissed the rest of the day, insisting the house smelled like dog poo even after I sprayed everywhere and lit a candle. I really hate Sundays.

Opened all the windows today. Feels so good! 😊🌞

I find myself using phrases my parents used to use all the time. Just goes to show that to some extent, we are the product of our environment?

Believe me, I wish I had an answer! I've prayed about it so much, and things will be good for a while. Lu is going to be 14 years old next month. She's potty trained, except for when she gets upset for being left alone for hours at a time. The situation is so blown out of proportion. She pooped, I cleaned it up, should be the end of the story. She's a dog, and is not going to understand. I've tried to explain that.

It does. He usually ends up apologizing later to me if I show that I'm upset, but I'm just too tired to deal with the outbursts anymore. He's stressed and then doesn't sleep, and then exhausted and stressed from lack of sleep. No one ever said marriage was easy.

Be afraid, Ditto users!

Good morning!

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GM Nostr friends! Sipping my plain (bland, boring, acidic k-cup) coffee this morning for Day 3 of my new Intermittent Fasting process. Made it 18 hours yesterday, hoping to get to 20:4 for my ratio and just see how I feel. So far, it's been pretty good. I feel energetic and once the hunger pains go away, it's not hard at all. We'll see if I stick with it long-term. I do love breakfast. Other than that, it's Friiiiiiiiday! Hubby purchased the audiobook of Project Hail Mary some time ago, so I'm listening to it now. Pretty dang great story so far. Lots of humor, and even if I don't follow most of the science-y stuff, it's still very well written. Hopefully I can finish it while the movie is still in theaters! Have a great day, y'all!

GM!

SO. CUTE.

That is quite the dress!

Oh good! I'm still giggling to myself over here, too.

😆 I'm here all week.

I mean, you gotta hand it to him...that's impressive! 🤪