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Farewell, caffeine

29 Thursday Aug 2019

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caffeine, healthy habits, tea, water

A couple of weeks I was thinking about my eating habits, and realized that on any given day I was averaging between eight and nine cups of hot tea.  When I was at home my cup was right beside me, and whenever I left the house I took my trusty thermal cup filled to the brim.  With the average cup of black tea having about 40 mg of caffeine, that’s 320 -360 mg of caffeine daily just from tea.  We won’t even factor in my love of chocolate!

With tea constantly beside me, I was compounding things by drinking no water at all.  My poor kidneys!

So I did what I do best.  I stopped cold-turkey.  No tea at all for two days, just water.  The weather cooperated by being VERY hot, so having a big cup of water with ice was nice and refreshing.  But it wasn’t satisfying.  I didn’t wake up looking forward to my first glass of water of the day, and I definitely didn’t relax with the last cup before bed. I told myself I was making good choices for my (aging) body, but I’m not sure I was convinced.

The first difference I noticed, besides being pretty shaky without caffeine, was that my appetite was completely gone.  Double-stuff Oreos and water do not comfort the way Oreos and a cup of tea do.  When I was feeling a bit “off” at work in the evening, I realized I had not eaten at all that day, and still really didn’t feel like it.  But the next morning I forced myself to have breakfast so I didn’t fall on my face.

Two weeks in I have transitioned to two cups of tea a day — one in the morning and one at night.  I still miss the comfort and the caffeine, but I do think I am making a better choice for my body.  And I don’t find myself snacking as much as I did before, as I still am struggling with not having an appetite.

Wish me luck.

 

 

 

 

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Ahh…learning curves

28 Wednesday Aug 2019

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blogging challenges, Google photos, More from Trigger's Horse

When I was blogging daily, I became pretty competent with my platform and how it worked. But times (and WordPress) have changed, and things that once were easy have become a (temporary) struggle.

Things such as retrieving a photograph from Google photos without 27 extra steps between my phone/camera, yahoo.com, the memory files on my desktop, and my blog page. Or connecting my Trigger’s Horse posts with my More from Trigger’s Horse page on Facebook. Those are my two biggies right now. I’m sure more will rear their stubborn heads before long.

The good news is that those of you who were already following Trigger’s Horse are still getting notified of new postings, and some of you have already commented. I had forgotten how exciting it is to see comments, likes, and follows! Thank you all.

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I’m back…again

25 Sunday Aug 2019

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It has been nearly a year since my last post, and I’m not sure what happened.  No, that’s not accurate.  I know what happened:  life happened.  Life in all its wonderment and chaos happened, and for the most part it was marvelous.

My granddaughters are growing more lovely each day, and each day I marvel at the joy being with them brings.  They are now 13 and 9, with new challenges and discoveries to be made.  They are still at the center of my life.

What didn’t happen was any blogging.  Occasionally I would think about clicking onto Triggershorse and getting to work, but only occasionally.  Until today, when the annual billing of my upgraded (last September) site happened.  I had two choices:  Fight with WordPress to get the renewal cancelled, or get to work.

So here I am again.

 

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