Today is Saturday, January 26, 2013. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the exercise ball and 45 minutes of walking inside Walmart = 2.5 miles fo a January total of 55.2 miles. My weight was163.6 pounds.
QUOTE from Oscar Pistorius, Olympic sprinter and double amputee: "My mother used to tell us, 'Carl, put on your shoes; Oscar, put on your prosthetic legs.' So I grew up not thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes."
My THOUGHTS today are about being grateful. Ruth Ann and I spent 3 days at the Isle of Capri Casino in Waterloo.It is so relaxing even if I don't win but this time it was more relaxing because I came out $130.00 ahead. I played video poker and was lucky enough to hit 4 aces with a deuce for the 5th card (called a kicker) - that was good for 2000 quarters which = $500.00. So why didn't I come home with $500.00 to the good? It is because you have to spend money to make any. Anyway, I'm grateful for the win.
I like to people watch at the casino - it makes me grateful for so many things. I'm grateful I'm not in a wheelchair or getting around with a walker or a cane. I'm grateful I don't eat like a pig - such as loading my plate up with 2,000 calories (AND THEN GO FOR SECOND HELPINGS) and then having a Diet Coke so I won't have so many calories (Ha! Ha!). I don't think I've ever seen so many women with big asses and so many men with big guts all in the same building at the same time. And that isn't just older people but younger ones also. At the Lone Wolf Sports Bar there were some young gals working that had huge butts, and I mean very very huge. It was unbelievable to see those on 20-25 year-old females.
When we got home yesterday we got a phone call from a lady at the church saying wee had 3 deaths in the last 3 days. One of them was Joan Capron Decious. Joan died from cancer at the age of 62. Joan was in my first class in Anamosa in 1962. After I had my prostate cancer surgery in 2007 Joan and I had many talks during coffee hour at church about how we were doing fighting cancer. She always asked me how I was doing and I would do the same with her. She was a fighter and was supposed to be dead 2 years ago but she lost her battle with lung and brain cancer on Thursday. I'm doing okay with mine. It has not reoccurred in 5 years. I go for my next check-up next month. Anyway, I'm so grateful that my cancer was in the prostate and not in the lungs and brain. God Bless Joan and may she RIP.
I'm so grateful that at age 73 I'm HIV. Of course, that means "I'm HEALTHY, I'm VERTICAL."
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