Friday, December 19, 2014

Arizona, Mesa - Friday, December 19, 2014 - Val Vista Villages RV Resort


The weather has remained cool this week, mid 40’s at night, mid 60’s during the day.  It is supposed to get back into the 70’s next week.  I’ve inquired of some of the people who live around here full time and they tell me that December is the “coldest” month, it starts to warm up in January and goes to hot from there.
We worked Monday thru Wednesday.  On Monday after work I went to a Norwex products party put on by one of our neighbors.  I’m sure I can’t explain it correctly, their microfiber products are made to use only water to clean most surfaces, relying on the product to do the cleaning.  For specialized cleaning such as showers, drains etc. they have enzyme and microbe products that clean without odors rather than using chemicals.  I’m interested in this because Greg has allergies and in our small space using chemicals to clean really bothers him.  I bought a couple of things to try, if they work out I will get some other things.  The products are expensive, but if you don’t have to buy chemicals to work with them I think we will save money and space in the long run – we’ll see.  I followed the party with an hour of line dancing.

On Wednesday I was supposed to go to a quilting meeting and to take some kind of “goodie” to share.  I had a cheese spread and crackers ready to go but by the time the meeting came around I was too tired to go.  Greg didn’t mind standing in for the quilting ladies to sample the cheese spread J.
Thursday afternoon we had our session with a trainer at the new fitness facility.  We didn’t get as much out of it as we were expecting.  Maybe we were expecting too much.  Today we went back and worked out on our own using the knowledge we had from past experiences at fitness centers, I’m feeling it this evening.

We’ve found a chiropractor that a lot of the people here at the resort swear by.  He has sponsored a couple of our Thursday coffee and donut meetings and after he spoke people around us were talking about how good he is so we decided to check him out.  When Greg was working it was just too hard for him to go through a regimen of adjustments to get his back in better shape.  And then, when we were traveling it still didn’t work out.  But, since we are going to be here for a good while we can fit it in.  He had x-rays done today which confirmed disc compression in his lower back.  We picked a moderate plan of treatment which we will combine with exercises we can do at the fitness center.  We talked to the chiropractor today about one exercise stand in particular and a stretching station, he was pleased that those were available.  He also suggested that an inversion table would be good.  Not sure where we would put one of those.  We’ll try out the one daughter Amanda has back in Indiana before we commit to buying one.

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