I did a lot of "appearance self-care" this morning to prepare for our little weekend trip. There's still more to do. As for mental self-care, it sure would be nice if the powers that be would help out a bit.

I got on the scale for the first time in ages and the reading was scary, but not terribly surprising. I must arrest this weight gain and eat and exercise better. I'm the highest I've been in almost 10 years. Only 12 lbs less than my lifetime high, when I was pre-diabetic and had very high triglycerides and high cholesterol. No fooling myself. It's getting dangerous.

My mini excitement for the day will be scaling, gutting, and butterflying small whole sardines, for the first time. I feel confident about it, after watching a good instructional video. I have fileted fish before, but techniques at handling them can vary a bit by fish. Yea, I'm sure others wouldn't derive as much pleasure from this. I also need to get Hubby to sharpen the knife. He thinks he's better at that than me. Likely is, but I don't like that task, anyway.