2018--Striving to Make This Year Our Best Possible
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We just got home from a lovely dinner at a steak house to celebrate our 35th anniversary. It wasn’t on my diet, but it really was delicious!0
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Pam - congratulations on that milestone anniversary!0
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Congratulations on your anniversary. I hope you ordered something fabulous.
Jean, are you back to work after the strike?0 -
I’m up .2 of a pound for this week, which I attribute to my 2 dinners that were off plan. One was a friend’s dinner party where I had no choice other than to eat what was offered, and the other was the anniversary dinner where I chose to celebrate. Overall, I’m pleased that it wasn’t a bigger gain. This weekend will be a challenge as well. We are leaving tomorrow for a wedding at my cousin's home in the country. We will be staying in a nearby hotel, but I’m not sure where we will be eating some of our meals. I’ll do the best that I can but I’m not going to stress over it. I want to enjoy the wedding and being with family and friends.0
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The small gain might be fluid/ Enjoy the wedding. As you said, do the best you can but eat what you want at the wedding. Portion control will probably keep things from going to far off course.0
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I'm tired, tired, tired. I hadn't been sleeping well during the strike, and then was dealing with knee pain. I went to the ortho on Saturday to get a cortisone shot to head off problems while on the trip I've worked every day since the strike was over, and was supposed to work today but chose to take the day off. I had a feeling that I needed to do some pre-trip things that might be at risk if I waited.
I had the doctor to send me a form or letter verifying diagnosis and prescriptions just in case it was needed. He went a little overboard; he sent me a ten page printout which even included the last lab test results. When I went to Australia ten years ago, I just had a basic one page with basic info.
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Jean - sounds like you really, really needed a day off! I hope you get everything done and can still get some rest!!!0
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It feels like it's been raining forever (and I have the pile of muddy bowls from the colonies to wash to prove it) but we're having dry weather/wildfire alerts big time! And then mid week (probably ON my birthday) sleet and snow. I'm ready for spring!0
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Maryanne--I'm like you; I'm ready for Spring and some consistent weather. This business of having 70s one day and snow the next is getting old. We haven't had big snow but it has been enough with ice in it to cause bad driving conditions.0
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Now they're calling for snow/ice both Monday and Tuesday nights.
The good news is that in the two winters I've been feeding I've only missed one day and that was a combination of weather and being sick.
I am trying to clean the freezers out a little so I'm going to make a big pot of chili today (will use up some of the tomatoes DH froze last summer).
Of course the chili will end up in containers in the freezer so it's sort of a trade-off. LOL!
I have a ton of CROM stuff that needs done and a ton of work that needs done. I feel like I can't catch up no matter what I do.
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This is DH now that he has too much time on his hands (as does the guy across the street - I can just picture them watching each other through telescopes!)
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I love making chili. Makes me feel like a cook. Of course all I'm really doing is opening bags and cans and dumping it all into a pot and cooking for an hour or two. I probably could have used another can of beans but darned if I'm driving to the grocery store.0
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Maryanne--You find the best graphics. Right now, I'm in the "Dear Journal" stage. I guess I'll try to regain my motivation once I get back from the trip
I just wish the snow/ice/rain combo would veer into a different direction. I wanted to go to the city yesterday but we had icing conditions on the roads. Today, it is sunny but the day I take Midnight to the vet for boarding, snow is expected but changing to rain later.0 -
I fed the colonies this morning and did a little last minute grocery shopping in case we do get bad weather the next couple days.
I've been googling nurseries. DH wants to replace two ugly bushes with azaleas which I'm all in favor of but not if he goes to Home Depot. There are nurseries around. No need to stoop to Home Depot. LOL!
Now I'm trying to get some work done but have a very large Tuffy sprawled over everythind!0 -
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Boy, April is a big month for the big authors in the kind of stuff I read: Lincoln Rhyme, Bishop/SCU, Women's Murder Club, Memory Man (Baldacci), Eve Duncan, and Lucas Davenport. All new books coming out in April.0
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i just now finishing up Memory Man. I didn't realize it was a series. I'll have to check for additional titles. Thanks for the info.0
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I’m back from my cousin's daughter's wedding. It was really lovely, very intimate and personal, with touches of humor, both planned and unplanned. My cousin and her husband had bought a beautiful ranch near the start of what’s called Texas Hill Country and moved into it about six months ago. This was our first visit so we didn’t know what to expect, but it is one of the prettiest places I’ve ever seen. The wedding was planned to be outside on the back lawn with the reception to follow in an adjacent area. However the weather had other plans. The forecast early in the week was for a sunny, warm day, but by Saturday morning it had changed to a 100% chance of rain at the time of the wedding. Oddly enough, the bride was very calm about it while the groom was totally losing his cool over it. They did delay the ceremony for a few minutes and then took advantage of a lull in the rain to do the ceremony. There was a light rain falling during most of the ceremony and a few people had brought umbrellas. The rest of us just got a little damp, while someone volunteered to hold a large golf umbrella over the bride and groom and officiant (who was the brother of the bride). When the ceremony ended there was a mad scramble to move the tables and chairs under a large carport but everyone pitched in and got everything moved and about five minutes later it began to rain really hard for about 30 minutes. By the time dinner was over, most of the rain was over as well, so the rest of the evening went well. I’m afraid my poor cousin will be mopping mud off the floors for the next week, but she didn’t seem too upset over it.
We got a huge kick out of the brother who performed the ceremony. He is not a pastor, but “by the power invested in [him] by the Google” he pronounced them husband and wife. He was very nervous beforehand, but did a great job. His wife was the matron of honor and did have to prompt him at one point, but otherwise it was done perfectly. We all joked about hiring him for our next weddings, but he said he thought he was going to retire after this one. He opened the ceremony by thanking everyone for coming and saying some of us had come an awfully long way for a free meal, which got a big laugh.
DH and I especially enjoyed getting to spend a good deal of time with my cousins who had come from North Carolina. When we were checking into our hotel they arrived about 5 minutes after us. We ended up traveling with them back and forth to the ranch. Yesterday morning they drove a little farther west to visit with some of our family that had not come to the wedding, then they drove to our home and had dinner and spent the night with us. They left a few minutes ago to fly back home.
The diet took a bit of a hit this weekend, but I’m back on it today. They scale showed a 1 pound gain this morning, but I’m hoping some of that is fluid retention. I did forgo dessert Friday night and tried to limit my portions the rest of the time, but still gained.0 -
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Pam - sounds like a fun weekend!0
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Love the cat cartoons. I'm at the library using their compute. My laptop may have given up the ghost. Last week, I couldn't get into any of my documents or spreadsheets. It's like my Word and Excel dropped off the face of the earth and I no longer have the software to open anything. Luckily I had most things on a flash drive and was able to get in on a library computer. Today the Internet wasn't working and it's some kind of a Windows error thing. I guess it's always something. If you don't hear from me regularly, it's the computer thing keeping me offline.0
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Helene - that's terrible about your lab top! Have you heard anything about your house and the snow? We actually didn't get nearly as much as the forecasters were threatening. I'm hopeful I'll actually be able to feed today.0
