Wow, sure can miss alot when your not posting here. How do you all keep up in here? lol.

So, I used note on my computer and copied and pasted from here to respond and then just copied and pasted from note to here. Seems that will work to help me keep from losing those long responses.

I dropped my husband off at the airport yesterday and for the first time I cried, I don't know why I did though. He was Navy for 29 years and it was normal for him to go for months at a time and I expected it. I think my problem is he doesn't go for months at a time anymore.

He went to Galveston last week, now he's in San Diego and when he comes back on Thursday he'll return to Galveston the next day. Not much time with him for about 2.5 weeks, it's lonely but my little kitty is keeping me company.

I am going to work on the house tomorrow, I need to do a good cleaning of the floors and get some laundry done. I may start on the other room on Tuesday.

I hope you all have a very good week!

Oh, and you know tomorrow means now since I don't sleep well at night. I just had a short nap and I am wide awake. I am going to try hard to work hard and fall asleep during the evening instead of staying up all night for the next few days.

Good Morning. I got my coffee and I nuked a couple egg muffins, life is good.

Thanks for the tip, Isabella, I usually do use paper cups when making muffins. But, for some reason I didn't think to try them with the egg muffins. I think maybe I was like Marcie and wanted the sides nice and toasty brown.

No big plans today, well no plans to go out anyway, but I would like to give John a haircut and a beard trim. I think my arm and hand are strong enough and mobile enough to do that again. I have always cut our own hair, but this past year, since I wasn't able to raise my arm, I went to Great Clips and got John to go there once. I don't think I can get him to go again.

I wonder where Carole will end up? I figured that even if I log somewhere else, I can still come here to chat. I'll have to email her to see if she was able to change her home page easily.

I emailed Billie and told her I'm ready to get together for lunch whenever she is, but I haven't heard back yet. I hope she's doing better. If she can't get out, I can take lunch to her house.

That's it for now, my mug needs refilling...

I'm sorry to hear you are having so many problems logging your food Judyelaine1952. I agree the recipe calculator is inaccurate, I also agree it is hard to input food. I don't have Facebook and don' care to so this is where I have the ability to input food and to chat with folks. Hopefully Lynn and Susanno come up with something where we can all connect.

I'll miss your input here and good luck in the future.

Checking in too, I'm getting my hair cut today with a new guy. I might just cut it all off, lol. My husband would be shocked.

Have a great day everyone.

Oh, yea, I forgot you were in Hot Texas.
Yes, I would call that a NSV. I still get weak in the knees for glazed donuts.

Marcie, already back into the swing of things at the office.
Enjoy your day.

Hi guys, busy morning for me. Booked my brothers travel for his flight to the midwest where he is donating a kidney to my other brother next week. Otherwise, I am having (for me) a big issue. I have , for the last 6 weeks or so, been religiously logging my food staying in close proximity to my allotted daily calories. My BIG issue with every single website for food-logging ( even NM) is that they ALL say for my age, size, weight, etc....I should eat 2800-3200 calories a day. If I ate anywhere near that I would be twice my size. If I eat 1800-2000 I maintain....If I eat 1200-1400 with the right ratio of protein/fat/carb (I'm a Gastric Bypass girl) I usually lose. I lost 3 lbs the first week & nothing since. My thyroid & BS are fine so right now I am at a loss as to what to do. I am considering seeing an endocrinologist to do a more in-depth thyroid test since low-function runs in my family. I have tried having one day with slightly more calories to keep my metabolism from getting complacent but no change in the scale. I have over 100lbs to lose so this isn't a matter of 5 or 10 lbs......the weight should be falling off of me right now. Besides ramping up my exercise do any of you have any suggestions ?

tlspindor, I ran across this website because this gal is the one that wrote my profile picture. I wanted to know what she was about and I found on her site a post about cucumber water. Do you like cucumbers? She doesn't just slice them and add to the water, she blends them into the water and says it tastes so much better. I didn't know if you would want to give it a try or not but here is the link to her recipe post.

dennisselisseth.com/cucumber-water/

Hi, I'm going to take some time to chat cause I'm gone all day tomorrow. I have a committee meeting - we'll clean the "closet" at church, plan our projects, and eat together. Then I'll deliver the different projects we collected during the year and go babysit for Emily. One of these days I'll have to figure out how to add a picture to his site.

Sunday morning I work up and realized I had not put the pork tenderloin in the crockpot before going to bed. So I used a cooking bag and put the potatoes in it too. When we got home from church, there were no meat juices. We decided the potatoes had soaked up all the juice. Anyway it all tasted fine. I didn't have a lot of leftovers.

We had a big surprise in the morning. Our son-in-law walked into where I teach with three of the kids and told Paige to give me what was in her hand. It was a sonogram picture. We will be grandparents again in July. They gave away a bunch of baby stuff when they moved but I'm sure people will help them out. Ralph said Lucy told him and he about dropped his teeth. Since Paige is almost 5, he figured no more.

In the evening we went to Brecken's pancake and pajama. All the kids wore pajamas - not most of the adults. Lindsey made lots of pancakes - there were about 35 people there. We ate the pancakes, Brecken opened her gifts and then we had cupcakes. It was fun.

Monday we went to one of Thomas' basketball games. They didn't win but they played well. It was supposed to start at 6 but everything was running alter so it didn't get done till 8 so we got something to eat on the way home.

Then today we started Good News Club. We had about 25 and know of some who will be there next week. Some were sick today. Beautiful weather - 70 - so they could play outside afterwards.

Jannie, two teenage boys - wow - you are very busy. My oldest grandson is 14 and always on the go. They signed him up for a driver's ed course - how can he be ready for that.

Sheryl, since you do a breakfast/lunch, then do you do mainly two meals. That wouldn't be all bad. Breakfast is one of my favorite meals to eat out but one we do the least.

Marcie, I didn't know you picked what came up on the page. I liked it but haven't gone to many other pages . Cool - you did good. How was it going back to work? Did you make it through all the emails? Are you starting some new projects.? I'm surprised your dad doesn't set up a regular appointment.
I'm getting used to logging here. Time will help. You'd have to learn anywhere new. If I did log elsewhere, you buys would still have to put up with me.

Realized how little my one brother mails anything to me. He settled up my brother's estate and sent out checks to the siblings. Rather than asking me, he googled my address. There happen to be two of us with the same name on the same road - just a mile or so apart. He sent it to the wrong Debora. But she called me after she opened it and realized it wasn't hers.

I'm so sorry to hear Granny is so down. I'm with Marcie and hope her family realizes what is going on and does what they can. Makes me feel so sad.

Isabella, glad the concert was so fun.

Pam, thanks for the Mapmywalk info. I can't do aps. But I'll keep plugging away on the walk across America. You probably get 10,000 steps in a day. I haven't hit that level yet.

Sheryl, just cause you can do the cooking doesn't mean you have to - we had frozen pizza tonight - with salads.

Jannie, what an interesting job - not boring at all.

Anewstart, I googled the Trikke so understand what you're talking about now. Sounds like you have learned to live with pain and work around it. Hope you get some things done while your husband is gone. It's nice for pulling things out and being able to start and stop when you want.
Wow, 7 inches. That's a lot of hair gone. Glad you like the cut.
Your smeller must work good. I never smell the donuts when I'm in the part of the store. I sure don't buy them like I used to.

Sheryl, good luck with the haircut. I wait until Ralph is up to sitting in the chair while I do it but the situation is nothing like yours. His hair must be getting pretty long. In my case, hubby could go somewhere but won't. Oh well. Can't enjoy everything I do. Hope you and Billie can get together.
Now you know why they put caps on new babies. They are losing all that heat up there.

Elaine, I hope you pop in often so we know what's going on with you. I've got Feb. 3 written down and hope we get a report when you can on your surgery.

Greasysgal, neat that your brother can help your brother. Our neighbor down the road gave one of her kidneys to her son like 10 years ago. We have a boy in our church waiting on a kidney transplant. He's been on dialysis for almost a year now. His your brother been doing that too? I wish I had some suggestions for you.

Sheryl, at least Granny is emailing you. Last year was such a hard year for her. Praying some things start happening that give her more hope.

Time to make my list for tomorrow and finish recording my food for today. Won't do much on the list but it still helps my mind to do it. Hubby gets a frozen meal and a can of chili for his two meals. My noon meal is a potluck but I told each person on the committee to bring from a certain group. I know it will be good. I did the fruit and put fresh pineapple and strawberries together - plain and simple. Have a great tomorrow. See you when I see you.

Good morning everyone, we buy water at the local Windmill Express and have been for years. I can't drink tap water the chlorine smell and taste knock me back. We filled our 5 gallon and three 3 gallon jugs on Saturday night before my husband left on his trip Sunday. I noticed the water had a slight metallic taste on Saturday evening when hubby put the 5 gallon on the crock which still had about 1.5 gallons in it from the last jug.

As I have used this water and more from the 5 gallon jug has been dispensed into the crock the metallic taste has become much stronger to the point I wanted to vomit from it. I called the company but was only able to leave a message, no emergency contact. I then called the poison control center and the woman there told me she didn't know what to tell me. Well that was a big help. I cook with that water and I drink the water too using at least 3 gallons since Saturday night. I talked to my husband about it last night and told him I didn't know if I should go to the hospital or not. I went to bed and slept but still woke up to metallic taste in my mouth this morning. I have eaten plain yogurt, pineapple and honey with the taste still in my mouth.

I am waiting for the company to call me on this, I don't know if they put too much minerals back into the water or what. I am now looking into having my own reverse osmosis in my house so I don't have to rely on them. I also changed my kitties water to bottled water since I don't want her drinking the water either.


sannferris, I also like flavored water but have never tried blending a cucumber but I will now, lol. I love veggie smoothies and never thought about blending my water and thanks, I prefer you use my profile name. I am horrible with names so would prefer to just call everyone by your profile name. I am learning some of your names but until I can remember all of you I think I will just go by profiles. I am sad for Granny, I pray she will see the end of the black tunnel and see the light with us over here.

arobed53-The pancake and pajama dinner sounds fun. It sounds like you will continue to be really busy for a while with the babies. Congrats on the new one and glad your check made it to you. My smeller has always been really good. I have Lupus SLE a form of arthritis and smells are a huge problem for me. Chemicals especially but they had just put out fresh cooked and glazed donuts in stacks and stacks. I think they were still hot and it definitely made me sick to my tummy.

Have a great day everyone.

Sheryl, I am so impressed that you added a link! I have so much trouble with that kind of stuff. Sounds like your lunch will be fun! Tell Billie "Hi" for me!

Marcie--I hope you know how nice it is that you have a lot of answers for us! I just figured out how easy it is to save my meals that I eat. That will be a big time saver

Greasy--Do you think putting your weight as 100 pounds less would help? I don't know if that would trick it or not but its one thing I thought might help.

Arobed--Congrats on the new little one! Hope the pregnancy goes well my kids would love a pancake/pajama party!

Anew-- hope you can figure out the water issue! how may more cabinets do you need before the kitchen is done? I'm still 'planning' mine, hoping to start in March.

Have a great night all, I did my water aerobics this am and just finished my weightlifting exercises so I'm going to relax

Hi everyone, hubby comes home tomorrow and then gone again on Friday. Hopefully he will be home on Saturday but I'm not holding my breath, lol.

jlhawki, I never got a call back from the company and each time I called today they wanted me to leave a message. I tried it again, and there is something wrong with that water. I think they added too many minerals back into it after they completed the reverse osmosis program. Bottled water tasted far better and I don't care much for bottled water.

We built the sliding cabinet drawers for the kitchen but haven't built any new cabinets yet since we haven't decided on new flooring. We will be working on building the dining room wall hutch and building new vanities for the bathrooms before we tackle the kitchen. If only we could agree on flooring. I can't wait to hear about your plans.

Judyelaine1952, I'm glad you found something you like and it's good to see you here.