Good Morning. I connected with Billie and we're getting together tomorrow. It's been over a year since I've gone out to lunch with her.

So, today, I have all day to get the house in order so John doesn't have to see any mess while I'm gone tomorrow. Maybe I can even convince him to sit for a haircut, but maybe not. There's always the weekend.

I'm still getting used to Facebook. When someone comments, does that comment cause the post to jump to the top of the page again? Sometimes I see something that I read a couple days ago, but it's up front like it's new. And, when I get an email that states someone posted on my "timeline". I can see that in the email, but I don't see it when I have my page up. Where is my "timeline" anyway?

Marcie, I see now what you mean that the curser selects where to type text in the link. What threw me is that my curser selection is three characters off and I have to reselect. Took me a couple times to figure that out.

Well, I better get the animals fed and get myself something to eat as well.

Wow, here it is - afternoon already - warming up slowly today - only in the 40s - ha. Yesterday I left for the meeting, then ran around delivering the projects we had collected during the year, visited two thrift stores, returned a purse to Walmart and picked up cheese, chips, grapes and meat to go with the dinner rolls my sister had sent with me and the evening was spent watching E. And I also worked on their laundry, did dishes, a little straightening and watched Chopped or maybe I should say listened to it mostly. So today I've enjoyed being at home. Got a few things taken care of and hope to do a few more this afternoon. Bible study is this evening and I actually have my lesson done.

Anewstart22, hope you get the water thing figured out.
Sorry the smell made you feel sick. I enjoy those smells.

Sheryl, guess I should try flavored water. I've done it with carbonated water. I just leave my water sit on the counter cause I don't like it so cold. So fun that you get to go have lunch with Billie. I can't wait to hear about it.

Marcie, I haven't ventured out into the main forum because I feel like I already have enough andthink I'd spend a lot of time out there. Maybe in time.

Elaine, glad you found a good site for recipes and figured out how to work it all. I have not connected my fitbit up with anything yet. It just always take me awhile to try something new.

Sheryl, I don't know a lot about Facebook. Everytime you refresh your page, what's at the top of the page will change. And you can get to your timeline but clicking on your home - at least that's how it works for me. On the right hand side, I have a spot that says Debora and one that says home and that is my newsfeed.

Marcie, the daughters, daughter-in-laws and I went to see that move - so good. I was just thinking I need to find another movie for us all to go see and have a girls night out. Cisco and his dogfood.
$500 for a ticket - that's crazy. At least you can do the test online.

Logging is not near as fun now - still too used to how NM was but it helps me with things. I check out the reports - just not every day. I see now why me talking about things with my kids was over their heads. The feedback is just different but you do get that eating less calories to lose weight. I'm sure I had a hard time getting used to NM.

Hi to everyone else. Better get on to getting more things done. Have a great day.

Ok, Hi there again. I picked up hubby and we decided to have dinner out because he was hungry. He stepped on the first plane this morning at 7:00 am Pacific time and stepped off the plane here at 3:45 pm Central time. He was hungry. I went over my fat, my protein and my sodium is way too high but It's ok, it is just one day. I removed all the meals I was supposed to eat for dinner and snack after I had eaten lunch. This helped in my calorie consumption. I only get him until he leaves for work in the morning and then hops in a car at 1:00 to go back to Galveston for another round. Hopefully he will be home on Saturday night otherwise it will be Sunday afternoon. He is napping now, I'm supposed to wake him up in about 30 minutes.

sannferris, I don't know who Billie is but it sounds like you will have a nice lunch and I am thinking good thoughts that you would have a chance to give your husband a hair cut.

mygnsac, I saw that movie too, the other song that runs in my head when I hear it is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Both movies were always good and it was great to see the making of it.

How did Cisco do on the new food today?

Oh no, the dreaded red light cameras. Can you get the fine lowered if you take a safe driving course? I know in California a person could go to traffic court and get the fine lowered if they took a safety course. I don't know if that is the case everywhere though.

arobed53, still haven't heard from the water company, I think they are making a terrible decision not to call me back. I wonder how many other people have water they can't drink?

I have had a hard time with logging too and I fixed that by adding Snack, Dinner, Breakfast and Lunch in front of a meal I am saving or a recipe I am building. This makes it easier for me to find what I am looking for. I also set it up to be alphabetized in list to make it easier as well. I posted a tutorial on how to do it.

mygnsac and arobed53

Oh, I used to love the smell of donuts too and there were a few times in my life that I stopped and picked up a hot one, but donuts haven't been in my life much and I think the smell was so bad because the sugar was hot on those things. I was telling my husband there must have been four stacks of about 15 boxes per stack and they were all hot. I explained to him what an NSV was too. He responded, "but you don't eat donuts", lol.

I hope everyone has a great weekend planned and mygnsac, sorry yours will begin one day later than you thought.

Hi everyone, it's been kind of slow in here, I guess everyone has resumed their daily norms after the firestorm. I am glad you are all here to chat.

Hubby is gone again, I took him to work this morning and he's off in a car since 1:00 to head to Galveston. He will be home sometime Sunday afternoon and I have discovered a trigger, I definitely eat some wrong foods when I am under stress. I seem to eat bread and it's usually the sweet breads like banana bread and today I bought some cinnamon bread at the store. Not the kind with a sugar glaze on it but nonetheless, it is not the best bread to be eating. I was smart enough to stop at four pieces today so my numbers may be off but I haven't added my foods yet today. I also had toast with eggs and pineapple with my husband this morning. I am dreading my number but I will log that from here.

Wow, greasysgal that is amazing, I love to hear success stories and your brother's kicks the whole thing up a notch.

I hope you all are having a great weekend and if you watch the super bowl I hope you have lots of laughs from the commercials.

Hi everyone,
It's the end of a really nice day. I started out walking, filled up with gas, and went to one town and did my errands there. Then it was on to the bigger town where I met with some Flylady friends at Panera. I had watched six short videos so got $5 off a broth bowl, a free drink and some off a cinnamon roll. I didn't eat the roll there but did later so went over on calories but it was all good. After a two hour visit, I went to the DAV Bookstore and found two big boxes of books to buy. Got my groceries and headed home. Cut some felt for Lori, fixed frozen pizza and salads for supper and a few other things. Got my list done for tomorrow and it looks like I'll have the whole day at home (I hope).

Anewstart22, glad your hubby got to be home for a little bit.

Greasysgal, very amazing on your brother. Hope you can figure out what works for you.

Marcie, sorry you're not feeling well but like you say, it's the weekend now. Bummer on more security. But it is for your safety. Curious minds want to know - fish or Italian. Yay for your dad on the lost pounds. He did that quickly.
I know you mentioned some good posts once. I should go find them and check it out. I've now been looking at one every once inawhile - no comments though.
Your cat is going to go crazy on this post.

If I watch the superbowl it will be for the commercials. But I'm behind on my taped shows so may just watch them. I did find Recipe Rehab on Sunday morning so am set to take it and then I ran across The Incredible Dr. Pohl (tales of a veterinarian) and set to tape it.
Think I'll head for bed. I'll wear my fitbit one more night. I've learned I'm a pretty good sleeper most of the time. I also decided that even though it's not all "exercise", there isn't any reason I can' log all my walking at my Walk Across America. That will help me move a little bit faster so I'll do that starting on Sunday. I am enjoying the fitbit - haven't used it to push me yet but time's a coming.

Good night.

Good Morning. Yesterday started bad, turned out good. John had a bad morning and I was just on the verge of calling Billie and cancelling, but John said to go ahead and go, have a good time. I tried to get him to go with me, but he refused. I had a hard time leaving him, but I did and I think that was best. I had a great time with Billie and needed the time away from the house and from John's depression.

Billie is suffering, more medical problems, but the new cane to help her up and down the stairs seemed to work well. It has a platform on it for her foot, so it decreases the height of the step by half and makes it easier to lift her leg onto the stair. After lunch, (we had chinese and both ordered cashew shrimp with pork fried rice, so good), we came back to her house and had a really nice visit with Kit and Harmony. I got to see baby Emily too and Kassie.

anewstart22, Billie (NM user name was Billikit because she and her daughter Kit started NM together) was already a NM success story when I started NM. Like Granny, she was one of the oldest NM members. Both Billie and Granny will be 85 this year. At one point, Billie was using a wheelchair because of weight and medical problems. NutriMirror got her out of the wheelchair and later, she even got rid of the cane. With age, comes more health problems and Billie is now needing a walker to get around. In visiting with Kit, I mentioned that I'm now on MFP and she is too. Although she doesn't visit the message boards, she just comes on to log her food and exercise. She has a fitbit and likes it a lot, reminds her to keep moving. I told her that I NEED to start logging my food again. TODAY's the day, I've got to buckle down. I lost 30 pounds during chemo and I want to keep that off. Hopefully lose about 10 more pounds, but at the very least, maintain where I am.

I taped Recipe Rehab this morning, good thing as John interrupted the show several times. I've learned that if I want to watch anything, I need to tape it so I can keep rewinding to catch the entire show. I tape two hours on Saturday mornings, 4 half hour shows, Lucky Dog, Pet Vet, Innovation Nation and then Recipe Rehab.

My neighbor has cable and they plan to watch the "Kitty Bowl" tomorrow on the Hallmark channel instead of the Super Bowl. I'm sure we'll have the Super Bowl on, John will watch it on and off, probably sit down to watch the whole game and fall asleep in his favorite chair. I know Billie will be watching, she's a huge Seahawks fan.

I plan to get an update email out to all my cousins. When I had doctors' appointments so often, my updates were about every other week. Now, it's been over a month, my last update was just before Christmas. Less doctors = less update news. But, I'm starting to get emails from them asking me how I'm doing.

I guess that's it for now, see you later.

Hey friends! I wasn't on much yesterday but I did a lot of exercise. I went to my water aerobics class, came home and deep cleaned the house and then after dinner rode my recumbent bike for 25 minutes. I tried to lift weights but I was so tired that I just stopped!

I love when the house is clean--of course about 7 minutes after the boys came home it was messy again but I know it's clean under the mess!

My hip is hurting today but I am going to ride the bike again tonight and hopefully it will be ok! Lately I have really been worried that I will need a hip replacement soon

Ferris-- I love recipe rehab especially when they have what I consider regular food that they rehab! Glad that you and Billie got to get together

Anew--glad that your sleeping is better!

Aerobed--it's nice you can walk where you need to go!

Marcie--feel better soon

Anybody seen Tammy around?

Hi all, hope you are all well. I went to the farmer's market today and I now have lots of beautiful leafy greens all cleaned and ready to go laying out all over my counters.

I also bought a beautiful cauliflower. We couldn't believe how much better the cauliflower tasted from the farmer's market last time I bought one so we had to get another one. I was pulling off all the leaves and decided to taste one before I threw them out and was amazed at how tasty they are. I am going to chop them up and add them to my chard and kale sauté.

Marcie, hope you feel better. Major bummer about the traffic camera ticket!

Sheryl, great that you are up for cutting hair, etc. Also very happy to hear that you and Billie were able to get together. I will be cheering on the Seahawks tomorrow on her behalf!

Debora, I see you are keeping very busy as usual.

Anew, so very happy to hear that you got some good sleep! That is awesome! It makes such a huge difference. It is such a bummer about the water. You just can't depend on anything these days.

Tammy it is nice to see you posting every now and then.

Judy Elaine, glad to see you checking in. I will be keeping your Feb 3 surgery in my prayers. Please keep us posted.

Greasysgal, I sure hope you get the weight/calorie thing figured out. I was thinking that perhaps you are not eating enough calories. You may want to add a few more in and see how it goes. or maybe one day oh say, 1600 and the next 1400 or something like that???

I'm going to go and call a former neighbor who is now in a senior home and see if she is up for a visit before I do some weekend cooking.

Hello to anyone I may have missed. Have a great rest of your day!

I did enjoy my day at home. It's nice to have the kitchen table cleared off and nothing on the floor to trip over. Worked on hubby's shower a little - it's pretty bad. Got the prize bag for Good News Club cleaned up and Sunday School material ready to take back. So knocked a few things off the list. It rained pretty much all day - very dreary so another reason I was glad to be inside. And now we have mud again so the roads will be messy tomorrow - hope it doesn't cool down too much and freeze.
After talking about logging not being as fun, today was fun. I kept up as the day went along - still ate over my calories but it went more smoothly. Still prefer ounces to grams and more things are in grams but figuring that out too. So some good progress.

Anewstart22, yay on the good sleeping nights. I've never had fennel - sounds interesting.

Sheryl, so glad Friday turned out good and you got to spend some time with Billie. Glad the cane is a help but bummer on more medical problems. Cashew shrimp sounds yummy. Interesting that Recipe Rehab is on different days in different parts of the country. What is Innovation Nation about? I tape most everything I watch. Then I can pause, skip the ads and rewatch if needed. I'm sure your cousins will appreciate the update since I know we do.
Yay on logging. Getting started is the hardest part.

Jannie, way to go on the house. Sometimes we're the only ones that know we cleaned but it still is good to do. Take care of that hip. Wow, you do great with the exercise.
When I talk about walking, it's just my exercise time. I drive everywhere since we live out in the country. I do try and not always park close to the store so I get extra steps in.
Tammy's probably been busy at work. Maybe she'll have some time to pop in over the weekend.

Isabella, would not think of using the cauliflower greens. Hey, staying busy keeps me out of mischief - ha.

Anewstart22, that reverseosmosis looks like a good way to go. I'd like to do something - we have very hard water which is hard on the pipes but so far no go.

Marcie, naps often help. Nice lunch.
I think I'll fix me a cup of tea and then maybe I'll walk around the house some - I'm getting close to 5000 steps for the day so maybe I should push myself a bit.

Good Morning. Thanks, anewstart22, I love you too and it's so good to see you here everyday. I keep forgetting that you were from the San Diego area, I grew up in Pasadena, so we're both Southern California Girls. Glad you'll have your husband around for awhile. When John was flying, we both enjoyed the variety of schedule. He'd be gone 3-4 days in a row, giving me my private time and then, he'd be home for a week or so and he'd have his private time, during the day, while I was at work. Or, I could take time off and we'd do something fun together.

Thanks, Marcie, for your help with the exercise logging. (She posted for me on the "tips" post). It's not easy, but I think I can handle it for now. I'm doing strength training with resistance bands and weights, but to my surprise, there was nothing like that listed in the already calculated exercises. I created my own exercise and am burning a whopping 30 calories. I can hardly wait to get back to mowing the lawn, that's in the database.

Debora, Innovation Nation is a show about inventions and new technology filmed from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and also features Thomas Edison's inventions from Menlo Park. Those two guys were "best buddies" back in the day. It's very interesting and highlights young inventors. The kids these days come up with some fascinating stuff.
Our Pet Vet is Dr. Chris, out of Australia, (I'm in love with his accent and it doesn't hurt that he's a hunk and nice on the eyes). I imagine they may feature different vets in different parts of the country. It's great CBS Saturday morning, without cartoons. I guess cartoons are kind of a thing of the past, don't see much of that anymore. Maybe they all moved over to cable.

No big plans today, like I said before, I'm sure we'll have the tv on during the Super Bowl, but I don't know how much John will watch. He most likely will get comfy in his favorite chair and fall asleep. I'll either hang around the computer, or finally get started on those taxes.

Good afternoon everyone, I updated in the recipes about that sandwich, you know the one with pineapple in it? Yum, and I found a paninni grill on sale too. All the info is there in the recipes thread.

arobed53, I am going to post this same link to the caramelized fennel in the recipes thread so I don't confuse you all on where the best place to find a recipe is.

sannferris, I sure do miss my California. Hubby is home and safe in bed napping. I think I am so used to him napping daily that it relaxes me knowing he's in there.
Weird, I know.

Since I'm not watching the Super Bowl, I have time to sit and chat. We started out at 23 this morning and it has slowly gotten colder all day. It's down to 11 now. There were a few snow flurries and the puddles from yesterday are probably freezing but at least there's no moisture coming down. Church was good, I have some leftovers from dinner so have a few meals I won't have to cook. I might make stuffed pepper soup since there was quite a bit of rice left. Kids all left by 3 and it's been quiet since then. I have my list done, enjoyed my popcorn, set up to work on cutting boxtops for my oldest and listened to taped TV shows. I've been walking around the house every little while trying to get my total steps up for the day. I still haven't linked up with MFP - maybe this week.

Anewstart22, glad your husband is home safe and sound. Even when hubby and I are both home, he spends a lot of time in the back of the house. We don't always have to be together - just nice to know where he is.
I've been reading some posts too. There are a lot more people on MFP so you have a lot more opinions and some are more vocal. But there are still things I can learn there so will explore when I have time. Yes, we don't want to raise your blood pressure. This is still my favorite place.
Thanks for the link. I've never seen fennel and don't know that I'll hunt to hard for it though. We probably aren't the most adventuresome people.

Sheryl, I'll have to see if I can find Innovation Nation - sounds interesting. No big plans sounds relaxing to me. (I found it - also on Sunday morning so I'll check it out too).

Anewstart22, cool on finding a panini grill on such a good sale and finding out the sandwich is delicious. I suppose when you make it on the grill you won't have to turn it. Hmmmm, would a grill like a George Foreman one do kind of the same thing? I'll go online and look at one when I get done here.

Jannie, how did the cheese sticks turn out. I thought about making the layered dip yesterday and stopped myself since I'd have to eat it all since hubby doesn't like it. Not that I wouldn't have enjoyed it.

Monday looks to be the usual - will be at home after I take Ava to speech so hope to get more done. I was able to knock off some jobs last week - so would like to do more so the list is not so long all the time. Sleep tight everyone.

Arobed--the cheese sticks weren't that good I misread the recipe and didn't use the whole egg to dip them in. I thought since it was lower cal/fat etc, that the egg white would be ok. Lesson learned!

The rest of the snacks were good especially the spicy pickles! They were prepackaged (so totally not healthy) but had a great taste

oh, anew, formen grills have a floating hinge, just like a panini press I used to have one and made panains on it