barlovo wrote: »

Good morning all! Finally a day at home. My next trip starts Tuesday. Lots of work to do over the next five days, but I am also looking forward to catching up on exercise and eating healthy home cooked meals!

Welcome home.

Have a great weekend everyone. We are off to a friend's son's wedding this weekend and I'm leaving the laptop at home. I think it's good every now and then to unplug a little. It's also helpful that our young adult sons still live at home. So I don't even have to worry about the cats getting fed and loved on. Our oldest son will graduate from college soon. The younger one is working hard to build his own business. Both sons have been well trained by our cats to take care of whatever the little felines want.

I saw this quote posted on a friends wall this morning "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill.

This weekend I will be finishing up on the construction end of our kitchen (now including the front entry & bedroom hallway) remodeling. I am hoping to be painting by Sunday and finished by Wednesday. Then we can move in yay!

Cindy, Alice, Marcella - Be safe in your travels.

Barb - Enjoy your time home and try to rest up a little bit.

Jen and Karen - I hope you are feeling better.

QT, Noodle, Ms. S, NE, EM - Hi!

I am sending happy thoughts to all of you. Everyone have a great weekend!

I made it through surgery!

Cindy - (So I will step on the scale tomorrow and start damage control! )- I'm doing a bit of damage control today as well from my trip this past weekend.

Jen - Mind the doctor and get your rest.

Liz - Maybe you could help me finish some of my home projects now. Best wishes for an easy move.

Have an amazing week, everyone!
Marcella

Alice - Is this energy a result of your yoga weekend? I wish you could bottle it and send some my way. I hope you have sweet dreams and an awesome tomorrow!

You are a tease Alice, awesome news and got to run- Don't keep us in suspense. Your NSV's are great, it looks like it is time to go nicker whole wardrobe shopping.

Marcella - How is your garden coming along? Do you have any ideas about naughty Mr. Bunny, he is now noshing on the hosta. I do have to say though, he is a charming little devil.

Cindy - I hope you are rested up from being on the road.

Barb - I am thinking about you and sending positive energy your way.

Jen - I hope you are feeling stronger.

Everyone, have an awesome day!

Gosh! There is so much catching up to do.

Jen I'm so happy to hear that your surgery went well. Like Cindy says, take your time in getting back on your feet. You've got more than enough time to return to being the super dupa, mother, daughter, wife, nurse, cook, psychologist and all the other things that you are so take a couple of weeks just gently nurturing yourself. The healing will go faster and make you more resilient.

Marcell the best thing Bout hVing opposing seasons is that we are cooling off in your hot summers but also have the most beautiful blue skies because the air is so pure and cloudless

Liz you got so much done in such a short space of time. You are incredible. When I finally find my new home, you can come do the interior designing for me. I'll send you a ticket

EM I hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you are feeling much better?

Cindy so sorry your food experience on your trip to Oklahoma was so crappy. You guys in the states are so much worse off than we are. Often we have the choice of Kosha, Halaal (what I used to choose before gluten-free) and diabetic meals when we fly and go to any training event that is worth the money. Then the meals themselves offer very healthy choices so it's not as bad as it is for you and Barbs. In the events provided for by government companies the food choice is still nasty. Anyway, that is behind you now, with a fantastic certification to boot... So now you can refocus, once you get back into your sleep routine.

Jeez Cindy, if you can pass with flying colours with all of the disruptions, no sleep and it being harder than you thought it was - winning the battle of the extra weight baggage will be a breeze (kidding!) I know how difficult and frustrating it is but the biggest part of the battle is the mind! Losing all the negative clutter and baggage does help in the battle. Also finding the right recipe or combination of exercise, diet and nutritional balance is important. Which brings me to yoga.

Right now I feel like an energy bunny! Flipping heck! The few postures I learned to give me energy is working a if I lit a fire inside of me. I don't know if this will continue for as long as I do yoga or if it is just a combination of the food, the fantastic kahuna detox massage and the yoga but I have not felt this energized for at least 4 years. The downside is that I am burning away muscle though so i have to get enough food inside of me to be able to do strength training whilst continuing with the cardio and yoga.

Liz you Re so right about the wardrobe and me knickers. Even the new ones are falling off me cos my bum disappeared in two weeks but the scales won't give the weight up!! A black person without a bum... Now that ain't right!

Barbs, I can't wait to hear more of your news about your road trip and the challenges and victories.

Noodle and MD you are both sooooo quiet as you go about doing what you need to do drop the weight. Have you both got new wardrobes too? I hope you get time to pop to share a little of your journey with us too.

Off to do my yoga now and no Liz, I'm not sharing on a video of me doing it lol! I'm about as graceful as a hippo trying to do elongated stretches! Only Disney can make that look elegant!! Lol!

Have a fab hump day my dearest friends