Hello 5% Challengers! Church this AM and then did my outside decorating. Made a grocery list while eating lunch, so I'm off to the store in a few minutes. Grocery shopping is one of my least favorite activities, but it needs to be done.

@Dianedoessmiles1 I think I said it was quiet, not boring. Not to worry though, there is plenty of cleaning I could do around here. Always is with two dogs dropping fur 24/7!

Have a good Sunday evening.

@Dianedoessmiles1 I have 4 left feet... but then again I'm CAT!
@SusanM18MFP I'll shop for you, if you clean for me!
@NovemberGail You are hilarious!

@SusanM18MFP ,,I actually LOVE Grocery shopping, that's a little odd but I do. With that being said I am seriously considering for at least a few months doing either the delivery or the Pick up. I so easily get colds, flu's and do not want covid though I am fully vaccinated/ and booster too. I am fighting a cold, I went into the grocery store yesterday.
@Novembergail ,, sometimes its hard to catch up, but just do what we can, because its a HUGE THRILL For us as OAL to see the chat super busy with such a wide variety of discussions!! WOW WE ARE SO HAPPY!! TY TY TY to each of you!!
@Catwmncat,,, LOLOLOL HAHAHA ANd so you DO!! LOLOL Izzy understands. Today she was so SPOILED by my company that she's been sleeping since!
@bevpresley1 ,, WOW!! SUPER WOW!! Great productive day!! WTG!!

@jadepearl-buffets are probably the same. Pick up a plate and get what you want-as much as you want? This was “catered” at a hotel for over 350 people so I don’t even think to go for 2nds. My fall/spring step goal is around 15,000. When the heat is really bad or winter weather is happening, I make it closer to 10,000. I don’t want to slip outside.

Good Evening Everyone!

For anyone wondering I have a beautiful Rottweiler.

Today has been great even with the slip on the ice during my walk. It's been sunny and not to cold. Finally had my last filling today. No more dentist unless there's an issue before my next cleaning. Struggled this week so not sure about the scale. But will accept whatever it is. I know it can be a little more up and down when I am so close to my goal.

@JacquelynLewis1 - Hi there and a warm welcome! Congrats on your 20lbs loss! KUTGW!

@Dianedoessmiles1 - Thank you and we will We are thankful that we live near the city, so we seldom get bushfires.
However, when there's bushfires in the hills or in the bush, we will get the smoke and sometimes, it gets really bad. lol on the horseflies. Glad to hear that you had a great time with your friend and your team won! Great job on not eating the ice-cream or chocolate cake. I think I will have both...warm the chocolate cake, squeeze lots of chocolate syrup on the cake and 1 scoop of ice-cream on top and more chocolate syrup..lol.

@NovemberGail & @wallahalla - Love those pictures..lol.

@NovemberGail - Hope the stiches removal went well and your palms feel comfy again.

@bevpresley1 - Good luck with the keto dough! Hope it taste fab! We are opposite of you...even though it 8pm, it still so bright.

@bookieNJ - A lot of people waste food at the buffet. One place eventually starting charging the customers for wastage. I love spinning classes but with my vertigo, its a bit hard. Wouldn't want to do the Froster exercise in front of everyone..lol. Your daughters are so talented. You must be so proud.

@TEXASTITCHER - Sending over quick healing vibes! Take care!

@kaliswalker - I weighed and found out that I have put on weight For this year, everyone agreed that we don't need to buy gifts..just gathering (which means food and more food...lol) with family and love ones will be the theme.

@LindieMaeP - Yes, we too have been warn about the new new variant too. Is it the Omicron variant? Borders are getting shut again, international travels interrupted again, etc. Not sure what's going to happen next. Stay safe!

@CSEGUIN2 - Aww. so cute

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Tomorrow will be officially 1st day of Summer for us. Its hot today...32°C / 90°F and we have to on our A/C for the shop. I rather have cold weather 365 days Am back onto my wagon and hopefully this coming weigh-in, I will see some weight loss.

Have a wonderful Tuesday and stay safe

@macrat12 ,, GOOO SARAH!! WOOHOO!! Nice job
@Jadepearl ,, LOLOL OOPS On the cake and ice cream, but it's a LIFESTYLE not a "DIE" t. Just that word alone brings DREAD!! "DIE" ting. No more joy, it kiils our fun of eating, but lifestyle, moderation. Oh we LOVE THAT!! WOOHOO!!! GLad you are near the city so the fires aren't to much, though yes with the smoke. I have a dear friend in CA and YO when the fires are wild they can't open the windows and often they are told unless it's an actual emergency to stay inside. Hehehehe on the horseflies indeed. BUT THEY DO BITE and it HURTS SO BAD!! Almost as bad as a wasp sting.
@Texastitcher,, OUCH!! OUCH!! OUCH!! Joann please be careful until it heals enough. If any exercise so slightly, but yeah. RIbs sure can hurt!! Today we had ice in the driveway!! I'll have to soon find my ice grips to wear outside. We did have a slight tiny bit of snow.

LOOK REALLY CAREFULLY to see it. LOL

@Kaliswalker,,, LOL I got curious than I laughed cause I KNEW the answer!! LOL Since I live in the Southern end of Maine (A brother lives in Northern Maine, he's 2 hours closer to Canada, I am 3 hours and 46 mins from entering Canada headed towards Quebec. I've been to Montreal a few times,, such a NEAT CITY or was when I last went, but that in the 90s) if I were to travel as straight as I can, I'd end up in Oregon,,, around the area named after a city I know well in Maine,, Portland!! I grew up in Portland, but no longer live there, though I am in the Greater Portland area. Both Portland's have a lot in common of course. Lifestyle this is, there will always be times we eat more than another time,, that weight I find goes off in 3 or 4 days as long as I go back to my normal eating. WOOHOO to that, and if I don't, ehhhh it goes back soon enough. Lynn you've achieved so MUCH with weight loss!! WTG!! I sure hope that @Lindiemaep and others who live in Vancouver including of course YOU TOO are safe!! I am sure the linens and towels will be so appreciated. With the new variant, I wonder if more will decide to err on the side of caution. I know where I live since there are so many of us, we are already on our own, deciding small groups if any.
@Lindiemaep ,,, LOL Love the in my imagination traveling while using your recumbent bike!! I do my reading while I am on mine. I SHOULD be on it more!!! We figured with the variant likely in the US, just not yet really know by tests, today to go out and get what we could and we DID!! APPARENTLY on top of the holiday gauging by the carts we saw, and the clientele we saw many older ones are doing the same thing!! I did NOT see any of them hoarding, which is great. But buying stuff to cook and make last. We were after spices in one place, and of course we hit the grocery store. So very likely I'll either do pick up or delivery soon. My poor body is already acting up with so much, I don't need/want to put it through more. A close friends Mom has covid (She lives alone she NEVER leaves her house and only 2 people ever go over, so it was either through one of them, and it's very doubtful ,,, she got it. But delivery people are always stopping by, she probably talks to ALL of them if they want to or not. Its very likely at this point she'll not pull through. I've known this family for almost 45 years. Last year my friends brother died, not from COVID. I feel so bad for her. Please do err on the side of caution all. LOL I LOVE of course that the Pats won!! WOOHOO!! Hey have FUN with the chicken!!
@CSEGUIN2 ,, Awww what a sweet faced rottie!! Awwww Awwww Awww looks to be a very intelligent dog (SO HARD TO NOT PUT DAWG! LOL Long time habits can be hard to break!). Hope you are okay with the slip on ice? Ohhh those last few lbs are UNREAL to get off. AARRGGHH, but still, one can do it if they really want to. Hey WTG On being so close!! WOOHOO!!
@Novembergail,, It'll be GREAT to have the stitches out!! Does that mean you'll be doing dishes again? Or have you been? LOLOL If not having to do dishes Id ask if the stitches could remain for a little bit longer. OR FOR LIFE!! LOLOL I'm sure once they're out you'll feel that relief of the no pull. I always LOVE stitch comes out day!! HAHAHAHA On your cartoon!! I had 2 gold fish, I'd had them for quite sometime. I also have a VERY ANNOYING Sister in Law. VERY ANNOYING!! I was young. She KEPT insisting I NAME THEM!! Now I totally enjoyed them, and I took very good care of them. But I didn't wish to NAME FISH. So I got really mad and looked at my SIL and said "FINE!! THAT ONE IS DEAD!! THAT ONE IS SOON TO BE DEAD!!" Hehehehehe after that she no longer put me through any of her "ideas" and stuff. The LOOK On her face was PURE HORROR, and of course after she laughed I laughed so hard for the night!! I lived across from my Grandmother (it was my first place of my own) so I visited her after work. LOL She kitty cat for my first cat Angie daily. They both enjoyed it. ANd when I got "home" from work,I'd run over there. She usually fixed my supper and she had a Nintendo so we'd play Miss Pacman. I had told her about what my SIL had said, and how I responded. Oh my family knows especially when I was young and until I learned to control it I had QUITE THE TEMPER!! Well Grammy was ALWAYS on my side so we laughed and laughed. I collected my cat, Angie and went home. Walked in and saw that DEAD UP BELLY UP!! It was my SIL FAULT for making me NAME THEM!! Though I was very sad, I was also laughing because I had them as said for quite awhile. SO I went across the street to tell Grammy who was sympathetic , though she too was laughing. IRONIC!! I left went back home. The next day to work, back home,, and GRRRR SOON TO BE DEAD WAS DEAD!! Grrr well we KNOW I REALLY BLAMED the SIL that much more. I knew I'd miss them, but it wasn't like losing a cat, it wasn't that deep. It was a Tuesday night, and I had a meeting to go to. After the meeting I was telling those there about what happened. They were TRYING to be sympathetic as Gram had done, but even I was having a slight hard time keeping a straight face,, come on it's so strange!! So decided we'd go out to eat "in honor of Diane being in "mourning" we don't want her alone." Yes they too have a sense of humor. So we went to McDonalds. We sat down, and the last person to get her meal is a flighty, kinda odd person.

She opened her sandwich and MUCH TO EVERYONE's HORROR Gloria got a FILET FISH SANDWICH!!

OH MY OH MY!! When RoseMarie said "WHAT DO YOU HAVE!!??" Gloria responded with ZERO clue about the fish sandwich "A fish Sandwich."

RoseMarie said INDIGLY "HOW COULD YOU EAT THAT!! WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF DEAD FISH!!"

Well the rest of us totally lost it in a very loud bunch of laughter.

Gloria never understood. Now ALL these years later, this story makes us laugh just as hard as it did back at that time. All of this is 100% true Life is stranger than Fiction. Hope you enjoyed reading this! LOL I'll blog this cause yeah may make others smile. With so much in life going stranger and stranger, laughter helps.

@SusanM18MFP ,, I LOVE Pea soup, ,, same thing as with you,, It HAS to be my Moms (likely from my Gram) recipe or NOT AT ALL!! Do you have Johnny cake with it? ONLY way I'll eat it.

It's 37 with a high of 63 for today. Axe Sharpening: You must forever be a student to continue to learn and see results. When you feel as though you know it all, that is when you hit a plateau.~~~Ashton Hall 1st Phorm Athlete Happy Giving Tuesday!!! Fitness quote for today: The people who achieve their goals are simply the ones that refuse to give up and put in the work.~~~gymquotes.co Motivational quote for today: Be grateful for what life brings you today, and hopeful for what it will bring tomorrow.~~~unknown Closed all rings on my Active 4 and had 11,984 steps yesterday. Today's training plan at home after dinner is 20 min EMOM (5 Rounds).

happy tuesday everyone! it is a mostly cloudy and not too cold of a day here today. my daughter says hello to everyone. both budgie birds are doing well and say cheep, cheep! i have been for a walk and i feel great! later on, i will be doing some dancing! have a great day, everyone! take care and stay safe.

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@jadepearl -yeah One time we saw at a buffet restaurant near the sushi section-must eat rice-do not waste it-which is just sad. What are froster exercises? Thanks-so much time goes into practicing and rehearsing.

Foster exercise is like a half-somersault. It's a maneuver which is performed when one has a vertigo episode. You have to kneel down - look up at the ceiling - touch the floor with your head- tucking your chin so your head goes toward your knees and wait for it to stop. That's the start of Foster. It continues on....
Yes, it's lots of hard work and lots of practices, rehearsals, etc.

Have a wonderful Wednesday ❤️

@Dianedoessmiles1 - lol... I hear ya... Die-t & life-style indeed.


I just love desserts. Not sure if you have these freakshakes over at your side. It delicious but so high in calories. Even looking at it can make you gain weight. Sadly this shop has closed over here but these were sold there.


Have a wonderful Wednesday ❤️