ICE BREAKER QUESTION: Do you use earphones?

I do but only when I know others don’t want to hear what I’m listening to. The exception is headphones while mowing. I do that for ear protection and the music isn’t to drown out the mower noise to to slightly break it up.

@trooworld – the main character with dyed hair is Josh Hartnett! From The Faculty, 30 Days of Night, and Trap among a lot of others :) He’s a favorite of mine. So glad the traffic to LAX wasn’t bad.

@bobboyardee – He was a GREAT villain in TRAP! Please introduce yourself :) I have the same problem – I stay up way too late (usually 1am to 2am) and get hungry around midnight. I’m going to try going to bed at 11pm so I won’t want to be bothered to get up and travel all.the.way (dots for dramatic effect) to the other side of my house to get to the fridge. Nice job over the weekend! We can do this!

@Katmary71 – Woot Woot for NOTGOINGFORTHEICECREAM! Love the pictures!

@DrewsAnna – I’m so glad they found the hole and patched it! Yay for going home soon!

I was happy to see my son and granddaughters over the weekend, but what a mess the storms caused. We lost power Friday at 8:30pm because a tree fell on a power line and sparked a fire. We decided to go to my mother’s. I thought I’d be good sleeping on the recliner. Marcus took the couch and we put the girls into pack-n-plays. Sophie (age 2) could not settle down until about 1am. Amelia (3 months) cried more often than usual for a bottle. The recliner didn’t recline enough and was pissing me off. We were all basically just done with it all. Thankfully the power was restored Saturday late afternoon, so we were able to come back to my house and relax in our “spots”.

Mother, Hunter and I went to see Final Destination Bloodlines last night. Enjoyable and VERY gory. Made me flinch and groan several times. Good storyline and fantastic final role by Tony Todd. I would have liked to see some previous characters pop up, but still fun. I’ll probably go watch it at the theater one more time.

Tonight I’m going to watch Oliver (15 months) so Sydney can do some solo bowling. He’s going to help me buy healthy groceries. He’s hilarious at the store. He does the Detroit Lean and stares so hard at people…very judgmental LOLs. Anywhose, lots of produce on my list for today. Staying away from the processed stuff.

Have a Marvelous Monday!

2025 is MY year!

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@AustinRuadhain no apologies needed! i'm just excited that you are putting in any effort at all

@vegan4lyfe2012 lol @ the dramatic effect, I could hear it. That's cool about Final Destination, I've never seen any of them. Are you a horror movie buff? I watched Infinity Pool last night and it was c r a z y.

📥  I just finished dinner and am committing to not eating anything until tomorrow.

@vegan4lyfe2012 Ugh losing power and trying to sleep in a recliner with a crying baby sounds awful. I’m glad power was restored so you could go back home. Oliver sounds a lot like our little Eli, who is always frowning and looking like he wants to fight people. 🤣

@trooworld Your poor toe! 😬Do both your dogs sleep with you? Maggie would love to, but unless there is thunder, I say no way! 

Good morning! It looks like losing .2 is the magic number for many of us. 😃 I would have done better, but wouldn’t say no to pizza and ice cream with my Joe for his birthday. He had a really good day, several phone calls, and a visit from a friend. Today, I plan to reorganize the exercise room to fit in Joe’s new treadmill. I hope I like it too and will use it for extra movement. I could go on a rant about my lack of weight loss and how I only have myself to blame, but I’ve decided to keep moving forward and not give up. It will happen!  🙏

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@bobboyardee – I love love love horror movies and am a huge fan of physical media. I currently have over 2,000 DVDs, Blu-Rays and VHSs with about 90% of them being some type of horror. Infinity Pool was a trip-and-a-half! Totally went in a direction I didn’t see coming! I love the Final Destination franchise. #1 and #5 are my favorites. If you ever need a horror recommendation, I’m your peep! P.S. I ate dinner later than usual and went to bed at 11pm. I’m thinking a later dinner might be the key to my success. Wanted to share that with you :)

@trooworld – I’m sorry, but getting your toe bit made me literally LOL hahahahahaha. I’m guessing it was Violent Violet hahahaha. Violent Violet…that would’ve been a great Garbage Pail Kids name! Sorry…got distracted hahahahaha

@TeresaW2024 – Aren’t their little judgmental faces not the most hilarious thing? And Hunter decided to bring Brayden with us and that little girl is the total opposite – always laughing and smiling at everyone that goes by, yelling at people (tiny voice, thankfully). They are so freaking hilarious! I didn’t even realize that 0.2 WAS the magic number for a lot of us! Better down than up, tho! Are you not worried about Joe’s balance on the treadmill? I’d be scared to put my mom on one. Good attitude to not give up!

@micaroo4 – Sometimes I wonder if it’s even worth it to take a vacation when there isn’t a single person that does what I do so I always come back to piles of work on my desk. It sucks. But nice that you got caught up in one day. Good luck to Earl. Poor little guy.

@Katmary71 – Oliver is just so funny cuz he does this thing with his lips and teeth that I can’t even describe. I’ve been trying to catch it on camera for the longest and he just won’t hold that look long enough. It’s like this meme, but with more of a grimace:

@DrewsAnna – Hoping for a good update from you!

My grocery shopping was pretty good. I decided that going from lots of processed junk to none was just too much and I need to ease into it. I allowed myself 1 box of Daiya mac n cheeze, 1 small package of chikie nuggies and a box of 4 breakfast snausages. I figure if I’m making my own healthy tofu scramble, it’s ok to have 1 vegan snausage with it, AmIRight? Everything else was healthy produce. I ran into 3 coworkers and 2 people I used to go to church with, so that increased my shopping time to 2 hours! Oliver was so done with me hahahaha. It made for a long evening, tho, and I didn’t get to sit down with dinner until 9pm. I mentioned to bobboyardee that I ate dinner late and went to bed at 11pm and the key to my success might just be a later dinner time. Not 9pm if I can help it, but maybe around 7:30-ish instead of 6:00-ish. Anywhose, tonight is my alone time (no babysitting/no obligations), which is perfect for me to do some food prepping. My half pound of beans and 2 cups of quinoa lasted a full week, which was perfect. And I’m about to have my last serving of cabbage soup at lunch today, so I’ll make another batch of veggie soup, too. I’m thinking this week will be Whipple Beans and quinoa again (I love tri colored quinoa cooked with my vegan chik’n bullion). Oh – and I need to do my big salad prep. There’s my list for this evening! Thanks for letting me think out loud, guys! Happy Dreary Tuesday! (It’s raining here again.)

2025 is MY year!

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SW: 245
Maintenance Goal 135 - 140
Weeks in maintenance 20 of 52

PW: 137.0
CW: 137.4

My doctor's appointment went well, and all my blood work is in the normal range but 2 that don't matter much. It's been another week, and I still have not sprayed those weeds. I got sick again, severe stomachache, I think I had the stomach flu again for a couple of days. Then I felt like I had the flu which took a couple of days to get over I'm just feeling myself today. My husband and Cat's bought me a fruit basket for Mother's Day. So sweet of them.

@Katmary71 If you have Amazon Prime, you can get Discovery+ for only 5.99 monthly. I imagine your garden is so pretty. It's nice that your neighbor and roommate hit it off.  🙂

@vegan4lyfe2012 I love little kids and find most of them so funny! I am nervous about Joe’s balance. He will have a handlebar to hold on to. The plan is to start out super slow, and I will be right there by his side.🙂 Girl, you enjoy those sausages!!  😎

Good morning! We had a crazy thunderstorm in the middle of the night that had Maggie barking even after she was in our bed, so I’m tired this morning. I have a meeting tonight on Zoom that I’m not looking forward to, but it is what it is. There is not much else going on today other than some church work that is still on my to-do-list. Have a good day! 🙂

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I'M HOME 😃

I'm sorry I didn't update you all yesterday, but I was tired, so I took a nice long shower and didn't do anything except hangout with my Chipperoo. My numbers are close to back to normal. In all I had 3 blood, 4 iron, 1 calcium, and 2 magnesium infusions. Lol… my arms look like I'm a junkie, but I'm alive and happy to be home. If I wouldn't have went to the hospital when I did I wouldn't be making this post.

I'm going to get some rest and hopefully be back at it in a couple of days.

Y'all have a great day 😀

📥 done eating food for the day, committing to not eating until tomorrow

@vegan4lyfe2012 Happy International Tea day! Haha too cute about Oliver’ expression if he looks like her he’s totally judging. You did some great shopping, I think you’re balancing the healthy food well. Enjoy your night to yourself!

@bobboyardee Congratulations on going 3 days without eating after dinner that’s awesome! Interesting thoughts what if all of it is true and you can do it all? Does that change how you view yourself

@FushiaKat I’m glad your doctor’s appointment and blood work went well. Sorry to hear you’ve been sick, I hope you keep feeling better. Love the gift that’s so sweet!

@trooworld To add to your healthyish list is the new Starbucks horchata shaken espresso, it was really good and is in competition with the brown sugar oatmilk shaken espresso now. I like the blonde roasts the most at Starbucks as they don’t have that burnt taste like the darker roasts there do. I hope your SILs cat was extra sweet to you after that drive! For snacks strawberries are real good right now, so are most berries. LOL at Violent Violet!

@TeresaW2024 My garden’s not that pretty I let the lawn die so I could put grow bags everywhere. I’m leaning into flowers a little more this year so it may get there one day! I hope you’re able to hear during this Zoom meeting!

@DrewsAnna I’m so glad you’re home and doing better! I’m glad you had some Chipperoo bonding time, I bet he was so happy to see you! That’s so scary to think of if you hadn’t gone you wouldn’t be here. I’m so glad you got there and they were able to help you. Definitely do some serious resting and get your strength back!

Hi friends! Not much going on, have a great Thursday!

📥 5 days without eating after dinner!

@Katmary71 @trooworld thank you for your support, I'm going to try to dig deeper on those questions

@vegan4lyfe2012 Clown In A Cornfield was awesome! It's leaving theaters soon, so go see it!

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@bobboyardee Oh that's adorable that you think I haven't watched it yet LOLs. It was pretty fun! I was cracking up at the gore. I have a monthly membership at my local cinema (my daughter and mom do, too). It allows me to have 3 movie tickets per week included. So I'm at the theater at least once per week (usually more) and watch some movies multiple times. This past week I watched Thunderbolts* (way better than I expected), Final Destination Bloodlines (Fun and very gory), and Hurry Up Tomorrow (deep/psychological). And this evening we're going to see the live action Lilo & Stitch. This is why I have a weight problem. I have the bucket that I paid $50 for and get free refills. LOLs. I am a total movie fan.

@vegan4lyfe2012 LOLLLLL you are my new bestie - wow. I also go crazy with the bucket - $4 a refill which maybe helps me stay in check, I would go insane with free refills. I am a popcorn fiend.

📥 I am having my post-dinner dessert and am committing to not eating any more food until tomorrow.

5 days of not bingeing after dinner! Almost at the week mark!

@Katmary71 Thanks for all your hard work with wrangling us cats and getting the weigh ins! I appreciate you.