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Hi all! Back from a great girl weekend in Fredericksburg with my daughter. The weather was beautiful. Sing, I thought about you while there: Lots of German food and it is "hell week" which is a week-long cycling event. The motel where we stayed was full of cyclists none of whom was close to my age (all MUCH older) and as…

Hi all! I am a practicing Catholic so during Lent no meat on Fridays or on Ash Wednesday (yesterday). Yesterday, I had hummus on pita for breakfast (I know, not typical breakfast food but I can eat it in the car on the way to Dallas), Italian vegetable soup and a green salad for lunch, yogurt for snack and then a bean taco…

Hi all! Back from my trip to Mississippi to see family and celebrate my father's birthday. He would have been 81. (He died a little over 2 years ago, but we celebrated his memory.) My little sister and I made Greek food: roasted Greek chicken and vegetables to eat on pita bread with tzatziki (mint cucumber yogurt sauce),…

Hi all! Alf: I hope things go well for your husband. Cardiac units are usually fully of grumpy old men (at least when my husband has made use of them, he has had a quadruple bypass, stents, and cardiac ablation). I hope they get things under control for him. The big project at work is now at the printers to be distributed…

Hi all! STILL not finished with the big project at work. Hopefully, last round of edits will be today and it can get to the printer. Have not been doing so great with exercise. I found a spin plus yoga class that starts next week at one of the local rec centers. I am going to sign up for that. Also, took an old bike in to…

Stiring, my picture right now is the view out the Wine Train window going trough Napa valley in mid January. Even though the vines are dormant, it is still very pretty there! Enjoy volitizing the esthers! And you are right, I am alrady getting excited about another round of river aerobics and hopefully water polo this…

Hi all! I am almost finished with a major big project at work which has been eating up nights and weekends (and days too). It is due to the board next thrusday but I think it will be finished by this Friday. Yea! A nice birthday present to myself. I need to get back to pool and swim. I have no excuse for not doing things…

Hi all! Digging out from ice and snow yesterday and 10 degrees this morning! Worked from home yesterday. Roads not too bad this morning but we went in a little later. We have our son'[s cat living with us so we keep our bedroom door closed to keep the cat out. It gets VERY cold in our bedroom so I think I am going to look…

Hi all! Finally home after a two and a half day trip to Michigan turned into a seven day trip! I flew in on Sunday and was supposed to leave Tuesday afternoon. Monday night, I got an email that my flight from O'Hare to DFW was canceled due to ice and snow in DFW. Luckily, I have family in the area so I was able to stay…

Hi all! A balmy 45 degrees here in North Texas, soon to be home of the Big Game. I have been in Mississippi with family the last two Super Bowl weekends but will stay here this weekend. We are about 45 miles north of where the game will be played in Arlington, TX and hubs and I work in Dallas, so it will be interesting to…

Hi all! Regarding milk, if you are not drinking three glasses a day, (I don't), please make sure you are taking a calcium/vitamin D supplement. My doctor said that if you are on anti-reflux medicine, you should take calcium citrate instead of calcium carbonate. The stuff I take now has magnesium in it. I take it at night…

Hi all! Back from a fabulous five days in San Francisco and the wine country. Flew out early Tuesday morning with our son (26) and daughter (22). This trip is our celebration of my husband's 60th birthday (He is MUCH older than me....) We did one day of hop on hop off bus tour. Our son wanted to see the post-impressionist…

Hi all! We are still in the Christmas spirit. Now that is 12th night (the day the three kings visited the Baby Jesus), we can start taking down the decorations. The kkids (young adults in their 20s) are still as home and can help this year. Yea! I post some pictures before we start ot put stuff away. I had a quick trip to…

Hi All! Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful Christmas Eve and Day. Had our friends over Christmas Eve for gumbo. Just our foursome for Christmas Day. Now that the kids are in their 20s, it is more about spending time together versus getting the latest toy, thank goodness! Rainy on Christmas Eve and in the 30's on Christmas…

Duffy!!!! Been following your blog. You are my hero! Hello everyone. Not been very good lately at posting. Had very busy week last week getting things pulled together for two days of board meetings. Then went to Phoenix for a business meeting. Both kids are home from school for the holidays. House is getting decorated and…

Hi all! Been so busy it is hard to get time to check in. I pickled almost two gallons of peppers yesterday and we got the tree up. It took my husband and I about thirty minutes of sawing the make a fresh cut on the tree. Next year, we'll have Lowe's cut the end! Take care all! TxMs

Hi all! Cannot believe it is December! We have had a beautiful fall this year in North Texas. Trees were the prettiest I have ever scene. Had a great Thanksgiving with kids home from school. Eating was ok but did not get much exercise other than cooking nonstop. Mr. Holiday (husband) has 5000 lights in the trees and…

Hi all! Sorry I have not posted in a while. Spent all day Saturday sewing a baptism dress for my niece who will be baptised this Saturday. I am hitting a busy time at work with end of the year wrap up. I have board presentations to put together plus business analysis for large capital projects. Plus, I leave tomorrow for…

Ditto what MK said! To my dad, father-law, brother John, and uncle Jay: Thank you! TxMs

Hi all. Finally back in town and caught up on things to have time to read through the thread. Was outside of Chicago Wed through Fri and then was in Austin on Sat and Sun. I will actually be home this weekend which is good because I have to finish sewing my niece's baptism dress. I leave for Mississippi next Thursday for…

Sing: I love Southwest too. However, we have gotten burned a time or two with missing connections. (When you fly out of Love Field in Dallas, you can only fly non-stop within Texas or a contiguous state, darn Wright amendment!) Good luck with the sale of your mom's house. So sorry to hear about your co-worker's son.…

Hi all! A good friend's 13 year old son died unexpectedly on Wednesday. He had congenital heart disease and had been through multiple surgeries. He had a heart transplant about 18 months ago and was doing really well, in school and on a baseball team. They think he had a heart attack, which can happen in kids post heart…

Hi all! Welcome to the all the new members! This is a great group! I wish I could have a pantry with nothing processed in it... I will try this next week to only eat unprocessed food. Let's see how I do. I didn't get to Zumba this week but did make it to water aerobics once. I need to get back to exercising more. I found…

hi all! Back from a conference in Minneapolis. Weather was wonderful. Kadetr: Have you thought about looking at Goodwill or a consignment store for "new" clothes? We have a second hand clothing store in our town which supports the local women's shelter. Get clothes for a great bargain and help a good cause at the same…

Hi all! Found you! My husband and I did the Jackolatern jog this morning. Lots of families doing the run together. Nice cool morning. We finally got there early enough to get our tshirts. Even though we preregister, they always seem to be out when we got there, so we got there early this time. Mayor Sing, thanks for the…

Sing: I am getting excited about your trip! Have a wonderful time! Stiring: I have the cake: Angel food topped with non-fat yogurt and fresh strawberries! Yum... My husband made the mistake one time in a very "lean" money year to do nothing for my birthday. After that, I decided I would do something for myself to celebrate…

Hi all! Cannot catch up with everyone right now. Sing: glad you are feeling better! Alf: have a wonderful time. Everyone: keep up the good work. Busy/sad several days. Our 17 year old pom/dauchshund dog had been slowing down for awhile. Sunday night she had seizures off and on all night long. I stayed up with her. By…

Hi all! Finally got my husband on the scale. He has gained 20 pounds since we started with a trainer over a year ago! He is supposed to be logging food on MFP but he waits until Monday before seeing the trainer to log all his food for the week before. Not very helpful. At least we made it to the gym last night and plan on…

Hi all! Back from Scottsdale and San Francisco. My son and I walked all over SF on Saturday. Up and down Russian Hill and Nob Hill and all along the Embarcadero. Makes me really want to work on getting into the best shpae possible for our trip to England in August. We went to see a production of Peter Pan in a tent outside…

Sing: my brother-in-law has inner ear issues. It has to do with his levels of potassium. He has to keep dried apricots with him if he starts to feel dizzy. Potassium levels are related to kidney function which also regulates blood pressure. He is still going to a personal trainer and says it has done wonders for his…