A Grrrrreat start to the week

Monday, September 16, 2013

What a Monday!  I woke up at 10:30 this morning.  I suppose I must have slept good, to get up that early and not want to go back to sleep again.  I did lay in bed and read a bit before getting up and starting my day, but a day starting by reading some is a good day, anyway.

After I got up, I got all my weekend dishes done - and that was quite a chore, let me tell you.  All those little salad bowls (I like to present a pretty table, not a bunch of bags & stuff, so all the veggies were each in their own bowl), as well as the plates and bowls we ate out of.  Pans I cooked in on FR and SU, too.  Man!  I also got my treasurer job work (for the Altar Society at church) caught up, too.  When I finally got the treasurer's box and took over the job the beginning of September, there was NOT A SINGLE NUMBER written in the total column of the checkbook.  I had to get the church accountant to get me the last few bank statements for that account, and reconcile the checkbook, so I knew what my starting balance was, and now I can go on...that was a fun job, whew.

Then, finally, I could get on the pute and get my games caught up!  For lunch, I had a can of my favorite chicken salad and 2 servings of walnuts.  Then I got a workout routine in, then back to on the pute.  At 5, I got supper started - and I must say I had a brilliant idea.  I was cold all day today, so I put on a 7-can soup.  This is a basic soup, which you can use a few different variants in (and I did), and let it cook on low all afternoon - well, a couple of hours - til suppertime.  The basic recipe calls for:  1) a can of chicken breast chunks 2) a can of chicken & rice soup 3) a can of chicken broth 4) a can of Rotel 5) a can of ranch style beans and 6) & 7) vegetables.  Today, I used 1, 2, 3, 5.  For 4, I used a can of diced tomatoes and for 6 & 7, I used peas and mushrooms.  I also had garlic bread in the freezer and cooked that to go with the soup (I won't tell you that when I pre-heated the oven, I FORGOT (thanks to my stupid pills, of course) that I had put my clean pans in the oven over the weekend to get them out of the way), so we had something tasty to sop up the soup juice, too, not just bread and butter.  lol

Then, best of all, my Bengals were on Monday Night Football!!!  MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!  THE CINCINNATI BENGALS!!  Can you believe it!!??  It was not pretty, but we won, too!!  Yay, us!!

Today gets five stars for food (it would ten if it could - I was almost 200 calories under today!) and four stars for exercise!!