Back to the grind......

Sunday, September 22, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013

Sunday was a normal Sunday.  Church, lunch, football.  That's my day.  I love it!  Especially when my Bengals win!  I had a great lunch - well, I had breakfast, Ron had lunch.  We went to Country Inn in Georgetown, and I had the big Country Slammer Breakfast.  Yum is all I have to say.  Then football all day.  I did snack on a banana and a pop cake during the afternoon.  Let me tell you - if you have NOT had a pop cake (not to be confused with cake  pops!), you are in for a treat!  These are available at Jungle Jim's in Eastgate, just as you walk in, past all the little stores, but before the store proper - kinda by/across from the funky bathrooms.  There are four different flavors, we got three (of course they were out of one...) and all are very good.  I learned about these at TOPS.  They are a thin bread-type of snack (like a thin thin thin rice cake) and are a very good CRUNCH for a snack, or you can use them for a sandwich - yes, they are that thin - for something different.  They are really hard to describe.  They are crunchy, but the inside is soft.   They are thin, too, not like a rice cake.  For supper, I had zapped chili and I don't remember what Ron found.  I didn't fill out my myfitnesspal for the day, nor write my blog.  Man, football was on and my Bengals won!

Today, I woke up around 10.  10!  I couldn't believe it.  Oh, well.  I laid in bed and read a bit before getting up and getting started.  I called up to the bank and talked to them about the email I sent on Saturday about started the paperwork for re-fi-ing the house, and she told me about a little more info I needed to get together, so I worked on that for a bit.  After a while, I got tired of futzing with that, so I got up and started doing my weekend dishes, then Ron called and wanted to know if I was okay.  It was 1:00 and I hadn't let him know I was up yet!!  Oh, my!  I had NO IDEA it was that late!  Time sure flew by.  I assured him that I was fine, just got lost in what I was doing and explained all that to him, which I am sure he didn't understand and most probably tuned out.  He's such a goofball.

Then, since I realized what time it was, I fugured I had best eat some kind of lunch after I got done with the dishes, while I was finishing up the tedious paperwork for the bank, so that's what I did.  I ate some walnuts and a banana.  Nothing else appealed.  Then, I got the email sent to the bank and got my games caught up on the pute.  I kept thinking that I needed to get up and do some kind of exercise but never did, so, around 5, I decided to get dressed and walk down Hoover Road and wait for Ron, then ride back home with him (his truck still being at my brother's, he drove my car today), so that would get me my exercise for the day.  So, I get all my stuff (drink, book, chair) together, get my gym shoes on, my iPod in and start off out the driveway about 5:35.  I no sooner get past the end of our property line when there he is pulling up to the stop sign at the end of Hoover.  Well, shit.  So much for that plan.  I turn around.

Bless Ron's heart, he asked me if I still wanted to go walking (or something), so we decided to ride our bikes down Hoover.  He changed his shoes, and we went bike riding!  So, I did get my exercise in today!  Yay, me!
He had gotten a text from my brother saying that his truck was done - my brother gets off work a LOT earlier than Ron does!  When we got back, we put the bikes away, went down and got his truck, and came back home.  Yay, I don't have to take him to work to have my car tomorrow for my doctor appointment!  I can live with that.

So, we're sitting here, watching TV, me on the pute, him 'not sleeping' in his recliner, when he gets up and goes piddling in the kitchen, and he walks in and puts food in front of me.  He zapped me a frozen dinner for my supper!  I think I'll keep him, thanks.  He then made his, and we watched Bones, then turned the game on.  He went to bed, and here I am, finishing up my evening.

Sunday gets four stars for food, and zero for exercise.  Well, maybe ONE.  I kept getting these funny cramps across the top of my foot and toes and having to get up and walk around during the game yesterday.  Oh My God - did those hurt!  I'm not sure if they hurt because they were cramps or because they were in such a strange place.  Finally, after about the tenth time, Ron suggested I put ice on my toes - I don't know why I didn't think of it.  I would have if HE would have been having the cramps - so I put ice in a baggie and put over my toes on the footrest of my recliner (on a washrag, of course).  After a while, they eased up, but boy! were they ever weird.  Cramp toes, then froze toes, on top of football.  Weird, I tell ya.

Today gets five stars for food - I was UNDER 600 calories for the day and I'll give it five stars for exercise, too, with the little bit of walking and the bike riding!  Whoo-hoo!