Friday, September 13, 2013
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013
First of all, let me apologize for ignoring you all this entire weekend. I did not realize that I had; I had one of those nagging senses that I had forgotten to do something, but could not put my mind on/into WHAT didn't I do? Evidently, it was do my myfitnesspal and write my blog each evening! But, let me tell you - I slept so well this last two nights, I am not going to let myself worry about missing them! I was exhausted when I got to bed these last two evenings, and will be again tonight, too, even though today is more back to a normal day for me.
Friday, as you know (if you've been paying any kind of attention to what I write), I got to go be slave to a yard sale. If you've ever done this, you know how boring and hard (but kinda fun) this is. I did have my sister with me for company - even though we mostly just sat side-by-side, each reading her own book, when there weren't customers around. We did get up and move things around as things got sold, but ...
I was so glad to be able to DO something for a change! It was a quite different day than sitting all day playing on my pute, that's for sure. I didn't really eat any lunch. Linda bought snacks for us, and I ate a bit (maybe a cup's worth, total (honest Injun!) of kernel-less buttered popcorn and some celery sticks. Jean got Chex Mix, and had both celery and carrot sticks. When I left there, after Linda got home from work, I got to run all the errands we usually run on Saturdays, because I was going back over "tomorrow" to hang with Linda and help out while Ron and Corgan were mowing. So it took me probably close to three hours to "drive home." I barely made it home before Ron pulled in with Corgan. I made a big pot of chili for supper, thinking whatever was left, Ron and I would have Sunday during football. Ha! First pot of chili of the year? Wasn't any left. Oh, my. So much for getting two meals out of it. I ended up going to bed around 10:30 that night, seeing that I was dozing off sitting at the pute.
Saturday, the guys got me up at 8:30. 8:30! Ugh. They left to go mow around 9, and I finally got out of bed (I was lying there, reading - finishing up the book I was reading "yesterday") and did my weigh-in for the weekend. I lost 4.2 pounds! Yay, me! I hope my news is as good on Tuesday at my TOPS meeting! I got on the pute, got my games caught up, then left to go on over to Linda's, getting there 10:30ish. When I pulled in, there were three cars in the driveway, and five or six people looking around. Wow! Big difference between FR and SA. On FR, the most cars was two at a time, and maybe three or four people, but never for any length of time. It got to be later, and I asked Linda what time it was, she checked her cell, and said 1. I said "Well, Ron should be getting done mowing then. I figured he'd get done around 1 and come over and then we'll leave and go to lunch." We laughed. Not five minutes later, he pulled in! Damn, am I good or what! LOL He and Corgan stood around and talked and visited with Linda (he is her cousin!) for a bit. Then I said, "I thought, since we were this far down, we'd go to KFC for lunch." Ron's eyes widened and Corgan says, "GRANNY!! Why'd you say that?" and we all laughed our asses off. Eventually, we did leave and went to KFC for lunch. We got an eight-piece family meal with mashed potatoes, green beans, and biscuits for sides. I ate a breast, a thigh, and a drumstick. About a cup's worth of both mashed potatoes (no gravy, used three butters) and green beans. No biscuits. We came home, we went for a bike ride down Hoover Road - with the guys going all the way to the end, me going to a little way past the farmhouse. There was a big patch of shade that I used to turn around in, so I would say I went a full 3/4 of a mile, if not a little more, before turning around and heading back. I was proud of myself! Then the guys went fishing and I played on the pute, catching my games up (before getting supper started) before the rest of the family got there to pick Corgan up. Then I made little pizza biscuits (open a biscuit out flat-ish, lay a pepporoni, put two Colby Jack cheese squares on it, put two pepperonis, fold the biscuit up over all, lay on cookie sheet seam down) for the main course. It's a little time consuming, making forty of these, but they are pretty darn good. Corgan also decided he wanted only cheese ones, no pepperoni, so I made him four with only cheese squares (six) in them. They ended up rectangle, so they were easy to tell apart from the others. They were there by then (yes, I guess I played too long on the pute...sigh) and they all sat and watched me make the pizza biscuits. They helped me cut up veggies for our salads, though, while the biscuits were baking. I didn't burn them this time, either! I baked them for 8 minutes, then I turned the oven off, then cracked the door, so they were still IN the oven, but it was cooling. The bottoms were just brown, but the tops weren't which is why I left them in there. Luckily, they came out (dare I say it?) PERFECT. So, supper was a big ol' salad and pizza biscuits. They left, and I went to bed soon after.
Today, we got up and went to church (as usual). After church, we went out for a bite to eat (as usual). We went up to Georgetown (Country Inn) and I got their Country Slammer breakfast, which is two strips of bacon, two sausage patties, potatoes (home fries or hash browns (cubes)), two eggs, and two pancakes (which I replace with toast). A nice breakfast. Enough to last until supper! Got home just after kickoff (as usual). Back to "normal"!!!!!! Yay!! We had whatever was left of salad for supper. I put a can of chicken salad on mine; Ron put tuna on his. I ate a banana for dessert. It's been way too long since I had some fruit!
There you go. That's been my weekend. It's been very, very different with some normalcy thrown in. Early to bed, early to rise, good sleeping (well, kinda, there is always the gotta-go-pee going on), exercise, good eating, TASTY eating, and family time. Not much to complain about, that's for sure. Except the getting up early. I will always complain about that!
And, believe it or not, I am just about ready to give it up on tonight's football game. It is 10 pm, and they have already been on a rain (lightning) delay for an hour, and haven't started back up yet. They are still in the first quarter, too. If I didn't have to start the dryer one more time on this load of towels, I would. But I don't want my towels to get that moldy/mildewy smell to them, so I've got to make sure they get dry before giving it up for the night! Okay, players just came back out on the field, so maybe it won't be so bad now....maybe. Unless it lightnings again. They ARE in Seattle.
Even though I didn't record the weekend on myfitnesspal, the whole weekend gets five stars for food, and Friday gets three stars for exercise. Saturday gets five stars for exercise! Sunday shouldn't get any, day wasted away watching football as it does, although I do get up a lot, between potty breaks, refilling my drink, making supper, getting on pute during halftimes (when all occur at the same time (late games) which does happen), and other ventures, like Ron calling me outside (ugh).
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