Getting things ready...

Monday, November 18, 2013

I woke up this morning at 8:30 or thereabouts.  I read for a little bit, getting up right around 9.
Putting myself right to work, I finally got all the Oncology/Hemotology bills I've been receiving (well, DADDY has been receiving) these three years since Daddy has passed on and wrote them a nice bitch letter asking if they could please let their billing office know that the man is deceased and will NOT be paying this bill.  I have called, I have returned a few of these statements over the years, but they are still coming.  What else can I do?  After writing this letter, I bundled up all the bills/statements, put them all in a manila envelope with the nicely worded bitch letter and addressed it directly to the O/H office, as opposed to the billing office (this is why I haven't done this before - I didn't have this address.  I found a piece of paper with the address on it last night and put it to good use.) and we shall see if this does any good.  I sent a copy of the bitch letter to my sisters and I will let you all know if it does any kind of good.

Then, I started on being Happy Homemaker, getting everything ready - as ready as I can make my house - for me to be gone, starting on Wednesday.  I know Ron will miss me, and I will miss him something fierce, but I do treasure this woman time, too, and really look forward to going.  Dishes are done - all but what was used tonight - and laundry is all hung in the closets.  I will do dishes again Wednesday morning, just to not leave a single dirty dish.  Do you think I'll come home to the same?  We'll see...I'm not betting the farm.

In the midst of all this bustling about, I did a few minutes on the damn exercise bike.  I actually did 2 miles, which worked out to just over 15 minutes and 53 or 56 (something like that) calories burned.  I turned the tension UP a little, too.  Hmmmmm.  Well, may have to change that again next week.  Until it starts really getting too hard to petal.  We shall see.  I may just have to start staying on it a bit longer.  Ugh.  Oh, well, that's why it is sitting in the living room, right?  Especially during the cold winter months...
I also got my lunch after the bit of exercise, too.  I had my chicken salad, a serving of pretzels, and a banana.  I was also on the pute and got my games all caught up.

During the afternoon, my daughter-in-law texted and wanted to know if I wanted to go to Chilo Park tonight, which sounded like a great idea to me.  It was sunshiny and was warm enough, and we should be able to squeeze this in before dark.  Well, we were wrong.  We got down there, and got our suppers set up in the nippy wind off the river.  By the time we were done eating - about fifteen minutes later, it was already too dark to walk!  So, while it was a good plan, we forgot the close-to-the-river part, and the walk part fizzled out, but it was a nice quick supper with the family, even if it was chilly!  Ron texted that he was on his way home while we were down there - before 6!  How cool is that!  When I got home, he was on the damn exercise bike, too!  I had left him some of the mackerel that I had made up to make for his supper, and he had put them on and was doing that while they cooked.  Good idea!

I had my mackerel patties, turnip quarters and radish halves, and some bread & butter pickle slices for my supper down by the river.  I was putting stuff away as he had his supper, and we settled in for TV and pute for the evening.
After a bit, I realized that I was still hungry, so I finished off the bag of Ruffles (good thing I let my family eat a bunch of 'em, right?  LOL) and 2 slices of the Colby Jack cheese as my snack.  I am so ready for my football now!

When I put all my food and exercise into myfitnesspal, I am over 300 calories SHORT for the day!  I am surprised - I thought it would be really close, but no, I am that short.  I go over it again, and make sure I listed everything, and I had.  Well, except the veggies, but they have no, or even minus, calories, so I don't ever list those when I just eat a few (separately).  IF I have ranch as dunk, I list it, but I don't have it very often, so...
I was under in all of the categories except fat and sodium.  I was kinda proud of that.  Seeing only two red numbers amidst the green numbers is a good feeling!
At least it's not enough for myfitnesspal to holler at me!  I don't like it when that happens!

Today gets five stars for everything!!