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Tuesday, February 11, 2014


I slept in today until almost noon.  I'm not sure why - I actually turned out the light and went to sleep around 1am 'last night' which is early for me.  Oh, well.  It is what it is.
I didn't read before getting up, as I usually do, I knew this stuff was waiting for me to do, so I got up and got right into playing Happy Homemaker.  Dishes and laundry, as usual.  Plain old boring stuff.  Finally, I got to where I could take a small break, so I got my lunch - chicken salad and 2 servings of walnuts -  and I got on the pute (surprise) and that was just about that.  I still got this housework done, but it wasn't quite as pressing on me as it was before.  Hahahahahaha.   I'm so glad that Ron and I don't really have and/or use that much of either dishes or clothes.  sigh

The day went on, as days do and I made a pan of a cabbage dish for Ron for his supper.  I would finally get to go to a TOPS meeting tonight (after three weeks of cancellations) and wanted him to have some supper waiting, instead of waiting for me to get back from the meeting.  With it still being so cold, he needs to eat some HOT food sooner rather than later.  I also managed to ride that damn exercise bike for a mile and a half!  Yay, me!  I've got the tension so low that I didn't burn many calories, but, by God, I did a mile and a half once again.

At the meeting, I did my weigh-in with some trepidation - after all, it has been a month since we've had a meeting - but, all my worries were for nothing, thank God!  According to their scales, I have lost 8.8 pounds in that month!  Almost 9 pounds!  How cool is that?  I will certainly take that.  Most certainly.  <doing a happy dance, too!>

I got home from my meeting and made my supper.  I celebrated with 2 grilled cheese sandwiches - 3 slices of Colby Jack cheese in between the buttered breads cooked in one of my cast iron skillets - and tomato soup.  A nice, warm cold-night supper, I thought, and boy, did it hit the spot!

TV, pute for me (in other words - same old, same old in the O'Toole house) and now it's bedtime.

As I put my food into MFP, I was a bit worried because of the high carbs of my supper.  I didn't really care, but just a bit because I watch so carefully now.  And, yes, I ended up over for the total calorie count on the day.  But I've been under the last few days, so I am okay with it.  It was not that much, anyway.

Ah, well.  As I said not long ago - tomorrow is another day.  And maybe another pound gone.