Doing stuff today...

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

I woke this morning a little after 11, and read a little bit before getting up.  One of the first things I did was to clean out my ears.  I get wax built up really bad (and really quickly, I think) and I have to take a bulb syringe and squirt hot/warm water into my ear over and over and 'rinse' the wax out.  We have doctor's appointments tomorrow, but I couldn't stand one more night of my ear closing over while lying down.  I hate - hate, Hate, HATE - this job, but I hate even more for Doc to do it, so I bit the bullet and did it this morning.  <I will have him check tomorrow, just to make sure it's pretty clear.>  Then, I just piddled around the house, doing this and that, getting little things done that I've been meaning to do for a while and just hadn't gotten around to.  I'm glad to say they are finally done, not that it really matters to any of you.  But it certainly makes me feel better!  Then I got on the pute and wasted time, as I usually do.

I got myself some lunch - chicken salad and the rest of the orange cherry tomatoes - around 2, and at the same time, decided to put on a pot of beans for our supper tonight.  For some reason, that sounded good.  Today was still kinda cool - the coolest day this week, I think - and Ron would appreciate a hot meal waiting.  I could make cornbread for a change, for him to bake while I'm at my TOPS meeting, and -voila- supper is done!  Sounds like a plan, right?  I cooked the beans on medium until 4:30, when I turned them down to next-to-low.

Ron got home about 5:30, quarter til 6, and caught me riding the damn exercise bike!  When I was done riding for a mile and a half, I explained to him about cooking the cornbread, and he said that sounded good.  We haven't had cornbread for a long time, and it would make a nice change from buttered bread.  I set the alarm on his cell phone so he would know when to do what while I was gone, and left for my meeting (I leave for my meeting at 6:30).  At my weigh-in, I weighed exactly the same as last week!  That's good, I suppose, it's better than a gain.
We talked of ended our meeting early, everyone was still feeling quite BLAH and wanting to go, and since there were only 6 of us, we mostly just chatted instead of having a real meeting, and then did leave 15 minutes early.

When I got home, Ron had the cornbread in the oven as planned, and I was happy I got to see the beginning of NCIS, which I usually miss.  When the cornbread was done, we dished up our beans, buttered our cornbread and dug in.  U.G.H.!!!!  The beans weren't done!!!  Oh, my God, they were awful!!  Hard as freaking rocks.  It was like they had only been cooking for an hour or so.  I just don't get it - they should have been done!  They had been cooking for at least 5 hours!  True, I had turned then down to low earlier, but still.  Damn, they were nasty.  We decided to put them back and have them tomorrow (or Thursday, since tomorrow is Ash Wednesday) and we zapped the leftover Johnny Marzetti and lasagna from out of the fridge.  Didn't taste quite the same, but it was still good.  The cornbread worked well with the leftovers, too.

After putting in my little bit of exercise, I was right around 150 calories short for the day when I put my food into MFP, and I was okay with that.  Of course, I had to totally guess on the cornbread - my choices were 1/8 of pan, a pan, or a container.  What the hell are you supposed to do with that?  But of the choices I had, that was the only one that wasn't grams.  Grrrrrrr.

Well, doctor appointment tomorrow, so I gotta hit the hay early (yeah, right) and try to be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.  I don't like it when I have to set the alarm during the week, but what can I say?  Being able to DO something with Ron will be worth it!  Maybe we'll get to go see a movie or something, too.  That would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.  I'll let you know.