Sunday, September 28, 2014
Monday, September 29, 2014
9/28
Another normal Sunday. Church, lunch, football. Nothing new, except we didn't rush home to be there by or shortly after 1. The Bengals are on their BYE this week, so even though I'm going to watch football, there's no rush to try to catch kickoff. After church, we go down to Amelia and have lunch at Campbell's Barn, which we haven't done for a long while.
Ron got to have his fried chicken, with onion rings and green beans, while I had a double decker BLT and fries. We got home and watched football all day, as usual, snacking all day (Ron!), not as usual, but it happens. I did finally cave in and snack a little, but no way near as much as Mr. Snack-a-Holic did - he even amazed me, the way he kept nibbling all day! I said something to him once, and he denied it, then not 5 minutes later was asking me, "Where are those (whatever (I don't remember now) things)? I know I just saw them!" and I just laughed at him.
We had a clean-out-the-fridge night for supper - he ended up having cabbage leftovers, and I had chicken and dumplings leftovers - and that was that.
He fell asleep after eating supper (surprise!) and I watched until halftime of the Sunday night game, then we went to bed.
Big fun exciting day for us!
9/29
Ron woke me up this morning before he left for work, and I couldn't get back to sleep, so I read until around 7, then I finally fell back asleep. I slept until just after 11, and read a little bit more before getting up. I did have 3 messages already on my cell phone, and that was really nice to wake up to!
When I got up, I did my usual Monday morning play-Happy-Homemaker thing, doing the dishes from the weekend and straightening up here in the living room. Corgan had his friend with him this past weekend, and it was looking a little worn. Not that I particularly care, but it did give me something to do besides playing on the pute between my 'loads' of dishes, although I did that, too.
I got lots and lots of messages (posts to my timeline on Facebook), too, and that made me feel really good, because I have been really slacking about leaving people such messages since returning to the pute after the big fall. My brain just didn't work correctly at first, and then it seemed there was an occasion every day, so I didn't get a chance to apologize for missing so many, and - now, here I am, being so blessed by so many of my friends and family remembering ME (anyway)!
A little after 2, I had a hankering for a ham sandwich, and the only ham I had here was frozen, so I got it out to thaw for my supper, and I went uptown to have a Buddie Boy at Frisch's. Yeah, I know - damn ol' Frisch's - but I wanted a ham sandwich, and that's all that I knew of here in Bethel. I enjoyed my 'ham sandwich' - the Buddie Boy - and an order of onion rings, then went to Family Dollar to pick up a bag of potting soil to repot a couple of my plants that have needed it for a long time, then to the Post Office to try to find a package/envelope that I have never received from a friend, but should have by now. Of course, they know nothing. Phooey! I figured that I did my 5 minutes worth of walking while I was uptown, and that's what I was supposed to do. 5 minutes of walking, twice a day.
I get back home. I put away all the dishes that I had done earlier. I repot my plants - one branch of aloe that had broken off, and some mother-in-law's tongue that was getting too big for the pot it's in - and start to get things ready, so when Ron lets me know he's on 774, I can walk out Hoover Road to meet him. Not 5 minutes later, I get a text from him. I assume he is telling me OK from my telling him I am home from uptown. WRONG!! It is him telling me that he is on 774, on his way home. Crap! I rush around, closing the back doors, putting on my socks and gym shoes, getting my walking stick out of the car, and the little things I need to do to leave the house to walk. Crap, crap, crap! I am not ready yet! I'm not expecting this, not for another half hour! But I get out walking, checking my time, and I get onto Hoover Road, not very far down, but I did get some walking in. I check the time after he stops and picks me up, and I did walk for five minutes, and that's what the physical therapist wanted, so that's what I did today. I wasn't real happy with it, but that's what happened, so I'll have to live with it.
We get back home, and walk around the back yard, looking at things. The pink honeysuckle is not as dead as I thought it was - there are some blooms on it! I am glad, because I thought that baby was a total goner. The locust tree it is up against is about to fall, though, and that could end up ~not pretty. We had planted 3 lilac trees earlier this year - right before my fall, actually - and only one is doing any good. One looks totally dead, one is probably consumed by a morning glory, and the last one is doing wonderfully! Of course, it was a little bit of a bigger plant when we got it, so it had a better chance, anyway, but still. Sigh. Maybe we just didn't water them enough after the first few weeks, I just don't know. I guess we'll find out for sure next Spring.
We came in the house and watched some more episodes of Quantum Leap, then made our suppers - he heated up the leftover spaghetti, and I made myself a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich - and watched more QL until time for the football game.
I put my food in MFP, and I was over on my calorie count - by 300. But, you know what? - I don't care, not today. If I can't use my birthday as an excuse to "overeat"....
Ron, of course, watched the game through his eyelids, but I QUITE enjoyed the game - the KC Chiefs beat the pants off of the NE Patriots! WhooHoo - couldn't happen to nicer people!
Both the Steelers AND the Patriots losing??? Definitely Happy Birthday to me!
Monday, September 29, 2014
Saturday, September 27, 2014
PT starts....and I walk
Friday, September 26, 2014
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Today, I woke up to the alarm going off at 8:45. Ugh! Not a happy feeling, but necessary if I am to leave here by quarter after 9. I drag my lazy ass out of bed, get a shower, lotion up, and dress, and get on the road by 10 after 9, which was very good timing for me. I meet up with Bryan over at the DMV, and I am astounded by how dead it is over there - I expected that it would be so busy, seeing that it is the last weekend of the month, but we didn't see any more than 10 people there the whole time we were there. I was shocked, let me tell you! I guess a lot of people are using either the mail-in service or the internet to buy their tags now. I had to get a new license this year - and I got to change my weight on it, too! Hip, hip, hooray! That felt so good!
I figured it would take at least an hour, hour and a half over there, but we were in and out of there in twenty minutes, so now I have a lot of time to kill before going on to the next item on my list (lunch! Longhorn doesn't open til 11) so I call my friend Teresa to make sure she is up for a visit. Today is HER birthday, and she wasn't up for coming out anywhere (Bert and I had already asked her that), but she was okay with me stopping in for a little bit. She is feeling okay, just nursing a bad headache, as usual (and I know how that is!), and we spend an enjoyable hour gabbing away.
I go on to my lunch at Longhorn, and have the almost-perfect salad, except I forgot to tell them 'no raspberry vinaigrette, ranch on the side' and suffered through my salad drowning in the bottom of the bowl. It was my fault I forgot that part, so I thought it would be a shame to waste the salad, which I'm sure is what would have happened, so I made myself eat it like that. It doesn't taste bad, just the bottom is drowned with the dressing, and I don't particularly like that. But....
After my lunch, it's on to my first visit to Physical Therapy. I find out that a couple of the exercises I've been doing aren't doing my back any good because I am 'rotating my pelvis' which is a little weird, but (what do I know?) that's why I've come to PT, right? She gave me 6 new exercises to start doing, and she also wants me to start walking every day. Every. Day. At least 5 minutes, twice a day. 5 minutes? I told her that when I walk, I walk at least one mile. So she says - walk for 5 minutes. What? That's a bit confusing to me - there's a big difference between a mile and 5 minutes. We (both me and the Physical Therapist) agreed that walking is most probably the best exercise for my back, and it's best if I can walk - the more, the better. Then she said that 5 minute crap. My head is still spinning from that.
On my way home from PT, I stop and get gasoline in my car, and I stop and do my grocery shopping. A WalMart Walk! Of course, as every knows when they go shopping, I spend way too much money, but the pantry is fully stocked now and that makes me feel good. I also stopped at IGA here in Bethel and got a few things that I just can't get at WalMart, so we are good to go. My back is not happy with me by now, not after PT, WalMart, and IGA, but when I get home, I have to carry the groceries in by myself because no one else was home yet. I did leave the heavy stuff out in the car for the fellers to carry in when they got here, and just carried in grocery bags (mostly with refrigerator and freezer stuff in them) with things to be put away right away, which I did, too. I got supper started, too. I was going to make it in the crockpot all day, but I forgot this morning, so I zapped the chicken in the microwave, then got everything in the crockpot. Then, finally, I could go lie down and rest my back.
Corgan had his friend Justin come spend the night with him this week, and I think they had a good time. I got supper all together to cook for the last little bit, and they talked us into having a fire tonight. I ended up zapping supper to finish it up faster - we were all hungry - and then we ate our supper (it was chicken and dumplings, btw) while sitting out by the fire. It was pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. It was a new recipe, and - if I had cooked it correctly in the crockpot - it may have been done on time. I have only myself to blame for that. It was super easy, and I will be making it again!
9/27
When I got up today, around 11:30, I remembered to do my weigh-in! Yay! I really hate when I forget, but today the fellers were here and outside, and it was a 'normal' Saturday, so I knew it was Saturday, and I remembered to weigh myself on the Wii as soon as I got up. Unfortunately. Yeah, I gained. Only .2 of a pound, but still a gain. Phooey!
Ron and Bryan were finishing up the job under the house - putting up the last of the insulation and all that - and when they were done, Bryan went home and we pried the boys off of the lawnmowers (they had been driving them all over the yard) and we all went uptown to walk the Walk Path. The boys rode the bikes, and Ron and I walked it. When we finished, we went into IGA to pick up a couple things to round out supper (it's different cooking for 7 people as opposed to just me & Ron) and then came back home.
I made a pan of Oreo Brownies for us to have tonight. I just made them in a cake pan (a round cake pan), like a cake brownie, instead of like cupcakes as I did before. They came out pretty darn good! I made spaghetti for supper, and garlic bread with it, and there was plenty left over - I was a little surprised at how much was left. I guess we'll have spaghetti one night this week.
We lit a fire, and had the brownies while sitting by the fire, as well as our usual pillow marshmallows. It was a beautiful night for it - a little chilly. Not jacket cool, just chilly enough that the fire felt really good.
After they left for home, I came in and got on the pute. I put my lunch in MFP, but didn't feel like trying to figure out how to put the spaghetti in, so just left it hanging. Bad, I know. Yes, lazy. But - that's how it is today. Too bad.
No Bengals this week - BYE week, but still looking forward to football tomorrow.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Today, I woke up to the alarm going off at 8:45. Ugh! Not a happy feeling, but necessary if I am to leave here by quarter after 9. I drag my lazy ass out of bed, get a shower, lotion up, and dress, and get on the road by 10 after 9, which was very good timing for me. I meet up with Bryan over at the DMV, and I am astounded by how dead it is over there - I expected that it would be so busy, seeing that it is the last weekend of the month, but we didn't see any more than 10 people there the whole time we were there. I was shocked, let me tell you! I guess a lot of people are using either the mail-in service or the internet to buy their tags now. I had to get a new license this year - and I got to change my weight on it, too! Hip, hip, hooray! That felt so good!
I figured it would take at least an hour, hour and a half over there, but we were in and out of there in twenty minutes, so now I have a lot of time to kill before going on to the next item on my list (lunch! Longhorn doesn't open til 11) so I call my friend Teresa to make sure she is up for a visit. Today is HER birthday, and she wasn't up for coming out anywhere (Bert and I had already asked her that), but she was okay with me stopping in for a little bit. She is feeling okay, just nursing a bad headache, as usual (and I know how that is!), and we spend an enjoyable hour gabbing away.
I go on to my lunch at Longhorn, and have the almost-perfect salad, except I forgot to tell them 'no raspberry vinaigrette, ranch on the side' and suffered through my salad drowning in the bottom of the bowl. It was my fault I forgot that part, so I thought it would be a shame to waste the salad, which I'm sure is what would have happened, so I made myself eat it like that. It doesn't taste bad, just the bottom is drowned with the dressing, and I don't particularly like that. But....
After my lunch, it's on to my first visit to Physical Therapy. I find out that a couple of the exercises I've been doing aren't doing my back any good because I am 'rotating my pelvis' which is a little weird, but (what do I know?) that's why I've come to PT, right? She gave me 6 new exercises to start doing, and she also wants me to start walking every day. Every. Day. At least 5 minutes, twice a day. 5 minutes? I told her that when I walk, I walk at least one mile. So she says - walk for 5 minutes. What? That's a bit confusing to me - there's a big difference between a mile and 5 minutes. We (both me and the Physical Therapist) agreed that walking is most probably the best exercise for my back, and it's best if I can walk - the more, the better. Then she said that 5 minute crap. My head is still spinning from that.
On my way home from PT, I stop and get gasoline in my car, and I stop and do my grocery shopping. A WalMart Walk! Of course, as every knows when they go shopping, I spend way too much money, but the pantry is fully stocked now and that makes me feel good. I also stopped at IGA here in Bethel and got a few things that I just can't get at WalMart, so we are good to go. My back is not happy with me by now, not after PT, WalMart, and IGA, but when I get home, I have to carry the groceries in by myself because no one else was home yet. I did leave the heavy stuff out in the car for the fellers to carry in when they got here, and just carried in grocery bags (mostly with refrigerator and freezer stuff in them) with things to be put away right away, which I did, too. I got supper started, too. I was going to make it in the crockpot all day, but I forgot this morning, so I zapped the chicken in the microwave, then got everything in the crockpot. Then, finally, I could go lie down and rest my back.
Corgan had his friend Justin come spend the night with him this week, and I think they had a good time. I got supper all together to cook for the last little bit, and they talked us into having a fire tonight. I ended up zapping supper to finish it up faster - we were all hungry - and then we ate our supper (it was chicken and dumplings, btw) while sitting out by the fire. It was pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. It was a new recipe, and - if I had cooked it correctly in the crockpot - it may have been done on time. I have only myself to blame for that. It was super easy, and I will be making it again!
9/27
When I got up today, around 11:30, I remembered to do my weigh-in! Yay! I really hate when I forget, but today the fellers were here and outside, and it was a 'normal' Saturday, so I knew it was Saturday, and I remembered to weigh myself on the Wii as soon as I got up. Unfortunately. Yeah, I gained. Only .2 of a pound, but still a gain. Phooey!
Ron and Bryan were finishing up the job under the house - putting up the last of the insulation and all that - and when they were done, Bryan went home and we pried the boys off of the lawnmowers (they had been driving them all over the yard) and we all went uptown to walk the Walk Path. The boys rode the bikes, and Ron and I walked it. When we finished, we went into IGA to pick up a couple things to round out supper (it's different cooking for 7 people as opposed to just me & Ron) and then came back home.
I made a pan of Oreo Brownies for us to have tonight. I just made them in a cake pan (a round cake pan), like a cake brownie, instead of like cupcakes as I did before. They came out pretty darn good! I made spaghetti for supper, and garlic bread with it, and there was plenty left over - I was a little surprised at how much was left. I guess we'll have spaghetti one night this week.
We lit a fire, and had the brownies while sitting by the fire, as well as our usual pillow marshmallows. It was a beautiful night for it - a little chilly. Not jacket cool, just chilly enough that the fire felt really good.
After they left for home, I came in and got on the pute. I put my lunch in MFP, but didn't feel like trying to figure out how to put the spaghetti in, so just left it hanging. Bad, I know. Yes, lazy. But - that's how it is today. Too bad.
No Bengals this week - BYE week, but still looking forward to football tomorrow.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
'Tis the season...
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Today started as my days usually do. I didn't want to get up too early, though, because I had no plans for today and a lot of hours to fill! Once I got up, I did up the few dishes that were dirty, using the used cast iron skillet as my sink. I also did a load of laundry - regular clothes this time.
I cracked open my Halloween tins and decorated here inside the house. I had already hung up the wreaths, one on the front door and one in the kitchen window, so I had to set up my knick-knacks and set out the stuffies that I have collected over the years. I really have no place to set them, and finally decided to set up a TV tray just for them, and that's what I did. I put the stuffies in a pile on the floor in front of my desk, and that's gonna have to be good enough. The jack o'lantern throw is on the back of Ron's recliner, and the wind chimes shaped like autumn leaves and the bell shaped like a witch are in the kitchen/living room doorway. Whew - the Halloween decorating is done now. Inside and Outside!
I take a break for lunch and to play on the pute. I have a sausage biscuit - those little 2-packs. So, really I have 3/4 of one, because I take the meat from one and put on the other and have a double meat sandwich. I figure it's not so much bread that way. After that, I've got to come up with something to kill some time
I got it! I'll go wrap up the Christmas gifts that I have so far! WhooHoo! After about 100 trips in and out of the bedroom, getting the tape, getting the scissors, getting the to/from tags, getting the wrapping paper, getting a box to put the wrapped gifts in, etc., etc., I can finally get down to business. I also have to write up pages in my notebook to keep track of these gifts as I go along, too, so it's not just wrap, wrap, wrap - it's write, wrap, write, wrap, write, wrap. But I finally got done and got things put away.
I came back out and did my exercise repertoire. Since I've upped my reps to 20, this takes me a little longer than it used to, and that's a good thing, I think. I start my Physical Therapy tomorrow and I'll find out if what I've been doing is, or has been, good for me.
I got cheese weenies out of the freezer for our supper, and I just have to wait for Ron to get home to make supper - or, hopefully, he will want to go somewhere!
He gets home a little after 6:30, and doesn't want to go anywhere (of course), so it's cheese weenies, pork and beans, and tomatoes for us. That's okay, I'm having lunch at Longhorn tomorrow - I'll get that yummy salad as my birthday treat after doing my thing at the DMV. A few days early, but who's counting?
We watched the Bones season premiere as we ate supper, and I almost wished that I didn't - I was SO upset at the end of the show. Ab-so-lute-ly pissed. I turned the football game on as soon as the previews for next week's show (which pissed me off even more) were over. And the football game isn't helping - it's not going the way I thought it was gonna go. I may turn it off at the end of the 3rd quarter (maybe I'm jinxing the wrong team!). Maybe.
I put my food and exercise in MFP, and I was less than 100 calories short for the day, so no snack tonight. Phooey.
Planning on being at the DMV at 10, so I'll set the alarm when I go to bed. Then lunch at Longhorn, probably with my friend Bert, if not both Bert and Teresa. I have to text Teresa in the morning and see how she feels, as tomorrow is HER birthday. Then PT, then shopping on the way home - always supposing that I feel like it. If not, I'll have to wait until Saturday to do my shopping.
Today started as my days usually do. I didn't want to get up too early, though, because I had no plans for today and a lot of hours to fill! Once I got up, I did up the few dishes that were dirty, using the used cast iron skillet as my sink. I also did a load of laundry - regular clothes this time.
I cracked open my Halloween tins and decorated here inside the house. I had already hung up the wreaths, one on the front door and one in the kitchen window, so I had to set up my knick-knacks and set out the stuffies that I have collected over the years. I really have no place to set them, and finally decided to set up a TV tray just for them, and that's what I did. I put the stuffies in a pile on the floor in front of my desk, and that's gonna have to be good enough. The jack o'lantern throw is on the back of Ron's recliner, and the wind chimes shaped like autumn leaves and the bell shaped like a witch are in the kitchen/living room doorway. Whew - the Halloween decorating is done now. Inside and Outside!
I take a break for lunch and to play on the pute. I have a sausage biscuit - those little 2-packs. So, really I have 3/4 of one, because I take the meat from one and put on the other and have a double meat sandwich. I figure it's not so much bread that way. After that, I've got to come up with something to kill some time
I got it! I'll go wrap up the Christmas gifts that I have so far! WhooHoo! After about 100 trips in and out of the bedroom, getting the tape, getting the scissors, getting the to/from tags, getting the wrapping paper, getting a box to put the wrapped gifts in, etc., etc., I can finally get down to business. I also have to write up pages in my notebook to keep track of these gifts as I go along, too, so it's not just wrap, wrap, wrap - it's write, wrap, write, wrap, write, wrap. But I finally got done and got things put away.
I came back out and did my exercise repertoire. Since I've upped my reps to 20, this takes me a little longer than it used to, and that's a good thing, I think. I start my Physical Therapy tomorrow and I'll find out if what I've been doing is, or has been, good for me.
I got cheese weenies out of the freezer for our supper, and I just have to wait for Ron to get home to make supper - or, hopefully, he will want to go somewhere!
He gets home a little after 6:30, and doesn't want to go anywhere (of course), so it's cheese weenies, pork and beans, and tomatoes for us. That's okay, I'm having lunch at Longhorn tomorrow - I'll get that yummy salad as my birthday treat after doing my thing at the DMV. A few days early, but who's counting?
We watched the Bones season premiere as we ate supper, and I almost wished that I didn't - I was SO upset at the end of the show. Ab-so-lute-ly pissed. I turned the football game on as soon as the previews for next week's show (which pissed me off even more) were over. And the football game isn't helping - it's not going the way I thought it was gonna go. I may turn it off at the end of the 3rd quarter (maybe I'm jinxing the wrong team!). Maybe.
I put my food and exercise in MFP, and I was less than 100 calories short for the day, so no snack tonight. Phooey.
Planning on being at the DMV at 10, so I'll set the alarm when I go to bed. Then lunch at Longhorn, probably with my friend Bert, if not both Bert and Teresa. I have to text Teresa in the morning and see how she feels, as tomorrow is HER birthday. Then PT, then shopping on the way home - always supposing that I feel like it. If not, I'll have to wait until Saturday to do my shopping.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Getting ready for Halloween...and on track with my eating!
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Today started as my days usually do - with me waking around 10, reading a bit, then getting up around noon. I piddled around here in the house, doing the few dishes that were dirty from yesterday (it was, literally, 2 bowls, 2 spoons, a pan (pot - it was chili) and the pan's lid) and I used the pan as the 'sink' instead of running a sinkful of water for this little bit.
I had a sausage, egg, and cheese croissant (one of Ron's - my muffins are all gone) for my lunch today, then laid back down for a little while to read while I was eating. I got back up and did my exercises, upping my reps to 20. I walked on Monday and did housework all day yesterday, so this was my first chance to up the reps. I think I did pretty well with this - the only one I couldn't up was the one where you raise your feet about 6" off the ground and hold. I'm still stuck on 5 on that one. Man, does that hurt my gut!
I just played on the pute until Ron got home.
Ron got home right before 6, and we both got to work putting our Halloween stuff out in the front yard. He had to carry the barrel of stuff out to the front for me, as well as weed-eat around the front porch and sidewalk and do all of the electrical stuff (dragging out extension cords, etc.) and I put up an orange & black garland around the maple tree, using pushpins. We both sat up the hay bale 'scene' then he worked the extension cord out to it, and finagled the plugs from the plug-in things at either end to the back and figured all that out. I just arranged the scarecrows in/on top of the hay bale, and the pumpkins and non-light-up jack o'lanterns in the front.
As he worked with the extension cord and the jack o'lanterns by the front porch, I added some stickers to my BengalMobile, which I get great enjoyment doing. I find it hard to believe how much fun it is to place those stickers and see the results!
I came in and made supper. Tonight, it's hamburger patties, black beans, and tomatoes cut into chunks. The tomatoes were given to us by friends, and they are the last off their plants. They were yummy! Black beans aren't my favorites, but I had only bought beans that I thought I could stand, and I managed to get these down - they weren't as bad as I thought they would be, thank God.
We watched more Quantum Leap episodes as we ate our supper, and tonight Sam was a elderly black man in 1955, and that was very interesting...
When I put my food and exercise in MFP, I was only 100 - 101 to be exact - calories short for the day, so I didn't get hollered at. Hip, hip, hooray!
No plans for tomorrow - just a normal day here at home. I'll come up with something, I'm sure.
Today started as my days usually do - with me waking around 10, reading a bit, then getting up around noon. I piddled around here in the house, doing the few dishes that were dirty from yesterday (it was, literally, 2 bowls, 2 spoons, a pan (pot - it was chili) and the pan's lid) and I used the pan as the 'sink' instead of running a sinkful of water for this little bit.
I had a sausage, egg, and cheese croissant (one of Ron's - my muffins are all gone) for my lunch today, then laid back down for a little while to read while I was eating. I got back up and did my exercises, upping my reps to 20. I walked on Monday and did housework all day yesterday, so this was my first chance to up the reps. I think I did pretty well with this - the only one I couldn't up was the one where you raise your feet about 6" off the ground and hold. I'm still stuck on 5 on that one. Man, does that hurt my gut!
I just played on the pute until Ron got home.
Ron got home right before 6, and we both got to work putting our Halloween stuff out in the front yard. He had to carry the barrel of stuff out to the front for me, as well as weed-eat around the front porch and sidewalk and do all of the electrical stuff (dragging out extension cords, etc.) and I put up an orange & black garland around the maple tree, using pushpins. We both sat up the hay bale 'scene' then he worked the extension cord out to it, and finagled the plugs from the plug-in things at either end to the back and figured all that out. I just arranged the scarecrows in/on top of the hay bale, and the pumpkins and non-light-up jack o'lanterns in the front.
As he worked with the extension cord and the jack o'lanterns by the front porch, I added some stickers to my BengalMobile, which I get great enjoyment doing. I find it hard to believe how much fun it is to place those stickers and see the results!
I came in and made supper. Tonight, it's hamburger patties, black beans, and tomatoes cut into chunks. The tomatoes were given to us by friends, and they are the last off their plants. They were yummy! Black beans aren't my favorites, but I had only bought beans that I thought I could stand, and I managed to get these down - they weren't as bad as I thought they would be, thank God.
We watched more Quantum Leap episodes as we ate our supper, and tonight Sam was a elderly black man in 1955, and that was very interesting...
When I put my food and exercise in MFP, I was only 100 - 101 to be exact - calories short for the day, so I didn't get hollered at. Hip, hip, hooray!
No plans for tomorrow - just a normal day here at home. I'll come up with something, I'm sure.
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Happy Homemaker...and then TOPS
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Today started, as usual, with me waking around 10 and reading a bit, then getting up. But when I got up, I started playing Happy Homemaker instead of getting on the pute. Man, what a decision that was. There were so many dishes! I couldn't get to them yesterday because of having Corgan for the day, so I even had the extra day's worth, on top of all the weekend's dishes. I ran the dishwater and got started - that's the only way to get through something, right? Get started and keep going. I also got a load of laundry going - this time, towels - and I felt as though I was accomplishing things!
Bryan showed up to finish up under the house around 12:30, and he just got to work. So, he's thumping and bumping around down there, and, I'm sure to him, I'm thumping and bumping around up here in the house, too, because I keep walking around the kitchen and living room, as well as down the hall every now and then. I was hungry (probably because I didn't eat much yesterday, remember) and I ate 2 sausage, egg, and cheese muffins for my lunch before lying down for a while around 2:00 and reading while eating. Then, since I had drained the first sinkful of dishwater, which had gotten cold, I ran another to wash the pans. I also got all the clothes, our regular clothes, that have been collecting in baskets, hung up and put away, too. I truly hate this job, and don't do it as often as I should.
Bryan's ride came to pick him up about 4:30, and as we walked into the back yard, he is crawling out from under the house, so that was very good timing. He says we are still going to have to buy 2 or 3 rolls of insulation - phooey - but that's all. He was able to save the rest and get it stapled up. We make arrangements for me to pick him up Friday morning to get this done, and he will get the job finished then. Living paycheck to paycheck is a pain in the ass! But we'll get it done, and that's all that matters in the long run.
By this time, the towels were dry, so I got them folded and put away. I'm glad this part is easy.
Ron gets home right before 6, and starts working on the lawnmower, so that he can mow the front yard before I do my Halloween decorating. He is holding up the Halloween fairy! How dare he!
I take a shower, change my clothes (putting on my NEW jeans), and go to my TOPS meeting, a little worried about weighing in tonight after my weekend, but when I weighed in, I had lost 4 pounds. FOUR!! WhooHoo! What a relief!
I got home, and Ron had the leftover chili warmed up for our supper, which we ate while we watched the season premiere - finally! - of NCIS. When that was over, we watched the premiere of NCIS: New Orleans, which stars Scott Bakula (of Quantum Leap fame) and it was kinda funny - when it went to commercial, the picture changed color on that character's face. Ron said he thought that he 'leaped' somewhere. We both laughed about that! Then, when the show came back, it went from the color back to the show, and Ron says "Well, I guess he 'leaped' back." Oh, that man...
I had put my lunch in MFP, but I didn't go back in and put my supper in. I'm not sure why, I just didn't. I just came here and wrote this, and now I'm gonna go to bed. I started another book this afternoon, and it's calling me!
Today started, as usual, with me waking around 10 and reading a bit, then getting up. But when I got up, I started playing Happy Homemaker instead of getting on the pute. Man, what a decision that was. There were so many dishes! I couldn't get to them yesterday because of having Corgan for the day, so I even had the extra day's worth, on top of all the weekend's dishes. I ran the dishwater and got started - that's the only way to get through something, right? Get started and keep going. I also got a load of laundry going - this time, towels - and I felt as though I was accomplishing things!
Bryan showed up to finish up under the house around 12:30, and he just got to work. So, he's thumping and bumping around down there, and, I'm sure to him, I'm thumping and bumping around up here in the house, too, because I keep walking around the kitchen and living room, as well as down the hall every now and then. I was hungry (probably because I didn't eat much yesterday, remember) and I ate 2 sausage, egg, and cheese muffins for my lunch before lying down for a while around 2:00 and reading while eating. Then, since I had drained the first sinkful of dishwater, which had gotten cold, I ran another to wash the pans. I also got all the clothes, our regular clothes, that have been collecting in baskets, hung up and put away, too. I truly hate this job, and don't do it as often as I should.
Bryan's ride came to pick him up about 4:30, and as we walked into the back yard, he is crawling out from under the house, so that was very good timing. He says we are still going to have to buy 2 or 3 rolls of insulation - phooey - but that's all. He was able to save the rest and get it stapled up. We make arrangements for me to pick him up Friday morning to get this done, and he will get the job finished then. Living paycheck to paycheck is a pain in the ass! But we'll get it done, and that's all that matters in the long run.
By this time, the towels were dry, so I got them folded and put away. I'm glad this part is easy.
Ron gets home right before 6, and starts working on the lawnmower, so that he can mow the front yard before I do my Halloween decorating. He is holding up the Halloween fairy! How dare he!
I take a shower, change my clothes (putting on my NEW jeans), and go to my TOPS meeting, a little worried about weighing in tonight after my weekend, but when I weighed in, I had lost 4 pounds. FOUR!! WhooHoo! What a relief!
I got home, and Ron had the leftover chili warmed up for our supper, which we ate while we watched the season premiere - finally! - of NCIS. When that was over, we watched the premiere of NCIS: New Orleans, which stars Scott Bakula (of Quantum Leap fame) and it was kinda funny - when it went to commercial, the picture changed color on that character's face. Ron said he thought that he 'leaped' somewhere. We both laughed about that! Then, when the show came back, it went from the color back to the show, and Ron says "Well, I guess he 'leaped' back." Oh, that man...
I had put my lunch in MFP, but I didn't go back in and put my supper in. I'm not sure why, I just didn't. I just came here and wrote this, and now I'm gonna go to bed. I started another book this afternoon, and it's calling me!
Monday, September 22, 2014
...and so the week starts. Yep.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Well, today starts out with last night. Only because last night I blew my top - unfortunately, on Facebook. Of all the things that had happened, I posted something that I thought was FUNNY and another family jumped my shit about it, and bam, I just couldn't take any more.
And, since it was Facebook, it was an ugly situation, and one that should not have happened, and, once again, it was all my fault. But I fully admit to this - I blew my top in the wrong place and time this time, and I have no one to blame but myself, and sometimes the tea kettle must let the steam fly and the whistle blow and get it over with, and that's what happened. I am very aware that it was not smart of me, and, hopefully, it won't happen again. I keep trying - very much so - to keep such things inside my own house.
I refuse to be depressed, and I refuse to show a sad face to the world. That's just not my style. I have seen - many times - how depression can and will affect people and it's not getting me! I am an optimistic and positive person, and will remain so. Always. I demand it of myself.
Josh was dropping Corgan off this morning on his way to work, so, of course, I didn't sleep last night. I suppose I was too worried that I wouldn't get up to unlock the front door to let Corgan in, or something. Who knows? But I didn't fall asleep, and after Ron left, even though I had my alarm set, I got up to unlock the door and turn on the outside light for Corgan, then laid back down with the light off until he got here. After he got here, I let him decide if he wanted to go back to bed or stay up, then I went back to bed. I let myself doze, but I didn't fall deep asleep. I could still hear the A/C and the fan blowing, and the TV out in the living room, although I couldn't understand them. I 'slept' until right around 10, as usual, then got up and let Corgan know that I was awake now. Corgan did say that he had fallen asleep for an hour or so, but that was all, and he started coming in to talk to me during the commercials of his TV show. I got up a little after 11, and Corgan and I played mini-golf on the Wii - I haven't played since I fell! - then he wanted to make macaroni and cheese for our lunch, so I gave him pointers. He did a very good job!
After our lunch, we went for a walk (he rode his bike) down Hoover Road. Along the way, I took pictures of the wildflowers I saw, just because there were so many different colors and varieties. They weren't the greatest of pictures because I had to take them with my cell phone, but they were okay. Better than nothing! I walked for a half mile before turning around because neither of us wanted to take a chance of me 'pushing' my back and not being able to get back to the house.
When we got back to the house, Bryan was pulling in to get back under the house to put the insulation back up. He offered to get that done for us, after he had done all that work under the house last Saturday, and we told him he didn't have to, but he said it gave him something to do, so we are letting him (mostly because Ron really doesn't have the time) because it will really help us out. Ron says we are going to pay him something - SOMEthing - this time!
Corgan and I went down to the birch tree down by the natural creekline cutting through our back yard to cut some dead branches out of/off of it. The winter did a number on this tree, and it's another project Ron hasn't been able to get to, and it's better that these dead branches are off the tree and we can use the wood for the fire pit, anyway! Corgan loves to be able to use Grandpa's tools and I thought this would keep him busy for a little while, and it would give me a chance to see if I could be a little useful, too, even if all I could do would be stack the branches. But Corgan found me a saw, too, so I got to break branches off of the tree also. We had great fun doing this job! The jerk as the branches broke free from the tree didn't feel so great (on my back) but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I guess that's a good thing! I urged Corgan to pick up ALL the sticks for kindling after we dragged up the branches, but he insisted they could "run over" these little ones with the mower so he didn't have to. I wasn't up to arguing with him, and just told him that if Grandpa told him that he wanted the kindling picked up, the kindling was going to get picked up and left it at that.
Josh stopped to pick Corgan up on his way home from work. I had him get the Halloween barrel out of the shed, so I'll be able to start decorating for Halloween and Fall, starting tomorrow, but I can't lug the barrel out of hiding by myself, and - once again - Ron hasn't be able to. Josh asked me if I'd heard from Jean (she had dental work today, which is why I had Corgan) but I hadn't - I didn't even know for sure what time her appointment was - so they loaded up some cans and took off for home.
Bryan was still under the house when Ron got home a little after 7. Ron went out to talk to and/or help him, then Ron ran him home. I had made a pan of cabbage for Ron's supper, and when Ron got back, he got to eat his supper. I zapped myself chicken noodle soup, and had a nut bar for dessert.
When I put my exercise and food in MFP, I had plenty of calories left, so I put in for a popcorn and milk snack, too, to eat while watching football, and MFP still hollered at me. I am hoping that having this snack this late at night is gonna make my night go okay, with no sugar low! I am hoping.
Nothing planned for tomorrow except playing Happy Homemaker, since I didn't get to do that today. Going for a walk and cutting branches off of trees is NOT my normal Monday!
Well, today starts out with last night. Only because last night I blew my top - unfortunately, on Facebook. Of all the things that had happened, I posted something that I thought was FUNNY and another family jumped my shit about it, and bam, I just couldn't take any more.
And, since it was Facebook, it was an ugly situation, and one that should not have happened, and, once again, it was all my fault. But I fully admit to this - I blew my top in the wrong place and time this time, and I have no one to blame but myself, and sometimes the tea kettle must let the steam fly and the whistle blow and get it over with, and that's what happened. I am very aware that it was not smart of me, and, hopefully, it won't happen again. I keep trying - very much so - to keep such things inside my own house.
I refuse to be depressed, and I refuse to show a sad face to the world. That's just not my style. I have seen - many times - how depression can and will affect people and it's not getting me! I am an optimistic and positive person, and will remain so. Always. I demand it of myself.
Josh was dropping Corgan off this morning on his way to work, so, of course, I didn't sleep last night. I suppose I was too worried that I wouldn't get up to unlock the front door to let Corgan in, or something. Who knows? But I didn't fall asleep, and after Ron left, even though I had my alarm set, I got up to unlock the door and turn on the outside light for Corgan, then laid back down with the light off until he got here. After he got here, I let him decide if he wanted to go back to bed or stay up, then I went back to bed. I let myself doze, but I didn't fall deep asleep. I could still hear the A/C and the fan blowing, and the TV out in the living room, although I couldn't understand them. I 'slept' until right around 10, as usual, then got up and let Corgan know that I was awake now. Corgan did say that he had fallen asleep for an hour or so, but that was all, and he started coming in to talk to me during the commercials of his TV show. I got up a little after 11, and Corgan and I played mini-golf on the Wii - I haven't played since I fell! - then he wanted to make macaroni and cheese for our lunch, so I gave him pointers. He did a very good job!
After our lunch, we went for a walk (he rode his bike) down Hoover Road. Along the way, I took pictures of the wildflowers I saw, just because there were so many different colors and varieties. They weren't the greatest of pictures because I had to take them with my cell phone, but they were okay. Better than nothing! I walked for a half mile before turning around because neither of us wanted to take a chance of me 'pushing' my back and not being able to get back to the house.
When we got back to the house, Bryan was pulling in to get back under the house to put the insulation back up. He offered to get that done for us, after he had done all that work under the house last Saturday, and we told him he didn't have to, but he said it gave him something to do, so we are letting him (mostly because Ron really doesn't have the time) because it will really help us out. Ron says we are going to pay him something - SOMEthing - this time!
Corgan and I went down to the birch tree down by the natural creekline cutting through our back yard to cut some dead branches out of/off of it. The winter did a number on this tree, and it's another project Ron hasn't been able to get to, and it's better that these dead branches are off the tree and we can use the wood for the fire pit, anyway! Corgan loves to be able to use Grandpa's tools and I thought this would keep him busy for a little while, and it would give me a chance to see if I could be a little useful, too, even if all I could do would be stack the branches. But Corgan found me a saw, too, so I got to break branches off of the tree also. We had great fun doing this job! The jerk as the branches broke free from the tree didn't feel so great (on my back) but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and I guess that's a good thing! I urged Corgan to pick up ALL the sticks for kindling after we dragged up the branches, but he insisted they could "run over" these little ones with the mower so he didn't have to. I wasn't up to arguing with him, and just told him that if Grandpa told him that he wanted the kindling picked up, the kindling was going to get picked up and left it at that.
Josh stopped to pick Corgan up on his way home from work. I had him get the Halloween barrel out of the shed, so I'll be able to start decorating for Halloween and Fall, starting tomorrow, but I can't lug the barrel out of hiding by myself, and - once again - Ron hasn't be able to. Josh asked me if I'd heard from Jean (she had dental work today, which is why I had Corgan) but I hadn't - I didn't even know for sure what time her appointment was - so they loaded up some cans and took off for home.
Bryan was still under the house when Ron got home a little after 7. Ron went out to talk to and/or help him, then Ron ran him home. I had made a pan of cabbage for Ron's supper, and when Ron got back, he got to eat his supper. I zapped myself chicken noodle soup, and had a nut bar for dessert.
When I put my exercise and food in MFP, I had plenty of calories left, so I put in for a popcorn and milk snack, too, to eat while watching football, and MFP still hollered at me. I am hoping that having this snack this late at night is gonna make my night go okay, with no sugar low! I am hoping.
Nothing planned for tomorrow except playing Happy Homemaker, since I didn't get to do that today. Going for a walk and cutting branches off of trees is NOT my normal Monday!
Sunday, September 21, 2014
A busy and emotional weekend
Friday, September 19, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
9/19
Today started as my days usually do, with me reading a little bit before I got out of bed. Then I got up, got dressed, and went shopping. I went to Walgreens for prescriptions, Bob Evans for lunch (I got the half sandwich and soup combo - a turkey & bacon melt sandwich and potato soup), and WalMart for my grocery shopping.
I also got myself a new pair of jeans while shopping. I grabbed a few pair to try on, mostly size 20s because that's what my (old) "skinny" jeans are, and I thought that's what I'd best start with, and then I grabbed a pair of 16/18s just in case, because I didn't want to have to come back out and start all over. Well, to my surprise, the 20s were all still too big in the hips and thighs/legs, so I tried on the 16/18s, and they were SO comfortable, and fit the hips and legs, too! 16/18s!! Teens! I, Rita O'Toole, am into teen numbers and out of the twenties, in pants!!! Can you believe it? I can't. I am truly amazed by that. I did a happy dance in my heart, right there in the store and the whole rest of the afternoon, too!
We got Corgan for the night, and everything was okay for a while. I told Ron that I had an errand to Williamsburg, and I thought we'd all go out for the night when I do this errand, but he grumbled about it, so he was going to make supper when I went. No big deal. Then the shit hit the fan. All of a sudden, Granny is the stupidest person on the planet and Grandpa evidently agrees because he does, and says, nothing - absolutely nothing - to defend Granny. Well, Granny leaves. Just leaves. I don't have to take that kind of crap in my own house, and I won't. I wasn't going to go quite so early, so I ended up having an extra hour to kill, so I went to that little restaurant out by 32 in Williamsburg to have some supper. Then I ran my errand, and I still just drove around and around before going home, because I just didn't want to. I finally got home 9:30ish, played on the pute for a bit, then went to bed. I doubt if I spoke ten words after I got home.
9/20
I got up early this morning - the alarm went off at 7:45, so I could get up and leave the house by 8, 8:15. I had to get up to church and have some singles with me. We were having a book sale, and we needed singles to start out. I had to go to different stores and buy little things to break bigger bills, and that's not easy to do! I finally made it, though, and got up to church on time.
After we got the book sale up and running, I went up to the bank and got some money for us (from our account) and I figured it would all work out in the end. Even though it was town-wide yard sale (weekend) day, we didn't have all that many customers. We talked about that off and on during the day - we didn't know if the yard sales helped or hurt, if people even READ books anymore (because of electronics), or if it was lack of advertising, or what. But we ended up having over $100. in sales, yes, thanks to me at the end - I just couldn't resist that whole table of love books over there. I bought a big box of 80. I'm so bad! So, the money I took out of the bank for starter money ended up staying in the box to be profit. Everyone who worked the sale got to take home a "bag" of books as payment, but I insisted on paying for the box of books. I didn't feel it would be right to just take that many, but I did get a few more in a bag as my payment, too. I was very satisfied with what I came home with, and the leftover books will be at the Rummage Sale in October, and I'll be able to get more of them then.
I had a hankering to make a roast for supper, and I knew that I had venison in the freezer, so I figured I was all set for supper. Ron and Corgan came up to help close up and clean up after the book sale, then Ron had to go to work - on a Saturday afternoon! Corgan and I had to go to the store for carrots to go with the roast, and the evening was set. Well, I forgot, and drove right on home. Well phooey. Okay, no problem. I'll get the roast out of the freezer and in the oven, then run back uptown for the carrots. Guess what? There are NO roasts in the freezer. Venison stew meat, burger, but no roasts. Wonderful. We run back uptown and get the carrots and beef roasts. Not exactly what I had planned, but it will do. I like my beef (well, all meat) well done, so since I had figured Ron would get home at 6:30, I started the first roast at 4:30, and the second one at 5:30, so the sickos who still like the cow mooing would be happy. Josh's family all got here, and even though Ron didn't get home until quarter after 7, I had turned the oven down, so the roasts were just about perfect!
After we all got done with supper, we sat out around the fire pit. It was such a beautiful evening!
9/21
Today was pretty much a normal Sunday. Church, lunch, football. Up with the alarm to shower, do my Wii weigh-in (I gained a pound and a half! sigh), and dress (in my NEW jeans!) for church, then we went up to Georgetown to eat. We both had the big breakfast that we like, then home to watch football.
Ron decided to make a pot of chili for supper, and went out to the freezer to get the hamburger and venison burger and discovered that the freezer had been left open at some point, and everything was half thawed, or half frozen, depending on how you want to look at it. Guess who was the last one in the freezer? Yep, yours truly. Wonderful.
What a weekend for me. I'm a piece of shit on Friday, I'm totally stupid on Saturday (because I don't even know what I have in my freezer), and I have probably ruined everything in said freezer on Sunday, because evidently I don't even know how to close the damn thing. Never mind that Ron has so much shit in the garage that there's no room to move in there, right? God, why am I even still on this earth?
Anyway, my Bengals won today! They looked totally awesome as they tromped the Tennessee Titans 33-7, and they played quite a few 'trick' plays that (actually) worked and I am in the running in the football pool again! WhooHoo!
Here's hoping for a better week.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Sunday, September 21, 2014
9/19
Today started as my days usually do, with me reading a little bit before I got out of bed. Then I got up, got dressed, and went shopping. I went to Walgreens for prescriptions, Bob Evans for lunch (I got the half sandwich and soup combo - a turkey & bacon melt sandwich and potato soup), and WalMart for my grocery shopping.
I also got myself a new pair of jeans while shopping. I grabbed a few pair to try on, mostly size 20s because that's what my (old) "skinny" jeans are, and I thought that's what I'd best start with, and then I grabbed a pair of 16/18s just in case, because I didn't want to have to come back out and start all over. Well, to my surprise, the 20s were all still too big in the hips and thighs/legs, so I tried on the 16/18s, and they were SO comfortable, and fit the hips and legs, too! 16/18s!! Teens! I, Rita O'Toole, am into teen numbers and out of the twenties, in pants!!! Can you believe it? I can't. I am truly amazed by that. I did a happy dance in my heart, right there in the store and the whole rest of the afternoon, too!
We got Corgan for the night, and everything was okay for a while. I told Ron that I had an errand to Williamsburg, and I thought we'd all go out for the night when I do this errand, but he grumbled about it, so he was going to make supper when I went. No big deal. Then the shit hit the fan. All of a sudden, Granny is the stupidest person on the planet and Grandpa evidently agrees because he does, and says, nothing - absolutely nothing - to defend Granny. Well, Granny leaves. Just leaves. I don't have to take that kind of crap in my own house, and I won't. I wasn't going to go quite so early, so I ended up having an extra hour to kill, so I went to that little restaurant out by 32 in Williamsburg to have some supper. Then I ran my errand, and I still just drove around and around before going home, because I just didn't want to. I finally got home 9:30ish, played on the pute for a bit, then went to bed. I doubt if I spoke ten words after I got home.
9/20
I got up early this morning - the alarm went off at 7:45, so I could get up and leave the house by 8, 8:15. I had to get up to church and have some singles with me. We were having a book sale, and we needed singles to start out. I had to go to different stores and buy little things to break bigger bills, and that's not easy to do! I finally made it, though, and got up to church on time.
After we got the book sale up and running, I went up to the bank and got some money for us (from our account) and I figured it would all work out in the end. Even though it was town-wide yard sale (weekend) day, we didn't have all that many customers. We talked about that off and on during the day - we didn't know if the yard sales helped or hurt, if people even READ books anymore (because of electronics), or if it was lack of advertising, or what. But we ended up having over $100. in sales, yes, thanks to me at the end - I just couldn't resist that whole table of love books over there. I bought a big box of 80. I'm so bad! So, the money I took out of the bank for starter money ended up staying in the box to be profit. Everyone who worked the sale got to take home a "bag" of books as payment, but I insisted on paying for the box of books. I didn't feel it would be right to just take that many, but I did get a few more in a bag as my payment, too. I was very satisfied with what I came home with, and the leftover books will be at the Rummage Sale in October, and I'll be able to get more of them then.
I had a hankering to make a roast for supper, and I knew that I had venison in the freezer, so I figured I was all set for supper. Ron and Corgan came up to help close up and clean up after the book sale, then Ron had to go to work - on a Saturday afternoon! Corgan and I had to go to the store for carrots to go with the roast, and the evening was set. Well, I forgot, and drove right on home. Well phooey. Okay, no problem. I'll get the roast out of the freezer and in the oven, then run back uptown for the carrots. Guess what? There are NO roasts in the freezer. Venison stew meat, burger, but no roasts. Wonderful. We run back uptown and get the carrots and beef roasts. Not exactly what I had planned, but it will do. I like my beef (well, all meat) well done, so since I had figured Ron would get home at 6:30, I started the first roast at 4:30, and the second one at 5:30, so the sickos who still like the cow mooing would be happy. Josh's family all got here, and even though Ron didn't get home until quarter after 7, I had turned the oven down, so the roasts were just about perfect!
After we all got done with supper, we sat out around the fire pit. It was such a beautiful evening!
9/21
Today was pretty much a normal Sunday. Church, lunch, football. Up with the alarm to shower, do my Wii weigh-in (I gained a pound and a half! sigh), and dress (in my NEW jeans!) for church, then we went up to Georgetown to eat. We both had the big breakfast that we like, then home to watch football.
Ron decided to make a pot of chili for supper, and went out to the freezer to get the hamburger and venison burger and discovered that the freezer had been left open at some point, and everything was half thawed, or half frozen, depending on how you want to look at it. Guess who was the last one in the freezer? Yep, yours truly. Wonderful.
What a weekend for me. I'm a piece of shit on Friday, I'm totally stupid on Saturday (because I don't even know what I have in my freezer), and I have probably ruined everything in said freezer on Sunday, because evidently I don't even know how to close the damn thing. Never mind that Ron has so much shit in the garage that there's no room to move in there, right? God, why am I even still on this earth?
Anyway, my Bengals won today! They looked totally awesome as they tromped the Tennessee Titans 33-7, and they played quite a few 'trick' plays that (actually) worked and I am in the running in the football pool again! WhooHoo!
Here's hoping for a better week.
Thursday, September 18, 2014
A couple of normal days
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
9/17
Woke up, read, got up. Piddled around here in the house, did a load of laundry (towels), played on the pute. Had a sausage, egg and cheese muffin for my lunch. Laid back down and read some more. Got up and did my exercises; thinking about upping my reps to 20 come Monday.
Ron got home just after 6, and I made pork chops and pinto beans for supper, which we ate while starting the Quantum Leap DVDs, season 1.
Decided to get back into MFP, which I did and lowered my calories to 1000. I was under today by 16. Beats getting hollered at!
9/18
Woke this morning, read for quite a while, then got up right around noon. I piddled around, played on the pute, folded the towels and put them away, played on the pute, went over to Felicity and put gasoline in the car, played on the pute. I had 2 little pizzas for my lunch, then laid back down and read some more, got up and did my exercises, played on the pute some more. Can you tell I like to play on the pute? I finally got tired of it, and played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii for a while.
Ron was really late tonight, and didn't get home almost 6:30. I finished my game of Wheel, and we talked about supper. He didn't want to go to FeedMill, so we decided to make our 'snausages.' That's the meal of fried potatoes, mini smoked sausages (cocktail weenies, or 'snausages'), and corn cooked in a cast-iron skillet. We watched more of the Quantum Leap episodes while eating our supper, then Thursday Night Football came on. It's a crappy game, and I am fighting myself to make it to halftime. (Score is 35-0, if that tells you anything. Bor-ing!)
Going to go put my food in MFP now, but I'm sure I'm over in calories today. No hollering! No guilt, either, I enjoyed my supper! But...no snack at bedtime, either, probably, and I'm hoping that won't be trouble later.
Shopping tomorrow! WhooHoo!
Thursday, September 18, 2014
9/17
Woke up, read, got up. Piddled around here in the house, did a load of laundry (towels), played on the pute. Had a sausage, egg and cheese muffin for my lunch. Laid back down and read some more. Got up and did my exercises; thinking about upping my reps to 20 come Monday.
Ron got home just after 6, and I made pork chops and pinto beans for supper, which we ate while starting the Quantum Leap DVDs, season 1.
Decided to get back into MFP, which I did and lowered my calories to 1000. I was under today by 16. Beats getting hollered at!
9/18
Woke this morning, read for quite a while, then got up right around noon. I piddled around, played on the pute, folded the towels and put them away, played on the pute, went over to Felicity and put gasoline in the car, played on the pute. I had 2 little pizzas for my lunch, then laid back down and read some more, got up and did my exercises, played on the pute some more. Can you tell I like to play on the pute? I finally got tired of it, and played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii for a while.
Ron was really late tonight, and didn't get home almost 6:30. I finished my game of Wheel, and we talked about supper. He didn't want to go to FeedMill, so we decided to make our 'snausages.' That's the meal of fried potatoes, mini smoked sausages (cocktail weenies, or 'snausages'), and corn cooked in a cast-iron skillet. We watched more of the Quantum Leap episodes while eating our supper, then Thursday Night Football came on. It's a crappy game, and I am fighting myself to make it to halftime. (Score is 35-0, if that tells you anything. Bor-ing!)
Going to go put my food in MFP now, but I'm sure I'm over in calories today. No hollering! No guilt, either, I enjoyed my supper! But...no snack at bedtime, either, probably, and I'm hoping that won't be trouble later.
Shopping tomorrow! WhooHoo!
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
A very successful doctor visit!
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Today started, as usual, with me waking and reading before getting up. When I got up, I finished washing all the pans and got them ALL put away and now my kitchen looks like my kitchen again - hip, hip, hooray!
Ron got home from work around quarter til one, which was good, because I had just gotten out of the shower and hadn't had time to start getting worried yet. We had doctor's appointments starting at 3:00, and so had to leave here by 2:00, but we are never sure if and when he is going to get to leave work. Luckily, they didn't send him back out "one last time" at 11, so he managed to leave at noon and everything worked out fine, time-wise, but now we get to worry about him working on Saturday.
Neither he nor I ate lunch (me because of them checking my blood - I had to be fasting), and we got to the doctor's and got our appointments going.
Doc dealt with me first. They had taken my blood, and my HbA1c came back at 7.0, which is the number that they want it at! Perfect! Hip, hip, hooray! When he asked if I needed any refills on meds, I told him that I was out of the water pill, and what did he think about me stopping that pill? I've lost all this weight, I'm not having a problem with my ankles swelling any more, and with my blood pressure always being on the low side (which worries me, but not them), and he said, "Okay, we can try that. Why not?" And - poof - just like that, I now only have to take 7 pills in the morning! Hip, hip, hooray!
I asked him about the muscles in my back, and he thought the PT the ortho doc wants me to do is a good idea, so I guess I better call them and get that moving. Blah. I also had him clean the wax out of my left ear - he said the right ear was clear - because it closes over when I lay on my left side. I was also informed that I NEED - no excuses any longer - a colonoscopy now, because I did a poop smear test and blood was discovered in/on it. Double blah. I guess we're going to have a wonderful vacation Thanksgiving week, cause Ron needs another one, too. His last one was 6 years ago. Keep up the good work (on the sugar numbers), and come back in 3 months
Ron's turn. Blood pressure is great!! It was 117/76 today. Are you staying away from the table salt? Yes. Any problems? No. Any refills needed? No. Any questions? Yes. Did you find out if you are certified to do DOT physicals? No, I'm not. There are too many hoops to jump through to become certified and it's not worth it. Damn. Bummer Any other questions? No. Okay, come back in 3 months. Bye.
We make our December appointments, get the name of a colonoscopy doctor, and leave.
We go to Crackhead Barrel for a meal, even though it was a little early, but we figure late, late lunch or early supper. We need to eat, we are hungry! I had the chicken-n-dumplins with green beans and hashbrown casserole, while he had a mushroom-n-swiss thing with a sweet potato and a tomato, cucumber, and onion salad. Oh, was it good, but it was chilly in there because they had the fans going at Warp 9, and everyone who had one was wearing their jacket or sweater in the dining room. I don't know what that manager was thinking!
We came home, and an hour later I went to my TOPS meeting. Not a surprise, my weigh-in didn't go well. I gained 4 pounds - I knew I'd gain because of eating, but damn. FOUR? Something's got to give! What am I doing wrong? I guess I will start back with MFP, because that seems to keep me on track, even though I haven't changed my eating habits. I just haven't been going there and tracking it. I don't know. I will call tomorrow and get my PT started, and maybe I just need to quit being a chickenshit and DO more exercise-wise. Push my back into being a back again.
Today started, as usual, with me waking and reading before getting up. When I got up, I finished washing all the pans and got them ALL put away and now my kitchen looks like my kitchen again - hip, hip, hooray!
Ron got home from work around quarter til one, which was good, because I had just gotten out of the shower and hadn't had time to start getting worried yet. We had doctor's appointments starting at 3:00, and so had to leave here by 2:00, but we are never sure if and when he is going to get to leave work. Luckily, they didn't send him back out "one last time" at 11, so he managed to leave at noon and everything worked out fine, time-wise, but now we get to worry about him working on Saturday.
Neither he nor I ate lunch (me because of them checking my blood - I had to be fasting), and we got to the doctor's and got our appointments going.
Doc dealt with me first. They had taken my blood, and my HbA1c came back at 7.0, which is the number that they want it at! Perfect! Hip, hip, hooray! When he asked if I needed any refills on meds, I told him that I was out of the water pill, and what did he think about me stopping that pill? I've lost all this weight, I'm not having a problem with my ankles swelling any more, and with my blood pressure always being on the low side (which worries me, but not them), and he said, "Okay, we can try that. Why not?" And - poof - just like that, I now only have to take 7 pills in the morning! Hip, hip, hooray!
I asked him about the muscles in my back, and he thought the PT the ortho doc wants me to do is a good idea, so I guess I better call them and get that moving. Blah. I also had him clean the wax out of my left ear - he said the right ear was clear - because it closes over when I lay on my left side. I was also informed that I NEED - no excuses any longer - a colonoscopy now, because I did a poop smear test and blood was discovered in/on it. Double blah. I guess we're going to have a wonderful vacation Thanksgiving week, cause Ron needs another one, too. His last one was 6 years ago. Keep up the good work (on the sugar numbers), and come back in 3 months
Ron's turn. Blood pressure is great!! It was 117/76 today. Are you staying away from the table salt? Yes. Any problems? No. Any refills needed? No. Any questions? Yes. Did you find out if you are certified to do DOT physicals? No, I'm not. There are too many hoops to jump through to become certified and it's not worth it. Damn. Bummer Any other questions? No. Okay, come back in 3 months. Bye.
We make our December appointments, get the name of a colonoscopy doctor, and leave.
We go to Crackhead Barrel for a meal, even though it was a little early, but we figure late, late lunch or early supper. We need to eat, we are hungry! I had the chicken-n-dumplins with green beans and hashbrown casserole, while he had a mushroom-n-swiss thing with a sweet potato and a tomato, cucumber, and onion salad. Oh, was it good, but it was chilly in there because they had the fans going at Warp 9, and everyone who had one was wearing their jacket or sweater in the dining room. I don't know what that manager was thinking!
We came home, and an hour later I went to my TOPS meeting. Not a surprise, my weigh-in didn't go well. I gained 4 pounds - I knew I'd gain because of eating, but damn. FOUR? Something's got to give! What am I doing wrong? I guess I will start back with MFP, because that seems to keep me on track, even though I haven't changed my eating habits. I just haven't been going there and tracking it. I don't know. I will call tomorrow and get my PT started, and maybe I just need to quit being a chickenshit and DO more exercise-wise. Push my back into being a back again.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Football Sunday and Happy Homemaker Monday
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
9/14
Just a normal Sunday here. Yay! Church, lunch, football. Our friend Bryan, who worked his ass off yesterday getting our pipes, leaks, drains, clogs, and all that done came over to watch football with me. Ron did stay in the room, so I guess I should say with us...sigh.
After church, we went down to Amelia for our lunch. We had driven Ron's truck just for this reason, so he could get his gasoline for the week at a decent price, then we went to Bob Evans, and we both ended up getting breakfast! He got the Homestead breakfast, and I got the Sunshine Skillet.
We hustled home, even stopping at IGA for a case of water, bananas, and ice, and made it home in time for kickoff! I was impressed with us!
We get home, Ron goes to pick Bryan up, and we all settle in for a day of football, which was a fantastic day. My Bengals won, and Bryan had a great time, having someone to watch football with. He said that he usually has to watch by himself, and that's not fun at all, and I know what he means. But I'm glad he enjoyed it, and I'm glad we could repay him just a little for working so hard yesterday somehow. Ron took him home a little after 7 or so, and Ron said he just went on and on all the way home about how great his day was. Made me feel real good!
Silly me, I was feeling a bit tired, and I thought the night game was a wrap, so I went to bed at halftime. I found out my later that I made a BIG mistake. The second half was a big turn-around, and the other team came back and won! Ha! Guess who won't make that mistake again?
9/15
I woke up today before 9. Before 9! I'd think it was because I went to bed a little early last night, but I read until after midnight, so I didn't go to sleep any earlier. I must have actually slept good. Deep, even. I don't remember dreaming until after Ron left, so that tells its own story, right?
After waking, I read for an hour or so, then I got up and started in on my Happy Homemaker Day. Not only is it the normal do-dishes-laundry stuff, it's put-the-kitchen-back-together stuff, too, and man, what a pain in the ass that is! But, let me tell you, when I pulled the plug in the sink (the first time) when the water got cold, that water was GONE, lickety-split! Like, slurrrrrp, it was gone. Right. Now. It was amazing!
I mopped the kitchen floor right in front of the sink, stove, and fridge, then I ate my lunch - chicken salad and a banana - while I played on the pute. I started a load of towels. I had changed my bathroom over to Fall (did I remember to tell you that?) and this load of towels included the 'old' shower curtain and rug from the bathroom, and I also threw the rug from in front of the kitchen sink in there, too. So there was a pretty full load for a change. I usually don't fill it so full, because it takes so long for them to dry. But I don't dry the shower curtain, and I take the rugs out after one go-round (because of the rubber backs) in the dryer, so even though the washer was full, the dryer would be okay. I hoped. I spread the shower curtain over the washer (back, lid) and dryer so it could dry and I could get it folded and put away - yes, I do that! - sooner rather than later.
After playing on the pute for a bit, I did another load of dishes after the floor had dried, then went and layed in the bed for half an hour or so. I finished the book I was reading, so I got back up. I did my exercise repertoire, then played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii. I played 3 games, winning all 3 and winning the bonus round of 2 of them, also! Too bad I can't really collect that moola!
I did a third load of dishes after that, and was in the middle of those pans when Ron got home. Since we had somewhere to go, he got his shave and shower while I boiled hot dogs for our supper. We made our sandwiches (I took the crusts off my breads) and hit the road.
We were going down to Amelia to a friend's visitation. Ron went to school with this friend, Ron May, and he was one of the Rons in the car the night Debbie and I met "Ron, Ron, Ron, and Don." Yes, he was only our age, and this is such a great loss. It was very hard to go through this tonight. Not only because he was a good friend, but also because he was OUR age. It makes mortality start to bite you in the ass, and you to feel it! We also saw many people we haven't seen for a lot of years, and it was funny (strange funny, not ha-ha funny) how many immediately recognized Ron but not me! It seems Ron never changes! Even Valerie, Ron's wife, didn't recognize me, and I just waved my arms toward Ron, and she says, "Oh, my God! Ronnie!" All I could do was laugh and shake my head. After all, I have cut my hair and lost some weight...
My friend Debbie (she is married to Ron's twin Don) and I spent the evening together and it was great to catch up with her, but, man, has she had it rough. She has had a second heart attack, and she now has five stents in her heart. She has 3 grandchildren now, too.
We ended up staying until the end, which surprised me. I didn't think Ron would want to stay that long, but I guess once you get there, it's a little different than what you are thinking before you go. He was tired, and he looked tired, but it was a stressful evening, and I think people took his tiredness for that - stress and grief - and maybe a little tiredness, because he did tell them he came from work.
I don't know, maybe I'm just a little weird about this type of thing, but I just could not believe the people who showed up in raggedy-ass dirty blue jeans and skanky T-Shirts - as in faded, torn, and ready-for-the-ragbag - and nobody batted an eye. I see this at just about every visitation/funeral I go to, and I just think this is SO disrespectful to the dead (person), even if they wouldn't care, even if that's how they dressed, that it just boils my blood.
You don't even think enough of (me) to put on some clean clothes? Or what? I suppose I should just appreciate that they are there, but -- gag -- come on! Show some respect. <okay, off my soapbox>
More clean-up tomorrow - I've got to get these dishes put away, and the rest finished.
Then, Ron and I both have doctor appointments. His blood pressure check and my sugar check. I've got questions for doc about my back, too, and I want him to clean out my ears. Whee!
Monday, September 15, 2014
9/14
Just a normal Sunday here. Yay! Church, lunch, football. Our friend Bryan, who worked his ass off yesterday getting our pipes, leaks, drains, clogs, and all that done came over to watch football with me. Ron did stay in the room, so I guess I should say with us...sigh.
After church, we went down to Amelia for our lunch. We had driven Ron's truck just for this reason, so he could get his gasoline for the week at a decent price, then we went to Bob Evans, and we both ended up getting breakfast! He got the Homestead breakfast, and I got the Sunshine Skillet.
We hustled home, even stopping at IGA for a case of water, bananas, and ice, and made it home in time for kickoff! I was impressed with us!
We get home, Ron goes to pick Bryan up, and we all settle in for a day of football, which was a fantastic day. My Bengals won, and Bryan had a great time, having someone to watch football with. He said that he usually has to watch by himself, and that's not fun at all, and I know what he means. But I'm glad he enjoyed it, and I'm glad we could repay him just a little for working so hard yesterday somehow. Ron took him home a little after 7 or so, and Ron said he just went on and on all the way home about how great his day was. Made me feel real good!
Silly me, I was feeling a bit tired, and I thought the night game was a wrap, so I went to bed at halftime. I found out my later that I made a BIG mistake. The second half was a big turn-around, and the other team came back and won! Ha! Guess who won't make that mistake again?
9/15
I woke up today before 9. Before 9! I'd think it was because I went to bed a little early last night, but I read until after midnight, so I didn't go to sleep any earlier. I must have actually slept good. Deep, even. I don't remember dreaming until after Ron left, so that tells its own story, right?
After waking, I read for an hour or so, then I got up and started in on my Happy Homemaker Day. Not only is it the normal do-dishes-laundry stuff, it's put-the-kitchen-back-together stuff, too, and man, what a pain in the ass that is! But, let me tell you, when I pulled the plug in the sink (the first time) when the water got cold, that water was GONE, lickety-split! Like, slurrrrrp, it was gone. Right. Now. It was amazing!
I mopped the kitchen floor right in front of the sink, stove, and fridge, then I ate my lunch - chicken salad and a banana - while I played on the pute. I started a load of towels. I had changed my bathroom over to Fall (did I remember to tell you that?) and this load of towels included the 'old' shower curtain and rug from the bathroom, and I also threw the rug from in front of the kitchen sink in there, too. So there was a pretty full load for a change. I usually don't fill it so full, because it takes so long for them to dry. But I don't dry the shower curtain, and I take the rugs out after one go-round (because of the rubber backs) in the dryer, so even though the washer was full, the dryer would be okay. I hoped. I spread the shower curtain over the washer (back, lid) and dryer so it could dry and I could get it folded and put away - yes, I do that! - sooner rather than later.
After playing on the pute for a bit, I did another load of dishes after the floor had dried, then went and layed in the bed for half an hour or so. I finished the book I was reading, so I got back up. I did my exercise repertoire, then played Wheel of Fortune on the Wii. I played 3 games, winning all 3 and winning the bonus round of 2 of them, also! Too bad I can't really collect that moola!
I did a third load of dishes after that, and was in the middle of those pans when Ron got home. Since we had somewhere to go, he got his shave and shower while I boiled hot dogs for our supper. We made our sandwiches (I took the crusts off my breads) and hit the road.
We were going down to Amelia to a friend's visitation. Ron went to school with this friend, Ron May, and he was one of the Rons in the car the night Debbie and I met "Ron, Ron, Ron, and Don." Yes, he was only our age, and this is such a great loss. It was very hard to go through this tonight. Not only because he was a good friend, but also because he was OUR age. It makes mortality start to bite you in the ass, and you to feel it! We also saw many people we haven't seen for a lot of years, and it was funny (strange funny, not ha-ha funny) how many immediately recognized Ron but not me! It seems Ron never changes! Even Valerie, Ron's wife, didn't recognize me, and I just waved my arms toward Ron, and she says, "Oh, my God! Ronnie!" All I could do was laugh and shake my head. After all, I have cut my hair and lost some weight...
My friend Debbie (she is married to Ron's twin Don) and I spent the evening together and it was great to catch up with her, but, man, has she had it rough. She has had a second heart attack, and she now has five stents in her heart. She has 3 grandchildren now, too.
We ended up staying until the end, which surprised me. I didn't think Ron would want to stay that long, but I guess once you get there, it's a little different than what you are thinking before you go. He was tired, and he looked tired, but it was a stressful evening, and I think people took his tiredness for that - stress and grief - and maybe a little tiredness, because he did tell them he came from work.
I don't know, maybe I'm just a little weird about this type of thing, but I just could not believe the people who showed up in raggedy-ass dirty blue jeans and skanky T-Shirts - as in faded, torn, and ready-for-the-ragbag - and nobody batted an eye. I see this at just about every visitation/funeral I go to, and I just think this is SO disrespectful to the dead (person), even if they wouldn't care, even if that's how they dressed, that it just boils my blood.
You don't even think enough of (me) to put on some clean clothes? Or what? I suppose I should just appreciate that they are there, but -- gag -- come on! Show some respect. <okay, off my soapbox>
More clean-up tomorrow - I've got to get these dishes put away, and the rest finished.
Then, Ron and I both have doctor appointments. His blood pressure check and my sugar check. I've got questions for doc about my back, too, and I want him to clean out my ears. Whee!
Sunday, September 14, 2014
A Granny and Corgan Day, while Grandpa fixed the house
Saturday, September 13, 2014
My day started way too early this morning. I had to go to my final weigh-in for this go-round of my Biggest Loser Contest by 9am. Ugh! But, I did it - I got my lazy ass up at 8 and got down the road with Corgan, stopping at Dunkin Donuts for him a coffee and me a tea, and made it in time. I did way worse than I expected. According to the official scale, I gained 4.4 pounds, I gained 2.75 inches, and God only knows about my percentage....I knew I wouldn't do very well pound-wise, because I couldn't exercise much, but I was hoping for better in the inches category. Oh, well, now that I'm doing better (and Dr. Stupido even wants me to do PT), I plan on kicking ass this time around! Anybody else want to join? It costs 20 bucks for each go-round, and our 12 weeks will take us to December 6th, so you can win some Christmas money!
Corgan and I stopped to do the shopping on our way home, because I had to get him some pants for school as well as my groceries, and his parents had given me the money to do so. Corgan had to try them on - he's growing so much! We got the shopping done, then came home to a total mess in the house, as Ron had delivered a lawnmower to a friend, then got to talking to him about our mess with the leak and all, and he offered to come look, because he just had to fix some plumbing at his (rented) house. So they were working on the pipe under the house, the clog in the kitchen drain, and all of that, and my kitchen was a total mess. Corgan played on the Wii, and I got on the pute, and we just stayed out of their way.
Around 2, we were going to go uptown and get some lunch. When we told Ron and Brian, we found out that they were getting ready to go down to Home Depot or Lowe's to get parts and pipes and clamps and who-knows-what-all. They will pick up some lunch while they're out, so that all worked out pretty well. Corgan and I went to Frisch's, where he got Buffalo Chicken Tenders and fries and the salad bar and I got a Pork Tenderloin sandwich and fries.
When we got home, we laid in on my bed and played Hangman, and that boy plays Cut-Throat Hangman!! Damn!
The guys got back, carrying a case of beer to enjoy while they were working (hey, they are guys!) and worked under the house and in the kitchen more (and more...and more...and more) until they finally got it ALL done. All of it - the pipe, the drain, every last little bit - and it only took them from 9:30-10 this morning til 7 tonight, that's all. And, when Ron went to the bathroom, he flushed afterward and the toilet did NOT make the growling noise it has been making for ~oh, a couple months or more ~ quite a while. Maybe that leak under the house was the cause of that, too! Who knows? But now that is fixed, too! What a bonus!
Speaking of bonuses, when Ron tried to give Brian at least 20 bucks for helping us, he wouldn't take it. He said, "You're my friends, aren't you? You help me out when I need it, don't you? Put your money away." What a blessing to have friends like that!
I had been texting Josh, making arrangements for supper - I didn't want them to come up when I couldn't cook supper yet - and we agreed that we would bring Corgan home, and they would make supper when we're on the way, and we'll just have a late supper. Well, they will have a late supper, and we'll have supper a bit later than normal. Haha. So, that's what we did. I let them know we're on the way, and when we got there, supper was just getting done. We had fish sticks, white cheddar macaroni shells, and corn. Then we just sat around at the table and talked.
It was a nice relaxing evening. We left to come home a little after 10, and it was quite an adventure coming home. I almost hit a kitty cat zooming across the road in Utopia right in front of me, then there was a deer just off the road to the left (on the side of the river) not very far past Utopia, then there was this dog in Felicity...man, was I glad Ron was sleeping and didn't see any of them, and didn't give me a hard time. "Did you see that _____?" Well, yeah, I saw them, but what could I do? Sometimes that man drives me crazy! But sometimes I drive him crazy, so we're even. 37 years will do that to a couple, I guess.
We got home and he turned on the TV to "catch the news." I laughed at him and got on the pute.
Church, lunch, and football tomorrow!
Friday, September 12, 2014
Nothing like good food, good friends, good times!
Friday, September 12, 2014
Today started with me getting up and making goodies to take with us tonight to the ChiliFest we are going to. This is at a friend's, where we are invited every year, to co-ordinate with Bethel's Homecoming Parade and football game, but most years we can't go because it is my birthday weekend and we have other plans. This year, Homecoming is way early, and we can go! Yay!
I make Oreo Balls (I know I've told you about them before!) and I also made something new - Oreo/peanut butter brownies! The recipe only made 12, and I saved 4 here at home for us, so I only took 8 with me to share. They aren't as easy to make as the recipe sounded, but they weren't terribly complicated, either. <Put cupcake liners into a cupcake (or muffin) pan. Generously spread peanut butter on a Double-Stuff Oreo and place in the liner, then a second peanut butter-smeared Oreo on top of that one. Fill all liners with cookies. (Now the fun (sarcastic) part!) Make brownie mix, and put brownie mix all around, and over, the Oreos, filling the liners. NOT easy - the Oreos don't leave you much room. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes.>
Everyone who had one said they were very good! I had half of one, and I thought it was okay, too (remember - I don't like Oreos very much), and I will probably make them again at some point.
Josh and Chelle brought Corgan up and dropped him off, and when it was time, he and I packed up our goodies, went uptown and bought ourselves and Grandpa drinks, and got to the church and parked the car, then walked to where we were going. I did much better than I thought I would - MUCH better! - I am glad for that! I was a bit worried about the short walk, but I had no problem at all, and I stood out front to watch the parade, then went to the back yard to sit for the rest of the evening. The chili, of which they had three pots - their normal, Wendy's-style, and Tex-Mex - was in crockpots on tables on their back deck, as well as hot dogs (for coneys), cheese, onions, and all accompaniments you could think of! Other people, like me, brought desserts or bags of munchies, and there was a lot of food available and it was all very good!
Just sitting at the table, visiting with friends all night long, was great fun, too! My friend Rosie did show up, with her granddaughters, and I'm so glad she did. I had brought my yearbook, because she didn't remember people from our class (we had lunch last week, remember) and I thought that would help her a little - and it did! Her granddaughters loved looking at the pictures and "our funny clothes," too! We all got to laugh at some of the pictures, and, of course, they provoked memories...
We came home somewhere between 9:30 and 10, and Ron and Corgan are both asleep already. They are such male creatures!
Final weigh-in for my Biggest Loser contest tomorrow - fingers crossed!
Today started with me getting up and making goodies to take with us tonight to the ChiliFest we are going to. This is at a friend's, where we are invited every year, to co-ordinate with Bethel's Homecoming Parade and football game, but most years we can't go because it is my birthday weekend and we have other plans. This year, Homecoming is way early, and we can go! Yay!
I make Oreo Balls (I know I've told you about them before!) and I also made something new - Oreo/peanut butter brownies! The recipe only made 12, and I saved 4 here at home for us, so I only took 8 with me to share. They aren't as easy to make as the recipe sounded, but they weren't terribly complicated, either. <Put cupcake liners into a cupcake (or muffin) pan. Generously spread peanut butter on a Double-Stuff Oreo and place in the liner, then a second peanut butter-smeared Oreo on top of that one. Fill all liners with cookies. (Now the fun (sarcastic) part!) Make brownie mix, and put brownie mix all around, and over, the Oreos, filling the liners. NOT easy - the Oreos don't leave you much room. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes.>
Everyone who had one said they were very good! I had half of one, and I thought it was okay, too (remember - I don't like Oreos very much), and I will probably make them again at some point.
Josh and Chelle brought Corgan up and dropped him off, and when it was time, he and I packed up our goodies, went uptown and bought ourselves and Grandpa drinks, and got to the church and parked the car, then walked to where we were going. I did much better than I thought I would - MUCH better! - I am glad for that! I was a bit worried about the short walk, but I had no problem at all, and I stood out front to watch the parade, then went to the back yard to sit for the rest of the evening. The chili, of which they had three pots - their normal, Wendy's-style, and Tex-Mex - was in crockpots on tables on their back deck, as well as hot dogs (for coneys), cheese, onions, and all accompaniments you could think of! Other people, like me, brought desserts or bags of munchies, and there was a lot of food available and it was all very good!
Just sitting at the table, visiting with friends all night long, was great fun, too! My friend Rosie did show up, with her granddaughters, and I'm so glad she did. I had brought my yearbook, because she didn't remember people from our class (we had lunch last week, remember) and I thought that would help her a little - and it did! Her granddaughters loved looking at the pictures and "our funny clothes," too! We all got to laugh at some of the pictures, and, of course, they provoked memories...
We came home somewhere between 9:30 and 10, and Ron and Corgan are both asleep already. They are such male creatures!
Final weigh-in for my Biggest Loser contest tomorrow - fingers crossed!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
A wonderful Bert and Teresa Day!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
First of all, I must, Must, MUST wish a very Happy Birthday to MY baby, John Schmidt (the first baby I got to help with, plus I got to help name him!) on this, his 50th birthday! Yes, I said FIFTIETH. I hope he had a great day!
I started the day before 8 this morning, with John texting me a picture of his cubicle that greeted him when he got to work this morning - his co-workers had decorated it up with "50" decorations! That's great! But then I couldn't get back to sleep, so I just read for a while - a long while - then got up, played on the pute, then took a shower, got dressed, and left to pick Bert up, so we could go get Teresa and go on the Golden Corral for our day together.
The day out has been in the making for so long, and it was so good that it finally all came together! We got to Golden Corral at noon, and we didn't leave until almost 7:30. Yes, 7:30 in the evening. We stayed there all day! It was great - we just talked and ate, and ate and talked, and then did it some more. I suppose it wasn't very busy, and we didn't go up to the bar(s) too many times or anything, because no one ever said anything to us about never leaving. We went through 3 different waiters/waitresses, and we left a very nice tip, in case they all had to share it, and oh, did we all enjoy it! I sure hated being the one to break up the party, but man, did my back start aching and I finally couldn't sit there any longer.
We dropped Teresa off at her place, then Bert and I stopped at Kroger, so she could pick up some milk and a prescription, and drove through the drive-thru for a drink (I was thirsty!) or two, and then I dropped Bert off at her house, and I came on home.
The football game was already home by the time I got here, and I just sat in my recliner and started watching the game. I sat there for an hour, then got up and got on the pute to finish out the night.
Ron also found out tonight that one of his good buddies - our age! - passed away last night. He has been in the hospital up around Cleveland for around 3 months now, and just couldn't get better. He had the same thing that his dad had - an abdominal aneurysm - and his twin is taking it hard. RON is taking it hard! It's not really surprising, but it is sad. Very sad.
Nothing planned for tomorrow, until the evening, but I'm hoping someone can, or will, come and look at these pipes. I'll be making goodies to take with us to where we're going, so no shopping, and we'll see what happens after that. If not tomorrow, Saturday, I'm hoping! This leak...
First of all, I must, Must, MUST wish a very Happy Birthday to MY baby, John Schmidt (the first baby I got to help with, plus I got to help name him!) on this, his 50th birthday! Yes, I said FIFTIETH. I hope he had a great day!
I started the day before 8 this morning, with John texting me a picture of his cubicle that greeted him when he got to work this morning - his co-workers had decorated it up with "50" decorations! That's great! But then I couldn't get back to sleep, so I just read for a while - a long while - then got up, played on the pute, then took a shower, got dressed, and left to pick Bert up, so we could go get Teresa and go on the Golden Corral for our day together.
The day out has been in the making for so long, and it was so good that it finally all came together! We got to Golden Corral at noon, and we didn't leave until almost 7:30. Yes, 7:30 in the evening. We stayed there all day! It was great - we just talked and ate, and ate and talked, and then did it some more. I suppose it wasn't very busy, and we didn't go up to the bar(s) too many times or anything, because no one ever said anything to us about never leaving. We went through 3 different waiters/waitresses, and we left a very nice tip, in case they all had to share it, and oh, did we all enjoy it! I sure hated being the one to break up the party, but man, did my back start aching and I finally couldn't sit there any longer.
We dropped Teresa off at her place, then Bert and I stopped at Kroger, so she could pick up some milk and a prescription, and drove through the drive-thru for a drink (I was thirsty!) or two, and then I dropped Bert off at her house, and I came on home.
The football game was already home by the time I got here, and I just sat in my recliner and started watching the game. I sat there for an hour, then got up and got on the pute to finish out the night.
Ron also found out tonight that one of his good buddies - our age! - passed away last night. He has been in the hospital up around Cleveland for around 3 months now, and just couldn't get better. He had the same thing that his dad had - an abdominal aneurysm - and his twin is taking it hard. RON is taking it hard! It's not really surprising, but it is sad. Very sad.
Nothing planned for tomorrow, until the evening, but I'm hoping someone can, or will, come and look at these pipes. I'll be making goodies to take with us to where we're going, so no shopping, and we'll see what happens after that. If not tomorrow, Saturday, I'm hoping! This leak...
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
When it rains, it pours. Get out the buckets!
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
I woke up this morning just after 10, and read, as I usually do, before getting up. I spent the morning doing the dishes in my stockpots, since I couldn't do them in the sink, and I managed to do them all except the pans too big to fit. The water was too cold by then, anyway, so I'll have to figure something out about them. I also did a load of towels, so I guess this was a Happy Homemaker day for me.
The DirecTV guy was supposed to show up between 12 and 4, but (of course) I didn't know when, so I just have to keep myself busy all day. Ha! I do have my pute, you know, so that's not a problem.
I get to say some famous words today, too. "I forgot to eat lunch today!" And I did - I truly forgot. I just wasn't hungry (could have been the sugar low I had at 5am and the jelly beans I ate then, but I only ate 5 or 6, I swear!), or it could have been that my mind was occupied with worrying about when that darn DirecTV guy was gonna get here! I want my DirecTV fixed for my football!
I finally got a phone call that he would be here between 3:50 and 4:20, would that be okay? Well, what are you gonna say? Of course it's okay, I'm home anyway.
Finally, the guy called - he's stuck in traffic up in Bethel, and will be there as soon as he gets through it. Yay! He puts up the new HD dish (a bigger dish) - that I didn't know we were going to get, I thought we were just getting a new HD receiver, sets up the new HD receiver, gives us a second remote, and voila! We're set!
Before he even leaves, the satellite is cutting out because a storm is brewing. Great. There's nothing he can do, but if this keeps up, I won't be happy, because he didn't lose our satellite before until the storm was upon us and was pretty vicious. If it's gonna go out just when one is brewing, that may be a problem. Here's hoping it's just just-starting-out-and-getting-used-to-things stuff!
As he was finishing things up, Ron came home, too, and was telling me that, hopefully, Harry was going to be able to come up, with Eric (his son), to look at the pipes under the house, but that Eric was busy helping another friend first. They never did make it tonight, so I guess our leak will keep on leaking for at least one more day.
Does anyone know somebody who works on pipes, or knows any kind of plumbing, who would work relatively cheap (or inexpensively), because we sure don't have much extra, and is available rather quickly?
Ron carries the stockpots of grody water out to the ditchline to empty them. He wouldn't dump them in the tub, just in case there was grease, and there probably was, so I guess he was right. Good thing I couldn't carry them, or I would have dumped them down the tub as soon as I was finished with the dishes! Maybe I keep him around for a reason (or two)!
Since I hadn't eaten lunch, I was starting to get hungry, and you know he was hungry, so we made cheese weenies, macaroni & cheese, and pinto beans for our supper. Nothing like ending this day cheesy!
I did go lay on the bed to eat my supper, even though I've been trying to stay up. My back hasn't been liking the staying-up-all-day thing, so one little bit of laying-down isn't going to be such a set-back. I was only laying down for half hour, forty five minutes, then I was right back up again, and stayed up for the rest of the night.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a Bert and Teresa Day. Here's hoping no 'Change of Plans' this time!
I woke up this morning just after 10, and read, as I usually do, before getting up. I spent the morning doing the dishes in my stockpots, since I couldn't do them in the sink, and I managed to do them all except the pans too big to fit. The water was too cold by then, anyway, so I'll have to figure something out about them. I also did a load of towels, so I guess this was a Happy Homemaker day for me.
The DirecTV guy was supposed to show up between 12 and 4, but (of course) I didn't know when, so I just have to keep myself busy all day. Ha! I do have my pute, you know, so that's not a problem.
I get to say some famous words today, too. "I forgot to eat lunch today!" And I did - I truly forgot. I just wasn't hungry (could have been the sugar low I had at 5am and the jelly beans I ate then, but I only ate 5 or 6, I swear!), or it could have been that my mind was occupied with worrying about when that darn DirecTV guy was gonna get here! I want my DirecTV fixed for my football!
I finally got a phone call that he would be here between 3:50 and 4:20, would that be okay? Well, what are you gonna say? Of course it's okay, I'm home anyway.
Finally, the guy called - he's stuck in traffic up in Bethel, and will be there as soon as he gets through it. Yay! He puts up the new HD dish (a bigger dish) - that I didn't know we were going to get, I thought we were just getting a new HD receiver, sets up the new HD receiver, gives us a second remote, and voila! We're set!
Before he even leaves, the satellite is cutting out because a storm is brewing. Great. There's nothing he can do, but if this keeps up, I won't be happy, because he didn't lose our satellite before until the storm was upon us and was pretty vicious. If it's gonna go out just when one is brewing, that may be a problem. Here's hoping it's just just-starting-out-and-getting-used-to-things stuff!
As he was finishing things up, Ron came home, too, and was telling me that, hopefully, Harry was going to be able to come up, with Eric (his son), to look at the pipes under the house, but that Eric was busy helping another friend first. They never did make it tonight, so I guess our leak will keep on leaking for at least one more day.
Does anyone know somebody who works on pipes, or knows any kind of plumbing, who would work relatively cheap (or inexpensively), because we sure don't have much extra, and is available rather quickly?
Ron carries the stockpots of grody water out to the ditchline to empty them. He wouldn't dump them in the tub, just in case there was grease, and there probably was, so I guess he was right. Good thing I couldn't carry them, or I would have dumped them down the tub as soon as I was finished with the dishes! Maybe I keep him around for a reason (or two)!
Since I hadn't eaten lunch, I was starting to get hungry, and you know he was hungry, so we made cheese weenies, macaroni & cheese, and pinto beans for our supper. Nothing like ending this day cheesy!
I did go lay on the bed to eat my supper, even though I've been trying to stay up. My back hasn't been liking the staying-up-all-day thing, so one little bit of laying-down isn't going to be such a set-back. I was only laying down for half hour, forty five minutes, then I was right back up again, and stayed up for the rest of the night.
Tomorrow is supposed to be a Bert and Teresa Day. Here's hoping no 'Change of Plans' this time!
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
NOT a nice relaxing day. Nope.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
I woke up this morning, as usual, a little past 10, and read a bit before getting up. It was a good thing I did, because that ended up being the last usual thing about the day!
Last night, as I was watching football, Ron discovered that the kitchen sink was backing up. No big deal, I thought, it does that every now and then. I'll run hot water down the drain and it should be fine. Well, it wasn't. After Ron tried using the plunger and that didn't work, I poured the half bottle of Drano that I had down the drain, and I put water on the stove to pour down the drain to flush after the time required (you're supposed to flush with hot water, but the water's never hot when you first turn on the spigot!), so I thought I'd warm it up. Made sense to me at the time, what can I say? Anyway, that didn't work, either. So I kept heating water and pouring that down the drains and it was taking over an hour for it to go down. NOT GOOD.
I told Ron that I'd go get more Drano in the morning, and if it didn't work, then he said that he'd tear into it and see if there is a clog of some sort in the curve of the pipes. So my day started with me having to run uptown to buy Drano. I compensated by buying myself a Reese's Jack O'Lantern to have with my lunch - bad of me, I know, but I don't usually expend so much energy, either.
I come home and pour the Drano down the drains - the whole bottle - and go play on the pute while eating my lunch. It didn't take me long to eat that can of chicken salad, just so I could get to my dessert that was waiting in the fridge, let me tell you!
Seeing that I was supposed to be playing Happy Homemaker today, after lunch I started a load of laundry. I checked on the sink, too, but no go there. Crap! This is not good. Not good at all. I piddle around the house, doing small errands, but I can't do much, because my back is really nagging me. I did stay up all day for the last three days, and that may not have been a good idea. I want so bad for my back to be better, for me to be stronger, and able to do things normally, that I may - just may - be pushing things too much. But I feel like such a slacker! It's not like I'm "doing" stuff, I am just up, but I guess the extra sitting or standing is, in and of itself, too much. Phooey.
After playing on the pute for a bit, I got up and tried to do my exercises after checking on the sink. Still no go on the sink - except for my heart sinking - and I set the timer for my marching in place. I only make it through one minute, then I have to quit. I have to. I felt as though my legs would not hold me up any longer, and my back felt like one big twist. Ugh!
I go and lay down, and I fell asleep. Josh woke me up when he came in to give me my winnings. Yes! I won the football pool! WhooHoo! <happy dance>
Before he leaves, I ask him if he will do me a favor, and remove the pans from under the sink, so I don't have to crawl on my hands and knees to do so. He takes it further than that - he starts taking apart the pipes under the sink after removing the pans! How about that?! Ron comes in as he is working under the sink, and they both dig in doing whatever men do in these situations.
They decide, finally, that they have done all they can tonight, unless they talk on the phone and decide for Josh to come back, and Josh leaves. He comes back in about 5 minutes, saying the wonderful phrase "Change of Plans!" His family is bringing supper up here, instead of him driving all the way back, so they can keep on working. Wow!
I leave to go weigh in at TOPS, but I'm not going to stay for the meeting, since this is all going on. I'd like to know what's going on in my kitchen! At my weigh-in, I am pleased to find out that I lost a little over a pound - 1.2 to be exact - and this is such good news! Even though I didn't start my 'new plan' exactly as I wanted to, it seems to be helping me get off this plateau - this mesa - and that's what it was supposed to do. I guess I will stick with it!
I come home, and they are all just getting here, and we all have a very nice supper together. They had made a tuna noodle casserole, and I had put out biscuits for them to make when they got here (I don't know what took them so long - I guess just getting stuff together) and everything was nice and hot and very, very good. So I ended up with a carb night, even though that's what I'm trying to avoid. I guess it's not going to hurt every now and then.
Ron and Josh worked on the pipes both before and after eating supper, and did everything they could, but as of now, we have no kitchen sink, and they have discovered that we have had a leak under the house for quite some time, it looks like. Wonderful. Ron wanted to turn the water off, but I convinced him that leaving the water on, even with this "new" leak (just because we know about it now doesn't make it new, mister), will be okay. We need water in all the other sinks, tubs, etc. for tonight and tomorrow and until this is fixed, don't we?
My brain hurts. I'm going to bed.
I woke up this morning, as usual, a little past 10, and read a bit before getting up. It was a good thing I did, because that ended up being the last usual thing about the day!
Last night, as I was watching football, Ron discovered that the kitchen sink was backing up. No big deal, I thought, it does that every now and then. I'll run hot water down the drain and it should be fine. Well, it wasn't. After Ron tried using the plunger and that didn't work, I poured the half bottle of Drano that I had down the drain, and I put water on the stove to pour down the drain to flush after the time required (you're supposed to flush with hot water, but the water's never hot when you first turn on the spigot!), so I thought I'd warm it up. Made sense to me at the time, what can I say? Anyway, that didn't work, either. So I kept heating water and pouring that down the drains and it was taking over an hour for it to go down. NOT GOOD.
I told Ron that I'd go get more Drano in the morning, and if it didn't work, then he said that he'd tear into it and see if there is a clog of some sort in the curve of the pipes. So my day started with me having to run uptown to buy Drano. I compensated by buying myself a Reese's Jack O'Lantern to have with my lunch - bad of me, I know, but I don't usually expend so much energy, either.
I come home and pour the Drano down the drains - the whole bottle - and go play on the pute while eating my lunch. It didn't take me long to eat that can of chicken salad, just so I could get to my dessert that was waiting in the fridge, let me tell you!
Seeing that I was supposed to be playing Happy Homemaker today, after lunch I started a load of laundry. I checked on the sink, too, but no go there. Crap! This is not good. Not good at all. I piddle around the house, doing small errands, but I can't do much, because my back is really nagging me. I did stay up all day for the last three days, and that may not have been a good idea. I want so bad for my back to be better, for me to be stronger, and able to do things normally, that I may - just may - be pushing things too much. But I feel like such a slacker! It's not like I'm "doing" stuff, I am just up, but I guess the extra sitting or standing is, in and of itself, too much. Phooey.
After playing on the pute for a bit, I got up and tried to do my exercises after checking on the sink. Still no go on the sink - except for my heart sinking - and I set the timer for my marching in place. I only make it through one minute, then I have to quit. I have to. I felt as though my legs would not hold me up any longer, and my back felt like one big twist. Ugh!
I go and lay down, and I fell asleep. Josh woke me up when he came in to give me my winnings. Yes! I won the football pool! WhooHoo! <happy dance>
Before he leaves, I ask him if he will do me a favor, and remove the pans from under the sink, so I don't have to crawl on my hands and knees to do so. He takes it further than that - he starts taking apart the pipes under the sink after removing the pans! How about that?! Ron comes in as he is working under the sink, and they both dig in doing whatever men do in these situations.
They decide, finally, that they have done all they can tonight, unless they talk on the phone and decide for Josh to come back, and Josh leaves. He comes back in about 5 minutes, saying the wonderful phrase "Change of Plans!" His family is bringing supper up here, instead of him driving all the way back, so they can keep on working. Wow!
I leave to go weigh in at TOPS, but I'm not going to stay for the meeting, since this is all going on. I'd like to know what's going on in my kitchen! At my weigh-in, I am pleased to find out that I lost a little over a pound - 1.2 to be exact - and this is such good news! Even though I didn't start my 'new plan' exactly as I wanted to, it seems to be helping me get off this plateau - this mesa - and that's what it was supposed to do. I guess I will stick with it!
I come home, and they are all just getting here, and we all have a very nice supper together. They had made a tuna noodle casserole, and I had put out biscuits for them to make when they got here (I don't know what took them so long - I guess just getting stuff together) and everything was nice and hot and very, very good. So I ended up with a carb night, even though that's what I'm trying to avoid. I guess it's not going to hurt every now and then.
Ron and Josh worked on the pipes both before and after eating supper, and did everything they could, but as of now, we have no kitchen sink, and they have discovered that we have had a leak under the house for quite some time, it looks like. Wonderful. Ron wanted to turn the water off, but I convinced him that leaving the water on, even with this "new" leak (just because we know about it now doesn't make it new, mister), will be okay. We need water in all the other sinks, tubs, etc. for tonight and tomorrow and until this is fixed, don't we?
My brain hurts. I'm going to bed.
Monday, September 8, 2014
READY for football...and back to the week!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
9/7
I must start off today wishing a very Happy Anniversary to my son and daughter-in-law on this, their 13th anniversary! They got married in '01, so it's very easy to figure out their years: this year minus one!
Nothing much happening today. Getting up to the alarm at 9. Shower, dress, off to church. Out to eat - we went to Country Inn in Georgetown this week, to get the big breakfast that we both like so much.
Home for the big goings-on for the day: FOOTBALL!! Today starts the football season, and I am so ready! I park my big (but smaller) butt in my recliner, and there I stayed for most of the afternoon. During the afternoon games, of which there were only 2, I did get on the pute to help relieve a bit of the boredom that happens when commercials - the same commercials over and over - happen. I'm so glad I don't have that problem during the early games, and as the season goes on, I won't during the late games, either. There are usually 4 late games. I usually don't get on the pute til the night game - the only game on at that time.
I was a happy girl today, my Bengals won and the Patriots lost! WhooHoo! And, I am in the running for the football pool! Yay, me. I just have to win both games Monday night and get the points right. (Yeah, right...)
For my supper, Ron chunked me up 2 of the orange tomatoes that Corgan had given me for Grandparent's Day, and we did have some ice cream and finished off that carton.
Back to the good diet tomorrow!
9/8
I woke up this morning just after 10, and I read a little before getting up. When I got up, I went uptown and picked up the birthday present that Ron bought for me (the one he has no idea what it is, until I show him!), then went down to Walgreens for a prescription, Kroger for his tonic water and bananas, then I stopped at Bob Evans and had some lunch. I wanted their chicken salad, but since it's after Labor Day, they don't have it any more - boo! - so I finally settled on a Sunshine Skillet, with, of course, banana nut bread.
I came back home and just played on the pute for the rest of the afternoon. I figure I can play Happy Homemaker tomorrow, why start now? There's nothing planned for tomorrow - only Wednesday and Thursday - so I can do my bit tomorrow. That's good enough for me!
When Ron gets home, about quarter after 7, he asks me "Why aren't you watching the game?" Oh, hell! I didn't realize it was so late, and I didn't realize the game(s) were on already! Yes, there are TWO Monday Night Football games on tonight, one starting at 7, one at 10 or so. Wow! So, for a change, I am the one who turns on the TV!
We make hamburgers for supper, which we have with a can of pinto beans and chunked tomatoes. No carbs. Trying to do this right...
Not a happy camper right now...I lost the first game. Well, let me re-phrase. The team I said would win, lost. Yikes - I needed victories! I did okay on points, though, so that's good. We'll see how this second game goes...
Monday, September 8, 2014
9/7
I must start off today wishing a very Happy Anniversary to my son and daughter-in-law on this, their 13th anniversary! They got married in '01, so it's very easy to figure out their years: this year minus one!
Nothing much happening today. Getting up to the alarm at 9. Shower, dress, off to church. Out to eat - we went to Country Inn in Georgetown this week, to get the big breakfast that we both like so much.
Home for the big goings-on for the day: FOOTBALL!! Today starts the football season, and I am so ready! I park my big (but smaller) butt in my recliner, and there I stayed for most of the afternoon. During the afternoon games, of which there were only 2, I did get on the pute to help relieve a bit of the boredom that happens when commercials - the same commercials over and over - happen. I'm so glad I don't have that problem during the early games, and as the season goes on, I won't during the late games, either. There are usually 4 late games. I usually don't get on the pute til the night game - the only game on at that time.
I was a happy girl today, my Bengals won and the Patriots lost! WhooHoo! And, I am in the running for the football pool! Yay, me. I just have to win both games Monday night and get the points right. (Yeah, right...)
For my supper, Ron chunked me up 2 of the orange tomatoes that Corgan had given me for Grandparent's Day, and we did have some ice cream and finished off that carton.
Back to the good diet tomorrow!
9/8
I woke up this morning just after 10, and I read a little before getting up. When I got up, I went uptown and picked up the birthday present that Ron bought for me (the one he has no idea what it is, until I show him!), then went down to Walgreens for a prescription, Kroger for his tonic water and bananas, then I stopped at Bob Evans and had some lunch. I wanted their chicken salad, but since it's after Labor Day, they don't have it any more - boo! - so I finally settled on a Sunshine Skillet, with, of course, banana nut bread.
I came back home and just played on the pute for the rest of the afternoon. I figure I can play Happy Homemaker tomorrow, why start now? There's nothing planned for tomorrow - only Wednesday and Thursday - so I can do my bit tomorrow. That's good enough for me!
When Ron gets home, about quarter after 7, he asks me "Why aren't you watching the game?" Oh, hell! I didn't realize it was so late, and I didn't realize the game(s) were on already! Yes, there are TWO Monday Night Football games on tonight, one starting at 7, one at 10 or so. Wow! So, for a change, I am the one who turns on the TV!
We make hamburgers for supper, which we have with a can of pinto beans and chunked tomatoes. No carbs. Trying to do this right...
Not a happy camper right now...I lost the first game. Well, let me re-phrase. The team I said would win, lost. Yikes - I needed victories! I did okay on points, though, so that's good. We'll see how this second game goes...
Saturday, September 6, 2014
A trip down the road that was MEANT TO BE...
Saturday, September 6, 2014
Saturday. Nothing planned today but my weigh-in, paying some bills, and then piddling around here at home. Ha! I woke up around 10:30, read a little bit, then got up and did my weigh-in. Good news! According to my Wii, I have lost a little over a pound and a half! Yay!
My 'new' plan is going in good effect next week (since I went grocery shopping yesterday), but I think my closer watching of what I'm eating is starting to work! I do miss the accountability of MFP, and I may go back to it and just lower my calorie count. On the days I go over, I just won't fret over it - it happens! I'll stick with this unless I start having sugar lows, then I would definitely have to re-think it! But, right now, all is going okay.
After my weigh-in, I started in on the bill paying. Such fun, you know. I check my bank on the pute first, then go from there. I have a couple of checks written when Ron and Corgan come in, frantic - or as frantic as then get - because a belt has broken on the lawnmower (the Zero Turn) and he thinks Clermont Equipment closes at noon, and what are we going to do? It's quarter after! I tell him to find the business card, call them, and find out for sure what time they close. Noon? On a Saturday? Really? The card, which hangs on the bulletin board in the kitchen isn't hard to find, and he calls and finds out that they close at 1.
Ron and I try to figure out whether or not he wants to go (gotta put stuff away outside, I'm not dressed, etc., etc.) and I told him that IF he could get on the road by 12:30, we would make it, and he finally says, "OK - let's go" by 20 after, and he gets back outside to get stuff out there ready to go and close down the garage doors with Corgan's help, and I went to get myself out of my housedress and into some real clothes. Five minutes later, we were pulling out of the driveway!
This trip down the road was AMAZING!! Just amazing. First of all, we didn't hit very many red lights, which is a small miracle in itself, and then the real miracles started. Clermont Equipment is down 125, just past the theatres and Kimba bank but before 8 Mile Road - in other words, between traffic lights. Headed that way, it's a left turn into their parking lot. I was a bit worried that we would be too late because of that left turn. Well, when we got there, at 10 til 1, the light at 8 Mile was red, and we were able to turn in with no problem whatsoever! Whew!
Ron and Corgan go in, but come out empty-handed. They had no belts there at that store. They had them at the Milford store, but they're closing in 5 minutes, so...bummer.
We sat there in the car and talked about going to lunch, since we were down the road, and Ron said, "Why don't we go to Hibachi?" and I said, "OK, if I can turn left out of here." I pulled up to the edge of the parking lot, to 125, and there was not a single car on 125. Across all 5 lanes, including the turn lane in the center!!! Not a single one. Either way. Red lights both ways, and cars sitting at both of them. I was flabbergasted! I laughed and told Ron that it was meant to be for us to go to Hibachi!
We got down to Hibachi, which is close to 275, and guess what? Not a single car coming again, and we make that left turn with no problem. It was totally amazing - I told Ron, once again, that it must be meant to be that we come here for lunch today, because it was amazing how easy it was for us to get here. We went in and enjoyed our lunch (as always), then headed back toward home.
We had one more stop to make - I wanted to pay the electric bill at the dry cleaners, but we couldn't stop on the way down the road because of the time restraint - then a stop at WalMart to see if maybe, just maybe, they had the belt. Sometimes they have stuff like that. Never hurts to check.
Once more, amazingly, when we had to make a left turn, there was a super gap in the traffic and we got right in! I tell you, my head was blowing up a little bit (okay, a lot!) by now. I do the errand and we go to leave. There is ONE car, then nothing. Boom. Easy left turn, and back on the road. Talk about things meant to be.......
We stop at WalMart, and - again, unheard of on a Saturday - I find a parking spot only a few spots from the front! We go in, Ron and Corgan head for the Garden (where lawnmower crap is), and I head elsewhere. We meet back up, and Ron hands me Bengals stuff! "Do you have this?" "NO WAY!" It's back in the Garden! Why in the hell are they hiding Bengals stuff back in the Garden? No wonder I can't find it, and I've been looking! So I go back there and look through it and pick me out a couple of things (just stickers, calm down) and we check out and come home.
Ron was teasing Corgan on the way home about taking a nap when we get home, and Corgan, as most 9-year-olds do, thought his grandpa was nuts - "sleep in the car, Grandpa!" When we got home, Ron went out and mowed (he does have more than one mower, and then he has pushmowers) and weed-eated, I finished paying the bills, then played on the pute, and Corgan sat in my recliner - and fell asleep and took a nap! When he woke up, I laughed at him, and he just said, "yeah, well...."
Around 5, I went out and started supper. I peeled potatoes, cooked bacon, and put it all together as needed to make the dish for supper. It was a 9x13 pan with sliced potatoes on the bottom, with half of a soup mix (I used a can of cream of chicken, a can of cream of mushroom, and milk) over, or with, them. Cover this with foil and bake for 1/2 hour. In the meantime, sear the chicken breasts in the bacon grease, and when the 1/2 is done, put the chicken breasts in on top of the potatoes, putting the rest of the soup mix over them - not that it stays. Put foil back over and bake for another 1/2 hour. At the end of that 1/2 hour, remove the foil, top the breasts with shredded cheddar and the bacon bits and put back in the oven until the cheese melts. Voila!
Jean came in while supper was cooking, as was planned, and when it was done, we all ate supper, then sat at the table talking.
Then we decided to go outside and sit around the fire pit. Oh, what a beautiful night for a fire! We had a wonderful time sitting around the fire and talking. We didn't roast marshmallows or anything, just sat and talked. But it was all we needed tonight, and it was great!
Today was such a lovely, restful, happy day, even with a bit of rushing in it. Even with that, it all fell together so well, it was all meant to be! It had to be.
And we are so grateful.
Saturday. Nothing planned today but my weigh-in, paying some bills, and then piddling around here at home. Ha! I woke up around 10:30, read a little bit, then got up and did my weigh-in. Good news! According to my Wii, I have lost a little over a pound and a half! Yay!
My 'new' plan is going in good effect next week (since I went grocery shopping yesterday), but I think my closer watching of what I'm eating is starting to work! I do miss the accountability of MFP, and I may go back to it and just lower my calorie count. On the days I go over, I just won't fret over it - it happens! I'll stick with this unless I start having sugar lows, then I would definitely have to re-think it! But, right now, all is going okay.
After my weigh-in, I started in on the bill paying. Such fun, you know. I check my bank on the pute first, then go from there. I have a couple of checks written when Ron and Corgan come in, frantic - or as frantic as then get - because a belt has broken on the lawnmower (the Zero Turn) and he thinks Clermont Equipment closes at noon, and what are we going to do? It's quarter after! I tell him to find the business card, call them, and find out for sure what time they close. Noon? On a Saturday? Really? The card, which hangs on the bulletin board in the kitchen isn't hard to find, and he calls and finds out that they close at 1.
Ron and I try to figure out whether or not he wants to go (gotta put stuff away outside, I'm not dressed, etc., etc.) and I told him that IF he could get on the road by 12:30, we would make it, and he finally says, "OK - let's go" by 20 after, and he gets back outside to get stuff out there ready to go and close down the garage doors with Corgan's help, and I went to get myself out of my housedress and into some real clothes. Five minutes later, we were pulling out of the driveway!
This trip down the road was AMAZING!! Just amazing. First of all, we didn't hit very many red lights, which is a small miracle in itself, and then the real miracles started. Clermont Equipment is down 125, just past the theatres and Kimba bank but before 8 Mile Road - in other words, between traffic lights. Headed that way, it's a left turn into their parking lot. I was a bit worried that we would be too late because of that left turn. Well, when we got there, at 10 til 1, the light at 8 Mile was red, and we were able to turn in with no problem whatsoever! Whew!
Ron and Corgan go in, but come out empty-handed. They had no belts there at that store. They had them at the Milford store, but they're closing in 5 minutes, so...bummer.
We sat there in the car and talked about going to lunch, since we were down the road, and Ron said, "Why don't we go to Hibachi?" and I said, "OK, if I can turn left out of here." I pulled up to the edge of the parking lot, to 125, and there was not a single car on 125. Across all 5 lanes, including the turn lane in the center!!! Not a single one. Either way. Red lights both ways, and cars sitting at both of them. I was flabbergasted! I laughed and told Ron that it was meant to be for us to go to Hibachi!
We got down to Hibachi, which is close to 275, and guess what? Not a single car coming again, and we make that left turn with no problem. It was totally amazing - I told Ron, once again, that it must be meant to be that we come here for lunch today, because it was amazing how easy it was for us to get here. We went in and enjoyed our lunch (as always), then headed back toward home.
We had one more stop to make - I wanted to pay the electric bill at the dry cleaners, but we couldn't stop on the way down the road because of the time restraint - then a stop at WalMart to see if maybe, just maybe, they had the belt. Sometimes they have stuff like that. Never hurts to check.
Once more, amazingly, when we had to make a left turn, there was a super gap in the traffic and we got right in! I tell you, my head was blowing up a little bit (okay, a lot!) by now. I do the errand and we go to leave. There is ONE car, then nothing. Boom. Easy left turn, and back on the road. Talk about things meant to be.......
We stop at WalMart, and - again, unheard of on a Saturday - I find a parking spot only a few spots from the front! We go in, Ron and Corgan head for the Garden (where lawnmower crap is), and I head elsewhere. We meet back up, and Ron hands me Bengals stuff! "Do you have this?" "NO WAY!" It's back in the Garden! Why in the hell are they hiding Bengals stuff back in the Garden? No wonder I can't find it, and I've been looking! So I go back there and look through it and pick me out a couple of things (just stickers, calm down) and we check out and come home.
Ron was teasing Corgan on the way home about taking a nap when we get home, and Corgan, as most 9-year-olds do, thought his grandpa was nuts - "sleep in the car, Grandpa!" When we got home, Ron went out and mowed (he does have more than one mower, and then he has pushmowers) and weed-eated, I finished paying the bills, then played on the pute, and Corgan sat in my recliner - and fell asleep and took a nap! When he woke up, I laughed at him, and he just said, "yeah, well...."
Around 5, I went out and started supper. I peeled potatoes, cooked bacon, and put it all together as needed to make the dish for supper. It was a 9x13 pan with sliced potatoes on the bottom, with half of a soup mix (I used a can of cream of chicken, a can of cream of mushroom, and milk) over, or with, them. Cover this with foil and bake for 1/2 hour. In the meantime, sear the chicken breasts in the bacon grease, and when the 1/2 is done, put the chicken breasts in on top of the potatoes, putting the rest of the soup mix over them - not that it stays. Put foil back over and bake for another 1/2 hour. At the end of that 1/2 hour, remove the foil, top the breasts with shredded cheddar and the bacon bits and put back in the oven until the cheese melts. Voila!
Jean came in while supper was cooking, as was planned, and when it was done, we all ate supper, then sat at the table talking.
Then we decided to go outside and sit around the fire pit. Oh, what a beautiful night for a fire! We had a wonderful time sitting around the fire and talking. We didn't roast marshmallows or anything, just sat and talked. But it was all we needed tonight, and it was great!
Today was such a lovely, restful, happy day, even with a bit of rushing in it. Even with that, it all fell together so well, it was all meant to be! It had to be.
And we are so grateful.
Friday, September 5, 2014
My big day out
Friday, September 5, 2014
I woke up this morning around 9:30, and laid in bed reading until around 11. Since I was leaving to meet a friend uptown at noon, I played around a bit on the pute until time to get ready to leave. I probably should have gotten dressed first, but you know me -- do things back asswards!
As I was leaving, Rosie texted me to find out where I was, because, of course, now I'm running late. Not seriously late, just a few minutes, but my normal late. Geez...
We had a wonderful lunch! Just sat up at Frisch's and talked and talked. She has had so much go on in her life, and I had no idea! We laughed, we cried, and we caught up. We finally left close to 3, her to do something with her granddaughter, and me to go do my shopping.
I had had a pork tenderloin sandwich and a bowl of veggie soup for my lunch, with 2 packs of crackers crushed in it (why do they have to give you sooooo much broth??? ugh!), and that gave me enough energy to do my WalMart Walk - and then some! I really can't believe how much I used to eat, compared to what I eat now. It's amazing. I never would have believed it if anyone would have tried to tell me back in those days.
I did my shopping, making myself walk halfway decently up and down the aisles, not just meander, and I walked the whole store, too. Not just the groceries and over to HBA, but also back to the clearance stuff, and up and down those aisles, too! I think I had a very good walk! I think I felt that I had to walk off those stupid crackers (you know, the ones that I didn't expect to have to eat...) that made my soup palatable.
I got home, got all the groceries carried in, except for a flat of cans (it about killed me to lift them up to be rung up, then into the car - twelve cans are pretty heavy, at least to me right now!) So, I left them for someone else to carry in for me, and when Josh's family got here, my sister Jean carried them in for me. Sweet! I thought I'd have to wait until Ron got home! So, the groceries were in and I got them put away, too.
Jean was having a problem with the camera on her phone, and I called Verizon to try to get that taken care of for her, but it ended up being something inside the phone itself, and it didn't get fixed. Phooey!
After they left, Corgan and I played cards (31) in on my bed (my back needed to rest) until Ron got home, then they came out and played on the Wii, until I got up to make supper. I found out that Corgan had already zapped himself some chicken noodle soup, and wasn't hungry, and Ron was looking forward to having a bologna sandwich, so I only had to find myself some supper. Well! I can do that! I opened a can of tuna - a small one, that's all we have - added pickle relish, chopped onions, and Miracle Whip, and voila! There's my supper. I ate the tuna just like that and had 2 string cheese to go along with it. Potato chips would have tasted MUCH better, but...
Ron, Corgan, and I played cards (Tripoley) for about an hour, then it's TV time, and Corgan has found his 'Most Stupid' shows tonight. I think it's time for me to go to bed!
We'll have Corgan and Jean for supper tomorrow, since Josh and Chelle are going to run away for their anniversary weekend. They can't do too much, since they just got a car, but they will celebrate their 13th together, just the two of them, the way it should be.
I'm looking forward to a nice lazy Saturday, and I'm hoping for a good weigh-in in the morning!
I woke up this morning around 9:30, and laid in bed reading until around 11. Since I was leaving to meet a friend uptown at noon, I played around a bit on the pute until time to get ready to leave. I probably should have gotten dressed first, but you know me -- do things back asswards!
As I was leaving, Rosie texted me to find out where I was, because, of course, now I'm running late. Not seriously late, just a few minutes, but my normal late. Geez...
We had a wonderful lunch! Just sat up at Frisch's and talked and talked. She has had so much go on in her life, and I had no idea! We laughed, we cried, and we caught up. We finally left close to 3, her to do something with her granddaughter, and me to go do my shopping.
I had had a pork tenderloin sandwich and a bowl of veggie soup for my lunch, with 2 packs of crackers crushed in it (why do they have to give you sooooo much broth??? ugh!), and that gave me enough energy to do my WalMart Walk - and then some! I really can't believe how much I used to eat, compared to what I eat now. It's amazing. I never would have believed it if anyone would have tried to tell me back in those days.
I did my shopping, making myself walk halfway decently up and down the aisles, not just meander, and I walked the whole store, too. Not just the groceries and over to HBA, but also back to the clearance stuff, and up and down those aisles, too! I think I had a very good walk! I think I felt that I had to walk off those stupid crackers (you know, the ones that I didn't expect to have to eat...) that made my soup palatable.
I got home, got all the groceries carried in, except for a flat of cans (it about killed me to lift them up to be rung up, then into the car - twelve cans are pretty heavy, at least to me right now!) So, I left them for someone else to carry in for me, and when Josh's family got here, my sister Jean carried them in for me. Sweet! I thought I'd have to wait until Ron got home! So, the groceries were in and I got them put away, too.
Jean was having a problem with the camera on her phone, and I called Verizon to try to get that taken care of for her, but it ended up being something inside the phone itself, and it didn't get fixed. Phooey!
After they left, Corgan and I played cards (31) in on my bed (my back needed to rest) until Ron got home, then they came out and played on the Wii, until I got up to make supper. I found out that Corgan had already zapped himself some chicken noodle soup, and wasn't hungry, and Ron was looking forward to having a bologna sandwich, so I only had to find myself some supper. Well! I can do that! I opened a can of tuna - a small one, that's all we have - added pickle relish, chopped onions, and Miracle Whip, and voila! There's my supper. I ate the tuna just like that and had 2 string cheese to go along with it. Potato chips would have tasted MUCH better, but...
Ron, Corgan, and I played cards (Tripoley) for about an hour, then it's TV time, and Corgan has found his 'Most Stupid' shows tonight. I think it's time for me to go to bed!
We'll have Corgan and Jean for supper tomorrow, since Josh and Chelle are going to run away for their anniversary weekend. They can't do too much, since they just got a car, but they will celebrate their 13th together, just the two of them, the way it should be.
I'm looking forward to a nice lazy Saturday, and I'm hoping for a good weigh-in in the morning!
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Good news!! And...are you ready for some football?
Thursday, September 4, 2014
I fell May 4th. If you go by the number on the calendar, it's been 4 months. Seems like a lot longer than that. (If you go by weeks, Sunday will be 18 weeks)
I woke this morning to the alarm going off. 9am. Ugh. I did hit snooze a couple of times, but then got up, got my shower, dried, lotioned, and dressed, and hit the road. I left 10 minutes earlier than I had planned, because Ron told me that there were traffic problems in Eastgate and I wanted to make sure I made it to the orthopedic doctor on time. Dammit, I want answers to my questions!
I was bad (to a degree) - I drove thru Dunkin Donuts to get an iced tea, and succumbed to the scent of the donuts. I got myself a filled and a glazed donut, and ate the filled donut on the way. Bad Rita!
I was very pleased with the office visit. The PA answered all my questions, and didn't act like I was bothering her. She did keep referring back to 'the second steroid shot' if there continued to be flare-ups or if I didn't improve further (to my satisfaction). She also, now - finally - recommended that I start Physical Therapy and build my core muscles. Well, okay, but why wait until now? Why was this not mentioned before, when Dr. Stupido said the fracture was healed and basically released me? Why did they wait until I came back to them with a notebook page and a half full of questions about my recovery and/or continuing care?
I have been doing exercises at home, and most of them are core building exercises, because that's all I can do right now - stretching-type exercises - not walking or the Wii or anything strenuous. I'm so confused about all this, but I suppose I'll go to PT at least once to see what they say, and then see if I can just do then at home, just as I have been doing. I do have the most trouble - or 'problem' - bending over, especially picking something up from all the way to the floor. I can do it, it just doesn't feel so good. The grabby (also known as The Grabby of Doom around here) sure has come in handy!
The best thing, though? I can stop wearing the brace, unless I feel that I need it for stabilization for whatever reason. I can stop wearing the brace!! Music to my ears!! I will probably still use the walking stick for now, but, oh, was I so glad to hear those words! I truly feel as though I am making steps in the right direction now! Not that I didn't before, but what a boost!
When I left the doctor's office, I treated myself to lunch at Longhorn. They have (in my opinion) just about the most perfect salad in the world, and I haven't had one in forever. It's the Chicken Strawberry Salad, and it's got strawberries, mandarin oranges, grapes, feta cheese, and red onions on a bed of mixed greens and topped with grilled chicken. It's supposed to have a raspberry vinaigrette, but I don't get that - I get ranch on the side and dip my fork into it with most every bite. It is super delicious!! I really enjoyed it!
I stopped at my friend Teresa's on my way home and we had a nice visit. I only stayed a half hour or so, but I haven't seen her in a while, so it was good to actually see her! We made tentative plans for next week.
Home. I called the insurance to make sure what, exactly, is covered when it comes to PT, then I played on the pute for a little, eating the glazed donut, then went and laid down to read (and rest my back) and ended up falling asleep! Ron came home while I was sleeping, but he didn't wake me up. Crazy man! I woke up about ~oh, 45 minutes, an hour later, and I guess he heard me, walked into the bedroom and scared me! We talked a little bit, then I got up, ran uptown to make the deposit, and came back to figure out supper. We ended up making cheese weenies and Ron sliced/chunked up tomatoes for us to go with them.
So, I'm thinking I ate pretty good today. I did have the donuts, but I just had the salad for lunch - well, okay, there was a half-loaf, or 3 (2-1/2) slices, of their bread. I did forget about that until now. And 3 cheese weenies and tomatoes for supper. Lots and lots of fruits and veggies! Much more than most days, that's for sure, and that's a good thing.
Now -- ARE YOU READY? -- football is on!! The new season is here! Yay! Yay! Yay!
My day has been, and is, a happy one.
I fell May 4th. If you go by the number on the calendar, it's been 4 months. Seems like a lot longer than that. (If you go by weeks, Sunday will be 18 weeks)
I woke this morning to the alarm going off. 9am. Ugh. I did hit snooze a couple of times, but then got up, got my shower, dried, lotioned, and dressed, and hit the road. I left 10 minutes earlier than I had planned, because Ron told me that there were traffic problems in Eastgate and I wanted to make sure I made it to the orthopedic doctor on time. Dammit, I want answers to my questions!
I was bad (to a degree) - I drove thru Dunkin Donuts to get an iced tea, and succumbed to the scent of the donuts. I got myself a filled and a glazed donut, and ate the filled donut on the way. Bad Rita!
I was very pleased with the office visit. The PA answered all my questions, and didn't act like I was bothering her. She did keep referring back to 'the second steroid shot' if there continued to be flare-ups or if I didn't improve further (to my satisfaction). She also, now - finally - recommended that I start Physical Therapy and build my core muscles. Well, okay, but why wait until now? Why was this not mentioned before, when Dr. Stupido said the fracture was healed and basically released me? Why did they wait until I came back to them with a notebook page and a half full of questions about my recovery and/or continuing care?
I have been doing exercises at home, and most of them are core building exercises, because that's all I can do right now - stretching-type exercises - not walking or the Wii or anything strenuous. I'm so confused about all this, but I suppose I'll go to PT at least once to see what they say, and then see if I can just do then at home, just as I have been doing. I do have the most trouble - or 'problem' - bending over, especially picking something up from all the way to the floor. I can do it, it just doesn't feel so good. The grabby (also known as The Grabby of Doom around here) sure has come in handy!
The best thing, though? I can stop wearing the brace, unless I feel that I need it for stabilization for whatever reason. I can stop wearing the brace!! Music to my ears!! I will probably still use the walking stick for now, but, oh, was I so glad to hear those words! I truly feel as though I am making steps in the right direction now! Not that I didn't before, but what a boost!
When I left the doctor's office, I treated myself to lunch at Longhorn. They have (in my opinion) just about the most perfect salad in the world, and I haven't had one in forever. It's the Chicken Strawberry Salad, and it's got strawberries, mandarin oranges, grapes, feta cheese, and red onions on a bed of mixed greens and topped with grilled chicken. It's supposed to have a raspberry vinaigrette, but I don't get that - I get ranch on the side and dip my fork into it with most every bite. It is super delicious!! I really enjoyed it!
I stopped at my friend Teresa's on my way home and we had a nice visit. I only stayed a half hour or so, but I haven't seen her in a while, so it was good to actually see her! We made tentative plans for next week.
Home. I called the insurance to make sure what, exactly, is covered when it comes to PT, then I played on the pute for a little, eating the glazed donut, then went and laid down to read (and rest my back) and ended up falling asleep! Ron came home while I was sleeping, but he didn't wake me up. Crazy man! I woke up about ~oh, 45 minutes, an hour later, and I guess he heard me, walked into the bedroom and scared me! We talked a little bit, then I got up, ran uptown to make the deposit, and came back to figure out supper. We ended up making cheese weenies and Ron sliced/chunked up tomatoes for us to go with them.
So, I'm thinking I ate pretty good today. I did have the donuts, but I just had the salad for lunch - well, okay, there was a half-loaf, or 3 (2-1/2) slices, of their bread. I did forget about that until now. And 3 cheese weenies and tomatoes for supper. Lots and lots of fruits and veggies! Much more than most days, that's for sure, and that's a good thing.
Now -- ARE YOU READY? -- football is on!! The new season is here! Yay! Yay! Yay!
My day has been, and is, a happy one.
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Accomplishment! Feeling good about myself today!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Today started off as most days do, with me waking up, laying there reading a bit, then getting up and piddling around the house a bit. I put away the dishes that I had done yesterday, and played on the pute for a while.
I had my lunch - a can of chicken salad (or what was left of it after I dropped it on the floor) and some sunflower seeds - then got back up, and did pute time again.
I laid back down, then got back up and did my exercises, adding a new exercise to my repertoire - wall pushups. This is when, instead of laying on the floor to do pushups, you do them against a wall. I'm not too sure about these yet. I don't have a lot of strength in my upper arms, but I did better than I thought I was going to. I only did 5 of these pushups, so I'll have to build up to the 15 reps that I'm doing of everything else. But, I figured that I could at least try, and I did!
Ron didn't get home until after 6, and we didn't have time to eat supper, because I had an Altar Society meeting to go to. I did sit with him in the living room until time to go. I was sitting in my recliner, and when it was time to go, I just pushed, and VOILA, I was able, for the first time since my fall, to push down the footrest of my recliner and get up without bothering him to rescue me! WhooHoo! What a step in the right direction! I even put the footrest back up and did it again, just to make sure I could really, really do it! Oh, yeah! Did that feel good inside - to know that I could finally do that! That one thing has made me feel kinda useless, and now I can do it! Yay!
I went to my meeting, and I guess my little speech at church last weekend did a little bit of good, because there were more women there tonight. I thought there might be this week/this month, next month and in the future will be the test. We had a good meeting, and we have some good things coming up in the future. I got back home about quarter after 9, and I made myself my version of shit-on-a-shingle for supper, even though I'm trying to cut carbs way - WAY - back, but it's really late, and I really need to eat something soon. My new plan is coming along, it just keeps hitting obstacles. After I eat, I play on the pute some more, then sit in my recliner and watch some TV, then I lower the footrest myself - teehee! pat myself on the back! do a couple of cartwheels! - and come back to the pute to close out the night.
I had an ice cream, and I am hoping that having my supper (and my dessert/snack) so late that it will stave off a sugar low. Even though I am not doing MFP this month, I am pretty sure that I'm very, very low on calories today. We shall see.
Orthopedic dr. appointment tomorrow morning. I have a whole notebook page full of questions. I'll see the PA, not Dr. Stupido, so maybe I'll actually get some answers!
Today started off as most days do, with me waking up, laying there reading a bit, then getting up and piddling around the house a bit. I put away the dishes that I had done yesterday, and played on the pute for a while.
I had my lunch - a can of chicken salad (or what was left of it after I dropped it on the floor) and some sunflower seeds - then got back up, and did pute time again.
I laid back down, then got back up and did my exercises, adding a new exercise to my repertoire - wall pushups. This is when, instead of laying on the floor to do pushups, you do them against a wall. I'm not too sure about these yet. I don't have a lot of strength in my upper arms, but I did better than I thought I was going to. I only did 5 of these pushups, so I'll have to build up to the 15 reps that I'm doing of everything else. But, I figured that I could at least try, and I did!
Ron didn't get home until after 6, and we didn't have time to eat supper, because I had an Altar Society meeting to go to. I did sit with him in the living room until time to go. I was sitting in my recliner, and when it was time to go, I just pushed, and VOILA, I was able, for the first time since my fall, to push down the footrest of my recliner and get up without bothering him to rescue me! WhooHoo! What a step in the right direction! I even put the footrest back up and did it again, just to make sure I could really, really do it! Oh, yeah! Did that feel good inside - to know that I could finally do that! That one thing has made me feel kinda useless, and now I can do it! Yay!
I went to my meeting, and I guess my little speech at church last weekend did a little bit of good, because there were more women there tonight. I thought there might be this week/this month, next month and in the future will be the test. We had a good meeting, and we have some good things coming up in the future. I got back home about quarter after 9, and I made myself my version of shit-on-a-shingle for supper, even though I'm trying to cut carbs way - WAY - back, but it's really late, and I really need to eat something soon. My new plan is coming along, it just keeps hitting obstacles. After I eat, I play on the pute some more, then sit in my recliner and watch some TV, then I lower the footrest myself - teehee! pat myself on the back! do a couple of cartwheels! - and come back to the pute to close out the night.
I had an ice cream, and I am hoping that having my supper (and my dessert/snack) so late that it will stave off a sugar low. Even though I am not doing MFP this month, I am pretty sure that I'm very, very low on calories today. We shall see.
Orthopedic dr. appointment tomorrow morning. I have a whole notebook page full of questions. I'll see the PA, not Dr. Stupido, so maybe I'll actually get some answers!
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Back to normal........blah
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
I slept in a bit this morning, not getting up until a little after 11. But, then, not surprisingly, it was like a Monday, and I got into a Happy Homemaker mode and got the dishes done and things like that, just piddling around the house. I did have to run uptown, so I didn't get to do my exercises this afternoon, but I'll get back into that tomorrow.
Ron got home kinda early, not long after 5, which was good, because he's still not feeling very good. His throat is still very sore. He's starting to think he scratched it, that it's not just a sore throat, but who knows? I just don't know. He can usually just beat something like this so quickly, this really is strange.
I leave to go to my TOPS meeting, where I weigh in, and - what a wonderful surprise! - I have lost 1.6 pounds this week! I am so happy about that - I was sure I had gained, especially after my don't-give-a-damn-about-calories-day yesterday - and it was such a relief to find out that I had not.
When I got home, I zapped our leftovers from yesterday for our supper, and that was that. Lots of meat (ribs, sausages, brats), baked beans, and corn pudding, with some ice cream for dessert.
I didn't put the food in MFP. I think I will skip MFP this month, giving my new plan a try, although it hasn't really gotten a good start yet, not with leftovers, although having the a lot more meat and the baked beans is a good part of this new plan. The ice cream was not - it was a treat, and I've got to stop that - but it's very early in the month.
I slept in a bit this morning, not getting up until a little after 11. But, then, not surprisingly, it was like a Monday, and I got into a Happy Homemaker mode and got the dishes done and things like that, just piddling around the house. I did have to run uptown, so I didn't get to do my exercises this afternoon, but I'll get back into that tomorrow.
Ron got home kinda early, not long after 5, which was good, because he's still not feeling very good. His throat is still very sore. He's starting to think he scratched it, that it's not just a sore throat, but who knows? I just don't know. He can usually just beat something like this so quickly, this really is strange.
I leave to go to my TOPS meeting, where I weigh in, and - what a wonderful surprise! - I have lost 1.6 pounds this week! I am so happy about that - I was sure I had gained, especially after my don't-give-a-damn-about-calories-day yesterday - and it was such a relief to find out that I had not.
When I got home, I zapped our leftovers from yesterday for our supper, and that was that. Lots of meat (ribs, sausages, brats), baked beans, and corn pudding, with some ice cream for dessert.
I didn't put the food in MFP. I think I will skip MFP this month, giving my new plan a try, although it hasn't really gotten a good start yet, not with leftovers, although having the a lot more meat and the baked beans is a good part of this new plan. The ice cream was not - it was a treat, and I've got to stop that - but it's very early in the month.
Monday, September 1, 2014
Happy Labor Day! I labored, then I played!
Monday, September 1, 2014
Labor Day
First off, I must tell you that I lied to you yesterday. I said that I was starting a new diet plan today, but that's wrong - today is a "to hell with calories day" and the new plan starts tomorrow, so I should have said 'day after tomorrow' in yesterday's blog. But, with today being the holiday - with its attendant cookouts, BBQs, get-togethers, whatever you want to call them - I'm not counting calories today! It's a big ol' cheat day and then some...
I get up this morning at 10 and make up another batch of individual apple pies, finishing up the apples that were done yesterday. I had plenty of pie 'guts' but hadn't cut enough dough circles to use it all up, and I did that first, because it uses the oven the hottest. When they were done, I made the baked beans I was making to take with us as our donation to dinner, complete with bacon on top. Oh, they made the house smell so good!
Ron texted that he was coming home 25 minutes before we were supposed to be there, so I waited for him to get home, shower and change and we went together.
The rest of the day was spent at our friends' house, where we enjoyed the ribs, sausages, brats, all the side dishes everyone made and brought. After we had all eaten, we played dominoes the rest of the afternoon and evening. We left for home at nine, because Ron was pretty tired by then, and my back was letting me know it wasn't happy with me, either.
I wasn't counting calories today, so I didn't enter anything in MFP. Tomorrow starts the new plan, and I'm pretty sure MFP is going to be hollering at me every day. I'll give it a week, then may have to give MFP a miss for this month. We'll see how that goes, and, also, how I feel.
I was pretty proud of myself, though - two whole days of being up and not laying back down to rest my back during the day! Not one time! My back doesn't appreciate it as much as my brain does, though. I don't know what I have to do to make my back appreciate it...
Labor Day
First off, I must tell you that I lied to you yesterday. I said that I was starting a new diet plan today, but that's wrong - today is a "to hell with calories day" and the new plan starts tomorrow, so I should have said 'day after tomorrow' in yesterday's blog. But, with today being the holiday - with its attendant cookouts, BBQs, get-togethers, whatever you want to call them - I'm not counting calories today! It's a big ol' cheat day and then some...
I get up this morning at 10 and make up another batch of individual apple pies, finishing up the apples that were done yesterday. I had plenty of pie 'guts' but hadn't cut enough dough circles to use it all up, and I did that first, because it uses the oven the hottest. When they were done, I made the baked beans I was making to take with us as our donation to dinner, complete with bacon on top. Oh, they made the house smell so good!
Ron texted that he was coming home 25 minutes before we were supposed to be there, so I waited for him to get home, shower and change and we went together.
The rest of the day was spent at our friends' house, where we enjoyed the ribs, sausages, brats, all the side dishes everyone made and brought. After we had all eaten, we played dominoes the rest of the afternoon and evening. We left for home at nine, because Ron was pretty tired by then, and my back was letting me know it wasn't happy with me, either.
I wasn't counting calories today, so I didn't enter anything in MFP. Tomorrow starts the new plan, and I'm pretty sure MFP is going to be hollering at me every day. I'll give it a week, then may have to give MFP a miss for this month. We'll see how that goes, and, also, how I feel.
I was pretty proud of myself, though - two whole days of being up and not laying back down to rest my back during the day! Not one time! My back doesn't appreciate it as much as my brain does, though. I don't know what I have to do to make my back appreciate it...
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