Monday, December 22, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
12/22
Cookie Decorating Day!
I apologize for lying to you yesterday. When I was writing yesterday's blog, I forgot that today was Cookie Decorating Day, but it is! Sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies, and Rice Krispie trees - oh, what fun it's gonna be!
I ate lunch - a can of my chicken salad - before going down to Ripley to decorate cookies with Chelle, Jean, and Corgan. I took all my colors (pastes), and Chelle made icing with powdered sugar and we had bowl after bowl after bowl of icing all over the table. She had her own colors (drops), but a few of mine did get used. We had a blast, and it took us about 3 hours altogether. It's funny, but you can tell who made what cookie just by looking at them - if you put your mind to it.
I left to come home in time to walk to meet Ron on Hoover Road, hopefully, but I no sooner left there when I started a sugar low. I started munching on the hard candies that I carry in my pockets, and I went up 68 (instead of going down 52 to 133 to go home), thinking that I could get to Georgetown and Ron quicker. <when you have a sugar low, you don't think so great> Eating the candies helped the sugar level off, but it didn't raise it very much, and I knew that I needed to eat pretty damn soon and Ron wasn't answering his phone. I had to come up with an alternate plan, FAST. Since we go to Country Inn pretty often, I thought 'well, I'll go there and get a bowl of applesauce real quick.' I knew that I wouldn't be able to go to a store and walk in and buy - stand in line and all - orange juice or anything, so that seemed to be a workable solution.
I left Ron a message that I would be at Country Inn and went on. He called me just as I was getting there, and tried to talk me into not doing that but going on home. I told him that I needed to eat something, and I needed to eat NOW. As I was talking to him, I was walking in, and I asked for a bowl of applesauce before I even sat down. My hands were shaking sooooo bad! He finally realized that it was pretty bad, and said he'd meet me there. When he showed up, and I was telling him about the low starting and all, he asked, "why didn't you just turn around and go back?" I just stared at him. That didn't occur to me! Turn around? I just wanted to get somewhere! What a dork I am!
Anyway, after eating the applesauce, I felt marginally better, and we decided to go ahead and eat since we were there. He got a cheeseburger deluxe and I got the BLT double-decker and we both got the steak fries.
Having a sugar low just makes me feel like a wrung-out washrag, so when I got home, I plopped into my recliner and stayed there the rest of the night, which was fine because my Bengals were on Monday Night Football. I, of course, watched the game, but this time I watched the whole game instead of going to bed at halftime. I was also texting my son, my 'second' son, and my brother in Kansas all the while, so I was glad my brain was functioning again! Best news of all? My Bengals won! Shocked the whole damn country, but we did it! Yay, us. That win clinched us a playoff berth, too, for the fourth year in a row, so I went to bed a happy girl.
12/23
I woke up this morning at 8:30. 8:30, after being awake until after 2, what with the game (ending after midnight), a phone call from my friend Bert, and then going to bed and playing on my tablet and reading, as I usually do. I just couldn't believe that I woke up that early, but when my brain starts kicking in, I'm awake. No going back to sleep once the brain starts thinking.
I finally got up around 10 and played Happy Homemaker, getting laundry and dishes done. I didn't get to do them yesterday because I left, so it was today or forget it til after the holiday, and I wasn't going to do that to myself. I am not a glutton for punishment! The holiday will bring enough of its own dirty laundry and dishes, I don't need to have extra sitting there.
When that was done, I got dressed and went to pick Bert up and we went shopping after having a late lunch at Bob Evans. She got the Broasted Chicken dinner, and I got the Chicken-n-Noodles dinner. Then we did some damage to WalMart. Well, she did - I just got veggies (for our snack table) and a couple other things. We went today, because neither one of us want to be anywhere near a store tomorrow!
Ron beat me home, so I got to come home and see our house all lit up, and that always makes my heart happy. I got to talk to Ron for a little while, and give him the leftovers from Bob Evans, then it was time for me to go to my TOPS meeting. After my good weigh-in on Saturday morning, I had high hopes for tonight. But, alas, I gained. Phooey! Luckily, I only gained just over a pound - 1.2 pounds - but it's still a gain. Not bad for this time of year, I suppose. At the meeting, each of us were given a 'certificate of accomplishment,' showing a picture of us when we started, and a picture of us now (August). Everyone, me included, couldn't believe the difference in themselves! It's different, when you're living day-to-day, because you can't or don't see or feel the difference, but seeing the pictures sure brought it home. It was a huge boost!!
One of the other members had brought in his home-made fruitcake and shared that with everyone. Oh, my, was that good. So moist and so tasty - it was like no other fruitcake I've ever tasted. It was really good. Absolutely nothing like the dry ol' stuff you buy in the store, let me tell you. He passed around his fruitcake at just the right time, too, because as we were sitting there, I started a sugar low again! What the hell? I can't figure this out! Yesterday, all I did was sit and decorate cookies (yes, not much of a lunch, but since I wasn't doing much...) and today, I walked through WalMart (a much better lunch before). It doesn't make much sense to me. I MUST figure this out - I don't like these damn sugar lows! Luckily, the fruitcake did the trick and everything was fine.
I came home, and Ron and I watched NCIS, which was a rerun. Then he fell asleep and I went out into the kitchen and worked with the veggies, doing what prep I could to get them ready for tomorrow. I didn't really eat any real food, just munched on this and that - which probably wasn't real smart, but nothing sounded good and I didn't have a whole hell of a lot of energy. Sitting and cutting veggies doesn't use much energy, thank God.
Tomorrow morning I am putting together the veggie tray and doing the last bit of cooking that we are taking with us, then when Ron gets home and takes his shower, we'll pack the car and off we'll go to Josh's for Christmas, just as we do every year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!
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