Getting the week started

Monday, February 23, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015


2/23
Another Monday.  Another week starting.  I don't know why, but I am starting to feel as though I am stuck, for lack of a better word.  It can't be the weather - I just got to go out and about over the weekend, so I can't have cabin fever.  I think it's more that I am floundering on this plateau (the one that I call a mesa) and can't, or rather am not, losing any more weight.  I've been doing my exercises, I've been following my new lifestyle-type of eating, but since I lost the last gob of weight after the fall, I've stayed at the same 3-5 pounds.  Now that is starting to inch up (which is winter-related, I do believe), and I don't like it!  I don't know what else I can do - I can only do so much without worry of further harming my back.  And I sure don't want to go back to Square One there...

Anyway, I got up this morning, did my reading and tableting, then got up and did my Happy Homemaker stuff, as I do on Mondays.  I did my exercises - just the standing ones, because it's so cold that my back is one solid ache - and then settle into my recliner for the rest of the day.

Ron got home finally and we played Wii games.  I beat his ass, probably because he was so tired, but I still beat his ass!  The only thing he beat me at was tennis.  I just couldn't get the racket to swing the way I wanted it to...
Oh, well.  We had a great time and it killed the time.  Beats just staring at the TV, right?
I made Hamburger Helper (yes, I remembered to buy some when I went grocery shopping!) for our supper, and when it was done, then we just stared at the TV.


2/24
Today was pretty much a carbon copy of yesterday, although the high today did finally get up over 20.  Oh, how this cold is really doing a number on my back!  I don't like it, not at all.  I'm glad - you don't know how much - that we've really had a mild winter, because I don't think I could have handled much more than what we did have.  This past week, week and a half, has been rough.

I did make myself do a few jobs that I've been putting off.
I found my St. Patrick's Day wreath, which I found trying to hide behind the filing cabinet in the library.  How it got back there, I don't know, but I had to get on my hands and knees and dig it out, and that wasn't easy.  Thank God for my Grabby of Doom!
I went through an old Missalette and found the readings that I want in my funeral Mass, and rewrote the instructions for said funeral Mass.
I sorted out the pictures on my computer, and put them into the proper folders for this year.
Other little jobs - time-consuming jobs - that I just hadn't got around to.

I had chicken noodle soup with a peanut butter and orange marmalade sandwich for my lunch.
I also did all of my exercises today, even the laying-on-the-floor ones.  Those exercises do my back the most good, but they feel the worst while doing them.  But, after doing them, my back felt better, so I was glad that I had done them.  I just wish -- like I told Doc, "it's BEEN 9 months," but like he told me, "it's ONLY been 9 months." -- that this wasn't an issue any more.  But, it is.  Phooey!

I wasn't feeling real confident when I left for my TOPS meeting, especially after my weight gain on the Wii on Saturday morning, but I figured that it is what it is.  Luckily, when I weighed in, I discovered that, according to their scale, I have lost around a pound and a half (1.6 to be exact)!  What good news that is!  <happy dance>
Ron has supper ready when I got home from the meeting.  He made pork chops, macaroni and cheese, and green beans.  Yum!  Only thing was, he forgot to add butter to the green beans - ugh.  They are low sodium, and are rather nasty without any kind of flavoring.  He said they tasted fine to him, but - funny man - he was the one to complain when we first started buying them, which is why I started draining the juice and adding the butter!

We watched NCIS and NCIS:NO, as usual on Tuesdays, then he went to bed and I started watching dead guys.

Tomorrow is supposed to be a Bert, Teresa, and Rita Day!  Keep your fingers crossed that it actually happens!