Goal achieved! Happy dance and Reward!

Monday, June 8, 2015
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

6/8
Monday.  Ugh.  Yeah, I got up and played Happy Homemaker.  A load of regular in the washer and then dishes.  Dishes, dishes, dishes.  I had done some of them on Sunday - not many - and now it was time to finish the rest of them up.  What a job!
Then our friend Laura came over to play Wii games with me.  We do a little contest-like thing - whoever 'wins' that particular game/exercise gets to choose the next one.  She got here around 11:45, and we played on the Wii until after 2:15, so we did this for a good long time.  But with each one of us resting while the other played, it wasn't as bad as it sounds, and we played just as many balance games as we did more energetic games like steps and biking, so it all worked out okay.

When Laura left, I finished up the housework (getting the clothes into the dryer, etc.), ate some lunch (three slices of cheese) and then just collapsed into my recliner.  My back was telling me that rain was moving in, and I let it rule the rest of the day.
When Ron texted me, I told him I wasn't walking.  When he got home, we discussed supper, but I wanted a good result tomorrow night - my goal was to lose those five pounds I had gained last week! - so I just wanted chicken noodle soup.  He had his frozen Chinese thing, and that was that.

Sunday night, I watched Part 1 of a new show on my dead guy channel.  It's called Serial Thriller - Angel of Decay, and I figured out ten minutes in which serial killer it is about.  I should have known sooner - as soon as they showed the part of the country, but... - so I felt kinda proud of myself about that.  I think they did a very good job putting this together, and not letting any information out.  I watched Part 2 tonight, and am still impressed with how they've done it.  I do think, though, that the "main character" is mis-cast.  He's supposed to be a clean-cut average-looking guy, and this actor is dark and raggedy-looking (to me, anyway).

I went to bed, fell asleep while reading (do you know how often THAT happens?) and slept long and hard all night.  All. Night.  Like a rock.


6/9
Today, I was lazy.  After waking and doing my normal tableting and reading, I finally got up around 2.  TWO!  Yep, lazy.
I just piddled around here in the house, not really doing a lot because my back is telling that the rain is not over.  Maybe not today, or even overnight, but it's not over.  I did peel potatoes so that we could have snausages for supper tonight.
When Ron texted me, I quickly got dressed and walked out to meet him.  It took me five minutes to get on the road, and I thought I'd be lucky to even get to Carol's mailbox, but then I passed that.  Then I made it to, and passed, the curves.  Then I made it to our halfway mark.  I'm thinking, "Where the hell is Ron?  What's going on?" but I kept walking.  I made it all the way to the farmhouse before he finally showed up - that's darn near 3/4 of a mile!  Yay, me!  He said that as he was leaving work, someone waved him down and was talking to him and wouldn't stop.
We got back home and I went to take my shower (TOPS meeting, remember), then we talked about supper and all before I left.  He wasn't happy, because he says that he can't cook fried potatoes, but I think he'll be fine.

I go to my meeting, and taking a deep breath, weigh in.  (Remember: goal is to lose 5 pounds because I gained 4.6 last week), and HALLELUJAH!!! I did it!!  I met my goal!!  I lost 5.8 pounds!! <happy dance>  That means, even with taking off the 4.6, I lost an extra 1.2 pounds!  Yay, me!!  Staaving, dahling, over the last two days, and all that exercise (the Evil E word) did some good - I guess I should keep it up.
When I got home, Ron had supper on, but it wasn't done.  He hadn't got it started when he was supposed to because of a phone call, so I had to turn it up and finish cooking it myself.  We ended up not eating until 9:00, but man, oh, man, was it good!!  Good, good, good!  Super duper yummy.  I enjoyed every single bite.

I watched the end - Part 3 - of Serial Thriller while eating (well, the rerun of Part 2, then Part 3) and it was excellent.  There will be a follow-up show on Sunday at 9:00 to kinda wrap up all the little details.  I guess they thought people would have a lot of questions after watching this....they did stuff a lot in at the end, but that's to be expected.  Police business moves slow, you know.

Nothing planned tomorrow, but I might go down and get my tires rotated.  Maybe.  We'll see how I feel then.