Sistah Pat

Sitting here watching crazy cat. He’s attacking my coat. DH hung it over the doorknob in the hall and the cat keeps jumping on it and trying to get inside the sleeve. Gee, the house is beginning to look a lot cleaner! I’m looking around and seeing stuff shine!

I’ve been thinking about having a slumber party. Really! Have all my fav friends and little sister over. We could soak in the spa and have wine and appetizers. We could watch girlie movies or a marathon session of What Not to Wear while everyone contributes their own particular “girlie” talent. Me? I give a great massage. I have a friend who’s a hairdresser. She could cut hair. Someone else could do manicures or pedicures or facials. Wouldn’t that be fun? Middle of winter…gotta try something to liven things up!

On the other hand…I’m still faltering in the “healthy living” area. Okay, for today, just one perfect day. Starting now.

5:00 - Just got home from work. It would be real easy to call it a day but I’m going for a perfect day so I still have to workout. Sounded out a couple of friends at work about the slumber party and one of them says she gives a great foot massage and another says she’ll do facials. Hmmm….there might be something to this.

Okay–I’ve got my HRM on and I’m heading upstairs!

5:45 - OMG! How quickly the body forgets! I only did 30 minutes and felt like I was dying! Still, I hung in there for 30 minutes and burned 270 calories on the treadmill and doing step aerobics. I’m not back yet, Chickies, but I’m getting there. The only thing I have to do today is stay on track with diet the rest of the day and I’ll have ONE perfect day behind me. Yah Hooo!

I’m going to make Hoppin John soup for dinner. My version of Hoppin John anyway. We really enjoy this hot and spicy soup on a cold winter night but I have no idea how many calories so I think I’ll write down the recipe this time and see if I can figure it out. I know it’s a healthy soup but it has black eyed peas and they can really add some calories so I’m going to see what I come up with.

7:30 - Okay, I’m gonna make it!  Got me a bowl of Hoppin John Soup and a nice warm English Muffin spread with some Brummel and Brown Yogurt spread.  I was a little stingy with the black eyed peas in the Hoppin John because I thought it would have a lot of calories.  Black eyed peas are an excellent source of fiber and iron and the calories are well spent but I still wanted to be careful.  Turns out the soup only has 70 calories per cup so another can of peas wouldn’t have hurt anything.  Oh well…it’s tasty as is.  In fact, this warm and soft English muffin and I could seriously get it on!  Good stuff and I still have quite a few calories to play with this evening.