Good afternoon, ladies! Cold and rainy today.
I went to Church at 5:30 last night and then we had our Madi Gras dinner dance afterwards. Lots of fun. I can still line dance! We had a buffet dinner - before there were appetizers, - assorted olives, veggies, cheese, crackers, crawfish, hot wings. Dinner was Shrimp Gumbo, Red Beans and Rice with big chunks of ham, dirty rice, corn and okra, french bread and butter. Dessert was Bread Pudding with Raisins and Pecans (lots of them) with Bourbon sauce and real whipped cream. Not exactly WW friendly but I danced a lot so hope I burned most of it off!
Jean, I hope your cold is getting better!
My dryer is buzzing so I need to get the clothes out and on hangers before they wrinkle!
Good afternoon, ladies! Only 37 degrees, but the sun is shining.
Maggie, it was good to hear from you. Sorry about your problems with the bank. That is no fun!
Tonight is Bible Study (rebuilding of the temple, interesting).
Have a good evening!
Good afternoon, ladies! It was cold last night - in the low 20s - what's with that, it should be in the 40s by now.
Maggie, looking back at my WW booklet I have been yo-yoing too. I need to get myself back on track. Every year right before Lent I seem to do this. Anyway, I have decided that this year I am giving up all desserts and processed foods of any kind. That leaves me plenty to eat - meat, fish, poultry, grains, fruit, vegetables, dairy and Ezekial bread (it's made with sprouted grains, no flour). After 6 weeks, I should be back on track with a nice loss. We will be reading Maccabes for next week's Bible study. I believe that is a book that isn't included in the Protestant bible.
Jean, let's see, 13 weeks is 91 days! I'll count for you.
I always thought those commercials and ads for Eggland's Best eggs were just blarney. Last week Kroger had them at buy a dozen get a dozen free of the Eggland's Best Cage Free Brown Eggs. Since they were $1.99 a dozen, it was cheaper to buy those than the regular eggs. Oh my goodness, they are so good! They taste like the eggs we had when I grew up on the farm. I went back and got 4 more dozen. I eat an egg or 2 every day. These have less saturated fat than regular eggs and omega 3s.
Do any of you have Direct TV? I currently have cable and the rate just went up again. I can get Direct TV through the phone company with my internet and the whole package including phone is less than what I pay now for cable TV so I'd be saving about $47 a month. Almost too much not to change.
Have a good evening!
gma22 , 02-25-2009 07:33 AM
Good morning ladies! You know who is back! I can't say it was a great time in fact I was mad the whole darn time. We drove halfway and stopped at a Holiday Inn Express and Jack promptly lost his wallet. I was in a total panic because we would have turn around and go home because all we would have was our cash since we would have had to call the bank and credit card comanies and such. I finally found it after half an hour tucked under an ottoman.
I don't know if I told you that our son made us mad a couple months ago right after we bought the car. I had decided since we would have a car payment and a large insurance payment in February and March that we would wait until April to go up there. He threw a fit about us not coming, so much so he even told me that we needed to come to see them rather than spend money to go to Las Vegas!!! He also wanted to monopolize our time and didn't want us visiting alot of other family or friends, but spend it with them. I was furious but held my piece. So here is what transpired over the weekend. He and his wife messed up the whole time. We had breakfast with my sister on Saturday, which they invited themselves to, which was fine, but I had told both he and my dil several times that my sister was going to come back to their house after breakfast to visit for awhile. They took off from the restaurant and left us hanging so we had to go sit at our hotel as we couldn't get into the house and my sister left. I went to the bathroom and they were gone when I got back and had gone shopping. We had to wait until they got back home before going over there.
After all this stuff he gave me about not making plans with other people, and the vacation garbage he spouted off a couple months ago, they invited their friends to go out to lunch with us and then left us from 8-midnight to babysit and get our own dinner on Friday. On Saturday they again made plans and left the baby with us from 5-9 pm and we had to fend for ourselves for dinner while they went and partied with friends. On Sunday, I paid for $72 worth of groceries except for the pork butt he bought and again he invited 8 people to the house and they stayed all afternoon. After they had left, we were sitting in the dining room talking and he decided he needed to talk to us. He told us he was worried about us and that I needed to lose weight, he thought I looked like I had gained weight (wrong, I weigh less then when I saw him at Thanksgiving) and that the way to get healthy was not to order pancakes and bacon. His wife was in on this too and according to him had asked him if he was going to talk to us. Now, this is from someone who ordered 3 eggs, potatoes, biscuits and gravy and sausage links (and is on cholesterol and bp meds, I might add) and his wife had breakfast meat and blueberry creme crepes. His wife is 50 lbs overweight and he weighs more than he should too. So, I was mad all weekend about the friends having to be joined at the hip with them the whole weekend, having us babysit (not that I minded babysitting but he was asleep the whole time) while they went and partied when he kept whining about wanting to spend time with us exclusively. It snowed heavily the whole time we were there and was freezing cold. I don't even own a heavy coat so I froze to death. On Monday, they worked so we hung out at the hotel all day. Believe it or not, we met up with them on Monday night and he AGAIN called their friends to come have dinner with us but they had to work.
All in all, I was in a seriously grumpy mood all weekend and have been snarling at Jack about it the whole time. The weight loss thing has me furious as besides it being none of his or Alicia's darn business, maybe he should clean up his own house before he tries to clean up mine. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate them caring enough to be concerned but he actually told me that he and Alicia were watching what I ate! He said I needed to do it for Thomas and Jackson and that did it. I told him NO, I needed to do it for Donna and no one else. I had enough and went into the living room. Oh, the first morning after we got there he asked if we had gone and gotten muffins and donuts for us all to have for breakfast!!!!! Anyway, I am miffed so much so that Jack and Jay are going to a Cubs game Thur, April 16th and we are going up there on Wed and get there in the late evening and coming home Saturday.
Here is a pic of the stinker at the restaurant. Jackson wanted nothing to do with me for some reason so that didn't help either. Suffice it to say, we spent a lot of money for a miserable time.
Susan: We have had direct tv for 3 years and love it. You do have service interruption during bad storms sometimes, but it never seems to last long. We have never had an issue, can pay online at their site and change up our packages and stuff without any hassle online. We like the channel line up too.
Jean: Congrats on getting your retirement going! You are going to love having all that time.
Maggie: Congrats on your losses! Great going.
Well gals, now that I have bended your ear, I am going to go and get stuff taken upstairs to put away. You all have a wonderful Wednesday!!!
Faye
gma22 , 02-26-2009 05:14 AM
Good morning to you all! Guess we are back to normal. I have everything put away except one last basket of clothes which I will do today. I do have a bunch of stuff laid out around the dining table that can't be dried in the dryer so I have to check and see if the are dry and can be hung up.
I am going to Thomas's school today to meet with one of the pta ladies about volunteering in their clinic. I think I am going to volunteer one day a week to work their clinic for them. You know, take temps, call parents, that sort of thing. The lady was thrilled that I was willing! lol I told her all I have is time so I am glad to do it.
Maggie: Jack had brown rice when we went to PF Changs and liked it so I am going to start using it after I finish up my current box of rice. Thanks for the recipe btw. I have to get out to the commissary and get some more groceries as we are a bit poor on them until next week, which is my normal grocery run.
Jean: Jackson is a very big boy and boy is he heavy. I picked him up once and sheesh like picking up a bag of cement. He isn't overweight just tall and solid. Alicia says she keeps running out of shoes that fit him. He throws tantrums and cries when he wants his way. His dad kind of gets mad at him and mom gives into him. On Sunday, his dad and Jack went to the store and his mom was working so we were alone. He was ok alone with me so I put him in his high chair and let him help me make baked beans. I put the casserole dish on his tray and then helped him to pour stuff in, etc. He kept sticking his fingers in it so I put it back on the counter and gave him a taste, which he promptly spit out!lol Not a baked bean lover I guess. Anyway, when I was finished I took him out of his chair and he got mad at me because he wanted to do some more cooking. He threw himself down on the kitchen floor and cried. I told him, "You are being naughty so I am going into the living room." I then walked out of the room and it wasn't two seconds and here he comes dry eyed with his thumb in his mouth (he is a big thumb sucker.) I told the two of them what happened figuring they might follow my lead, but nada so they are going to have some problems if they don't nip that in the bud. Alicia just does not scold him about anything. He gets mad and cries and she does what he wants her to do. In a couple years that is going to be something she wishes she hadn't done, but it is none of my business, she will learn. It is supposed to be 75 degrees here today! I am going to wear capris and sandals to the school. I just wish it would stay that way. It is back to 50+ temps tomorrow I guess. I will take it while I can get it. People probably thought I was nuts yesterday morning because I went through the car wash and it was sprinkling, but our car was covered in salt and yuck from up north and I wanted to get get it off as quick as I could. The stuff was hard as a rock on the car when I brushed up against it with my hand.
I am going to sit here this morning and make a list of food supplies I need for the next couple weeks for my diet. Jack and I do differently except for dinner. He basically does cereal for breakfast or eng muffin and juice, then some lean cuisine or such meal for lunch, a snack of some kind then whatever I give him for supper. I do more planning on my meals with fruit and such so I have to make a big ole list for groceries. I may go to trader joes today and look around. Jay and Alicia bought they really thin little ginger cookies for Jackson and I wanted to check out the fat and such in them.
Have a great Thursday everyone!
Faye