Afternoon all. Happy New Year! I wish everyone the best for 2018. I look forward to a fresh start and knowing we have a great supportive group here to help each other.
Catching up on personals...
Ceejay – Glad you had a nice Christmas. I wouldn’t mind bringing a Secret Santa exchange back with my side of the family. == Sounds like you’re still helping out your niece. That’s quite a commitment picking her up that late at night!! == I hope your cold goes away quickly. Yet another sick person – so much illness going around right now!!
Happy – I think you are in the coldest spot of all of us – and that’s saying a lot because my weather app says it’s 2 degrees right now. == Thank you for starting up our new 2018 thread!! == I totally understand the popularity of the meal subscriptions – everyone wants to try to eat better meals. All these ways to do it – the meal preparation parties, the cooking once a month and freezing meals, the meal subscriptions... I don’t think a meal subscription would work for us – bf and I seem to be ships that pass in the night lately. But I do think that seeking out convenience items will be a new path – making meals doesn’t always have to mean cooking from scratch. == Good for you identifying all the subscriptions for which you’re paying good money!! Either use ‘em or lose ‘em and put the $$ towards something you will use. == I do hope that we can finally meet this year!! == Sounds like you had a nice dinner with G. I love cherries, so her dessert sounds tasty.
Ugh, cigarette smoke. Yes, I’m sure you inhaled quite a bit. I just can’t tolerate that anymore. Your seafood dinner plan for tonight sounds so tasty. We had some cold shrimp with sauce yesterday. == Get back on that Nu Step or all of us will come around with the rolling pin
or just to give you a kick in the butt
Shad – Glad you had a nice holiday break, but home sweet home is always a good thing.
Susie – I like the idea of the fake martini. I’ve been limiting myself at these work functions – one alcoholic drink and then move to ice water or a seltzer with lemon. It’s just better that way. == Happy belated b-day to your hubby! == BIG CONGRATS re the 365 days of logging into MFP!! Here’s to another 365 days!
You’ve been so successful with the WL, even with your busy work life, you’ve managed to keep chugging along and making it work!
Annie – Hope you’re feeling better!!
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So last Thursday I was coughing a good amount and chalked it up to the asthma, but then it was joined by congestion, and ended up as another nasty cold/virus/whatever. I had the day off on Friday and intended to stay in and rest up and let the asthma symptoms ease up, and I did. But Saturday this virus hit me head-on and I felt like I wanted to die – fever/chills/aches/sinus headache. But thank goodness for meds, especially Nyquil. I felt somewhat better yesterday and about the same today. We’ll see about going to work tomorrow though. We’ll see how a third night on Nyquil goes. I have to say that it’s been nice to get full night’s sleep.
So...so much for the Sambucol. But, ironically, the three bottles I ordered on Thursday arrived on Saturday, so I’ll continue with that until it runs out. It’s depressing that I caught something sitting on less full trains to work and almost nobody around at work. I chalk that up to low immunity due to not getting enough sleep lately due to the dang numbness issue while I sleep.
Bleh. This year was kind of a domino effect for me. In the last part of 2016, that plantar fasciitis lingered and led to the stress fracture in January (says me), then to no exercise, then to less energy, weight gain, loss of muscle and strength, then to sleep issues and apparently a weak immune system.
But it’s a new year and I’ll do what I should have done in 2017 – get back to exercising and hopefully this domino effect can be reversed.
Other than being sick, this weekend hasn’t been very eventful. On Friday the tree people came and did more trimming. Without either bf and I getting around to phoning them. Which is interesting because they sent a bill after their first visit, in which they didn’t even finish the job. So we didn’t pay the bill, then they show to finish the job, and then we get another bill yesterday. I will take a good look at the tree and make sure I’m satisfied before we pay that bill.
I finished Fargo and am waiting on Twin Peaks. In the meantime, I’m reading Grisham’s latest (bf finished it and I decided to read it before it’s due at the library.). I also have Janet Evanovich’s latest.
Bf had a couple of his buddies over last night, and that was about it. I kept to the bedroom to keep my germs to myself. I stayed up to ring in the New Year and that was it.
My SIL phoned today, returning my call from Christmas. We didn’t have much to say to each other., exchanging small talk and pleasantries. However, she did make a vague, incomplete statement to the effect of “we were rotating holidays and we didn’t know what you were doing...” Which she didn’t finish or make a specific point. But I get the idea that I’d been expected to host a holiday gathering. And now that I think about it, I suppose my sister was probably ticked about the fact that I was hosting only my mom and bf’s mom. But no one came out and said anything in a straightforward manner, so whatever. I guess I will be doing that this year. Something to mark on my calendar...
I did some laundry yesterday and will do another load or two today. Otherwise that’s about it.
Looking forward to feeling better and getting back in the swing of things.
Time to stop rambling and make myself another hot tea.