Laurie - good luck getting through this week and with the procedure!

Jay, I just don't like breakfast cereals, some of it is because of the sweetness, yes, also I just don't like eating boring crunchy stuff like that. And I won't eat aspartame, (fiber one has aspartame) because of 1- the taste and 2- I am sensitive to it; makes my tongue feel uncomfortable.
I'd rather have my grains unsweetened and cooked, like people do for dinner: brown rice, barley, etc., and so I do that but it is still a challenge to get in all the recommended fiber. Most servings of fruits and vegetables have about 10% of the recommended fiber so that means 10 servings a day to get all the fiber from those sources. That's a lot of grazing!

Beans, beans, I'm back to the same answer: beans. (as in red beans, pintos, garbanzos)

I hate breakfast food. I just want my freedom, starting at the break of day. Doesn't that sound like an old protest song from 1958?

Jo - LOL, I can hear Woody singing it now ;) Actually, I have grains and vegetable burgers for breakfast quite a bit. I'm not a big cereal with milk (even soy) fan in the morning. Having never eaten breakfast until this last year, I figure that I don't have to eat "traditional" foods. I've been eating a lot of quinoa lately - decent fiber content and good protein source :)

Jay - glad the storm has missed you so far! Keep us posted.

Flowing - not gaining and losing a little is a successful summer in my book!

Freda - I froze on the way to work today - that cold front was - well - COLD! But, it turned out lovely again. This has been one of the nicest summers I can remember. But, maybe it is because I am actually out doing so many things this year???

Linda - :wave:

I'm trying to decide what my last snack will be before the liquid diet tomorrow. Procedure is a simple colonoscopy - which is routine - you all knew this, but for me it was a rude awakening that doctors want to do all these tests when you turn that magic age of "50". UGH. This is the last one, and I am done :woohoo:

I gotta get some work done outside - it is too nice out there!

Enjoy your evening all!

Good Morning all, Another lovely day! I love this weather! Wish I knew somewhere it was like this all the time. I would move in a heart beat!! Got my exercise in yesterday and am headed out right after this. Something about the cool weather just makes it so much easier.

Jo, You can hae anything you want for breakfast! I seldom eat cereal either. Too many other things. Bean buritto?

Laurie, Good luck with the procedure. The prep is a lot worse than the actual precedure. Yelp, turn 50 and they start hitting you with all the "standard" tests. I got a rude awakening when my doctor suggested I take the pneumonia shot. WHAT!! the shot for old people!!

Jay, remain safe. just keep us posted.

make it a good day, Freda

:wave:

I'm still alive and well and well sloshing my way around the house :lol:

Freda - I'm afraid I will be a snowbird when I retire. I always poo-poo'd them when I was younger - but now ...

Jay - hope you are dry!

Have a GREAT Friday everyone ;)

Hello! It rained for 10 minutes today, but it's a bit windier now. We might get some rain. Fay is off to the north, moving west... but weakening.

Hey CD, you can be a snowbird! Come on down, and bring your money! ;)

I moved to Fla. because I couldn't stand more winter, and I couldn't afford two places. So...

I'm really sorry about the bad luck the U.S. track team is having. Good grief!

Have a good Friday! I go to get my hair cut and out to lunch. I hope the place we're going is good--I don't know it, don't know whether it has any online menu...

Jay

Hi . . . :wave:

Off for lunch today too -- Chinese -- :yikes: I'll stay away from the breaded stuff, but not much you can do about the salt -- wasn't my pick. :shrug: At least there will be lots of vegetables.

Hi Pals -
Yes, Slim Me, a bean burrito is one of my most common breakfast choices. I guess I get all whack-a-mole over the whole thing once in a while, like after I've had to travel (recently) and ran into some breakfast inconvenience. And, I have plans to see a friend whom I haven't seen in about 20 years, and I am very excited about that, except we made plans to stay at a b & b so I have that second "b" to dread. Sometimes I feel that my plans under such circumstances are like someone who has to take their secret stash of crack and needles with them, only more people would understand that, because it is more common, than someone like me who simply wants an eggless burrito in the morning.
Thanks for your support!

A friend was playing guitar at a wine tasting room yesterday where fancy food was served, so I had things made with jerusalem artichoke chips and truffles and squid ink and grape leaves and some kind of spicy pink sauce of unknown content, which was all fine. I passed on the kahlua-cappucino-tiramasu, though. I think tiramasu is one of the most overrated foods. I mean, it's just ladyfingers soaking up some other stuff; what's so special about ladyfingers? It seems to not "fit" in with the other fancy stuff somehow. I don't see much difference between soaked ladyfingers and twinkies.
Well that's my most recent food report. Peaceout.

Jo - I'm with you on the tiramasu. I don't find it very appealing. Though, to be honest, I have really lost my taste for sugary foods.

I find that I have to carry some backup food with me when I travel. Most restaurants have SOMETHING I an eat, but not only.

Jay - hope you like your haircut! And that lunch was spectacular. I'm not sure where we will snowbird to. Nigher of us like the heat, so it might be somewhere a bit further north. Time will tell. Gotta get the economy balanced and see where the kids are at.

I'm a bit groggy so I think a nap is in order.
Have a fun weekend!

Laurie - Snowbird over to the central coast of CA! It doesn't get cold and it doesn't get hot.

Well on another topic I need to get new glasses, both prescription and frames, since the frames have been sat on and are in bad shape and I looked at a couple of the nicer places in this area with best selections of designer frames, and found nothing that I like in the slightest. (Please don't advise me to go to places like Costco - I won't.) But I just think of all the years of my life these last couple have seen the ugliest trends in eyeglasses ever. I thought maybe I'd warm up to the style after a while of seeing it, but it's not happening.
I found some nice ones on the framesdirect website, a whole slew of silhouette rimless styles that I like, but I don't know if I'm brave enough to just submit desired dimensions to them and trust that it will be a good result. Has anyone ever tried getting glasses online that way?

thanks

Spiny - I love CA (we will be visiting the kids in Oakland in Oct.) You and Jay have hit the nail on the head about why we don't see ourselves having two homes. We like to travel too much. I'm hoping we will be able to see much of the warmer parts of the country - not just find a "condo" somewhere every year. But - time will tell. I can't retire for at least 4 more years - sigh.

I haven't used framesdirect, and there are mixed reviews online. If you have found a frame you like, can you contact the manufacturer and see if there are local vendors that carry that frame? Or, can your local places order it for you? I know that several of our "chain" eyeglass stores can order from almost anywhere. It will take a bit longer.

I agree with you about frames these days. I look horrific in big dark plastic frames. I had rimless frames the last two pair, so I went with a compromise this time. Blue frame on top and bow - frameless on the bottom. I'm liking the change.
Also - is your prescription pretty basic? I have progressive lenses with Transitions - I know that the pupil measurement was critical for these. It seems like something that would be hard to get right online. Plus getting them adjusted to fit right. Do they offer a warranty? I know my provider will replace my glasses free within a year if I break them. It has only happened once, but - it does happen.

Yeah, I just looked up and saw the mixed reviews of framesdirect.
But one thing the site did show me was that there may be a way to compromise because I saw something that I sort of liked that may actually be currently fashionable; it's the brand Bebe, the style Raquel. Still I have no idea what it would look like on my head.
They had a fun trick thing where you can virtually try on the styles on your computer image face, and I tried that, but it was obvious that the fun trick thing wasn't exactly right in what it did, so whereas it can give you a hint, it's not going to show you exactly how it will be.
I don't want something that just screams "glasses!" with those sides that look like a peripheral vision blocking hazard.
Aren't fashion trends just weird?? (yeah, me too, I know.)

Oh and Laurie -- one more lure to CA central coast: lack of mosquitoes! I figure I must have saved myself several thousands of bites by moving here when I did!

Hey everybody,

I'm about due to go to the eye doc. Last time I went, my prescription was one of those that you can get at any drugstore, so that's what I did. Saved quite a bit! The time before that, I let myself get talked into fancy lenses with fancy frames and spent a few hundred bucks. :yikes: And, they didn't correct the way I had hoped. So, feh! But I think my eyes may have changed enough that I need a different correction for each eye this time. Guess I'll find out.

CD, Florida is not hot in the winter. It is wonderful in the winter. In fact, three seasons of the year it is wonderful here. It's just now that is, um, hard to take. But it's not a whole lot better in the Northeast.

And, the Gulf water is warm. You can't find that in California. Swimming in the Gulf the week before Christmas was one of my first thrills in Fla.

Mosquitoes? Oh yes, we have them. If there's a mosquito within 10 yards, it will find me. :mad: And I react really badly to the bites. So, I wear a lot of repellent as a matter of course. I recently switched away from Deep Woods Off to Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard with Picaridin. I like it much better.

I'm afraid I don't get much of a weekend. Oh well. I went shopping yesterday and stocked up on goods--also stopped at the lady's truck stand and bought Georgia peaches and plums. They are perfect!

My idea of a good dessert: 1 medium peach, cut into cubes, 1/3 cup of fresh blueberries, 1/4 cup of part-skim ricotta. Mix around in a bowl. :drool:

I never eat tiramisu because there's too much booze in it!

Hope y'all are having a good time. We're getting more rain as Fay ambles along to the west.

Jay

Good Morning . . . :wave:

Fun day yesterday . . . and so far only 1 pound of www to show for the Chinese Food debacle. Hope more doesn't show up later. Lots of exta water today. :yes:

My last couple of trips to the eye guy have resulted in no change of perscription so I'm hanging onto my totally rimless glasses just as long as I possibly can. These are so light and almost invisible. If I do need a change next year, maybe I'll just keep these anyway because I don't like the heavier looking frames either.

It's turned very hot and sticky around here again so it looks like a mostly inside day with the A/C running full blast. Not a bad idea this weekend actually. :lol: This is our annual Blue Grass Music Festival at the fairgrounds right across the road from me and I fear that 12 hours a day is a little more of that kind of music than I can really enjoy. :dizzy:

Hope you all have great moving and shaking weekend plans . . . :carrot:

Hi all, a quick fly-by. Been a busy day. Nutshell version - SF was moved to a rehab center this weekend. My mom is freaking out about the place, thus, I spent the day arranging things from afar and booking a flight to TN for next weekend. Amazingly, the nearest airport was $700 cheaper than flying out of Detroit. What a blessing!

Just when life seems to settle down a bit, along comes another wave - LOL, I'm so very glad that I am fit and healthy - a year ago, this would have totally stressed me out.
On another note - I didn't lose an ounce throught the whole cleansing episode :( I think my body must really, really like 128.

Hope you all are having a fun weekend!


Laurie

Good Morning . . . :wave:

Hope everything goes well in TN, Laurie . . . :crossed:

Nothing exciting round here for today . . . still got lots of sun, a bit too much humidity, but comfy temperatures so far. :yes:

good Morning, Had another hot day yesterday, but we had a slight beeze too, so it wasn't too bad. I was happy about that because we went to BIL's memorial, and afterwards a picnic in the park. New park for me and had some really nice walking trails. Didn't get a chance to try them out, but will keep them in mind for alter. I overate at the picnic. I got overly hungry and the food choices weren't diet either. I took a asian salad but it has oil and vinegar and sugar dressing. But still, it has lots of nuts and seeds and cabbage, so it wasn't too bad.

I wear reading glasses and just buy them at the local drug store when they have a sale. Husband has tri-focals and it's a tough prescription and he usually goes back several times before they fit right and he can see correctly. We've bought them in several different places and Sears is the best one yet. Really, I think it depends on the optomologist that works there and the people that help fit the glasses.

I'm not sure what we will do when we retire. Can't see buying another place but that might be a consideration. If so, it will be upper Michigan. I still want to remain close to the grands.

Laurie, Glad the procedure went well. Being "stuck" at 128 is a GOOD thing!!

make it a good day, Freda

Laurie, What is the SF abbreviation? (besides San Francisco?) :)
128 is a good weight to be stuck in; I agree! I wish I could claim that.

RE: Glasses - my eyes are one of those complicated prescriptions, thanks mainly to botched Lasik. I keep thinking one day I will make the decision to have it "fixed" but I am never sure when to jump in. Eyes keep changing, technology keeps improving..... so ????

Jay, you are right about the water being not warm here. And I am the biggest cold-water wimp I've ever known; need to wear a short wetsuit just to get into an 80-degree swimming pool. But thankfully those wetsuits do exist, and the seawater temps are justification to nullify any thoughts about needing to fit into a bikini.

RE: Tiramisu - I will take my booze sans ladyfingers!

More on the fiber-thing: I bought some high-fiber instant oatmeal a while back (what was I thinking; I don't eat breakfast food) but I saw a recipe somewhere for an oatmeal cookie that simply used a package of the instant oatmeal mixed with a dash of vanilla extract, a tablespoon of whole grain flour, and two tablespoons of unsweetened applesauce. Make it into one big or two small cookies and bake on a greased cookie sheet for 15 minutes or so and that's it. No added fat; you aren't stuck with a whole batch of cookies, and you've got in this case 44% (or more with the added whole grain flour and applesauce) of the day's fiber. I tried it. It was ok; I could eat it. I didn't like how sweet it was from the artificial sweetener contained in the instant oatmeal (sucralose) but it was ok. I think that others would probably like this more than I did, because I'm so dang picky. So I recommend it if you are looking for a cookie-like way to get fiber. You could put some raisins in it or nuts too, and I'm sure it would work.

Looks like there are several Michigan people here - that is where I grew up too, (Detroit area.)
Another place I have considered living is in New Mexico. When I took the Find Your Spot Questionnaire I had my top two matches in New Mexico. Have any of you tried that quiz?
It's fun but it takes a bit of time to take it mindfully.
http://www.findyourspot.com/

(This site does make you fill in your name and address at the end. But I have never been spammed or had any bad effects from filling out the info to them.)

Jo - thanks for the recipe - sounds worth trying. I'm not a big sweet person, but I DO like a good fiber recipe :D

SF = step father - don't get me started. Even at age 50 it is not a good scenario. Some things last FOREVER!

Sorry about the lasik surgery - I haven't considered it seriously. I actually don't mind wearing glasses. I have had Transitions for the last 15 years, and I like having my sunglasses on my nose when I walk outside.

Thanks for "find your spot" I got some interesting results!

Flowing - agreed - GREAT wineries in CA. I am very much looking forward to visitng the kids in October! Good luck with getting back to school. I am training teachers all week. It is going to be a busy one!

Freda - sorry about the BIL memorial - you are in my thoughts and prayers. Glad you found a park with potential - so many wonderful hiking possibilities down yoru way. What a surprise for me. I never knew Southern MI had so many trails :)

Have a GREAT beginning to the week all.

Looks like I should be heading for the northern Pacific area, closely followed by the Rocky Mountains, or Alaska -- yep, I really don't like hot weather. :lol:

Have a great day, wherever you are . . . :wave:

More on finding one's spot: Where I'm living now came out no. 4 on the list when I took the quiz. I think life's too short to live where one doesn't like, but sometimes I wonder how many people live where they don't like just because somebody else, usually some relatives, live there. Then I wonder if it is ever a circular thing, like Jack lives in Detroit because Aunt Bessie and Sister Nettie and Grandpa all live there, but Aunt Bessie lives there because nephew Jack and neice Nettie and Dear Old Dad (Jack's grandpa) live there, and ....on and on, and nobody really wants to live in Detroit, but they are all living there because the others live there, so they are all stuck somewhere they don't want to be because of each other. They should all just pack up and move to where they would rather be!
Sorry to pick on Detroit, but I thought it was a good place to escape from so I am using that in my example.

i'm butting in cause i saw the find your spot quiz and just took it and wanted to say this was cool, spinymouse. i'd be going to Natchitoches, Louisiana. i saved it to read about all the places later on. thanks!

Hi Ollie - nice to hear from you! Natchitoches came up for me too, but it was down on the last page. My no. 1 match is Truth or Consequences, NM. Love the name.

Hey! :wave:

Welcome, ollie27!

I moseyed on over and took that test. It gave me seven cities in Cal., five in Louisiana, and three in Nevada. Ha! I guess Florida was out for some reason or another--probably price!

I was glad to see San Francisco was on my list. That's the city I love best. I lived there for 15 years.

I'm about ready to go off to the gym to get my exercise in. It's going to be a hectic few weeks--so I need some gym time on my schedule. I'm going to Colorado to visit my sister next month for a week. :carrot:

Jay

Well Arkansas and New Mexico frequented my list. Two states I have never considered moving to - in fact I haven't even visited either one. I might need to add them to my travel list in the future.
Portland Oregon was on my list too. DH and I already had it on our "short list" for travel plans. Thanks for the link JO -it was a great find :D

I love SF too Jay. I'm already surfing the net to find new places to go when we visit in October.

Hi everyone, Haven't been on in a few days, just really busy. Memorial service for BIL on Saturday. Very nice, saw lots of people i probably won't see again untill the next funeral or wedding. Picnic afterwards. Came home very sick. Not sure if it was the food or too much sun. It was very hot tht day. DH got sick later that night too. Haven't spoken to anyone else that attended to see how they did. Problems with AIR this week. First, the air on DH's truck went out, 2 days later, the air in my SUV. Sunday, the air in the house. Dh fixed the SUV but had to wait a couple of days for a part. Luckly, we know an air conditioner guy and he fit us in between other customers. After looking at it he said "I think i have bad news" but it turned out to be a broken wire instead of the compressor. Difference of 100.00 dollars instead of the 2,500.00 he first though.

The weather here is too crazy. Too hot Saturday and last night at GS's soccer game i had to wrap up in a blanket. More news. Not sure how I feel about this. DIL got a new job and will be working from home. I've babysit with the Grands since they were born.

I found that my perfect retirement spot would be somewhere in Washington state, or Oregon. There were a few places down south also, in the mountains and mostly small towns.

Make it a good day, Freda

Hi . . . :wave:

Nothing exciting in my life at the moment . . . just weird weather. :shrug: Nice and cool today (almost cold, actually with a forecast high of about 65) . . . hey maybe I'll get myself outside for some major moving and shaking time. :carrot:

Hi everyone, I've been so busy getting my classroom together, and it looks worse than when I started. Meetings the rest of the week.

Counting- Is it more fun on the otherside of the lectern?

Freda- Sorry about all the airconditioning issues.

Spiny everyone seems to be enjoying your web site suggestion. I haven't found the time, but I will.

Ollie Welcome!

Hi all - another quick fly-by. First day of school for teachers, thus a LONG work dayl Beautiful weather in northern MI, thus, a long evening in the yard working. Hope you all had a GREAT Tuesday.

Laurie

Freda... that is too weird about your air conditioning! :eek: Why all at once? Jeez...

Our water was off for awhile today. Don't know why. It's back on now. But all it takes is a few hours without running water to remind you what a blessing it is. Imagine if for every single thing--drinking, cooking, washing--you had to haul water. In some countries, it takes up a LOT of people's (mostly women's) time, just to get water every day. And you sure do use it differently under those conditions.

Not much to report here--still working away. :book2: Still hot & humid. :faint: But I have no complaints!

Jay

Hi all, A very long day today. The meetings were very long and then I really worked a long time on my classroom. It is getting there. Have a great day.

Good Morning all,

It's raining here. DH says it started last night, but I slep right through it. I am usually a very light sleeper and hear everything! But I was exhausted. Had a very day day at work yesterday. Lost a patient about an hour after i got in. So from 8 to 11 i was working on that, then i had to take care of my other patients. I finally got a cup of coffee around 1 and got around to eating at 2. I was starved and relied on the cafateria. Ate way too much of the wrong things. hard to make good choices when you are that hungry. and came home and grabbed a bag of chips!! stress!! But today is another day. Back to normal.

Make it a good day, Freda

I wrote a long post and somehow it got edited!

Jay, when I was young we lived on a farm, and we had a well. had to carry water. We are so fortunate now, to be able to turn on a tap and get clean water. Or turn on the air and get cool air. We take so much for granted! I hate heat!! what did I do without it!! Oh yeah! I WHINED a lot!

:wave:

Cool and humid here . . . :lol: . . . and very little sunshine available. Will be doing a little mall-crawl later this afternoon but that's about it for today.

Quick fly-by to say hello. I leave at 4 a.m. for the airport and my trip to TN. Gotta put on my "big girl panties" and do what needs to be done. Family issues are always challenging, but with my family - ahhh. Maybe I better get up early and get in an additonal meditation and yoga session ;)

I hope you all have a safe and fun weekend!

Laurie

Laurie, Have a good trip. Yes, any time emotions are in the picture things can get difficult. Hope your trip is a success.

Freda

Good morning! And happy Friday! I hope CD does well with her TN trip... :hug:

flowingair, sounds like you're just about ready! Good luck!

slim me, yes, air conditioning. I used to be one of those who thought air conditioning was wasteful and anti-environmental. I have changed my mind. I'm glad that better refrigerants are used these day, though. But what a silly person I was to think there was some sort of high road in being miserable!

meowee, I hope you get some pleasant sun but not roasting hot.

I'm on schedule again and very happy about it! Work, that is. I'm also happy to be staying fit and maintaining my weight.

We don't have anything planned for the long weekend--how about you folks?

Where's Spinymouse? Now don't you go and disappear again, Jo!

Jay