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Hi all! Hope everyone is doing okay on this final week before Christmas. Still have lots of shopping to do so will probably head out one night afterwork. I always get my grandchildren ornaments with their names each year and realized this morning that I had misspelled one's name! Bad Grandma! Will have to head back to get another one for him. Wondering if there is a way to take the name off?
Finally got some walking in yesterday. Weather has been crappy, so no motivation to head out doors. Walked 1.5 miles at the school after work yesterday and planning to do the same this afternoon. Will be so glad when Zumba classes start up again after new year. Hope everyone has a great day. |
Isabella, perhaps you can con your cravings toward your fresh fruit. I'm a pro at mind games so if I were in your place (and I have been) try telling yourself you can have a serving of potato chips after you have an apple. When I wouldn't drink water, only soday, I finally bargained myself into by letting myself have a soda after I had a bottle of water. It worked kick the soda habit. I might have to go there again as right now I'm iced tea obsessed. But the bargaining does work for me. I've done it with exercise too. 30 minutes on the treadmill and I get a cookie. Scary that at my age I still have to play sophomoric games but I do what works.
Pretty card, Donna. Can you imagine having that artistic and technilogical ability? Connie, oops on the ornament. So much beter you found it now rather than your DGS seeing it. Wow, it is quiet here. I usually drown if I go 24 hours without reading the posts. I think I'm might be a "que sera, sera" person as I don't stress about the holidays. I just get bits done here and there. And voila, I'm done. I do like that. How's that French and Spanish in one paragraph? So Feliz Navidad and Joyeux Noël! Marie |
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Loved the card Donna! I think everyone's getting last minute Christmas party organized and gifts wrapped. I can't wait until after Christmas, off load all the goodies to family and start calorie counting. Really! This extra fat around my waist is disgusting. I'm baking more cookies right now for party. You don't want to know how many I've eaten. :nono:
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Hello Goldens!
I survived a dental appointment today with the assistance of medication. Yay. Resting for a while at home then I have a couple things to do. Going down to mom's tonight to cook those fresh trout. I have to do a couple batches of a new recipe: chocolate bark. melt chocolate over double boiler til very thin. Add enough sunfower kernals and/or chopped peanuts and stir to coat. Spread on waxed paper in a thin layer and allow to harden. Break into pieces and enjoy. It is a wonderful combination of sweet and salty and unique. Marie, I dont get really stressed over the holiday, either. I actually enjoy it. I have just been really busy with work and chaos. Donna, what a lovely card! It would be so cool to be able to make something like that. Bobbi, I have had trouble with the baking/testing thing a little, also. At this point, I am just waiting to survive the week. Connie, I have made that mistake with friends' children. It would help if they would spell their names in traditional ways. What is up with the weird spellings? Isabella, I agree with Marie. The only way that I can break those habits is to bargain with myself. Usually the healthy stuff fills me so I don't go overboard. Carol, so nice to have you back and doing well. Keep us posted about your recovery! Rie |
Good Hola, Goldens!
I'm home... I like getting off at 2!! I didn't have a chance to pop in while at work: 1) too busy and 2) most importantly, the stupid computer kept freezing when I'd try to get into 3FC. That computer is older than I am, I think, and every bit as creaky! Glad you all liked the Christmas card. I cannot imagine how she does that! So talented!! I love her cards, and it's fairly inexpensive for 2 years' worth of unlimited sending... $18.00, I think, and quite the bargain! My leg is bugging me today. I just took two Advil and expect relief momentarily. It's that deep down pain that makes one sick to the stomach... and we had snow yesterday, which is FINE, but when the barometer drops, every inch of my body HURTS. I was whining BIG TIME yesterday... better today (believe it or not! :)) Hope you're all doing well. I'm going to gork for a while and do some errands and celebrating tomorrow. I have my NY resolution all ready to go and am anxious to see how long it lasts! Onward! Any newbies, welcome! |
Donna, thanks for the very pretty card. I'm living in a "white Christmas" today as it has been snowing since 10 am this morning. Very pretty but awful on the roads. Had to drive to town today but made it safe and sound both ways.
Marie & Rie, that's a great idea. I'll just think apples, apples, apples. And BTW, Marie, you had 3 languages in one paragraph--did ya forget the English? LOL, LOL. I'm not going to stress over the holidays, there's always next year! I'm in the midst of baking pieces for a gingerbread house. At least I won't eat that. It usually sits out so long I have no desire to even taste it. I'll post a picture when done. Merry Christmas to everyone. |
Tuesday nightt already
Hi Goldens, Just an update from South Florida where it's in the 70s and I'm battling ants! Putting that aside, I'm having a good week staying off the scale and doing the right thing. I started my day at the gym after going to a lovely Christmas party at the Ritz Carlton last night. The food was fabulous and the ballroom was stunningly decked out for the holidays. We didn't stay late as my husband had to get up and go to work (at the Ritz Carlton) this morning. I'm a teacher so I am on break until January 3. I hope I can find a way to post from my Blackberry to this forum when I return to work.
Anyway, I sent out 12 more Christmas cards today and graded about 30 papers-I have many, many more to go but I feel good about getting on with it before Christmas. Now, if I could just get rid of these ants! ARGHHH. Trish |
Marie - I also make deals with myself. Mine is mainly about exercising. If I'm watching my soaps, I have to be exercising. The way my exercise room is set up, I can watch TV while on the treadmill and elliptical. I can do it just as well while exercising as I can while reclining in my chair or lying in bed. Right now though, that deal is out the window. No exercising for me for a while. The doc would probably say I could walk on the treadmill if I felt up to it but right now I don't feel up to it. First of all, I would have to go down and back up a flight of stairs and I'm not doing stairs very well.
I have a nurse coming in every day to pack my wound and change bandages. It's nice to have that, although DH was prepared to do it. This nurse said she has never seen a patient in the home for a colostomy reversal. It's just not considered necessary. But when I had heart surgery, they came, and all they did was take my BP, temp, and look at my insicion. I think this wound care is much more important to prevent infection. My step son sent me a really cute picture of my grandson and granddog in front of the Christmas tree. I will post it if I can figure out how. |
Getting coal in my stocking -
Hi Everyone, On Monday, my DD & SIL took me to lunch & a movie as part of my Christmas present. Yesterday, they took me shopping for Ugg boots (to help deal with my cold feet problem) and to dinner. Yesterday, I was an absolute Grouchy Grinch! I feel so bad. Not sure what got into me. I will go over to their house this evening and apologize. We leave tomorrow for Rehoboth Beach and I am sure they are having second thoughts about this trip. Lynn |
Oh Lynn!
I am sure that they will be understanding about your temporary grinch. We all have those days. Have fun on the trip! :hug: Be back later. Rie |
Good morning, finally...! Troubles getting 3FC to load today...
Lynn - I'm sure your DD will forgive you. Have a good trip! Marie - I'm impressed that your brain falls for the tricks! Mine says "you are KIDDING me, right??" (gobble, gobble, gobble, snarf, snort) Here's another Christmas greeting: http://ak.imgag.com/imgag/product/pr...73936/graphic1 Hope all are having a good day! |
Rie, glad you survived the dentist. I know you aren't fond of them... BTW, I work with our student info system and the spellings of names is mind boggling. We have a large Hispanic population and our ELD coordinator told me that since H is silent in Spanish (I knew this but didn't make the connection). I was mentioning there are random H's in so many of the students' names. Her explanation suddenly made sense. My favorite is the student Jonhathon. The secretary thought it was a misspell on the registration and put it as Johnathon. The mother went ballistic.
Donna, I hope you feel better. My hip is slowing getting better. I've been doing the yoga move and added a couple more that I know help the other creaky areas of my body. So you have made me add stretching to my exercise. Now if only Rie could get me to add strength training, I'd be doing what the expoerts say is the balanced routine. I'm thinking I'll stay out of balance. Isabella, I did think of mentioning English when I wrote it but alas, it is not unique. N'est pas? BTW, my DH loves to build gingerbread houses. But he'll snap off pieces and eat them. Yuck! (I thought of writing merd but thought that the international typing police wouldn't like that). Trish, what do you teach and where in south Florida. I'm mostly familiar with Boca Raton but I love Vera Beach (not so south) and my fave is the Keys. Carol Sue, when I first began exercising, not only did I make deals with myself, I bribed myself. I have a cool database I wrote to track my exercise and I earned money. I bought some spendy toys with my earnings. When I had the plastic surgery, I put the whole cost against the earnings so I'm still in the hole nearly 2 years later. When it's "paid" off, I'm going to find a new toy to exercise to. Anyway, I don't need to bribe myself anymore but since DH is acclimatized to that process, why give up free toys? Lynn, I'm sorry you were grouchy yesterday. I do know, however, that your family will appreciate the apology. There is nothing so liberating for the apologizer and the apologizee so I'm thinking you won't get coal. So I called my mom and dad last night because I made a boo-boo on their computer. I'd saved an old Quicken backup and not the one I made right before wiping out their computer. I was so sorry and sad. My mom was great and I did tell her I could recreate it by using online banking but she still uses her register so all was fine. Still I felt so bad. But part of the reason I called was she sent me a check to reimburse me for the computer parts I'd bought. All well and good. And then she sent me $100 extra. Not so good. I did the computer because I wanted to help her. Alas, she was insistent. So I said she could pay for one of the earrings I bought since they were $200. She asked what kind and I was stuck. I don't lie so I told her about the Daith piercings. My father is hacking away in the background and I'm trying not to laugh. My mom could visualize it and thought it would be pretty. So then I said I might as well come all the way clean and told them about my tattoos. My father "I cannot believe we're having this conversation". I lost it then and burst out laughing. I told them I'd send pics of both. My poor parents. It was quite funny and I'm grinning as I wrote this. Before I called, I'd looked at the tats as I exercised and thought that I'd have to go to MN in the winter since I wouldn't want to shock them and winter would be a good reason to have them covered. So I told my parents my thoughts and that now I'd be able to visit them in the summer too. Anyway, the new daith earrings arrive yesterday. DH will put them in on Friday and I'll post a picture. They're so cute. Marie |
Hi GG's
It's just been such a crazy week. I worked the weekend, and these days are run, run, run. I'm afraid i'll trip over myself. Still doing Christmas preperations and shopping. I have to work Friday, off saturday, and we celebrate then, and work Sunday. That, and trying to keep up things at home are making me a little crazy right now. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but my BIL was put in hospice couple of weeks ago. The hospice nurse said he wouldn't last this week, but he's stuborn and has a will to live. Never underestimate that. but it will be any day, and I'm thinking he won't make it untill Christmas. It's my husbands sisters husband, and we are the only help she has. Trying to help her as much as we can along with every thing else, just leaves very little time. So, I probably won't be showing up here a lot in the next few days. I'm one of those people who bribe/talk myself into things too. I make deals with myself, reward myself. what ever it takes. I earned my pandora bracelet by giving myself a bead for evry 5 pounds I lost. I can't watch certain programs unless I'm watching from the treadmill. I lift weights during certain programs. Just do whatever works for you. Me, I accept bribes. Freda |
Still having back spasms but think it is a little better. Still taking meds though so I can get things done. Cleaned bathroom pretty thoroughly and dusted office and spare bedroom besides daily stuff. Had a nice phone talk with my youngest dd.
Trying to eat better today as my weight is now up eight pounds from my sig weight and I was actually 2# below that before Thanksgiving! It sure comes back fast if you don't watch it! No time for personals today. |
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