SusanB - Sorry can't help you with the gardening; I have a lot of my own to do this weekend. Luckily, I don't have a lot of dirt to move (I did most of the digging last weekend), I just need to dump some compost in the planter box, but I do have a lot of plants and seeds that I really need to get in the ground. What are you planting in your garden?
2Frus - Handily my parents never visit (I can't imagine what I'd do with them if they did), but I sure overeat when I'm at their house.
Good thing that is usually only once or twice a year! And when my sister was out with her two kids I think I put on at least five lbs!
alinnell - I definitely think it would help to make your omelets one at a time, unless you are using a big pan for the eggs to spread out in, which would probably make it hard to get the omelet out in one piece. I think adding water or milk would help with the dryness, so you might give it a try that way. If you cook it with the lid on at the end, it shouldn't be runny (just don't add more than 1 tbsp per egg).
Abbyin - Congrats on the Prius!
(ok, I know that smilie is a bike, but it is the closest I could find that looked like driving) My friend has one and she loves it! She especially loves that she can drive in the carpool lane with it with only one person in the car--I don't know if Indiana has this or not, but it's a big deal out here in CA.
Suerose - Congrats on 32 years! That's very impressive.
Doughnut - Sorry you are still having trouble with the
at work. This too shall pass...
Ennay - I've been drinking a lot more coffee lately too--at least one, sometimes two cups per day.
I've even very recently started making it myself (I used to rely on my SO to make it, but some days he was late or didn't make it and I finally figured out that there's no big mystery to using the coffeemaker--turns out I'm perfectly capable of grinding beans, inserting a filter, and adding water). I enjoy it
and I feel like it is a harmless indulgence (and I have so few food indulgences these days). I drink decaf with 1 tbsp fat free half and half (which I'm sure is some horrible cancer-causing substance because I can't imagine how they make half and half fat free--but don't tell me, I don't want to know
I'm addicted and it's too late to save me
) and 2 tbsp sugar-free Torani syrup. It helps me stay on plan because it keeps me from snacking.
...which is something to really feel good about.
. The thing I figured out though, is that I don't stay on plan when I'm extra happy and excited so I better calm down and get back to business 
I was on the go from the moment I woke up until about . . . um 10 minutes ago. It was Mom's birthday, so dad and I were trying to get everything together for a cookout. Nothing big, just my sis and her family and a grandma. But it still had us, actually me, hopping. I woke up by 7:00am, ate my bowl of oatmeal . . . yummy and got dressed. By 9:30am I had my haircut, stopped at the bookstore to see if they had anything new in, finished getting the stuff for the cookout and was back home. I stopped long enough to check my maill and put in the first of three loads of laundry, and ate some lunch before heading outside to spend the next 2 hours mowing and trying to clean the mower. It was not pretty. Then I came in put in the second load of laundry and took my second shower of the day, made my first of two trips to the pharmacy and came home to loud some songs onto a MP3 player for my sister. By this time the third loud of laundry was ready to put in and my mom came home. Through out this I did manage to read a couple of pages in the books I'm reading and crotchet a couple of rows. Oh, and I burned the trash. After we ate me and two of my sister's kids washed dishes for my mom. All this almost makes me think that I have an easier time at my regular job. Believe me this is not a normal day.
