It was another run around day...hard to get anything done at home this way! By the time i get home I'm tired and housework is the last thing I feel like doing! I started the day early (after little sleep again) at the clinic lab getting my cholesterol checked (just routine). Then we went to McDonalds for breakfast and I've been wanting to try their oatmeal. It was pretty good but a little too instant tasting (pasty) for me...I prefer the old fashioned kind. Also it was too many carbs. Whoops!

After that we went to the gym. I walked the track briskly for 10 min, rode the bike on 8 for 20 min, the arm bike for 6 min (tried to set it at 2.5 level but not sure I got it set right), and then finished with 2 sets of 12 reps on 3 weight machines. Felt pretty good.

Then we went to Big 5 for a large exercise ball for some exercises PT wants me to do and I also got a youth basketball for my gs (6) as I promised him I'd get him one. He has a hoop, but no ball. We also stopped at Kohls as dh needed to return an item.

Otherwise...scheduled an appt for a mammogram (oh, goodie!), and worked on our budget, and paid a few bills. We usually bank with a local CU and also ING (online). I love ING but dh doesn't feel comfortable with no local building to visit, so today I finally transferred the funds in our ING checking to our CU, as I want him to feel better about it. I did convince him to keep some of our savings with ING though as the rates are better for regular savings. I have given him the phone number for ING to call and get help if I'm not around or able. Since he isn't very computer savvy and also hasn't handled the money much, I want things to be easy for him if he ever has to do it.

We have also been planning our winter trip. It won't be so long like when we RVed but still took quite a lot of planning. We will be staying in our timeshares with a few hotels and maybe military accommodations along the way. It's pretty cold at times here now so he is looking forward to it.

Glynne - Your cane sounds very cool! Hope that headache doesn't last long.

Cajun - We bought new lights (exterior) this year and dh hung them but we won't turn them on until the first probably.

Bobbi - You are always so industrious. Hope your dh gets a deer...that must be a lot of meat!

Karen31 -I'm trying not to think about your description of what they cleaned in your jeep! But the candied pecans sound very good...I love those things!

Hi everyone. i finally have some energy to post. we had a great thanksgiving but all that we did and 36 for dinner really wiped me out. our professional pictures turned out great. i had wanted one with all of us but becuz my ydd and sil had to work on friday we had to take the pictures seperately. the lady surprized me and photo shopped us all together i love it. food wise i did pretty good but havent weighed yet dont want to know. karen 3 hope your knee gets better, glynne i have a cane like yours and my dd decoupaged it with pretty pink flowered paper. my grdd also decorated my walker with the printed duck tape,black and white check and hot pink. very snazzy. hope your weeks going well, we are having a cold snap. it was -8 below this am. ttfn rosey

The pictures turned out beautifully Rosey ~ glad the lady was able to make it so everyone was in the picture. What a treasure those are.

Good morning goldies,
Ds checked out my iPad and it was just password problems with my router. Yay I'm up and running again. It was hard to type on I phone.
Dh left this morning to go on his hunting trip. He was excited. Last night he pulled out my Xmas tree and decorations. I will do that tonight maybe. I hurt my back pulling wood into the camp Saturday. It was feeling better when I got up yesterday and I hurt it again lifting on something. I took medicine or inflammation and it's a little better this morning. We are going to the festival of lights Saturday and I'm hoping it will be ok. We will do a lot of walking all day.
I'm not being a good girl this week. Eating things I shouldn't. Can't seem to stop. I need an attitude ajustment.
My nephew is at the hospital today. They are having their baby boy today. He will carry on our last name into another generation. I have a great nephew in the hospital with the flu. High fever they can't break. 3 of the 4 in that family has the flu. To top that off my niece that has the flu also got burnt last Wednesday. She was cooking red beans in a magnalite pot and the lid formed a suction. She used a spoon to lift the lid and when she did the pot of beans exploded in her face and arms. They are treating her at the burn unit. It was a ugly thing. No one seems to know why the magnalite pot did that. She is 16 and a beautiful girl. Were hoping the scarring is not too bad.

Rosey~ what a beautiful family. Those pictures are priceless. Please don't take this the wrong way but your dh would make an awesome Santa. Love the beard. Lol I'm freezing at 45 degrees. I would never thaw at -8.

Mary~I admire your courage to keep exercising. I have no courage. I lost my drive to keep going on my diet and exercise. Where are you and dh going on you trip? How long will you be gone? Sounds wonderful.

Gayle~hope your head feels better. I love your snazzy cane. That's was a good idea. Hope your 4 days of work goes by fast.

Bobbi~dh left again to go on a hunting trip. Monday night I made a chili with the deer meat he ground and seasoned. It was so good. There was no grease in it at all. We always try to come up with new ideas to cook deer meat. We are all hunters and always have way too much meat. But we share it with family and friends. I had to chuckle when you said your lemon tree was losing leaves. Your lil lemon tree reminds me of Charlie browns Xmas tree with the 1 leaf and ornament. I'm so hoping you can save that lil tree.

Karenfl~ I love candied pecans. I usually make every year. But I eat too much of them. This year I might not make them. Hope your leg gets better.

Shout out to all I missed.

Hugs
Cajun

Just got home from PT and resting a bit. My PT session was only 1 1/2 hours day..since I have no pain they skipped the ice pack and electrodes. When I was on the ball, they left me alone and I fell off! Scared me more than anything because I thought I knocked something over but guess I didn't, just shook things a bit I guess. I just started falling and couldn't stop. I mean, it's not like it's much of a fall to the ground but I'm not as flexible at my age and later I realized my rt thumb hurt and on the way home realized my the back of my right hand was sore. Funny those two places ...guess I must have caught myself with that hand or something. Once at the gym I fell off the treadmill...guess if it can happen, I will do it. I kind of like the big ball though and there is a lot you can do with it (besides falling!).

I slept pretty good last night. I think maybe it was going back to my mochas after several weeks without and having two in the evenings. Other than them I don't usually get much caffeine (only a little in occasional chocolate or diet sodas) so perhaps I'm sensitive to it. So now I'm limited them to only am or early afternoons.

Carbie - Glad you made it home safely on Thanksgiving! I'm glad I stayed out of the Black Friday shopping. I don't care much for shopping these days. I think for Christmas, dh and I are going shopping together and just buying what we want this year. We've done that before and it's kinda fun to do it that way now and then. The mint hot chocolate sounds good! I love hot chocolate and I use the Nestley milk chocolate (80 cal?) and about 1 carb serv. So not too bad but recently my gs was wanting marshmellows so I bought some for him and guess who's been topping off her hot chocolate with them...so more carbs! I tend to do it in the evenings so my am bs is always high.

Donna - Oh, I hope you get your Christmas present! (relief of pain!). Pain is so difficult and seems like you've had more than your share. Glad you had a good Thanksgiving meal.

Cajun - I go through those times with dieting...just don't care. That's why I've never been able to get and keep the weight off. But at least I keep trying even if rather sporadically and I figure I'm healthier for it. Even now I'm still getting too many carbs in the evening. Think my calories aren't too bad but I should drop them in order to lose more. I'm basically stable in the lower part of my usual range. Today my bs was high in the morning but after breakfast and exercise it was good. Exercise really helps, and most of my meals are fine. I just need to eat fewer carbs in the evening. This morning I had a big breakfast but my carb count wasn't bad...I had a scrambled egg with mushrooms and tomato plus a tiny bit of hash browns and one sl bacon. Then I added a mocha frappe. So many more calories than I usually get but I felt so nice and full and it held me quite a while. At the gym I only did my 30 min of cardiovascular because I had to get to PT. If I don't have much time I always focus on cardio.

Rosey - LOVE, LOVE your pictures!!

Donna ~ I tried to see your Thanksgiving card, but it said I couldn't until I updated my flash player. I didn't get a chance to ask DH for help (afraid to try that stuff myself ~ afriad I will mess something up) and then I forgot until you mentioned it. You'll have to forgive me ~ CRS ~ LOL.

It's late and I'll be back in am....Rosey you are beautiful and the pictures are a joy! Donna that treatment sounds horrible so it should work....read everybody will do personals tomorrow. Dr called to night and scheduled for arthoscopic surgury 12/11. Biggest problem no pain pills 10 days before ...yikes that starts Sun.....hummmmmm k3

Good morning goldies,
House is decorated. Now if I can make myself wrap all the gifts in my closet. We are an outdoor family that loves hunting fishing camping. I took some of the horns we killed and put them in my tree. Most of my ornaments are camouflage cork santas hunter santas fishing santas 4 wheeler santas. Lol. I put my pretty ornaments in the back. So I basically have a outdoor hunting and fishing Xmas tree. It is really cute. Wish I could take a pic. But I can't on iPad.
My back is getting better. I guess it was a pulled muscle.
Last night after work I ran to the dollar store to get a string of lights. After I left there I called the local store here to order me a hamburger( my weakness). She said there are several people to order ahead of you please be patient. She connected me and I thought hhmm maybe that's the Lord telling me not to. So I hung up. Left the dollar store and turned in mcdonalds. There was a long drive thru line. I got in line and waited. As it got my turn to order I thought hmm I listened to my message from the Lord and hung up then the devil took over again. Maybe I shouldn't. When it was my turn I pulled away from the line and went home. Pretty disappointed and proud at the same time. I heard my sisters words she said to me yesterday about the festival Saturday. She told me there is a place that makes awesome burgers and that I needed to do good this week to allow for that burger saturday. Lol that's what I did. But I still wanted that darn burger. Just thought I'd share. How many times does the Lord speak to us and we don't listen. Where it comes to food I think that devil has spoken and I listened a little too much.

Karenfl~ I hope this helps you. Does that pain medicine include advil motrin or tylonel?

Mary~ be careful on that ball lol

Carbi~ that man in your back yard was up to no good. That's a scary thing especially for someone living alone.

Donna~ I can't begin to tell you how thankful I was to have that young man with us. Such a blessing.

Hello to all I missed

Hugs
Cajun

Good Morning...a quick fly thru for me. I have to get quilt worked on for DD Christmas gift.
Rosey...wonderful pictures of you and family. Who's who in the pictures other than you and Steve?
Cajun...DH didn't get a deer yet, I saw one cross our yard yesterday around 6pm. A lone buck, DH was watching tv and missed seeing it.
Carbie...as to the color of your room, is it a bedroom? If it's a bedroom I would match up the paint with the bedspread. I don't do curtains, hate them. When we moved in here close to 30 years ago, the curtains came with the house. All heavy, dusty lined things...couldn't wait to dump them. We put in some expensive shades that exposes the whole window, lets in lots of sunshine. So I'm not much help to you in the department of curtains. P.S. How's the deer population in your area? DH is so frustrated because of sooooooo many no hunting signs in our area. He used to hunt over east by winona but the old guy died and the land was sold...new buyers don't let anyone hunt.
Karen...so sorry you're in pain, hope the surgery helps.
Cajun...we are out of deer burger, yesterday I purchased 10 pounds of beef burger at the store. A great price of $3.19 per pound for 85% lean. Last night I made hamburgers out of some, had to blot out the grease on a paper towel...yuk!. I'd forgotten how greasy hamburger is, give me venison anyday.
Gayle...flash player is easy to install, you won't mess anything up. Go for it!
Mary...have you tried natural herbs or melatonin before bed, we use it every night and it works great.
Donna...my lemon tree has lost most of it's leaves, it does look like Charlie Brown's tree. Nice to hear from you, I don't do Facebook much....only to play some scrabble games so I don't get caught up on the gabbing.
Sorry if I missed anyone...I really have to get started downstairs.

Bobbi~ I would hate to add up what our deer burger cost us. Hunting dues, bullets, license, 4 wheeler, hunting gear, gas, tree stands ect. The list goes on. There was a joke I heard one time that deer meant coat 543.20 per pound. Woulldnt be surprised. Then we all hunt so multiply that x 4. Lol.

hi all...aaaaaaaaarrrg...early this morning heard the phone announce that it was the hospital(scheduling) and I got up out of my chair and it ate me. I ended up on the floor with my feet under the bed, head and shoulders on the foot thingy and pillows and blankets poured on top of me and DH with the phone trying to hand it to me....I COULD NOT get up. No way get on my knees and up. The lady is asking questions and I'm on the floor. Fanny waving in the air and nothing to pull me up with...I finaly literally push my self up with right leg. Noooooow oh boy am I tightening up. I got up because I sure didn't want strangers seeing me so pathetic. Hunky EMTs or what!!!!!

Ordered Christmas fruit for family and friends today. Trying something brand new. My favorite are Honey Bells which are picked in Jan and a cross between mandarine and grape fruit and super sweet, New ones are called Sweet Bells and are only available mid Dec to mid Jan. They are a cross between Honey Bell and Clementines. Supposed to be even sweeter and easy peeling. They call it zipper skin.

Neat email this morning from amazon.com with listing DS's book as a Christmas gift (along with others).

Sorry I just can't do personals. Read everything and have tons of remarks but sitting here is hard. I'll try Saturday, k3

Oh my K3 ~ sorry for your fall. Hope you are ok and not too sore.

Sorry about your fall Karen--- Dog gone it.. Sure hope the only thing bruised was your pride!