Good morning-up at 3:30. I guess I will have to accept my sleep pattern. The thing that bothers me is that I am tired during the day.
We are going to a gathering of Sunday school this afternoon. Was thinking about Christmas shopping this am-15% off at Beall's outlet on Mondays. We will not go to Jamaica this year so that frees up my stash!!!! Now I have to tell Isaac.
Had a nice dinner at Steak and Ale-really like that place. It's so great for you to join our group-Eliza.
Tammy-we are going to a train show in Tampa on Feb 2-will you be there then?? We could meet-and Joanne???
Bye for now-Mima

Mima, I did see part of that Radio City Music Hall show! It was great!!! It is extremely windy this morning. The dog could have blown away when he was outside!! It is also about 27 degrees. Wish it was warmer!!!

Eliza, that diet sounds like it's right up my alley! I am in the habit of snacking often lately. If I would make better choices for my snacks, I might do Ok. The doctor told my hubby the other day that it might be good for him to eat smaller meals during the day instead of 3 big ones because of some of the health issues he is having. Might be something for him too, but he doesn't need to lose any weight. I do drink Diet Pepsi quite a bit. I will have a REAL pepsi sometimes, and I know that isn't good for me at all.

Yuck to the ice storm!! We had some sleet on Saturday, but it didn't last long. It was in the 50's yesterday, so it was pretty nice, but like I said above, today isn't nice at all!!

I take flexeril if I remember to take it early in the evening. Otherwise, I can't get awake the next day. My cousin was taking 2 a day. I would never be able to function taking 2. I should break them in half, and take 1/2 at night and see if that makes a difference.

hubby and I are going away later today and staying overnight. Just want to get away. He hasn't been much of anywhere since he came home from the hospital in September. Need to start doing more before we take off for Georgia the end of January.

Not sure if I'll be back on today or not. Everyone have a great week!!

Welcome Eliza and Razz..
Razz- Go to a good doc. and get the proper help ypu need.. Ofcourse we are here to support you but the medical people are the ones who would be the best judge of your health..
Eliza- I hope your diet works for you.. It sounds to me like a 1000 cal. diet.. I am still a believer of Weight Watchers.. They are the most healthy. Slower maybe but slow is good and the best way to go..Also 50% should be exercise..I have been on diets of most every kind most of my life.. I am probably at 75 (in march) older than any of the group.It was not untill the last 5-6 years that I got my act together and lost 74 lbs..Now it is the struggle to keep it off.Nothing is ever easy..In other words like I told a friend.."there is no easy button here."
Tammy -It sure sounds good for us to get together in Feb. ?
Hello Happy ,meme- I haven't bought the first thing for Christmas yet . It is panick time..Joanne

Hi everyone. I tried Weight Watchers and I didn't do well. I was really careful but hardly lost anything. So far the 3H is doing great. I'm finding it easy and can't wait to see the cookbook that he has out. My favorite recipe from WW is the 0 point soup...just made it yesterday...yummm!

Have a great day everyone :0) E

Good morning-still can't sleep-probably is stress-I get sort of depressed when we first get here, missing the people back home. It's just an adjustment and a transition.
We went to a nice gathering with some of the Sunday scho0ll class-her house was so decorated. 2 of my friends couldn't believe I was going to be 70 next summer. Those are good friends!!! 3 of the people were around 85. It's just amazing. One of the couples have been married for 5 years-they are 85!!! I guess it;s the weather. And one lady was sad because it's only 4 months ago that her husband died.
The rent is in the bank but not the satellite payment. Or another payment to Home Depot. I like to keep it simple. Do all things at once.
Evan is coming today!! Hope he is good, He usually is-he only gives his parents a hard tome.
Got some good buys at Beall's Outlet.
Have a good time , Tammy. And hi everyone else. It's nice to have new people aboard our group.
Mima

Welcome to our group Eliza. Is that the diet plan by Jorge Cruise? It looks like it would work ok. I need to get busy and do something.

Well, those 6 pounds I lost, I gained back, just by going to the hospital and have a couple bags of intravenous. I haven't eaten much for a week, and yet no weight loss at all. Go figure! Inches are gone though.

I still am not feeling great. I will work from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. and see how this goes today.

We did our cookie exchange at work yesterday. I had to bake 9 doz cookies, but now I have a nice variety of 9 doz different things. So that is nice.

Mima - hope you start to get some sleep soon. What time do you go to bed? and do you nap during the day?

Tammy - enjoy getting away. It will do you both good.

Joanne - It would be great if you, Mima and Tammy could arrange to meet.

Well, I am going to go have a cup of coffee and see how that works for me. See you later.

Hi! I finally got a good night's sleep-I went to bed at 8 because I am going to Art but went to bathroom at 2 so I went back to sleep til after 4. I took care of Evan yesterday-but I did take a nap-but I have been doing that for years and always slept. What I like to do is go to bed at 9 and get up at 5.
I am glad you are better Anne. 4 hours of work is enough.
Hope Tammy is getting destressed.
Evan was so good yesterday and actually ate lunch. I do not feed him any snacks.
Can't wait for painting-it's fun!!!
I am so glad it's recycle day. Bye for now-Mima

Mima, your sleeping habits sound almost as bad as mine. I've been taking Lyrica and it isn't doing much for me. I'm up to 2 at night now but I still can't sleep and wake up at all hours. Sorry you aren't going to get to go on your trip.

Glad to see we have some new people. Welcome!!! I don't much like "diets" either. I will cut back now and then if I gain a few pounds and maybe cut way down on my bread and sugar ... don't much like bread anyway and the sugar makes me hurt worse. I don't drink a lot of cokes and when I do I never drink regular cokes ... always diet. I usually just drink tea or water. I'm a big believer in green tea. If you want to lose weight start the day with a 100 cal. yogurt drink, up your protien (lean white meat, fish and eggs) & greens (salads, green beans, etc.) and drink a lot of water and green tea. Make your snacks stuff like sugar free jello or pudding and once or twice a day one of those 100 cal. snack packs. This way of eating ever fails and you don't get hungry or jittery.

Daughter came over yesterday and we got all the decorating done. She's coming back Fri. to help me clean. She went to pick up the kids from school yesterday afternoon and bought a bunch of different stuff to decorate my tree with. Seems she didn't like what I had. I have an angel tree but she wanted some other things to go with it ... I had gold and she said she thought silver would look better. When she finished, my tree topper didn't match, my tree is in the dining room and my table runner and centerpiece didn't match. So I had to buy all new stuff! She appologized. Said she didn't think about all that. I said, that's what happens ... you can't change one thing without changing everything. Oh well, now I'll have a whole new look for Christmas ... even it it did cost me nearly $200.

Hubby said he'd move the living room furniture & vacuum and clean the baseboards tomorrow & I want to clean out the window sills and set up my candles, tomorrow night I have praiseteam practice, Fri. daughter will help me finish the cleaning and Fri. night Jenna is spending the night and I have a Ladies meeting ... it's our Christmas party & we're exchanging secret pal gifts, I got a little gift for Jenna today because she will be going with me. Then Sat. night we have our Sunday School Christmas party at church. Full week ahead. I spent 7 hrs. in town today & didn't get much done. It was packed. Dread to see what it will be like as it gets closer to Christmas. I'm doing most of my shopping for the kids online this year. I thought about going to NC after Christmas but the more I think about it the less I think about it. That flexeril and a quilt sounds pretty good to me!

This season sure gets busy, especiall when you are involved in so many things-trouble is you like all of them. Secret gifts are sure fun.
Loved Art class-we have 2 new members-one with a wooden leg-we need to get to know names so we won't call people by their body parts. We will get a full class in January. Love the teacher-she is so great!! and knowledgeable.
Tammy-when will you be in Tampa????
An Evan free day-it motivates me to get things done. I think the decorations are causing allergies-actually I know because it happens every year.
We have the greatest jacuzzi-I put this monster jet on all my aches and pains-that's just about everywhere.
Slept good last night,
Anyone have any good ideas about a recliner-mine is way too soft. Mima

Sorry I've been out of the loop! We went away and things have just been crazy. I've had a 24 hr. flu bug, and I'm up for a while before heading back to bed.

Mima and Joanne, we won't be in Tampa till the end of Feb. In fact, after looking at the calendar, I don't think we'll be there until March 1.

i have a few gifts bought, but nothing is wrapped yet. That's what I planned to do today, but I can't sit/stand up long enough to do much. Maybe tomorrow.

Eliza, that 0 point soup is a good one!! I've been on WW in the past, and I've had luck and then no luck with it.

Anne, I hope you are feeling better soon!!! I like those cookie exchanges. Lots of variety!!

Meme, glad you got the decorating done with the help of your daughter!! It sure makes a difference to have help, doesn't it, except for spending more money!!!!! I agree about the flexeril and a quilt sounding good!!!

I wish I had a jacuzzi. It would feel great right now!!!

Good morning-sorry you don't feel well , Tammy.. I had a dream that I had some kind of a bug, My stomache hasn't been right-IBS symptoms-gotta be good.
We are ready for Evan-Brad found a set of drawers with some knd of box in it at the dump and Evan had his eye on it-he said we could share. Well. it is now filled with his toys.
After Christmas, we are going to get rid of the extra lr set we bought-I never liked it-pastel- but we pd 500 used. I will try to sell it on Craig's list first-then donate it. Brad likes the lounge chair we have so I will just get a new one. Evidently that room used to be a porch and they closed it in-there are 2 huge doorways where sliders used to be -would really like to close one of so we could use it for storage etc.
Guess we will go to tthe flea market today and get veggies. Brad will help at the Handyman's workday tomorrow.
Bye for now, Mima

Mima, I have felt better as today as progressed. I even took a shower and went away for a little while. 2 friends were having open houses for their businesses, and I hated to miss those. Good thing I didn't have to take my bucket with me!! TMI?

What a good deal to keep the toys in! Good luck selling the lr set.

We have a bit of snow here now - maybe 8 inches over the past couple of days. It's supposed to be warmer and rainy over the weekend, so it will get slushy.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Snow!!! It is sure not here-80's. Brad is going to work with men at church today. I will be ALONE!!!
Went to Flea Market-they have discounted Avon-got some things for Al-she
has such acne.
Evan was good all day-then acted up with his parents-isn't that the way.We went to DQ last night-I didn't have ice cream because I am having a reaction to dairy.
Finally got my meds that went from FL to MA and back!!
Have a great fibro free day-guess there is no such thing,
But have a good one anyways. Mima

I wish is was in the 80s here! We're having our second ice storm of the season...boooo...!

Anne-it is the diet by Jorge Cruise. I've been on it for 2 1/2 weeks and I've lost 8 pounds. I was originally wrong about the calories though. I have 400 for breakfast, lunch and dinner and 100 for morning and afternoon snack. Love it...I'm never hungry!

Has anyone tried acupuncture (probably spelled wrong) for their fibro? I've really been suffering with these fronts moving in.

Ok...enough whining! Is anyone done with their holiday shopping? We trying to get it done between snow and ice storms...Yuck!

Mima, one of the open houses I went to was for Avon. I bought quite a few little gifts to have on hand. It's hard to pass on ice cream at DQ. Do other DQ's have frozen yogurt still? Some of them used to have it around here, but I really haven't seen it for a while.

Eliza, I was looking at the book for that diet at KMart the other day. Didn't buy it though. Wanted to check the price at Amazon first. THought about asking for it for Christmas. I have some friends who have tried acupuncture for a variety of things, and they all say it's great. I haven't tried it. I'm a chicken!!

I am honestly not sure if I'm finished shopping yet or not. lol I have several things for hubby. For our son, he's buying some insulated overalls for walking back and forth to classes, so that's a gift from us. I do have him a movie and a book. Hubby and I are talking about getting him a small microwave for his dorm room.

He has been working night desk at the dorm since last year about this time. He goes for an interview on Monday to be a Resident Assistant (RA) for 2nd semester. If he gets it, he doesn't have to pay room and board!!! He'll have a single room also. He had already thought about doing it next year, and then he found out about a couple openings in his dorm for the 2nd semester. Sure hope he gets it!!!

We went shopping today. It was nice. Busy at the mall, but not so bad you couldn't get around.

It is a bit warmer today, and it is starting to rain. The snow will get slushy and slick.