The rain is on hold and it is sunny now in the 50's.
WOW ~ we have been without electricity for the past 10 hours. Lots of folks been out around here ~ the whole valley and beyond. It got rather chilly during the night but we have lots of comfy
bed covers. We have a nice little electric heater that keeps the place as warm as we want it. We do have a furnace but to use it we would have to start up the generator and then who could sleep through that racket. Our fridge is 3 way so we don't lose that. Anyway we are back up. The rain has stopped and the hills and mountains around are nice and white. We went into town to eat because it was so cold in here I didn't want to cook. Found the electricity on in our favorite eaterie 
so had a good OP meal. Instead of getting one of their wonderful high point breakfasts I ordered a cup of their tomato based pasta soup and a dry piece of sour dough bread toast and a slice of ham. I had a filling 7 point breakfast with coffee and creamer. I made a sandwich out of the ham and toast. I feel good about it.FAYE You are the walking
queen. I am so proud of your doing that, especially in this weather. I know how you love it when the pool does open. You have some rude neighbors. I do hope Jack has a good session with the doc and gets a good report. I am not a great Wal*Mart fan per se but they do have lots of stuff we need at the lowest price we can find around here so that is where we buy them. It is a store that hasn't gone trashey all the way and the parking lot is clean. We have found that if a town has two of the stores one is really clean and the other one is trashey. In our travels we would go across town to the clean one.SUSAN If you don't get your SS soon you may want to call an Ombudsman if you have one in your area. Sometimes that is what it takes to get your money started coming regularly. I have heard some horror stories about SS and am so glad that I was able to opt out of paying into it when I was working. I am now on what they call "safety retirement." (I have been retired since I was 45)
I am only allowed to make up to $400 a year ~ or they do some adjustment ~ but I don't plan on having a job. My money goes a lot farther in the South then it does here in California. So when we travel I get more bang for the buck. I hope you can get your situation straighten out soon.
JEAN So glad you are feeling more chipper. But don't over do it and have a relapse. You may find that Walgreen
charges 20 to 25% more than Wal*Mart does for it's products. At least that is what is happening out here. Those big drug store type chains ask top dollar for lots of their things.I made a pot of chicken noodle soup last night and am so glad for It will be a wonderful meal today. I love soup. I get those wide noodles like I used to make at a shop in town. They are dried like I used to dry mine so are really like home made. This coming week one of the large markets in town is getting in lots of those LQ mushroom pizzas
that FAYE turned me on to. They will be selling them 10 for $20 which is a saving of $1.49 per pizza so it is such a deal. 
We got out of school at 1:30 today because it was misting! 
I went to get some much needed groceries and my car computer said to check a tire for low pressure. I drove on home and Bob will deal with it tomorrow. That happened once before and it seems that when the rims get "dirty" beyond normal dirt, it lets the tire somehow lose air. I hope that is what this is; they take the tire and rim off the car and clean them. We had bell practice at 5 and the sidewalks were slick, but the roads were fine. I can tell the deck is icy tonight, but I can't see anything falling from the sky. According to the weather predictions all day long, we are to get 12 - 16" tonight, tomorrow, and into Friday with 40 mph winds. Great, just great! 
I can't imagine who they are all talking to as they walk down the halls with their friends. We are supposed to take the phones if we see them during the school day, but I don't want to be responsible for someone else's phone. I've never seen anyone using a phone although I have seen them in school bags and they are supposed to be left in lockers. I hope Jack has a good appt. with his doctor. When my cousin was a kid she was allergic to ketchup. Her tongue used to swell and it looked like she had blisters on it, then it would peel. She kept right on eating ketchup though. I don't know if she still is allergic to it or not. 
I guess that is job security for me. 
from Iowa!
I got up around 2:30 this morning and nothing was happening so I thought to myself we would have school. Got up at my regular school time, showered, etc., and the "no school" call came at 6 with just a light snow that you could barely even see. GRRRRRR! 
He could have just as well called a 2 hour late last night. As the day has gone on, the wind has come up and the snow is heavier; it has snowed all day so I wouldn't even guess how much we have by now. The plows won't come out until it quits snowing and that's supposed to be tomorrow sometime. Tomorrow is a scheduled half day with teacher in-service so I hope they make the call tonight. A two hour late start would be really stupid! 
I never did see him on my ER trips which is ok by me.
I'm glad you are having good weather! I wasn't sure if you were in line for the tornadoes and rain storms on the weathermap or not.
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in Iowa!
but my niece, great niece and my niece's husband still are so we will take them out to dinner on the Friday night they are here. I can't say I am sad about it truthfully. I told her yesterday that when we go to Indiana the end of the month I can only spare her a couple hours for breakfast on Saturday morning, (she will be at the shower though.) It is going to be a quick trip up and back and I promised to help with the shower stuff on Saturday and we go home on Sunday. She is not very good about understanding as she has this messed up notion that your siblings should be more important to you than your spouse or children. Well, that is except when it comes to HER family. Then I get an email from the other sister, and she and her husband and dd are driving 
from California the 6th of April to Fort Smith Arkansas to see his family and she wants to see me. I told her that I thought we should meet halfway in Little Rock for her birthday (no one, even her husband will do anything for that woman's birthday.) She got all excited and so I reserved a car and made a hotel reservation for us and she is going to drive over on the 10th and I will too and we will spend the day together for her birthday, stay the night then drive back. It is only about 2.5 hours from Fort Smith and from Memphis, so it isn't a bad drive. She and I are pretty close so it will be nice to have an all girl thing for a day without her pain in the butt husband telling us where we will go and when etc. She is the one I made that aqua and white sleeveless sweater for with the beads. I bought her the book Sisters by Danielle Steel and some bath products from Bath and Body for her birthday to go with the sweater and necklace. I am truly hoping she doesn't bring her teenage dd. I would like to have just us time for once. She always drags her dd with her everywhere and always has. Her dd may not want to come if her cousins are free to hang with while she is gone. Her dd is a nice girl, but would get bored with us. When she and I worked at the law firm together we always had a great time together.
Some people just never do 'get it.' You will get your sweater done in time! 
I showed a loss of 3.4 
which is not a normal for me. I usually just take it off a pound a week or so on average. What a wonderful surprise ~ it is probably for last week also since I did follow program before showing that gain. Anyway I am going in the right direction. Just 6 more pounds to lose before I get that washer from WW that is stamped 50 lb. for my key chain. 
Got my hair cut today, nice and short. 
Your husband may not be home next tome then what will she do. He is a good neighbor to do that for her.
Your sweater sounds like it will be done in time. Be sure and post a picture of it.
at you later.
sunshiney day here in the neighborhood. I don't have many plans for the day and think I will just putz around and read a good book.
on going in the right direction this week in your weight loss. I know that when you exercise and lose inches you are working at it for sure. It has been said that a person that looks smaller than a larger one can actually weigh more because of their muscle content. Also are you eating the same amount of points every day? If so maybe you could try eating high one day and low the next with at least a 5 to 7 point spread between the two. Shake up that motabelism. My whole week is like that for I have a body that won't lose eating the same amount each day. Or eating the same things each day. I certainly hope this has helped. Your sweater looks lovely on your torso. I know you will have a good time at that banquet with that darling little boy. Enjoy.
Bob did his good deed for the day. We have an older couple across the street (next door to the lady stuck in the street yesterday) and they have been gone for a week. We have lived in this house for 23 years; he will wave if we meet in the cars, but she will never acknowledge us in any way. Last night Bob said he thought he would get up this morning and blow out their driveway because he figured it was about time they should be coming home again. He did call the man's business and the employee said they had planned on coming home Thursday, but probably got caught in the weather somewhere. When we got home from WM their car was in the driveway and as we drove by the man waved us to stop. He chatted away like we had been friends for years and thanked Bob over 'n over for doing his driveway. The guy is 81 years old and certainly had no business trying to walk through 4 feet snow to get to his garage!
Don't be discouraged and I know that is easier said than done. Do you drink all of the water that WW tells you to? Otherwise you are doing everything you are supposed to be doing as far as I can tell. This weight challenge is a mystery to me . . . when I think I've gained, I lose and when I'm sure I've lost, I gain. 
I am in a funk right now and eating way more than I should simply because I'm afraid of getting sick on the meds again. Your sweater looks very nice! 
We will miss the spur-of-the-moment visits. Even though it is 2 1/2 hours, that extra 1 1/2 hours makes a big difference in just dropping in to say "hi" and spend an hour.
When we went to Hawaii for R & R, the army base was called Ft. De Russey or something like that. There is a pink hotel, right on the beach that was Air Force officers' quarters when my dad was stationed there. I didn't see anything pink in your picture so it must be on down the beach a ways. I'm sure you will enjoy a vacation wherever you go!