I went to bed early, but woke up when they started shooting off fireworks. That lasted about half an hour and then the power went out for a couple minutes. It was just enough that you had to start everything over again and fix all the clocks and such.
We had a horrible storm last evening and the rain was coming straight down. The side of the garage looked like it had one of those high priced wall falls that people put in their houses built against a wall. We had tornados around here too, but all is quiet now. It was really warm yesterday, but it is chilly again this morning.
We aren't doing much today. I am going to send Jack to the store later to get some pork n beans and a couple cans of sliced new potatoes. I am making meat loaf, scalloped potatoes and baked beans for dinner and discovered I had neither potatoes nor beans. I find I like the new potatos better than slicing regular potatoes and have used them for a couple years now.
I haven't made much headway on the second sock and I should be ashamed of myself. I guess if she hadn't already gotten a gift from me I would have rushed it more, but this is kind of afterthought now. I do need to get them finished and shipped off though.
I have been tickled at Jack. His was in on a contest picking football bowl winners. He said he has done this for several years and has always picked the wrong team the first bowl game played. He said this year he won the first bowl game played and thought that insured him sucess. Well, his picks have been the worst ever!
He has picked about 80% of the games wrong this year! I can't remember what you gals were talking about so no personals today. I will pick them back up tomorrow. You gals have a fine rest of the weekend. Faye
Its 53 degrees already and overcast. Faye's storms are on their way to us...starting tonight and tomorrow.
I doubt very seriously that I will ever use a whole box of them ~ ever. What I manily use them for is when I get a glass booklet that has patterns I want I take them out of the booklet and place them in the plastic sleeves then in a binder. Makes it so much easier when I want to use a pattern to make a copy of them to cut glass from. Will bought some training pee pads to try to get this little mutt trained. Seems he doesn't like going out in the snow to do his business. If Ragg Mopp is out for his job then Beanie goes also but when he is put out there alone it is a different story. OH the joys of training a puppy.
However, your meal sounds delicious.
Then we will have in this year a 1-11-11 and a 11-1-11 and a 11-11-11. What fun. Type at y'all later. 
I'm sure I put is someplace stupid so will continue my search. Meanwhile I've cleaned out two drawers and a cupboard looking for it. 
Losing anything around holiday time is a major accomplishment in my book, and you have done well with 8.2#s gone. What colors did you choose for your new quilt? You are so lucky to have a variety of exercise classes to choose from. I wish I had someone to go with and somewhere to go where the members aren't all young skinny minnies. Thanks for sharing the WW Reminders -- I do way too many BLTs!
It seems strange to hear you mention tornadoes this time of year. I hope you didn't have any damage beyond sloppy wet. I'm not a football fan so have no clue on teams beyond IA, MN, and NE football. Bob really doesn't have favorites; he just likes to watch a good game. 
I am going to continue my calendar search when I finish here.
He walks to the side of it but doesn't mind the snow sticking to his shoes. We need to lay a walk out there of stones or something. Anyway when we went out today I walked out the back and when we got back I got out on the front when we came back. I am very leary of slick surfaces since I hyper extended my knee one year when it was winter and things were slick. I remember the pain of it and how long it took to get back to exact. 
I do think when it came back it brought arther with it. The pups are both at the goomer now. We took Beanie to the vet for his shot and the vet said his eyes may straighten out as he grows older but if they don't he sees just fine. He has a bit of a wall eyed look which is so cute. The white that shows is close to his nose and not on the outer edge. It is really an endearing look. I didn't think he had any trouble seeing though. Otherwise the vet said he is in top condition. He goes back in three weeks and then another three weeks for all his puppy shots and then at 6 months he will get neutered. This vet is so nice. He deals with the cats and dogs now and lets his son and daughter deal with the farm animals for they are both vets also. I go to WW tonight! And then the screws tighten. The last "hourrah" is over for it is nuckle down and buckle down time.
It's too bad you can't get their owner to do something about them. You are braver than I to pay bills online. I am like my grandpa -- he thought I shouldn't fly home in the winter when I was in college because the plane's engine might freeze up -- I still don't think technology is here to stay! 
If I would have been there alone I would have told her no, because of the date and the fact that I don't know how to change the dates on the computer, let alone do the deposit itself. We had several other 2010 checks but they were all deposited on the 31st. 
I'd say you have done very well to keep off the 55#s!