I guess everyone is sleeping in!

Yankee, don't let him convince you to go off plan. He can do it if he desires, but you don't have to!

Ruth - I hope your flight goes uneventfully and you start enjoying your time off!

Cottage - I hope you have today off and can relax a bit

I work today, but not til 2. I think I might get a good exercise in, and do some cleaning. And of course, wander the internet with my good friend Paul in hand before I do anything .

Good morning, Twyyn and everyone!

I work out with my mom today. Then it is a long day with the floor refinishers. They should do the rest of the sanding. At some point they'll put on stain samples for us to see. Not sure if they'll get to a full coat of that today or not.

My doctor is letting me taper off the prednisone again, very gradually, but sooner than expected from his original thinking. If I continue to do okay, no recurrence, at the current rate I could be off the prednisone in early March!!! Fingers crossed!! But he'll have me continue with the antibiotics indefinitely.

Have a great day.

Good morning, yes Tammy I slept in whoo hoo!!! So did the dogs thankfully!

Seems like we are all going to work out today. First though is coffee and a smoothie.

Karen so happy for you. I'll keep my fingers everything goes well. Good luck with the floors. Sanding is so dusty! It is exciting to get it done though.

Having a coffee date with DS after school. Tonight the crock pot is getting fired up to make southwestern pot roast. First I must go grocery shopping as it is slim pickings here. With the snow lately, my kitchen floor really needs a good cleaning, not looking forward to cleaning later, but I'll do it

Enjoy today

Good morning, I slept much better last night since DH was feeling better

Tywnn enjoy your relaxing start to your day

Karen that is good news I hope it keeps progressing so well

Jennifer I need to do some deep cleaning as well.

I already did my work out this morning, DD2 only has half a day of school so I will be leaving after my 2 p.m. meeting. I was not happy with the scale this morning, it did not move at all, and I was op all week with no straying, ergh, this is where I still have to stick with it mentally and know that the scale is stubborn and if I stick to it then next week there will be progress.

Have a great day everyone

Pearlrose the scale must be broken! Mine said I was up a pound today. I do know I did not drink nearly enough water and I was a little moody....ok weepy yesterday. So do what I do, blame it on hormones lol. Don't let it get to you. Sometimes the scale is slow to respond.

Good morning It's the start of my long weekend. I traded Monday for today. The cats were not happy about the sleeping in thing but i managed to stay in bed until 8. Now I've got baked oatmeal in the oven and turkey sausage on the stove, the perfect decadent day off breakfast in frigid weather. It's so cold out that our plan is to stay in, watch a movie we've been wanting to see, play Wii Zumba, and eat leftovers. If we get really brave we will venture out to the winter farmer's market for dinner.

Twynn - Hope you and Paul had a lovely morning

Karen- good luck with the prednisone. I know so many people who struggle with that balance between autoimmune crud and prednisone side effects. Sounds like you have a great doctor.

Jennifer - Yup, working out here too but probably something fun.

Rose - the scale and I are not speaking. Hope your morning breezes by

Cottage - thinking of you

Time for more coffee.

I am doing really good on plan and I guess ok on phase 2. Of course the only thing I have had is an apple a day. Maybe tonight I may make some brown rice or quinos...not sure which one. I need to be figuring out my menu now instead of 30 minutes before we need to eat.

Yankee maybe we need to hold each other accountable for our meals!!

Good Morning

I've been working on my photo project this morning and now I need to get ready to head to the pool. I travel later today and DH is already making a long list of things for me to do before I go. He is staying on here with the pup. Lucky guy.

Have a great day everyone!

Ugh, can't get started this morning. I'm on day 3 of this headache. After the kids left for school, I lay back down for a while, but just had weird dreams until I got up again. Hoping the coffee will help. Found out my niece just lost her pregnancy, poor thing, they were so excited to tell everyone last week.
Tammy, did you like the cauliflower bake? Your good friend Paul, I had to think about that one for a minute!
Ruth is on her way, bon voyage, Ruth!
Hugs to Linda.

Hi, everyone! I am here on an actual weekday! I am working from home today, so that explains it. My office is open on Monday, so getting to work from home today is as much of a three-day weekend as I'll get. (We don't get any of the Monday holidays, but we do have very generous vacation and a flexible time off policy, so anyone who wants to take those days really can.)

Nice to see that others have plans to move and work out today. I missed my usual window, but I guess there's nothing stopping me from hitting the treadmill later!

Twynn, I'm also curious about the cauliflower; just bought some yesterday after having seen some recipes here for it.

Schmoodle - sorry about the headaches; are you taking anything that could be causing the weird dreams, or was this a one-time thing? I was on Clairton for a while and it's one of several meds that can do that.

Afternoon all!

I started a bit late today and I got to bed by 2a - a NEW RECORD as of late. Can't turn off the brain.

I need to figure out if DW took the car and if not, I need to food shop and run some errands. I work at the Inauguration on Monday so the thought of going out into the cold today is unbearable

Have a good Friday everyone!