Good Monday morning, all! Quite a bit of clucking going on already!
Cottage: Wow! Botswana. Those girls are very fortunate to be seeing so much of the world so young - what a wonderful opportunity for fun and education! Hope everything goes well with the car. The EPA has been on our county for some time to require emissions inspections, so I'm expecting our inspection costs to go up quite a bit. (The pollution the EPA speaks of is not from our towns of 6,000, 2,500 and 500 people; it's all from the factories that are over the border in Mexico, but the EPA has to come down on someone for it.)
Cat: I'm glad some businesses are really doing something to combat the rising fuel costs. It would be easier if they just gave us all raises
, but they're feeling the sting as well, I guess. Hope you and DH get your new schedule figured out soon. $12 a pack of chicken! Thank goodness we're not there yet! Thanks for the recipe - DH and I should try that.
Ruth: Once again, I can't believe how busy you are! Aren't you supposed to be retired?
Hope that coffee perks you up - I'll join you in a cup!
I'm sure Disney will be fine - I know how you feel, though, I get so worried when we have to take our dachshund in for just about anything.
Cyndi: Sorry you're feeling the grocery sting as well. We've been doing pretty well with the garden producing so well. I've switched to some cheaper cuts of meat, the likes of which we haven't seen since college, but we're still eating. (And our steer will be packed into the freezer by the end of the month - so no worries for beef!) Hope your 3.5 day work-week happens!
TwynnB: Congrats on hitting your exercise goal and on the friendliness from your scale! You're on a roll! Too bad about your son, I hope he feels better soon.
Pearl: Isn't getting back into the swing of things after vacation one of the roughest things to do? I still don't feel completely "in my groove" and we've been back for 2+ weeks! Hope it all comes together quickly.
Nessa: Good luck with the Durham job! Sorry about DH and the economy!
Chipper: I don't know if we've "met" yet, but if not, "Hello!" Hope you get back to your old self soon. Waiting on docs' clearance can be the worst. I think most of us here have been through the "Can I work out yet" thing and it stinks! I hope your trip to get milk is somewhat exciting!
Me: Sorry about being MIA this weekend. I'm leaving to see my grandparents on Wed. and DH's mom and her bf and his daughter will be visiting this week while I'm gone (don't get me started on what was said when DH informed her I'd be out of town.
I've had this planned since April and she's bailed on us twice since then.) We spent the weekend cleaning and doing laundry, plus I worked a few hours yesterday. We had rain almost every day last week, so the back yard is still a mess and I won't even mention the floors! Oh well. This week is a short week at work for me (2 days) and then I get to see my grandparents and some other family that I haven't been able to really spend time with since before we moved here in '06. I also spent quite a bit of time blanching spinach to freeze - that was fun.
I'm back on P1. I definitely didn't commit to it when we returned from vacation, so I'm doing it right this time. I feel like it may be tempting fate visiting my Japanese grandma when I can't eat rice, but I know that she understands what I need to do to lose weight, so we'll see how it goes. I would have waited until next Monday, but why put off tomorrow what can be done today? The scale hasn't gone up, but it sure isn't going down either, so this is to get my butt back in gear.
Well, I feel like I wrote a book! I've got to hit the shower and get a lunch packed. Hope everyone to come has a great day!
~Kim