Howdy all,
Monday rolls around the corner again. Sure does come fast. I have a quiet week ahead which is nice. Think I'm going to skip yoga today. I had a very bad night - pain in the bones again, I must have woke up every hour - I'd lay on my side and wake up to intense pain in the hip. Not sure if it's weather or food related, probably a bit of both. Today's yoga session is rather intensive, sometimes that's a bit much and makes the pain worse so I think I'll stay in and do one of the Peggy Cappy Yoga for Pain DVDs for an hour. I did get the 3 boxes of books off the living room floor that have been sitting there for over a year Sorted through them, organized them into the bookcase. I am going to set a goal and try and read 2 books a week. More than half of the books in the case are one time reads and donates back to the thrift shop. Have to empty my bookcase to make room for all the good books that will be coming in May when people come back up north here and donate their winter's reading to the shop - that's when we get the best stuff.
Are any of you still watching Downton Abbey? What do you think of the current season? I'm not as fascinated as I was at first. I don't like it when they do a period piece and then put modern situations in it. For example - Lady Mary "sampling" lovers for a new husband? While I know that since time began people have been sexually active, I just think the prim and proper Brits of nobility would not be following the same urges as the peasants. The men of course always had mistresses but it just doesn't fit to me with Lady Mary doing the same. Too much opportunity for scandal. Same with Lady Edith chasing her child. Downright scandalous for a woman to have a child out of wedlock, I somehow don't think that would have been handled in that way. And then there is Thomas the servant - why is it now a days there must be a gay role in every show on TV? I'm sure in those times there might have been a "funny uncle" everyone whispered about but I don't think homosexuality would have been tolerated amongst the servants as portrayed on the show. I still enjoy the show but it seems as if the story lines are a bit stretched.
I am up 2 pounds this weigh in. Mostly salt I'm sure. Need to get back in gear with the meal planning and up the water intake.
Annie - glad you had a good time with the family this weekend. Yikes on the big medical bills. I hope you can spread out the deductible payments. Hope nothing is serious with the bleeding. Keep us posted
Shad - how about if you send a bit of your heat over this way and I'll send you a cool breeze or two? Dinner looks nice and refreshing. Is that parsley on the top - don't you cut it a bit finer? Would think it's a bit on the strong side that way. I misread one of your posts quickly when you were talking about offering food, taking it up and setting it back to be eaten later - thought you were talking about DS and his partner, not the cats!
Ceejay - yes, there can be all sorts of noise outside in the woods. Branches snapping as critters walk, winds through the tree branches. That and an overactive imagination (like mine) make for some "what was that " moments What do you use your tablet for outside of the house? I was thinking the opposite when considering the all in one - we rarely take a laptop because we hardly travel any more although now so many places have Wi-Fi hot spots.
Terra - happy shoe shopping!
Susie - thanks for the tip on the sale for laptops in April. That may come in handy and we certainly can wait until then. I'm glad you got a nap in and are tempering some of your at home work. How was your group discussion at work? I wish they would talk about some of the things that really mattered instead some of this rah rah Gartner stuff that is mostly lip service Ok don't mind me, my jadedness is coming out...
Hello to the rest of the chicks - will catch up with you later. Kitty is giving me "the look" because I keep bouncing her head while resting on my hand as I type. Can't you see I'm trying to nap...