Hi everyone. You have all been such busy bodies today. I can't catch up with you all. My boss is away this week - his son is graduating as an RCMP officer this week, so he went to the grad. Soooo, I get to play at being boss and it is blinkety-blank busy. But, I have things under control for today.
Mama - Good luck on the socks. Once you get the first one finished, the rest will be much easier. I struggled with the first one that I knit, then zipped through a bunch in no time.
lc - Great that you are back posting again. Missed you while you were away. Hope everything is going well for you. I missed the job that you finally settled on. What are you doing...especially that it takes you away during the evenings? Are you still looking after the little ones?
Bamie - How's the shopping? Did you get lots of neat stuff?
Bups - Me, too! I want someone to come in and clean. I grew up with a weekly cleaning lady but it was always a mad scramble the night before to clean before she came.
Buuut, I would like to have one come and do the corners for me...I can whip through the surface cleaning, but hate cleaning out the grunge from the corners. I say that even more forcefully after cleaning out the apartment that we just bought...I don't think the people living there ever cleaned anything. There were bugs in every light fixture, a layer of grease on all the tiles/walls/cupboards in the kitchen and general filth every where. Compounding that, the ceilings are 12 feet, so cleaning everything meant up and down the ladder all day. I was soooooo tired by the end of the day. Oh well, I can still dream of the day that someone will clean my dirt away.
Ruth - Good to hear that Hersh has settled back in so quickly. Hope everything goes well at the vet. Yes, yes, you must get this Christmas stuff under control. I can gloat because I am finished the shopping and just about finished the wrapping.
Just need to start decorating and baking, hoping to be finished by the end of the month. Then I can sit and enjoy the season for a change - I really shouldn't say that too loud. That's when disaster strikes.
Lauren - I think you are smart to extend Phase 1, especially with the cheat. This is partly a mental game, not just a physical program and I have always found that I don't beat myself up so much if I do phase 1 when I know I will be including an off program choice in the eating plan. I usually try to do the phase 1 prior to the cheat, then I don't harbour the guilt feelings afterward...I guess I feel like I have done the pennance for the behaviour.
Under a Palm - Welcome back. Good to hear that you had a great visit with DB. Have you ever met his girlfriend? Seems funny that she is ill again when you visit...
cac - Don't be mean to yourself. It isn't worth it. Just acknowledge the problems, make a plan to correct it if you want, or revise if that's your choice too. If you are still losing weight and eating more healthy than before, you are a success.
2Bfit - I think you hit the nail on the head with this thing...you want this to be a way of life for your eating plan. I have the same problem with my DH-he does not follow SBD, but I do-and I also don't want to deprive him of the foods that he enjoys. When I cook, I make sure that there is enough food that I can (and want) to eat, but there are also things that he likes to eat. When I make desserts, I make things that I can eat, plus a choice that is not SBD friendly. That way, noone is denied and I can eat OP as well. Eating out, as you mentioned, is always a concern, especially if you eat somewhere that does not serve food that is OP. I generally make sure that I have a snack either in my purse or somewhere in the vehicle when we go out, so that if I am cornered into eating at a place like that, I can still at least have a snack along with a diet drink or water to carry me over until I can eat properly. DH has been good about not wanting to eat like that usually, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Good for you to make an agreement with yours...it will make the eating program so much easier to follow as a lifestyle. By the way, have you tried making off program food for him, then serving them to him as leftovers for days and days and days and days
Lauren - Congrats on the OP day and the exercise - a double whammy. WTG. Keep it up.
kvixen - You are not a dork for getting excited about being healthy. You keep it up. Good luck on the knitting.
Barb - Don't worry about being up a bit. You will lose that quickly. You need to treat yourself once in a while and not feel like it is destroying your life. WTG, but get back on the wagon today. Take care.
anchor - I agree with you on the time difference. I am waaaay behind everyone, so you are all talking about supper and I am just beginning to think that it is time for morning coffee.
Then I get in to post after there are a kazillion postings...
ellis - You are so funny...who would have thought that would come from you!!! I'm shocked. Whatever happened to the conventional headache?
a broad - Love the commercials. Thanks for sharing. Hope the workout goes better tomorrow than today...you can do it, although, I know how you were feeling this morning. I have a 6 am workout with my trainer tomorrow. I would tend to skip more often if she wasn't here waiting for me, tapping her toe... I guess tomorrow I will need to do it.
RNMOM - You made a fine choice this morning. The bathrooms can wait, they'll still be here tomorrow. Now, today's chat on the beach will be on to Wednesday tomorrow, so you will miss today. AAANNNND, if you can follow that logic, you are better than I.
Me - I'm trying to get everything into today that needs to get in. My DM called this morning to tell me that her cat died last night. Soooo, it is off to her home tonight to deal with that situation. The cat was 19 and had not been feeling very well for a couple of days, but she said that it was doing better and not to worry. However, we will take it home and bury on the acreage this weekend. DM will miss her a lot. The sad part is that mom is in the first stages of dimentia, so this will be a blow that I am hoping does not affect her too badly.
We are also having a furnace installed in the garage this year...we booked an appointment to have them come out this evening, however, have to rebook yet again to have it done. Hopefully, it will be completed before the spring.
Well, must go. Coffe is calling and so is one of the directors. Must go. Keep with the program and BE GOOD!!!
I still think doing SBD is easier than sticking to my Dave Ramsey budget! 
I'm going to take a sleeping pill right after dinner. 
