Good morning ladies! I am freezing to death this morning. I turn the thermostat way down at night so in the morning when I am up and going I get cold fast. We have a programmable thermostat, but it drives me nuts to get it to work right. I think if I ever figured it out it would be fine.
Jean: I thought the same thing as Susan you are working as much as you did for school. Church work is one of those things that when you volunteer they make sure they keep you on "speed dial." They figure they have a hook in you and don't want to let you go since volunteers are hard to come by. I decided not to work at T's school this year. She called and asked, but at the time we were going through the car thing with the grand marquis and I told her I was was down to just one car. We still are until after the first of the year so I don't want to be pinned down if I don't have to be. I think once we get the grand marquis situation sorted out I may find somewhere to volunteer. My hair lady never did get back with me about teaching knitting classes to the mother's at Ronald McDonald house, which is next door to St Judes.
Susan: You have been busy, busy. I checked out the Tricare for Life and looks like it will fit the bill as long as there are not a lot of things Medicare doesn't cover then we will end up footing a big part of the bill more than likely. He still has a few years. I thought it was 63 but I guess it is 65 for Medicare. The nice thing is we don't have to deal with changing prescription plans.
Jack is calling his doctor today and getting an appt to discuss all his hurts and booboos. I know I talked with Susan awhile back about what I thought might be a hernia and she said it sounded like GERD. Well, he had an acid attack the evening before last, so bad it choked him a lot. So the next morning he was still feeling the effects and I told him to stay home from work yesterday. I knew he wouldn't be able to get into our drs as they never had open appts, but I sent him to a Walgreen clinic so he would at least be able to get an excuse for staying home. She really couldn't do anything for him and told him he needed to be evaluated by his physician (which I have been nagging about but gotten no where.) She was so nice she cancelled his appt since she couldn't do anything for him and didn't charge him for it. They take tricare, which is nice since like I said we can't ever get into our drs last minute. Heck, it take Jack two weeks at least to get an appt with his dr. He is going to have her check out his hand, his knee and the gastro stuff so I am pleased the dr at the Walgreens got through to him.
Well, onward with my day. I got nothing done yesterday with Jack being home so I want to work on the upstairs today. Tonight is potato soup and rolls for dinner! Have a good one! Faye
I told hm to ask where you could buy a Lambardini or DeLorian and maybe someone just has one parked in his garage and it is just collecting dust and will give it to you. He just shot me one of "those looks." 
I now have two of the buildings I needed to get done and cut the pattern out for the third. I need to get it done and get them all mailed out in time for Christmas giving. My friend out in CA sent me an email saying she is sending me some more WW material and I am looking for that package. She sends me free coupons for products which is really helpful. Who doesn't like free food that's "good for you." 
I will save the paperwork on it so I can reorder though. Also my package arrived from my dear friend out in CA. I got the Helpful Habits series of 6 hand outs including the maintenance plan along with the Getting started booklet and the pocket guide. I put the pocket guide in the booklet cover I got to cover the 3 month tracker for it fits much nicer in it. She also included 4 weight record trackers to last the year + a few weeks and 2 dark chocolate turtle bars.
I am set for I have the "kit" now to have a good 2011 of weight loss. OH and also my new coffee glass arrived. YEAH. I would love to sit here and read all the WW information I got but I need to get back to my glass works. I just had to take a break, get some coffee and tell you what the mail man delivered this day. Can you tell I am jazzed. 
I wonder if they will up the age for Medicare as long as Social Security has gone up to 66. I read somewhere that they want to raise retirement age to 72, and that is too old imo. I'm glad Jack is going to see his doctor. Our clinic leaves a few 'open' appointment slots for non-emergency type incidents. We can't always see our own doctor but that's ok on a spur of the moment need.
Iowa!
at you not being able to keep your jeans on. I know a couple of teachers who shop at the SOS store on a regular basis and find some really nice clothes. Thank you for sharing the recipes. 
I may try the fudge although I've never heard of putting cranberries in fudge. Do they melt? I like the idea of putting the meat loaf in the muffin tins. I'm glad you were able to fix the glitch at work. You are good! Our gas has gone up $.20 this week. 
Today it was $2.85 when I went into town this morning.
I'm sorry your shoes didn't fit . . . maybe they were supposed to be child sized. 
We went to a James Taylor concert when we lived in Ohio. It was billed as Carly Simon and he showed up instead. 
Are you changing WW points in old cookbooks? I'm wondering if WW food in the stores still have the old points on them. 
I just bought some cheese today but haven't looked at the label to see if it figures out to be different. I hope RM's ear is feeling better. You are definitely thinking spring if you are ordering seeds for your garden! 
Now that is a happening. What a neat idea to tie a ribbon to the spiral. I do belive I will do that also. Thanks. Try putting your Points Pocket Guide in that folder made for the Tracker. See how it fits better. We have gap insurance that pays what Medicare won't, thank goodness because, Medicare doesn't pay much. I have to go sign up for Medicare the frist part of January. Should be fun. They messed me up so badly, when I first signed up, in their paperwork for it has taken years to straighten out. They said I had to have Medicare then made it impossible to use because of their ton of mistakes. I was advised by my retirement folks to fire them and let the dust settle because Medicare refused to get it right. Now this is a different town in a different state and the gal I talked to was amazed at what they had done previously to my file when she opened it. She said she can get it all straightened out come January but I will have to pay a penality for signing up so late. After all this has been going on for years. I have hope this lady knows her stuff and can get it right.
I can't see the house across the back yard nor the house across the street! It's 18 degrees with 40 mph winds gusting to 60 mph according to the weather channel. Our Christmas party tonight has been postponed until the same night that I have card club. 
on the GREAT 10# loss! You go girl! You are so dedicated to your exercise, eating OP, and it is paying off for you. I'm betting every WW food item in our stores is the 'old' WW points. It seems like we get new things months after everyone else does. 
