Worldlies January - Janus, god of the New Year and good intentions.
 

Morning all,

Sorry I wasn't around yesterday to see in the New Year for you and wish you all good luck and good food and good exercise. I was kept very busy by an 18 month old.
I wish everything that is good for everyone. As my friend Roni posted......

May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner; may the commercials on TV not be louder than the program you have been watching, and may your cheque book and your budget balance – and include generous amounts for charity.
With every new year, comes greater challenges and obstacles in life. I wish you courage, hope and faith to overcome all the hurdles you face. May you have a great year and a wonderful time ahead.


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Shad: Happy New Year to you!

We are just getting ready to go celebrate DH's birthday with dinner with friends and then we will be coming back to our house for cake and to watch the ball drop.

We are getting ready to head out so I must close. Thank you to all of you for being so lovely and welcoming to me on your thread. I look forward to spending 2014 with all of you and seeing us reach the goals we set for ourselves.

Happy New Year! :newyear::celebrate:

Hi chicks,
Thanks for setting up the new thread Shad. S is just the prettiest chick of all. :D A real beaut! I see she is helping you get your steps in for the day. Good girl!

What lovely pictures of the beach. As we sit here quite cold what I wouldn't give to be sitting on a beach. And a not so crowded one at that. Enjoy some for me too please.

I did get some butchering practice in. Bought a whole beef tenderloin and with an expert YouTube chef and a laptop on the counter, we were able to cut the thing down and not ruin it. It was a joint project between DH and I. Because of thyroid issues my hands get super cold very quickly. The meat was very cold - I had it sitting in a cold pack outside and I made the first couple of cuts and then my fingers were freezing. DH had to help do the trimming and the cutting of the filet steaks. I did wind up with a petite roast, 8 filets (on the smaller side) and 2 pounds of stew beef. We selected filets for our dinner, froze the rest along with the petite filet and I will make the stew this week in the crock pot. We pan fried the steaks - DH wrapped his in bacon and they were heavenly melt in your mouth. It was a nice dinner. Since I stayed off the computer I was able to get a closet sorted out, trim up the beef and get supper going, got several loads of laundry done, set aside some clothes for donations and cleaned up 2 hot spots with papers I kept intending to sift through. And my neck is only a tiny bit sore - huge difference from the last few days. And I feel like I accomplished something good.

I have 2 bottles of wine chilling between the outside door and the screen door. Am going to take a shower and then open the wine and then go check out Weight Watchers new plan - at least I think they have a new plan. I hope that new plan includes wine. If not I'll have to finish both bottles tonight ;) I also picked up a diet and exercise log which has some good tips I want to browse through. Not much on TV that excites me - surely won't be watching Justin Beiber or Mariah Carey count the new year down. I'd rather have the cats sing to me.

Anyway Happy New Year to all the chicks. Let it be a good one for all of us in all sorts of ways. And Susie - we are glad to have you on board on this journey.

Shad - Thanks for starting the New Year thread!! S is GORGEOUS! She's so lovely! What great photos of the beach. Reminds me that I should get to the beach one of these weekends....After 12 winters in Wisconsin it's difficult to think of going to the beach in January...but I can here.

Happy - I just heard a commercial for weight watchers totally online starter plan. I think I might look into it. Where did you get that diet and exercise log? I'm watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp, followed by the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

D's out of town in Monterey, so it's just me, Santa and the roomates (who have both gone to their rooms). Guess I'll go fix some dinner and relax.

Tomorrow, I'm getting my hair done (cut and color to cover the gray) in prep for my new job and my niece's wedding this weekend, which I'm flying to Southern CA to attend. Santa will be at day care while I'm getting my hair done, then he and I are going to the dog park. :D

Happy New Year my wonderful friends! May 2014 bring us happiness and good health.

:newyear:

Much love and many hugs,

Well the farmer men have begged off and gone to bed well before the midnight hour. DH would have stayed up had I forced him but there is nothing on TV and nothing much to keep him awake so I told him to just go to bed. This will be a quiet new year. Nothing wrong with that.

Michelle - here's the book - I got it at Amazon. You might be able to get it cheaper using one of their other book sellers but I like using my Prime membership - at least I know it's coming in 2 days.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Diet-...imate+diet+log

It's a spiral bound book- has a quote on top for each day. There's not a lot of room to log things in - if you write small you'll be ok. Think about those spiral bound flat office calendars where you'd write meetings in from 7am to 6pm - small boxes but workable. You have a place to record 3 meals and 2 snacks and tally points or calories. There's a notes section for exercise and if you met your goals for the day. Also a tiny spot for success of the day - great to end the day on a positive note. Then there's a weekly wrap up which is nice - answer some questions about glitches and successes for the week. This is a companion guide to her first log which was for workouts - so more landscape is given to food over exercising. This will work for any program you choose - whether you are tracking exchanges, points or calories. There are several journals on Amazon but of course they don't show you the details because then some enterprising person would copy the log and not buy the book. This log runs for 26 weeks. So far it looks decent except I wish it was top spiral bound for lefties. ;)

I looked at the WW program - they have a 2 week kick start which utilizes foods from one of their existing programs. I don't really see much new with them and I'm really leaning to just using FitPal or something and tracking calories. Although I hate tracking calories even more than I hate tracking points. I really liked the original WW exchange system. :lol: What I really need is a discipline pill. :o But with many of you committed to a fresh start, hopefully we can all support each other to becoming more fit and healthy in the new year.

So Michelle are you going to take the plunge and get a new style to go with your new CA life? You can't have WI hair in sunny CA you know :lol: Come on, the first cut is the hardest and it's just hair - it will grow back. You look like you have a nice wave in your hair so you could probably do some fun stuff.

I put 2 bottles of wine between the outside storm door and the laundry room entrance door. There were there about 2 hours. Went to get them and they were frozen solid. Guess negative 20 degrees will freeze anything. I do have Malibu rum, amaretto and some flavored vodkas but I just ain't feeling the drink now so that's probably a good thing.

With that I'll log off and go check out the Kathy Lee and Hoda 2013 year in review I recorded earlier.

Happy New Year to All the Chicks.

Morning and welcome to the New Year. I didn't stay up to welcome in the new year but was awakened by at least gun shots. I sat up in bed and thought what was that. Got up and looked at the clock said happy new year and went back to bed.

Happy
How is frozen wine after it's thawed? I like the old method of Weight watchers too, exchange method. My main thing is eating to heavy of a meal to late at night.

Shad
How adorable is S. And lucky you for being on the beach. That sure would be a welcome sight.

Michelle
Did you make the chicken noodles? I'm going to try my hand at make dumplings this week end. I'm also craving a coconut cream pie. Do you start to work tomorrow?

Susie
My cousin had a birthday on the Dec 30, but they will celebrate that today.
Hope you had a good time.

Annie and Laura :wave:

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Nothing new for me. I'm holding down the fort today at work and thankful that I do have a job.
Road the bike for 20 minutes last night.

Good morning chicks,

:newyear: to you. It was a quiet one for me. I did some writing last night and went to bed pretty late. I don't know if it's the mid week holiday or what, but it feels like any other day. I saw in the news where they are increasing the postage rates by 3 cents the end of January. People are in an uproar. I think like the airlines - the post office is going to price themselves out of business. One stamp won't bust a person's wallet but at almost 50 cents a stamp, it sure will put the death knell on people sending greeting cards. On that note I stopped in the Hallmark shop (card store Joy) and purchased a special card for Mom, Sis and Hubby - 4 cards - $17 dollars :yikes: And the sentiment in the cards wasn't all that special either so.. between the price of the cards and stamps - getting too costly even for me although it's a shame, as I was digging out decorations I came across even more boxes of greeting cards - I bought a big pack this year too so now I have enough cards to probably send to every family in town :lol: And yes, I never did get this year's cards out - my one Aunt is complaining to my Mom about it. She and my Mom have gotten to the age where they count the number of cards they send out for Christmas and the number they get back. :rolleyes: I guess I can pick up the slack from Mel with senior stories. Did I also mention that my cousin gave my Mom a huge dish of her delicious home made toffee and gave my sister a small dish which she gives to several people. Mom got an extra big plate this year. So... Sister tells me that she comes in the room and Mom is shoving pieces of toffee into her mouth FROM Sis's plate! Mom left hers all wrapped up and put away. Sis was agast because my cousin makes really good toffee. And then, I'm talking to my Mom last night and she tells me that she is saving the candy I sent her and she didn't even touch the toffee that D made. Oh really? :lol:

Anyway I am going to have to work on my computer. Something is up with a video driver that needs updating so I can play my yoga dvds. I realized too when I was looking at Weight Watchers online that because they changed their program a couple of years ago and recalculated points values, that I lost about 100 recipes I had stored. That was one of the biggest reasons I kept my account active. I might be the only person in the country who actually cancels their subscription in January but that's what I'm going to do. I'll try calculating calories for a while. So menu planning is on the list for today.

I think I want one more night of the Christmas tree and decorations so I'm leaving that up. I am working tomorrow so I'll take down all the holiday stuff this weekend which will also allow me to sort things and organize them and set aside stuff that needs to get donated or trashed.

Ceejay - good for you for riding your bike last night. Beats guzzling down wine and eating cheese and crackers :lol: Hope you have a quiet day at the office. I would think people would not be calling and bugging you today. Be careful in that icy weather.

Hello to the rest of the chicks. :wave:

Morning all. Happy New Year!! Just a quick hello. Last night was nice, but the restaurant/bar party was fewer people than probably expected due to the snow.

It's snowing a lot here - forecast to go all day, and yet another wave tomorrow.

Late night/early morning (friends up relatively early in search of coffee), so I'm feeling a nap coming on. Already not looking forward to returning to work tomorrow. I'll get over it. ..

Signing off for now. Everyone have a pleasant day. :)

We had a nice New Years Eve dinner out for DH birthday. We got back to our house around 11 pm, watched the ball drop and went to bed about 1.

It has been a lazy day for me and I have enjoyed it. Back to work tomorrow for both me and DH. We are to get 2-4 inches of snow. Just lovely for the 1 hr commute. :^:

I plan on packing my workout bag so I can workout tomorrow at lunch.

Laura: it looks like we both are dealing with cold and snow. I hope your day at work tomorrow is a good one. Thank goodness it is almost Friday!

Happy: when I read your posts and see the temperatures you have I get cold! We have cold in Ohio but not the cold you are having.
Good for you for getting the closet cleaned out. I hope that tomorrow you get your tree down and things organized. It is such a nice feeling to have it done.

I saw you list that you have been using My Fitness Pal. I use it too. If you want to friend me on there so we can be accountable with the food journaling, let me know and I will PM you my email so you can find me on there that way.

Ceejay: what a way to be woke up! When you ride your bike how long do you ride? How many miles do you ride?

Michelle, did you get your hair done and did you do anything different?

Hi Shad and Annie.



I will see you all tomorrow.

I had full intentions of getting back into here today. Sorry it isn't going to happen. 4 hours sleep + 4 hours shopping + 4 hours menu planning, exercise planning, thinking about who I should let know I am back and another couple of hours in the laundry, on the end of the vacuum cleaner and sorting the luggage and I am buggered. Exercise today involved the shopping and climbing the hill.
Food wasn't too bad though.
Back tomorrow. Early night required.

Morning all. Taking a vacation day today. I checked my work email & the boss is working from home. She extended that to the rest of us. I didn't take home my laptop & wouldn't be able to work on what I wanted to so I originally intended to go to the office. Then the snow began to fall again in earnest. That's when I decided to just stay home. Glad I have the leftover vacation to spare.

I'll be back later from the desktop for personals.

Good morning all,

Back to work for everyone, including me. Yesterday was a late night, I got set up with MyFitnessPal and entered my food for the day. It was a calorie bomb but I know that, using up the last of the holiday food. We had some pre-cooked frozen Canadian whole lobsters that we picked up before Christmas. DH had been wanting lobster. They were small - about a pound each and really, anything under a pound and a half doesn't yield enough meat to make it worthwhile. But we had some lobster, cold shrimp and a salad so it was a nice meal.

Physical therapy just called - they have a cancellation for tomorrow so I can get in earlier to have them work on the vertigo. Yay!

Susie - I will PM you my email later. My 3FC message box is just about full - I need to go back and save some info and delete messages to make some room and then I'll send you my info. Good for you for packing the gym bag to take to work. Do you have a gym at work or some place nearby?

Laura - you sure did get socked with the snow. Over a foot I hear and more lake effect today. Good thing you didn't have to go out in it. Be careful shoveling.

Shad - sounds like you are a whirlwind of activity getting back into gear for the work week. Guess this means the holiday is over for you. Hope you had a good time with the wee one. Get a good night's sleep. I like your new avatar.

Ceejay - it always made me nervous people shooting off their guns at the stroke of midnight on New Year's. Even where I lived down south we could hear shots. :hyper: I understand you about having a heavy meal at night. Seems if I eat lighter - soup or something - I look for something around 9pm which is bad. What time do you have supper when you are working?

Michelle - saw your makeover on FB - looks really nice!

Hi Annie :wave:

I'm off to get the beef stew in the crockpot before I leave for the shop. Have a good day everyone.

Good Giggly Wiggly....took me 2 1/2 hours to get to work. 465 interstate around Indy was practically shut down. Yikes. Had to go all side streets to work and man were they messy. People are just nuts out there. We had 6 inches at my house. Shoveled twice for princess Sassacakes. Man is she short...lol.

Stuffed cabbage was delish. Bro and SIL came over as did Cs younger daughter MaryAnn. Yes they got that name off of Gilligan's Island (sitcom Shad) from back in the day. Served cream cheese mashed red potatos with the skin on them. Garlic bread and tomato/mozzarella/basil/olive oil salad. Yum yum. Looks like we will have leftover stuffed cabbage tonight. Taters were scraped clean from the bowl.

SHADDIE...lil S is so adorable. I tell you, Jacob and she will make a splashingly beautiful couple when grown. We should start early. lol When do you go back to work.

HAPPY...beef stew sound good about now. We are to get another snow storm on Sunday and very cold temps at night -15. Stew and soups sound really really good. Our NYs eve was very uneventful also. In bed by 9:30.

SUSIE...Getting a good start on the healthy eating and exercising for 2014 sound like a great idea. Good for you!

CEEG...good for you on riding the bike. Was NYs boring at work for you? Much happen?

LAURA...Sound like you had a nice night out on NYs eve. I remember going out like that, I am just getting too old for that these days.

CHELLE...new hair cut/color for the new job in the new year. Hmmm sounds like a trend of new for you! lol Have fun at the wedding and good luck on the new job.

MELLIE...still missing you my friend.

Have a marvelous Thursday all.

Love and hugs

Hi Everyone. We have the most beautiful snowfall this morning. :snowglo: It added about 20 min to my commute.

A lot of people are still off work and so the traffic wasn't too bad. I hope it will be easy to get home. DH & I ride-share to work most days, so it will be nice that we are both in the car on the way home. I worry when we have bad weather and we aren't together on the road.

I just finished eating an apple as a snack before my noon workout. Then I'll have lunch after I'm back from the workout. I brought soup...fitting day for it.

Shad: You have one busy day! Here's hoping that you had a good nights sleep, work up feeling accomplished (you should..you did a lot!) and are ready for the new day ahead.

Annie: I heard this morning that Indy was getting a lot of snow today. Be safe out there!

Happy: I hope the PT will help with the vertigo. I didn't know you had issues with that. :dizzy: I have heard it can be horrible. Hopefully it doesn't affect you all the time?
I'm looking forward to connecting with you on MyFitness Pal. I'll watch for your PM.

Laura: I LOVE WFH days (we have what is called "flex anytime" and so if we need to WFH we can and we don't have to have permission; but we must treat that as a privelage and not abuse it or it can go away) and with the weather I'm glad you were had a leftover day and could just stay home.

Hi Michelle & Ceejay!

I need to get back to work. I will see you all tomorrow. Have a great day!

Morning all,
Good sleep but woke up at 4.00am Silly me. However I did finish a book while laying in bed and keeping warm. Day before yesterday I was laying in bed trying to keep cool.
Wellington is grey, overcast, windy and cool today. No doubt it will rain soon too. Hope I can get down the street to get to the shop for the things I forgot yesterday. Fortunately there is a convenience store a block down the road. Getting back up the hill could be interesting although I will have the milk to weigh me down I guess.

Laura - sounds like the weather is keeping you all indoors for the time being. Sad that you have to take a leave day because you can't work at home. Here we have the 1st and the 2nd of Jan as public holidays - first only in Australia. Friday - 3rd is a normal work day for most but then most people will have taken the day as a leave day to have a long break after Christmas and NYears. The project I am working on is closed until the 6th so I don't go back until Monday.

Happy - Lobsters hey?!!!! Sounds nice. I saw crayfish (lobster more or less) in the fish market at Adelaide when M and I went down to pick up the prawns for Christmas lunch. They were huge but what a price - $99 for one. Mind you it would have feed 4 people well. Cooked lobster tails were running at $300 per kilo. :yikes: Guess they are out of most peoples reach these days unless you go out and catch them yourself.
Yes I had a good time with the little madam. She is managing quite easily to run the parents ragged. Mostly she is a good child but she does like her own way and she refuses to eat which drives M mad. Unfortunately you can't tell M that no child will willingly starve herself and that she (M) should count her blessings that she has a happy, healthy, bright, slightly underweight child. Her father was just the same. The fights over food drove me crazy. I went outside, repotted the orchid and talked to the dog.

Annie - Better tell Jacob that Miss S might be high maintenance when grown. He needs the chance to change his mind. She will definitely be into the finer things of life. She gets them now so why should that change.
Dinner sounds nice - except for the possibility of cabbage. I only like mine raw thanks all the same. We did have Gilligans Island some years back. Don't think I ever saw it although my sister was a fan.

Susie - soup sounds nice. I might just make some pumpkin soup today if I have time. It's easy, nourishing, warming and quick. Thanks for the idea. Take it easy on the icy roads. Don't envy you the travel in that weather. Had enough of that when I lived down south in NZ and used to wake up to a Christchurch winter or a Twizel hoar frost. Hang on to your white stuff. Don't need it down here.

Christmas break went very well. It seems M has decided I am a friend rather than a foe and we got on very well for a change. Little S is quite delightful most of the time. Like any kid she can be a bit of a devil and when DS1 describes her as Cyclone Sophia, he isn't exactly wrong. Christmas time she got far too many presents and got bored unwrapping them. They would have done better to just get a couple and put the other stuff away. Between the grandparents she got a bit more than normal as well I guess. And then we went to IKEA and I saw this little red rocking moose which she loved, so I bought that for her too. She loves it and is a bit of a daredevil on it. Hopefully she won't rock it over her toes or take a tumble on it - because it will be a trip to ER if she does. Mum will insist on it even if the only evidence is a broken fingernail.
She is currently getting the back molars and the mouth is giving her grief - which explains the I don't wanna eat bit. We went out to Stirling for a pub lunch the day before I left. She didn't want to eat and I went to the bar and requested ice blocks in a plastic glass. It was an instant hit. Numbed the mouth enough to get the happy little girl back into a normal frame of mind and she ate a fair amount of my pizza and garlic bread. Wonder what that did to the system :lol: :rofl: I don't change nappies (diapers).
I also cooked up some apples for her and she ate those happily enough after a long play at the beach and a chase around the sand. She is one of those kids who need to be on the move almost constantly and therefore if the exercise is not done, then the food doesn't get a look in. Wish I could convince M of that.

Enough of that. I'd better get on with today. Yesterdays food consisted of:

Bread roll with vegemite and coffee
Small sandwich of pumpkin & potato bread with corned beef, pickles, cheese and salad leaves
Small steak with roasted potatoes, kumara (sweet potato) and some carrots
Small cube of dark chocolate.

I'm hungry now but need to exercise before breakfast so I had better get off this computer and get on with life.

See ya

SHADDIE...What is vegemite?

Nevermind Shaddie. I looked it up on the internet. It sounds horrid.

Afternoon all. Just got back from a walk with doggy. Snow finally stopped sometime between 2 & 3 pm and the sky was clear and the sun was out. Very deep snow here, over 6 inches fell over the past 24 hours, so well over 10" over the past 3 days. Poor doggy trying to find a "spot" in that deep snow, lol.

Shad - sounds like you had a wonderful vacation and holiday with the family. "Cyclone S." - love it. :lol: And what nice photos of S & the beach!! Thanks for posting them. :) Nice you and M got along well. I generally take more time off during these two weeks at year's end than I did this year, but that's the way the work is coming. Today I was already wanting to stay home, the snow just made it easier to decide. If I'd worked today, I'd have wanted to take Friday off and make it a 3-day weekend. Six of one, half dozen of another. You've been busy since you got home. Are you back to work on Monday? Enjoy the rest of your weekend. :) PS, I was on a work assignment in the Sydney area in 1994 and of course had to try the vegemite...not my thing. But I did take home a little blister pack home as a souvenir. I understand part of the popularity of it aside from the nutrition was it lasted a long time?? My little packet might still be edible, haha.

Susie - So nice you can ride share w/ your hubby several times per week. Must make the long commute much more pleasant. (BTW, happy belated bday to your dh!) You might have mentioned this already - but do you have a fitness center in your workplace? What type of exercise do you do at lunchtime? My building has a fitness center to which I belong. I gave it a try, but I just don't like to rush so much to fit in the workout and the shower/changing/etc into a lunch hour. I'm tempted to give it a try again - they announced a couple months ago that they would be starting towel service. It would be nice not to have to lug a towel with me along with all the other workout gear.

Annie - Wow, long commute for you this morning. I sure hope your PM commute was quicker!! Not one for cabbage, but I bet the stuffing is something I'd enjoy - what do you make it with? Yeh, NYE was nice. Had 5 people + bf and I to the house for a couple hours before the restaurant party began at 9:30. The restaurant is only 5 min. away, so not a big deal getting there/back. My friend D & her sis stayed overnight by us, the other3 went home and probably had a long drive out to where they live, but it was highway driving, so I believe the road was clearer than the surface streets. It was nice to go out somewhere, but I'm also more than fine with staying home.

Happy - Sounds like a nice seafood feast you had. Bf and I are finishing up the cold shrimp we have left from NYE - our guests didn't eat much of it and I learned at least one doesn't care for it. C'est la vie, more for me, LOL. But if we don't finish it today, it will have to go. Not too much left after eating a good bit of it yesterday, so that's good. I hope the PT can help w/ the vertigo tomorrow. I'm so sorry to hear you're suffering with that. Re the snow - not much manual shoveling - I let bf take care of the major snow removal with the snowblower. I probably will go out and shovel in back - a path from the back door to the garage back door, and alongside the garage where we keep our trash/recycling bins.

Michelle - Saw your new hairdo on fb - looks nice! Starting off the New Year in many new ways - job, home, hair...

Ceejay - Definitely wouldn't like the gunshots to ring in the New Year! Is it your weekend now?? Enjoy!!

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Nothing much else to report - really couldn't have done less today if I tried. Checked work e-mail a few times, but that was about it other than slothing about - reading a book, a mag, watching TV, watching a DVR'd Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie (Top Hat), etc. Tried to go through some of my recipe clippings to purge some, but I have a hard time with that. Didn't do it for long, though I did get rid of some.

Back to work tomorrow, and then it'll be the weekend once again. I have a busy Saturday - hair appointment in the AM, then my cruisemates are coming over to discuss our port excursion options for our upcoming cruise. In the evening bf and I have a 60th birthday party to attend at a nearby golf club. Sunday will likely be when I take down the Christmas decorations. Or maybe tomorrow night. Or a little each day.

The scale was not kind to me this morning. I will have to really get back to good eating & exercise routines. Me being at home and at loose ends is not a good thing for me! There's 4+ days before I finally go back to a WW meeting (I totally flubbed with my intention to go to WW mtgs on my own the past two weeks), so I do have time to undo some of the damage.

I mentioned to Susie the fitness center in my office building - thinking about giving that another try, even if it's just to do some sort of short strength training routine. It's been so long I don't recall what type of non-cardio equipment they have there...I'll have to make a visit sometime soon. Timing's not so great - I imagine it'll be busier than usual in the coming weeks.

Okay, enough rambling. Gonna put my boots back on and shovel out back. TTFN!

Laura and Annie
Don't envy all that snow. We got a mere dusting this morning.

Hello to Happy and Susie.

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This is my week end. I was glad for a day not to have to go into work. It's cold out there. My friend wanted me to go to Memphis with her today for a doctor's appointment. She drove so I went along for the ride. I did get to see some things that I'd forgot about being their.
Other than this I've washed a couple of loads of clothes.
Tomorrow will have to run errands, I'm trying to set up a hot spot to connect to on my desk top. but not sure if this thing from Verizon will work.
I accidently left my cords in Paragould. Ugh I'll see if Walmart will have any to fit the tablet.

I've put some more photos of little Miss S on the dropbox if you want to go and have a look.

Annie - Vegemite is nicer than it sounds, however it is an acquired taste. DS2 has a minimal amount on the bread and butter - we joke that he's getting better because the it doesn't look like slightly discoloured butter anymore. I love it. I can stick my finger in the jar and just suck on it. Yum

Sorry SHADDIE, can't do it...wouldn't even think about trying it. Kind of like limburger cheese, no thank you. Nope, not even. Along with sardines and anchovies...barf-O-matic!

LAURA...you really didn't expect to lose weight over the holidays did you? Those two weeks are a total loss of time for me. Just hit the ground running once you go back to WW. You and I both know you can do it.

CEEG...nice to get away for a day even if it is to go to a doc appt with a friend. At least you didn't have to drive.

Hello to the rest of you fine ladies...

Well we are to have a 8-12 inch blizzard on Sunday. Poor Sassy cannot take this cold or snow. Even with shoveling she goes out and just hunkers down and won't go to the bathroom. She has been going potty in her cage during the day...and not at all at night. She has me worried. She is so tiny. It may be time to move to warmer weather. lol

Our expansion is done and several of us are moving over to the connecting suite. I am moving and I am happy about it. It will be more spacious and a LOT quieter. The movers and cubicle/office builders come tonight and we are all supposed to be set up to go by Monday morning. Amen!

That is about it for me today, may come back later and check in.

Have a fabulous Friday..

Hugs

Morning all. TGIF!!:carrot:

Annie - I'd hoped to maintain my weight, which I guess was way too optimistic when you consider I've been totally out of my daily routine and of course eating special holiday meals and goodies. Duh. I will try to return to "normal" - brought my lunch and snacks to work today, and maybe I'll actually eat them today. One recent day I brought soup (in the carton from the store) and forgot a bowl to heat/eat it. Duh. Boo on the snow! We've had quite enough, thanks. And now we're going to get sub-zero temps - aarrgh!! Coal is also not happy doing his thing in the deep snow, but he still manages it. If I thought he would make use of them, I'd dig out some "spots" out back, but several attempts during big snows in the past has shown he doesn't use them. So you'll start the year in a nice new office space for yourself - sounds nice! I had a weird dream the other night in which I was in a cube not much larger than my current one, and I was sharing it with 3 other people!! Weird.

Ceejay - Nice to get out for a bit, and the change of scenery is nice too. I get cabin fever when the weather gets crummy like this. I actually don't mind getting out for the dog walk when I've been inside all day.

Shad - I'll have to go to dropbox and check out those pics of gorgeous S.

Hellos to the rest of the Worldlies!! :wave:

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Not much more to report. I did get out and shovel a bit in back yesterday right at dusk, while bf snowblowed the front. He was worried about running out of gas for the blower, but he didn't.

Went out to eat, nothing special, just a small mom & pop Greek place that has the usual stuff. Bf enjoyed the Athenian chicken, so I suppose we'll be back. I'd like to try their egg-lemon soup, but they have an odd soup schedule, two columns for each day of the week and apparently the soups in each column alternate weeks...how are we supposed to know which week we're on?? I don't want to go on a Saturday and learn it's minestrone instead of egg-lemon. :?: Guess we'd just have to call first. Happy - do you recall a restaurant named Dunton House in Arl. Hts?? Been around a long time (according to the sign).

That's it for me. TTFN!! Everyone have a good Friday/Saturday and a good weekend.

Happy Friday! :carrot:

We ended up with about 5 inches of snow and now it is VERY cold and getting colder next week. brrrrrrr!!

We didn't have a TOPS meeting last night due to the weather. I was disappointed as I thought I might be down. So, I weighed myself at home--and I would have been down about a pound. I wrote the number down so if something happens next week and we don't have a meeting, I can still check on my scale.

I am going to workout today at lunch. My plan today is to do 15 min on the elliptical and then use the Natulis machines for both upper and lower body.

Yesterday I did all cardio on the bike for 30 min. I got in 5 miles on the bike.

Plans for the weeked for us is a funeral on Saturday for DH's Uncle who passed. He was 82. We attend chruch on Sunday's so the rest of the time will be housecleaning, laundry, grocery shopping...just the same old things!

Shadd: Did you get the pumpkin soup made and did you get to the exercise bike?

Laura: Hope your work day goes fast. I brought a different soup today at work. I keep a bowl here at work in case I forget to pack it. I can wash it out so that helps.

The fitness facility I use at work is in the building I work in. I don't shower after the workout out. I just keep baby wipes in my locker and deod/antipersperant and I freshen up after the workout. I only do a 30-45 min workout and I don't drip with sweat so I'm ok with just freshining up.

I also don't go at noon, when everyone else seems to. I can stagger my lunch hour and go whenever. A lot of time I don't go until 2:00 (depending on my calendar--but I do put it on my calendar daily so I remind myself to do it!). Going at 2:00 I only have about 2 hours left to work when I get back to my desk.

Take a stroll today down to your fitness area and see what they have so you can start planning your workouts.

Also, I only work out at work 3 days...maybe 4 if I want to. That gives me some days that I can relax at lunch and actually enjoy what I'm eating or have lunch with friends.

Annie: We are to get my snow on Sunday as well. How fun will it be to go to work in your new space! You will have to let us know how you like it.

Ceejay: My DH and I love Memphis. It is a great sport for us to take a vacation. We both like Elvis--my DH LOVES him, and I love blues so it is a good city for us.

I better get back to work and get somethings done before going to workout. I'm going about 12:30 today..no one is here. Next week it will be back to normal.

Morning all,

This will have to be a short post. DH had me download a program on my laptop and it turned out to have an imbedded virus which got stopped but it managed to change the browser and screw up a few things. Rule of thumb - just because it's on CNET with a bunch of positive reviews doesn't make it safe ;)

So I took a lot of time putting Humpty Dumpty back together again and now I have to go get showered up before my physical therapy session.

A couple of years back I had a really bad bout of vertigo - so bad that when I'd try to get out of bed in the morning I'd have to run to the bathroom I was so nauseated from the room spinning - and I'd run tippy because I was all disoriented from the gyroscope in my head. Don't know what caused it, eventually it went away. But it seemed to come back once a year, every year. I blamed it on sinus issues. I did a lot of research and it seemed that there wasn't much they could do about it so I just hung in there, cussed when it came on and suffered with it for a few months. It always comes back but thank goodness the nausea is not there - just that horrible unstableness of the room spinning. Fast forward and I was talking to my relief person at the thrift store and she told me how my physical therapist did his doctorate on vertigo and cured her. We see the same guy. So I thought I'd give it a try. There are crystals in the inner ear that tell the brain you are moving up or town or turning. Those crystals sit on fine hairs and sometimes they get dislodged into another part of the ear. When that happens and they move around, you get that disoriented wave of vertigo. The PT guy will roll me in a 360 move to get the crystals back in place. There is a 30 percent chance they will move again but once you've had the treatment you can sometimes get them back in place yourself. He calls it positional vertigo and said that's why it comes and goes for me - nothing to do with sinus swelling. So we'll see how it goes.

Susie - got your PM will respond to you later - thanks!

Laura - be careful with that snow. I sort of remember the name of that restaurant but nothing more. Hard to believe I've been gone from AH for 9 years already! You know you have me thinking about egg lemon soup now - have some for me - yum yum.

Annie - I just LOVE your new avatar with little man. How adorable. You be careful with the snow too. One advantage to having cats - don't have to clear off outside potty spots :lol: Poor Sassy. Does she really sip your Starbucks?

Shad - no vegemite for me thanks - it's an acquired taste but I'll take some of your fine honeys. Loved the pics of the little princess - wish Mum would take some of your advice as she's taking her down a slippery slope on some things.

I have to pop in the shower now. Stay warm kids - we are getting more snow later tonight. Oh boy - and really freezing temps - highs in the negative teens over the weekend with 30 below night temps. Thank goodness we have little to no wind out here. :brr::brr::brr::brr::brr: how many calories do you burn shivering and taking on and off 7 layers of clothes :rofl:

I also think it's funny that Shad and I are on opposite sides of the temperature gauge.

A quick post for me. I've been trying to set up a wireless connection for the desk top computer but to no avail. Think I'm missing something.

We're supposed to get the colder weather which I'm not looking forward to but hey it's January.

My tablet will give way via no way to charge the battery. So I may not be around until Sunday.

Sorry I've been away, my friends. I've been trying to get ready for my weekend trip to Southern Cal. You'd think it wouldn't be so hard to pack for overnight...but somehow it is.

I've got to get up and out of the house by 6:30, and drop Santa off at the boarding place, then get back to the airport by 7:30 or so. The airlines are still saying arrive two hours before a flight....but I'm sure if it's 1 hour 45 minutes, I'll still get on.

I'll probably only have my phone with me...though I might take my tablet. Haven't decided. Definitely not taking my laptop as I've got my purse, CPAP machine and small suitcase and I'm only allowed 2 carry-ons, and I don't want to check any bags (don't want anything to get lost). So the CPAP machine will probably have to go in the suitcase.

I'll likely be posting to Facebook as it's easier than posting here via my phone. But I'll try.

My flight home arrives back in San Jose at 6:30, then by the time I get to the car and pick up Santa, I'm hoping to be home by 7:30 or 8, which will give me time to shower and unwind before my first day on the new job.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!!

Much love and many hugs to all,

Hi ya all,
Flat stack busy today. Exercise this morning was walking up and down some very steep hills in Wellington, then 50 squats. Following that I prepared food for the week, went shopping to get some stuff and found a couple of wandering Americans from San Diego. Once I delivered them to the right place, I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond to get a couple of storage containers - this place has little in the way of storage.
Came home to find that in the bad weather one of the windows is leaking and also my bed was wet from a leak in the ceiling. Can't understand that one as there is another apartment above me.
Off with the sheets and into the dryer. Spread the duvet out to dry and then put the cover into the dryer. Mop up the windowsill and go e-mail the landlady. She is getting some one to look at it asap. More wind and rain.
Then I rang Chris (from Japan days) and invited her to lunch tomorrow. Also rang my niece with the new baby and my sister. Haven't yet got round to the exDH. I will but he will get a piece of my mind for some stupid comments on e-mail last week. Well maybe he won't since there isn't much of my mind left to waste on him.
Then I decided I needed some new jeans. So off to town again and got 2 pairs of jeans and a pair of capris. On the way back I found some pretty cotton lounging pyjamas, so they went into the bag as well. Got home only to find I didn't have all of the stuff for my chicken salad tomorrow, so out again to pick up that. Went the long way round thinking I could take a short cut through the carpark down the hill - wrong, only if I managed to climb a 7' fence with razor wire on the top, so back up the hill l to go down the long way.
DS2's birthday today, so I had to talk to him for a while. apparently it has been a real heatwave over there - something like 41C - 109F give or take a bit. Nothing like that here. Then I cooked myself a half chicken breast and had it with salad and a boiled potato. Nice. I also logged into MyFitnessPal since I knew that Susie and Happy were using it and am now logging my food and exercise. Unfortunately I have to add to the food log with the stuff I am eating over here that is not listed so it takes a while. However, the thing tells me that if I carry on as I have today I should lose 3.7kg in 5 weeks. :rofl: :lol3: :rofl: :lol3: :rofl: :lol3: :rofl: :lol3: :rofl: :lol3:

That gave me a laugh for the day.

So now I am watching a tv program on the Mississippi River which is quite interesting. Done by an Englishman. Bedtime soon. Got to get up and do it all again tomorrow.

Annie - hope the new office works out well. We should be in new digs when I go back to work on Monday too. Poor old Sassy. Would it be better to put a litter tray on the porch or in the laundry or somewhere so she can go in the warm?

Happy - Hope the PT went off okay and you have rolled back into shape. Must be awful to have that sort of vertigo. It's something I only get if I stand up too fast and the blood sugar levels are low.
Yeah temps here have been cool to moderate. Back in Brisbane, they are whinging about the heat - see above. It is supposed to be nicer tomorrow here, but one thing I do know is that I may have lived here once, but there is no way I would come back here to live permanently. There are much warmer and less windy places around.
How wonderful (NOT) that you got a virus from downloading the new program. How careful you have to be these days.
You talking about vegemite and honey reminds me that I have purchased some Rewa Rewa honey and should try it out on toast again. Maybe tomorrow. I also got some stuff from the Northern Territory markets which I intended to bring over this year, but since it doesn't look like I am going anywhere this year, I might have to eat them as well.

Laura - surprisingly I think Vegemite does go off. Although it lasts for a very long time, 10 years might be too much. Most folk don't go for it unless they are raised on it. It's an Aus/ British/ NZ thing. Aus call it vegemite. NZ eats Marmite (although I have always eaten vegemite) and I think the Brits call it Promite. Very similar stuff.
I heard on the news tonight that you are all getting another dose of Arctic weather over the next week. Stay warm and dry.

Susie - I didn't get the pumpkin soup made, but I did have some Kumara and caramelised onion soup. There is still a bit of that left and then I have some seafood chowder for work next week.
Good going on the bike and the elliptical. I'm afraid I sweat furiously when I exercise - even in cool temps on Wellingtons hills this morning I was sweating pretty well, but then I don't go slow and push myself to the limits. We have some very steep hills in Wellington. It is much like San Francisco in that respect. There is one road where in days gone by, when we had milk trucks that delivered milk to the houses, where the trucks used to have to back up the street because they didn't have enough low gear ratios to make it up forwards. I actually walked that street today. It's tough and there isn't much puff left at the top.
Sorry to hear about the death in the family. It's not easy when they start getting old. Now I am getting old. The family seem to think I am anyway. I don't feel a lot older than I did at 40 and I am certainly a lot fitter than I was then, only fatter.
Last time I was in the States, Happy and I went to Gracelands on a tour. It was an amazing experience and we were very naughty in the gift shop. It is so over the top, I think we just lost the plot.

Hi Ceejay - hope you get that tablet up and running.

Michelle - have a great weekend.

Anyway, it's about my bedtime. Last night I had an amazing sleep. I am hoping for the same tonight. Woke up wanting to get things done this morning. Yeehaa for energy returned.

Don't know exactly how I did this but I have my computer hooked up to wi fi. I have the hot spot from Verizon.
Made a burnt run to Blytheville this morning looking for a charger for the tablet no such luck, but I did buy a game to put on this computer. And lunch at Burger King. I definitely need to exercise today.
For some reason I'm not as freaked out over this storm system that's moving in tomorrow like I was the last one in December. I may when I have to drive in the stuff--The weather people are predicting 1-3 inches of snow.
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Michelle
Have a fun and safe trip to southern CA.

Laura
I did maintain over the holiday. now to get back into the swing of things.

Susie
Wow 5 inches of snow! Not looking forward to winter precipitation at all.

Annie
Glad you got into the new office area.

Hi Happy

Morning to you all,

Had my rolling procedure yesterday - we'll see if it works. He said I definitely had positional vertigo and to avoid all movements which bring on the vertigo feeling so for the next 2 days I should avoid all opportunities to bend down or look upwards. Not supposed to lay flat either - lucky for me I can elevate the head or foot part of the bed. That pretty much takes care of taking the Christmas tree down which was my plan. DH said that's ok - it's still in good shape - ie. not a dry fire hazard losing needles. I suppose I could go round the mid section of the tree and remove those ornaments. I also picked up some extra postage stamps as the rates are going up 3 cents a stamp the end of the month. I didn't do a whole lot of anything yesterday - read a few chapters in a book, watched a movie on TV and did some writing.

I will admit, I am probably not starting the dieting until Monday. I am getting rid of some things in the house left over from the holidays - cheeses, seafood and such. Nothing that is totally sinful, just the occasional things you have that are not necessarily plan friendly. And it would be too wasteful to flat out chuck the stuff in the trash. I am paying close attention to the fact that although I think - keyword THINK some of this is lovely, when I do eat it I either feel guilty or get a flash or heartburn. And having to keep my head stable also somewhat limits my exercise for the moment. I am doing extra stairs at home but it is a challenge to do my physical therapy exercises which I need to do right now for my back, knees and neck. Monday I should be good as new. He said I might have a bit of residual fuzziness simply because I have been dealing with it for so long the body gets used to certain things and they don't just end abruptly. But if this works :crossed: I should know by Monday. If it doesn't :( he can do a second treatment and give me some exercises to move the crystals back but the rolling treatment works the best and the fastest. So I'm hopeful.

DH got a new camera with a super zoom lens on it. A bit pricey but I told him why not. We have done nicely in our investments this year - I mean he who manages our money has done so - and he had more than enough to cover the camera so I said why not? As long as we have enough to cover bills, reinvest and save some - use the extra. He really loves the outdoors and the animals - it's his saving grace. And he just told me that he is getting chest rumbles again so I pray to God that it's just old age and nothing to do with his heart. His blood pressure and vitals are good and strong. Anyway I also said that it is good for him to learn things and stretch his brain which he will have to do for taking pictures. He got another Canon camera as he likes that brand but will have to learn a lot with this new lens. I also told him he should learn how to take people pictures - he is mostly scenery. I have learned there is an art to shooting animals, people and scenery. He's good at scenery - now learn some new things. I think I convinced him when I reminded him that as we learn new things we develop our "eye" to see things - we look to the heavens and see a lot more in the stars now that we know what to look for and we also see things in the trees - birds and animals and such - because our eyes are sharper looking for stuff. Said you need to develop that eye for people too. I guess this also gives me good incentive to lose weight as I will probably be his model and it makes me sad to see myself in pictures at this moment. So he can learn and I can be motivated and we both win!

I apologize for rambling so much about me.

Shad - you certainly have been one busy lady. Sorry to hear about the leaky ceiling - sometimes if there's a hole in the outside wall or the mortar has come loose if the rain blows sideways it can get in between the ceiling boards and rain down on you - we had that happen in one of our apartments - made me crazy as I could not figure out how in the heck the bed got wet. At least the mattress didn't get soggy. So is it too cool for your liking in NZ now? 109 degree temps would be equally uncomfortable. It's supposed to get to -38 below zero air temps tomorrow night. There is an artic blast that will affect all of us Stateside Worldlies so we will be shivering in unison. Would love a bit of your Brissy heat. I do agree with you comment about having to add food to MyFitnessPay - I am doing the same because while I find the foods, the calorie counts have been added according to portions using grams as opposed to my measurements of cups, spoons and pieces. It's pain at first but gets easier I suppose as time goes on, especially if we add the same foods over and over. I guess we will have to link up with each other on that site. I did go under my calories one day and saw that same message about "if you keep this up you will be a stick bug in slightly under 4 years" :lol3: :lol3: :lol3: How nice that you get to see your friend Chris again - I had a giggle the last time you mentioned sitting and speaking Japinglish with her :rofl: So are you maybe having to put off travelling over to this side for another year? My cousin Stash will be disappointed. I think you will like this area the best of all which is good because I'm not moving anymore ;) Do you still keep in touch with your friend in Arizona?

Michelle - have a good time at the wedding. Yes, packing with just a carryon is a pain but for only a day and a half trip, you should be able to do it.

Ceejay - I hope you are not working this weekend as I'm sure it must be cold in the plant. Did you get your wireless connection working?

Susie - funny that you mention Memphis and you like the blues. My husband LOVES the blues and we moved here from Memphis. Lived there for 8 years. You are really going gangbusters on the exercise. Good for you!

Poor Coal and Sassy - I'm sure they are not going to be liking the cold that's coming this weekend. Annie and Laura will have to make them doggie blankets.

Annie - I hope you didn't get stuck working very late last night. Are you all moved in? Will be nice to have a quieter work space.

Laura - are you getting more snow too? Have a nice night with your cruise planning tonight. Will be nice to think about fun and warm weather instead of shoveling snow.

I'm going to try and make some crock pot chili - have a taste for chili for some reason. And I'm sure there are some house things I can do without too much head movement so everyone have a good weekend and stay warm and dry!

Oh Ceejay - I hope it's closer to 1 inch of snow than 3. Be careful!

Hello all. The funeral was a nice tribute to the deceased. I didn't know him well but felt like I did after attending the service.

What was interesting was watching my DH and his cousin's. You could see them getting to know each other again as they caught up and told stories of when the were small and spent weekends and summers together.

We didn't get any thing done today so tomorrow DH and I will divide and conconquer with him going to the grocery and me cleaning the house. I didn't get a workout in today and I hope tomorrow I can do a walking DVD.

Michelle: I hope you had a nice trip. Does the new job start on Monday?

Ceejay: Good for you for getting the wireless to work. I hope our snow levels are minimal. It is going to be enough to deal with the temps at the beginning of the week.

Happy : fingers crossed that the rolling worked. I have a friend of mine whose 6yr old daughter had vertigo a couple of months ago. I was telling her about it as something to keep in mind if it returns.

I will say a prayer for your DH. I hope things are ok with his heart. You might want to keep him out of the cold air that is coming. I have heard it can be hard on people with heart conditions to breathe in that cold air. I gave my husband some warnings about being careful when he is out clearing the walks and to wear his full face tobogan.

Did you make chili? DH is making that tomorrow.

Laura: When is your cruise and where are you cursing too? It has been 8 yrs since our cruise. It was our first and I loved it. It was a 7 day and we were in the Western Caribbean.

Shad: I hope you got everything dried out. I hope the landlord gets it figured out so it doesn't happen again. Can you move your bed to another location in the room away from the window?

When I was reading about you going up and down those hills I was getting winded just thinking about it.

I will PM you my username and email so if you want to link up on My Fitness Pal you can add me as a friend.

Goodnight everyone.

Morning
Warning vent time.
This will be brief. My co-worker started in with one of her lectures this morning and I told her to STOP. I'm tired of it. I didn't have a new year's resolution but I have one now, leave work at 7 p.m. If she starts her lecturing I'm leaving without a word being said. I was on the edge of losing my temper which doesn't happen often. Now I have a headache.
This morning I felt like a puppy being whipped for getting the gate off of my car, which was from the wind blowing.

I'll be back later when I calm down some more.

Morning ladies,

It's bright and sunny out there but really COLD :brr:. I see you that Laura, Annie and perhaps even Susie are getting belted with not only the cold but snow too. And lots of it. Stay safe, don't fall, dress warm and be careful shoveling. I have enough of the essentials - coffee creamer and milk :lol: to tide me over for a few days but will have to get to the store sometime soon. Should have stopped on Friday when we were out and about but I didn't have my list with me. I made the chili last night - got a big beef chuck roast and broke it down into chunks which DH likes much better than ground beef. It had really good chili flavor but I don't think I can eat it - came out more spicy than I intended to which is a big darn, darn because I sure had a taste for chili. DH said he thought it was delicious and he's looking forward to having it watching the football games today. I was also looking through some stuff and wound up signing up for a beginners yoga class starting the end of March. It's at a local fitness place down by our Walmart. This lady teaches several yoga classes of different levels all over the area and I've heard from several people that they really, really like her. Her classes - which are scheduled through the local junior college - fill up very quickly. So it's not unusual to have to sign up 3 or 4 months ahead of time because there is generally not many openings. I think she limits the class to 8 students and she gets a lot of repeat students. I also decided to take a Beginning Spanish class the end of this month. It also runs for 8 weeks and I'm sure it's going to be a pretty basic class but it will give me something to do, meets my objectives of doing things to stretch my brain and I am finding that occasionally I need my broken Spanish although not too much up here - more in the cities. So far I am not getting the vertigo but then again, I'm not doing the movements that bring on the vertigo so we'll see - tomorrow I can try for sure. DH is having fun learning about his new camera. The new zoom lens sure is BIG. You have to use a tripod - no way could you hold that steady and upright.

Annie - are you glad that your Colts (footy team Shad) pulled out the big game win? DH had that on the TV and I wasn't paying much attention to it until they started to rally about and pull it off. Are you getting a lot of snow? Bet Sassy is hating on that. When is Sissy due again - I hope not in this crazy winter we are having.

Ceejay - sorry about the coworker. Was she lecturing you? Good that you told her to stop her ranting. Just don't get yourself all worked up over it - not worth it at all.

Susie - although it's sad to have to attend a funeral, often it seems that's one of the few things that brings extended family back together again. That was good that DH had a chance to get together with cousins and such. Did these people come from different parts of the area or just don't get a chance to see each other any more? Thank you for the comment about DH, the heart and the cold. I didn't think of that at all so I mentioned it to him. Especially with the frightful cold we've had lately. He has to go out and plow - no getting around that. That's nice that DH is doing the grocery shopping while you tackle the house. Does he plan the menus too or do you just make a list and he gets the stuff?

Shad - I was meaning to ask you - being the honey lovers that you are on that side of the pond - what do you do with it besides put it in tea? I remember the first time you came to visit you brought some honey sticks which I used very prudently. I might try to incorporate it more into the eating plan. We have several local apiaries here and I do like to support the local folks. And honey is a good for you food - antibiotic properties too I understand. Hope you had a good dry sleep last night.

Hello to the rest of the Worldies who are getting on with their Sundays in one way or another. I think I'll go put a pot of soup on and try to figure out what I'll do with this package of chicken drumsticks I need to use up. Bye for now.

Morning all,
Not much happening here since yesterday. The weather cleared up eventually yesterday afternoon and I went for a walk and got some goodies to be going on with until I can plan out my menu properly.

Ceejay - that wasn't much of a rant. Good for you for stopping the co-worker on her lecture. Now you have done it once, you can do it again. No need to put up with that.

Susie - I sent you a PM, I will try to find you and Happy and we can feast together.

Happy - Honey, well the following comes to mind:
Lemon honey chicken
Lemon and honey drinks
Honey on toast
Honey cake - might have to get Ruthxxx for that recipe
Honey on anything instead of sugar
Rack of lamb with honey and lavender if you are feeling adventurous and rich.

That's about it, I'd better go do some work

Actually, here is a link that you might like to look at.

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_me...pes_with_honey

Thank you Shad - those recipes look yummy and I don't even have to convert the ingredients measurements! Lemon honey chicken - that sounds interesting as I have some nice juicy lemons, a few bottles of some local honeys and chicken legs I need to use up. I think you just gave me a meal idea - thanks again!!!

Afternoon all.

Happy - The yoga class sounds good - good sign when the classes book up in advance. I'd like to learn Spanish - all I have is two years in HS and that was a long long time ago, lol. Glad dh is enjoying learning about his new camera. I love the nature photos and hope to see some people photos soon! Hope the rolling procedure has helped with the vertigo - fingers :crossed: when you test yourself tomorrow.

Ceejay - If it's quitting time, good for you just stopping the lecturing and getting out of there. Only your boss should lecture you - and only if necessary. Good job on getting the hotspot set up. I don't even know what that is...but I think my friend D might have that and uses it for her laptop and her cellphone.

Shad - Glad the weather cleared for you - no more rain infiltrating your space!!! Your hilly walk made me tired, LOL!

Michelle - Hope you had a lovely weekend at the wedding and with family. What you described on FB sounded heavenly. :)

Susie - I'm one of those that sweats when I do cardio, and if I'm doing it intensely enough to get the benefit, it takes a while for me to cool down, and sometimes I don't even feel cooled down even after my shower! If I wanted to contine with the fitness center at work, I'd have to do it very late in the workday so I could go straight home afterwards. Or do some sort of non-cardio workout. Re the cruise - we're going on a Western Carribean cruise, so let me know if you did anything memorable(in a good way) during your ports-o-call if they match any of ours - Cozumel, Belize, Honduras, Costa Maya. At this point I'm not sure I care much what we do - I just want to get out of this horrible winter weather we're having!! Stay safe traveling in this cold & snow!!

Annie - Congrats re the Colts! Quite the comeback I heard!

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Yesterday I had an early hair appointment, then stopped at the thrift shop for a browse and bakery for a loaf of rye. My pals came over and we all sat at the dining room table with our laptops/ipads looking at the cruise excursion info and hashing out a tentative plan. We had pizza for lunch.

By the time they left, I had time for a dogwalk and quick shower before getting ready for the 60th birthday party. It once again began to snow, and the roads weren't all that great so I'm glad the party was at a spot relatively close to home. The party was nice enough, but I'm partied out from all the holiday events, so I could have been happy at home curled up with a book. But it was nice to touch base with friends.

I had a lazy morning, then got going on laundry. Still snowing (and now it's blowing), so bf got out to snowblow while I shoveled the wee bit out back. BF got a loaner of some gas for the snowblower from a neighbor, so now that he's done with the snow - for now - he went to buy a gallon to pay back our neighbor.

Gonna figure out something for lunch. Looking forward to Downton Abbey tonight.

Time to post so TTFN!

Laura - are you and your friends planning off ship excursions? No topless dancing on the beach :nono: well if you do what happens in Belize stays in Belize :lol: You and I will have to put the squeeze on Shad to drop some hints on this season of Downton Abbey. I have to admit, watching the entire season's shows by renting it from the library - I am now eager to see them all instead of waiting week after week. In fact I was watching a New Year's special hosted by Hoda and Kathie Lee and they said one of 2013 trends was speed watching entire seasons of shows thanks to things like Netflicks as people like me are finding new shows thanks to people like you recommending them. I admit I'm debating about buying the season 4 UK video that comes out the end of the month... stop me, stop me. :rofl:

It looks like from reports from my cousin that it's really pretty awful out your way. Bad enough snow, bad enough cold but add WIND and oh my oh my. Stay home with that good book!

Thanks for the mention of Downton Abby tonight. I watched the last episode last week on PBS so I'm ready for more.

Laura
No such luck with the lecture which was at the beginning of my shift. Couldn't go home. I've been a nervous wreck all day and dreading to see her come back tonight. May give her the silent treatment tonight. A trip to Belize sound divine. Are you going soon?

Shad
I didn't want to get into the jest of the lecture so I just stopped. It's in my blog if interested. Those recipes sound good and I have some honey in the cabinet.

Happy
Like your avatar. So far no snow in which I'm thankful but the temperature is dropping like a rock. I'd like to take a yoga class, but I'll keep doing my DVD's.

Susie and Annie
Looks like ya'll are getting more snow. Stay safe and warm.