Category: My Life

I woke early on Wednesday and after walking the dogs and making the coffee I dressed and made breakfast to take with me to Weight Watchers. I weighed in and lost one pound!

It always amazes me how quickly the weight goes on, and how very slowly it comes off!!!

I stayed for the meeting despite the fact that they eye was bothering me, and then I picked up Hubby’s laptop computer, now free of all viruses, and then drove back to my home town. It was then I did something important.

I registered to run for Library Trustee!

It was exciting for me and I was happy as I signed the document that will put my name on the ballot. I love my job at the Library and I hope I will win the election.

I had a meeting with a community group that helps the poor and those kids that need direction in their lives. It was my first meeting with them, but I was impressed and have decided to join the organization.

I came home and hoped that my eye would calm down, but Hubby says it looks red and sore. I took some medication to help the pain, but so far, it hasn’t helped at all. Rats!

I hadn’t been home long when the snow started…again. Not much, but enough to make the roads slick. I know it is just January, but I keep wondering…will spring ever come?

And lastly, I have exciting news. My grand-puppy, Bogart is coming to spend 10 days with grandma!  He will be here in February! I am so pleased to have the time with this little guy. There will be a lot of pictures!

Have a great day everyone!!!

I went to visit my dentist today for a cleaning and check-up. I am from the generation of children  from the pre-fluoride era, so I have a real mouthful of intricate dental work. I mean, it’s so intricate that CSI or NCIS would not have trouble identifying me through my dental records!

I digress.

I went to my dentist today for my 6 month exam and cleaning and much to my shock and pleasure, my teeth and gums were in great shape! Apparently the Tooth Fairy has taken pity on me and decided not to challenge me with an abundance of dental work.

I grew up dreading a visit to the dentist. The man who cared (and I use that term loosly) for my teeth as a child, was a true sadist. I think he delighted in torturing small children. I cried every time I went. He did not believe in using novacain and so the pain was great when he drilled.

I even bit the creep when I was about 6 or 7 years old!

When I was a teenager I refused to go and at one point had tooth pain that was so bad I couldn’t eat. I said nothing until one morning I woke up and half my face was swollen like a chipmonk! I told my parents I wouldn’t go to that creep and so they called another dentist, the father of a friend of mine, and he reluctantly had to pull the tooth. But he was gentle and kind and I was grateful.

After that I was determined to find nice dentists. I always told them of my fear (and the fact that I bite) and I have been lucky to have found nice dentists, who are gentle.

But the old fears are there and I really have trouble each and every time I have to go, but go I do. Every six months. Like a good and fearless little dental patient!

One thing I want to mention to you, gentle reader is, if you have children, please make sure their dentists are good and kind people. A bad dentist can affect a person for the rest of their life!

After more than a week of dry skies, we are having a snow storm. Nothing too big, just 5-6 inches of the white stuff to mess up the driveway! It will also mean that when I go out tomorrow to bring Hubby’s computer in for repair, I will use the 4 wheel drive Jeep and drive like a Granny!

This is the radar for New Hampshire. The blue area is snow and it is moving North East. This is a small snapshot, trust me, there is a lot more blue coming our way!

Hubby is hoping to go skiing in the morning. There is nothing like fresh snow to make him a happy guy! I encourage him to do it for a few very good reasons. First, he loves to ski,  and is an excellent skier. Certainly better than me! Also, I know it makes him happy. Second, the exercise is so good for him, and third, I get a couple of hours all to my self! lol!

Sunday afternoon TV was so bad that I got out my VHS tapes and watched the BBC comedy “Absolutely Fabulous”.

That show always makes me laugh. If you have never seen it and like British humor, then check it out sometime. Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders are so outrageously funny!

This is a big week for me everyone. Besides getting my teeth cleaned on Tuesday, and a Library Trustee meeting on Thursday, I am also signing up to run for office of Library Trustee. It’s the first time I have run for anything since I was in the 6th grade at school and ran for Class President. (That ended well) This is a town wide election and I am a tad nervous about it.

My plan is to start a month before the election going from door to door ringing doorbells and introducing myself. Then I will be at the polls all day on election day. I love working as a Trustee, and I want to continue this important job.

Wish me luck!

I also have another meeting on Tuesday night and of course Weight Watchers on Wednesday! I love it that I am so busy. Some of the things are for me. Like the teeth and Weight Watchers, but the others will benefit our town and that makes me feel a little bit like I am giving back to my community!

I got a terrific picture of Greta’s baby, Curt. He looks remarkably like is sister Anneliese (different litter, same parents). Here is a baby picture of him and one of him that his new owners sent to me today.

The grow so fast!

Mark it on your calendars. January 14th 2010.

It’s the day that I actually got a lot done! I mean, a lot!

I started by getting Hubby up and out the door to go skiing. I always work better in a quiet house. Once he was off, I turned off the TV, and started my work.

I wrote out the transfers of ownership on the German pedigrees. They arrived yesterday from Germany and I want my puppy buyers to get them as quickly as possible. I got all the boys done this morning! Now this was not really a piece of cake, because the buyers of Wally and Fenway have moved, but sleuth that I am, I tracked them down and got their new address.

Best of all, while putting all the information together I got to speak to everyone (except for Schnapps’s owner) and found out that all the boys are doing great and have won the hearts of their owners. That always makes me feel great!

Then I went through the family room and got all the old magazines and newspapers picked up and stored ready for the recycling center.

I fixed the shower door rubber drip stopper thing. I do not know what they call it, but it is on the bottom of the door and keeps the water from getting out under the door.

I put my library book with my purse, the checkbook, our tax bill, and then went and got the rabies certificates for all the dogs together so I could get their new tags.

Once I did that I went to our Town Hall and paid for the dogs. Then paid my taxes, and got all my receipts and the dog tags for the year!

At the Post Office, I filled out all the Certified Mail documents and mailed off the Pedigrees to the owners of Greta’s boys. I picked up a package, and my mail.

Afterward, I stopped at the Library to return a book and was reminded to register for the elections on January 20th for Library Trustee.

I returned home and made myself lunch before Hubby arrived home and the two of us went off to do a few errands in the next town.

Yeah, that’s when the headache came in and I took my medication and sat down with a sugar free cup of hot cocoa.

Think maybe I did too much?

Oh well, I am happy that I got so much done in such a short period of time. Now I can kick back and rest and plan my next project.

It’s the 2010 De-Clutter Project. I plan to get three containers. One marked St. Vincent DuPaul. One marked Recycling Center. One marked trash. Then I am starting in my bedroom and will sort the closets and room until it is de-cluttered. After that, I am off to the next room, until the house is done.

2010. The year to get out from under all of this junk!

Melli tagged me with this Meme. Since it has been forever since I have done one I thought I would give it a go!

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8 TV shows I like to watch:

1. NCIS
2. NCIS Los Angeles
3. House
4. Big Bang Theory
5. How I met Your Mother
6. What Not To Wear
7. Say Yes To The Dress
8. Ice Road Truckers

8 Favorite Places to Eat & drink:

1. Canoe
2. Hong Kong Buffet
3. The Weathervane
4. Harts Turkey Farm
5. The Greek Restaurant in Berlin with Uschi.
6. A little restaurant in Potsdam that has awesome Schnitzel!
7. Margarita’s Mexican
8. The Woodshed

8 Things I Look Forward To:

1. Time with my family.
2. Good Vision.
3. Baby Dackels.
4. Another Cruise (Australia maybe?)
5. Spring.
6. Seeing my friends again.
7. Good health for my family, friends and myself.
8. Winning the election in the spring for Library Trustee.

8 Things that Happened Yesterday:

1. Stayed on my diet all day.
2. Had my hair and nails done!
3. Made a nice homemade beef stew for dinner (4 points!)
4. Hubby skied 8 runs at the mountain.
5. Cuddled with my dackels.
6. Had a Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee!
7. My back scrubbers arrived via USPS.
8. Heard from my daughter.

8 Things I Love About Winter:

1. Christmas
2. New Years
3. Quiet
4. Empty roads
5. Silent snowfall
6. Valentine’s day
7. Easter
8. Spring!
8 Things I Am Passionate About:

1. God
2. Love for my family
3. Love for my friends
4. Dackels
5. Chocolate
6. Appreciating others
7. Travel
8. Cruises

8 Words/Phrases I Often Use:

1. Oh yeah…
2. Who wants a cookie-bone?
3. I LOVE…!
4. WOW!
5. So…
6. No WAY!
7. Not in this lifetime…
8. I’ll pay you ten bucks to walk the dog this time!

8 Things I Learnt from the Past:

1. Love God.
2. Love your family well.
3. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
4. Smile.
5. Go forth gently into the world, but be prepared for the tough stuff.
6. Be there for those you love.
7. Live, Laugh, Love.
8. Enjoy the special little moments in life.

I’m supposed to tag people, but I won’t. If you would like to join me with this, then leave a comment and I will link your blog to this post.

Have a great day everyone!

So far Steffi has joined me!

I woke up knowing that today was the day I would start back on Weight Watchers. Breakfast is always easy for me, because I like yogurt and the 1 point English muffins. I add to that a one egg white omelet and life is great!

Then I showered and weighed myself.

Gasp!

After that, no matter what I put on, I felt pudgy all day. Of course this is good motivation to stay on the plan. In fact I had a leader once who said to wear those tight jeans, because they keep you honest. I think she could be right.

I wasn’t in the mood for a salad, but I made myself one anyway. I made it with tuna sprinkled over the top. Usually I love this. Today, it felt like a terrible punishment, but I persevered and ate all of it.

I know myself pretty well. There are certain things I can eat and some things that I cannot. For instance…CHOCOLATE in any shape or form sends me to Heaven! I cannot get enough. I dream of it and all I want to do is eat it all. There is no way this girl could ever live in Hershey, Pennsylvania! Yes, chocolate is my drug of choice!

My other downfall are carbs. I haven’t met a carb I didn’t like, with the exception of the breadfruit, and I’m not convinced that it is actually a carb. During the month of December, I definitely over-carbed myself.  You should have seen some of the things they had on the cruise, and then when I came home I had that wonderful Marzipan Stollen Bread! Ah, the thought of it makes my stomach cry out for more!

Now it is time to pay the piper and get back on track.

Why am I doing this? Because I would hate like heck to allow myself to gain back all the weight that I lost. It is amazing how quickly it goes on, and how S.L.O.W.L.Y it goes off. So, call this a preemptive strike!

The dackels are all quite supportive although they miss the scraps. They all know that when Mama is dieting, she cleans her plate and there is nothing left for the little dogs!

Nothing much to report about my eye. I’m resting it and trying to do what the doctor advised, but it was so tough with the lopsided vision. Then Hubby got me a Captain Jack Sparrow eye patch and at least I can watch TV and read, even if I look a bit like a pirate!

Yesterday I wanted to clean up after Christmas. You know, put things away and get back to normal life. It just didn’t happen. I looked, I thought and then I stayed in my chair. Apparently, my walk had made me a little tired. So I got to enjoy the decorations for one more day.

This morning, while Hubby was out clearing the drive and patio from our 8 inch snowstorm, I got the decoration box and started putting things away. I wrapped Santa and Christmas trees and with each item packed, said good-bye to Christmas 2009.

I got just about everything packed, and once I am back to normal I will work with Hubby to get the boxes up in the attic. For now they can sit in our unused living room. (We use our family room for daily life.)

It was very cold and windy here today and I did not make it outside. Even the dackels didn’t want to go outside, but I kicked their little dackel bottoms out! LOL!

Hubby cleared the snow that had drifted from the wind, and now he is thawing in front of the fire in the hearth.

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Tomorrow morning I go back on the Weight Watcher’s diet. It’s time. I really need to get my eating back under control and lose the ten pounds that somehow found me over the holidays. I haven’t done well. Somehow that Peppermint Bark Candy found it’s way into my mouth, as well as Lindt Truffels, and German Stollen bread! On our cruise they had Marzipan Stollen for breakfast everyday and I admit I ate it every day! I also had one of my all time favorite things, Eggnog! Now there is a diet killer if there ever was one!

So on Monday morning it is back to yogurt, salads, tuna fish and chicken, until I get those ten pounds off. Anyone else kind of blow their diets during this past Christmas?

It constantly amazes me that as good as I was losing the weight, the moment I am not totally vigilant, the weight comes right back to visit!

So here is to the New Year, and the loss of that little bit of weight ,so that my jeans zip once again, without the use of pliers!