Category: My Life

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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I’ve decided that I am a total wimp, and that systematically, I am also falling apart! I spent most of Sunday with my feet up and the heating pad firmly pressed against my back. Yes, that’s what I did, and it hasn’t helped all that much.

Okay let’s back up. Friday I decided to decorate the shelves in the house. I lifted 4 heavy boxes from the attic, down the stairs and into our formal living room. (Also known as the living room, that we never use!)

I unpacked my much loved decorations, and put them out on the shelves. The next morning, I started to pick up a heavy laundry basket and BAM!

My back felt tired, but it hit me.

PAIN!

Saturday morning I woke to a frozen back, with a lot of pain. I took the day to settle down and use some heat to relax everything. I did that on Sunday too, but so far I have not succeeded in relaxing anything.

At least on Monday I will be seeing my doctor for a routine physical. I can have him check me out. I know everything is okay.

I’m just getting old!

Saturday I took out some ground venison that my dear friend/cousin, Dave gave to me. I wasn’t too sure how to make it, but he suggested that I use half venison and half pork. So I worked chopping up vegetables, and then took off my rings and dove in and mixed it all up with my fingers. Then I patted it into a loaf pan and tucked it into the oven.

I stood peeling potatoes and carrots and put them on to cook, and then sat down to sip some lemonade while it all cooked. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did, although, I have had venison before and enjoyed it, but I have not had ground venison to make meatloaf with.

It was so good!

Anyway, yesterday I went up in my attic and took down four boxes of decorations. I should have waited for Hubby, but I didn’t and on Saturday my back was killing me. Add to that picking up a very full laundry basket and that was it!

So, since I was a bit immobilized, I took out my television’s manual, and hooked my TV to Amazon Prime, where I can now watch unlimited movies for free for being an Amazon Prime customer! This was so exciting. When Hubby came in from raking leaves, we watched a wonderful movie called “Then She Found Me”. It is a dear character study, and although I enjoyed it more than Hubby, I think this was because I’m a woman, (you know the same way I don’t get “The Dirty Dozen” because I am a woman and he is guy!), it was a good movie none the less.

Saturday night we watched another movie “The Adjustment Bureau” with Matt Damon, and found it puzzling. I usually like Matt Damon, but this movie is a little strange.

I sure hope my back is better in the morning. I really want to finish decorating as I have a busy week ahead, plus, the New England Patriots are playing at one o’clock!

I haven’t written about my struggle at Weight Watchers recently, because I have really been battling it. You know, for those of us with life long weight issues, I have finally come to the conclusion, that they never really end. It will be four years in January since I started my quest with Weight Watchers, and I imagine that I will need my meetings and support for the rest of my life.

In fact when I reached my goal, I felt under tremendous pressure. How could I maintain my weight? What would happen if I gained it all back? Trust me, you get a little bit nutty.

I started to play the denial game, and not weigh in, and not be honest with myself and slowly the pounds started to creep back on. So at my first meeting after Thanksgiving, I got back on track, bought a normal membership and began journaling.

Now on Christmas Day, I will have a couple of things I enjoy, but I will make a lovely meal for Hubby and I to have that is mainly Weight Watchers friendly. The same will be said on New Years.

Since Hubby and I are going on that cruise in March, I sure want to look good in my bathing suit! I also want to feel good, so we can walk all around and enjoy the beaches of Roatan, Belize, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. We have two great sea days built in, and I just want to be able to swim and sun and enjoy.

So now, I must eat right, exercise and give myself pep talks.

It never really ends, just gets manageable.

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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I was busy almost the entire time from Thursday until Saturday night cooking! Now I like cooking, but somehow being on my feet all this time and cooking like a crazy chef, has me very tired!

Hubby went out on Black Friday and he got a great deal on a new electric razor! His old razor was dying a slow death, and he really needed a new one. This he got with a $50.00 off coupon! What a great deal!!!

And of course, my best news, the fact that Mandy is expecting her first child in June!  Yes, I am simply over the moon with happiness!!!

Have a great week everyone!!!

Being Thankful

Here are thirteen things that I am thankful for this year.

Please remember that there are many more people and things than I could possibly put in one list!

1. My wonderful husband. There are so many things he does for me each and every day. Yesterday he plowed our driveway and got the mail for me. He also peeled and sliced all the apples for today’s apple pie.
2. Mandy. From the moment she was born she has brought me so much joy. I am so proud to be her mother. I give her so much credit for becoming the wonderful woman that she is.
3. My dogs. You know, they make me a better person. I feel so loved and so cuddled when they are near. I want to make them happy. I hope I do.
4. I’m thankful for my sister, Melodie. She has always been there for me and even took care of me as I grew up.
5. My cousin, Janet. I nearly lost her a couple of years ago, to cancer. Good treatment, and a lot of prayers cured her.
6. And the love of a wonderful man, who comes in at #6 on my list. Dave knew Janet when they were both teenagers. They were really kindred spirits and now he is part of this thing we call family!
7. Dave’s kids and grand-kids! Love you guys!
8. Uschi! Oh, how lucky I was when we met and became friends! She is like a sister to me and in so many ways, a soul mate!
9. Matt, Mandy’s very special fiance! Soon he will be my son in law!
10. Facebook. Okay, it is infuriating at times, but I love the fact that we are in touch with people that we really liked from our past now in our present.
11. The friends I have made at WW. This small group of women have been with me for four years. I do not know what I would do without them!
12. My friends around the world. I love you all, and wish you a Happy Day!
13. Lastly, Dark Chocolate. Yes. I’m thankful for Dark Chocolate!

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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Oh what a weekend I had! The longest birthday celebration ever, wrapped up on Saturday night, when my daughter and her fiancee came up for a visit and a great meal at Canoe!

I love visiting with Mandy and Matt. I always marvel at the wonderful woman that she has become. It seems that just the other day she was a little baby and now she is all grown up. Even if she wasn’t my daughter, I would want to be her friend.

I worked this weekend for my friend, helping her take stock of the supplies in her shop. I learned something very valuable. I do not like taking stock! I’ll do it again for her, because she is my friend and I love her, but oh, it was back breaking work.

Saturday night Hubby and I watched “The Shawshank Redemption”. I do not know how I missed that one, but somehow I did. In any case, it was a fantastic movie. There are two or three episodes of violence, but nothing that was dewelled on. It was all character study. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman Jr. were wonderful.

Sunday was a kick back and relax day. I’m glad I had that. I watched some Public TV shows about the British Royal Family, and sipped some hot tea. Seems appropriate, don’t you think?

Well on Monday it’s laundry day and then I have a meeting to go to in the late afternoon. Tuesday we will go and get our turkey and the last items needed for Thanksgiving, and Wednesday I’ll go to Weight Watchers and hopefully get the inspiration I need to be “good” during this holiday!

Since I always post, I did not want anyone worrying about me. I’m just very tired tonight and so I will post tomorrow morning. I did have a wonderful visit with Mandy and Matt and the dinner we had was awesome!

More later….

Today I turn fifty-three! Wow! FIFTY-THREE!!! I remember when my mother turned fifty-three and I thought she was really old! Of course I am not old. I am young and happy and still think of myself as being a pretty groovy chick! Anyway, I wanted to share with you a short montage, which will show you how I got here!

1. What song reminds you of a specific time in your life and what is it about that song that makes you remember?

“Mandy” by Barry Manilow and “Reminicing” by the Little River Band. Both songs were playing the mornings I gave birth to my girls. Those days, changed me forever.

2. What’s something you’ve given up on?

Eating Peppermint Bark candy. Oh, I swear, it is the best thing known to man. For those who do not know what it is, the base is dark chocolate, then the next level is white chocolate and then the top is broken up candy cane! Yeah, I walk quickly by this in all stores. I’m quite simply an addict to this!

3. What’s something you’ll never give up on?

My Weight Watchers class. I go each week, and even though I am at goal, I still go. I need the support, and I know I always will. So yes, I will never give up on Weight Watchers. I will never give up on me!

4. If you had to cook something from scratch in the next hour what would it be?

Chicken Divan. I have everything I need to do it, and Hubby would love it!

5. Have you started Christmas shopping? Decorating? Listening to Christmas music?

Shopping? Yes. And I need to finish all the gifts that I am mailing to Germany, so perhaps this weekend I can do a little of that.

6. What do you know about your parent’s wedding?

They got married in an old Episcopal Church, had a reception in the church hall. The wedding party were almost all family members, and my mother’s gown was handmade, and was a copy of one she had seen in a window. My parents were married 60 years before my father’s death.

7. I can’t believe I have lived the life I have.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I just got done watching a movie called “Hachi”. It’s a great movie about a man and his dog and their love for each other. It’s a real tearjerker, that’s for sure, and at the end I was sobbing. I suppose because I have the four doggies and I love them so very much. It’s worth the time, and the tissues so you can watch this movie. People often think that owning a pet is all one sided. Actually, that isn’t true. I know they love us, as much as we love them.