Hey Everyone!

Hope everyone's week is getting off to a good start in spite of the rain!  Mine is starting out slow but it will pickup by Wed.  We have a VP coming to tour our facility and that's always fun. (NOT)!


Well, guess I better get to work.

OK, so it's Monday morning.  Better late than never.  We spent Friday evening and all day and night Saturday working on Eddie's room.  When I left for Dallas Sunday morning, Val stayed home to finish up putting his room together and unpacking his stuff.  The room does look great.  Eddie was really excited and he likes it so I guess we hit a home run.  We met at Pappadeaux for a late lunch.  I had some boiled shrimp.  Pat had some gumbo, my daughter Alexis had the Crawfish bisque, and Sandra had a halibut sandwich.  It was all good. (I had a bite of everyone's lunch and shared my shrimp).  When we got home, the TV was messed up.  After calling support, we are getting a new satellite receiver sometime this week.  Seems the hard drive in ours is messed up.  We missed all our shows that I thought were recording the past 3-4 days.  Oh well, I never watch too much during the summer anyway.  It's off to work this morning.  It's pretty bad when you look forward to Monday after being off the weekend to be able to get a little rest, lol.  Every bone and muscle in our bodies ache today.  Getting older sucks sometimes, lol.  At least I get the satisfaction of knowing that a year ago I was incapable of doing all of this.  About the obesity walk,  I am going to really try to come up with the extra money and sign up this year.  Maybe I'll finally get to meet you all in person.  Gotta go jump in the shower soon.  Ya'll have a good week.  We love you too, Susan.

Yep, it's laundry catch-up weekend at the Griffith home.   meh.

Is anyone out there!!!!???????


Just checkin'

Whenever I am looking for my vitamin pills that are not my normal brand, I always note how many pills a day will I have to take to get what I need.  This is especially important when I am getting my calcium.  First thing I do, is look at the ingrediants, make sure its calcium citrate.  A few times I have picked up a bottle thinking it was citrate based on the name, and find out it was really carbonate.  I get the Walgreens brand of calcium, Calcium Citrate, is the name of it on the front.  Serving size is 2 caplets, their a bit big but I can easily break them in half with my hands.  Per 2 caplets, I get 400mg.  So easy math tells me that each one is 200, so 3 will get me 600, take 3, 3 times daily, gets me 1800mg. 
Next I look at how many come in the bottle, if I need to take 9 a day, then a 90 ct bottle wil only last me 10 days.  Also I look at price, I don't want to be spending a lot just for 10 days, but I don't mind spending extra to get 200 ct bottle, since it will last me abt 2 weeks.

Also, I take the green gel caps for Vit d, I unwillingly, poke a hole through both ends of the gelcap and bite down until the gelcap is empty, and I spit the gelcap out.  I don't see any reason swallowing it.  I don't care for the way it coats my mouth will oil.  

For multi-vit I get Centrum chewable from Wal*Mart, it leaves an iron taste in my mouth, and everything I drink/eat for abt an hour will taste like iron/blood.  But it doesn't bother me.  Also get my protein from Wal*Mart, $14 for a big tub (chocolate or vanilla) will last me 2 weeks.