Monday Roll Call

Good Morning IL Family,

It sounds like everyone had a full lovely weekend, myself included.

My better half could not sleep, so he woke me up at 3 am and asked me if I was sleeping? LOL He was persistent. I decided to get up. I rarely sleep soundly when there is a full moon. 

Today I am doing my usual; 2 work outs including my swim. I am enjoying taking the weekends off  and working out hard all during the week. I look forward to being in the water later. 

Randy, that is awesome that you are going to an election judge. I once was something on election day but cannot recall what it was. I basically sat there all day and looked up names and handed out ballots. It was 20 years ago. 

Crystal, God has handed you a few opportunities to meet the hunk, it's time to just go for it......

Nancy, I'll keep praying for Beemer.

Lisa, those Pillsbury apple concoctions looked delish. I bet the house smelled divine when you made them.

Connie, I too hate the traffic in the city, but the traffic around the malls in the burbs is just as bad on the weekends. I do love the city. I try to take public transportation when I can. That helps.

Dawn, so happy for your time with your grand-baby. I know how wonderful that is. There is a great book called Creative Grand-parentling by a pair of grandparent the Schreurs. It is a great book. It gives many creative ways to make memories with the grandkids. I highly recommend it.

I bought 3 giant bags of candy at Costco for Halloween. I know we will still run out. 

Have a great day everybody.

Sharon

3 bags of candy from Costco? That is 150X3! We picked up our bag last week and there were 150 pieces in the one we bought. Of which there still are 150 pieces because it is still unopened. We have a fairly active neighborhood and will get just under 50 kids. I keep a tally from year to year and what the weather is for when the kids go out. The rest of the bag goes into work for the little slobs there.

I started my self imposed early (the early part is self imposed as I was not supposed to start until Wedn) liquid diet yesterday. I can have 5 liquid meals and one small food meal up until next Tuesday when it has to be all clear liquids. My belly was growling when I went to bed last night and then when I got up. It will pass. Gotta shrink that liver.

It is Dave's turn for the foot doc this afternoon. My heel stopped hurting as fast as it started and I was on my feet all day yesterday doing laundry and cleaning. My Fitbit said I went up 19 flights of stairs.

I am sitting here sipping some tea to get something warm in the tummy. I will "drink" my breakfast later at work. The Slim Fast and Special K protein drinks are not too bad. I remember Slim Fast in the past not tasting this good except they do have a little bit of an after taste.

Later Gators! 

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Church yesterday morning.  Then in to the loop to vote and across the river to the Westin where the drinks were just a little tooooooo inflated so we showed up at the Public House just in time to pull Da Bears fat out of the fire.

Trying to stay warm, helping unload the truck, Jewel, maybe running up Milwaukee to see were I will be serving... and then Python.

Hello everyone

I had a good day yesterday.  Since I got what I could at Goodwill I finally gave in and bought a few sweaters retail at JC Penney.  I am wearing one right now.  I love wearing clothes that fit.  Then headed over to the JC Penney salon because they always have good deals on shampoos...and they did so I bought some.  And then I headed back over to Target.  Then I came home and made my own wash.  Then I did my laundry...and if you were on Facebook you know how that went...hahaha...thank God I still was dressed (you know not wearing sweats and tshirt) and had makeup on.  

Today...and for the rest of that week for that matter... I don't have much going on but work and working out. 

Sharon- If you read on Facebook I did manage to talk to him...twice!!!  You can't expect me to go from mute to miss talky-tina in two seconds...give a girl a chance.  At least I said something.  I just had no idea what the heck to say to the man!!!  I was standing there thinking...say something...say something...ok what do I say...what do I say!!!  I was ready to pass out I swear!!!  The funny thing is I always do laundry on Sunday around 4-5 and I thought does he know this and he is here on purpose...no that's just to much to ask for.

Anyway...I have to get ready for work now.  I hope everyone has a good day.   

Good Morning,

I am heading to work to few minutes early this morning. We got some new pages to put in the applications (more paperwork) on Friday. In the State of Illinois wisdom, we now have apaper to replace a page of the app, that was previously printed out on the computer. Then, on another sheet, they changed 1  word, and we need to replace all of those papers. Oh well, job security, sorta. since we are state and fedral funded, We can be closed down if our funding is cut.

Sharon, my husband wakes up most nights, he usually goes to the recliner and is back to sleep within a few minutes. Of course, he tells me I am keeping him up.

Randy, I was an election judge for over 10 years. I quit when I went back to work.

Christine, You are deadicated. I only bought 1 bag of candy for Wed. night. It has 45 packs of gummies in it.  We are going out to dinner, but even if we were home, We are lucky to get 20.

This time next week, it will be alittle lighter then today. Turn clocks back on Saturday night.

Hugs,

LISA

Just a quick stop by, I cleaned yesterday so not much going on here. I am making some chicken noodle soup for the grand kids for Wednesday to eat before they go out T&Tting. Keep them warm from the inside out. 

Christine, not sure if I will make the holiday gathering because it's on a Wednesday I think. My daughter can't take off on Wednesday or all the guys she makes out a paycheck for won't be happy with her. So as of now it's not in my plans. I wanted to attend but we shall see. 

Later friends,

Karen

Karen, actually the party is on Dec 6 - a Thursday.

then I may be able to attend!

Hi all,

I had my 3 month post-op appt last Thursday and everything went well.  I am still waiting to see the results of my lab work.

I am only 2 lbs away from my goal.  I have a feeling that I will fall below that though.  I have a meeting with the NU on Thursday so I guess I will discuss that with here.

Attended my nephews wedding in Bloomington over the weekend.  It was a nice time!

Kevin