Hi All,

It is cold out there. I had to do my Friday errands. and left my gloves off during one of the stops. My fingers are still cold. I am heading out now to have lunch with friends, then home to work on taxes again, and maybe the puzzle. We are not going out tonight, since we will be tomorrow night.

Jason. it doesn't seem like a year for you. But, you are doing better.

It seems that Carla always comes in bad weather.

Gotta run,

Hugs,

Hi Peeps,

Brrrrrrrr, Carla is flying in on a very cold day. Vinny will keep her warm.

All the supper-club talk took me back to when we had a summer place years ago in Lake Mills, WI. The best part of the weekend was the supper clubs. Their fish frys and salad bars were amazing. I do recall there being residences right on the premises. Fun Times.

I love winter unlike some. Part of it I think is because my mom was from an Alp region of Germany and she took us bob-sled riding, ice skating and even ice fishing in the winter. We used to go for "Familienwanderungen" everyday. A term in German for Family Walking. We did it no matter what the temp when I was small. As my mom became more Americanized we did it less and less, but my childhood was filled with winter walks. My mom walked everyday after she retired until she got sick and that was the thing she always said she missed the most.

I weighed myself after work at the gym yesterday and I have lost 8 lbs! OK we all know its water, but I havent seen the scale budge in a loooooooooong time. I'll take it. I packed my lunch yesterday. Eveybody at work thoughtt I was a nut cake since I work in a food establishment. I think I may have sold over 100 cups of hot chocolate yesterday. i know I made 36 pots of coffee. I work in an outside hut at an auto auction. It has been humbling and such a blessing! 

Jason, I cant believe its already been a year since your surgery. I am sorry you are having some issues still. I dont know if water therapy would help you, but the water is so good for strengthening and working out pain free.

Lisa, it sounds like you are doing amazing on staying on point for losing weight. Bravo! I am waking up pain free again and feel marvelous! Praying I keep on course.

Chris, I love a new computer. Enjoy. I find I spend less and less time on my computer and more time on my IPAD. But as I sit right now in front of my desk top, I know how much I love it and wouldnt want to be without one.

Crystal, is this your first Valentine with your fiance???? I cant tell you how happy you sound. You are so positive and obviously in love.

I am getting my hair cut and cleaning my house today.

Since my cats are sitting right in front of my computer screen and I cant see I will close.

Hugs to Nancy and Connie and Dawn and everyone!

Sharon

Don't even know where to begin. Been so busy with work and home. Every time I turned around this week someone needed fingerprints. 6 sets and 2 people needed 2 cards a piece. I dislike taking prints on paper cards, people all try to help you "roll" their fingers. It has been get up for work, work and come home and do it all again. We are looking forward to a three day week-end. Going to the Chicago History Museum, RJ Grunts and then probably over to the zoo and conservatory before taking the train back home. 

Bought a new 'puter yesterday. This one has been limping along. I cannot even use Internet Explorer on it - only Firefox. I can barely get into Outlook. It locks up on IE. The old 'puter will be good for storing photos (I do have 2 external drives as duplicate/back-up storage).

Off to store files and upload to the other drives. The new 'puter comes tomorrow. I paid extra to have it delivered in 2 days and it will be delivered to my work so no worries about theft. It was just slightly over $10 for the expedited delivery.

I wonder what the difference is between a supper club and a nice restaurant because when we went to Galena we went to a supper club and it just looked like a nice restaurant to me.  So what determines a place to be a supper club??? 

Supper Clubs are named because they mostly serve only supper. Opening at around 3:30 in the bar and starting supper service at 5:00. Some have started opening at lunch to compete with other restaurants. Most of them are family owned and many times the family lives right on the premise. Most are on the edge of town or in rural areas. The upper mid west is where the majority of the supper clubs are located. One of the most served drinks at a supper club is a brandy old fashioned sweet, especially in WI. Most will serve a relish tray before the meal or will have a salad bar. Many are only open Tues-Sun. Many have a fabulous fish fry on Fridays and prime rib on Saturdays. There is a great 2011 documentary titled Wisconsin Supper Clubs-An Old Fashioned Experience. There are also a couple of books that write about and feature the WI clubs and another one of the clubs all over the mid west. One of the books wrote about Wally's House of Embers in the Dells and about their live entertainer, Billy Anderson. We just found out yesterday that he died at his home in IA. We were stunned. We would go to Wally's and other places in the Dells to hear him. He always called out Itasca, IL when he saw us come in. We are going to miss him.

Good Morning, I am eating breakfast, a bowl of bananas and strawberries. I will a piece of cheese to it, for protein.

My plans for today are to stay in and clean house. It is to cold for me!.

For Valentines evening we are going to a supper club in Ottawa.  Most years we stay home, but a group of us decided to go out instead. That are our plans for the weekend.

We seem to have a quiet life for a while after Christmas. I don't even go shopping much ( like Walmart), just tend to veg more.

I am exercising at least 5 days a week. That is a good thing.

Have a great day, At least the sun is shining, even if it is cold.

Hugs,