Christmas Eve Coffee

You Go Girl ! !   You can do it !  So glad another manager is putting in his opinion on this also !  woo hoo.

Thanks Sally

Merry Christmas Eve, Michigan.
The ride to work was wonderful, almost no one is on the road. 

QOTD-Are your ready for the big day tomorrow?
I made my last stop at Target last night and won't be home before the stores close, so I am as ready as I am going to get.  Stayed up til midnight last night putting bows and tags on packages.  This will be my first Christmas with Bob, so I am nervous about the whole gift exchange thing, but I guess I will find out how well he knows me. 

Have a safe and happy holiday everyone! 

Morning Everyone!!

I am eating a piece of banana walnut bread and drinking my tea this morning looking at the last little bits of snow that will go away today.

QOTD: I am ready for tomorrow. I have 3 small gift cards that I need to wrap up... Today DH and I are staying home and I am going to clean a little, bake some little pies, and then have a nice dinner together later on... Tomorrow morning I am making breakfast while we open our presents and then we will head to my inlaws... So it will be busy.

I hope everyone has a great christmas.

Brenda: so glad to hear your progressing well.
Pam: Good Luck with the job!

Thanks Suzanne

In case I'm not online tomorrow.........

Happy Birthday Suzanne!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good Morning everyone!

I've finished my protein coffee and am thinking about going down to the break room and refilling my mug...

QOTD:  My Christmas shopping is all done, and I had Christmas with my kids last weekend. 

Tomorrow I will be alone so I've volunteered at a local church to help them with their annual Christmas dinner. 

ok whose house am I coming over to so you can teach me hwo to make some palatable protein coffee???  yyeeaaa   That would be a great breakfast.

I have not had coffee yet this morning.  I cant seem to drink it black and I am concerned about the sugar I add to it.  I've been struggling to cut out the last of the sugar in my diet.  I kind of think I should not worry about it so much since I seem to be losing very well and I am certainly feeling better these days but ahh I dont know In my mind I'm always striving for some rediculous idea of perfection I guess.  I definately need to either stop taking my diabetic meds or something though because an hour after eating I am at 45 and passing out these days and its not that I'm not eating carbs because I am!  I still eat some bread, rice...shoot I even had 1 bite of a bad christmas cookie yesterday...I believe this is just me taking advantage of the fact that I am PRE OP obviously... and kind of in limbo in pre-op land. lol  Monday I will call about the medicaid thing I dont understand why I havent gotten anything in the mail yet this time. sooo frustrating.

I am not ready for tomorrow but I have 10 hours to get ready... lol yikes!  I need to cook some food for tomorrow, do tons of laundry, wrap some gifts, fill some stockings and practice my music for tonight.

Merry Christmas everyone!    I do count my blessings.  It's been a rough few years and I KNOW it could be worse so Im thankful it's not.

Ok, protein coffee is easy.  Just gotta follow the steps:

** add 1 scoop vanilla protein to the mug
** I add 1 splenda packet, you can too or skip it
** add a splash of cold water or milk (about 3-4 tablespoons)
** mix your heart out!  stir it really really good to get all the lumps out.  it'll be a thick liquid paste.
** add a bit of hot coffee and stir
** add a bit more hot coffee and stir
** keep stirring as you add more coffee.  it should be smooth with no lumps.

I guess I'm lucky.  Maybe my coffee pot doesn't make the coffee too hot.  All I do is put a scoop of Body Fortress Vanilla Protein powder (from WalMart) in the mug and add coffee.  It doesn't clump at all for me.  Then I may add some s/f caramel syrup.