** FRIDAY ROLL CALL!**

Wow - everyone must be sleeping in this morning! Pam busy night at work?

Well I am at work now - 6:30 - 4 then I have to stop at K-mart and Mom's house to drop something off. Then I am home to prep for the coming of the christmas tree tomorrow and do some laundry and dishes - nothing exciting at all!

This weekend we are buying and putting up the christmas tree and the rest of the decorations, I would also like to get some presents wrapped. Oh and I have to plan the recipes for the cooking class next weekend!

Well have a great friday and weekend all!

Liz

Good morning Liz and everyone!

I took today off of work because of my son.  The sitter is still coming to watch the baby so I think Im going to go back to bed when she gets here.  Still very very tired.  Tonight is my daughters play so will be there with her tonight...have to take the other 3 kids that are home too because hubby won****ch them.

Then tomorrow in the morning is my sons first wrestling match, then my daughters play in the afternoon and then travel the hour to the hospital to see Luke and take him Subway.  He is a vegitarian and is already having a huge fit about the food in the hospital...which I cant blame him. 

Hoping I dont have trouble getting water in today!  If any of the people I text for support read this I will be home most of the day today with no cel phone coverage but will answer anything as soon as I have coverage.

Have a great day everyone!!!

Michelle

Good morning - I'm at work - day does seem to be starting out slowly - must have been that short week last week - can't get used to being back to a full week of work.

My brother arrived yesterday from Florida - I do enjoy his visits altho he is a 'functioning alcoholic' (his term) - he drinks every day from 3:00 to about 8:00, getting louder and more difficult to talk to the more he drinks, but he does finally stop, eat something, and calms down a little then he's off to bed. Its hard to watch it and I know it breaks my mom's heart - he's 60 now and never remarried after he and his wife divorced after 25 yrs of marriage. He does have a girl friend who I know he loves, but she doesn't seem to have the same feelings for him, and she is leaving for California tomorrow to help her daughter out with a new baby, so he's kind of in a funk over that, too.

But tomorrow his daughter and her family are coming for the weekend and I think he's excited about that - Leah is my niece who went thru heroin addiction, jail time, lost her first child to the system (he was later adopted by her mother and husband), and now she does get to see him - she also married last year and has 2 other children. I really think she's gotten it together this time - and we still don't know what her health problem is - the doctor treating her isn't the brightest bulb in the box.

Well, sorry for rambling...didn't mean to do that! Anyway, I'm at work today and my main objective is to get the office decorated for Xmas, so I'll be starting on that shortly.

Hope everyone has a great day and weekend - Kathy

 
Good Morning,
I am not feeling well this morning, and I overslept and am at work, catching my breath between classes.  After work, I will be dropping more toys off at the Salvation Army for the Stockings thing.  I also have to see how I feel, so I might be making my meeting later, depending on my health.

This weekend, I will be at a workshop for Continuing Ed credits for my Social Work license.  I will also be cleaning.

Have a great day.  Stay warm.

Hugs,
Trish

YES!!  We were soooo busy it was getting ridiculous at one point.  Oh well, such is life, and I've had it pretty easy this week, so I shan't complain.

Speaking of which....it is 3:20 in the afternoon and I'm just getting to the boards now.

Here's what I've done:

$250+ food shopping trip
Brought it all home
Put it all away
Made: 2 pans lasagna, veggie platter w/ low fat onion dip, fruit platter w/ low fat sugar free pina colada dip, cheese platter, cracker platter, caeasar salad, 24 sf individual cheesecakes, Roasted Garlic Butter for garlic bread
I still need to make regular brownies (hubby needs something to eat tomorrow...LOL)

And I want to stop by Pocono Medical Center to see Nicole as she is recovering from her surgery.  I still need to take a shower and what not...and must say...getting pretty exhausted...but I should be ok.

I just needed to sit and veg for awhile...my back is killing me...I don't think I've sat more than the 1/2 hour way home since about 4am this morning...

Pam

Woah Pam! Sounds like a crazy day! I'd love the recipe for the pina coloda dip when you have a chance! No hurry of course!

Say Hello to Nicole if you do go see her and send her my best!!

Liz

3 - 6 ounce containers of chobani greek yogurt (they only had the 2% one today...but generally I use the fat free one)

5 pumps of Davinci SF Coconut Syrup
4 pumps of Davinci SF Pineapple Syrup
1 small can of crushed no sugar added pineapple
(about) 1/2-3/4 cup of shredded coconut (unsweetened which can be hard to find...but I did find some at Giant today)

Combine yogurt and Davinci Syrup until smooth
Add in pineapple and coconut

Stir and chill

Oh - and the Davinci syrup combination is how I eat my greek yogurt almost every day - only one or two pumps of each flavor and I add frozen berries to it at night, they thaw overnight....and then mix em in when I'm gonna eat my yogurt.  It's like having a pina colada w/ berries as a snack...yum!

I will probably have dip left over...if so...I will bring some to you at some point this week so you can have some (I tend to over cook....and hubby won't touch it...and depending on how it goes...I won't be able to fini**** all anyway....)

I am guessing you could do the same basic thing with extracts and splenda, but haven't tried that.  I'd have to see about amounts and what not.

Pam