What's on your Wednesday Menu?

Hey gang we are halfway through the week woo hoo. I had a crappy night of sleep due to not feeling good. My nose is so stuffy that it was causing me to have coughing fits, so I went out on the couch which has recliners to try and get some sleep. Meisha was concerned that I wasn't in bed, so she had to come check on me and then stayed on the couch with me to ya know protect me if something was outside. Really all she did was snore. I have to run out to Walmart and grab some more allergy meds and get some Nyquil to sleep.

I have an appointment with my weight loss center Friday morning, but I think I'm going to reschedule it only because I don't feel good.

QOTD: If you could give yourself a new first name what would it be? While I have no issues with Jennifer, I have always loved the name Evelyn.

B: Coffee

L: chicken soup

D: chicken loaf

No treadmill just don't have the energy for it right now.

Have a Marvelous day everyone!!

Good mornin everyone!

We got the new toilet and it's so much better. The old one was at least 70 years old...I kid you not. Now we have two working toilets! The simple things!

Not sure what's in store for today. I'd like to have a stay at home day. My mom probably has other ideas. We got a new tv yesterday out of necessity. Not a super expensive one but it's nice. If we do get out I'll probably get a package shipped. I might clean on my room and go through some old clothes. Yesterday's food was on plan so I'm happy with that. Still room for improvement but I'll get there.

QOTD: I like my name a lot now but used to hate it as a kid. Mainly because my nickname in the family of cousins was melofart. Kids are stupid lol. I like my unique full name now and it's cool to have something a little different without being nutty.

B: slice of 80 calorie bread, 1 egg, 1tbs Gorgonzola and coffee

L: mixed greens, chicken, hard boiled eggs, tomato, cucumber, pumpkin seeds and light dressing.

D: not sure on this one as of right now. I may do soup but I'm not sure.

Good Morning! Sorry you didn't sleep well and I hope you feel better soon. I'm leaning towards making a job offer to one of the applicants, maybe today. I don't really too much overlap with the person leaving and new person joining so I'm trying to be strategic and thinking maybe having the new person start 1/2 days where she is just with me training but not taking up my whole day.

QOTD: I always wanted to go by middle name, Lynne. There were a few male Kellys in my elementary school and I hated that, also Smelly Kelly got old really quick.

TSS: 10 years 7 months

B: SF latte, 3 turkey sausage links, and an orange

L: Turkey and cheese sticks, oikos yogurt and some fruit

S: A piece of fruit and yogurt

D: Soy chorizo,eggbeaters, zero net carb tortillas, a banana, and 2 mini York peppermint patties

ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast

E: 1/2 hour elliptical and 2 miles on treadmill

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1433 Protein:121 Carbs: 118 Fat:66

Have a great day!

Good morning, everybody!

I finally made it back to swimming today, and they still don't have the hot tub fixed. I loved to sit in there on a cold morning before starting my day. On Saturday, I am going to a clinic to learn how to change the tires on my bicycle. The guy who coaches us at swimming is also going to be the one who runs the clinic. I told him that I was going to run out and get tubes today, but he said that I should let him help me pick out what I need on Saturday, so that is off of the list.

We firmed up some Florida moving/packing plans yesterday. Next week, Marilyn is going down to Birmingham to get my son's car serviced. He is starting to feel better and is thinking about spending the summer down there. We are going to rent a truck from Home Depot, towards the last week in April. I will pack up the truck, my older son and Marilyn will drive down and then I will fly down to meet them and unpack it. We will all fly back to Chicago, and then, in early May, my youngest and Marilyn are going down to Birmingham for a trial stay. When we get a date for our pool refurnishing, we will go down again, but that might be towards June.

I ordered a bunch of fly tying supplies to keep me occupied while Marilyn is away.

Since we are keeping this house, we are mostly going to be moving gym equipment, fishing gear, Marilyn's kayak, one TV, and some clothes. I am sure that it will add up.

We have Happy Hour tonight. Between switching to every two weeks, fly tying class and travel, I think I have only been 3 or 4 times this year. Hopefully we have a good turnout.

QOTD: This isn't really something that I had thought about. I did meet a woman named Karen, who said that she was reticent to express her opinion, because everybody would say she is just a Karen.

Breakfast: Bagel

Lunch: Hot Dog

Dinner Kielbasa and Pierogies

Have a great day, all!

Mornin' All!

we're taking my brother back to the airport this morning. I'm bussing back because Greg has to go to work afterward. I was planning to get off the bus downtown or on campus and walk around a bit before hopping back on the bus and heading back home, but it's supposed to start raining around 11:00 and rain all day, so..maybe not. I'll probably just take the bus all the way back home (haven't been on our new and improved route beyond downtown yet - it's fabulous that we can now get all the way to the airport on our neighborhood bus line (no bus changes involved!))

QOTD: I'll have to think about this. The only thing that I can think of now is some name that's not a legal name + a nickname. In other words, I'd want my legal name to be the same as what I'm actually called. My legal name is Patricia, which I never use, and I cringe every time someone calls me "Pat". Not that "Pat" is a terrible name, but it's NOT my name, and I get really tired of correcting people. I'd also have to have a one-syllable first name since my last name is four syllables. Otherwise the complete name would be way too long. I'll have to give this some thought and circle back.

B: plain skyr with blueberry/lime compote, thin slice of Danish rye bread with light whipped butter and cherry butter, coffee with half & half

L: either veggie chili or a small grain bowl

S: yogurt bark and/or Lesser Evil popcorn

D: we have leftover pizza but I may do something else. I'm not a huge fan of leftover pizza. Maybe whatever I don't eat for lunch I'll eat for dinner

have a great day, everyone!

QOTD- At one time I wanted to be Alexandra or my middle name Anne. Neither one stuck, and when I was a kid they called me Julie and I absolutely despise that, so now I'm Julia and will correct people if they call me anything else.

I got rid of one horrible project and hopefully I can get the date moved on the next one. It's hard to design something when the job to feed it is not done. The count does not magically get there, it has to follow the cable...OK enough I'm sure no one wants to know about telecom design.

I just paid off my Costco Visa card, it feels so good. Now I can start paying down the Chase card. As long as Elon does not f**k with my social security I'm good. When I'm done paying off my credit card I will think about saving for an actual vacation. I'm not sure I remember what that is. Last time I tried to go was the start of the pandemic and they closed down Disneyland so we basically flew down found out it was closing and flew back. I did get a refund on the 3 day ticket and we were afraid that they would shut down all the flights so we got the next one home. That and it was raining so hard we were soaked to the skin and there really isn't any place to get out of the rain. Worst non-vacation ever.

Have a great day everyone!

My name is Mary and I remember wishing it was Marie because Mary was so plain and boring. My heart goes out to all the Karen's most of whom are wonderful people and not the Karen's of all the jokes and memes.

My grandmother's name was Mary and I named my daughter Bethany Mary. I agree with about Karen. One of my co-worker's is named Karen and she is the nicest person.