Mornin' All!

we're meeting up with a guy we met a couple of weeks ago at a coffee meet up. We really hit it off with him, so we wanted to get together with him again (and it's mutual - he's the one who hinted he wanted to get together with us again - so I proposed today). He's in the middle of a divorce, so I think he's really in the market for supportive friends. But he and I had a lot in common, too...it was great spending time with him. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing him again. The weather is supposed to be great today, so we'll probably bike over there. I also need to stop in and see my mother sometime today. But other than not, not much going on.

QOTD: my mother always made our costumes - I never had a store-bought one (I was jealous of my friends' store-bought costumes at the time, but now I appreciate my mother's time and effort at making some great homemade ones!). The best was when my sister and I were seven and four years old (my bro would have been an infant). The show "The Flying Nun" was really popular then, so she made us flying nun costumes, complete with the white hats with the wings on them. They were a huge hit with the neighbors!

coffee with half & half

skyr with fruit

I'll probably get an iced latte at the coffee place (where we're meeting our "date")

Loma Linda taco filling on salad mix - topped with plain Greek yogurt and salsa

protein shake or protein pumpkin muffin

dinner TBA

have a great day, everyone!

Good morning ~ Yesterday was a whole lot of nothing doing! I did as little as possible and had a 3 hour nap. it was lovely, I really needed. Now I'm restless and bored already at 4 am, so I will make the most of today. I have a swim reservation and just want to be active and busy in general.

QOTD - All I remember is a box of random costumes parts/masks. I don't remember getting to pick out my own new costume, ever. We made costumes, I'm not talking mom sewed or a good collab with adults, I mean we kids made them. I was a bar of Ivory soap one year. So strange, right? especially compared to my son's childhood. He had so many new costumes and play outfits - so fun.

Accountability - meh, lazy loose food day - but not horrible - just extra bites, 2 active minutes w/ 3,825 steps - planned, but yikes that is not pretty. Today - I'm 168.4, swim and walk planned and 10k min steps.

b- coffee, egg and ham

l - chicken italian sausage w/sauteed mush/onion/pepper and parm

d- grilled pork chop and corn on the cob

s- cucumbers and cherries

Have a great day!

Did you jump around?

Mornin' Weekenders!

well the football game last night was fantastic even though I really don't give a hoot about football. But it's fun to be at a live game because of the crowd, the band, and the cheerleaders. Much better than watching it on TV. And being in the box was REALLY fun! There were about 20-30 of us - some really fun people - and there was tons of food and booze. Tons. I had way too much food, so it'll be light eating the rest of the weekend. But wow - the whole experience was great. I have no idea how much it would cost to get a box seat if you weren't affiliated with some company or organization, but probably hundreds of dollars (a friend in Ohio told me probably a thousand dollars, but I would have no idea). At any rate, way too much $$ for us. This one was purchased for this one particular game for the university's vet school by one of their wealthy donors. There were some vet school staff there - like the dean - a few members from the school's "board of visitors", and a few donors. We're donors, although legacy donors (through a will or trust), not donors who donate every year - but the reason we were there is that the development officer we've been working with to re-do our beneficiaries was supposed to go but couldn't, so he gave us his tickets. It was just terrific!

the weather is supposed to be beautiful the next couple of days, so we'll be out biking for sure. DH. is also going to do some exterior painting touch ups, and I need to do some cleaning because my brother is arriving on Tuesday and will be here for a week. This house is a wreck. We're also having a couple more contractors come to look at the windows, and I want the place to at least look presentable.

QOTD #1: well it used to be summer, but the weather this summer has been terrible. SO MUCH RAIN. I don't like hot weather (although I'm more tolerant of it now that I don't weigh over 300 lbs), it's more the feeling of summer - kids out of school, lighter workloads, vacations, being able to be outside all the time, longer days. I like fall, too - but it's not #1 for one reason - winter is coming. UGH.

QOTD #2: we have four cats: Aytekin, Minik, Anubis, and Kardelen (Anubis is the name of an Egyptian god. The rest of the cat names are Turkish, because they're Turkish Vans. Anubis was a show cat before we adopted him at age 3, and that was the name his former owner gave him. I wanted to ditch it and name him something Turkish, but DH really liked the name, so we kept it).

I don't know what I'm eating today other than not much. Luckily it's already almost noon and I've only had coffee, so I can probably keep calories really low today. Between that and a long bike ride, I should be in good shape today - thank God!!

have a great Saturday!!

you did enough exercise that you really don't need to worry about step count. Or at least I wouldn't. Sometimes I manage to make it either way, but if I spend an hour at a water fitness class or a couple of hours biking on a given day, I don't worry about it if I'm under my step goal. Although I do run around to make my goal (even if it's walking in place!) if I haven't done anything else that day. But I do get that you're really committed to that step goal - I've got goals I'm always committed to making, too, even though some days I probably don't need to be because of the cir****tances.