great picture!

Good Morning Queen JB and Meneurs,

So happy for the wins you are getting JB. It all turns around eventually. That was a short fast week. Hope the weekend does not go that fast. My toe is still hurting more than it should especially after 14 days of hitting it. It hurts to put on a shoe. I did finally have it x-rayed 2 days ago, and they say it ain't broke. I do not believe them so maybe I will have to go to a doctor and have them look at it a little closer. I need to get back to exercise and this is not going to do it. Closing the pool tomorrow and still trying to find recipe for that Spaghetti Squash salad. I may take one off the internet and incorporate some of the things that were in the one I was able to enjoy.

QOTD: Not yet and I do not think we will have any invites to anything, so I am good. I may stick Rudy in something fun for his evening walk on the 31st.

Accountability: Not bad but still now real exercise.

TSS: 6 years 8-months 26 day 168.2 Lowest (129.4)

B: Coffee with SF Coffee-mate chocolate caramel creamer

MS: L&F caramel creme brulee Greek Yogurt,

CB: Coffee with SF Coffee-mate chocolate caramel creamer

L: scrambled eggs, roasted red potato's black bean and corn salsa and turkey sausage celery and pimento cheese spread

D: chili (it supposed to be cool and rainy) Ha that is so funny I do not know when the last time it rained here. The ground is dry and cracking

Exercise: dog walking,

Water and Vitamins: On track. I take a Bariatric Advantage Ultra multi w/iron I use bariatric advantage Calcium chews and 500mg of Magnesium. I also use MiraLAX and fiber in my first coffee of the day.

Have a great weekend my friends.

Brightest blessings

Chrissy

Me, Mom and DB at end of summer picnic last weekend

I've only seen those rooftop seats from inside Wrigley. But nope nope nope. They look really steep, and far too close to the edge. I would not enjoy that at all.

Good Morning on this Fri-Yay!! I'm ready for the weekend too. Great news on all fronts!! I am out early today for my shockwave therapy and then it's the weekend! We are finally taking Em out to celebrate her promotion (she had been working full days most weekends and then she got sick) and she picked Cheesecake Factory to we have that Sunday-yum!

QOTD: Nothing planned for this year

TSS: 10 years

B: SF latte, Fiber/protein oatmeal, turkey sausage, and an orange

L: Turkey and cheese sticks, carrots, light and fit yogurt and some fruit

S: Mixed nuts, a piece of fruit and yogurt

D: TBT

ES: Protein ice cream and carbmaster toast

E: 1/2 hour elliptical and 20 mins Pilates bar

V/W: On track

Totals: TBD

Have a great day!

Mornin' All!

wow today and the next couple of weeks are going to be pretty busy. The first thing on tap for today is going over to a friend's house to get instructions on her cats, because they're going out of town for a week and their regular cat sitter tested positive for COVID last night (I don't think the cats will care - but maybe the person isn't feeling the greatest...). Anyway, her two cats are only about a year old and VERY active (and VERY into things - as in getting in to everything - typical of youngsters), so this should be interesting. We're used to old geezers who sleep a lot. After that we're going to the annual brunch bash put on by the university's athletic dept for the student athletes and the donors (this is kind of weird since I'm not that interested in sports, but I do enjoy going to the women's hockey games, so we decided to set up a legacy endowed scholarship fund for women hockey players (in addition to the one we set up in my MIL's name at the vet school. And legacy means they'll be created after we die). So anyway, from now on we'll be invited to these kinds of events. I'm actually really looking forward it! This afternoon my brother wants to go biking, but I don't think the weather is going to cooperate. Wind speed is borderline, and there's a chance of rain - so we may need to postpone until Sunday. Tonight my wine tasting group is meeting. Oddly not many people have signed up to go - normally we have to turn away people due to the host's house size, and the fact it's hard to have a discussion when you have more than 10 or 12 people - but it seems like almost everyone is out of town or has other plans tonight. Hopefully this is not an omen, because I enjoy the group.

I got approved to audit a second class this semester. It came through last night, after classes had already started. I guess they must have had some students drop it, so there's now empty seats. I'd vowed not to take it since I got into the first one (a course on Hip Hop) and I don't want to over schedule myself again this semester, but I ended up registering after hemming and hawing about it for a couple of hours. I can always just quit going if it gets to be too much. The prof is supposedly a world authority on covert CIA operations (among other things, he testified before Congress on the Abu Ghraib prison torture case), and he's a decent lecturer to boot (I had him once before on a class on the Vietnam War), but again - more stuff when I really wanted to cut back on commitments this year. But he's like 80 years old, so I'm afraid he'll either retire or drop dead in his office before I get the chance to take another class from him - so I registered.

anyway, not much else going on in my world at the moment.

QOTD: no. The only time in the last several times that I've dressed for Halloween was at the 2022 OH Conference, when I went as a cat (black clothes with a black cat tail and black cat ears - and whiskers painted on my face - pretty mindless costume!)

I have no clue what I'm eating today due to the two events (not eating dinner here since there will be appetizers at the wine thing tonight). Outside of those two events, I'll eat some high protein things - both to make sure that I meet my protein goal - and also so that I won't be famished when I arrive at these events, whi*****reases the chances that I won't control myself.

have a great day, everyone!