I love discounts!  Don't work too hard, how will you keep up with your clever posts every day?  Hospital accounting is crazy. So many details. I am a finance analyst assigned to a hospital, so fortunately for me, I focus on the big picture, not the individual billing. I recently attended a hospital finance training for a couple of months and that **** is complicated.

OK.  I have been in meetings all morning and then trying to post since 10:45, but sidetracked reading everything.  I will have to post now and read more later.

Yay for Friday. I am so ready for the weekend and my adopted budget pages deadlines just got moved a week, so that keeps me from even considering working this weekend.  We are taking the truck in for regular service and Hubby and I are going to get massages tomorrow morning (I splurged for 90 minutes!).  Not together in the same room, because he talks to much and I want to relaxxxxx.  Not much else planned for the weekend.  Probably go out to dinner, catch up on chores, laundry, TV shows, etc.  I like to be busy and have plans, but every now and then it is nice to have non-planned time.

I applaud all of you on the AMAW and AMAW-C this week.  Although I do primarily eat protein because I have very little room for other things, I do enjoy occasional vegies and fruit.  Good job everyone.

A second job?  Doing what?  Wait a minute, what is your first job?  I think the recent suggestion to do a get to know QOTD again is a good one.

B: Premier Protein

L: Scallops, salad

D: Shrimp or fish (I think we are going out to dinner tonight)

S: Yogurt, cheese and a few crackers

Here is a picture of me and my hubby with one of my daughters from last weekend.  She brought the new boyfriend home for us to meet. We haven't met one of her boyfriends for several years.  She never sticks with anyone. We liked him. He seems like a good guy. Let's see how things progress.  

That sweater is awesome.  You are so talented!!!

I had an ablation and wish I had done it long ago (just like RNY).  My iron was so low and nothing was reducing my periods.  I think I was probably 45 or so as well.  Easy procedure, easy recovery. We weren't sure how successful it would be since I had twins and that makes your uterus larger than the optimal size for the procedure, but I had some bleeding at first, then nothing for 6 months, then a random period, and no more ever again.

Good luck with your surgery.  Make sure you sip and walk when they allow.

Crazy busy week at work and home, so no time to post in the day, but I skulk and read at night.  I'm sneaking in a break now to read and post.

QOTD:  I think it was Elton John-Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.  My Mom had a Hi-Fi (sort of upright cabinet with a record player in it).  I would play it over and over.  I had an 8-track when I was 16 and had a car.  Those tapes would get warped sitting in the hot car all the time and would make for interesting listening.  

Today's menu:  Protein shake, just ate a mini muffin because I was super hungry-and realized it was because I had not finished much of my shake.  Uggh.  Lunch will be grilled shrimp, salad, and a few vegies.  Dinner after the gym-Chick fil-a grilled nuggets, small fruit cup. I brought a greek yogurt for snack this afternoon.  And/or cheese and crackers.  My menu always looks the same when I post because it seems that I get to post more frequently when I am at my hospital office, which works out to be on my training/gym days and I always like shrimp for lunch.  Routine is good for me.

I am green with envy for all of you vacationers.  Hope you all have a great trip filled with wonderful experiences and making memories! For the rest of us, tomorrow is Friday!  Yaaayyy!  Have a great day.

Sorry to hear about the potential surgery.  Hoping all goes well for you. Shopping is quite a different experience now, that is for sure.  Hard to change from "it looks presentable and fits appropriately" to "do I love it"?  

Congratulations on 4 years!  Your sarcastic wit and sage advice is always on target.  I am happy that I got to meet you live and in person. And so happy you have found lasting success and an absolutely adorable girlfriend here. Keep on inspiring us.

I work in a city that is crime-filled. Today there was a dead body in the field across from where I work. 

Shrimp shrimp and more shrimp

Scallops

Fish

Sometimes steak

I was never a big beef eater (sorry Grim), but feel I need to add it in from time to time. I eat some chicken, but prefer seafood.  It seems to satisfy my pouch the best.

Do you remember Thrifty Ice Cream/Rite Aid?  5 cents a scoop when I was growing up. I still think it is the best mint chip out there.

LOL.  Apparently it involved ice cream for me too.  But now I have thought of another dessert, that was amazing, but the restaurant stopped making it and my husband talks to the manager and/or server EVERY.SINGLE.TIME we are there.  It was a peanut butter, banana, and nutella on white bread (with the crusts cut off), dipped in pancake batter, deep fried and cut into quarters, dusted with powdered sugar and drizzled with caramel and chocolate sauce.  Yum.

I had a fun weekend in Palm Desert with a friend.  We floated in the pool, talked incessantly, read our kindles/books, and went out to dinner. I don't know if it was the heat or what, but my stomach has been annoyed all weekend. I ate lots of protein and only had one margarita on Saturday, but I feel hungry and empty, and not happy or satisfied when (or after) I eat. Not sure what to do. We went out fancy to Morton's for dinner, and split a mixed grill plate of steak, scallops, and shrimp, which was great.  

QOTD:  Lamp, alarm clock, landline phone (yep, I still have one), cell phone, TV remote, Kindle Fire to play Candy Crush and Solitaire, and my water bottle.

I am going to go get some shrimp for lunch, had premier protein for breakfast, and will have my usual chick-fil-a grilled nuggets and fruit after the gym tonight, cheese and crackers in the afternoon, and maybe a greek yogurt or some cheese tonight.

Got to run and read posts tonight. Mondays are filled with meetings and I just cancelled my 12:30, so I can take an hour for lunch.  I'm not rushing my lunch today.

Have a great week.