Thursday January 2, 2020

While I like new electronics as much as anyone, I find it maddening when expensive, bulky things are intentionally made to fall apart in a few years and to be as ludicrously expensive to repair as to replace leading any sane person to just replace it. It's so unnecessarily wasteful!

They have arrived and are going through their initial cycles. Oh joy! They are pretty... kind of nice they didn't have the white in stock. We got the "titanium" for the same price as the white. LOL! Simple pleasures.

Greetings Dear Ones

Hmmm, guess I should get a weight for the new year but not feeling very motivated. Gotta think on it.

Liz so hoping these days are peaceful for you and DH. Yep, let each family member decide how to approach this. No need to create expectations. Unmet expectations create anger and resentment. Glad you are calling the priest. We are all thinking of you.

I am not settled on a word for the year though it may be "anticipate". Or maybe Bloom. The idea is looking forward to new good things.

I finally got DH over to the health club and pool yesterday after he spent an hour looking for a lock to use. We had fun and he liked the place so I am hopeful we will get there. But I will go alone if he doesn't.

New washer and dryer Peps - yeah I agree with hating to spend money on stuff that is not fun. We got new ones when we moved here 18 years ago and they still work. Appliance shopping sucks. I need a new stove.

Not much scheduled today. Studio time and maybe a pool day.

Hey all, keep up the WW talk. Fine with me. I like hearing about these options even though I probably won't take them up. But ya never know.

Did anyone eat black eyed peas for New Years? I forgot. Wonder how many points they have for WW. A can of them was a meal on one of my many self developed diets many years ago.

Lately I am craving popcorn. Not the movie kind, the homemade kind. We planned to watch football yesterday and for some reason I wanted popcorn. Might have to get some. I have a package but it is years old. One good eating habit is to not eat crappy stale stuff just because it is there.

Found myself cruise shopping on the internet yesterday. Anticipation indeed!

Hugs and peace all. Diane S

Black eyed peas definitely on the table yesterday. I had never heard of such a tradition before marriage and Kansas. I must have missed that particular clause in the marriage contract, but Kurt has made them yearly- a strange concoction of: mashed potatoes with the peas generously heaped on top with a huge dollop of green tomato relish on top of the peas. Wonder what WW would do with that dish?

I can't wait until tomorrow to report that I joined WW this morning at our local "studio." Again, that word just tickles me. ;)

I've now downloaded the WW app to my iPhone. It tried to put me on the Blue Plan, but that felt weird, so I switched it Green. According to the app, I get 30 Green SmartPoints and (I think?) 28 weekly points, not the 35 I was expecting. I could be wrong about that, but we'll see as the week progresses).

It was fun to get inside the WW food database and see how many SmartPoints non-zero foods are actually worth. For one thing I discovered that a Thomas's light multigrain English muffin (at 100 calories) costs only 2 SmartPoints while two slices of Sara Lee multigrain bread (at 90 calories) costs 4 SmartPoints, twice as much as the English muffin. Obviously, it's all due to the fiber/protein/sugars/carbs WW algorithm. Boy, WW really cuts you some slack when you eat high-fiber foods.

Anyway, the meeting was ... amusing, as all WW meetings always are. BUT the best part was that a lifetime member who raises and shows St. Bernards brought an 11-week-old puppy with her--all 31 smushy pounds of sleepy-eyed, soft-furred, sweet-tempered puppy dog tails. I swear, if I could count on that creature being at every WW meeting I'd NEVER miss a weigh-in. Damn, do I have a dangerous crush on him!

So I'm in like Flynn.

I'd love that puppy too, but at 11 weeks it is already 3 times the size of Justice. I wonder how old they are when they reach full size?

The breeder said he'll weigh 150 pounds as an adult. Heck, I thought they were even bigger than that. My Irish Wolfhound girl was 165 pounds.

I just love big dogs and big men!

:)

Males will reach full height by about 12-14 months. However, he will continue to gain muscle mass and probably put on another 20% of his mass in body weight until he is about 30-36 months.

Thanks, Devon. That sounds more like the way I imagine a Saint Bernard puppy would grow into those monstrous paws.

Go team Green! I chuckle every time I contemplate being successful on any plan that has "free foods". I am absolutely capable of abusing the idea. I remember reading of a woman complaining that while being 100% compliant on the Atkins diet, she wasn't loosing any weight, but was in fact gaining. Come to find out, that while fats calories/foods do not count- she really wasn't supposed to be daily eating an entire stick of butter!