Saturday plans

Good morning everyone.  Saturday is here, bright, sunny and 18 degrees here in northern MN.  I already exercised to 30 minutes at the gym, showered and dried my hair.  Off to Ely, about a 50 minute drive to attend a winter festival.  Co workers went yesterday, said the snow carvings were great.  I plan to take my camera, let's see if any show up well enough to post.  Dennis is working, so I am off on my own.  I tried to get him to go early this morning with me, he said he had somewhere to be at noon and could not go.  Wonder what he has planned for Valentines day?  I will know later on.  Hmmmmm, love surprises. 

I am dressed in layers due to the outdoor event.  Hoping to last for a while before I freeze.  I will be back later to share my experience.  Also hiding from work, I can't be able to drop in to bail out a crisis from such a drive away.  Time for a couple of days for recharging my batteries.  Toodles till later, have some fun yourselves.  Hugs, Kathy

Good morning Kathy.  The snow sculptures sound like fun; I hope some of the pictures come out I'd like to see them.  In Sweden or Russia, I can't remember which, they have an entire hotel made out of ice.  I'll see if I can dig up the pics.  And good for you, hiding from work.  Sometimes employers have no shame when it comes to asking for more from their people.

My hubby is working today as well, but I'm pretty sure there aren't any Valentine Day surprises in store for me.  We went out to dinner as an early VD and he ordered me some SF chocolate which I don't really need.

My Saturday started out okay until breakfast.  I had half a bagel and ended up nauseated and in pain.  I was wondering if anybody experiences dumping from carbs that aren't necessarily refined sugar, like bread and potatoes.  I can no longer eat mashed potatoes either.  Anyway, I still forced myself to get dressed and got in a great workout this morning, although I didn't make it for water aerobics.  I added 2 new exercises and was able to hit all the equipment.  Started with 20 minutes of cardio on the bike and then almost an hour of strength training on the equipment.  I had them take my measurements and I have lost another 5.5 inches.  Unfortunately, 3 inches came off my boobs.  But hey, that's what plastic surgery is for right?  I really need to make the committment to get more exercise in.

In defference to my stomach hurting this morning, I'm going on a liquid diet for a few days. Protein shakes, chicken broth, pudding and cream of wheat.  I'll also probably have a few crackers with my broth as those don't seem to bother me.

I hope you all have a fun-filled Saturday.

Colleen

colleen, hope u have a wonderful saturday.  sounds like you are doing great on your exercise.  i'm not going to start until after i see my surgeon. have a few issues i want to discuss with him first.  don't want to get another hernia.  sounds like a sound idea to go to liquids for  a few days. hang in there. vick

hoorayyyyyyyyyy  for you. get out of town to get away from work. u also might try not answering the phone.  hope u have a great day at the ice sculptures. i wish i could go with you. also, i am going to pm you my phone number and would like to have yours also. love ya, vick

Hi Kathy, sounds like a fun day planned for you.   I bet the ice sculptures are really pretty.  Glad to hear you are getting out of town, that sometimes is what people in your profession have to do, I know my daughter deals with the same stuff.  As for me, well I'm not doing much of anything which is what I am doing most of the time now.  lol.   Think I will take me a nap later too though, seems I am getting tired really quickly.  Can't wait to get back to my old self but yep I know it will take a while I need to relax and enjoy the break.   hugs, Anna

Hi everyone, posted some pics of the sculptures on my page, can't figure out how to get the pics here in this post yet, any bright ideas Kevin? Thanks for the help with getting the pics into the blog.