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No need to force yourself into cold water for aerobics. There will be plenty of warm days ahead, you lucky girl!
Yes, spritz cookies are a pain, which is why I hope to eat ones that someone else has made. : )
122 even!
Today was just a tad warmer. Still too cold for me to brave water aerobics. I went for a 3.5 mile walk though and that felt good! DH golfed 18, so I had a good chunk of the day to do as I pleased.
We went grocery shopping after we both showered after our morning exercise activities. Mostly just breakfast items, fruit, snacks and beverages. Hello Fresh for the next 3 nights. Turkey Schwarma (my fav), chicken enchiladas and Kung Pao chicken.
Need to do my Bible study before Thursday. I bought a special conference speaker to make the long distance communication better. The first week I just used my built in speaker on my phone and it was really hard to hear the group with static and voices going in and out!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
on 12/16/25 1:10 pm, edited 12/16/25 5:10 am
My friend who has ADHD thinks I have it too (I think they are just personality traits more than a disorder and I do have a lot!) and says one of the traits is jumping into new hobbies with both feet and rest of your body, buying ALL the things, starting on an enormous advanced project rather than an easy starter one to see if you even like it, doing it once and giving it up forever. I do this a lot with hobbies (knitting, crochet, quilting, painting, drawing, embroidery, now cookies). I'm sure this one will be no different!
Yum cookies! We plan to buy the pre baked cut out ones and decorate them with the kids at Christmas. Fun activity for everyone to enjoy!
Royal icing! Sounds fun! Some of those cookies are so intricate in their designs!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
I didn?t realize you had hearing aids! DH is pretty much deaf in one ear but a hearing aid unfortunately won?t help. He would need a cochlear implant and is not really wanting to do that either.
Hope your busy day is all that you want it to be!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Retirement suits you well! Your time in Duluth sounds grand, even if it was cold and your glasses fogged up (from your pics on FB).
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
Agreed! That is what we usually try and get the kids. Tickets to a favorite place, restaurant gift certificate, weekend getaway etc.
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
on 12/16/25 12:09 pm, edited 12/16/25 4:10 am
Today started out with a power outage. Thankfully, I slept through most of it! Today my plan was to do Christmas cookies. I had made them all and frozen them last month, so today was baking. But the power kept going off mid bake and it messed up my oven, which then kept turning itself off when the power wasn't having issues. A quick Google search told me turning off the breaker would fix that, and it has. The power outage also messed up my Internet, but I was able to get that back up and running. It really is true that unplugging electronics is always the first line of defense to fix a problem! I fixed my dryer the other day turning off the breaker too. I was convinced it wouldn't work since the dryer still had power, but it did fix it.
The cookies are progressing nicely except for one that just spread out and didn't rise. Irritating as I was looking forward to that one. I'm going to teach myself how to do royal icing on cookies, but I'm tired right now so the baked cutout cookies are just in a container waiting. And here's an opinion nobody asked for, spritz cookies are a pain in the butt! But I colored my tree ones green and my wreath ones red and sprinkled them with crushed candy canes since I couldn't find any Christmas sprinkles at the store.
I realized that some of the people I was going to give cookies to are out of town, so I gave a bunch to the four guys that are working on my roof deck. They seemed very pleased!
Our Michigan family friend that is moving here is coming by at three to check out what's left in "Ceci's Attic" that they might be able to use. I'm hoping rugs are on their wish list because I sure have a lot of those. She will be going home with cookies as well. Cookies for everyone!!!
Lord, my kitchen is a mess. But the dishwasher is running, and the handwashing is done. I need to put everything away and wipe up all the crumbs and butter streaks from the counters. And thanks to Zepbound, I've only had one cookie and really don't have a desire to have more. It was an excellent spiced iced oatmeal gingerbread cookie. Here's the recipe: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/iced-gingerbread-oatmeal-c ookies/
Ofor to read about how to do royal icing... Take care, everybody!
