November 17, 2012

I changed my layout – what do you think?  Foodbuzz got bought out, so I got an email from the new advertisers giving me the codes to add it to the side of my blog.  Only one problem – I use wordpress.com, not wordpress.org and wordpress.com doesn’t allow me to add plugins.   Oh well! I love sleeping in on Saturday mornings!  Our bedroom has...

You all know I love savory breakfasts over sweet ones.  And while a McDonald’s sausage McMuffin is a nice taste treat, I decided I had time yesterday to make a better breakfast. Here’s a tip – I like baking half a dozen potatoes over the weekend and sticking them in the fridge.  Or in my case, microwaving them and then turning them off and leaving...

My breakfast and lunch meal planning this week kind of sucks ass.  I have no idea what I was thinking over the weekend – I guess I was just concentrating on my SIL’s lunches and dinners! So yesterday I stopped by McD’s, got their sausage Mcmuffin off the dollar menu ($1.07!) and had a sliced apple on the side.  Breakfast comes in at 425 calories,...

Some mornings our dog wants to go out right away.  Other mornings, it’s a battle.  You have to end up doing a song and dance waving the leash “want to go for a walk?!”  Sometimes I need to show him I am getting on my shoes and coat, and then he will finally want to go out. Yesterday morning he was raring to go!  And...

I guess I can be a bit impatient sometimes.  After a week of consistent exercising and staying away from my beloved wine, I thought I’d wake up yesterday feeling. . . thinner.  But I didn’t.  In fact, I just felt fat. Mind you, I know my last weigh in was at 170 pounds, and I told myself I wasn’t going to weigh myself until after...

Well I am on 8 of my 21 day challenge.  My first thought was to do 4 miles a day, and after day one, I determined that my speed wasn’t quite fast enough to do that mileage on my lunch hour, so I quickly reduced it down to a 5k.  I also said I was going to try to do a 5k every day for...

I don’t know what the deal is, but last night was the third night in a row that I woke up with low blood sugar in the low 50’s.  The two nights before I ate half of one of my granola bars and that did the trick.  Last night we were out, so I ate two Baby Ruth’s that were leftover from our Halloween candy...

I have to say, that when I work only half a day, I seem to be way more focused and get so much accomplished because the “5 o’clock” bell is at 12:15!  It was ready to leave before I knew it. Knowing that I was going to have a late lunch/dinner/linner, I decided to pick up a jalapeno bagel on my way to work and...

I am doing the happy dance today!  I have a half day today.  My brother Charlie and his wife Laura and flying into Chicago today!   Their daughter is in a Color Guard National tournament in Indianapolis this weekend.  So while Rachel has to travel with the school, they are flying in, and then my Mom is driving them down to Indi tonight and they are...

Since I went to vote yesterday morning I had so much time before work, it was nice not to be in a rush.  If someone told me I could ever become a morning person, I would have thought they were nuts! Okay, here’s the question of the day.  Did you have to show your identification to vote yesterday?  I thought I didn’t have to show...