January 30, 2015

I was happy to see that my Starbuck’s had protein boxes in stock.   I liked how all the grapes were tiny except for one! I felt so fashionable yesterday, wearing a scarf that Karli and her Mom and my “beef friends” gave me – this scarf is from Shelley, who I have met when I went to the Chicago Beef Wellness weekend back in October...

The night before last I came home and there was a message on the machine.  It was Tony’s primary doctor, and it surprised me to hear his voice – I hadn’t spoken to him since the day we brought Tony home for hospice.  My Mom is trying to get a refund for her Hong Kong trip that she had to cancel when it was clear...

I remember going through the motions with my parents in law and my Mom while planning Tony’s memorial at the funeral home.  I heard the funeral director say to me “we contact social security directly, it’s a Federal law, but they will be in touch with you to discuss the $255 contribution to your husband’s funeral expenses.  Huh.  Maybe a week after Tony’s memorial I...

Back in the middle of December, I received an email from a social media consultant for Spartan Race, asking if I wanted to talk about Spartan races on the blog and give out a free admission to any U.S. event.  I just couldn’t deal with any emails right after Tony died, and I seriously forgot all about it.  He contacted me again last week and...

Last week I talked about a FitBit challenge my friend Dave put together called “Workweek Hustle.”  Basically to try to get more steps in during your work week.  It ran Monday – Friday.  FitBit suggests you get in 10,000 steps in a day, which works out to an average of about 5 miles per day.  Well, with a desk job, some days I can look...

Yesterday was a weird work day.  My boss had a brief due, which sometimes can mean it’s a high level stress day, or she ends up doing it all by herself.  I just never know.  I got in early, and hour and 45 minutes early because she had some edits to the brief and wanted those edits done before she got in.  Um, the edits? ...

This is going to be a fly by post because I have to be at work at 7:00 a.m. this morning – oh well, at least I’ll be busy!  (p.s. – thanks for all the comments on my blog post yesterday – I know I will have days where I just don’t want to get out of bed, but I appreciate all the virtual hugs! ...

Yesterday was a rough day for me, but if you looked at me you wouldn’t know it.  Yesterday marked 8 weeks since Tony passed away.  I had some down time at work so I was deleting old emails and then I got to an email that Tony sent me for a blog post he wanted to do for my birthday.   The last lines of the...

I didn’t do a regular meal plan this week since I cooked all day on Saturday, I had no desire to even think about food on Sunday.  I ended up making a breakfast sammie on a dinner roll – egg beaters, ham, cheese and spinach.  I picked up that fruit, I don’t know what the name of it was, but it is the size of...

Friday night, just after we sat down to dinner, Hannah’s fiancés phone rings and it’s his brother.  All I hear Jacob saying is “What?!”  I couple minutes he hung up and said “My niece died.”  Jacob has two nieces one is two and the other is 4 months old – the 4 month old died in her crib of unknown causes.  They were both at...