World Diabetes Day

Today is World Diabetes Day. For more information please read these:
http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/en/the-campaign/about-wdd
http://www.everydayhealth.com/health-report/world-diabetes-day-resource-guide/world-diabetes-day.aspx

Yesterday (Friday the 13th,) was our son's birthday. He was born on Friday the 13th but sadly it has been an unlucky day for him. I did call him and sing Happy Birthday but our conversation was not at all happy. He could use lots and lots of prayers and positive thoughts so he can get his son back.

We had a "pre-Thanksgiving" dinner yesterday to try out some new recipes before we decide if we want to keep them. Fresh red peppers wtih green beans is a keeper while Baked Sweek & white potatoes is nasty. We also tried a Cajun spice rub on the chicken I cooked and that is a keeper too, we just need to make a liquid out of it so we can inject the turkey. So now on to try more recipes.

Today's Spark calendar note

Get outside and enjoy the first day of spring! For a fun activity that keeps you in shape, try hiking. Find a park or trail near you and take to the hills to torch calories, build endurance, and strenghten your bones.
I would LOVE to hike the trails back HOME in New Hampshire, sadly they are FULL of ticks, mosquitos, black flies and wild animal shit.

Happy Spring!

The corned beef and cabbage was ok, a lot on the dry side but that is because I cut a lot of the fat off before I put it in the brine water back in February. The home made Irish Soda bread was good though, LOLOL. Now we will have leftovers for the rest of the week.

I kitted up a new project last night and had fun doing it. It was a tough decision on a couple of the floss colors but I will post it when I'm done.

Calendar note for today

Start a journal. Use it to track your progress, record your successes and learn from your mistakes. When you have a bad day, use it to remember why you chose your goals and how far you've come to date.

I have a journal that I keep track of my weight, measurements and what I eat.

I finished the May part of the oakhaven sal thing yesterday.

Wednesday night I pulled the fabric and some floss to start another project.

Today I am making the St. Paddy's day dinner since the 17th was on a Tuesday and everyone was working. Corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potatoes, Irish Soda Bread. I will portion my meal.

My sinus or allergies are horrible today, sneezing, itchy nose & eyes, watery eyes. All that vacuuming and cleaning yesterday must have stirred up the dust.

Have a great day.

My update

Ok, so where have I been? I hang out on www.sparkpeople.com
Tons of support, motivation, information and friendly advice for people trying to loose weight, eat healthy, get fit and feel better. There is so much to read and do that I am there a lot.

I'm not at a couple cross stitch boards like I used to be, one has too many flashy, blinking stuff in posts that it's impossible to spend time reading when it slows down so that I can't scroll through posts and read. Another board the new members are so whiny and want to be pampered and are so gushy/mushy hugs and "oh my feelings get hurt so easy", well put your big girl panties on and grow up! I'm still having problems with runboard groups but I think it is essentally the same as Yuku, too many flashy, blinking things just slow shit down. So rather than keep complaining and asking to cut down on the huge blinking things, I just quit going, it was fun while it lasted.

I've been walking, walking and exercising. I have walked 13 out of the past 15 days, 20+ miles and I'm damn proud of that. UNFORTUNATELY, that plate of Arabic sweets that just jumped into my cart the other day at the grocery store did not help at all, but damn it was so good. I haven't lost any pounds, just the same fucking 3 pounds keeps disappearing and coming back. I gotta get past this hurdle sometime.

The diabetes numbers go up and down. They are between 134-158 in the mornings before I eat, then go down during the day and stay down which is good. But I need to figure out how to keep them down in the morning without going on insulin. I don't eat junk and I DO watch what I eat.

I finished a cross stitch project last week, whopee. It was a February project from oakhaven designs for her SAL. Ya know, you HAVE to finish this, post a picture then send me an e-mail in order to get your next pattern and NO a wip picture will NOT do, you MUST FINISH THE PROJECT.

the DH & I were talking last week about mindless stuff and I said those dreaded 3 words, didn't get an answer. Ok, so waited a couple days, said them again, got something like "that's nice" or just a smile but no real response. Ok asshole, so I guess he doesn't love me, time to move on then. I'll have to try and detatch my self somehow this summer so I can be come cold and heartless too.
Speaking of this summer, I won't be going anyplace exotic this year like Frankfurt, Rome, Paris or London. Looks like I'll be getting on a plane 'HERE" and getting off in JFK, non stop, no alcohol, but I guess if that is what is cheapest, I've done it before. Then fly to Bahstan and take the bus home. Hmmmm, wonder if I could take a side trip on NY? I'll have to check and see what the Yankees schedule is for that day, LOLOLOL.

Speaking of YANKEES!!! SPRING TRAINING STARTED! WOOOO HOOOOOOOOO, the boys are back, well almost. Pitchers and catchers were supposed to report on the 13th and practice was supposed to start on the 14th. I'll have to check around to see.

The septic system at my house in NH is messed up. DS has been such a good son and going up after the snow/ice storms and shoveling the roof and our deck off for us. A couple times he noticed that the pipes were backing up in our downstairs bathroom. So he called the septic company, they were very rude to my DIL and said someone had to be there, they had to have the tank cover off and that it SHOULD be pumped out every 2 years. Well, sorry, I've never really dealt with this stuff before and I was under the impression it didn't need to be pumed out that often since we aren't there that often. So DIL gets to the house, spends almost 2 hours trying to break through the ice to uncover it and they called the next day and said "well if it's iced over then we can't come clean it out, if no one is there then it won't be a problem, call back when the snow melts" ARGGGGGGGGGGG!

My stitchy friend Kristin tagged me on her blog:

When Life Gives You Lemons...

I guess I'm one of the people who make lemonade...or as Soralis says, maybe I'm the pause that refreshes (hehe, don't know why that strikes me as funny but it does). I was given the Lemonade Stand Award by Kristin.

Here are the rules for The Lemonade Stand Award:
1. You must link back to the person you received the award from.
2. You have to nominate 10 bloggers who are deserving of this award!

So, thank you Kristin. The following people are either the pauses that refresh me or they have made lemons into lemonade. I don't know if I can name 10 bloggers that can rise up and be positive but I'll try.
Kristin is one, Jen Velda, Dee, Margaret, Venessa, I guess that's all the blogs I read.

I have cooked every day again, last night was roast beef with carrots & potatoes, I had 1/2 a sweet potato, salad, applesauce and Tofu Chocolate Cake. The cake was ok I guess, I didn't have the right tofu though. It called for soft/dessert and all I had was extra firm so I added extra cherry juice and chocolate soy milk.
I know I said I would post the recipe for the squash macaroni & cheese and I will soon. It was ok but not something I will make a regular.

Gotta take Annie cat (aka the cat from hell) to the vets today, we think she has a tooth problem. She slept ALL day Wednesday and Thursday and didn't eat anything, she didn't eat much on Friday, Saturday she did eat but sort of gagged and pawed at her mouth. Oh what fun, last time the bitch went to the vets, she tried to go through the atrium window in the vets office just to get away. She will have to be sedated in order for him to look at her mouth.

The brat bastards are still off school, hope they go back soon, it's overcast again today but still did my walk.
Okee dokee, I think that about catches me up. Sorry to worry ya'll but you can e-mail me if you want to chat.

It rained!

I know what you are thinking, ok, so it rained, big deal. Those of you who know where I am know it is a big deal, it rains maybe 2 days a year and not for long. I took my 35 minute walk at 9AM, it was about 81F and so very humid. A little cloudy but sunny. Tonight, DH let the cat out the back door and something hit him. He looked out and it was raining. We had to scramble to get the rugs inn off the patio, his running shoes and my work out shirt that was hanging up. It poured, thundered, lightining, high winds for about 45 minutes then it just stopped. The road is flooded of course and now there are bugs just streaming out of all the puddles. The dumb cat ran out and stayed under the car the whole time instead of coming in.

I made macaroni and cheese for supper. The recipe called for 20 ozs of frozen winter squash. I didn't have frozen so I bought fresh butternut squashes. I followed the recipe, squash, low fat cheddar cheese, monterey Jack, ricotta, mustard, cayanne and other things. I used whole wheat macaroni. It was ok, nothing fantastic but good. I had maranated chicken breasts, green beans with garlic.

That's my weekend! Hope the rain dries up so I can walk again tomorrow.

Weekend Wednesday

Woo Hoo, today is the weekend, whopee!

I took some more pictures today when I walked so it will take me a couple days to get them edited and uploaded to my private album.
I did my walk this morning, 40 minutes, got a later start so it was around 82F and very overcast and cloudy. Also did some jump rope, which I am getting better at and another short jog.

Had Chicken Penne last night and it was pretty blah. I'll have to figure a way to spice it up a bit for leftovers.

I dragged out my old but never used PerfectAb torture thing yesterday but don't remember how to work the damn thing. I know it came with instructions and probably a video but have no clue where that went and I can't find anything on the internet.

Haven't stitched this week yet.

So there you go, another boreing day in the desert.

A must read!

Check this out!
http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=see_pictureperfect_portions_of_300calorie_meals

Yeah I know, you may think I've turned into one of those health/exercise/diet freaks. I sort of have, I know I need to loose weight, eat better, healthier foods and keep exercising and the only way I can keep up with my motivation and my goals is to talk about it. What can I say, I love Spark People, they have helped me a lot.

I kind of had my bubble burst today. I took DH's portable Garmin thing for hikers on my walk today and found out my 1 mile marker was not where I thought it was so I was not walking 1.5 miles every day, more like 1.2 miles. And I wasn't walking a 19 minute mile, more like a 21 minute mile. Kind of depressing so I kept walking until I had 2 miles, that took 45 minutes. I don't know what I am going to do when it starts getting warmer out there. I guess walk at 2 AM when it's only 95. I also did my day 11 boot camp workout and the abs challenge.

Last night I fixed diabetic Sesame beef stir fry (you can use tofu, chicken, shrimp too) That was pretty good. Now I need to make up my meals for next week so I can make up a grocery list for Thursday.

I had one of those afternoons. I couldn't find my jump rope so I started moving things and well you know how that goes. I picked up a bag of cross stitch stash, dug through that, sorted it, picked up another bag, looked through that, sorted that and combined it with the first bag, started going through the pile of stuff I sorted and started putting that where it belonged, then moved other stuff where it should be and went on from there. A vicious circle. I did find my jump rope though. So now I have a mess of bags I need to put back.

Woo Hoo it's Wednesday AKA Friday in the real world.

Baked Eggplant Parmesan recipe

Since I had a few comments about the recipe here it is. IT is SOOOOOOOO good! It's from Martha Stewart.com, my DH found it

Olive oil for baking sheets (I used cooking spray)
2 large eggs
1/2 cup plain dry breadcrumbs
3/4 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese, plus 2 TBS for topping
1 tsp dried oregano (I personally would prefer fresh oregano, but can't find that here)
1/2 tsp dried basil (see note above)
Coarse SALT and ground pepper (I didn't use salt because I don't use salt in cooking)
2 large eggplants (2 1/2 pounds total) peeled and sliced into 1/2 inch rounds
(I used 1 medium one and was enough for the 2 of us)
6 cups any kind pasta/spaghetti sauce
1 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese (I had to use no flavor low fat)

Preheat oven to 375F. Brush 2 baking sheets with oil; set aside.

In a wide, shallow bowl, whisk together eggs and 1 TBS water. In another bowl, combine bread crumbs, 3/4 cup Parmesan, oregano and basil; season with salt and pepper. I also added crushed red pepper flakes

Dip eggplant slices in egg mixture, letting excess drip off, then dredge in breadcrumb mixture, coating well, place on baking sheets.
Bake until golden brown on bottom, 20-25 minutes.
Turn slices, continue baking until browned on other side, 20 to 25 minutes more.
Remove from oven; raise oven temp to 400

Spread 2 cups sauce in a 9 x 13 inch baking dish. Arrange half the eggplant in dish; cover with 2 cups sauce, then 1/2 cup mozzarella. repeat with remaining eggplant, sauce and mozzarella; sprinkle with remaining 2 TBS Parmesan.
Bake until sauce is bubbling and cheese is melted, 15 - 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!

Blood test results

Hey all lurkers & friends, I put my site meter back up so now I can see were you are all from. You are more than welcome to leave comments too!

I got the results backon Saturday from my blood test I had on Thursday. I don't know what the numbers mean but:
Thyroid level is 0.971,
HDL is 42.51,
LDL is 117.30,
Triglyceride is 187.79 which he said was high
Cholesterol is 178.62
Alanine Aminotransferase is 21 - no clue what this is
Uric Acid blood was 9.17 which he said was high
Creatinine, serum was 0.66
So he put me on Crestor & a pill for uric acid. He said it was gout but I don't have any pain.
I go back in 3 months plus see a diabetic nutritionist on the 20th.

I have kept up with the Boot camp challenge on Spark People. Today I did the workout for Day 8 & day 9 which are repeats of days 1 & 2, plus I did the bonus challenge workout and I walked 43 minutes which was 2 miles. Now I need a nap. And those 8 cups of water a day, ENOUGH ALREADY! 8 cups is way more water than I can hold, I pee all day and all night.

Last night I fixed YUUUUUUUUUUMMMY baked NOT fried eggplant parmigiana & creamy basil chicken. The eggplant was so good, instead of breading & frying, you bread and bake in the oven then layer in a pan. That is definitely a recipe that needs to be laminated, LOL.

I even managed to stitch a bit yesterday.

Remember that candy tray? Well it's not full of candy, all the candy that is there is what you see in the picture. There is a piece of styrofoam covered with foil and STRONG double sided sticky tape. Each piece of candy is stuck on with the tape. The pedestal tray that it is on, looks like something out of Great Grandma's attic, it looks old & "aged" but I'm sure it's still expensive. The chocolates are Belgium chocolates.

So that's my boreing sob saga for today.

Day 6 of Bootcamp challange-UPDATED!

This is day 6 of the SparkPeople bootcamp challange. I have to say I have had a workout but I also do a lot of those exercises 2 or 3 times a week. When this is done, I am going to do each one of the tapes in one day.

So what do you get when you make a business phone call from here to the USA on a Wednesday night at 9PM? First, Wednesday is the start of our weekend, like Friday 9PM in the real world. DH had to make a business phone call to California on Wednesday night from the main office here on the compound. What did he get for his time? Are you ready for this?

CHOCOLATE, at least 5 lbs! One of the "office boys" brought this bag to DH around noon on Thursday. Now this is not your average box of Cadbury Jewels or Roses sweets. Um no, this arrangement came from a specialty chocolate shoppe wrapped up in cellepane with a flower bow on top and on a silver footed plate and I know it wasn't cheap. This chocolate is local chocolate so it will either be super sweet, creamy and delicious or dry & bitter. So, who wants chocolate?

OMG, THESE ARE HEAVEN! SO good, SO creamy. Liege Chocolatier is the name on them.

I had my 3 month blood work done Saturday morning, after fasting for 14 hours. It was for lipids, thyroid, liver function, kidney function etc. I won't find out the results until Saturday when I go back to the dr. I HOPE my numbers are down.

Last night I cooked Sesame Ginger chicken stir fry with brown rice. It was another good diabetic recipe and a keeper. Wednesday night I fixed Cuban Beans & rice which was good. I mis read the recipe though. I THOUGHT it said 1/4 CUP of red chili flakes. I said 1/4 cup? are they serious? I only put in about 1 1/2 TBS. DH called my attention and asked me if I had my glasses on when I was cooking & reading. It said 1/4 tsp! Good thing we like spicy food, LOLOL. It actually wasn't that spicy though. I also tried some Low fat vanilla Soy milk and it was GOOD!

We went to Starbucks Thursday morning after the blood work at the 5 star hospital. We were going grocery shopping but the grocery store wasnt' opened yet. I picked up something for someone ............................................... so who wants to start the "I know a secret for ................................" BWHAHAHAHAH

Day 4 of boot camp

Testing, testing. Ok, I am testing the daily motivational quote box. It says it will update daily so I'll be checking that. That way I don't have to add it in a post every day.

I walked my 36 minutes this morning then did my Boot camp day 4 video. It is suppsoed to be for abs but I know I did it wrong because my upper thighs hurt so I will have to try it again later, I need to get the fat abs gone.

That was a very enjoyable week of winter, we are now almost back to summer. Sadly at noon it's up to 82F already.

I bought a couple of books and a video the other day. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey (insert the country I live in). From what others have read, it sounds very interesting. I also bought the DVD Unaccompanied Minors that I talked about yesterday.

I finally got around to making a menu for the week, well from yesterday until next Wednesday. Last night I made Ginger shrimp stir fry with brown rice. These are diabetic recipes. Today is Cuban beans & rice.

Another good workout

First I gotta say wonders never cease! Yesterday was a blah, day, I was tired all day because I didn't get my exercise in, I had a headache and had no ambition what so ever. DH came home from the grocery store in the evening with 2 Christmas cards from friends! I was so excited and happy! They were both surprises! THANK YOU AND HUGS TO V!!! It only took a month for both of them to get here and they weren't open which was even better.

I finally got the ambition last night to do the day 2 of the bootcamp workout and it was a workout. Using the stability ball against a wall and going up and down while holding dumb bells. Talk about wobbly legs!
I did todays workout already too and that was EASY! Using dumbells on the stability ball, working the upper body. That was after I did my 30 minute walk too.

Well my long lost "friend" is back. Haven't seen her since May now all of a sudden it's back! Really pisses me off, I thought I was done with that crap. I hope this is the last period. At least I'll get some use out of those toilet hoses.

Last night we had beef kebabs, brown rice & spinach. The beef kebabs were so nasty tasting. I hate the taste of the beef here, it's just so EEEEWWW, almost made me gag just smelling it. It wasn't rotten or bad, just the kind of beef it was.

We watched a couple movies on Christmas night, one was called Unaccompanied Minors, I haven't laughed that hard in ages, my face hurt, I couldn't catch my breath, my stomach hurt from laughing. See, while watching this movie about kids flying on Christmas Eve by themselves, "Unaccompanied Minor" status it reminded of my kids and how many times they flew that way. It was just tooooo funny! Then we watched The Year without a Santa Claus with John Goodman (NOT the cartoon version) That was another funny one!

Really bummed out

I was really bummed out, I knew I gained weight in the past month but I didn't think it was 6 lbs! I just want to cry. I walked & exercised I watched what I ate, NO cookies, NO sweets and yet I gained 6 lbs, I can feel it and see it. My blood sugar levels are so far out of whack and I am all puffed up too. I had my dr appt Saturday night, all things considered it went well except for the weight gain. So I guess I will sit down, make up menus and exercise plans and stick to it the best I can.
I also have an appt (at that same fancy 5 star hospital) for January 3 with an endocrinogolist.

I did stitch some more on my Patriotic ornament last night.

I fixed my turkey salad burritos for dinner, I just love those.

83F at 1:45PM, it's so nice now that it's cooler.

Ok, back to my depressing pity party

Remembering today

This quote is from the Lion

Today is the anniversary of the Tsunami in Asia when so many lost their lives. We were there in Phuket, Thailand just 3 weeks before having a wonderful time. I just hate to think how many funny, entertaining, sweet people we met were lost. I know the resort we stayed at was devistated, it was a beautiful beachfront place.

We had a nice Christmas, only 2 friends were here for dinner. I cooked turkey & stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes that no one ate, carrots, green beans, vegetable mold, cranberry sauce pecan pie, pumpkin pie, whiskey cake(I didn't make this one, I opened the package I brought back from the states). I forgot the waldorf salad that was in the fridge. Now I have tons of leftovers.
DH got me a new flash drive since I lost the cap for my other one, a Sony MP3 player!!! a new soft yoga/exercise mat (YEAH! the old one is rough on the hip bones) 3 KG weights since the 2KG ones are getting light.
I also got to talk to both our kids, woke up my poor DS who had his one day to sleep in. DD was excited over her gifts which made me happy.

I didn't finish my American Christmas project but I'll still work on it.

Don't forget to track Santa: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

HAPPY HANUKKAH to my fellow readers! I would like to wish you and your families eight healthy, happy days and nights!

Crank up those loud speakers why don't you? Yep, it's that time of year, those paranoid moronic religious zealots have cranked up the speakers on the wailing towers just to remind us that there is NO CHRISTMAS here and they will drown out our music.

I didn't stitch yesterday
The sandstorm seems to be gone today butg it's still breezy out. 86F at 12:30PM.

I did my grocery shopping yesterday for the meal on Thursday. I'm having Turkey, stuffing made with whole grain bread, nasty mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans with roasted red bell peppers, vegetable mold, cranberry sauce (I bought 1 more box of frozen cranberries) pecan, pumpkin & maybe apple pie.

DH's presents are all wrapped but still no tree up (YEAH ME!) Let's see if he says anything or even notices.

The connection is better but still sucks.

I did my 2 lap, 1 mile walk this morning. Felt good but it was soooo very sad. It is mating season for the 1,000 or so cats on the compound and there is a fresh batch of tiny baby kittens too. I saw 2 tiny kittens, must be only a few days old laying together. I know one of them is dead because it didn't move when I walked closer. They are in a fenced in "substation" on the main road beside houses. Mama is there but she isn't cuddled with them. I wish I could have gotten in there and picked them up and brought them home, but I wish I could do that with the pure black cat I saw too.

I fixed my Lasagna Primavera last night, vegetable lasagna, it was good!

I stitched on my American Ornament last night. Maybe I can get it done this year. This is a before picture and a picture of where I left off last night.

DH installed this mozilla firefox thing so I'm testing it out. So far it doesn't like my SanMan board and won't let me log in on Firefox so I have to use IE for that.

I didn't get any stitching done yesterday.

Gotta sit down and make a meal list for next Thursday, I have no clue what to fix.

That's about it for this exciting day.

Beading sucks!

I have been beading away on this and somehow even after following the pattern carefully it is off. I think the white beads are a bit larger than the other beads so I can't fit all of them in. There is supposed to be a pattern there but I can't see one because they are so squished together.

No motivational quote yet, the site does an update on Tuesday night but it is Wednesday morning my time so it won't be working for another few hours yet.

I did walk yesterday, talked to DD & my birthday boy. He was excited.

Had some yummy oatmeal today, I put a little bit of peanut butter and a tiny bit of cinnamon and some raisins in it. It was so good. Last night I made a chicken "pot pie" recipe from one of my diabetic cookbooks. I used my whole grain biscuit mix in place of "bisquick" and it was nasty. I think it was the parsley I put in it though or the fact that there isn't real buttermilk here so I have to make my own and that could have made it nasty tasting. The chicken slop under the biscuits was good it was the biscuits that were horrible.

I suppose this quote may be true, but I've been healthy and not happy and been happy but not healthy.

The internet connection lately sucks big time. I have no clue what the hell is wrong but it takes forever to do anything so I haven't been on much or tried to do anything online. Facebook is so fucked up and it totaly messes up the rest of my browser windows so I haven't been there much except for today.

I stitched again for a couple hours last night, almost done with that October stamp. I think I may have my stitching feeling back. It may have been my stitching corner was uncomfortable for me. Since we re arranged the living room it seems to be a tiny bit more comfortable but I still am not fond of the arrangement.

I had left over Indian food for dinner last night and my blood count was WAY out in space. 208 actually. Not supposed to be that high. The food was good though. I've also drank more water in the past couple days and I am swelled up, I pee all night. Since loosing this 20 lbs, I don't pee myself every time I sneeze, cough, laugh & move, that is the best part.

I did walk on Wednesday and got on the treadmill a few times during the day. I am only up to 2 minutes, it's not as easy as I thought it would be.

No Christmas crap up at all. I still have my Thanksgiving stuff up and I really don't care if I put any Christmas shit up or not. Oh yeah, I moved my Lizzie Kate Flip It Christmas piece to the door way. I may or may not use my Chrismtas coffee mugs, my cross stitch ornaments are ALWAYS on display. I wish I still had my nativity here but I don't.

Is it nap time yet?

It's only noon here, 87F, I'm tired, I pushed myself to do my walk this morning. I figured if I did my walk I would be energized, invigorated and refreshed. Nope, I am tired, I want to take a nap. I got home and guess what? All the doors were locked and I didn't have a key. I forgot to unlock the patio door. Checked the laundry room (separate "building" from the main house) for a screwdriver to pop the door but couldn't find one. DH's car is locked, he has the key. Called DH, he said if I checked HIS blazer there was a screwdriver there. Yep, there was, popped the front door and got in. That could have been disasterous!
On the positive side, I am down to 141, 1 lb away from my original goal of 140. 20 lbs since July. Now my goal has changed to 137 by Christmas then maybe 135. Still can't figure where it went to, I am wearing the same size clothes I was in July. No loss in the boobs or belly where I usually loose it. I can feel that I have a waist again though.

I was a BADDDDDDD girl last night though, I had one of those Betty Crocker Warm Delights dessert things. It was a Cinnamon cake thing. It was ok but not that great.

Had a great thing for breakfast. Two 6" tortillas spread with cream cheese, cinnamon & brown sugar with a sliced apple inbetween cooked in a skillet. That was good!

Spot kitty jumped up on my stitching table this morning and looked at me like "Are we going to stitch again today?" Maybe later but I'll make sure he is out.