Mornin' All!

we agreed that we want to be done with MIL's apt by the end of the weekend, which I think is very do-able. The movers come a week from tomorrow to move the furniture we want over to our house, and that will be that. Hoo-ray! Meanwhile, more bureaucracy. We've already been to the post office twice to try to get her mail delivered to our house instead of her apt. We've shown them the death certificate, the part of the will that lists DH as the executor of her estate, and filled out the proper form. So yesterday she gets a letter from the PO that came to our house (yay - at least that part worked!). But it said she will have to come to the post office with a government-issued ID to prove her identity before they release her mail. WTF? So we will go back there again tomorrow (when DH is off work) armed with the death certificate (again), the will (again), her driver's license, her expired passport, and the urn containing her ashes, since she's supposed to show up in person. We should probably take the paperwork from the crematory, too, to prove to them that they're her ashes there in the urn. What's with the damn PO lately? I blame DeJoy. This is needlessly bureaucratic and frustrating!

in other news, I went to a store yesterday that sells used office furniture because we gave MIL's office chair to a friend back at the beginning of all this because we didn't think at that time we'd keep any of her furniture - that we'd just sell it. It was a very nice, three-year-old Steelcase chair. Well since then, we decided to keep some of the furniture since it's newer and very nice, and we knew we'd only get pennies on the dollar for it. This would include that desk. So I needed to get another chair because it would be very rude to ask my friend to have the one we gave her back. I didn't want anything expensive since the desk will go in the basement family room (we have another "office" on the main level), so I've been looking for good, used office chairs. I noticed on FB Marketplace two days ago that this store the next town over had an enormous inventory come in of Steelcase Cobi's that they were selling for $49. $49! Those retail for around $600-700 - and about $200 if used. So I went over there yesterday to test them out. Found a couple that were in barely-used condition and bought one. I'm so happy with my purchase!!!

QOTD: no. I have less than zero interest in the Super Bowl. It's a great time to go to the grocery store..

coffee with half & half

it's almost 9:00 and I'm not hungry at all, so I may just have a protein shake this morning (it's a great way of controlling my overall daily calories, too...I'll wait until lunch to actually eat anything)

piece of yogurt cheesecake pie

Ratio yogurt with raspberries, "safe" popcorn if I want something else

either hot & sour or celeriac soup, Danish rye bread

have a great day, everyone!

Good Morning! Have fun on your day trip on this Friday-Eve. Nothing too crazy going on for me today, a few calls and plugging away on projects and reviewing resumes.

QOTD: We might have it on in between other things just to catch halftime and commercials but we don't typically watch the actual game.

TSS: 9 years 5 months

B: SF latte, Fiber/protein oatmeal, turkey sausage, and an orange

L: Turkey and cheese sticks, carrots, light and fit yogurt and some fruit

S: Good Spoon cereal, a piece of fruit and yogurt

D: Turkey burger, keto hamburger bun, thin sliced Swiss cheese, 1/2 wholly guacamole serving, green beans, banana, and dark chocolate

ES: yogurt and toast

E: Treadmill

V/W: On track

Totals: Cals:1407 Protein:117 Carbs:139 Fat:54

Have a great day!

Good morning, everybody!

QJB, I am in kind of a similar situation where our office is about 2 miles from the train station. In theory, it would make a nice walk on Spring days when it is neither too cool nor too hot. But, even then it's a long walk, time wise, on top of an already long commute and if I get in the office after 9:30 my office reservation is cancelled. And panhandlers. We have a shuttle service, which is free for 2024, so I try to take that. But if i'm running late, sometimes i just hop in a taxi and live with the extra cost.

The taxi ride is about $10. It's amazing how the technology for using credit cards in taxis improved once Uber came along. All of sudden those little machines in the taxis started working. I always take the shuttle service from the office to the train station because even if I'm waiting, the wait is inside the shuttle bus.

Last night, Marilyn was able to finish the pot roast that I had been nibbling away at. One plate of dinner and then a second helping and it was gone. Sometimes, I start thinking that I can eat a lot and then I go to a restaurant or something like this and I realize that I have just gotten used to my small plates and limited serving sizes.

I'm still not feeling 100% today. I am going into the office, but will probably skip the gym tonight and tomorrow, and just start back at it on Monday.

QOTD: I've probably already talked too much about this, but although we are going to Las Vegas this weekend, we won't actually watch the game because of our flight back to Chicago. If we have time, we might go to the Fan Experience or a rally or something. And we will probably make some sort of wager on the game (which we wont be around to collect if we win).

Breakfast: Protein Bar

Lunch: Catered

Dinner: it wont be Pot Roast for the first time since Friday.

Have a great day, all!

Good morning and yay for jr. Friday. Your day sounds fun and interesting and hopefully you come up with some good options! Is there a monthly pass, it's been a long time since I used public transit but my company used to pay for an eco-pass for our bus and train lines when we were in downtown Boulder. It's been a few decades but I remember they subsidized enough that I paid like 60 a year. Maybe the school has something like that?

qotd - nope, I think I board my flight right about when it's starting but I wouldn't be watching if I was home. I usually try to find something that is really crowded and do it on Super Bowl Sunday, one year I went swimming with the manatees and it was perfect, only like 6 people.

Today is work, back to back meetings from 6 to 3, I think there is one 30 minute break, then at 330 my trainer is coming here, she asked me to switch from tomorrow to today and offered to come here instead and I jumped at that. Did I mention I need to pack? I've gone through everything in my head that I plan on wearing just need to get it all in my international size carry on which should ge fine. Ending in Tampa is the wild card, the temp there will be quite a bit higher than everyone else but they'll keep the office there....frigid.....so yay I guess. I am going to try to get on the rower before I log on too, may stress level and patience are just better when I workout in the morning.

Did anyone else read The Marsh King's Daughter? It was very good and last night when I was looking to see if I could find the last three Oscar Best Pictures I need to watch on streaming (I found one) I saw that they made a movie starring Daisy Ridley and it's on sale to rent/buy so I might check that out. I go into movies from books with the understanding that books and movies are different and low expectations so I might enjoy it. I did find one that I can stream but the last two seem to only be in theaters still (Zone of Interest and American Fiction, since we got snowed out of that last saturday). There's a few weeks before the Oscars so my "see all the best picture nominees" is in good shape. It helped that a few came out so much earlier in the year...I HATE when all the nominees were released in December.

menu today

coffee plus half and half X3

yogurt

turkey and cheese on sandwich thin

left over slice of pizza

Have a terrific Thursday!

That sounds so much better!