What's on your Monday menu?

Good Monday Morning Gang!! Boy did I ever need some vacation time of course I've come back to a load of stupid crap at work, but I'll get through it. I have tons of pictures to post, but for some reason OH is being fussy so when I can post them I will.

I got everything pretty much done that I wanted to do and even got to go to America's Stonehenge in Salem, NH. Such a fun place to visit. We went raspberry picking, finished getting everything planted, picked up the big cages, and almost got the rabbit hutch finished. The best of all we joined the YMCA yesterday and the entire month of July was free with no joining fee either. I didn't realize how much it offered, and they just put in a new sauna and steam room. The workout room is amazing as is the two pools and hot tub. Irvin and I are very excited.

QOTD: Who here likes History? Like ancient History 4000+ years? When we went to America's Stonehenge it was fascinating to learn that it was traced back to be over 4000 years old and that they believed it had been made by ancient travelers. There is even a sacrificial table there. I'm hoping it was for animals and not humans.

B: coffee and squash & eggs

L: salad with cottage cheese

D: onion ring burgers wrapped in bacon

Tonight, we will go to the Y and either swim laps, use the treadmill, or do both they are opened until 9pm.

Have a great day everyone!!!

You were missed here but glad you had a great vacation. I love history and visiting old sites like that. I did not know there was an American Stonehedge. How exciting.

History is so interesting. I used to think ancient people had no intelligence. Now I realize that they did and probably had ther own great artists and highly intelligent people who built something like a Stonehedge. That just went on my bucket list. I feel like it is not good for me to travel alone so will need to find someone who is interested and travel with them.

Have a great time at the Y.

Good mornin y'all! Start of a new week!

I have a doctors appointment today that I found out about Thursday. I am going to launch a little complaint. I was never notified I even had one until Thursday. Thankfully I have nothing else planned. It's my bariatric surgeon. It's through Texas Tech. Slightly annoyed.

Other than that I'm not sure what else we'll do. We might look for a new baker's rack. We're trying to make our house more livable.

Pain is really bad so I've been trying to deal with that. I'm hoping to hear back from the orthopedic surgeon about a CT scan. We'll see.

QOTD: I do love history of all kinds. I watch a lot of documentaries about Egyptian history, all sorts of others too. It's really fascinating if people give it a chance,

B: protein bar and half an egg white pita...coffee.

L: not sure what this looks like today. Depends.

D: maybe some chicken.

Have a good day ya'll!

This is a miniature scene! Any cat owner gets this!

Aw, I feel bad for you having a bad pain day. That makes everything so difficult. Hope the appointment with your surgeon went well. Can't believe they didn't let you know about that earlier than last Thursday, that's crazy.

LOVE the miniatures scene, I literally laughed out loud. Until recently we only ever had Siamese so except for the 'swelegant room that is a scene lived over and over and over with us. The sound of a cat yakking would make the best alarm, it will wake you from a dead sleep.

Good luck on the search for the right baker's rack. That's the kind of challenge I love. Wonder if they'll have any on the Prime Day sales?

My goodness are you right about that sound! They should make alarm clock with that sound!

I got to talk to the office manager. She was apologetic. Texas Tech had a major security breach and hack. Amarillo is the last campus to get it all recovered. The NP wasn't happy about it at all. She was upset by the lack of notification. Overall an ok appointment. I got lectured a bit about protein which I might've deserved lol

thanks!

Glad you had a great vacation, from what you describe of your job you definitely earned some R&R. Your YMCA sounds great and I'm glad they have so much to offer.

QOTD: I had no idea there was an American Stonehenge either, wow! Hubby and I love historical places and living in Germany as newlyweds (his first tour of duty) spoiled us with ruins of castles everywhere and of course the standard tourist places. When we got back to the States we were snobs. 'Pfft, this is only 200 years old, its so new.' hahaha

Here's an odd NSV: There is so much sorrow here and nationally since last week but I didn't stuff my face for comfort. That's 99% due to the Contrave but that 1% was me. This week I finally get to give my grandkids big hugs (one granddaughter is the age of the girls at that camp) and my son-in-law who's a firefighter/EMT. I don't think he knew the Idaho firefighters personally but that brotherhood is really strong in the Washington/Idaho/Montana area. He probably rubbed shoulders with them at one of the annual Seattle Firefighter's Stair Climb. Its amazing to see them walk up 69 floors in full turnout gear wearing and using oxygen.

So, food.

B: The chocolate protein/collagen coffee 'milkshake'

L: 2 slices of lunch meat, half a cucumber and 1/4th a yellow pepper.

D: 2 oz overcooked shrimp chopped into 1/2 c nonfat cottage cheese, cucumber slices (the Korean cucumbers are finally coming in from the garden!)

It is scorching hot and dry here till Wednesday. There's been 3 wildfires that I've heard of) and pray the winds will be calm. I'm going to try for cold foods this week and increased exercise.

Grateful for the new week! Hope you all have had a good Monday.

Thanks for the service your family has given! It is not easy and often un thanked. Their service and your family's support of it is much appreciated by me.

i'm getting better with emotional eating too. It's my go to for comfort and it's so hard to break that cycle. Congratulations!