What's on your Monday menu?

Happy Monday Menuer's. I hope you all had a great weekend. I broke down more garden stuff and put up a new tarp over the rabbit coop. Sunday Irvin and I took a dump truck load of trash to the plant. One of the best perks of working at a waste to energy plant is being able to throw trash away for free. All the years Irvin did property preservation work and collected stuff from trash outs he's finally sorting through things and tossing anything that is junk.

Got back and went grocery shopping at Market Basket then came home and made another big pot of chili for the week and watched football. The Patriots did amazing. I don't want to get my hopes up, but if they keep playing the way they have been they might just make it to the playoffs.

QOTD: If you were the captain of a pirate ship what would you name it? The Red Queen and the carved figure on the bow would have bright red hair painted on it.

B: coffee and protein shake

L: roast beef, swiss cheese wrapped around two pickles

D: baked pork chops

Have a great day everyone!!!

Mornin y'all.

Busy day ahead. Two appointments and we need to do a few other things. One is the pain clinic. Never thrilled about that one. They are dismissive to say the least.

I'm hoping to get a bracelet going faster today, well this afternoon to be exact. Not a hard one but tedious. It's my favorite weave so I'm not unhappy to do it.

QOTD: Sunny Doom. Partly due to my middle name and I like the word doom with it.

Food is unknown at best. I really need to get back at it harder.

A meme and a different bracelet I made for my boss.

Like Ur pickle sandwich idea !

That was my go-to meal after surgery when I was cleared to eat "normal" food again. I usually get the deli meat sliced thin either roast beef, ham, or turkey breast. I wrap the meat and cheese slices around a dill baby pickle and enjoy.

" Real" exercise ( for the first time in many months )

Got a three day pass to LA fitness ( will b sleeping in Long Island till I sign lease on apt ... so did upper body stretching/ machines - rowing machine - situps n sauna . Feels great 2 sweat th toxins out !

Busy day today mostly looking at and trying to rent apt.

Gotta inform Law Department and my own atty regarding irrepairable flood damage to hearing system and hwh.

Totally unnecessary to repeat extremely difficult and expensive werk!

b- coffee and tea lattes w ff milk bites of last nites dinner if I can find a microwave

snack- yogurt

l& d tbd but salad w ff dressing is definitely on the menu

so far - three shrimp from yesterdays Chinese

bought dinner - jerk chicken , collard greens w smoked turkey ( one of my favorite foods ) mashed potatoes regular n sweet, green beans w garlic , two big vegetable spring rolls. Usually just eat the ( cabbage ) contents w dipping sauce ( soy , hot chinese mustard, lots of duck sauce )

herbal tea latte ( ff sf ) or new kind of imported red wine spritzer - the Spanish old variety was good - I have something from Calabria I think ... again tasting an unusual old variety w soda water lol!

Straight wine goes right to my head post RNY.

Pirate ship name - would have to be a legendary seamonster's name like Kraken - the giant boat swallowing octopus ... giant squid? How about Moby Dick - the boat and peg- legged captain crushing mega whale ? Or some kind of famous harridan?

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I'm finally feeling a bit better, no screaming and clutching my chest in pain.

My Mom got a quote from a guy to put up a handrail, but it was not what I had in mind. The one wall is a partial wall and he wanted to raise it 6" so there would only be about a 2" gap at the top, I said no, because even though I am not claustrophobic I feel like it would make me be.

QOTD- No pirate ship for me I get too seasick.

I've been losing weight without really trying, I just haven't had any appetite. Inching closer to my goal.

Have a great day everyone!

Hi All! Hope your Monday is going well. Didn't do well with my protein bar/sf hot cocoa plan last evening. Ended up cheating a Dixie cup of Corn Chex cereal dry and a sampler bag of Lesser Evil Popcorn which was definitely not worth the extra 7 grams of carbs. The Bupropion/Naltrexone definitely doesn't work at night anymore. Some people in the Contrave FB group say they completely cold-turkey for a few weeks then start the whole process over again to get over this. I know me, I could rack up a whole lotta pounds trying that.

My ulcer is back full time again, must call the dr for an appt. Various stomach problems run through my paternal family. A younger cousin died from a bleeding ulcer this April. However, I've been cheating with NSAIDs this whole year due to my bad knees. Time to cut that out and behave.

QOTD: The Jolly Molly. The ship's figurehead would be Jack the Pirate Cat and an old fashioned spy glass searching for kibble. Arrgg Matey!

B: nothing

L: an egg beaters/zucchini/red onion concoction and brown rice green tea.

Something is wrong with Nutritionix this morning, perhaps they are updating or having a server issue. Can't log my food yet.

Back to the sewing room to continue working to make it a functional sewing space again. Gray and dreary today which is perfect sewing weather!

I so admire Ur ability to sew!

My maternal Grandmother made the most amazing upholstered ( I kid U not ) Barbie doll furniture using egg cartons and matching outfits for me and my ( only ) three dollies of vastly different sizes after she heard noone would play with me because I only had one Barbie no furniture no car no Barbie house no Ken doll ...

She was so wonderful loving and talented ( not to mention so soft and warm sharing a bed for naps )

My Granny died very young from heart failure after a lifetime of shocking dieting - oranges one day , just cottage cheese the next ... meanwhile she cooked deliciously for the whole family and " lived off the smell " .

She never lost weight but she was TINY .

She passed when I was just starting high school at 14. I knew that moment .. and when she came to visit me and promised shed watch over me all my life .

She was a second ( main to be honest ) Mother to me. I loved her unreservedly and I believe she loved me unreservedly too like I was her own daughter .

I miss her to this day.

Children never forget kindness and love- it heals them - patient love makes a child motivated to study rather than become an attitudinous wanna be serial killer lol.

You and I would have been besties as little girls! My mom was incredibly supportive of a creative mind and supplied all kinds of sewing and crafting goodies to keep little fingers busy. She sewed beautiful Barbie clothes (which I still have) and I made hats and jewelry for Barbie (I had one real Barbie, one fake-out plus a Francine who had a compound fracture I was forever bandaging, lol). Egg carton bottoms made great hats and purses and the bottom was a great base for Barbie's bed.

Your Granny sounds like my maternal grandma. How lovely that you and she had such a close bond. I'm sorry you lost her so early. My grandma was nicely fluffy and forever on T.O.P.S. which was a glorified recipe swap, I swear. My paternal grandma died when I was 3 or 4 from prescribed amphetamines for weight loss. It worked but Dad speculated it ruined her heart. She was just in her 50's.

'Attitudinous wanna be serial killer' lol...my mom would have loved you. She wasn't very chatty but she was all about correct and creative language. Our home was filled with funny phrases, I miss that so much.