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Good Morning Gang. Another Monday is upon us. I do not have today off, and we are having tours twice today for Walktober. Irvin and I got a ton of stuff done this Saturday and yesterday I made chili, soup, and a turkey since it was a rainy cool day I figured those things would be perfect to make and have for the week.
QOTD: When it comes to cool weather food are you a soup, chili, or stew person? Me I'm all three and I love to make different ones throughout the Fall and Winter months.
B: coffee and protein shake
L: chili with cheese
D: veal cutlets with mushrooms
I have to finish cleaning up the office.
Have a great day everyone!!!
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
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Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
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Weird day ( yesterday). Woke up at 5 to drive out to LI without onerous rush hour traffic-
b- tea latte w ff dairy n truvia
bite of hazelnut croissant n pain au chocolat despite rebellious tummy ( still have malabsorption 14 years post op ) due to probably the string cheese Thurs.
second b in LI -skim coffee latte , egg n bacon sammie on English muffin , hash browns
Exercise- ate away at the overgrown hedge for an hour - Dont know why but I love landscaping lol ... I guess its peaceful-mind time no pressure just concentrating on the plants .
L - 2 fried chicken wings minus most of the skin, a couple of mini meatballs in red sauce , a couple of giant tater tots w cheese
1/2 cup squash soup cut w chicken soup
D- Chinese takeout - small wonton soup w scallions
beef n eggplant w pork fried rice ( small bowl) , half a hard cider , herbal tea w a dollop of honey whisky
Today is the day the bulldozers were supposed to come ... my ( super expensive but Thank God competent ) atty mercifully informed me no order to demolish has so far been filed at the Supreme Court.
This doesn't amount to much currently as I can't touch the phragmites on the dock w/out a DEC permit and paying for and filing the Town one - also w/ out electricity to run the sump pump and chargecnail guns and whackers/ mowers and water to flush the toilets -how can the City possibly expect immediate improvement to this area ? Grrr! 
Other than spending the afternoon driving hours to two DEC offices only to find them closed ( grrr) and failing to submit Town permit application successfully ( new more complicated online only permitting system - yet another useless waste of the highest property taxes in America ) I packed the car w blankets , fur throws, inflatable and lounge chairs and dirty dishes and pots to cook w here .
Promised myself a trip to Ikea today to check on curtains n rods for huge windows ( six feet tall , eight , ten and 15 feet wide ).
Most new apartments this price have custom privacy shades on glass doors / windows but here there are none . Good news is previous tenants had them ( screw holes) so they bought the necessaries somewhere.
Also scouring thrift shops for amazing fireplaces ( need 2 five foot ones one for bedroom one for living room/ kitchen) and a murphy bed that converts to a couch n shelves for the guest room .
Still planning to Air B&B if building allows it- for a lot more munny here per nite because of the shared space and amazing view and amenities. Thank God a main subway line lands not three blocks from here.
B- 2 very large stuffed clams I baked yesterday enhanced w fresh lemon juice n ff butter popcorn seasoning ( freeze dried so fat free real butter)
ff tea latte w ff whipped cream
ff coffee latte w ff whipped cream & peanut butter whiskey ... go ahead beat m up :)
l- Carribean chicken 2 ways collard greens , ff scrambled eggs ( egg whites or egg beaters , butter buds ( for want of a better word -freeze dried real butter popcorn seasoning U can buy in any grocery store is EXACTLY the same thing ) fat free american cheese slices, fat free half and half , a little green part of scallions, snipped
d- Ikea
guilty snax yesterday - 2 small halloween candies, handful of chili lime plaintain chips.
have a great Saturday ! 
My many months in Florida really made me miss my NYC provided free unlimited Chiropractic treatments and walking home thru Central Park afterwards.
Its probably WAY too much to schedule but Im gonna call them at 9 AM to see when they can fit me in .
Today's weather because theres a severe storm coming tomorrow will probably be soft n warm - shame 2 waste it ! ( It actually rained all day - puttered around new apt in Haloween pajamas, blew up inflatable temporary furniture , did endless laundry n dishes lol. ) Now for fun ...
Trying to figure out how to post a ticker ... 
Gorgeous tub and cabinets. I hope you got good news on the apartment, it looks stunning!
Hoping you don't have pumpkin guts all over your house today, I remember that mess well lol.
Have you ever gotten any relief from those little home TENS units? My PT recommended one before my shoulder surgeries and when it gets angry from being abused I drag it out again. Relief doesn't last forever but I still appreciate it. Hope your shoulder will calm down and really hope you get a call from the surgeon's office!
How do they create those agate sheets? Acrylic with ground bits or maybe a shellac? Its been awhile since I've seen any of those at my local thrift stores.
Your Tange is so pretty! How old is he? I hope we can get to know our new Feral Ginger enough to get him scanned (but he's skinny and I think he was abandoned) and maybe convince him to shred his Feral Card. He just doesn't seem as wary as the other Ferals. It would be a big surprise if it was a she.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Hi, we made it to the end of the week! We've been having light frosts every evening, glad I got in 95% of the garden. Today I have to trim the shrubs in the front and then get the peppers harvested. Looks like today is the last day in the 70's and the cold temps move in. Hope your storm isn't bad.
QOTD: None, the sequels are always disappointing to me. Tv franchise would be Star Trek and all it's spin-offs definitely. But the movies got kind of stupid.
Going to try to eat better today.
B: coffee w/FF 1/2 and 1/2, bottled protein shake
L: Small salad w/ hard boiled egg, lowfat dressing and 5 ginormous grapes.
D: An egg-bites style dish I prepped last night with 1/2 zucchini, 1 LF mozz stick, 1 Amylu breakfast sausage (can't wait till I've used those up, they are awful) and 1/2 cup Egg Beaters.
LS: another bottled protein drink. Chocolate or caramel??? Maybe the caramel and mixed with some decaf chai.
Wish I could figure out how to add a picture better, we DO have a new feral. Pretty but skinny ginger. Looks like we'll be able to gain his trust, hopefully. Then we'll check him for a tattoo or signs of ballage/deflation. We'd seen a ginger in the company of a neighbor's black kitty a few years ago so we want to see if he's a newbie or maybe was a former pet. :(
Hope you have a great weekend.
on 10/10/25 4:54 am - Amarillo, TX
Good morning all.
We have the kids today. They are out of school. We're going to carve pumpkins...pray for us adults please. LOL
I am feeling very rough and got little sleep. My shoulder feels like I have been punched. So today'll be long.
We roasted a chicken last night and fixed some Brussels sprouts and broccoli. It was so tasty! We have leftovers today.
QOTD: LOTR for sure.
B: egg, cheese, sausage and coffee
L: leftovers from dinner yesterday
D: ????
Top of a box I found at the thrift store. It's slices of agate on a glass sheet. The bottom is steel so not pics of that. Then of course Tange..
Woo Hoo it's Friday gang!! Woke up to frost on everything. Glad I got home last night and went right out to harvest the herbs and cover the plants I wanted to keep going. We haven't had a frost this early in several years, yet a few years ago we had a very late frost the end of May that killed Peach blossoms and other fruits in New England.
Looks like we are getting a coastal storm Sunday into Monday with heavy rain and wind. Not sure what else the weekend holds.
QOTD: What's a movie franchise you can binge watch over and over? My two would be the Harry Potter and LOTR ones. It doesn't matter how many times I've watched them I still love them.
B: coffee and 2 egg bites with cottage cheese
L: roast beef and provolone sandwich
D: baked fish and sweet potato
Hitting the Y for an aqua fitness class
Have a great Friday and weekend everyone!!
Dr. Sanchez Lapband 9/12/2003
hw305/revision w280/cw197/gw150
Revision from Lap Band to Bypass on 2/4/2015 by Dr. Pohl
Hi, sorry to be missing your posts since Tuesday. It has been a tiring few days and somehow I've got to miraculously get the house spic n span when there is no room to put anything away and also be working outside on the Autumn landscaping chores while the weather is still nice (expected to turn sour soon). Felt so down last night that I kind of binge ate on sugar free chocolate---not horribly but apparently it was enough calories that my body decided the famine is over and I dropped a little this morning. It was only 603 calories for the day but a whopping 46g carbs when my doctor said not to go over 20. I should be freaked out that the Contrave didn't take away the urges but it felt mostly like a pity party and not a pharma failure. But overall I'm having trouble keeping the carbs low this week.
QOTD: Our house is a 50's Rancher with minimal insulation in the walls so I put the heat on when it gets in the 60's outside now. But that may be because of losing weight again and getting cold so easily. I wake in the morning having dreams set in snowstorms and Hubby is as comfortable as can be.
B: My protein/collagen shake.
L: 1 cup nonfat Greek Yogurt w/cinnamon and 2 sweetener packets
D: 2 slices lowfat chicken lunchmeat chopped well and warmed in 2 T Arby's sauce, 4 big mushrooms sliced and sauteed in 1 tsp real butter
Congrats on the new great grandbaby!
