Monday!

Hello all,.. happy Monday! I had a good day yesterday, in terms of eating and exercising. Rode my new bike to work and back. I wasn't rewarded this morning on the scale, but I know if I keep having days like that they will eventually show up. So I'm up at 5am to get in some exercise at the Y before going in to work. I got a really interesting book from Amazon this weekend. It's called something about "losing half my weight and finding myself." This woman didn't have surgery, but it's still very relative, I think to my struggles with the aftermath of weight loss. Getting used to the new body and all. Wednesday is the 12 months + Post op group in Carmel. I am still planning to go that evening, if anyone from around Terre Haute would like to go with. I would like to see how those support groups are different from the general ones. Otherwise, it's just another day for me. The birds are singing and I am watching the bunnies playing with each other in their cage. Mike and Maggie are still sound asleep. Have a great day all!

Have a wonderful day all.  It is going to be beautiful today!!! I can't wait to get out in it and enjoy the warmth! My goal today is to walk!!! LOTS!  Hope your day is as great as mine is!

Goodmorning everyone. Hope you all have a good day . I have 1 home sick from school today and its this stupid virus thats going around down here . Today is the only nice day we are going to have here its suppose to rain the rest of the week. But i love to hear the birds singing and the daffodils blooming. Oh i need no more p/t so thats one step further and ive lost 65 lbs so im very happy. Enjoy your day and everyone stay safe.

Good morning, Linda. I hope your day goes well today. How far do you ride your bike to work? I think that is great that you are starting to do that. Yes, the scale will be rewarding you soon for doing that.  I am just sitting here in the recliner with Misty my cat in my lap along with the computer. Misty is just purring along and enjoying her time with mama this morning. She gets up to greet me every morning no matter how early it is. She is my little furmonster but she is my baby furmonster. I just love her so much and she is so much company to me. She has done a lot of changing the last several months. She is a lot more nosey and gets into more mischief but she is just being herself and so that is alright. When I first got her about 4 years ago she was a cat that wouldn't bother with anyone including us. You wouldn't catch her on anyones lap either. She wouldn't get on the bed if her life depended on it. Now she is on our lap all the time, gets in bed with us and spends time when we go to bed at night. We talk to her and pet her and she flops over and wants her tummy rubbed. When she is done she gets off the bed and comes out here to the living room and sleeps on the back of the sofa. She loves sitting and watching out the patio door. I say as my dad use to say that she is looking out over her back forty acres.  I think that the temperature is going to be fairly warm today. Not as warm as this week end but in the hight 50's anyway. I can do that kind of temperature. It is a bit cold this morning but that is going to happen since it is still early spring. This week end was wonderful. So warm yesterday I didn't even wear my coat part of the day yesterday.  My church had a girl who went to Sierra Leaone Africa in December on a mission trip and she and another person who went with her did a program last night at the church. They showed slides and talked about the things they did and some of the people that they met. It was very interesting and they both wore clothes that they got there. Afterwards the mission committee had made an African dinner and that was served. There was a lot of chicken, rice and beans. I tried a bit of several things and it was very good. I am going to get some of the recipes from Marsha and I may make some of them. She didn't make anything that is real spicy but most of the time their food is very spicy. Liz ssid that the pepper that they keep on the table isn't black pepper like we do but cayenne pepper. The only thing that was spicy was the plantains that were dipped in cayenne and ginger. They were pretty good if you ask me. Bill went with me and he enjoyed the evening as well. I am so glad that we decided to go. I had been thinking of not going because I was so tired but Bill is the one who wanted to go. He seems to be going to church more often. Religion is one of our hard subjects since we differ so much on it. He was raised and entirely different religion than me and it comes out in the differences there. After 20 years it seems to be doing some changing. Pastor even remarked to him that he seems to be becomming a famiiar face around there. He laughed and agreed so could that be a good sign? I am keeping my fingers crossed on that. I am of the belief that a family should go to church together. I have always wanted that and only get a few times a year.  I am going to the grocery store today after Bill goes to work. I don't think I am going to get a lot of things today but some of the things that are in the sale paper. I got a 5 shelf pantry cabinet from freecycle yesterday. I cleaned it all up and it looks pretty nice now. I am going to put some of the food in it and that is going to free up a lot of my cabinet space in the kitchen. I have such a small kitchen Bill and I can hardly fit in it together. The rooms here is a lot smaller than the apartment upstairs was. The office says they are the same but I know different. I can tell by the way the furniture fits. So I am happy that I am going to be able to move some of the things crowded in the cabinets and actually have some more room. That makes it a good day here for sure.  I bette get going. I have rambled on and on for long enough. I hope that everyone has a wonderful day today and stays blessed and safe to return here again in the morning round up of the Hoosiers Losers. I will check in later today to catch up on anything going on while I am gone. Love and hugs to all.

I don't know exactly how far it is, but it took me about 20 minutes each way. So a nice little ride.

USe www.bikeroutetoaster.com and you can map your ride and log it so you can know when you hit the century club on bike rides.

Good morning all! I havent posted since the clothing exchange but I wanted to let everyone know I had a great time and it was finally great to meet a lot of you.  There were some people I didnt recognize.  I am going to try to get my pic changed today.  I know a lot of you didnt recognize me.   I dont have much going on today, just working.  It is suppose to be really nice all week, so I am hoping to get out and walk a lot this week. Well, I need to get some work done. Everyone have a great day.

 

EMT Jenny !!!!!

 Hi Jenny, It was so nice to get a for real hug And your daughters are awesome, just like you. Love ya. Hugs & Blessings, Gail I love your new Pic

Good Morning. I'm super sleepy today again. Yesterday was a very tired day too. I guess I'm just catching up some from the weekend. Of course last nights sleep was very restless because my tube is acting silly again. It keeps migrating and when I pull it out it stays for the most part but I can feel it poking me in certain spots if I roll over to my tummy or left side (which is the most comfortable sleeping position to me although I've not been able to tummy sleep for a long while comfortably). Yesterday was soo pretty outside I got a bit of walking done after I finally woke up from my long nap. I'm gonna walk up and get my crushed ice in a lil bit. That stuff just rocks LOL. I have to have it daily pretty much. I crave it sooo bad but it's cool because it helps me get  more fluids in soo it's awesome. Anyways I think thats bout it for now. Alisa and I aren't planning any thing big today. Rich is off work and I'm not really sure what we will be doing but I am hoping to find something fun and inexpensive.

Just wanted to stop in and say hi to everybody and that I hope all is enjoying this wonderful weather we have. I actually started back walking yesterday cuz i didnt have to freeze or get wet lol to walk, I was in 7th heaven doing it. I didnt get my goal of 6 miles in but I got up to 4 miles when i got a call asking if I wanted a motercycle ride and well that is another love of mine and now that I dont feel like i'm gonna flatten the tires on the bike, I said come here and pick me up, lol.  So here in the next hour I'm going back out do try again for the 6 miles.  I have to do something cuz i have some bad habits creeping back up and I have been stalled for 2 or 3 months. One week I will lose and then one week a few pounds creep back on. I think cuz i lost mine so fast in the beginning that I dont deal well with the slowness now after 7 months, plus just been really stressed and i think that I have gotten depression but i hate going to the doctor so I try to deal with it myself and well thats not going so well, i seem to be picking the wrong ways to deal with it.   Had to work on the day you guys had the clothing exchange so yet again I couldnt come meet everyone, and darn i am need clothes pretty bad, well at least for my bottom half.  Capris and short would of been wonderful lol but oh well I will do my best to catch the next one. Hope everybody enjoyed themselves there. Hope everybody has a wonderful day and enjoy the sunshine!!!!