What's on your Thursday Menu?

Happy Friday Eve Gang. I'm posting super early because I know the auditors are going to be at the plant for 7am again. Boy did it get warm yesterday and today we are supposed to hit our first 90 degree day here in CT. We had to put the AC on at work and when I got home Irvin had the central air on and the haze from the Canadian wildfires is affecting the air quality so that isn't helping much. I did more gardening and decided to name the resident garden snake Loki. Not sure if it is a female or male, but as long as it keeps the pests away I don't care. Like I've said before I'm afraid of snakes, but I know they are beneficial to the environment.

I had to order pizza for lunch today and we have an ice cream truck coming for the guys also. Hopefully tomorrow the auditors are only here for a half a day and then things can get back to normal.

QOTD: Do you like sitting in on meetings/conferences? Me not really. I get bored and tired unless I'm presenting something which doesn't happen often. To sit and listen to someone talk really isn't my cup of tea.

B: coffee and egg/cheese wrap

L: pizza

D: grilled chicken (since I didn't make it last night)

Off to get on the treadmill

Have a great day everyone!!!!

Mornin y'all!

we got a lot of rain during the night. Supposed to get severe stuff today but I'm hoping that doesn't happen.

Feeling kind of rough around the edges today. Not sure what that's about. Hopefully it'll wear off as the day goes by. I need to work on chainmaille today. I have two bracelets to finish then I have an idea for a necklace that I think will be killer. I got the general idea from a fellow chainmailler/friend. Hoping it'll be as good as I'm hoping.

QOTD: not my thing from what few times I've had to do it.

B: egg, low carb street taco size tortilla, Gorgonzola, 2 crackers and coffee

L: depends on what if anything my mom decides to do today.

D: thinking chicken stuffed with Brie

check out these pliers. How is this even functional really? The side ones would be so awkward to use.

I'm 100% with you on the intrusive thoughts that would be me also. LOL

The pliers made me scratch my head so I had to look them up and low an behold I found a tutorial about how to use them. I actually think they might be helpful for you Mel when you do the chainmail.

Jennifer: sounds like things are going well and the audit will end today. Audits are always a bit stressful no matter what you did to prepare, so you will be more relaxed when it is over. I used to work with auditors all time and worked to prepare our staff for audits. Make sure their work was up to date and they understood what to say when questioned.

One of the things I told them was only answer the question, don't elaborate. I would say "Do you have a watch?" They would look at their wrist and then say "Yes it is 2:15." I told them that is the wrong answer. The correct answer is "Yes" or "No". Do not add anything else. I was in charge of security and sadly I knew where some of the bodies were buried and did not tell the auditor anythng that they were not resourceful enough to ask about. If they asked the right question we answered honestly but if they did not ask we did not tell.

I loved meetings as long as the agenda was planned and stuck to. I started after high school as a clerk and saw the "important" people going to meetings. After I finished college I was working jobs where planning and meetings were needed. I enjoyed all of it. The big conference rooms with tables and comfortable chairs and different types of speakers and agendas.

It was 89 here yesterday. I did not switch on the air conditioner because I did not feel that warm. The furnace is off and the house is at 72 and that feels good to me. I will be switching it to air if it gets above 74. I don't mind the heat but other people would.

Mel: that is a strange pliers. Almost looks like a torture device.

Good morning, everybody!

Today was like the 3rd day in a row where I woke up feeling like it was Friday. Oh, well, tomorrow it will be for real.

We had a great time on our fishing trip, but coming home on Sunday evening definitely made for a long week.

Today we are doing a charity event for work and it is being held up by the Wisconsin border. So it should be a fun day, but also a long drive home. I would like to get to CrossFit tonight since Marilyn is playing tennis.

We have lunch and dinner at the event, lunch is Panera and dinner is pizza.

QOTD: I'm not going to lie, it hurts my butt and back to sit still for so long.

Breakfast: bagel

Lunch: sandwich or salad

Dinner: Pizza

Have a great day, all!

Happy Thursday everybody. Hope the final day of your audit is short and sweet! Sorry I didn't participate in Wednesday's menu-- I'm stumbling a bit with food. Contrave works so well that it's hard choosing to eat and the leftovers from half-eaten meals are piling up. Waste is bad but I may just chuck them to get rid of eating pressure. At the 1 month mark I'm allowing back a few wheat products weekly and hope that a Carb Master tortilla will be appealing.

Grandson #1 has his final softball game tonight and there's a LOT of walking to get to the diamond. I'm worrying will my worst leg swell immediately, embarrass myself by falling or be a spectacle trying to get up out of a chair. I can't wait for PT to start next week. Too bad Contrave doesn't fix compulsive worrying, haha. Keeping focused on how fun it will be to see him play. He went from newborn to 10 in the blink of an eye.

QOTD: I used to love sitting in on meetings because it took me off the sales floor (loved customer service but dreaded cashiering). Extended classes? No, they usually made me get sleepy and that's embarrassing, lol.

Here's how I hope today goes:

B: SF Almond Milk Collagen Latte

L: 1/3 c Shiratake noodles, 2 T spaghetti sauce, 1/2 c LF cottage cheese

D: 2 romain leaves, 2 oz turkey breast, 2 slices tomato, 1/4 c. avocado

Game Snack: Fairlife Protein shake

LS: 1 stalk celery, 2 T peanut butter

I hope everybody has a great day and enjoys nice summer weather. It will be 83 today then we climb to the 90's for a few days (way too hot for me) and come down again to perfection: mid 70's.

Here is how I deal with leftovers. I look at them and tell myself they will either go into the garbage or into the sewer system. Do I really need to run them through my body and put them in the sewer. The answer is a definite No and they go into the garbage.