We all woke up to 2 or so more inches of the white snow. The grass had just started to peak out and say, "hello". We are back to the endless sea of snow...which by the way I LOVE! It is wonderful...when hot flash land hits I go outside and breathe in the cold...steam evaporates off me...yes it is true!
So far, so good on day one of diet hell................actually, I must admit I kind of like it, as I am also doing it on the computer too. It does a lot of the tracking and points for you...once you get the hang of it! Next Wednesday..January 6th.....next weigh in........
Due to the amount of snow my walking has been curtailed of late. Of course, that could be an excuse? So, I have decided to try a well worn diet...weight watchers....my goal..to lose weight...I will start this evening....I love to cook and truly LOVE to eat what I cook...does that make sense? (My sweet daughter has informed me that I am a foodie...I will have to be a diet foodie?) I'm throwing this out there to make me and me alone accountable for this eating that I do. My children will have to go along on this venture with me...meaning the sweets and baking of such will end....in some sort of degree? It will be too tempting and my willpower is, shall we say "weak"? I have to lose 50 damn stinky pounds but want to get more off...my wonderful physician has informed me not to see it as such...take it a pound at a time....so every Wednesday I will post the poundage lost...the gain(please no) and the no loss...as I know this happens.......Join me on my journey to diet hell....won't you?
We ventured out the dawling and yours truly...mistake....
Too many of the english people were out there........
Looks like the snow is a coming.....I have to work this evening and my 12 hours Saturday and Sunday...sooooooo....guess I'll be staying in Hotel Medical Center.......fun.........french bath....stretcher for bed....fun.....loads and loads...."we" are "suppose to get Maybe...two feet? We'll see...." So, think of me stuck in a hotel of sorts.......................
I have made 18 tins of cinnamon buns....if I see another I will vomit...........I am done until the next year!
The cookie baking starts soon......
My dawling has been sick with a head cold...he is in hot toddy land.....all I had was bourbon.....Unfortunately, at night when he sleeps...I want to tape his mouth as he sounds like a bear...although I personally have never heard a bear snore....which reminds me of the night he was snoring so loud..I was having a strange dream that the vacuum was on and I could not get it to turn off.....it was the dawling snoring..... I love him...I do....He talks in his sleep... but we will leave that for another time.....
My sweet girl comes home soon...can't wait...The three boys miss their sister ........the Daddy misses his oodles of boodles....the dogs miss her.....the house misses
her...the road... well... we miss her.....
We got 7 inches of snow...true. I was not able to roll around and jump in the stuff or make snow ice cream or anything.........I was working......and my workplace got...well.... a lot of nothing...mush...it never got cold enough during the day for any kind of sticking...
Back to the original statement...we have 3 dogs....2 of them are Golden's and the short one is a cardigan corgi.....so when we take them out to do their "business" suddenly the deck has become fair game. Do you get my drift(in more ways than one)? It seems when our Molly ( the 13.5 year old golden) goes out she will do her thing...then the other two have to follow and do their thing in the same exact spot! Come on now.....I left the ramp specifically for ole Molly...but when it snows all bets are off...we like the deck! Sooooooo, no snow ice cream...everything is yellow..............
Remember the rug of pain? Well......I am just about finished with a Karen Kahle design...The Peacock......I love her stuff but dear Lord...I hate circles...could not figure out why...suddenly it hit me...like a ton of bricks...those damn circles ....a light bulb moment! I must get it done! I have plans to start a new quilt for my daughter......A depression quilt with the Panache collection....
Now off to get ready for work........................
Two posts in one day, or there of......I got my lover boy kitchen aid 6qt mixer back. To celebrate I made a pie.....a chocolate pie from the now defunct Gourmet magazine.........but the meringue...oh the meringue........I made Italian Meringue ....and that my friends...I got from cooks TV....you know I could spend hours watching....click on the link...it will zoom zoom you over...knock yourself out! I leave with some pictures of the pie...not cut...waiting......my mouth has been sutured shut but I'm desperately trying to find some suture removal scissors.....
PS notice the bleach wipes? My friend, my companion...
I have been cooking and cooking...and more...
I love Thanksgiving......lots of food....lots and lots...Although, every year I promise that we will have leftovers...that will last for weeks...it never happens...I have boys.......thus I will add a picture of self I stole off child #2's page................this is me now....number 108......I need to suture my mouth while cooking....must go do my waddle walk...........
