Yep still sick

I called in sick for tonight, first time in 2 years since my last call in.........in other words if I call in, I am sick, sick , sick!!!!!!!!! I detest head colds, I hate the way the mucous takes over your head! It flows from every orifice, which is more information than we all need...........I roam from room to room, looking at this and that, with my beloved bottle of "Nykill", slugging back that stuff..... feeling higher than a mucous plug....did I say I love that stuff? It is wonderful, delightful, and well, I love it......did I say that before? I am going to wander around this big ole house of mine ...........If no one hears from me I left to get some more "nykill"............... (Plus, I love that book!)

Sick

No weight cattle scale... blah....the throat is raw, the nose is full of snot.......went to gym...hoping to sweat the thing out....no luck.................eating vit C like no tomorrow...still going to work......but will be wearing a mask..always delightful with liquid flowing out of one's nostrils...........smelling like Hall's.......and Vick's vapor rub...Ola perfume........... stay far away from me...............

A turn

No, this is not about weight loss or cooking....yes, it is about a rug I plan to start hooking. I love Emma Lou's patterns and bought her long runner, Antique floral on Monks cloth, nearly 12 years ago. I have decided it is time to just hook it! (It is 32 by 92, I may make it a tad wider). I never really have a color plan per say, just something in my brain so we will see what happens. I have to finish making curtains for the daughter and then I start.........I'll post updates every now and then, KNOW everyone is waiting with bated breath........

Now to cook something delightful, but not too heavy in the carbs!

The dinner

It was a wonderful success......the dawling loved his surprise.....I have decided to forgo the weigh in this Wednesday......I think I gained.....due to this calorie laden meal..........

The biscuits came from Dories's cookbook (made with heavy whipping cream), used a recipe with lots of changes from a blogger.....(crab bisque, I had frozen my fresh homemade tomato sauce from the summer and used that as a base, added no fat, half and half instead of the cream...it was darn good...oh and added some "heat")The meat, ribeye, I used the recipe from The minimalist....who wrote for the New York Times and just recently stopped...boo.......threw in a salad for the green stuff.....and for dessert, a cookie recipe from Sarabeth, but also tweaked it by adding some chocolate...the strawberries were dipped in dark chocolate from Callebaut's.

Today it's my birthday...I feel like a sloth....haven't decided what or where to go......decisions..........

In a hurry

Lost half a pound of lard this week........really busting my butt with the work outs at the gym........up to 1 to 2 hours of cardio then 3 times a week add the weights........maybe it's the age factor????? I turn 57 on the 15th and I really wanted 10 more pounds off by then...oh well..............at least an 80 year old man came up to me (as the sweat is dripping off my red face) and tells me that he's been watching me work out and I was doing real good..............WTF............so I said thank you and continued with my sweating..........I'll leave it at that.............

The Big two day holiday

is getting closer! I have planned the Valentine dinner on recipes from Dorie Greenspan and Sarabeth...along with a food blogger. Click on their names to go to the sites. I have both (actually all of Dorie's cookbooks) and just got Sarabeth's ........wonderful...wonderful!!!! I am making crab bisque from the food blogger site.......she had as shrimp.....I will kick up the spice level a tad and add crab........... Hope to add pictures next week of the event. The dawling better enjoy.........the next day on to my holiday!
The roses were brought to me at work Saturday by the dawling.......he loves me..........or the guilt from wrongdoing is killing him.........................Off to burn 500 calories of lard......................................................

The same but...........

Went to my weigh in...... got on the cattle scales, and the damn thing did not move.......no gain.......no loss.....sigh................................. BUT, I have dropped another size...so am losing inches. Went to my PCP the other day and her scales had me down 2 pounds.......another sigh...........she told me I am concentrating too much on the scales........yeah...yeah.......I just want to lose 3 more pounds by the end of February........that's all just 3!! So, onward I trudge....The big Birthday for 57 years is looming close.......funny.......you look in the mirror and you think.......what the hell happened to you? Looks like ya got OLD.......although you still feel like 20 something. At work the other day a nurse thought I was in my late 40's.........I gave her a quarter.
See that Golden on the floor in our kitchen...yeah, that one......she turns 15 years old in April...........we let her do whatever she wants...one of my son's said that she has retired from being a dog......(still continent, which is a very good thing, just gets confused.......but so do I).