D D I'm a LOOSER!

I like the sounds of those words. :0)
A week ago Wednesday, I was a GAINER. :0(
We missed our weigh in Wednesday because DIL Deb worked a fourteen hour day.
Dang good reason. I shit you not!  She left at 7 a.m. and traveled miles to Fort Meyers to a new facilty and got home at 9p.m.   The meeting was at six thirty.
Last night we missed the 4:30 meeting as she got home at 5:30.....another LONG day for her and she drove us there to get weighed in before it closed at seven.
I lost 6.2 pounds and now weigh 200 EVEN.  Yay me! Thirteen pounds and eight ounces or two almost seven pound twins.  Whoa baby!
Three times the week before I ate pizza.  tsk,tsk,tsk.  Oh how I loved it and ate every last morsel of two slices and once three slices and I PAID THE PIPER! :0(
This week I am going to try a new food to me. Bocca Veggie Burgers and put some jar spaghetti sauce and low fat mozzerella cheese on top.
They are low in Points....too lazy to rise and calculate the Point value.
Sometimes I cheat.....I ask Deb the Point Value as she eats them often. ;0)
   I feel good.  Wish I still didn't have the urge to OVER INDULGE myself in my favorite foods.
I'm not hungry...I just think about all that good tasting stuff that I am missing out on.
Mashed potatoes, french fries, bacon, hamburgers and hamburger dishes, white bread, bakery breads.
Okay, enough torturing of myself.  sigh!
I may be missing the food, BUT THE POUNDS IT ADDS WON'T MISS MY BODY. I shit you not!
The sixty four thousand dollar question is: Why does foods that are not good for you , taste so good?

Hubby comes home here tomorrow.
I'll leave that alone for now. 
When and IF UGLY rears it's head, it might be the best time to take a walk around this neighborhood. ;0)
Put the harness and leash on my overweight chihuahua Ginger and kill two birds with one stone.
I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D When did I forget how to SKIP?

When did I lose the ability?
This has been preying on my mind.....I shit you not!
Was it at age 50. Was it at age 60. In just days I will be 74 and I keep trying to put my mind and BODY together and so far I COME UP EMPTY.  Sigh!
Maybe it's the extra pounds I carry around that keep my body from lifting up. Then again, maybe balancing myself on one foot even for a second is the reason behind it.
Trying to put my underpants and jeans on while standing is becoming ever so hard to do.  :0(
It's a balancing act.
Weebles wobble......and they do fall down!  I shit you not!  So far, I have been lucky:0)
That ends my soul searching for today.  Amen!

Yesterday's visit wth hubby left me wondering again what THE HELL is going on with him.
As my son and I entered his room his P.T. person was about to leave the room with him to take him into the P.T. room and she told us a Meghan ? had seen him today about an AFO for his turned out left foot.
Right away he became aggitated and told me she was a Flim Flam artist.   He claimed she was there the day before and today she introduced herself and gave him her card and presented herself as being there today for the first time.  No amount of reasoning could make him see things different.  sigh!
The P.T. person was very nice and gave hubby many reasons he could be mistaken. 
NO NO and NO.  This person DOES NOT come into this facilty unless she is called to evaluate a patient as to if they would benefit from wearing an A.F.O.
Twenty years ago or so, hubby wore one of these. He insisted she just wanted to sell him one.
Hello.......................Medicare or the V.A. will pay for it! 
All the way to the P.T. room and beyond....his suspicions continued. He didn't like being lied to....what's the odds of him meeting two Meghans in just two days were, no I couldn't be mistaken or confused about the days. He bit his words off and had this suspect look on his face.
Finally the P.T. person asked if he could just let that rest for now.   
Dear Diary...you and I both know that I could have taken him home here at any time if he was unhappy there. He is because of the meals .  Leaves most of the food on his tray. 
We at home here are eating Lean Cuisine and Weight Watchers meals for the most part for our evening meals. Somehow I don't think hubby would like them.  Years ago he wouldn't even try a Hungry Man dinner.
Frozen food nuked in a mircrowave...................... not on his life.  sigh!
He NEEDS the P.T. he is getting there. That's how I justify my actions.  Home P.T. is just not the same.
The FUN begins Saturday after 10 a.m. when I wheel him out the door. :0(   I shit you not!

It's time to Shake A Leg. Almost ten.  I need a blow torch under my ass! An ejection seat..... maybe!

That's All Folks!

D D Happy 12th Birthday Logan

While I won't be home to celebrate with him......he is in my heart.

Dang! I'm going to miss out on some great Chinese food tonight too. :0(   As it is I know without a doubt that I went over those W.W.Points yesterday. 

Visited with hubby a few hours. Let's just sat we were not on the same page some of the time. :0(

I helped him get into the bathroom with his wheelchair a few times.

Once a nurse caame to give him a med and as I told her where he was he thought I was talking to him and yelled out to stop bothering him to me.

He forgot to lock both sides of his wheelchair before he tried to get up and into bed and both the side rail and him were wobbley as all Hell.

Next time into the bathroom as I got his chair in front of the throne, I said Lock It.

He yells out that you can't lock the fucking door cause if he should have an accident in there no one could get in to help him.  sighhhhhhhhhh! 

I looked at my son and said "I'm ready". 

As soon as I got him back into bed safely, I gave him a kiss and high tailed it out of there. 

My son is six feet four or five and has long legs, but let me tell you............I think I was in front of him all the way out of that building. I shit you not!

After eating the evening meal my son prepared for us.... YUMMY, YUMMY in the TUMMY we cleaned up the kitchen and left the fishy smell to grand daughter Corinne's dismay;0) and headed up to Tampa to the airport.  They have this trip timed to just about no wait upon arriving there. She phones when she lands and when she is on the shuttle and she exits and we are there to collect her.

The Skyline Drive across Tampa Bay is beautiful at night, but scarey to me in daylight.

Only Jersey barriers to keep you from going into the ocean and it's milessssssssssssss long.

   First one back in the house and I grabbed a can of aerosol spray and gave it a few shots before DIL DEB entered.  She does not eat fish....UNLESS you count tuna fish. :0)

Of course she was wondering what she was smelling. I heard him tell her I must have used a spray.

Deb had a wonderful time with her best friend , would do Foxwoods again..just wished her $190 lasted a little longer than it did and most of all wishes she had more STAMINA to keep up with her grand kids.

They wore her out. 

Welcome to MY WORLD Deb.....you are just beginning. :0)

Robin the waterfall builder will be here again this morning. He has to get into that COLD pool water at some point to put stone on the wall of the pool.  brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Chop...Chop time for moi.

Bought Picasso picture time so that I can post more pictures. 

We are at the well known Sharkeys in Venice

A good Samaritan offered to take these last two pics

Looks like my son could have just as well from what I see of him in these two pictures. :0(

That's All Folks!

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D D Here I sit

this morning at 9 a.m. and I should be busying my butt.   Haven't showered and dressed and Robin the waterfall builder will be here soon.
Here's where one of my quotes get put into play.
"One hundred years from now....who will know."  ;0)

Wanted to see if those pictures of Venice Beach I took yesterday would post this morning.
Deleted some older pictures and it still was a NO GO.. :0(
Now I have to figure out some other way to retrieve my pictures.  sigh!

Talked to hubby on the phone this morning and last night he didn't take even a bite off his supper tray.
Remained FULL until this morning.
I on the other hand.......................chowed down a Weight Watcher 4 point ice cream bar and when I laid eyes on my son making himself peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches, I  made myself one slice of WHITE ( tsk,tsk) bread with peanutbutter spread thin. :0(   My reasoning was....................maybe the peanutbutter would burn some calories away during the night.  hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . Hey, it sounded plausible to moi! ;0)
If the fried catfish was my culprit in weight gain this week, it was well worth it. Catfish is a very mild tasting fish,  as is flounder.  Can't get catfish up North.  End of Story !
  During the evening my son was texting his wife. He told her I had lost 2 pounds since she left after she was telling him that she ate all her points at yesterdays breakfast place that she use to go to.
She and her best friend Phyllis went there to eat breakfast...just like old times. 
Problem is: I hadn't even stepped foot on a scale.  sigh!
She text him back, " We need to get her out walking more. Just think how much weight she can lose by this Wednesday."
OMG!   My son has got me into some DEEP SHIT!   ;0) He best fess up, but somehow I think she knows him and his humor all too well.   I shit you not!
She made fourteen cents for her $190 at Foxwoods Casino in CT last night.
Her last text to him last night was, I hate Foxwoods and am going upstairs to bed.
Her DIL Diane had Comps for a room, so that was last nights entertainment. 
I know she enjoyed every minute of it.
   Tonight before we go to the airport to pick Deb up he is making me and himself what I use to make for him as a child.  Creamed salmon with carrots and peas over mashed potatoes.  It is a white sauce and I am sure it isn't low in POINTS.  No one is my son's family likes it. 
It's the same with creamed chipped beef.  He still loves it...his wife and kids don't. 
They don't know what they are missing. ( ONLY POINTS );0)
My hubby never liked anything with milk heated as an ingredient . Not even Clam Chowder.
This may be my last chance to eat this dish with someone....soooooo  I am throwing caution to the wind and going for THE GUSTO.
Will Pay The Piper Wednesday night.  I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Oh..... My aching feet

Walked my ass off at the Strawberry Festival yesterday.
My son parked a mile away to give some boy scout troop the parking fee. :0)
What a good doobie .........hurumphhhhhhhhhhh!
Before we drove the 70ish miles up I 75 to Plant City we visited with hubby.
Brought him a Pit BBQ pork sandwich from a vendor my son's friend Doug recommended.
Too spicy a rub on that meat. Even I agreed with hubby on that.
Pictures taken yesterday ........................

A mother and her calf. Wish I could bring you the aroma. ;0)

My son and grand daughter in the center

More younguns

Jay Taylor and his band. He sings COUNTRY gooooooooooood!

Son and grand daughter right of center

I don't know who this clown is with me ;0)

The three of us ate what the Strawberry Festival is famous for.....Strawberry Shortcake.  Yum Yum. but that's not what a scale will say :0( more like GROAN !

We got back home after 8 and my feet and ankles were swollen......so I hit the bed and didn't get up until this morning. I shit you not!

Today we picked hubby up at noon and took him to Venice where we planned on eating at A Bit Of Boston.

I ate there with my son a few years back and it was better than N.E.'s seafood restaurants that we have eaten in.  Ain't that somethin!

CLOSED Sundays and Mondays

Okay...lets try the Outback. 

We drive a few miles further.

CLOSED until 3

We a batting one hundred.  sigh!

Old Betty his GPS got us to the closest Sonnys BBQ place.

Hubby had his sliced pork on garlic bread, My son had All You Can Eat ribs and side dishes and I had the fried catfish and gulf shrimp with two sides....bbq beans and coleslaw..

I was FULL before I finished my meal, but did that stop me from eating what was on my plate??? Oh NO!

I'm not going to be happy to see what the scale reads this Wednesday. :0(

After we ate we drove to the beach and walked out on the pier.  Swimmers and sunbathers everywhere.

Lots of people fishing and walking the pier.

Darn it! What's this about having to buy more Picasso space???

Maybe tomorrow or in a few days I can post my beach pictures.  sigh!

We got hubby back at 4 ...just a few minutes before his CURFEW was up.

Yesterday he told me someone was trying to climb through his window during the night. When I asked him for a description he told me he was stocky and had long hair.

He rang his buzzer and whomever came to his room told him he was taking too many pills.

Now I'm not saying...but I could not figure out how to get the window open and it also had a screen. sigh!

While there is no way I can find out if it was true that he did not get a dessert last night, I will admit the FOOD there SUCKS BIG TIME and if you are a heavy person when you go in there, you will come out thinner.  Besides...there is hardly anything on the plate/tray. 

I know the economy is tough. Did Medicare cut food rations in these places????

If he had said he wanted to leave there today, I would have signed him out. That's how I feel about it even though he would be more work for me.  If he wouldn't benefit greatly from P.T. in the next five days.....I'd have asked him if he wanted OUT. 

Think he knows he needs that P.T. too and that's why he didn't ask to leave there.

On the way back to the house today my son's neighbor Tom's wife Pat sent him a text that Tom needed his help putting something up in the bathroom . 

He went next door...then Doug and his wife Sherry showed up here looking for him and they went next door too.  UT OH!   Yep...over at Tom's who makes the STIFF mixed drinks and don't imbibe since he had his open heart surgery last year. 

Told hubby I wouldn't be back tonight to see him. Glad I did now. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!