You Chicken (low carb suppers)

This weekend was a chicken weekend! Sometimes I have those weekends. I figure that I must be craving it so I eat it.

Friday evening we went out for supper and I ordered a boasted chicken dinner with salad bar. Saturday I stopped by the grocery store and bought a rotisserie chicken, green beans, baby bell white cheddar cheese and an avocado.

The boasted chicken probably had more carbs than what I should have. It looked like it was lightly floured. Different from KFC that seems to have a heavier breading.  Some day I will need to ask.

Puppy bed

When Misty Blue was a puppy, we bought her a cute puppy bed. She has long since outgrown the bed. About a month ago she started carrying around the bed. I thought, "cute like a toddler with its baby blanket. "

This past week Misty Blue has decided to play tug - of - war with her baby bed. She ripped it and chewed it and tossed it at us and at Duchess. There began the tug-of-war. 

She has a new bed. But in full puppy mode, everything is up for destruction!

Old Puppy Bed Vs. New Dog Bed

Keep to the right

We have been trained from the time we were young; keep to the right. We drive on the right side of the road in the USA.  In the halls at school we also walked to the right.

Today I stopped short of this entrance to the store.  It was backwards.  Enter to the left? Who's playing with my mind? A better question might be "who designed this mixed up mess?"

As I watched, a few people did some side stepping as they entered.   It was obvious that this was affecting more than just me.

Enter to the Left? Keep to the Right?

Has anyone seen my remote?

Don't you hate it when you set down something like a remote and can't figure out where you set it? A couple of weeks ago, my nephew stayed overnight at my house. We watched DVDs together. I haven't used my remote since then.

So when I went to use it one evening this week I could not find it. I looked high and low and still could not find it. I went through every drawer in my desk, every drawer in the DVD cupboard. I went through boxes, under boxes, and over boxes but that remote was nowhere to be found. I flipped over the couch and dug under the seats, it was nowhere to be found. I even looked in the refrigerator just in case it would show up someplace really, really weird. It was nowhere to be found.

Then when making lunch, I thought to myself "You know I was sitting at my desk when I was using the remote the last time with Isaac here. It has to be in a drawer." So I went back to my desk and started unloading everything from the drawers. Sure enough! There it was. It had fallen behind the stack of books.  I had moved the books but I didn't pull them out before. hmmmm The good thing is I found the remote. It drove me crazy for nearly a week but I found the remote.

Celebrating Onederland

Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wild?!  My day started that way. I stepped on the scale to get nothing.  I changed the batteries and there still was nothing. Then I went to take my blood sugar levels and the monitor started processing and went dead. I restarted it and tried again. I started my work computer and a program that automatically starts refused to start. I was a little afraid to answer the phone when it rang.

New Scale to Left; Old Scale to Right

Dale brought his new scale over and when I stepped on it, I showed down 11 pounds.  I had mixed feelings.  When you are losing weight you set celebration goals.  My celebration goal was to get under 200 pounds,  referred to as "Onederland". I blew that goal away...maybe. 

The questions going through my head include:

• Have I been losing weight regularly and my scale not showing it?
• Was my scale that far off?
• Is Dale's new scale that far off?
• What do I really weigh?

Doesn't matter! I am celebrating! I had a T- Bone for supper.  It was delicious!

Happy 25th birthday to the world wide Web! Without it's inception, we would not be communicating now!

Follow up on decisions, decisions

So much has happened in the past 5 days! It actually started 9 days ago when I stopped by a lumber yard to price a garage.  I really WANT a garage instead of my temporary carport.  I NEED to fence in the yard because the girls (Duchess and Misty, our Dobermans) need a place to run unsupervised and I need a way to control them out to the car.


I was struggling with the fact that if I put up a fence this year and in 2-3 years put up a garage, then I would end up taking down part of the new fence.  I've paid off the main part of my home. (Considering I purchased my home as a repo for $24,900 that doesn't mean that I have a huge amount of equity.)


I talked to several people and found out that adding a garage only adds $5-8,000 to the value of a home.  So paying interest on it just doesn't make sense.  I am a firm believer that you should do everything possible not to pay interest on anything that depreciates.


My car is financed at zero percent. My credit cards are paid in full at the end of every month.  The only loan that I have at this point is for my original home improvement loan and that is very low interest.  Even though I want a garage, I think I am going to resist taking out a loan for it at this point.


Two other wants on my list are as follows:
Publish my third book in the series
Go on an Alaskan Cruise


I have saved the money to do one of the two and as I said a few days ago that I decided to go on the Alaskan Cruise.  I found out today that Dad and his wife are in the cabin next to us.  I believe that God Blesses us through little miracles on a daily basis.  Who knows, the book maybe published yet this year.  It is in God's hands!  :^)

YES! A touch of warm weather!

There is hope that Spring will come back to Minnesota.  Water was dripping all over today.  Puddles of water were growing. They said that we will have one more day of this and then it is dropping cold again but at least not below zero.


I love springtime!  To see the green come back into the gardens eventually bringing forth flowers.  I can't wait.  Spring is the season of Hope except when it comes to the clocks.  Yes, we "sprung" ahead last night.  I lost an hour of sleep.  I always feel so exhausted when we lose the hour in the springtime.  I think today it has taken the creative side of my brain along with the missing hour.


Have a fabulous week!