Happy New Year’s Eve! Whether you have wonderful plans for a big party, a ball drop, fireworks, or will have a quiet celebration at home like us, I wish you a happy day of anticipation of a bright new year. The end of a year should bring shedding of old ‘baggage,’ a lightening of your load, a filling of your spirit. Enjoy remembering the good things about 2024 today, then wish it well and welcome 2025.
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Accountability – If you’ve been reading my blog, you know I’m trying to lose my lard and get stronger and more flexible. I promised to report to you – as a way of trying to keep my goal active and hopefully reachable one day. As of today, I have lost 46 pounds and there are 48 fewer inches of me. I’m yo-yo-ing around in a 3-pound range these past few days, but I’m inching toward my interim goal and hope to meet it soon. The scales still smirk at me most days, but I will win.
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I told you my nice husband got us two rectangular stainless steel containers with glass lids recently. I always try to cook for more than one meal and we store the leftovers in individual portion containers in the freezer. These are large enough to hold TWO portions of the leftovers, so when I cooked recently, I put double portions into the two containers, snapped on the lids, and put them in the freezer. Yesterday I took one out and put it in the regular fridge. Last night I took the lid off, put the container in the microwave with a paper towel over it, closed the door, and held my breath. The food heated up just fine. No explosions or damage to the container or the microwave! I did use my hot pads to remove the container from the microwave. Last night the lid and the container went into the dishwasher. Sparkling clean and ready to use this morning! This is a really nice thing – to be able to use it so it saves us effort and time. I really didn’t believe what they advertised could be true, but I was wrong.
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This is my latest wood burned and hand-painted piece from the art room. I’m delighted to tell you he has been adopted! He will be mailed to his new home today. I couldn’t be happier. It was joyful to make him, and he will live on their front porch, hopefully bring good luck to his new owners for many many years. :0)
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We are running errands on this, the last day of 2024. When we get home, I’ll write more posts for the blog and may even get up to my art room this afternoon.
I wish you a happy day, full of fun, family, and celebration!
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Of course I love this, Linda! I wonder what our granddaughters will want to name ‘Froggy’? Haha! I’ll share this to my blog and I will do a follow up post after he arrives and I hang him next to our door for good luck in the New Year! Woo-hoo!! Exciting!
Happy New Year!
And bravo on the weight loss!
My husband wanted to watch Forks over Knives last night and after we finished the documentary/movie he announced he wanted to go vegetarian! (We did raw vegan for a year, many years ago, so he knows the health benefits. But we quit that lifestyle because we missed the smell of cooked foods!)
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Wow. Big changes in your household with going vegetarian. You know I wish you the very best. The main thing is to try to get and stay as healthy as we can. Whatever way we get there is wonderful. Thanks for your encouraging words. Definitely please tell me what you name ‘froggy.’ Thanks for the post on your blog in advance. :0) I wish you the happiest of New Year’s, Sheila. Froggy is on his way!
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Yippee, yes, Linda, we shall keep doing our best to lose weight and get healthier. No more Wendy’s for us! Ha!
I’ll be sure to let you know what we name him. I’m sooo impressed with your handiwork!
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I could NOT be more delighted that you like him, Sheila. Thanks so much for your kind words. I can’t tell you how much they mean to me. Crunch a veggie for me.
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Haha! Will do that, Linda. Thankfully, I still have plenty of cookbooks to break out and experiment with. I will be COOKING the food though now, no more raw vegan.
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Lots and lots of COOKED veggies. I hear you. Plus, you can eat pasta! And Rice!
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Yes, indeed! We just had veggie pad thai tonight with veggie spring rolls
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Sounds yummy. I’m baking a Sausage, Egg & Cheese Breakfast Bake (keto) here. Ready in 10 minutes. Good for us!
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We did try keto a few years ago. I probably never got ratios right though.
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I try to watch those, but then cut my calories, too, because I’m old and stubborn, and that seems to be doing it – finally.
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Thank you!
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