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How did I start out the first day of 2016?  Having a breakfast I wanted – scrambled egg, leftover French fry hash browns, candied bacon, toast and an orange. And guess what?  It was delicious.  (photo credit goes to Hannah!) I figure that’s one meal out of the 1,095 potential meals I’ll have in 2016, so why not?  And because I was lazy and slept...

A bit of a delay in getting my post up, because I had to leave the house at 6:55 a.m. to make it to my doctors appointment for the clinical trial I am doing through my doctors research part of their business.  Traffic wasn’t too bad, and I got there at 7:50.  They finally called me in at 8:15.  They did three tests of my...

As we get closer to the new year, I know a lot of us are thinking ahead to getting healthier in 2016.  I have some ideas of what I want to do.  And while I am going to be keeping track of my calories, I don’t want to consider this another diet.  I’ve had this blog for nearly 7 1/2 years and while I’ve had...

It’s funny how as you go day after day you sometimes feel as if your life doesn’t change at all.  But pictures remind you of how things used to be.  Two years ago Christmas Eve Tony and I were in the hospital waiting for test results. I miss holding that hand by the way.  Still makes me a bit teary to see that hand and...

Why is it that the last day before work before having a four day weekend makes it seem to last three days long?  While we never get let go early before a holiday, we sometimes will it to happen.  Around 3:00 p.m. we thought “could this be the year it happens?”  That answer would be no.  Well, the big boss left at 4:45 and pretty...

Thanks for all the comments, emails, texts, instant messages on Facebook and comments on Instagram (am I on social media much?!) regarding yesterday’s post.  I thought back to our wedding day, and other anniversaries and while he’s not here, it is still my anniversary, so I decided that Hannah and I would treat yo self to winter pedicures last night.  We don’t normally do pedicures...

Fifteen years ago I married my best friend.   We’d only known each other six months, but by then we’d already been living together for five months.  We just knew.  I am sure everyone around us wondered what the hell we were doing.  We didn’t care.  We were happy. I’d only met Tony’s parents once before we got married because they had already retired to Florida. ...

I had such a fun weekend.  I volunteered to watch my friend Alison and Cameron’s kids for 24 hours over the weekend.  Big G is 7 and Baby G is 3.  I knew it would be fun, but I forgot how much you have to pay attention to kids this little!  I picked them up at 10:30 on Saturday and dropped them off at 10:00...

My daughter in law loves snowmen as much as I do.  Every morning for about the last 10 days I’ve texted her pics of me drinking my morning coffee at work drinking out of a snowman mug.  It’s killing her that I have so many.  Seriously, I think I could go the whole month drinking out of a difference snowman mug every day. She texted...

This is going to be a super quick post.  Hannah, Jacob and I went out to dinner last night, and this morning I have the second of six doctors appointments to see if I am a candidate for a year long diabetes clinical trial.  Thank goodness I can type fast! With temps in the mid-40s when I woke up I knew I couldn’t hit the...