Last Saturday before Christmas

[Claudette]

Hi, y'all,

Was so busy yesterday after work buying food (on PP) for Christmas dinner with family at my house. Everything I am making is on PP, my BIL and FIL are diabetic, so it will work well with their needs as well as mine.

I am doing last minute cleaning, wrapping, etc. to get ready for Tuesday.

It is in the 50's here, but is clouding up and is suppose to be colder by Tuesday.

Well, got to run to get it all done.

I am so excited as I got on the scale today. Still the same, but I am lighter and feel better this Christmas than last. I hope by next year, I will have been at goal for several months.

Have a great weekend, all.

Claudette

[Karole]

Sounds like things are going great for you Claudette !! Good for you.

[Anette]

Hello to all,
just checking in here real quick. I am ready for christmas and I am going to spoil myself with a spa visit today. I made fudge today for my friends and neighbours and I was fine. I am not much of a fudge person. Tomorrow we will be goind to a german christmas mass, first time since I moved to the USA. Well I am off to move some furniture. Blessed Holidays to all and eat your protein and veggies.:D:p

[gitfiddle]

Anette, I hope you moved the furniture before you went to the spa!

I wouldn't mind a massage myself! I moved a very large basket of magazines today while putting up the tree and now I have sciatica. So far I haven't been able to stretch it out. :( My house looks much more like Christmas now, though! :)

[Karole]

I have got to get to the basement today and dig our Christmas decorations out. Just haven't seemed to get around to it til now. (Been to busy wrapping gifts !!) But at least I am done except for the 2 next to youngest in our family. Both boys and I have no idea what to get for them.

We plan to go to an afternoon movie and then to a nice steak house for dinner with some friends, so I will be able to look around again today. Hope I see something spiffy, as it is to close to Christmas to come home empty handed again. They have everything and that's my problem.

Eating out will be no problem as I just sub cottage cheese for the potato and have a huge steak and salad. Yum, can't wait.

Hope the "crunch" just before the holidays is going well for everyone. Take care .

[gitfiddle]

My plan is to have enough on-plan food in the house to satisfy any munchy mood I might fall into. I made a big pot of sauerkraut and sausage to warm up. I bought some sliced roast beef and sliced swiss cheese, which can be rolled together to make a wrap.

I wanted something different in my coffee this morning so I broke up one square of 70% chocolate into the bottom of the cup and added cream. It was really good and cozy as I watched the storm outside. It came to about 5 ecc.

I just made one last trip to Walmart since I am finally out of gift wrap after ten years. Plus, it served as my walk today. Christmas can come now--I'm ready! :D

[Fabian]

Hi guys! wow, you are all so organised! I still have a huge list of stuff to do and instead I have been on here and also trying a cocktail recipe that I got off this board. So not much happening here! I have been up the farm sorting out everything for christmas and getting my meat 'done' if you know what I mean. Freezing up there (farm is at the top of a welsh mountain!) and now I am knackered. Meanwhile, helpful husband sat on sofa watching football and swearing at the referee while I muck out pigs and lug water up the mountain!:exclamation: Got a nice big fat goose for Xmas dinner though! Its worth the work and the messy bits. Keeps me fit too.

I was then asked to do some shopping for my father in law (still no present for mother in law!) so I have to do that tomorrow aswell! Nightmare! The shops are crazy here already and tomorrow will be way worse, so now I am very grumpy!!:mad:

Anyway, must go and clean all of my floors and take dog for walk!

[hawk]

OK What's knackered? Reading your post Fabian reminds me of watching
Babe...a movie about a pig who learns to herd sheep , with ducks and cows in it. Got any other animals??

I have made three handbags so far and am on a fourth. They are turning out WAY better that I thought they would. It all depends on what fabric you use and what trims. The patterns I bought have weird purses pictured on them but I like the shapes and the pockets and the ideas. Changing the fabrics to heavy apholstry fabrics and coordinating other fabrics with then and using piping and cool embellishments is fun. Who know's if they will like them. I may hang them all up and let them pick one. I like them. If they don't I'll use them or put them on ebay.

I am coming down with a cold again. I cannot believe it. I just got over one. It's the dang antibiotics it took . I am shoving probiotics down but apparently not fast enough. I am starting to feel achy and stuffed up. crap.

[LisaS]

knackered = very tired

[gitfiddle]

Fabian, it makes me feel tired just to read of all you're doing! :eek:

Lynn, I SO hope you can outrun the cold! Your poor immune system has been through the mill, hasn't it? Your purses sound great!

I got pictures of last week's party loaded into the digital picture frame I am giving my mother tomorrow. It has quirks, but if she accidentally hits the wrong button all she has to do is turn it off and back on again.

Hi, Lisa!

I have a sink full of dishes that's calling me but it doesn't sound so bad since I've read Fabian's chore list! I wouldn't want to go outside to care for the animals tonight. We're having wind gusts with snow up to 65 mph. There were 130,000 people without power in West Michigan and the power companies have got it down to 50,000. It's not just lines down, it's power poles breaking and having to be replaced. I was looking out the window and happened to see a huge oak branch sail down very close to the house. :paranoid:

Have a great night, everyone.

[Rhyme'n Reason]

Just a quick check-in to see what everybody's up to--plenty, as usual, it seems.

I've been running the last two days finishing up shopping and so forth, so I haven't been online much.

Lynn, your handbags sound awesome. I love fabric bags--keep looking at Vera Bradley but I can't find just the right combination of size and pockets. I need something that's somewhere between a handbag and a tote bag to get me through my long days away from home.

Carol--I'll have to try your chocolate and coffee. It sounds yummy.

Tomorrow I'm cooking for our family Christmas Eve. It's a small group this year because some of the kids can't get here until later in the week. I'm making two varieties of the cheese potatoes--one with cheese and one with cauliflower. I'm also doing my sausage/cabbage stuffing for me and traditional stuffing for my husband. If I have time, I'll make a pumpkin cheesecake. My brother is taking care of the turkey and ham.

Merry Christmas to all if I don't get back online tomorrow.