Weight Loss

Hockey with an 11 year old – I recommend it to everyone.  I got invited to an Iowa Wild game by Bridget and Bryan Gilbert who hold season tickets and I said yes.  Steven, by 11 year old great nephew, thought that might be the best thing ever – so we went. Turns out, he…

Yesterday involved looking for shoes.  You may remember my turmoil a couple of weeks ago.  I was under the impression I have rather large and wide feet.  I can’t just walk into any shoe store and find shoes easily.  I expressed dismay about finding shoes and one of my readers, also a local, Marlene, reached…

It’s winter.  You may have heard me talk about my dislike for cold weather.  I’m not a fan.  When I was a kid, I was good with it.  I had the right clothes, I enjoyed playing outside with my brothers and my imagination was ripe for all the fun we had.  I also didn’t have…

I walked by behind off this weekend.  It was our Christmas weekend with the four great nieces and nephews. We went to Mall of America – not to shop, but to play.  Maze of Mirrors, Children’s Museum, Sea Life and Legoland were on the hit list.  There are 563 stores and those 4 places we…

Another quick week – with half of it spent on my feet. That means I walked at least 5000 steps each day – because I wasn’t always sitting at my desk.  Three days this week were spent at Leadership Iowa in Des Moines with the focus on State Government.  We traversed the State Capitol, the…

It’s winter.  It’s cold.  Damn cold here.  When it gets this cold, I go to work and I go home.  When I get home, I find something to eat.  Because I’ m bored.  Or I’m alone.  Or I don’t have anything to do  It is seldom because I’m hungry. At least that’s my old pattern.…

It’s a new year.  Typically it is a time we talk about making resolutions and making promises to ourselves and sharing them with the world. This year I will … I promise to … I really want … I read an article this morning where the author talked about what are we willing to suffer…

I thought the holidays would be a disaster.   Oh I had some no bake chocolate cookies and some orange cookies, enjoyed some Pecan Piehole Whiskey, and had three mini lemon biscuits.  Those were the treats I had decided ahead of time I was going to eat over the three days of celebration.  I didn’t…

We have all done it.  Circled the waters like a shark.  We’re bored.  Nothing good is on tv.  There’s no good book to read in the house.  Same ol’ crap on Facebook.  Let me to to the kitchen and see what snack I can get. I go look in the fridge.  I go look in…

Friday night we left Webster City and spent the weekend in Jackson, MN.  There’s about 4,000 people that live there and it’s a lovely little town located along a river with a small downtown.  We were invited by a coworker of Keri’s who was singing in the Grand Ol Opry Style Christmas Special on Saturday.…