Today I have an appointment with the dentist that put my implants (I already told you teeth, not titties!) in to see how the bone is growing and the progress to date.  I think I am about halfway through the waiting period now.  I'll be glad when it's all over but it really was not bad.

The duck was still sick yesterday so we didn't go.  I went to the pool instead.  It wasn't really warm enough to go, only 78°but I went anyway and did 45 minutes of exercise.

So Paul is back from his cruise and we have to decide if he has to send me cookies or not.  What does everyone think?  I mean he wasn't technically there to comment but still, a threat promise is a promise, right?  Y'all weigh in on this one.  He'll be reading so tell him what you think.

I finished the book Divergent and started the next one in the series.  It's odd but I like it so I'll keep reading.

And that, my friends, is all I have in my brain today.  Hope your Monday is totally tits.  Mine will be.  For sure!

Today, being Sunday, is my day with the duck as you know but he has had a bad cold this week so I am waiting to hear from him to see if we are going or not.  I don't want to be around him if he is still sick.  So I may just be at the pool instead but if we do go I'll be at the pool afterward.

I still haven't remembered to watch any of the olympics.  It's not that I am boycotting it or anything, I'm just not interested in it.  Sarge used to watch it so I'd watch with him sometimes and I am very proud of the athletes efforts but sports is just not my thing.

It's like watching golf.  I mean golf in real life is totally boring but watching it?  Just pick up the ball, put it in your pocket, and go to the clubhouse and have some fun!  It used to be good exercise, you know, hit the ball, walk, hit the ball, walk, hit the ball, walk.... now it's just hit the ball, ride in the cart, hit the ball, ride in the cart, hit the ball, ride in the cart.  And it is expensive!

Paul and Marylou get back from their cruise today.  That week went by fast.  Well, they all go by fast but on a cruise they are especially fast I think.  I have missed his comments.  Hey, since he wasn't there for mandatory comment day does he have to send me cookies? Ha.

So have a lovely Sunday y'all.  I shall too.  For sure.

Well this is me after ten weeks, twenty sessions with Andre'.  I honestly cannot see much difference other than my butt was whipped when he took this and I look older, much older! Ha.  Anyway I am committed to ten more sessions, five more weeks and that may be it.  I know I could do this myself now but would I?  I honestly don't know.  It's something about "well it's paid for so I have to go" mentality, huh?  Just can't get rid of that belly, can I?  Sigh...

Then I went in the pool and it was warm and delightful.  I read a while out there too.  It was a great day followed by a great evening.  I got to see Sandy and Dick last night!  So sweet.  They may be cruising with me in March too.  Hope so.

I haven't received any cookies yet but it may be too soon.  If you owe me cookies and don't have my address my email is on the sidebar.  Right over there <---.  You think I'm kidding right?  Nope.  Get crackin' you non commenters.  A deal is a deal!

Have a great Saturday y'all.  I'll be in the card room instead of the pool but somebody has to do it.

Oh my GOSH I loved all the lovely comments yesterday.  Were there some that didn't listen?  Yep.  I am expecting about thirty boxes of cookies in the mail.  I'll show you when they get here.  You know who you are.  And so do I.  Ha!

Also I went back and commented to each of you on the post from yesterday so you can go back and read them if you want.  Thanks again.  I don't have mandatory comment days too often but it sure is fun when I do.

So I had lots of excitement yesterday.  The power kept flickering in the morning and the cable kept going out and the Internet too so that meant the phone was out.  There were five fire engines and three emergency vehicles as well as police cars at the club next door.  It turns out it was a false fire alarm, a mistake but it played havoc with everything.  You see the water in a high rise works on power and when it goes out there is no water.  Or phone.  Or TV. Or Internet. Or lights of course.  But we do have an emergency generator for one elevator.

Finally about 10:30 it stabilized and I was able to get a shower.  But then I went to the club for lunch and the air conditioner was out.  Then in the card rooms it came on but didn't work very well.  It was so hot and still in there we stopped playing early and I came home and got back in the shower again.  Whew.

I never did figure out what caused it all but I think the power problem may have set off the fire alarm.  Not sure.

Today I am hoping the air is on there because I have my Friday session with Andre' but if there is no air I am canceling and doing the time in the pool instead.  If it is on I am doing both though.  And it is the 20th session so it's photo day again.  I have decided to pay for 10 more, I really like it and if it's paid for it makes me go!  Andre' is very funny too.  Last time I whined and he told me to shut up and keep going.  Everyone in the gym laughed.  And I kept going too.

So that's it from paradise for today.  Thanks again for yesterday and it's really okay to do it again today but you don't have to.  Have a great Friday.  I will too...

Okay I haven't done this in a very long time but here we go...  If you are reading this you have to leave a comment today.  It's mandatory comment day here on this blog.  If it is anonymous please leave at least a first name.  K?  

And I can see you so if you don't do it I might just have another cookie contest so what would you rather do, comment or mail me cookies?  Just think about that one and write me a comment.  Thank you!  And to my peeps that always do, smooch!

I heard on the news that 64% of the country is covered in snow or ice.  Yikes.  The most in over a decade.  It's still in the 80's here and I am a happy girl about that even though today I will be in the card room instead of at the pool.

One day soon we are going to have a cookout by the pool, not many people, just the ones that I swim with, I suggested that we do it and each bring food and they said they would.  We haven't set a date yet but it sounds like fun to me.

Well I won't keep you reading any longer so you won't be too tired to comment.  You will comment, right?  Right.  Thanks...

Gosh I did so many sit ups yesterday and push ups and all kinds of stuff.  Andre' said to pull up on this thingy and I didn't need to, I could do it by myself, thirty times.  He said he didn't know I was that strong.  Soooo, he stepped it up some more.  Then I went to the bank, got the car washed, and went to the pool.  And then I couldn't move my arms! Ha ha.  I guess I deserved that.  They feel better now though, I worked them in the pool and that sort of loosened them up.

Last night I lost $28.00 at poker but after the fiasco last week that was like a win.

If you have a MAC did you upgrade the operating system yet.  I did, it took a while but it's done successfully.  The new one is free too.  It's called Maverick.  Now I have to see what it's about.

And that was my whole day yesterday.  How was yours?  

I am trying to decide when to get my hair done.  The cruise is in about six weeks so if I get it done soon then I can get it done again right before I leave.  

That's everything that is in my brain.  Every little thing.  Have a great Prince Spaghetti Day y'all.  I will too.  For sure.

Oh yeah, that was lovely.  This is not a new photo but it sure is where I was yesterday.  The water was back up to 80°and the temperature of the air was 86°and that, my friends, is what I live for daily.  It felt amazing to do my hour of water jogging and then stretch and then shower and get in my jammies.  What a great day I had.  I hope yours was as nice as mine.

Today I have some errands and then plan on being back there again.  Well after I have a visit with Andre' for about 45 minutes or so.

Tonight is poker too.  I sure hope I do better than I did last week.  

Just typing all that for tomorrow I feel like I need a nap or something.  

Did you know there is HBO to go?  I didn't.  Well I knew you could watch it on the computer or iPad but it's different than the HBO on the tv.  There is more stuff.  Interesting.

Guess that's all I know today.  Sorry to be so dumb, must up the fish oil!  Have a great Tuesday.  I will too.

Guess what?  I got invited to a Super Bowl party and I went.  I actually watched some of it too.  Didn't like it, saw part of halftime, and excused myself (with thanks) and went home.  I dislike sports.  I don't want to, I just do.  I actually wish I liked them.

Anyway while I was there, remember I told you my friend was a SAG member and got all the movies sent to him?  Well this time I brought home three more, Captain Phillips, Blue Jasmine, and Dallas Buyers Club.  I'll watch them soon.  

Today I have fasting bloodwork and then I am free.  It's in the 80's and sunny so you know where I'll be for sure.  I am reading an interesting book too so I'll take that down with me.  What I am reading is "Divergent".

I have about given up on Downton Abbey this season, it just is not interesting me.  Am I the only one?

And that, my friends, it about it from paradise today.  Hope your Monday is totally tits.  Mine will be for sure!  Well all except for that needle in the morning...

Sunday means you-know-what... lunch with the duck and grocery shopping.  He calls it "our time" and that makes me so happy when he says things like that.  Sarge would be so proud of him.

I won pretty big at canasta yesterday, twelve bucks.  I need to make up my Tuesday night poker fiasco.  It's a start.  

I read on Facebook yesterday someone asking if anyone ever talked to their pets and pretended to get an answer.  I talk to Roche' all the time and I get answers.  I don't even have to pretend.  Maybe I took too much fish oil.  Or I have rocks in my head.  Or something.

Shoot I even talk to my car.  Well it's Sarge's car and I guess I'll always think of it as that but still.  And I always talk to other drivers even though they can't hear me.  Usually they can't anyway.  But if they could hear me they'd probably thank me for letting them know when they are being total a$$es and stuff.  I mean they need to know, right?  I am pretty sure they'd thank me too.

Fusha.  Is that a real color?  Or better yet - puce?

I have so many friends on cruises right now.  I sure wish I was.  Six more weeks.  I'd better step up the card games so I can afford to go.  At the rate I'm going with that I'd be cruising the tenth of never, ha!

So have a perfectly lovely Sunday y'all.  I will too, for sure!

Gosh it was beautiful yesterday, it did rain here and there a bit but the sun was out and the day was fabulous.

Andre' said next week it's time to take another progress photo.  It will be ten weeks, twenty sessions.  With one cruise in the middle.  

I can tell you one thing though, I get hungrier and I am eating more.  I know I am burning the calories and I am eating pretty healthy but at night I have been having a bowl of cereal at bedtime.  When I don't I can't sleep, I am just hungry.  So..... I decided to listen to what my body is saying and eat something, just try to keep eating healthy and go forward.  I am strong now though, really strong.

Well January is behind us so spring is closer!  When I lived further north (Maryland) I hated February but in Florida, well, not so much.  It's pretty nice actually.  I always went into a depression in February and didn't know about antidepressants or stuff like that and one year I even got suicidal.  We didn't know about lack of sunlight and how that can affect moods.  

Gosh I have lived in South Florida since 1981, 33 years!  Where did that go?  I have never been sorry I live here either.  It was not right for D#1 but for me?  It is.

Today is the day Paul and Marylou go on the Breeze.  I know they are going to have a great time.  We have cruised with them twice and they are great people.  For Canadians.  (kidding!!)  

Have a perfectly lovely Saturday y'all.  It's beautiful here but I'll be in the card room having a nice time there.