It Starting to look like Full House

 

Yesterday, I picked the “kids” from the airport. WWE and her must-not-give-his-name boyfriend arrived in the morning and my baby daughter arrived in the evening.

The airport is about an hour drive from home so I spend a great deal of time on the road.

Last week was all about cleaning the cave and hunting for something to stuff all those new mouth. It is an expensive undertaking, please feel free to send me any scrap of food you might want to get rid of... there is no end to what those guess eat in a single serving.

They didn't spend too much time visiting the house, they just went underneath the tree to see if anything was there with there name on.

They should have been disappointed as, except for myself, no one has been good this year. But somewhere it is written that parent has to love their kids... unconditionally... so there is things with their name under the tree. To keep secrecy, I'll refrain to say anything else about the “things”.

They are going to be in Florida for 7 days, so if I survived you will only hear from me after they are gone.

Meanwhile, have a great Christmas!

 

Bad News Weekend

This weekend I had some bad news. So today it will be only about that.

One of my best friend, this summer, had blood in his urine. He got that checked out and they found out he had a tumor in his bladder.

Like me, he has a home in Florida. He delayed his departure for after his surgery.

At the end of October he got the tumor removed. The tumor was send to be analyze to see if it was cancerous or not.

The result was catastrophic, he has a very aggressive cancer. He was send to get biopsy. More bad news, they found out that he has affected nodes. Furthermore, the cancer has metastases (travel). He is a stage 4.

Saturday I skyped with him. He has started Chemo treatments. The doctors told him that his chance of survival are really slim and that if he respond well to the treatments, they will remove completely his bladder.

It's really heart braking to learn that he has put his home for sale in Florida, update his will and arrange his funeral.

He faces his challenges with his head high. I think that if there is one person that can beat this, that's him. He is relatively young (65) in great shape (he could beat the crap of me at pickleball).

He is the kind of person that if he is out walking and see someone working he would go back and get his tools to help out. From now on, he might be needing helps but he is a really proud person and it is difficult for him to accept a helping hand.

Health is not always about a number on a scale, sometime health is living within our capacity!

New and Inprove Breakfast

In February when I started my run for health, I was about 50 pounds fattier.

My breakfast was always a cup of each: Yogourt, fruits and cereal (cherrios not the sugar lace one but the one that has that delicious carton taste). It was keeping me satisfied all morning.

I found it is just not enough anymore, I feel like I run out of energy just too quickly. So for a while now I have modified my breakfast of champs and removed the cereal and instead eat a toast with PB. This seems to satisfied my demanding body.

It is strange to me being lighter I should need less food not more to do the same tasks. Maybe the answer is that I have more muscles and they required a lot more energy!

Now it's time for me to praise Anonymous (WWE) again as her prize for guessing right my question about my new ninja friend. “Bravo WWE!”

Report card for Dec 11th

Bread – 1 Slice + 1 hamburger buns

Water – 1 + bottle

Wine – None

Sugar – Maple sirup

Fried – Half of a small size

Unhealthy Snacks – Crakers and Cheeze

Walk – over 10 K Steps

Final Score: C

The Martian

I will not give any spoilers, you can read on.

Yesterday I went to the theater to see “The Martian”. It has been out for months and should be out in DVD pretty soon (maybe it's already even out now). The theater feature movies that are not recent but at four bucks, you can't go wrong.

The Martian was great, I read the book and love it and I was expecting the movie to be so so. But I was wrong, it is a movie that when it will be on Netflix, I would surely enjoy watching again.

This is not a science fiction movie with aliens, I would rather categorized it has a very possible fiction. The technology is real.

Now it's time for me to praise Anonymous again as her prize for guessing right my question about my new ninja friend. 

"Kuddos to WWE!"

Yesterday in praising her, I missed very important facts...

Anonymous was not a male but a female and what is even worse; I missed she was my very own daughter WWE. But it's all her fault... for one thing, she didn't signed her comment and she stealthy came to my post without leaving a print in my tool to see from where came the visit (Live traffic feed display on the right side).

Report card for Dec 10th

Bread – 1 Slice

Water – 1 + bottle

Wine – None

Sugar – None

Fried – None

Unhealthy Snacks – None

Walk – over 11 K Steps

Final Score: A

Answer

Yesterday I thought I was so cleaver. I didn't expect to have to give out my prize but the first and only guess was right!

The answer for yesterday's question is: Raphael. He is one mean Ninja that I adopted. So far he has been so useful:

He crushed ice and made delicious smoothies;

He made ice cream from frozen fruits (just healthy stuff);

And making dough for a chicken pie was as easy as feeding Raphael all the ingredients and pushing his dough's button;

From personal experience, beware of his blades when washing them, it is “cutting” technology!

So Anonymous found the answer, I can't tell much about him so I'll do my best to guess but it might (will) be mostly from my imagination.

I think he is a male. He doesn't waste time with a lot of words but when he talks he has the true on his side. He is like me an introvert. He owned a food processor, this is why he guessed it right away. Thanks Anonymous to have play :-)

To all the others (2 persons) reading my blog nah nah nah LOL 

 

 

There is only one true Ninja in this picture

Report card for Dec 9th

Bread – 2 Slices and 1 biscuit

Water – 1 + bottle

Wine – 2 glasses

Sugar – None

Fried – None

Unhealthy Snacks – Almond (just ate too many... next time DO NOT keep the jar open beside me!)

Walk – over 11 K Steps and 2 hours of Pickle ball

Final Score: B

Question

 

If no one guess, I'll give the answer tomorrow. If you guess right, I'll write your name and praise you in my posts for a whole week. ONLY the first one to guess right will be feature in my posts.

Guess who:

- If I touch him correctly, has a pulse

- He is not too social but he can blend in once in a while

- People say that he is not a 50 watts but I thinks he is a lot more than that

- He is very skill with blades

- He is sensible but he can crush even the hardest one without a second thought

Any guess?

 

Report card for Dec 8th

Bread – 2 Slices and 2 biscuits

Water – 1 + bottle

Wine – None

Sugar – None

Fried – None

Unhealthy Snacks – Popcorn

Walk – over 12 K Steps

Final Score: B -

A Little Game

This is a game for Ivy but every one can play. How many difference can you spot between both shots?

 

Report card for Dec 7th

Bread – 1 Slice

Water – 1 bottle

Wine – None

Sugar – None

Fried – None

Unhealthy Snacks – None

Walk – over 10 K Steps

Final Score: A