Misty Eyed

Sitting here with tears in my eyes and a few on my face.  I just read the comments to my first blog post....what would I do without family? I know for sure I don't want to find out!  Thanks you all so much!

Raspberry tea huh?  That and peach tea are 2 of my favorites.  I've been experimenting with different things to drink.  I think I've gotten myself hooked on iced coffee.  Lots of crushed ice, cup of coffee, 1/4 c milk and 2 sweetners...it's really quite good.  I have a friend that I worked with at the Indiana School for the Deaf many years ago.  She had this surgery 7 years ago.  Now this gal drank enough Pepsi to float a battleship...and she made it so I will too!  In fact she told me that when the craving got so bad she'd take a sip of Pepsi, swirl it around in her mouth and then spit it out-just the taste was enough.  I don't think I could do that, I'm not really a strong person..I'd swallow. 

Now there is one thing I can drink....milk.  Well, sort of, drink milk.  Skim?  Are you kidding me?  Skim?  Why not just get a glass of water and put a drop of white paint in it...would taste the same.  The nutritionist assured me it's very tasty.  I told her that I was raised on fresh milk from my Grandpa Literal's cows (Grandpa Street for the greatgrand kids) and that I'd force myself to go to 2% but I wasn't going any lower unless I could use the "skim" milk to make pudding.  She said that wasn't really very good for me even if I used sugar free pudding.  So I solved the problem...told her I wasn't going to drink milk I'd just eat Greek Yogurt and put fresh fruit in it.  That didn't go over well either but come on, I'm a farm girl at heart.  I know for certain if I drink skim milk my membership in the farmer's daughters club will be revoked!  No skim milk shall pass these lips!

Gonna have to learn an entire new way of cooking.  My farmwife Grandma Literal taught me to cook so you know what that means....lots of butter, bacon drippings and lard!  I'll have to "learn" to measure cause when Grandma teaches you to cook she teaches you to dump!  Why measure when you can eyeball it and it still comes out great! Goodness, just thinking about her food has made me hungry....anyone for fresh green beans cooked all day with bacon grease?  Now I'm drooling.

My husband is looking forward to a new thinner me.  I told him to get a second job cause I'll need new clothes and I'm not gonna buy a few.....maybe he needs to get 2 more jobs!  What I didn't tell him is that I loose weight in my boobs first and since they are not that big to begin with I'll probably be flat chested.  He'll just have to live with "them"! LOL!

December 2, 2012 my entire family - Tim, Katie, Mitch and Robbie, Emily and Gary and Sophie and I are going to do something not a single one of us has done before-run a 5K marathon!  The Emily, Gary and Sophie are running the "Color Run" in Charlotte, NC in November.  When I told them I was going to do the one in Tampa they all talked and decided they were all coming to "run" with me.  I'll tell you more about that in a later post.

Once again, thank you all...oh, and when you post put your name in the post so I know who is posting.  You don't have to join Blogger or Google just put your name at the end of your post.  Thanks!  I love you all!