Happy Hour Chatter

The grocery store by my mother-in-law's house (1 block) closed it's doors yesterday for three months.  It was purchased by another company who is doing a remodel project.  Normally that would be a good thing.  However, that grocery store was the source of my mother-in-law's exercise and socialization.  She would walk to the grocery store no less than twice a day for exercise, to pick up groceries (maybe one or two items) then go home.  Sometimes she would go to the deli and buy a meal to eat at home and quite often she would sit on the benches and visit with people. She's 91 years of age and a pure spitfire.  So she's not taking this "desertion" of her grocery store very well at all.   In her words, "it's the pits!" lol So, herein begins the process of what to do for her 1) exercise, 2) groceries 3) food.  Oh lordy me, what a process this is going to be! 1) Exercise I explained to Ella that just because the grocery store was clo...

A couple of weeks ago I was talking with my trainer, Casey, that I seemed to be hitting a wall in my workouts.  He, in typical fashion, said "work harder."    No shit Sherlock! Then he suggested that I get a heart rate monitor so that I could see how long I was in the zone and how hard I was working. Great idea....I immediately went home and started shopping and came up with the "Polar FT-4" This is a cool little unit!!  First of all, it's pretty pink...  and it does everything but sing to me.  (I'm sure it does that too if I could figure out how to run all the features on it!" Anywho...tonight at the gym I strapped this baby on for the third time and commenced to working out. Casey and I had already decided determined that my heartrate zone should be between 128 (min) -148 (max).   I asked what happened if I went in to the 150's and Casey says, "go for it, just don't die on my watch."  Gotta love that guy!  LOL So...bac...

This whole time change thing is really messing with my head.  It was rather nice this morning to actually drive to work in the daylight.   However, having dusk at 6pm in the evening bites!  Just sayin! I'm not one to suffer from SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but if I was, I'd be moving to someplace that is sunny and warm ALL the time.   Come to think of it, maybe I'll just move to some place sunny and warm anyways! lol Now, in an attempt to be fair and positive, I'm going to sit down and find five GOOD things to say about this time change and the dwindling daylight hours. 1) Driving to work in daylight at 7:30 was pleasant. 2) 3) 4) 5)   Sherry

OK, I know that I've been busy, but this is ridiculous!  I didn't realize that my last published post to this blog was September 29th.  Sheeeeeshhh!!!  My bad, folks! I need to get better at sitting down and writing something every day so you blog stalkers (you know who you are!) have more insight to my quirky mind!  ;) So, what has been going on?   Family, yoga, family, yoga, work, exercise, family, yoga, yoga, and more yoga.  OK.  End of post!   JUST KIDDING!!  lol  The month of October started out with my cousins Valerie and Keith coming from California so that Keith could experience bow hunting (deer) North Dakota style.   He left without a deer.  lol.   Hey...that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.  However, he may have left without a deer, but he and his sister Valerie left some pretty freaking fantastic memories of what us NoDak cousins are all about.  I took th...