White knuckles, Halloween candy, and an update on my new feline friend

Socks spent last night at the vet’s again as she was still rather groggy from the surgery. According to the nurse this morning, she ate well last night and this morning and will get her vaccinations this morning. She also said the cat had a few ringworms so they are going to de-worm her this morning. Attention cat people: what do you know about ringworms???

My son’s school is attached to one of those mega-churches here in town. It’s a good school, and we’ve been pretty happy even though I admit to having a rather negative perception of church schools going into it. Anyway, they had a ”trunk or treat” at the school Monday – people decorated their car trunks in the parking lot & handed out candy. We teamed up with the mom of his pal (the ones we went camping with). We gave out our candy, her candy, and ran out of candy! I called to my son that we were out of candy & he handed us his bag to give out, and ran off to play with his friends. He came home with some candy left. I took one of those mini one bite Snickers yesterday, I don’t know that he has eaten any. He put it away in his room. I suspect it will wind up in the trash.

Yesterday I amazed myself by sticking with my food plan. I wanted to eat after dinner, but the funny thing was it was because that’s what I “should” be doing, not because of any craving. Habits are not always helpful! I was a bit hungry (I’d eaten a small dinner), but limited myself to a no sugar popsicle.

This morning I got up and walked for an hour. While I am proud of the fact that I have kept off a significant weight loss through some tough times, it sure would be nice to stick with this long enough to see some progress.

Weight Watchers was postponed for a week – I guess maybe the leader was sick or something. So now it runs from next Tuesday through the end of January – 13 weeks. The funny thing is my reaction to the email was “Cool. That gives me time to lose some weight before I get on the scale.” I am a freak.

Have a great day!