Hi Karrie, Yikes! The things that you've experienced just sent a chill straight down my back. I have the creepiest feeling now.... I only have one experience to tell. My maternal grandmother lived with our family from the time I was two (my mom was an only child). When I was 21 my grandma died. One night after my grandma had died I was totally asleep in the middle of the night and suddenly I sat straight up in bed because I heard my Grandma shout my name so LOUD. I was so confused, looking around to see where she was and I just felt like something was terribly wrong. I knew she was dead and looked around the house to see if something was wrong. I couldn't find anything and eventually settled back down to sleep. But soon after that my mom found out that her cancer had come back and three months after my grandma had died my mother was dead too. Lisa, I can understand why you dread the thought of being the one to find your mom had died and I hope that doesn't happen to you.

Karrie, I hope you have a good time tomorrow night at the Halloween party. Congratulations on staying away from the Halloween. That is quite an achievement, I don't think I could resist candy for an entire month. Wow you're a good neighbour sharing all the home made goodies and I'm sure your hosts will enjoy your contribution to the party tomorrow too.

Hi Lisa, How were the outlet stores? Any good deals? Wow what a huge tragedy for that family. I just don't understand how these guys can justify doing that in their head. Those poor children. Boy I thought I had been eating a lot of veggies before I roasted these last Sunday but I guess not! My sister started using the treadmill a month ago and the next thing her feet were feeling like yours. She went to a doctor who told her she had plantar fasciitis and sent her to a physiotherapist. Physio gave her stretching exercises for her feet and she has to ice her feet too. I looked online and http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/exercises-to-reduce-plantar-fasciitis has exercises for this. She says that the exercises are really helping her and she should be finished physio soon although she can't use the treadmill yet.

Geez. You know it isn't entirely safe to be walking alone at that hour. Most women walk in at least pairs and men seem to walk alone. Although I just started walking again this summer I've actually been walking along the lake for several years and I've had a few scary moments but most of them have been when I was walking after dark in the evening. I actually quit walking along the lake and around the park for a while one year because someone was appearing in isolated spots far too frequently and it didn't seem to matter what time I walked suddenly there he'd be. I've only had one concern in the morning and that was at the beginning of this week when I met a guy who looked kind of out of it meandering along and then after I got about a block further along I saw wet footprints coming onto the path from the lake. I think this guy had slept on the bank that night. Brrr! The worse the weather is the safer I feel because you have to be pretty dedicated to get up that early and walk in crappy weather. But I must admit I'm questioning how safe I'll feel next week after we turn the clocks back an hour this weekend. The walking path has the lake on one side and a major road on the other. There is traffic at that hour but it's not steady. I get to wave to the school buses heading out on their routes when I get to the far end of the walking path. Hmmm. Well we had snow, sleet and rain today so maybe I'm going to be driven indoors soon anyway.

Hi Sandi, I feel hungry if I go too long without a meal but I usually plan for 3 meals and two snacks so I'm usually pretty stable. I don't know if the feeling of fullness is very reliable unless your stomach is used to the correct proportions already and you eat fairly slowly because it takes at least 20 minutes for the message to get to your brain. Not only that but I would binge and fullness when you're bingeing is when you just can't force yourself to swallow another bite and has nothing to do with feeling full or like too much when you have a sick feeling and a cramped, distended tummy. Boy that's something I'm not missing. I pretty much trained my brain to ignore how my body felt and keep eating but it was the chewing, crunching and tasting that I liked while I've read some people say that they needed that stuffed full feeling and weren't satisfied without it. Really I got too darned good at ignoring my body and the aches and pains didn't even get through to me. I notice feeling full now but I decide before I eat on the quantity and follow the food guide for serving sizes, etc. After 8 months my body is accustomed to the servings sizes and amount of food that I eat.

Actually I'm feeling quite full right now. I had 2/3 cup of cereal with skim milk for breakfast, an apple for a morning snack, I had a small slice of Roast beef for lunch (about 2 ounces), about 1/2 cup of potato chunks, one cabbage roll which would have been less than 1/2 cup of rice, carrots and salad with FF dressing - and for dinner I had a whole wheat pita with tuna salad (with some low fat mayo), chopped cucumbers, halved cherry tomatoes, chopped red pepper, and chopped leafy lettuce, then I had a cup of yogurt with 1/3 cup of granola and I had a pear. That's my food for the day and I am feeling quite full. I did NOT eat - muffins, croissants, or monster cookies at our meeting, soft drinks, anything from a dessert buffet, the after dinner mint at lunch, the Halloween candy at the office or the schools I was in, the luscious chocolate layer dessert someone brought to Division Office today. Boy there were some temptations so it's a good thing I'm in the habit of not eating them. If I have to eat in restaurants I don't usually have a dessert that week.

Hi Julie, The wind has been here too. My roof is covered with leaves and the eaves troughs are full of them. There's a bitter cold wind blowing through here from the North. Cars that were parked on my street have their windshields covered with the leaves. Wouldn't you know it, the city has finished picking up leaves from the homes as of this week and now they start falling off the trees. Wow Eric is surely appreciated at your church. What a lot of wonderful opportunities he's had; he must be a really excellent musician.

I did make myself a "to do" list to follow this morning and there was quite a lot on it but you know I got everything on it done, I had time to shower, dress, eat, walk, take out the recyclables and garbage, take my car to the dealership and pick up the loaner, go to a couple of schools and meet with the staff I had to see, and get to Division Office and get ready for my meeting. Our receptionist started the coffee urn for me and the coffee was ready and I had the food set before the first person arrived. So yeah me! My car runs like new now so it was worth the money I spent on the all the maintenance work and tuneup today. Wow it's expensive. I hate to admit it but when I went to the high school at the end of the day to do some work for them my friends there asked why I didn't take it to the Automotive shop at the high school. Doh! I totally forgot about the Automotive program. We have the largest (and newest) automotive training center in the province. It was just built four years ago when the high schools in our town amalgamated. They don't charge labour so it would have been half as much. Of course I wouldn't have a loaner and I need my car for work but I could have done it one day when I had booked a meeting (like today!). Well it was an expensive reminder but maybe I won't forget in the future. I've never had them work on my car but I know and trust the instructors who are all qualified and very well trained and experienced mechanics as well as professional educators. So maybe all the work stress is getting to me because I find that my memory isn't very dependable when I'm overworked and overstressed.

As you might imagine I am really looking forward to the weekend and I've turned off the alarm on my clock so that I have the option of sleeping in tomorrow if I want. I do have a couple of work jobs I'll do on the computer this weekend just to make my next week a little less stressful. I read in our local newspaper that the artists in our area of having a Christmas sale of their work (pottery, stained glass, carvings, paintings, quilts, etc.) on Sunday at our Arts Center. I didn't know about it earlier but I'm going to go because I love this kind of thing and I just resolved to get my Christmas shopping done this month so tomorrow I'll try to get my list ready. The only trouble with Arts and Crafts sales is that I tend to buy one for a gift and one for me. Tomorrow is the big day that I hit 100 miles of walking and it will also be two months of walking every single day and it's the last day of our Halloween challenge. Sunday morning I'll find out if I met my goal for the challenge. Fingers crossed.

I'd better wrap this up before I lose my post. I hope you all had a great day and a lovely evening. Boston, are you out there?

We CAN do this!

Cheryl

"No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around. ~ Anonymous

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