January 8th

Today I ate poorly and got little exercise but it was still a good day. I got up and weighed myself first thing as you can see from the previous post. Then I finished doing some dishes and getting the hose ready for the open house we had today. I didn't make any coffee or have any breakfast today because I knew I would be eating plenty the rest of the day. After the house was ready to go and we had made some dip in the crock pot we loaded the kitty up in the cat carrier, much to her dismay, and headed out to my parents house to spend the day with my Dad's family for their Christmas get together. We don't do gifts or anything with them any more it is just a time to get together and see every one and eat some good food. It was a soup day and my aunt and uncle bough bread bowls for every one. There were three kinds of soup and I had two of them. First I had the Potato Bacon Wild Rice soup that my brother in-law brought in a bread bowl then after I got all the soup out of the bowl I filled it back up with some home made chicken noodle soup that my cousins wife made. Both the sups were really good and the bread bowl helped to make each of them just a little better and a little more fun to eat out of. I also had some Fuehrer's Cheespread, some shrimp dip, some crackers and some banana bread with my soup. After lunch is when the fun ensued. There were a number of delouse deserts but nothing can compare to the Kugans that my uncle brought from Sutton on his way to Mom and Dads. Kugan if you have never had it is like a custard fruit pie. It is so good and they make them at a bakery in my Dad's home town. Usually people eat them fast so I had a piece as soon as I got done with lunch. Then I noticed a little while later there was still some left. Well I figured I don't get kugan that often s I grabbed another piece. then after I got back inside from playing wiht all the little kids there was STILL some left. Well I was hungry from playing out side so I grabbed one more piece. The who would have thought it but at end of the day when we were getting ready to go home there was still some left. I couldn't believe it. So I had my Mom put some on a plate for me and I took it home to have later this week as a treat. So I did get a little exercise playing out side with all the little kids but over all the day consisted of a lot of eating and not much else. But hey I lost a pound this week so I am pretty happy with myself still.