Blog World - Day Nine

Well, it's Sunday night and I realize I have been quite lax in adding a daily blog entry. I think I've missed several days, as a matter of fact............uh - oh....here goes the discipline........I wish I could say that I was utterly and fantastically busy, doing all manner of things with my free time........but the real truth is.... I think I'm in my own personal blog - or is that fog.........well - I mean funk - I guess. Yeah - funk.........you see it's been raining - non-stop for 2 and 1/2 days. It rained so hard our 150 year old oak tree in our front yard dropped 5 lbs of Spanish Moss and 3 good sized branches. Once, a couple of years ago, a branch broke and fell on our roof and cracked the roof tile! I had to call the roofer and he informed me a service call was $100- JUST TO COME TO THE HOUSE! That wasn't even the charge to look at the roof! I think I cried and he didn't charge me - said if I gave out his business card to all my friends that would suffice for this one time. YES! YES! I answered excitedly- and I really meant it, because I thought it was so magnanimous of him to waive any charges............but then I start thinking...... who am I going to suggest that they use a $100/visit roof guy? Well, anyway - this time the branches didn't hit our roof - or our neighbors - but just came down in the yard, where I could harvest them in a pile in hopes that we may get one of those cute outdoor fire pits and I would have free firewood to burn......I had to do it all while it was pouring, because I wasn't sure when it would ever stop........Maybe I'm in this funk on account of my South Beach Diet - I'm still on that and I've lost 7 lbs and Richard has lost 10lbs! This should perk me up - but I'm only on the scale for 10 seconds and all the rest of the time I'm thinking of the secret stash of M&M's in the junk drawer! - or the can of almonds I just bought for an emergency snack. Almonds are supposed to be good for you.... but only if you count out 10 and don't eat any more than that for about 2 days or something............sometimes it's pretty hard. Last night I just couldn't cut it and I made a pizza. I had the dough in the freezer (and the cheese too) and I let it thaw and rise until it was the size of a helium balloon!.....and then Richard and I went into chopping mode to get it perfect...we added mushrooms, ham, tomatoes, pineapple and onion......and then blasted it in the oven at 500 degrees for 10 minutes and Mama Mia! AND.... we downed it with a glass of wine!....But that was the only lapse I allowed us, and next meal we went right back to vegs, vegs, vegs - having lemon /garlic shrimp tonight with steamed broccoli and a tossed salad with beaucoup veggies in it and homemade mustard vinaigrette dressing.......It was almost as good as the pizza! .....But now my weekend reprieve is over and it's back to the grind tomorrow.........and so I'll end this and go hit the hay.........and if anybody out there ever finds this blog and actually reads it....I hope they realize that....I'm just a person........trying to live in the 21st century.