Diario di redwinelover, 03 gen 11

Okay, with a bit of prodding, (thank you, youngbug! lol) here is my journal entry. Today I will start my new diet. This one IS a diet, not a way of life - the 17 Day Diet. Start the day off with a hot cup of water with 1 1/2 T. lemon juice (or the juice of half a lemon). I'm also to drink three cups of green tea per day, eat mainly lean protein, veggies, two servings of fruit, pretty sure no bread/grain products for the first 17 day cycle. I'm hoping it'll just take the one 17 day cycle to get me where I want to be... and by the end of it, I can start working out again! Yay!! I say that NOW... it's been 11 weeks since I've worked out and I really am not feeling it... but I also know how much better I felt when I WAS working out. And then I'm going to start hiking again, my husband will be SO happy about that!

Totally OFF the subject here, and mostly for ctlss' benefit... I finally gave my husband the giant nutcracker. Didn't get to it on Christmas day, then put it off, then he had to go to WA for a quick family reunion, so he finally opened it New Year's day! Now, he's one of those people that likes to make guesses (drives me nuts sometimes, too! lol) and he tried guessing around Christmas time. And I told him, You can make a guess every day for the next two years and you will NOT guess what this is. I'd bet you ANYTHING. So he tries - a patio propane heater (very good guess... would love one of those), it's a new Christmas tree - hinged and pre-lit (another good guess, I'd love that one, too!), more shelving for the garage, a bench for the foot of the bed... something FOR the garage, a tool of some kind...on and on. And I kept telling him he'd never guess, might as well give up. So fast forward - he goes to WA, comes home, I push this massive box into the door (barely fit) with my daughter. She goes off to the living room for a bit. And then he's making guesses again! So he says.... OMG, I could NOT believe this... he says, A GIANT nutcracker! (pause), a Christmas tree.... Well, the blood drained from my face, I'm sure, but I sort of mumbled, yeah, right, a tree! ha ha ha... So then my daughter comes back in and I lean over to here and ask, Can you BELIEVE he guessed NUTCRACKER??? WTH?? So then he opens it and he's THRILLED to death about this giant nutcracker. SO not the reaction I thought. I was sure he'd say, A nutcracker... a GIANT nutcracker... okay, WHY? And better yet, WHERE are we supposed to keep such a thing?? Nope! He's all excited and starts opening the box and we pull it out and he's just loving this thing! And finally I say, HOW the HELL did you know it was a nutcracker?? How could you possibly GUESS? (none of the wrapping paper was torn or anything and he's SO not one who peeks) And he starts laughing! Apparently, his sister in WA has a nutcracker collection and decorated her stairs with them like I do with my Santa's and bears. And he's admiring her decorations and she tells him, You know what I really wanted for Christmas but my husband wouldn't let me get? A GIANT NUTCRACKER I saw at Costco! It was beautiful. And I told him I'd forego having the tree and just put the nutcracker in front of the window! So I guess later, he and some of his other sisters went online trying to find one for her as a way to say thanks for hosting the reunion, but they didn't find any. So that's how he guessed, which was still a pretty good guess! Anyway, it went over VERY well, the story is one we will always remember surrounding this nutcracker and he has a place in our dining room in the corner where we will most likely keep him. He may be a Christmas decoration, but he's a sort of gold/beige made to look like carved wood and goes very well in our dining room! lol... and besides, that way it is Christmas year round! So, dear S... doesn't look like our nutcracker will be coming your way!