Day 73: Winter Won't Let Go

 

Here we go ! It's a new year. Time to get back on track with diet and exercise. The goal is 100 pounds by 12-31-25. Can I do it ? At this point, probably not but I'm going to keep trying. My original Day 73 was a quiet Sunday, much like today's quiet Monday !

For some reason, I was awake just after 5 am today. I made a half-hearted attempt to go back to sleep but once I started looking at my phone it was all over. Also, Minnie was meowing and that either meant she was hungry OR she wanted my bed. Considering she was tucked away in my bed by the time her food was ready, I guess that was what she wanted. She did eat later and we had some morning snuggles.

It feels like my congestion is breaking up and I haven't had to blow my nose quite so much today. I didn't take any cough syrup last night but was able to sleep through the night.

I'm pretty much eating what I want when I want, but not a lot of junk. Breakfast was 160 calorie waffles with sugar free syrup. Lunch was a 220 calorie pepperoni pizza melt. Dinner was 220 calorie pasta with meatballs. Then I had a bowl of ice cream .. lol.

I spent the day watching YouTube and playing my online slots. I've added Hit It Rich to the rotation and it's a nice change. The app is MUCH different than the last time I used it but a lot of my old favorite games are still there ! They added all kinds of other "stuff" to do to earn coins, which seems to be the norm for these apps now. Playing and collecting all these little side things keeps you on the app for hours ! They also moved into the billions model. I guess they figured out that people like having tons and tons of coins and big wins in the billions do the trick. 88 Fortunes finally let me win - I have over 100B coins now. Dancing Drums loosened up too and I have over 7B coins there. Jackpot World sucks my coins away in a heartbeat, but it's relatively easy to earn more. I don't have a read on Hit It Rich yet since I just added in yesterday. My coins seem to be disappearing fast today, so that's not a good sign. However, while I was typing this I got the bonus and more than doubled my coins with a 31B win ! I will say this, the app doesn't tease the bonus or free spins like Jackpot World and I love that.

Weather today was not as warm as the weekend, so the snow melt slowed down. The daytime temps was mid 30's and the low for tonight is 25. We had a brief blast of flurries this afternoon. It was just enough to coat the exposed grass. It's going into the mid 50's tomorrow so the melting will resume. I'm just glad it's been relatively slow. My sump pump is keeping up easily and hopefully the slow melt is keeping others from experiencing flooding. It is so nice to look out and see the grass again ! It is also nice to have a warm house ! I've kept the downstairs heat on 70 since the day I had the service guy here. He had set the thermostat higher to get the heat to kick on and I decided I will enjoy the extra 2 degrees for the rest of the winter. Upstairs is still on 65 and the laundry room is set at 68. Since it's been warmer outside the heat hasn't had to run constantly, so I should see an even lower bill next month. Yesterday was warmer than today but that also blew in a quick moving blast of rain. We had severe thunderstorm warnings but all I experienced was a quick downpour. From the news today it seems to have been worse south of me, as Onondaga county had a tornado warning and a lot of power outages.

Tomorrow is trash day so I'm planning to get the big box of recyclables out. It will be good to get that mess under control. I may also take a quick trip to Walmart, though I don't really "need" anything. Maybe I'll get started with the bottle returns ! We'll see. I'd really like to get chinese food too, but I may wait until Thursday.