Monday This and That

Good Monday morning.  It's a holiday for many.  President's Day.  Used to love these long weekends while I was working.  To make them even longer, I always requested a personal or a vacation day the Friday before so I'd have a 4 day weekend. 

Forgot to show you this on Friday.

Take a look at my feet.  This is how I went to WW on Thursday.  Never grab your shoes in the dark, and always check your feet before you leave the house.

Went to the doctor on Saturday.  Didn't expect much more than a referral to an ENT, and that's exactly what I got.  Used to be that a GP handled just about everything.  Now everything is referred off to a specialist.  Gosh, I missed my calling.  Should have been a GP.  Nothing really to do.  

On a plus side, Hibiscus tea works wonders for blood pressure.  Drank a cup about an hour before my appointment, and my blood pressure was the lowest I've ever seen it--110 over 65.  Have to watch and make sure it doesn't go too low.  

Took a picture of  this money tree in my doctor's office.  This is what mine would have been had hubby not decided that he knew more than I about growing a plant.

Was sitting there watching television Saturday night,  and someone said something that triggered a memory which, in turn, triggered a memory for me.   It was a scene on the Gilmore Girls when Loralie and Christopher were visiting Yale and  Chris overheard a few fathers talking about how they had been doing things to help their children throughout their school years.  Reminded me of the time I decided to help my son with the science fair so I build a simple telegraph machine.  The battery the project called for was a special battery and it was huge.  We built the machine, and lo and behold, it worked.  We were able to tap out the Morse Code on one side and see the other side receive it.  Awesome.

So, on the day of the judging my son came home empty handed, without his project....which on previous occasions meant that he had won a prize.  Oh, I was so excited when I saw him.  It was then that he told me they kept his project not because he had won, but because it had blown up.  Needless to say, I never worked on another science project.  Thankfully it blew up when no one was near it.

Hubby and I went to Olive Garden last night.  Ate very healthy.

I always do the build your own pasta because that seems to have the lowest sodium level.  Whole grain linguini with traditional meat sauce topped with garden veggies.  I can't believe how much food they gave me.  Could barely even eat half of it. I always check online before I got to see what I am going to eat. I check for WW points, but more importantly sodium levels. Olive Garden food, delicious as it is, has extremely high sodium levels in its food, not good when one has high blood pressure. The dish I chose was not only healthy, but so delicious.

Have a good one.