happy halloween!

...and it was! I had such a calm productive meeting at the Board office today, which started with an apology about not getting information to us when they said they would; it was great. Several of us dressed up and that was good too, nice to know even serious work can get a laugh. I was a shepherdess, with a black sheep. Really just a sheep skin, so I guess i'm not very good at my job... I went to the Board office searching for more black sheep, as I heard there were lots of them there! A productive afternoon at the office afterwards which made for a pretty rewarding day. I came home to discover 2 turtles on my doorstep, standing on their hind legs, saying trick or treat, so of course, I gave them half of my candy. Really, those Ninjas took it from me, yeah, that's what happened! As soon as he got his candy, S was taking his costume off. Then 30 seconds later crying to have it back on. Love these guys! A little while later I had a visit from a furry little mouse and a big round wheel of cheese, except that the cheese refused to wear his costume so dada carried it. He had no problem carrying his bucket of candy though! He even managed to eat a few while they were here. They both enjoyed seeing the costumes of other kids who came to the door. Love these guys too! My girlies usually go to their aunties for halloween, so I don't expect to see them, but hopefully will catch up with them on the weekend. Love these girls! It's just after 7 and things are quiet, so this may be it for the night, pretty crappy weather. Today I tried making one of my vanilla/orange shakes warm, and quite enjoyed it. I will try warming a chocolate one in the morning and hopefully it will be close enough to hot chocolate that I enjoy that too. I think I would find it hard, now that I seem to be over the worst of the hot flashes, to be drinking cold drinks all winter, so that will make a nice change. Roo, I am not scheduled to have my last shake at 7:30, it's just that I feel so full, that if I didn't make myself have the last one, I wouldn't, cause I'm never hungry after supper. We are the first group that is allowed to have the cup of broth and the cup of certain veggies and I think when I make soup it is so satisfying, and the shakes themselves have lots of protein, so you really don't have a lot of opportunity to get super hungry. They tell you that you must have all 4 though, because otherwise your body would start to eat your muscle, which makes sense to me. I almost think that I'm getting more calories than before I started the shakes! I am realizing how automatic some of my eating really has been. On the weekend with the girls at the cottage, I can't tell you the number of times that I almost reached for a snack, before I remembered not to. Today again, when I got the the office, there was a crock pot which still smelled so good; dark ale beef stew. I went to the fridge to see if there was any left over as we always eat leftovers from meetings for lunch the next day. Oops! Stopped myself, but there was none left anyway! I'm committed to making everything that goes in my mouth a conscious choice! Thank you all so much for the support, written and otherwise, elly "I only eat candy on Halloween. No lie." Michael Trevino "If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween." Doug Coupland