Chillin...

Thanksgiving is over, Black Friday too..and I'm just chillin and watching Lifetime movies...they are playing Christmas themed ones...'tis the season.

Based on the news lately some people are placing far too much emphasis on being in the front of the line on Black Friday at 3:00am for the store sales...that is nuts !  Pepper spraying people to get to the front?...I think all the stores should just open regular time on Black Friday and not a minute earlier.  There really is no need to open in the middle of the night or earlier!  I suppose this practice will never end as retailers count on the early birds shopping 'til they drop. 

It is hard not to get caught up in all the hoopla over Black Friday, but I don't let myself, it just can set me up for spending more money than I'd like to or can afford to.  The hardest urge for me to resist is the cyber sales since I am on the computer a lot, but I delete most of the emails before I open them to avoid temptation.

Thanksgiving was nice although I missed my oldest as she is back east, but my other daughter came home for the night. She had to work Black Friday so she left Thanksgiving early evening.  We had Turkey and all the trimmings and as tradition would have it, I ate too much! :) 

We did make one of our traditional apple crumb pies and it turned out perfect!  I still have one sliver that I'm going to finish tonight. YUM..





 

Figures..

It figures...that now the latest medical news is that sitting for prolonged periods of time can significantly increase risk of colon cancer...  top that with more bad news...women who have more than 3 drink in a week having an increased risk of breast cancer....might as well sit here in my Lay-z-Boy and have a tall drink, or two or three...

It is not that I drink every day or even every other day but what happened to one glass of Merlot a day was good for you.  I guess it still may help the heart but give your breast cancer? Ever notice how these sort of stats are changing all the time?  And do they actually have evidence that these things do cause more cancer? Have they discovered more people with colon cancer because they sat several hours a day?  

If this is the case I might as well not bother with the colonoscopy..no I haven't had one yet and past 'due' if one is suppose to have one at age 50....not sure what doctor made up that rule either..once you turn 50, time to get a colonoscopy.  Since I sit upwards of 15 or more hours a day working, I feel like I must already have colon cancer or am doomed to get it. 

Ever since I heard that news I have been trying to get up and walk around a little bit every few hours, but sometimes i just forget.  It is so hard to do or NOT do everything to avoid getting cancer.  I think I'll keep eating healthy, exercising and doing the best I can to avoid cancer...until the next new breaking medical news comes out...can't wait!

Daylight savings?...

As I was headed back into the office to work last night, I asked my hub to make sure to wake me up early enough today so that I could exercise before meeting my sister for breakfast.  I reminded him that the clocks needed to be turned back.  He said he would..

When I got to bed after midnight I saw that he had advanced the clocks in our bedroom an hour instead of turning them back. I didn't have the heart to wake him up and just brought a clock with the right time into the room and placed it on my night stand. 

The next morning he got up early as he usually does, I found out later it was approx 6:00AM going by his clock next to the bed.  He came up at what he thought was 7:00AM to wake me and I told him he set the clocks forward an hour and not back so now he was two hours early!  He didn't like it when he realized he had gotten up at 4:00AM!  He said he'd wake me up then when it was time.  An hour later he came up again and said it was 7:00AM.  No, now it was the same time it was yesterday.  Instead of being mad, I thought it was funny!  Then I dozed off again for another 45 minutes or so.  We joked about it for a while, though I know he was mad at himself for getting up so early!  :-)


So much for sleeping an extra hour!  I think, next year I'm going to change all the clocks myself!