booklovers! whatcha reading? weekend~ 1/25-1/26

Good morning.
32 right now, light snow expected today, then the snow machine is turned off!! Totaling up the daily snow fall would have to be around 6". 
Yes, Gareth, I am wondering too, if the other shoe will drop, come Feb 1st, as these temps have been way too warm for us in January.

Robin, congrats on the weight loss! A great start!
DH just started his therapy with the clinics therapist, yesterday, and he was feeling it last night. 
I love making that recipe I have for roasted veggie's with chicken thighs, it is so good. There are potatoes in with the veggie's, so couscous would not be needed with that recipe. 

Marsha, no way am I going to wish for colder weather! I have been out and about every day, in that goofy snow, and not once was I worried about slipping. It was doing a heavy mist yesterday afternoon, as we were traveling around Howard, but I still preferred that over the colder temps.

Pinky, with your air fryer, did you get the equipment to use it as a rotisserie? We have, and used it for the prime ribs at Christmas, a beef roast, and then the other day, a whole roaster chicken, which have all turned out amazing. 
You reminded me that I have to call my hair salon, thank you! I am thinking of looking for a place closer to home, as I am finally tired of running up to the area where we used to live. 

Anngie, lol, we must all be on just about the same hair schedule!!
I am so happy for you, as to your 40 degrees and rain, instead of snow!!! Hasn't this been a strange winter?
About having an air fryer, I love having it, as everything so far has turned out so good, I just wish I had room to store it right on the counter, and not have to move it back and forth to the pantry.
I am shocked to her about your DS!!! How can that be??? Was that actually a doctor who diagnosed her with the COPD? I would love to know the whole store about this, as it is hard to imagine this being misdiagnosed!

The big recipe book that I paid extra for, when buying our air fryer, has so many great recipes in it, and one of them I used last night, for fish sticks. It was very good, and of course as the first time we saw something's to adjust the next time, but otherwise we are having so much fun with the air fryer. Just for fun, today I am going to try making a cherry pie in it. I guess since I am not using the oven much right now, I should use the self cleaning function on it, as it needs a cleaning.
A quiet weekend here for us, our son in law will go over to DB today, as DD told me the plows went thru yesterday and put lots of big chunks at the end of the driveway's, so her DH will go and snow blow DB. Otherwise I was going to go shovel his driveway, but not if there is all those chunks. We will probably take a ride over tomorrow, to check on the house, and get the mail. 

Finished The Giver of Stars, by JoJo Moyes last night. So glad I decided to go back to it, after almost giving it up. A very good read.
Am starting After You, by her, but for some reason I thought I had already read it. Will see.

Have a nice day.

Busy morning at work. More new people than usual. Our territory manager showed up which means it’s always later getting out of work since she likes to talk after everyone leaves. Home for breakfast and my walk. Going to HyVee shortly for groceries.

Karen, do you have room for a cart or a stand in your kitchen to set your air fryer on? Luckily I have room on the end of my countertop for mine so it doesn’t have to be moved. Like yours it’s heavy.

Anngie, good news about your sister but how in the world did she get so misdiagnosed? Did you see my answer yesterday to what you said about looking up the book I’m listening to? I’m liking it but if I had a nickel for every time she mentions the name of the town I’d be rich!

Robin, hate when I’m between books and don’t know what to read next. For once I have several waiting.

I nixed both The Paper Wife and Beneath A Scarlet Sky. The Paper Wife started out in China, and my book club read is Korea, so I am afraid I will mix the characters up with all the strange names. Beneath A Scarlet Sky is 525 pages, so decided not to start that. I will just read the fluff book I have, or read a bit more of the book club read. It hasn't grabbed me yet, and this 3rd chapter is 53 minutes long, so didn't want to start it. I don't want to get bored and mixed up by this book. It is not that smoothly written so far. 

Ok, I could have sworn I posted something late Friday morning. In the evening when I checked the site, I couldn't find it. I must have hit the wrong button.

I had a cut and color, too, on Friday. I kept forgetting to call for an appointment and when I did finally call, she was very busy. I ended up going almost a week longer than I usually do. It feels so good to get it done.

DH and I went to DD's this morning. We met them for lunch and then went to their house. We played with DGS for a while, then when he took his nap, we just visited with them and watched sports. After DGS had his nap, we played with blocks and colored and went outside and played and read books and probably did other things. We ate dinner with them and left after DGS went to bed. It was fun. He is talking more though we don't always understand him, but his parents do. Once he was asking for something in the kitchen and I couldn't figure it out so he raised his arms so I would pick him up and pointed at the cabinet. I opened it and there were the goldfish crackers he wanted so we did communicate.

DD has been hitting the gym for several weeks now. Today was the first time she said that she was trying to lose weight, too. I am glad she is doing that.

Aren't there always more people joining WW after Christmas?

I have a busy day tomorrow-church, bridal shower and a retirement party. We are supposed to get rain tonight and it should be up to 60 in the afternoon.

I'm between books right now, too.

Good morning.
It is 33 out right now. The weather guy had a shocking bit of trivia; he said last year on this date, the low in the early morning hour, was -23!!!!! I remember those terrible bitter cold days, and that old Farmer's Almanac had predicted basically the same thing for this winter. I am so happy we are at January 26th already, so maybe it won't get that bad...(fingers crossed!!)

Robin, as I am getting further into After You, I have to say, The Giver of Stars, once I gave it a good try, was better than After You. Yes, After You is JoJo Moyes. What is the title of the Nancy Thayer book, about Nantucket? I am still amazed at the list of holds I have, that are still so far out from coming in. I think there is one, that is the closest to coming in, with me being #11 of 3 books.
Lol, speaking of changing the plan, I changed to green from blue.

Gareth, I remember, the very first time I joined WW, was the 2nd week of January. The meeting I went to, was over in a town that was a bit out of my way, on a Tuesday evening. I was at the end of a very long line, waiting to get weighed in. I found out by the next week, that the church we eventually joined had a meeting there every Thursday evening, so I switched to that one, which was not quite so busy, but busy enough. Then over the years I have seen, while still going to meetings, how it ebbs and flows throughout the year. Summer was always the worst time for attendance, back when I was going. Ah....the good old days!!!
Unfortunately I have nowhere or nothing to put that big air fryer on, so I am fine with having to move it back and forth.

Carol, I am glad you had so much fun with DGS. I loved the kids at that age, but of course I love the age they are at now, it is fun talking to them about what they are doing at school and stuff like that. All 4 grands will be here Saturday night for a slumber party. That ought to be a hoot!
I see I will need to visit the hair salon soon, also.
Your day today sounds super busy!!! Have fun!

I see DD2 sent us an invite to dinner tonight. Will have to see if DH is up for such a thing, as he has not been away from home for too long yet. We do have to run to DB house to check on it, so that would work out good. We are trying to get used to football being over, that always seems hard to do, that first week the Packers are all done playing.

Made a recipe from the big recipe book for the air fryer last night, that we think we got sick from. It is a chicken thigh recipe, using tomato paste as a spread on the thigh's, then a spice mixture of turmeric, cumin, and a package of dry Italian seasoning sprinkled on the thighs. It was a very different taste for us, and within 20 minutes both of us had upset stomachs. Oh well, it had sounded good when I was looking at all the recipes. Otherwise that air fryer cooked the thighs perfectly.

Time to get more coffee......have a very nice Sunday everyone.