Friday, February 28, 2025

Kickstart Ends and An Update!

The last post I made was actually the last day of Kickstart - I hadn't even realized it!  Put I did have 100% participation - it is never necessary to get all commitments in everyday; you just track what you did daily.

The next Kickstart starts April 28, 2025.  Come join us ***HERE***   Again, it is totally FREE and you do not need to purchase the Kickstart booklet if you don't want to; any journal or plain notebook will do!  I discovered that though I did start out with the booklet, over the weeks I stopped using it entirely.  I have an app to track my meals (WW) so it just seemed like work to write it all down; the app also tracks my weight and I took a photo of my commitments so it wasn't necessary to write them down for each upcoming week.  You may find the booklet useful (many do) but I think I'll just use **This One** next time around.


CC's mother passed this week unexpectedly.  She was in the hospital and had been in rehab prior to that, but we weren't expecting her to die!  A friend had visited her the night before and she was mad that they didn't bring her onion rings.  The next day, the hospital called CC and told her they felt she should come in because her Mom was not well.  She died that evening.  I hope 2024 isn't continuing into 2025!




Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Sickness and Something Funny

 I've been sick with a horrible viral head cold since Saturday and haven't been working.  I went to the doctor's today and they put me off work until Monday.  Feeling a little better but get tired very quickly.

When I got home from the doctor's, I grabbed the mail from the mailbox on my way into the house.  I notice a 8 x 10 envelope hand addressed to me with no return address and the stamp indicated it was mailed from overseas.

I began thinking if I had ordered anything; but couldn't remember and then questioned if I should even open it as it was flat and didn't feel like it had anything in it. But I opened it...

...and, out came two photographs of the actor Stellan Skargard autographed to me!!

I almost choked laughing....

Back in 2008, after the movie Mamma Mia came out; I became a fan of Stellan Skarsgard and found a small online group of women similar in age who were also fans.  Stellan didn't seem to have a website, fanclub or anything at that time and the one lady told each of us to send a photo or two of Stellan to her with our addresses on the back and she was going to mail them all in together to his management company hoping for autographs.  I sent my two, never heard anything, and lost contact with those ladies some time ago.

You caught that date, right?  2008 - SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO!  And my autographed photos arrived today!!!! 😂😂😂

It's not like they've been lost in the mail, it was postmarked February 11, 2025.  He's one busy man!