It snowed today. It started about 9:00 am and was still snowing when I left town at 1:00. I drove two hours to my mother's house and did not have any problems. There was snow on the ground but not on the roads. BFF MAB emailed me that at 4:30, it was still snowing very hard in Birmingham.

After I got home and settled, I turned on the TV to this. How horrible. The shooting at UAH was so senseless. It is only about 40 miles from my mother's house. UAH is such a wonderful school. It is one of the top schools for engineering.

I hope everyone has a good weekend.

First the weather people said it was going to snow tomorrow. Then they said that the snow would be south of here. Now they say we can have 2-4 inches of snow. Some of the schools south of here are closing. The really bad weather is going to be in South Alabama. It is very rare that they have wintry weather. They do not know how to handle it. I was planning on going to my mother's house. I guess I'm going to play it by ear. Maybe my boss will let me leave early.

After work today, I went to Publix to get some fruit. I had a hard time finding a parking place. I guess everyone was there getting their milk and bread. I bought grapes, apples and TaB. I have to have my TaB. I want to be prepared in case I do get snowed in.

I was asked if keeping my foot elevated helped with the swelling. It is difficult for me to elevate it at work, but I try as best I can. When I get home at night, I do my chores and then I lay around with my foot elevated. When I wake up in the morning, a lot of the swelling is gone. This morning, I couldn't believe how much the swelling had gone down. Maybe in a few weeks, it will be back to normal.

I hope everyone has a good Friday. TGIF!

This has been a very productive week, both at home and at work. As I told y'all the other day, I have started the Mayo Clinic Diet. I have made it 3 days. I eat what I'm supposed to and only what I'm supposed to, plus I write everything down in my journal. I've got some housecleaning done at home. At work, I worked hard to get all of my stuff organized. I have only one drawer on my desk to store files, and yesterday it was stuffed. Last night I happened to remember that I have a huge two drawer filing cabinet. I moved all of my old stuff to the filing cabinet and made files for everything else. It is so nice to finally be somewhat organized.

My foot seems to be improving a little bit every day. It rarely ever hurts, but it swells during the day. At night while I'm asleep the swelling goes down. I wish the swelling would go down for good. I go to the orthopedic surgeon for a check up February 22. I feel certain that I will get a good report. I need to make a list of things to ask.

I hope everyone has a good Thursday. It's almost the weekend. YAY!

After much reading and research, I decided to start the Mayo Clinic Diet today. It's not the Mayo Clinic Diet from the 70's where you ate eggs, bacon and grapefruit. This diet reminds me of the old diabetic diet that doctors used to give patients to lose weight. For the first two weeks on the plan, you can eat all the fruits and vegetables that you want. I made it through the first day fairly well. I'm keeping a diet journal. It has helped a lot. I hope that I can be successful. One good thing is that the Mayo Clinic Diet has a blog.

I also started trying to get my appearance back in shape. I normally take very good care of my skin. While I was laid up, I washed my face twice a day and that was it. Not much moisturizing and no makeup. I decided to start using Clinique moisturizer to perk up my complexion.

I have been wearing LL Bean Bayside Twills for the past three weeks. I've been rotating navy, black and khaki. Tomorrow, I'm going to wear Pendleton wool slacks and a blazer. On my feet will be my trusty old yellow and silver Nike's.

Maybe with practice, I'll be back to myself.

I hope everyone has a good Tuesday.

I went to my mother's this weekend. It is the first time I have been there since I was able to come back home on January 21. I was going to go last weekend, but the icy roads kept me here. It rained most of the way there, but I was very careful and made it there safely. Since it was yucky outside, we opted for canned soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Saturday, we went to lunch and then grocery shopping. Then it was home to relax and watch TV. After about 5 years without gas logs, my mother finally got them repaired. We really enjoyed them this weekend. This morning, we skipped church and met one of my mother's friends at Ruby Tuesday's for brunch. It was good, but not what we really wanted. Then it was home to relax, read and watch Andy Griffith.

I left early to come back home. I listened to the Super Bowl on Sirius. I rarely watch professional football, but I do watch the Super Bowl, especially if the Colts are playing. I've been a big fan of Payton Manning since he was a freshman at Tennessee. When I was a teenager, I was a fan of Archie Manning, both at Ole Miss and the Saints. The Mannings are all right by me. They have class. Well, now it is New Orleans 31 and Indianapolis 17 with 3:10 left in the game. I guess it would be too much to ask for a Colts win. Oh well. I guess New Orleans deserves to win the Super Bowl this once.

I hope everyone has a good Monday.

My laptop has not been working lately. I called Dell and they said I needed a new hard drive. I got the hard drive yesterday and it is now installed. I'm back in business. If only I could get my Norton anti-virus back on here. I called Norton last night and held for over 45 minutes. I finally hung up so that I could go to bed. Maybe I can get that taken care of tonight. If anybody knows how I reinstall Norton, let me know. I have my key #.

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day at work. I hope today is just as quiet.

I hope everyone has a good Thursday.

I just had the best meal that I have had in a long time. Since I was at my mother's house in December, BFF MAB and I decided to do our Christmas dinner on Groundhog Day. We usually go to Ruths' Chris or Shula's, but this year we decided to give Highland's Bar and Grill a try. It was wonderful and the staff were extremely nice and accommodating. Now I understand why some people think that Highland's is the only place worth eating. We both had the baked grits, then the New York Strip. We decided to get ice cream for desert. It was a dish of small scoops of rum raisin, chocolate and vanilla with cookies. That plus the best service that I've received in a restaurant in a long time made it a good night.

On another note, Sunday I went to the book store and bought The Mayo Clinic Diet. I have been reading the book. I plan on starting the program on Monday. I hope I can do this. It sounds fairly simple, plus I'm motivated.

I hope everyone has a good Wednesday.