Is this an appropriate place to brag that today I’m wearing my 501s from the 90s again? I slipped up over the holidays, as one does, but have been meeting the trainer for 3 weeks and am back at tracking my food/limiting calories/increasing % calories from protein. I’m ridiculously excited to have these pants on.

**Waving back at Cardiff**

Finally getting back to this. Figured I should haul out the laptop to respond to everyone
I should read that RL, I really liked Becoming by Michelle Obama!
Me too with the phone use chirico! There'll be some added habits around phone use later
Thanks Jessikams!
Of course, Jenni! The last thing I want is for people to feel bad about themselves!
Congrats on the new job FI! I think having the daily work routing can help with other daily habits too.
Oh no Joy, so sorry for your losses! Yay to getting your vaccines!
Gratitude is somthing DH and I do, Minaminu. There's always so much to be grateful for. And swimming is the one thing I can't wait to do too once it's safe!
Big yay for lots of reading-Synne! Do you have access to reading apps through your library, like Libby and Hoopla? Then you can check out ebooks like you would paper books, and they automatically return in 3 weeks.

Pretty geese Runcarla! I thought they had all come down to us by now!
Yes to 100 days in the woods, Janet! Pretty pictures! I'm hoping for 300 (depending on weather and if they make me go back to the office)-and surprised I've been becoming more acclimatized.
Sounds good Lisa! Are you off for now since the gyms are closed, or is yours different since it's medical? I didn't take offense. We're not that far from Janet in MD, and I didn't mean travel like flying. My mom and in laws are 4 hour r/t drive from us and it takes a lot out of us. We shop for them and help them iwth things around the house they can't do. But we hermit the rest of the month!
Sounds like fun FI! And ha-we started looking into bidet attachments when the TP shortage was going on. glad it didn't come to that!
Shingles is the worst MsMary-I hope it's getting better now! I've been reading a lot too. It's a good thing to do when it's cold out.
Will have to look them up Phoebe, thanks!
I didn't know you do cartooning JAileen! You may just have as many hobbies as me
Glad you could get the vaccines MsMaven! I think they said it's a bad idea to drink around the time you get them anyway. Glad you're ankle is healing up. Aww-is that Sharkie? We have a couple that really need to lose weight-though they certainly run around enough!

Glad you're able to get the vaccine and MIL too cjh! I expect DH and I are in the last, or second to last group. But I don't mind staying home! Great quilt!
Covid free and shingles free is a good goal Barbara Diane!
Good goal Janet! I think a lot of people have been doing the same with all our spare time! One reason I like to stay as minimal as I can is I'm afraid of all our parents "inheritance."
I thought I read that carbs increase serotonin, so no wonder we reach for them in winter Cardiff Girl! at the clarinet-we could have a YLF orchestra!
Congrats FI-good work!

So carbs are ,in fact,medicinal.I knew it!Thanks Suntiger.