Follow Runs for Cookies, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/runs-for-cookies Wed, 27 Sep 2023 11:13:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhmwaOX9M_pDqrkJyTkC_2b Jerry usually writes on Tuesdays, but he forgot about it and I forgot to ask him about it. I haven't done an "On This Day" post in a while, so I thought that would be fun. I always like to look at pictures!September 26 apparently wasn't a very eventful day for me over the decades, but here are a few pictures...2008 - This is when I was picking Noah up from preschool. That sweet face!2013 - This]]> Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhmwaOX9M_pDqrkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg8rb-Bp4GcJIeLGixeGJZp I probably should save this for next week, considering September isn't over yet, but I never actually wrote a post about this at the beginning of the month. I really wasn't sure how this was going to play out and I didn't want to make a big deal about it.I know I've mentioned the book "Atomic Habits" several times already, but that is what prompted this whole "mission" (I'm not sure what to call]]> Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg8rb-Bp4GcJIeLGixeGJZp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgtxZib19Af8ASngkwrdsok I don't have a ton of photos today, but I do have a "Good Lord!!" moment to write about. As I've written way too much, we've had a tough year--bad luck and mini catastrophes, one after another. And each time, I say, "Well, what else could possibly happen?" Nothing major has happened since the flood, so I finally decided to say it out loud to Jerry: "Our luck has turned around! What else could]]> Sat, 23 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgtxZib19Af8ASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgXLsj6q2d_wXCrAHWlao0B I almost skipped writing today because I just couldn't come up with anything to write about! "Three things" is such a broad category that you would think I'd have no problem coming up with a topic, but I was struggling.Today is my dad's birthday, and it just occurred to me that I could write about him! So, here are three things that I love about my dad...1. He's a hard worker.This sounds like a]]> Fri, 22 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOgXLsj6q2d_wXCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0d6zK-uq8eQm0QkxGtqLL I can't remember if I posted about this hoodie, but it's another item of clothing that I altered. It was actually a bathrobe! Haha. It was a wrap-around robe but I was missing the belt so I only wore it like a cardigan. I really wish I took a good before photo of it; this is the only one I could find, and you really can't see it well. (This is a horrible picture of me and I have no idea why Jerry]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0d6zK-uq8eQm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOimGokYR3_DSASngkwrdsok I'm a little pressed for time. Katie is in the kitchen making all sorts of seitan and I totally forgot to write this post until the last minute. If Katie was typing this post it would take her minutes but because it's me and I type like a four year old, it takes me forever.What's something new you've learned about yourself in the last couple of months?I'm getting older. I've also been put on]]> Wed, 20 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOimGokYR3_DSASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh32KsXSL6oqq8qfTAM-Smm I hope this doesn't jinx anything, but our bad luck finally made a turn yesterday. Eli bought a car!He only started saving money for one a few months ago (even though I'd been pushing him to for a couple of years now!) so he didn't have a lot of money saved. My parents' neighbor/friend asked my dad if he would want to buy his Volvo--he didn't want to bother with Facebook Marketplace or anything (]]> Tue, 19 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh32KsXSL6oqq8qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOi09wlPGWebplw3HFUzDTIP I only have a few photos on my camera roll this week, so I'll just save them for next week. Yesterday morning, I posted on Instagram, so I'll share something similar here. I rarely post on social media, but I was thinking about summer and decided to look through my pictures from the last few months. I chose a bunch that kind of represented summer (mostly the good parts; who takes pictures of the]]> Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOi09wlPGWebplw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjm2MTsEsLD6KgzzHWHxDTV I just got done walking laps around my house, looking for inspiration for a "Three Things Thursday" post. I have 3,600 posts on my blog(!) and it's very hard to come up with anything that I haven't already written about at least ten other times. I briefly thought of writing about my three favorite clothing transformations, but nixed that idea when I realized I'd just written about them in]]> Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjm2MTsEsLD6KgzzHWHxDTV https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjWzm4S1KsB0slTP0vptTFR Well, Jerry's meeting yesterday went well. He was really nervous because he only knew a couple of people (out of 250-ish) and they had to do group team-building exercises to get to know each other. Jerry is usually super comfortable meeting people and he's always the "icebreaker" in the room, so I don't know what was making him so nervous. But he said they played bocce ball (I don't even know]]> Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjWzm4S1KsB0slTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhqr_VrDwtqTJNaYRWadcX6 I started to write out a post about a weight maintenance habit that I've found helpful, but when this incident that I'm about to share happened, I just HAD to post this instead! I'll save the other for tomorrow.Jerry has a meeting tomorrow for work, and it's kind of a big deal. He's been really nervous about it, and he usually doesn't get nervous about these things. A lot of the "higher ups" in]]> Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOhqr_VrDwtqTJNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh3xubiL0OrAem6srrLMsqK I had a busy day yesterday and I decided to just save my "Friday Night Photos" post for today instead. It's only noon right now, and it feels so much later. Noah wanted me to go with him and his girlfriend to Eastern Market (a large farmers' market in Detroit). Jerry is off work today and he hadn't gone to the market since 2012(!) so he wanted to go too. We left at 6:30 this morning to get there]]> Sat, 09 Sep 2023 19:13:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh3xubiL0OrAem6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg2iRnyfi9Styoxzwoq1nFt I used to write posts called "What I'm Reading, Watching, and Listening To" and I really liked them because readers would comment with suggestions of other books/shows/podcasts/etc. that I might want to check out. I've found some of my favorite media that way!Last summer, I had so much going on. I literally had not read a full book since March, and before that it was November. I do tend to go]]> Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg2iRnyfi9Styoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOioH1hGwUIMEWnhpmeYcemU Even though I've been weighing in every week, it didn't really hit me until a couple of days ago that it's been well over TWO YEARS since I started losing the weight I'd gained in 2018. It's kind of hard to remember what it was like in May of 2021 when I started counting calories again. And it certainly feels like a lifetime ago!I can't say this with certainty, but I'm pretty sure that this is]]> Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOioH1hGwUIMEWnhpmeYcemU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjxuRA0aTCMNLmyhX6zo8SW Jerry hasn't done a "Deep Thoughts" post in a while. I'm kind of embarrassed to even publish this one because he gets kind of gushy about me! But he's insistent, so here he is... It's been a while. Usually I get on here and answer some questions that I find on various websites, but it's been an eventful time for me, so I'll write about that.In late July I was asked to go work at a plant down in]]> Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOjxuRA0aTCMNLmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh-KtVK3hlFTAVLTsI7B9NX I haven't done a recipe review in a long time--mainly because I haven't been cooking new recipes. As you know, I've been having a really tough year; the last thing I was worried about was cooking new recipes. But I'm feeling SO much better--I have more energy, I have been thinking more positively, and I just feel more motivated in general.Yesterday, I went for my morning run (my very, very short]]> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh-KtVK3hlFTAVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh39k3-9jEXBPnNuMIJyU22 It's been a long time since I wrote a Friday Night Photos post! I went back to August 11 on my camera roll, and there are so many pictures that I feel like I already wrote about, but looking through my recent posts, I guess I didn't. Or maybe I did, I don't know--but I have several pictures, so I'll get right to it...Luke and Riley were at Brian's for a couple of weeks last month, so Jerry and I]]> Sat, 02 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh39k3-9jEXBPnNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg_Voz1K8uxrnKSkciKEY1s I feel like I'm finally starting to get out of the funk I've been in for a VERY long time. Even though our luck still sucks, my anxiety isn't as bad and my mood has been more pleasant. The weather definitely helps; we've had what feels like fall weather several days in a row. Ordinarily, the issue with the car would have sent me over the edge, but I've been taking it in stride and haven't]]> Fri, 01 Sep 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg_Voz1K8uxrnKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0Lf52U3cbMQm0QkxGtqLL  We have the BEST weather today--it feels like a perfect fall day. I really hope that we have lots of days like this over the next few months. I don't have a lot to say about my Wednesday Weigh-In, but I first have to write about my hoodie (in the above photo). I LOVE IT.I sorted through my clothes while the power was out, because there was nothing else to do, pulling aside clothes that were]]> Thu, 31 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOg0Lf52U3cbMQm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh4SSimqXpsmqgzzHWHxDTV Where do I even start?Our power is back, thankfully. There are still a lot of people without power, so I am very grateful ours was restored.On Thursday, after Jerry got in the accident with the Jeep, we were at a loss for what to do next. Going from three cars to one car in a matter of three months is a big challenge! We're still dealing with the insurance company. Because of the water damage, we]]> Wed, 30 Aug 2023 04:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/vulcuPcjoOh4SSimqXpsmqgzzHWHxDTV