Tomorrow starts the reality of back to work as usual, although it's only a 3 day week. I won't have time off again till my summer vacation. Days off seem to fly by whether you have 2 in a row or 5. This day was a really good one. It had a balance of busy and still but not lazy. Let's see...paperwork and cleaning up a bit. Undecorating the tree, and lugging the three sections of the tree down to the basement. The middle and bottom sections weigh a ton, and I was very careful walking down the basement stairs. I vacuumed the whole downstairs, so it's back to normal. Well, better than that. After having the house in perfect shape for about a month, I'm going to try too maintain it. Keep piles from accumulating on the counters, dining room table, and coffee table. Etc. Clean up after myself and encourage Emily to do the same. There's nothing like a clean and neat house. I grew up in one like that.

I went to the grocery store to buy ingredients for The Pioneer Woman's pot roast, but the meat was too expensive so I bought chicken breasts instead. I'll make the pot roast this weekend. Tonight I made a recipe my ex gave me for 'unfried chicken strips.' This was the second time I made it. The first time I didn't care for it, but thought it was my fault. This time I followed the recipe exactly, and didn't like it again. I froze the leftovers and will cut the strips up to put in my salads, and it will be fine that way.

I made my red pepper salad dressing, and tomorrow will be the start of eating normally again. I have 3 bags of Fresh Express salad blends in the fridge, yogurt, chicken, fruit, etc... I ate the last of the banana pie for breakfast. No more cookies, candy, nuts, etc... It will be good to lose a few pounds, although I didn't do too bad this holiday season. Somehow.

I didn't get to do any blog reading today, and I'm going to make myself sign off now so I can finally start that book before I turn in.

Till the next time...