PICTURES!

The picture technical difficulties were brought to me by a faulty cord, fortunately (anything more than that and I'd never have pictures again!!).

First, some pictures of the latest foster baby, Holly.  She's a Norfolk Terrier.  Her sister is recovering from a blood clot they now think was from rat poisoning.  She's coming to me on Saturday (if all goes well) and I'll take her back to the vet for check-ups.  No way I'm letting her sit in a crate for weeks on end.

That little underbite ... LOL!!!

She's a stinking beauty!

She's so happy to snuggle and be warm, safe and loved.
All human woes can be cured from a pup cuddle.

On the subject of my LOVE of RITUAL DRINKING:

Meet my Christmas beauty ...  holy cow ... look at that shine!  It took a hot minute to figure it out, but I'm doing well and enjoying the espressos.  I'm experimenting with different beans.  The only downside is once you commit to a bean, it's IN the machine.  That means swapping between caffeine and decaf is a problem (only when my son is home and wants caffeine).  We're compromising and doing 1/2-caf (or I sneak all decaf and he doesn't notice).  The machine will let me know when it needs the BIG clean and descaling -- that will be another learning curve, but well worth it!  I have a 2-tiered basket on order to store all the beans and cups.

With my back-to-healthy eating, I decided to add Kombucha back for a week or so.  I'm straining it so no snot babies!!!  I read that Brew Dr. is one of the best.  I haven't tried it yet - stay tuned.  When I went to Sprouts to buy it, I found brown bottled GT.  You need ID to purchase.  It's supposed to be totally unprocessed and, therefore, can have higher alcohol content (still hardly anything).  Curious to see if I notice a difference. Stay tuned again ...

Lunch out today with a (mostly Facebook) friend I met at bookclub a few years back.  I rarely see her, but find we "chat" on Facebook a lot.  I asked her out before Christmas, but our flight problems had me reschedule.  I'm curious if we can form a better connection outside of cyber-world.  This is part of my NY Resolutions - expand my friend base.  I'm a little nervous ... or maybe uncomfortable is a better word.  With only 2 people to hold conversation, etc, it pushes my social muscles a bit.  I'm sure it will be fine.  SHY-ME is rearing her ugly head this morning.

I'm almost finished with my CE for RN license renewal.  Awesome.  I was a brut yesterday while my house was getting cleaned (and it helped with the pampered-guilt!).  Hope the reporting and CE acceptance goes smoothly.  I'm on the slowest boat to going back to work EVER, but forward motion is happening!

On the workout front, I'm doing a mosh of stuff ... adding some Tabata routines back ... more regular lifting, etc. Anything to combat this boredom.  I want to complain about how cold it is and I want more moderate temperatures back so I can run outside ... BUT I complained non-stop about the endless summer and too humid weather so I'll SHUT-UP LOL!  Once the temperatures are above freezing, I can add my outside runs back and that's going to be great.

Later gators.