Zoom, Zoom, Zoom. Crash.

I’m still running a 2 degree fever and achy from this flu. I’m not feeling too bad but my brain is fuzzy so I'm not confident I could write cohesively. I go zooming along feeling okay enough to do a few chores then BAM. I crash and feel like a wet noodle.

I guess it all happened at the right time. We lost our internet connection yesterday – Hughes.net is upgrading and we hadn’t swapped out our new wireless modem for the old until last night. What a pain in the arse. My husband was on the phone with tech support just short of three hours.

But alas, my flu riddled body and brain spent most of yesterday and last evening watching my new DVD set of House M.D. Season Three. I couldn’t have cared less about being offline, I was on a Hugh Laurie high. If you're a fan this DVD set is a must. It's a totally different experience to watch big chunks of the season at one sitting commercial free and on a high definition screen. I'm enthralled.

This morning I’m online and our satellite connection is faster than ever. I’ve got two laptops going at once and they’re going ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM. I found these links to share:

Is It Okay To Workout If You Have The Flu or a Cold?

Becky at Winning Weight Loss has some amazing insiders information on Kimmer’s imaginary Red Dress photo shoot and Kimmer’s business practices.

Regina Wilshire has an insightful review of Gary Taubes book ‘Good Calories, Bad`Calories’.

Check out Jimmy Moore’s latest Livin’ La Vida Low Carb podcast Heidi Diaz: Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya! (Episode 94)

Read “As a bodybuilder, I find that low-carb dieting spares more muscle and burns more fat than low-fat dieting” The author of Truly Huge answers questions about Low Carb.

A Low-Carbohydrate, Ketogenic Diet versus a Low-Fat Diet To Treat Obesity and Hyperlipidemia

In summary, over 24 weeks, healthy hyperlipidemic persons who followed a low-carbohydrate diet lost more body weight and body fat than did those who followed a low-fat diet.

More Kitchen Remodel & Other Bits

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First step of a kitchen remodel...Clean the microwave?



















Demolition Work.
















Nice View! I Like That View!









































One Thumbs Up

























Bruno Enjoying The Chaos.
























I Love My New (Used) Stove!




















Jerry and Bruno





























Even Arlie Approves!


















Gratuitous Cat Photos















































Paula Deen's on Food TV making cornbread, pie, and taters. She's wearing an apron that says "Country Cooking Makes You Good Looking." And I'm thinking "Country Cooking Makes Us Fat Diabetics With High Blood Pressure and Heart Disease."

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Okay, we spent Sunday in Kitchen Remodel Phase 2. We previously tore out the old pantry and added new streamlined basket-style drawers.` We'd planned to tear out everything beneath the sink and opt for an open look so the cats could keep the mice at bay. (Jerry found two places the mice had chewed through the wall and patched those). But we hadn't planned on replacing our stove. Though it was old I thought it was just fine. Boy was I wrong...

Friday night Jerry was perusing Craig's List (he's a Craig's List addict) and I was sitting next to him reading too. He was`in the Free section and I spotted a free electric stove in Carson City. I said click on it and he says "It's electric." Our old one was gas. I said, "I've always wanted to try an electric stove." So he emails the people and asks where they live and can we pick it up Saturday if they still have it."

The next morning he comes in the bedroom and wakes me up a little after six am and says "We have a problem." That's his most used catch phrase. He'll call me in the afternoon and say "We have a problem," and I imagine things like his van broke down, he's in the emergency room, etc. And then he says "They're out of our brand of mayonnaise." For heavens sake, man, out of our brand of mayo is NOT a problem! Twelve years together and I still fall for it every time.

Anyway, the people who listed the stove got so many inquiries they decided to put the stove by the curb and emailed everyone that whoever got there first got the stove. Well, lucky for us, my husband's the original early bird (up at 1 am weekdays) and he was up at 4 am. So he was the first to get the email and off we drove at 6:30 am. Long story short (oh, too late, I blabbed long already) we got the stove.

It's a double oven Magic Chef and has features we didn't even knew existed like a digital temperature display that shows the temp as it heats up (200 degrees, 250 degrees, 300 degrees, etc.) Even at 450 degrees the oven door stays COOL. And now I know what a sh!#y stove the old one was! The pizza come out perfect now! (Hey, I save carbs up just so I can have pizza. I'm Italian!)

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Reminder to Hugh Laurie / House M.D. fans, tonight is the premiere of season four!

Tune in at 9 pm Pacific on Fox.

My dilemma? Dancing With The Stars is on from 8-10 pm, The Biggest Loser is on 8-10 pm, House is on 9-10 pm, and Boston Legal is on 9:30-11 pm. All my favorites in one night and they all overlap! Thank God I have a TIVO, two TVs and two VCRs in the living room! Now I just have to figure out the recording logistics.

Thanks God NCIS at 8 pm is a rerun!