 Come here kitty. Good morning, good morning. Oh, I don't know if I hit public or not. Good morning. Good Saturday morning. I have not an announcement, but I have thoughts to share and for once I thought I would do it in the morning. Here kitty, here we go. Good morning, good morning, good Saturday morning. I hope, you know what, let me check and make sure Sandy's not on right now and that I'm not uh, I know what I'm trying to say. I'm not interrupting her normal Saturday weigh-in video because that would not be cool. Camera's over here. Hi Molly, what are you doing? Good morning, Georgia. Let me put on my glasses so let me start off by telling you guys that I put on my Charlie Brown Christmas shirt over my pajamas because I am in my pajamas and I'm still in bed and I'm going to explain all of this. But I feel like I have something I need to say. Getting the house ready for a possible show. I'm not even sure. Oh man, I hope they show up. That's such cacarotoro that they tell you that they're going to come in and they don't. Oh, I feel for you. Um, it's Saturday morning. It is only 8 11 here. Steve is at work. Good morning, Brenda. Thank you. I like it too. I have been sitting here. Steve had to go to work today. Well, he didn't have to go to work, but I need to tell you guys that I have had half a Benadryl. So far so good. It's medicine. I'm not in my car driving. I'm not driving a school bus full of children. I'm in my bed with my dog where I am perfectly safe. I have my coffee in my A Christmas mug. So I've already talked on my Instagram this morning. So if anybody's already seen it and I repeat myself, I apologize. I just feel like talking. I feel Saturday mornings with Steve are kind of like our thing. And when he's not here, I kind of am like, Lucy, why? So I thought I'd get up here and bug you guys. Oh, I have the wrong glasses on. You know what? I need you guys to tell me these ones are more comfortable on my face, but I have people tell me that they like the way these look more that they're more. All right. So here's the thing. I'm going to wait a couple minutes just in case anybody else with the nine of us show up. I'm always embarrassed because I look at my friends who go live and they have like 77 people and I have 10 also. In case anybody wants to call me out, I do have my water. It may be early, but I'm prepared. Also, Molly, look at these socks I'm wearing right now. Well, I have one on and one off, it seems. When you wish upon a star. My favorite song. Okay. So I came on here to talk about yesterday's video and last night's dinner. Good morning, Catherine. On your way to weigh in. Good luck. And no matter what happens, let me pop in and say hi to everybody. George is here. Molly, we know Brenda. Good morning. Thank you. Good morning, Jimmy. Good morning, my friend. Brenda, I have this one in the letters. What show am I thinking of? We have S for Steve. We have a C for Casey, but we cannot find an O for Oliver. Oh, I'm sure she's on top of the candle business. I mean, even, I don't even have never even sold a house and I know I gotta have those candles burning. Okay, is it Johnny or Joni? Because I have a friend named Johnny and she spells her name the same way you do. Weigh in at 9am. Okay, so everybody who's going to weigh in today and there's so many of you. Good luck. I have to take the shirt off because I'm too hot with my coffee. Hang on. Close your eyes. Oh, no, don't close your eyes because I have a shirt on underneath it. My pajama's on. Gosh, don't I just look like a... All right, so this is what I wanted to come on and talk about real quick because I know that Sandy's gonna come on and the people who do their weigh-ins on Saturday and I don't want to infringe on their time. Yesterday, I went to weigh in and I was at the scotch and I said that I was gonna take this tweak and off, you know, that I'm just not feeling it, which I'm not, but I have to point something out to you guys. No matter how not feeling it I am, I still automatically do it and I think that's such a great thing. Steve and I went to dinner last night for our anniversary as I told you guys, if you missed it. Last Friday was our anniversary. We weren't having the best day. He was up here. I was down here. I was up here. He was down here. We didn't like each other very much so it was just one of those days. So we went to dinner last night and I said on my video that I was gonna have because normally when we go I have chicken guacamole and that's it. Oh my gosh, I'm having a hot flash. We're having a heat wave. A tropical heat wave. Bam, bam. So I said that I was gonna go. I was gonna have the rice. I was gonna have the beans. I was gonna have the guacamole. I was gonna have the sour cream and I just couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it because I knew that if I would have ordered a whole plate of all that stuff, even if I would have ordered a child-sized plate, I would have been too full. So I want you guys just to give that some thought. When you're feeling like I'm feeling we're like, oh, I'm so over this whole thing. Are you really? And I guess it's just something I've been doing for so long. I can't do it anymore. Okay, so it is Joni. Okay, Joni, I will do my best to try to remember that. I'm anxious to see how all you guys do on weigh-in. You know, I don't know. A lot of people I've been reading since Thanksgiving and now have been having a tough time. I've been having and I have to make this clear too. I haven't been having a tough time because of the holidays. I've been having a tough time because of me and my personal life. The holidays are not a big boom, boom, boom thing for us. I don't know how to explain it. When Steve left this morning, I told him, I said, I wish I could find something holiday-ish to do tonight. You know, like, find something like the boats when they light up the boats and they're in the harbors and stuff because I'm in California. I have harbors up the yin-yang and I would like to do something to get into the Christmas spirit. But the reason I'm saying that is because any, anything that I'm doing to sabotage my program has zero to do with the holidays. Tomorrow is Oliver's birthday party. I will have some pizza, but I'll count it and that'll be that. That will be that. My jail, I didn't say hello to jail. So I'm sitting here on my bed. I have my, let me show you guys, where I am every morning. I have my window. I've got some fog, which is fantastic though. Lonely and wanted to shout from the rooftops. You know what? I should check my phone and see if Sandy's on it. So I'm going to hang up so that I'm not encroaching on her. I can't remember who else weighs in on Saturday morning. Anybody class feel it? I was super pleased with, I even brought food home last night you guys. All I ordered was a grilled chicken breast. I had some shredded iceberg lettuce. Let me look here. That's some of Steve's guacamole and I ended up bringing some home. We had a nice time. It was a good time. Oh, there's Carrie this morning. So it looks like there's a lot going on. Maybe I should cut out even though you guys could always watch later and it's a great big YouTube world, right? So all I wanted to say, and I'm going to say it again, is even though you might think that you're not into practicing the WW, the Weight Watchers, the my WW right now, you might think, you might rethink that you might be more in tune with it than you think you are because I totally am. I'm hungry. I want to go in the kitchen. I want to eat something and I'm thinking, oh, well, I decided to take the weekend off. I'm going to go have something out of the norm. Hey, Marianne, haven't seen you in a long time. Could you change your name, lady? Good for you, Brenda. And you know what? I think I did too. I think I missed, I missed the spoke yesterday. Good morning, Ruth. And I'm going to sign off because I forgot Saturday morning is a busy morning for way in. Let's see. Sandy's weighing in. Carrie's weighing in. Who else weighs in on Saturdays? I can't think of. There's a collab going on. Oh, Judith, how are you? Good morning, my friend. Maybe I'll just sit here and talk. I have some coffee and some water. I'm just trying to catch up on what you guys are saying. Saturday mornings are busy morning. I have Disney on the brain. I want to go to Disneyland. It's so bad. So, oh, Judith, sure. I'll stick around for a few minutes. Just you and I can talk. I was, I don't know if you thought what I said at the beginning, but Steve went to work really early this morning. I've just been meant in bed. I just felt like talking and sharing that even though yesterday I said that I was going to go off plan this weekend, I haven't and I'm really proud of myself. I'm doing okay. I'm doing okay. I love, love, love Saturday mornings because every week morning when I wake up, I get a little bit of anxiety about getting Oliver up and dressed into school on time because I am an on time punctual person and sometimes he drags his knuckles, you know, because he's nine or 10. Sorry, I'm getting a message. Oh, my hands. They're the norm, which is why I'm a little loopy this morning. I took half of a bit of drill to get the itching to go away, but, you know, not much we can do about that. It was so nice to wake up this morning and not jump out of bed and get all over to school and get Steve's lunch Friday. I told him last night, I said, you chose to work on Saturday. You're making your own lunch, buddy. It wasn't very nice, but I did it anyway. He didn't mind. Here I sit. I'm going to try to wrap some presents today. I have a friend who said she's going to come and help me because wrapping presents with these fingers not conducive in any ways. So you were too tired to go in the park. Oh, Marianne. There's no such thing as being too tired to go in the park, even though I know there is. You gotta have the best of the day at Harvard. You can tell I was too tired of wandering. It's so funny. Right now is the time to go during Christmas, man. Georgia says, I discovered that eating a bag of popcorners is still better than eating regular chips, but it's done and that's my story. Wait a handle, Georgia. Perfect. Popcorners are good. They're really good. I need to decide what to make for breakfast. I'm thinking waffle. I don't want eggs, but eggs, I have noticed as much as I do not care for them. They fill me up for a while. If I take six points for three eggs, three points for guacamole, that's nine. That sticks with me. I miss my salsa though, you guys. I miss it a lot. And Georgia, again, like Brenda said, you're right and move on and there's a big difference. You don't have all the sodium that you do with the regular chips. There's just a million. I like getting all these weird messages. Mindy, see Mindy mom. You guys all watch the Mindy mom, right? The title of her channel is see Mindy mom as in verb. She's being a mom. Go check her out. She's fabulous. She's fun. She's cute. I just love her more than anything in the world. And I will reply to her message when I'm done here. Rosemary says yesterday I came home from work and was so hungry. And yes, I made me a quesadilla but did count it. Then you're good, my friend. Then you're good. Quesadilla sounds good. Good morning, Susan. I'm feeling, I'm feeling good. I'm a little loopy but I'm feeling good. I'm just kind of tired from the stupid medication. But I'm all right. I'm good. I have no complaints. You know what too? I have to keep in mind is that on Fridays when I come on and I make videos, by Friday, I'm like just at the end of my week. I'm at the end of my rope. It's just like I'm tired. And I need to cut myself some slack because I am tired. And especially at this time of year, Oliver has a secret Santa. I gotta get something for his teacher. He's got a show two times. You know, it's a lot. And so on Fridays when I come on here and I'm like, and while it's me, I need to turn that around because I hate putting out that message. But you know what? I feel good. Steve and I talked about my whole weight loss thing last night. He said that he, and you know what? I need to keep him in mind because he's my honey and he's my, Judith, hold on a minute. I'm going to come back to that. But I have to keep in mind that we live our lives together and what I do, he does. And he says that he would like to wait till the holidays are over for me to really be like dug into my program. And I think what I'll do is I just won't talk about it as much. I'll make choices, but I'm not going to say to him if we go somewhere, oh, I do or don't want this because of WW Weight Watchers. And just let him off the hook because I think that he, he alters what he eats and where we go and everything for me. And he shouldn't have to do that. All right. Let me go back and see what you guys are saying. Okay. Good Brenda, because she's a fab. I love Mindy so much. Good morning, Connie. Judith says, unfortunately no more bill bars for me. Yeah, we are all our challenges. I'm allergic to garlic, so we make judgments. And you know what? I could totally live without bill bars last night on the way home from the restaurant. We went and bought Clio bars. So I'm going to eat my Clio bars. I lived without bill bars before they came out. I can live without them now. Susan says, there's Mindy. Good morning, my love. Good morning. Good morning. I saw your message pop up on this device. And then I was going to reply when I was done here, because I had to get on here and take half a Benadural. Oh, I love you. And thank you so much. Yeah, Susan, you know, so this time of year and speaking of Mindy, let's talk about Mindy for for a minute. Let me read Georgia. You are doing fantastic finding alternatives and identifying your terrorist triggers. And some of these meds are hard on the body. Thank you, Georgia. All truths that I don't apply to myself and give my grace over. Let's talk about Mindy for a second. Mindy is married to a pastor. She has three children. She's the music director of a humongoid church. She has so much going on that I can't even imagine doing. And she's still staying right in there in her weight. And she's handling it. She's doing it. And it's because I think she's kind of like me. And she's like, I don't know, I may be wrong, but it's like my whole kiss thing, my keep it simple. Should we work, keep it simple, silly, keep it simple. But she does, she's able to still do all the things that she does and still take care of herself. And we can all do that. We just need to practice doing it. You know, we need to take that time and say, Steve, I'm going in the bedroom. I'm going to lay in the bed and put on my earbuds and listen to some Beatles and Rock Out or some Aerosmith or whatever. I'm going to play with my makeup. We need to take care of ourselves. And I don't know how Mindy does it because she's got a lot going on. She's shopping. She's a summit. Oh my gosh. Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad you have a lot of help. I'm trying to find help wrapping my presence. There's no way I can do it. And I said in my video yesterday, I got a splinter in this finger here. And I think I'm going to get a staff infection and lose this finger. I think it's just going to fall off. Okay, bags. I know bags. But you know, I don't want Oliver to open his presence because opening presence is so much fun. Judith says, Hubby and I performed in three concerts. Oh my gosh. You know what, Mindy, last night on KVC, I love the drawstring bags. I love the bags. On KVC, they had them for a really good price. And I read the reviews. They said that the sizes have changed and that they smell funny. But I suppose I could go to the 99 cent store. I just want to wrap Oliver's presence because as a child, can't we all look back and remember the anticipation because it takes longer to unwrap a present, especially when you have a sister like mine who uses 4,000 rolls of tape and it takes you an hour to open your present. And that's part of the fun. So the adults, I'm going to give bags to, but for Oliver, I do want to wrap. And I figured something out is that not figured it out. Oliver's best friend has a little sister who's in the sixth grade. And I spoke to her yesterday when I was picking them up. Exactly. Yeah, you want them to go, ah, ah, ah. In fact, I have to wrap his present for tomorrow for his birthday party. But she's going to come over and help me wrap. I poked my head in Mom's car. I'm like, hey, you want to make 10 bucks? Come over and help me wrap. And she's like, yeah. And I said, okay. So that'll be good. And even before I had hand troubles, I hate wrapping. Hate wrapping. Good morning, Hannah. My refrigerator oats. Well, if you're eating my oats, what am I going to eat? You know what? Here's a little confession. I didn't have any overnight oats the other day. So I heated up some of the WW ones. And while they are way too expensive and there's not enough in there, they were dang tasty. Good morning, Teresa. Good morning, everybody. Mindy, I did read your message long enough, but I didn't want to reply till I could give you my attention. And thank you so much. So you know what? When you guys think that you're just not going to do it, you're just not feeling it, you may surprise yourself. Like I surprised myself last night. I'm trying to Oh my gosh. I totally lied. Oh my gosh. I totally lied. Okay. I lied. I did not only eat. Oh, guys. Oh my gosh. Okay. Isn't it amazing what comes to your brain when you wake up? Okay. So we were at Don Cucos, which is our favorite Mexican restaurant. And we're sitting in a booth and Steve is staring straight ahead at another booth and I'm staring this way. And the couple to our left was a gentleman and his wife and she had like this little terror on and they were to my side. So I couldn't see what was going on. But Steve leaned over and he goes, Oh, she's crying. And I'm like, Oh, because Don Cucos and I just have to tell you guys, they make their drinks really strong. So I've been known to cry a time or 10 when Don Cucos because they make their drinks so strong. It's just kind of like, you know, anybody who's had a drink that's too strong, sometimes you cry. So I'm like, Oh, you know what, honey, to drink. So I kind of was like watching him out of the side of my eye because I'm that person. It was just the two of them and the husband was just sitting there kind of looking down like he did not know what to do. And then I finally caught a glance of her and she was crying. And she got up to go to the bathroom. And I told Steve, I said, I have to go in there. I'm just I'm, it's none of my business. I'm a busy body. I don't know. I have to go in there and I followed her in the bathroom. And I said, and she was crying. And I said, look, I'm sitting across from you. And I just want to let you know. What did I say that I noticed that you were sad and that you were crying? And I'm so sorry. Can I can I just give you a hug? I'm a hugger. I know some people are not huggers. And she said, I would love nothing more. And she just started bawling. And I just gave her the biggest hug and I was just putting onto her. And I didn't ask her why she was crying. And she said, today's my birthday. And I lost my mom a year ago today. Completely forgot about that. And she started crying harder. And I just started hugging her more. And I just told her, I don't know what that's like. But I'm so sorry. And I just felt compelled to come in here and follow you in here into the bathroom. Because sometimes our guys, they don't know what to say. They don't know what to do when we're having these feelings. And they love us and he probably got her the tiara for her birthday. But you know, it's just they sometimes they just don't. And I, you know, it's just how it goes. And I'm so glad I followed her into the bathroom. And I hugged her a few more times and she just kind of cried into my shoulder. And I just let her and I didn't say anything for once. I shet my piehole. And, you know, and then she goes, okay, you know, I'm all right. I'm like, are you sure? And I told her my name and I asked her her name. And again, I, you know, I told her, I'm so sorry. Happy birthday. And I'm sorry, you're missing your mom. And and I walked her back to the table and I held her hand. She held my hand more. I mean, she held my hand, even though it was this horrible hand. I think I might have even said something like, I apologize for the sandpaper that is in my hand. And she's like, I don't care. I just needed, I needed something right now. And thank you. And it was the best thing ever. And I've come, I forgot, since I just woke up, I forgot all about that. And I'm so glad I followed her in the bathroom. So if you guys ever feel like somebody needs something, and you're sitting there and you're watching it, and you don't know, man, it can't hurt to go check it out because she needed me. And she was, when she sat back down, she introduced me to her husband, and her husband said, thank you. He was like the quiet kind of guy like, like Steve is. And I don't remember how I ended the conversation. I just, you know, I wish your luck. I told her happy birthday. I don't remember what I said, but you know, I'm so glad I followed her in there. Because Steve looked at me like, you know what, you've had a drink. You may not want to do this. And I was like, no, I feel compelled. I have to do this. I have to go in there and see if she's okay. Because the whole time she was just crying, she hadn't had any of her food. She had a huge dessert in front of her. She hadn't eaten any of her dessert. And then next she's getting up and moving. So I don't know. That's my story for the night. I hope she's okay. She was just a beautiful, beautiful lady with her her little birthday tiara on. And she was missing her mama and anyways, any who, any what's that. Thank you, Mindy, because that's how I felt. And you know, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna ever stop being me because maybe it looks weird that I'm doing that or because there's been times when I've had people follow me or approach me and there's stuff that I can't say that I should say that. Mindy, I think you know what I'm talking about. We're meant to be places at different times. But so anyways, going back to the lie, we had dessert. I forgot because what started this whole story is we looked at her table and they had this ice cream in something with caramel and hot sauce. And I told Steve, I said, we have to get one of those. We have to get one of those. I haven't had dessert and that's when my diet was delayed. My WW. And it was fried ice cream and it was delicious. So I lied. I completely lied. I did not stick with my program last night. I'm sorry. Hi, Barbara. Good morning. Good morning. Good Saturday morning. I'm telling stories all over the place. I'm bouncing from one thing to another. I'm drinking water. I'm drinking coffee. Oh my gosh. Tomorrow. Oliver's birthday is actually Monday, but tomorrow's his party. So that's all I have. I'm actually going to sign off and I think I need to go back to sleep for a while because Benadryl's just got me loopy, but I was hoping if I got on here and talked that it would help. Let me go on and see if there's anybody I haven't read. I haven't read anything. Let's put on the spectacles, kids. I agree, Judith. Compassion is a good thing. Hugs. Hugs, but don't hug Sandy. Get her permission for it. Oh, Judith, I didn't mean to make anybody cry. Teresa, it was a good dinner. It was, it was a really good dinner. And then afterwards we went to Walmart and got Clio bars. So yeah, synchronicity is wonderful. Now I want to sing the police song, synchronicity. Does anybody have any great plans for today? I have zero plans. Steve's going to work till probably one. Maybe I'll pull out presents. Thank you, Susan. See if I can. Did I tell you guys I ran out of gas yesterday? You're rapping as we speak, Barbara. Teresa lost 2.4. Very good. This week, but going back to Steve, saying that he doesn't want to focus. I don't know what to do, you guys. He deserves not to focus, but Teresa, congratulations. That's awesome. Anybody else who's going to weigh in later today when I'm not here, when I'm snoring? Steve was snoring up a storm. I'm not going to get margaritas. Thank you, Tamsen. It was nice. It was good, because last Friday was not so good. We had to redo the whole thing. That's it. That's that. I think I will go scramble up a couple eggs with some guacamole and, oh, I'm out of egg McMuffins. I'm out of English muffins, too. I don't know. I'll have something. Or maybe if I go to sleep for a while, then I have to worry about eating. Teresa, 2.4 at this time of year. I mean, 2.4 at any time of year is like high five Bravo stickers at the yin and yang. It was a success, too. I needed to redo it. I just was not feeling well that week. Going to an open house at our workshop. Do we all have open houses at our workshops this week, you guys? Because I saw a sign about it yesterday, but I didn't stop to read it because I wasn't feeling good. I just wanted to get home. This morning, when I couldn't sleep, I looked up some Cook with Knees on YouTube from Gals that are not Weight Watchers, and they had some really good, really easy, fun stuff. I think I'm going to do that today. I'm just going to alter them so that they're WWE friendly. My tripod's broken. Okay, so my car got towed. It ran out of gas, and then my tripod broke. So that's three things, right? Nothing else is going to happen. I need to order a tripod. No more about this open house thing, you guys. Oh, I look a mess. I just washed my hair. Everything's good, but it's just not working out well for me, is it? Oh, well, who cares? I don't care. I'm already married. I'm not trying to impress anybody. Barbara, are you listening to Christmas music while you rap? Are you watching something? What are you doing while you rap? I need to know. And then I'm going to cut out. It's almost nine o'clock and I need to eat Christmas music. Yeah. You know what? I was going to turn mine on in here, and then I knew that I'd get nicked for copywriting. So stupid. I don't know what workshop we're having. I totally could not relate to this week's workshop. Kind of irritated me a lot. Parties, parties, parties. Well, not everybody goes to parties, parties, parties. Barbara, look right above you, my friend. Look right above you. There's somebody for you. I think maybe we should give him a chance first, unless he meant to say ho, ho, ho in the Christmas sense, but I don't think he did. Sam, that's not so nice. No, I got a sick nice Barbara on you. Hi, Sam. Thank you, Barbara. Much fun. Uh-oh, looks like we got another. I think so too, Jessica. Like I said, mine had a sign. I just didn't read it because I'm already there and all my friends are already there. Oh, Sam. Gosh darn it. That's a bummer. I can listen to it, Tamsen. I just can't while I'm talking to you guys because then I'll get dinged for copyright infringement. And it's, that's all good. I'm going to turn it on actually right when I hang up here, which is going to be about two minutes, which in all actuality, probably be like more like 20 minutes. I'm going to put it on and I'm going to listen to it and I'm going to enjoy it. I love my Christmas music. I think I'll sleep for a little bit longer and then go for a nice walk. This is perfect walking weather. So all right, you guys, I'm going to go so that everybody can tune in to Sandy and everybody's normal Saturday viewing pleasures. And thank you for letting me get on here and chit chat and tell you about my story last night. But my main story was, again, I'm going to repeat it. If you think that you're not in the WW mode, you might be more than you think you are. Love you, Barbara. Thank you for getting the bad guys. And I'll see you guys later.