 guys it's Thursday December 21st the husband just got out of the gym he's here next to me hello hello yeah and I just got out of physical therapy my shoulder hurts we're gonna go get some lunch and then go home and do exciting things like laundry I don't really want to go for lunch again I like to goes but each sandwich is like a thousand calories true even if you get the vegetarian one they are just all that bread yeah so we're still using the app lose it and of course the husband is losing weight and it's not doing a thing for me well I gained five pounds I haven't gained but I haven't lost anything I think Rebecca's been losing weight our daughter's doing it too she lost point two pounds the other day it's better than what I've done yeah anything while sitting on our ass all day on the computer or on the couch doesn't help either no it doesn't at least I got some I got some arm exercises in this morning yeah that's a little bit of something yeah that's because you fell off the ladder I can only do two sets of sit-ups my second set started hurting I felt a twinge I'm stopping that's good you need to you need to stop when it starts to hurt that's what they tell you in physical therapy right so we're gonna go do all that we'll be back hey guys we spent the morning cleaning the house and getting ready for Christmas and having house guests and I'm having some lunch and I just wanted to give a little bit of update the app that we've been using to just be healthier that I didn't think was really gonna work to track like calories and everything I was wrong I've lost three pounds and I've only been doing it a week so I've got to think that I'm just conscious of the fact that I'm doing it and not snacking and drinking a lot more water I already did drink a lot of water but drinking even more that's what it is anyway just a little bit of an update so that's it for right now I'll be back my vegetarian friends are gonna want to skip ahead you're gonna find this next part offensive so just you know skip ahead a bit so I am in the kitchen with my big sharp pointy thing and my pot and I've got some chicken bones when we do a roast chicken I always save the carcass and any leftover to meet nobody wants to eat and I freeze them and then when I have a couple bags of frozen bones and chicken bits I put them in this pot I actually have a few here I put them in a pot usually the crock pot but today I didn't feel like getting the crock pot out so you know there's that I add some herbs that I'm fancy at the moment today I have sage and Italian parsley you could really do anything whatever you know kind of green thing green herbs and things that you like to have with chicken I like to use fresh ones but of course you could use dried it doesn't make any difference and I wash them off crush up the leaves so they're aromatic and you can smell them and then put them in the pot with the chicken I tend to not leave the icky ends on I throw those away and then the same thing with the parsley you're propped up on the pepper by the way in case you're wondering do the same thing with the parsley but up now I like onions and garlic but again add in there what you like maybe you don't like either one of those don't add them I never put salt I have my blood pressure so if I don't need salt to have something taste good it doesn't go in chicken broth is usually for me something I used to cook other things that I season afterwards so like my butter which is also unsalted I don't want the chicken broth unsalted either it can make whatever I cook with it too salty I onion and I'm switching to cloth produce bags by the way they should actually be in today I don't like using the plastic ones there's really difficult to recycle and yeah we're gonna be switching to cloth once we'll have to wash them but that's okay so I'm gonna rough cut my onion here and I peel it how many issues getting the onion peeled if you are sensitive to onions and having them make you cry try refrigerating it because generally for me I found if they're refrigerated there's something about that that makes it less bitter to your eyes and make you cry less not always sometimes some onions are really powerful and so then there's just nothing you can do but it this is just a plain yellow onion and usually refrigerating them works it did in this case it's not bothering me at all so I'm just roughly chopping that big chunks add that to your pot I think I'm gonna add some garlic I have some so I think I'm gonna use it all to the pot let's get the garlic some of that you know already cut up garlic water to our pot until it just covers everything and then bring it to the boil and let it simmer just let it simmer for like a couple hours until it's really strong and aromatic and yeah reduces down a little bit yeah if I do it in the crack pot then I let it simmer for like four hours if I'm doing it on the stove today so I'm gonna leave it simmer for at least two hours maybe three I'm gonna bring it to a boil on high and then after it's brought to a boil I'm gonna turn it down to low so to like three I have an electric stove so like number three like low and just let it simmer let it simmer for a couple hours it's gonna slowly reduce and cook release all the flavor from the vegetables the chicken and when it's done just let it turn it off let it cool divide it into small containers that you can put in your freezer I do use containers that are two cups it seems to be an amount of chicken broth I use a lot so two cup containers and then when I want to make rice instead of adding water I add the chicken broth when I'm making chicken and beans instead of adding water I add chicken broth it makes things taste a little bit better so there's a quick tip for the week cooking tip I don't do a lot of cooking anymore but there you go all right that's it for right now I'm gonna wash my sharp pointy thing and I'll be back morning everyone it is Saturday December 23rd the day before Christmas Eve and we're off to the grocery store I think the only worst day to go grocery shopping would be tomorrow yeah I think we're a little crazy but yeah we're out early trying to go get it done early I don't know if that's gonna help but we're gonna try so we'll be back you know Costco's insane on a good day the day before Christmas Eve let's just say it's not good so we'll be back I don't think I've ever seen this many people in line at Costco pull all the way down that way all the way down that way every single register is open and the parking lot was full jam we almost got hit by somebody trying to get to their place that's gonna be fine I'm done at the last stop thank goodness because the traffic is just crazy people aren't even waiting for folks to get out of their parking space before they're trying to get into the space we've almost gotten run over a couple of times we got everything we needed and we can just go home now and stay there until we need to go see family and people tomorrow and son and Monday all right that's it for now I'll be back like what it is everywhere I think they're waiting for us to leave it's just crazy Merry Christmas only Christmas Eve everybody and we are at the gas station filling up before we go out to dinner with friends and then later go to church and we have a lot of gas credits at Safeway our local grocery store and so my husband just said we're paying like 179 a gallon American dollars look when does that happen I guess we haven't used the credits in a while so I don't do much driving so I don't fill up that often and he hasn't been at work at this for two weeks so nice huh all right so that's it we are we've already opened gifts with the kids there's a little bit of clip that if you're watching this you've already seen that we had a lot of fun we had breakfast with them and and yeah I guess we're gonna go have something to eat right that's right I'm gonna go out for dinner yes with friends with friends Merry Christmas Merry Christmas it is Wednesday December 27th and the house is quiet for a minute as you saw in the previous little clip we spent yesterday visiting with my sister and her husband who are staying here for a few days and my cousins and their children came over later I didn't film that part we all spent a lot of time putting together this Game of Thrones 4d puzzle and this part here we started about 4 30 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon we finished at 12 30 in the morning just this blue this this party this was really hard this other part the the second layer and then the little figurines that go in we did all that this morning over coffee it took like an hour the but the background oh my god so yeah that was a pain in the neck but we did it over dinner right dear right yeah so we got it yeah so we did it over dinner and we started it before dinner then we went to go have dinner we pushed everything to the middle of the table a dinner and then when we were done we kept working on it because you know and then I've spent the rest of today after everybody left to go do their stuff purging I've been purging so my kitchen counters are like now husband wants to make lunch but yeah so I have to clean all this up because I found another closet to purge in and some stuff from my office it has got to go so that's it for today I hope you all had a merry Christmas and happy holiday with your friends and family and I'll be guys so we are taking advantage of the fact that our house guests my sister and her husband are out visiting with friends and family we got some stuff done around the house I showed you my purging I got that done we had some lunch we're out running a couple errands going to the bank the grocery store that kind of thing and just kind of you know chilling a bit so yeah before we do more entertaining so anyway Christmas week is usually week for most of us full of entertaining me entertaining and friends and family and obligations but I hope that when you're doing them you're enjoying them and I hope you remember to stop and take a deep breath I hope you all have had a merry Christmas I hope you have a happy new year a safe one and I'll see you again next week talk to you later