a little homemaking

So we had company last night. Hubby's friends from V-town in for the night on the way to Vancouver to get visas for travel in India. It was nice to meet them finally. They came in for dinner and I got to try a chicken-brocoli curry casserole recipe from a friend. Salad, wine, buns, and key lime pie rounded out dinner. We walked down to the wharf and back and then visited a bit. It was nice to have company actually come and stay. Those visists for us have been few and far between for us since buying the house since most people coming stay with their family or the in-laws.
I spent my days off cooking dinners and making beef barley soup for the freezer. And reading. I am part way thru a biography of a survivior of a Japanese POW camp during WWII and African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Also thru in soe fluff reading to while away the hours on the porch throwing the ball for my ball crazy dog. They are currently worn out from a long walk on the mountain, which became two as when we reached the car some family we had invited showed and we did the walk again. Which is good as now that I am on some meds and hopefully starting to feel more normal I am going to make some real effort to loose weight.
I am 30 pounds overweight at least and was not thrilled to get married that way but too unmotivated to do much about it then. So I am not snacking between meals to start and cutting out junky snack food. I am figuring out which way to go. I may follow Weight Watchers at home as I did not like the meeting and really did not like the weigh ins. If I gained wight back I alreay knew and didn't need to feel like a big fat failure when they all did the faky sympathy face... "oh you gained that weight back this week (unspoken you big fat pig) you'll have to work harder this week". I know they are all on the program and they have to stay within their goal weight or they get fired but I did not find it supportive at all. Not even really from my Mom who has done the program for years. and is one of the worst for saying things like "do you think you should eat that?" and generally helpful comments like that. Luckily hubby is very supprtive and thoughtful about my feelings on that.
Otherwise I am back to work tomorrow for a very busy long weekend as the other girl on staff is off camping for the weekend and the owners are mostly at a dog show. yay me... not.