Lots of news!!!!  First, our gas dryer's buzzer saved our lives Saturday night.  I was awoken to our dryer's buzzer going off at 12:30am from a Nyquil induced sleep to find our house full of gas!!!  Some how one of the burners on our gas stove had turned on without the pilot going off to ignite it and when I awoke and opened our bedroom door, the gas hit me like a ton of bricks in the face.  Long story short, thank God the wind was howling hard and I opened the house for hours to air it out.  It was freezing in that house but who cares, we were alive.  My youngest daughter would have been the first to die as her room is right off the kitchen and her door was wide open to this.  Thankfully, we are all alright but OMG was I scared.  I opened every window and door and let the wind air us out and the gusts were doing a great job because we were in a wind advisory too because they thought there might have been even micro-bursts too.

 

This proves that there is a God and he watches over us!!!!   All 4 of us should have been dead or very very sick at the least.  You should have seen the shot of Nyquil I took to put me to sleep too!!!  I only slept 2 hours before the buzzer woke me.  I still can't believe it.

 

Mike's flu turned into broncitus and he's still not back to work.  I worked my tail off last week so I was only able to get to the gym 1 day last week and it killed me not to go.  I did go last night to my groove class and I was a giant sweatball when I was done but OMG, did I feel good!  I'm going Wednesday when Angela's in girl scouts.

 

I had the beginnings of a cold and don't know what knocked it out of me, the Nyquil or the gas or the cold wind whipping through my house Saturday night or maybe a combination of all it but I'm ready to get back on track with the exercise.

 

I have been making some of the recipes from the Biggest Loser Cookbook and they are pretty easy.  I've only lost a little bit and so has Mike but I know when we get back in the gym full time, this will change.  Just need to get him well now.  I can't believe how much exercise really contributes to weight loss!!!!

 

Good luck to all, chat soon!!