Lunch at chops Grille at Symphony of the seas

So today November 4, 2023 and decided to have lunch here at Chops Grille. Here is our menu...  I even guessed what Brian is going to order. Lol 

This is our bread starter... it is pretzel and some herb bread with soft butter. 

The wild mushroom soup taste so good. I can taste the chives, enoki mushroom and it seemed it is made with portobello mushroom mix with other mushrooms... actually, its quiet good...  Brian and I enjoyed much cause we ordered they sane as an appetizer. 

It is quiet yummy... and now we are waiting for our next course.....

This is Angus Filet Mignon... it's so good, tender and juicy. It melts in your mouth.  I have no idea the difference of beef from the US and in the Mediterranean. They might be pampering their cattle, give a massage and all hehehehe

This is the simple Cesar Salad topped with slice of Filet Mignon steaks. It is the same, it is tender, juicy and it meltsnin your mouth. 

Brian and I decided to have asparagus sides. It cooked perfectly. 

we finished our meals with this dessert 

Key Lime Meringue Pie, 

Graham cracker crust. It was lemony or limey lol 😆 😂 🤣  it was so so so so good. 😋 😋 😋 😋 😋 

This is one ...

Colonoscopy procedure

I am so thankful to the Lord for having a safe colonoscopy procedure. This is a recommended procedure from my health insurance for adults reach at 50 years old. (Warning this is a long message) 😆 🤣 😂 

Ding! I just turned 50 ;) and had my yearly check up last February. Your family doctor will order this in behalf of the insurance. So, it is a MUST! It's a preventive for colon cancer and if my rectum or my large intestine has polyps, they will remove it. BUT! I have none. Thanks be to God!!! ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 . 

The nurses that assisted me there was asking me lots of questions. One thing that they were so impressed of. I have NO MEDICATIONS taken as maintenance. I even told them confidently, I'll see you guys in 10 years ;) 😉 😘 😉. You, yourself can assessed what did you do with your body. Did you treated it poorly? Or you will be good to it. 

The nurse thought of me that I maybe a nurse cause she was telling me how they gonna do to me and I was filling up some blanks of the words that she is about to tell me. And I was like, I spend my time reading after my doctor ordered this procedure. I just wanna be prepared. 

One thing, I told her. I am nervous and my BP skyrocketed to 150/50 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 I was like believe me, it's on my dr records. I have 110/50, I even had 90/60 back in 2015 and started going up as I am getting older. Brian rolled his eyes when I am telling him this 😆 🤣 😂 😹 

They asked me what was my secrets and I told them. Since I was young, I rather eat vegetables than meat. I am not saying meat is bad but eating in a moderation (3x a week?). I do not preferred to eat greasy food (Trans fat??) but either in boiled, grilled, pan fry (no oil) and or just paksiw (that Filipino dish I like). I tried my best to stay away eating non organic chicken and farmed raise fish like tilapia, hito or catfish, milk fish or bangus and some of the salmon. I prefer eat wildcaught fish. That's why I can't wait to be home in the Philippines and eat those small fish lol 😆 

So you will ask me, in one week there are 7 days and has 3 meals and so we are talking about 21 meals. 

Here it is, I eat eggs everyday. I remembered when I was a kid. Needed to limit in eating eggs but oh boy! If I choose to. I eat 5 eggs a day as a replacement of my protein (3 meals equivalent). If I want to make it so easy. If you think of plant base protein, we have Quinoa, tofu, seitan, and tempeh, maybe there are more but that is what I have at home. 

If I live in the Philippines, I maybe foraging jute or saluyot, alusiman or purslane and or kulitis or amaranth in the cornfields... and planted lots of malunggay. Those leafy greens are the best! I'll say, I am rich IF I have a lot of those planted in my farm. So start planting. Your flowers that you planted around your house won't give you food. 

The plus of eating those, you have plenty of energy. So, I am ready to summit in Mt Apo for the 4th time. ❤️ 💖 💗 

I told the Dr that i am going hike Mt Apo for a day and has 10,000 feet elevation above sea level.. he was like huh! For a day? he is also a hiker and like to travel. 

When he came in to the room before they will give me an anesthesia. He googled it where is Bansalan trail and the elevation of the starting point. He might be going and hike. I told him, pls let me know I'll guide you going up to Mt Apo summit. 

So when the dr give it a go for giving me the meds and anesthesia, I went to lala land. I planned of watching my gut in the screen but i fall asleep. When I woke up, Brian is with me and the nurse gave me a juice. (See me in the photo)

When we all are cleared of checking out, we went to the habachi place and I wanna eat salmon... but unfortunately, I only have a bite of rice and I am done. I throw up the juice that I was drinking. 

 So guys, Health is wealth. ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 ❤️ 💙 💜 💖 💗 Be good to your body.

Restaurant Bruce Lee Used to eat in Seattle

My husband and his Co workers planned to have lunch at Chinatown in downtown Seattle. They choose to explore Tai Tung Restaurant 



2nd day of my Energy Journey

This is gonna be fun. 

December 4,2021 Journal Entry

December 4, 2021

First day for the second phase of my Energy back program. 

I am a morning person and I can shift energy but then in the middle of the day. I crashed.  Energy level 3

Breakfast: it sounds so small but I drink lots of water plus it's been more than a month I am doing 2 meals a day and so my stomach shrink... yeah my stomach is small I think cause I tried to loose weight before this Energy program I am in. 

Breakfast: done and I felt full...

Lunch: I felt full... I think I will ask my coach Belldon Colme if I will lower the amount of food. 

Main course: turkey stir fry plus 

cauliflower steaks... and we add half oranges 

Our dinner is so yummy: apple chicken burger garnish with apple slaw. Plus stir fry red Swiss chard...

After watching the pastries rung by the cashier, my brain lit and say... that is really yummy lol... but there is more yummy that Brian and I made. Our dinner, chicken burger with apple slaw added by Swiss chard leafy greens

December 2, Journal Entry

My photo taken last 12/3/2021. We were about to go watch movie

                                

This is our first day in our phase. Let's get Indulge. Probably eating out tonight.

Betty: Weigh in 135.4 lbs

Brian Skelly  weigh in 266.8 lbs 

Weighed without clothing 😆 and after peeing. 

Weight goal 100lbs and Brian is 165lbs. 

Energy goal scale 8-10, 10 is high

Drinking water 1/2 of my weight in oz as recommended...

We ate as much in what we have in the fridge... we were indulging... who cares for today. My coach wanted us to gain 5 lbs for two days. I just have the hard time though.

Second day at indulge phase.... Brian and I went out. We watch movie and ate pretzel bites with cheese pizza and drink sodas... after our dinner. We ate at olive garden... I was stuffed,,,... 

My weight did not go up when I weighed in the morning and so I am hoping the next day when I weigh again. I gain some weight.,,

Nutritional Fitness Program: Getting Back my energy

December 1, 2021 Journal Entry

 Back in 2001, I was so happy, lots of energy, and in shape. Yes I was 100 lbs that time when i got married to my husband. Brian was 218 lbs which the maximum weight of the Navy allowed him.

My diet was mostly eating vegetables, fish, rice and meat 2-3 times a week. 

This was our engagement photo

My weight back in 2013 was 105 lbs and sometimes 110 lbs... I was pescaterian in diet. I exercise 3 times a week and run 2 days in a week. My energy that time was okay .  I took a nap in the middle of the day to replenish my energy. 

Tomorrow is my formal start of my Energy back program from Nutritional Fitness. I won't call it weight loss program cause I want my energy back....Imagine the time when I was young at 16, that young age. 

Weight goal 100 lbs

Energy goal scale 1-10, where 10 is high. I want it 8-10..

Brian's goal 165 lbs.

Energy goal- of course high energy 

Current weight 139lbs and 270 lbs with clothing..

Good luck to me and my love Brian Skelly

Our New Venture: Planting Dragon Fruit in the Philippines

 Back in August 2019, I bought and ate red flesh dragon fruit. It was fresh harvest from the farm. The dragon fruit I tasted it here in the states. It is not really that tasty and so I was reluctant to eat. But when the lady where Brian got a massage when we were in the Philippines. She asked me to buy it.. and hell yeah.. I said I wanted 10 kgs plus I have my family as well that I can share with. 

So I ate it everyday lol and it is so good. I was surprised that my urine color is reddish and also my bowel movement LOL. 

So, I decided to plant November 2019. Making an arrangement with my family back home.

Here it is first real - kinda real produce.. We have 300 posts that produce now fruits but we have more than 600 posts. 

Update in the farm: Our Dragon fruit plant has few rows that is 19 months old. We did not plant it together.

Harvesting early in the morning before everyone having their breakfast. Fresh from the farm for our loyal consumers. Bees are busy early this morning catching flowers - pollinating to increase our yield. Oh my! Is that 1 kg for one fruit? Thank you Lord for many blessings. Naa nami pangpalit ug bulad ug ginamos #Organic #organicallygrown #pca #pcafarm #dragonfruit #thinkcleanthinkgreenandeatorganic

 

Dragon Fruit Farm in PI

 I learned that Dragon fruit has a plenty of benefits in our body. I saw it from my friend/co worker in the Department of Agriculture back in the early 2000s but then I never thought of planting  it in my farm. I

October 13, 2020 Honeymoon? No, Its our 19th year Wedding Anniversary

 Last week, we went to Florida and guess what? Where we headed to? Florida - ORLANDO?

 First, my family attended to my friend's pageant, yes it is a beauty pageant. We were at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens. The resort is nice but we were not impressed with the hotel management. I took a shower, and there is no hair dryer. I look up in the ceiling, there is two holes in it. Oh boy! I felt someone spying on us. I figured it is a golf resort where Golf is mostly played by rich people. I never seen, picture hanging in the wall of a golfer or something similar. They have two picture frames hang in the wall and 3 walls are barely white. They could have done something different. They have space for mini fridge but it was empty. A typical hotel has microwave, so funny there is coffee maker in the bathroom, oh yeah at the counter top at the bathroom sink :D (well it is outside the toilet door) :D 

In the other side of my story, my friend Dulce garnered 3rd runner up at Ms Woman United States category. I screamed when the emcee mentioned Ms Woman Nevada included in the finals. I'll add my photo later.

After the pageant, Dulce and her family and us. We headed to Disneyworld. It was their first time visiting at Disneyworld. You know, whats gonna happened right. Brian will make it sure that her family gonna have fun. So much for her that she hated rides :D and the best part, Eric her significant other. He likes rides and he enjoyed with us. Her little girl Ellie enjoyed as well and she and I became buddy after three days. 

As usual, Brian and I love Disney and we like rides and ride it over and over again. 

This coming next year vacation, Brian and Eric were talking of going to New Jersey and ride Kingda Ka roller coaster. This is must be the fun rides. 

So and so... we had fun of all our trip in FL. We always coming back to the happy place.

Signed off..

Betty Skelly

Its time to update

 My blog is been so lonely :D I never post since. I blog before a lot and get paid. At this moment, I'll be busy doing embroidery, learning to make or decorate tumbler by glitter or rhinestones. It must be fun.

No post? Blogger?

Oh yeah, I ignore all in here and I am thinking to post anything here... For now, I am busy. I am going to clean the house.

CIAO everyone

Back to WDW

Its been so long that we did not go back to WDW.. my! Lots of new things to catch. They had this magicband.. wow! Love it that everything is connected to that little bracelet..

Our trip started Nov 1st, the kids and I flew to Baltimore. Yeah and yeah, I drove 5 hours after flying red-eye and we were heading to Norfolk VA just for picking up DH...... my! it was a bad idea! I was so sleepy for the last two hours of my driving. But I was so quick of making myself busy. I asked my DS to grab my make up kit lol.. I cleaned my face- oh yeah while I am driving. I just want my mind to get busy lol. ..

So happy to see my dear friend Tina and her DS Justin. It was a short visit and we had dinner in her home. So nice to see her again. Since I was so tired of driving and no enough sleep. We left at my friend's house at 9pm and head to Norfolk- oh yeah another 45 minutes drive. ..

The next day, we woke up at 4am and drove to Richmond and had breakfast with my friend's house Wilfrank and Elsa. Too bad, we did not met their daughter. We had a wonderful feast in their home and after two hours, we head to WA D..C.

We spent couple days in DC area and then fly to FL. It was a painful day- yep we had pain in our footsies lol.

MY DD birthday

My DD is growing up so fast and she was so happy knowing that she is taller than me. She made a statement that I am her child and I immediately called her "Mom".

She had a nice day on her day! Happy birthday my DD. I was so happy the day when you were born.

Rosie at 20 weeks

It is really amazing how this puppy grows. She is 40 lbs at 20 weeks old. She is so cutie

Choosing a family pet

Our family never have a family dog. We had previous pets like fish and parakeet. We attempted before to get a dog when the mother just had the baby on their first born,Benjamin. We were sitting a pomeranian dog before for more than a year. He never be our dog. 

My daughter, Mary really wanted to get a cat. She is a cat person but then I was allergic and could not bear the itch for so long. We find a good home for her.

So we were talking of getting a puppy. First we are considering of getting a German Shepherd Dog. Mary and I are excited and we like it cause of the wolf looks and train it as a protector. Who likes to be beaten by a 75 to 80 lb dog! 

Last November, I was looking for a puppy and find out the cost. It was not cheaper though but we wanted to get the puppy around spring.  Brian and I talk more about the breed. Ben does not care of what we gonna get. We were spending time reading reviews and who likes the breeds to be top 1 family dog. So, we decided to get a golden retriever. 

So, another puppy shopping. Sending messages to breeder and plus saving money cause the cost it is not gonna be cheap. I found a breeder in Oregon and she seemed not so nice person. She only replied my message. "Thank you my puppy is being adopted". I even asked her if when she gonna another litter from her other dog. She replied "Thank you my puppies are being adopted". I really hate that answer. http://www.chainofgold.net

Next, we look the very farthest one which is living in Crescent City CA. I sent message and the guy replied my message and even taking my call when I was asking him that we are interested his pupps. 

Our journey begins when we choose the puppy

We visited Rosie March 1 and so excited to bring her home.

It's a travel report in Europe

Transfer DVC points to other member

I started to rent my points and one of the member asked from mouseowners.com for transfer. Her home resort is Animal Kingdom and I made a transfer by calling member services. She and I had a wonderful conversation. Quick response to my message and the transaction ended up of at least 20 min

Got bug sticking around the vicinity

Mary came home yesterday from school fine. At around 8pm she complain that she had a tummy ache and ended up that she thrown up. We were thinking of giving her an oral suspension and so to settle down her stomach. We got this when she has stomach problem last few months. I was relieve after she took the medicine, she went to sleep but then she keep us waking us up. :( I had a rough time last night :(

Spring is HERE!

We are quiet busy here at home. We made a flower bed and I planned of putting flower beds in my front yard. I am thinking just to leave a path way. So excited the outcome!

The kids were busy as well, Ben is preparing for his MSP test while Mary is relaxing. The kids are ready to play in the backyard- so much for that! Their dad did not mow the lawn LOL.