Exercise: 90 mins treadmill

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2207 calories (23% fat, 44% carbs, 31% protein)

Breakfast: protein shake, 12-grain bread, peanut butter, orange (417)

AM Snack: almonds (164)

Lunch: beef mushroom barley soup, smoked turkey, apple, fruit salad (545)

PM Snack: protein shake, soy nuts (269)

Dinner: corned beef, chicken & turkey sausage, cabbage with tomato, butter, salad w/dressing (550)

Late Snack: protein shake, fruit salad, biscotti (264)

Kind of a quiet day around here. It is definitely warming up and finally we’ve got a few bulbs poking out of the ground. This is only in the few spots where there still isn’t a huge pile of snow. I’m still thinking that the ice on the pool will be melted in time to open it mid-April (fingers crossed). It might only be a week or so before only the big piles of snow are still around. Amazing what a couple of above freezing days can do!

I’m still on cat fight alert here today.  The one who started the kill-kill fight-fight (Gus) is pretty much over it.  He wants to be friends.  The little one (Shadow) does not want to be friends, but is somewhat tolerating him.  Until he moves too fast, or gets too close, then he’s a big ball of hissing fur.  He’s also pretty much staying on the living room/dining room/kitchen level.  This wouldn’t be such a bad thing if it wasn’t for the fact that his food and litter box are down on the lower level.  I broke down today and put a food bowl in the kitchen and a litter box at the back door.  I know he snuck down in the middle of the night last night, but I haven’t seen him anywhere but upstairs today.  I suspect it will be at least a couple of days before we’re back to semi-normal.  And at least a week before Shadow stops hissing at Gus every time he moves too fast or meets him on the stairs.  And poor stupid Gus doesn’t quite get it.  He’s become much more clingy than usual.  I took a picture of him draped across my arm (while trying to type this) but for some reason the camera doesn’t want to download.  Oh well, time for me to head off to bed.