tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79957586661132223002024-03-13T07:19:25.762-07:00My LifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-53750901937137853322014-08-27T07:07:00.000-07:002014-08-27T07:07:50.887-07:00Day 6<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm proud of myself I have actually done this for multiple days at a time. So yesterday I didn't eat the best. It started off okay. I didn't eat breakfast. I left early to go grocery shopping. I spent way too much there. I stopped by Hope and got food from hope too. I got most of my fresh fruits and veggies from there. I brought home apples and oranges and blackberries and then a couple things of salad, cherries, and just a whole bunch of stuff. But when I got home I had 5 cookies because I was starving. I wasn't happy when I ate them but I couldn't stop myself. I had zero will power at that time. Then for lunch I actually made a good choice and had one of the salads. No snack after that even though I thought about it. I went to the pool with my mother after lunch. She didn't stay long but I stayed and swam with Love Bug. My mother complained that she had water in her ear and isn't coming back today to swim but Love Bug and I are still going. Anyway for dinner I made sausages and mac and cheese. I had only a little mac and cheese and I also cut up and sautéed some peppers, onions, and mushrooms to go on top of the sausages. It was delicious and I had two with mayo and sliced cheese. No dessert. I drank one soda yesterday and then nothing else but water. I was exhausted to the point I was starting to feel sick so I went and lied down. I was asleep before 7:30. I guess all the not being able to sleep finally caught up with me because I slept until a little after 5. Happily my hubby stepped up and got the girls to bed, but I didn't realize until this morning that I slept through game night so it had to be postponed until tonight. So I stepped on the scale and WOOHOO I lost 2.2 pounds. So I'm down to 265.7. So that's even lower than it was before I gained yesterday. Imagine what I would have been down had I ate better. Today has started out okay. Bad because I forgot to put a snack in Pumpkins backpack. I can't believe I forgot it and she doesn't even know yet. I'll give her one when she gets home I just didn't think about it. But happy is instead of cookies for breakfast I had oatmeal so maybe I won't have a bad snack or cheat and eat cookies again. Now I need to clean and go to the pool. I really need to make a list of everything I need to do today. Until tomorrow :)</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-69052245859007321432014-08-26T04:17:00.001-07:002014-08-26T04:17:09.836-07:00Early start to Day 5<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well I'm on here early today. I weighed myself and didn't get good news. I knew I had a bad day yesterday. This morning I weighed 267.9. So that is a gain of 1.6 in a day. I am REALLY disappointed in myself. I made bad choices and I knew better. This is going to be a short post since I haven't done anything today yet. My mother is supposed to come over and go to the pool with me and Love Bug but I have to go to the grocery store and clean before that happens. SO today is a whole new day so hopefully I can make better choices.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-40353361821045908852014-08-25T20:27:00.001-07:002014-08-25T20:27:17.250-07:00Day 4<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well after weighing myself this morning I lost 0.2 but at least I didn't gain. So my weight was 266.3. I went to go help out at hope today with my mother. It was okay. I mean I only go there sadly because I feel obligated. I wish I liked to go and I probably would had it been my idea but Since my mother is one of the main people there and I am an at home mom I feel like I have to go out there. But I can't complain too much. They're honestly the reason that I have so much food in my house. Not that I'm overflowing in food but every little bit helps. Plus I haven't had to buy very many clothes for my girls in their entire lives. Anyway yet again I am worried about tomorrows weigh in. I couldn't go to the pool because it was closed today. So no workout there. And I didn't eat the best. I had an ice cream sandwich because one of the workers at hope brought me one saying that she was sharing. I couldn't say no and hurt her feelings so I ate it because she stood right beside me until I did. I had some broccoli mac and cheese for lunch with a couple of marshmallows. I felt like I was going to pass out since I haven't been sleeping well so I took a very, very short nap (seriously like maybe 5 minutes before my hubby texted and woke me up). I made pot roast for dinner and I filled my plate with mostly veggies but I also stole some of the pot roast off of the girls' plates and for dessert I had a 90 calorie lemon square. So WAY too much food. I will try to be better tomorrow. Today was Pumpkin's first day of second grade. She said she really liked it. Hopefully she will continue to like it. We did her homework together and I also worked on helping Love Bug with learning her alphabet. I am not a good teacher. I try but I can get frustrated easily. She had a hard time with the letter C. I just don't know. Right now she's testing her limits so much that trying to get her to actually listen to me is frustrating. She is really smart. I know she is. But I really am not sure how to teach her. I always felt like I was failing when I was trying to teach Pumpkin but I did something right because last year she was nominated to be in the Program for advanced learning at her school. So maybe it will all come together and I need to quit trying to force her to learn and just try and lookup ways to make it fun for her. Well I guess I gave myself something to think about while I am busy tossing and turning trying to fall asleep. Until tomorrow.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-45754536460808712322014-08-24T20:06:00.000-07:002014-08-24T20:06:56.777-07:00Day 3<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well I was totally amazed today that I didn't gain anything. I didn't lose anything either but hey I'm calling it a win. So again today the scale read 266.5. I'm kind of nervous for tomorrow. While I did go to the pool today and get a pretty good workout in while I was there. I also ate horribly. We had a movie day and we all got a snack. I got sweet tarts and I also had lunch at sonic and two egg sandwiches for dinner with chips. I didn't eat the whole box of sweet tarts but enough that I feel guilty. I knew when I bought them I knew I really shouldn't have, but when my hubby gives me a look because he's trying to justify him getting a large popcorn for the movie theatre. So he won't feel so bad for getting his snack if I get a snack too. I really need to learn to say no. I wish we didn't enable each other like that. Or we did that we would do it in a good way. Anyway today is going to be short. I have to get to bed. Pumpkin has her first day of second grade tomorrow so big day for her. Talk to you guys tomorrow.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-57620436833338341142014-08-23T05:34:00.000-07:002014-08-23T05:34:00.133-07:00Another day<span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I weighed myself this morning and I lost half a pound. I wish I had lost more. But this means that I am about 14 pounds away from using my pounds lost jars again. My weight was 266.5. I kinda stole from pinterest but I have these two jars one labeled weight to loose and the other weight gone. When I started them I was 252. I put pebbles in them to maybe help me get down to my goal weight to see how far I had come. At one time I had like 15 in the weight gone jar. But I didn't keep any extra pebbles so when I gained weight I didn't have the extra to put in. So even when I loose weight I don't get to move any stones over. Until I get back down. On the other hand sadly my hubby gained 2.2 pounds this week which sucks. He wants to loose weight so that he can possibly get back in the military. That way we can have a better life. And I want that more than anything honestly. I loved the military life. So hopefully he will start losing weight soon. But he has the same problem I do. I eat too much and don't exercise enough. He usually goes for a walk in the morning but he has an office job so he sits all day long. Yesterday I didn't eat breakfast and when it came time for lunch I was starving. I at a couple spoonful's of the girls' mac and cheese, The rest of the leftover cheeseburger macaroni hamburger helper, and some chips. I had a soda with it. Then dinner was one cheeseburger and some chips. I didn't snack and I didn't have dessert. I know I have to do better and I am lucky that I lost even half a pound. I swam with the girls yesterday. We stayed for an hour and I got a good workout in while I was there. But it's the weekend and the weekends are always hard. I don't seem to eat right or get any exercise in during the weekend. Then Monday morning school starts and I will have a second grader. Hopefully it will be better with working out. My mother is supposed to come by and go to the pool with me and Love Bug when she get off of work. At least until the pool closes probably early next month. So not a lot of time there. I am actually going to have to exercise at home and make sure that I do it. It's just hard because when I'm at home I see all the stuff I need to do which since it is for my family takes precedence over the working out for me. I'll post again tomorrow and get back to counting days so tomorrows will be day 3.</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-31045541715366916432014-08-22T07:56:00.000-07:002014-08-22T07:56:37.823-07:00Wow<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well so much for getting on here everyday. I was going good then I got busy. I gained weight because I wasn't watching and it was my birthday. I made myself beef stroganoff for dinner and a no bake strawberry cheesecake for instead of a cake. Since no one else was going to do anything I tried for myself to make it an okay day. The next day I went over to my mothers and she had made my favorite meal mostaccoli. I know I spelled that wrong but I have never known how to spell it. I had to ask her three times to make some of that for me before she finally did it. She won't give me the recipe to make it myself so I have to depend on her. Anyway my weight this morning was 267.0. And even that I had lost 1.5 pounds. I will write on here tomorrow what I eat today and my new weight no matter what it is. I have been on the computer a lot in the past couple of days because for some unknown reason all of the sudden I got into ancestry. There are so many sites that you have to pay and I refuse to do that because right now we're lucky if we can get food on the table. But ancestry.com has enough free that I was able to go back like 6 generations on my mom's side. I can't get into the documents but it keeps track of all of the people I put on it. It was kind of cool to see all the people I was related to. And I found out that I am at the very least Scottish and Irish. I also, and I can't show this to my mother, am looking up my real father's side just mainly for the history purposes. I was always told that his family were Hatfield's. I even had a name with the last name Hatfield. Plus everyone on that side was from West Virginia so I never questioned it. However in this journey I have yet to come across that name. Granted I have only gone back like 3 generations but that one family members last name was never Hatfield it was Mounts. I was shocked. So who knows maybe eventually I'll have some answers.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-17297794392296022014-08-13T20:34:00.003-07:002014-08-13T20:34:38.637-07:00Day 2<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I weighed myself today and I weigh 267.0. So I lost 1.5 pounds. So yay me. I didn't have breakfast again today for lunch I had two ham sandwiches with about a half cup of chips then dinner was about a cup of spaghetti. I left some on the plate again and no snacks or dessert. It wasn't too bad but right now I am fighting the urge to get a snack. But I know I'll feel bad about it later. It is too late at night to eat anything. I went swimming with the girls again today. I didn't want to leave but I had to go grocery shopping this afternoon. I didn't get to sleep until late last night and it's after 10:30 now. I'm tired but I wanted to make sure that I wrote on here since I am trying to keep a journal of my weight loss so that maybe someone can read this and maybe get inspired or maybe this will just keep me from overeating since I have to share everything that I eat. Thanks for reading and I'll give you another update tomorrow. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-74821988267527962292014-08-12T19:51:00.001-07:002014-08-12T19:51:49.952-07:00Day 1<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well I am going to start up again. I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 268.5. I weigh myself everyday on the wii. I didn't eat so well today. I didn't eat breakfast pretty much like normal. I'm not a breakfast person and neither is my youngest daughter. If I didn't almost force her to eat something she wouldn't eat anything. I had a Totino's pizza for lunch. I'm not proud when I eat them but they taste so good. I also had chips with is again. Not good. I don't know if it was just weakness or bad judgment. I did a little better for dinner. I had two hot dogs which really is about half of what I used to have and just a spoonful of mac and cheese. I usually fill my plate, then clean it, then eat some of what the girls have left on their plates. I don't want to pass down to my children eating everything on their dinner plates so I only make them eat until they are full and if there is food left over that is okay. Maybe that will help them not have as many bad habits as I do. Maybe just that will help them not be overweight as adults. I have been a little depressed as of late. I am having family issues. And I'm not the type to cause problems or complain. I tend to just go with the flow. I'm an apologizer. I wish I wasn't but it makes me seem weak and a lot of people take advantage of that. Including people that shouldn't like family. Like this weekend was Pumpkin's 8th birthday. My inlaws came in for just the weekend. They haven't seen the girls since around Christmas. I had a party planned for Sunday but that wasn't good enough day for my family. They wanted to take pumpkin to their house for presents early and when I said no to that they brought every one of her presents to my house on Saturday. And they didn't stop there. They also brought party hats, party horns, and a birthday cake with candle. They pretty much cancelled out the party I was throwing her. At her actual party that I threw she only got the two presents that we got her. My family showed up but sat in pretty much silence the whole time acting like it was a huge inconvenience to them to even be there. Also one day when we were talking about the new Ninja turtle movie. I said that I honestly think the new turtles look weird and that they kind of look like frogs to me. I think those movies are so classic that the characters shouldn't be changed that much. But they went to see the movie which was fine. They texted me and said that they really liked the movie and I texted back and said that I was glad that they liked their frog movie lol. I thought it was a joke. Then the very next text it was taken to a whole new level when they texted me back that I was going to miss out on a very good movie because of my prejudice. Let me make it clear that I am not prejudiced against anyone or anything. I don't like when people talk about me so I don't talk about people. I don't treat one race different from another. To me we are seriously all people who deserve to be treated equally. All that matters to me is how someone acts and their personality. I mean if you're nice to me I'll be nice to you. However since right after Pumpkin was born there has been quite a few times that my family has called us either prejudice or racist and I seriously don't know where that comes from. I honestly think I need to move out of Texas. No offence to people who live here but I never should have moved to this state. We just don't like it. There is nothing about living in this state that appeals to us. And we will be leaving it as soon as we can. Hopefully it will be the military route but if not then we will find another way out. I am just getting more and more depressed the longer we stay here and it hasn't even been a year yet. For exercise today I cleaned and I also spent an hour at the pool with the girls. They had a blast and Pumpkin kept wanting to race. Love bug was just happy to swim around with her life vest on. That is one little girl who is absolutely not afraid of water or the pool. I will try to be back on tomorrow. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-49900331086853107312014-05-02T12:40:00.001-07:002014-05-02T12:40:24.316-07:00Starting the Journey again<span style="color: #a64d79;">Okay well I know that I said that I would post on here everyday starting yesterday, but I had a bad night the night before and so I didn't weigh myself and I didn't eat like I should. I weighed myself this morning and it's sad but good. I weighed 270.9. So boo because it</span><span style="color: #a64d79;">'s so much but yay because technically I lost more than a pound since the last time I weighed myself. I had a slim fast shake for breakfast and even though I wanted to I didn't cheat until lunch. I was going to have another shake but I didn't I had cocktail weenies instead and a Greek yogurt container. I promise that I am going to try my hardest to not overdo it at dinner which I am probably making homemade pizza. I have been cleaning all day. I never feel like I am doing a good job. Unless I do everything perfectly I chastise myself for not being good enough and when I say everything I mean everything. Even being a parent. I try the best I can but I always feel like I am doing stuff the wrong way or I'm either being to hard or too lenient. I get upset at myself for not being able to find the balance. But every little aspect of my life I feel like this from my weight to the way I look period since I don't know how to do my make up or hair, to being a parent to cleaning just all of it. There are times that I wonder why my wonderful husband is even with me. Why he was with me in the first place is still a mystery to me. I feel sometimes that he feels trapped even though he never treats me like that. He is an amazing man who is very good to us. He never verbally or physically abuses us. Whenever he isn't at work he likes to spend time with us which is a lot more than I can say for a lot of men that I know. I wish that shrinks weren't so expensive. I could probably use one. Well hopefully tomorrow will be a good day and I will lose weight. Talk to you then.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-45150374016005164892014-04-30T08:40:00.001-07:002014-04-30T08:40:56.755-07:00The first in a while<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay I know it has been close to a year. But life kind of came and smacked us around lately so I had to take a sabbatical. Things were going along great and not really realizing how good we had it. Pumpkin turned 7 and then started the first grade. We had her party all planned out even rented a room for it. Then about a week before the party we found out that the hubby lost his job. Without warning or a severance package after working there for seven years. It was like things were going great then all of the sudden our whole world came crashing down. I immediately signed up for food stamps and medical because I wanted to make sure that we had food and if anything happened I could take them to the doctor. However all of that took around a month to straighten out and we didn't have a paycheck coming in for rent let alone food. I was scared. We had to reevaluate our situation. We decided that it was time for a change. So we decided to move to Texas close to my family. I had never lived in Texas before but they were here and it helped that my mom works at HOPE which is a big help. So we sold one of our cars to have money for the move. Packed everything up. Had to sell the couch and rented a uhaul and went to drive down here and of course that weekend first Pumpkin got sick and then Love Bug. Then on the night before we were supposed to leave I got it and was up throwing up the entire night. So the trip got postponed a day and we drove for over twelve hours to make it here. I was exhausted from being sick and we left when it was dark and when we got here it was dark. I was so tired of driving. When we got here and a little unpacked the worry started to sink in more. Before we moved I had the move to look forward to and after when that was gone and neither one of us had a job so we were just stagnant. It took a while for unemployment to kick back in and we were getting low on funds. I only got half the money for food stamps here and only the kids got medical. So still no job and half the benefits. The hubby applied everywhere and I applied at a lot of places too. I got offered a job selling vacuum cleaners however the pay and pretty much everything else was kind of fishy and I didn't want to get into something and regret it later. As a last resort he applied at a temp agency and it turns out one of the only ways to get a job in this town is to go through a temp agency so that it's less messy if things don't work out. So at least right before Christmas he finally got a job. Even so Christmas was thinner than it had been in a lot of years. Surprisingly pumpkin didn't complain. We were expecting her to say that "this is it" when she looked under the tree. But she didn't and it was a good holiday. So after we got here we enrolled her in school. We still had only one car and so I was looking forward to her riding the bus while the hubby took the car to work. However we got here and in this town for some reason the buses don't like to run so there is no bus service for the students in town. So instead we had to figure out a way to do both. That way was to get the girls up at like two and then drive the hubby to work and then come home get them back to sleep to wake up a few hours later for school. That sucked for all of us. And the way they let the kids out here is very VERY unorganized. Her old school was very organized. Everyone waited in line the teachers helped the students. Everyone was done at the same time It was just organized and it felt safer. We come here and then the first day I see it and when school gets out it is crazy. There are people walking around everywhere. Kids running around and random parents coming up to get kids. Anyone could walk up and get any kid while their back is turned and the kids are supposed to get out at 3:35 but there are some teachers including Pumpkins that always get out like 10 minutes late. And to get the kids you either park across the street and walk over or you pull in and wait in the two lanes in front of the school. However in the lanes if you get your kid you either have to wait for the line to move up or more often cut off the person beside you so they almost get in an accident and that is every day. And that's with kids running around. I'm surprised more kids don't get hit by cars and there aren't more accidents because a lot of the people here like to think about only themselves. So things have been going on now. During all of this time I have gained more than 35 pounds. So I get to start over with my weight loss. It sucks and I have tried to do the military diet quite a few times but for some reason or another it seems I give up on it on the first day. So for now I'm going to try drinking a slim fast shake for breakfast and lunch and try not to overdo it on dinner. I have to do something I feel horrible and fat and sluggish. Love Bug just turned 3 and she had a Sophia the First birthday party. We finally got another car so I don't have to worry about Pumpkin getting to school. We are looking at a house to maybe buy because this one is outrageous. The other house has about 500 square foot less which isn't bad to go from 2000 to 1500. Four bedrooms and two bathrooms and possibly a dishwasher that works and isn't here just to make fun of me. And just last weekend we rescued a dog from an animal shelter. He is 9 weeks old and he's a blue heeler mix. He has black fur so we named him Loki. After watching Thor together I really liked the movie and so now the hubby picks on me saying that Thor is my man. If the dog would have had blonder hair he would have been named Thor but since he is jet black he became Loki. We are still in the not fun potty training stage and chew on EVERYTHING stage. Even though he has plenty of stuff to chew on. So I think starting tomorrow I am going to write on here my weight and everything I have to eat for the day. Maybe that will keep me on track with my weight loss. I want to do something so that I can feel better. Plus as a bonus my clothes will finally fit better. I have some that don't fit me anymore. So talk to you guys tomorrow.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-87738794160282011322013-07-15T18:38:00.000-07:002013-07-15T18:38:31.972-07:00Another week another start to the diet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: purple;">It's Monday and unlike normal I was actually on my diet today. I started a new week for my diet. Okay now for the apologizing. I kinda flaked on day three last week and I haven't been on here since. I have been super busy and I know that isn't an excuse but still. Also I guess I didn't really have the drive to get on here. I really should have it probably would have kept me on my diet more, but hey you live and you learn. After I did the last day of my diet I weighed myself the next morning and I weighed 237.9. That put my diet at helping me lose 8.4 pounds and brought me back down to my ending weight form the last time I was on my diet, before I was horrible for almost two weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">On Friday we had a really big day. We ended up doing 4 things on our list. We played balloon Ping-Pong. That was fun. We mostly just threw the balloons at each other but Love Bug went and tried to beat everyone up with balloons. We had a dance party that had to end with the Despicable Me 2 Minions singing the banana song. We always have to listen to that song whenever we can. After that Pumpkin made dinner. We chose a recipe out of one of the Hungry Girl Books. It was a Hawaiian pizza thing. It called for English muffins for the crust, marinara sauce instead of pizza sauce. She used 98% fat free ham and I cut up some pineapple. We used a reduced fat mozzarella cheese to top it with and I just omitted the red onion since we don't like them before they are cooked and I don't want to cut up an onion. After they are cooked I love onions. I love how sweet they are and as long as they are soft they are delicious. However the cutting them up part I hate. I don't like the tears or holding my breath and they make my house stink forever. But we baked the pizzas and Pumpkin did almost everything and she was so proud of herself. They were delicious. I would honestly say that I would make that dinner again. She did a really good job. I was glad that she had fun. I kept them up a little late that night and I let them have a fun bath with glow sticks. It was really easy and they stayed in the bath for a lot of time. I just made the room dark and threw a few glow sticks into the tub. They slept really well that night after we did all of those things. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Saturday was pretty quiet. We didn't do much but clean up and I went grocery shopping in the morning. We stopped at McDonald's on the way back home. We have had to stop there more often right now. Our McDonald's has minion toys right now and our walmart doesn't even have those so the only way for Love Bug to have a minion to carry around is to go to get her a happy meal. We also got a Ba Ba poster for her. I put it above her bed so since then she has had to say goodnight to the Ba ba's before going to bed at night. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Yesterday my hubby and I actually had some date time. We dropped the girls off at his parents house so they could go and swim. While they were doing that my hubby and I were going to go up to Michael's up close to the city but since we had to be back by a certain time to go to a certain movie we ended up not going quite as far and ended up at a goodwill store. He got a golf club and I got a book and a couple of really cool things for my kitchen. They are like shadow boxes with small little sculptures of wine bottles and a wine glass and the other has bread and groceries and spices and more wine bottles. I am so going to have to take a picture of them and post them on here. I found them for $4.99 a piece and I love them. I kind of really want a French style kitchen with French decorations. When we got back into town we went to the movies and saw Grown Ups 2. We saw Grown ups in the theater when it was out and bought it when it came out on DVD. The second one was better. We were laughing almost constantly. He got his popcorn and I got my normal nachos which I so shouldn't have. I knew better and I didn't quite finish all of them. Still after we went and got the girls we went back home and had dinner. I had the last couple of pizzas. Afterward I got sent out for Dairy Queen which is so not on my diet but it was delicious. I always get Mint Oreo blizzard. I am the only one in the house that likes mint. Pumpkin hates it with a passion and anytime I have something minty she always says "Mint yuck" and wrinkles her nose. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">So having done all of that and eating horribly I weighed myself this morning and I had gained 4.4 pounds. I felt horrible and I know better but I can't seem to keep on the diet on my days off. But as long as I keep going down I should be okay. So this morning I weighed 242.3 which is a huge difference from when I went to the doctor a couple of months ago with bronchitis and I was exactly 260. So yay for the little victory. I had breakfast this morning of one slice of toast and two tablespoons of crunchy peanut butter and instead of the orange or the yucky grapefruit (because the grocery store was out of them) I had pineapple pieces. Not too many only like a third of a cup sliced. I had a slice of toast and a can of tuna with a little bit of mustard and Mrs. Dash for lunch. Dinner was a probably less than 3oz. piece of chicken breast tenderloin, one cup of steamed green beans, one small apple sliced, and one half of a banana. I had the normal one cup of vanilla ice cream for dessert. I got plenty of exercise today. A friend invited us over to go swimming at her pool today so we went and spent a few hours out there. Granted I wasn't swimming back and forth the whole time but I did get my heartbeat going a few times. We are going to go back tomorrow. I am excited. The girls are too. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-22540954247421318012013-07-10T19:30:00.002-07:002013-07-10T19:30:53.649-07:00Day 2 military diet<span style="color: purple;">I started day two of my diet this morning by weighing myself. Yesterday I lost 3.1 pounds yesterday which is like yay. So that gave me motivation to go on with day 2. We didn't go and workout (aka run around with the girls) this morning. My hubby was really sore and he knew he was getting ready to have a bad day at work. But back to my point. I had one scrambled egg, one half of a banana, and one slice of toast for breakfast. Lunch was one cup of cottage cheese, one hard boiled egg and 5 saltine crackers. Dinner was 2 Jenny-O turkey hot dogs, one cup of broccoli, one half of a cup of carrots, and one half of a banana. Then the standard half of a cup of ice cream. All of that for 840 calories. But this is going to be short today guys I am honestly really, really tired. So I will be back on tomorrow bright eyed and bushy tailed. Talk to you guys then. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-71128253576735943952013-07-09T18:23:00.003-07:002013-07-09T18:23:27.451-07:00Military Diet Day 1 Take 2<span style="color: purple;">So yesterday starting the diet so didn't work. I had a major headache. It felt like it radiated up from my mouth to beside my eye up and giving me a huge migraine so when my hubby asked me to stop and get KFC for lunch it sounded really good so I got it. After that I just gave up the diet and had cheeseburgers with the girls for dinner with macaroni and cheese. So yesterday was a bust. Eventually my migraine went away and I felt bad for the food choices that I made. But the only thing I could do is say that tomorrow is another day to start over. So I did start over today. We woke up early this morning and went to go workout. Pumpkin and I started racing each other back and forth across the field. So I definitely got a workout in. I was sweating like mad and breathing hard. When we got back home I had one slice of toast, two tablespoons of peanut butter, and one very small cutie orange all with one glass of iced tea. Lunch was one can of tuna and a slice of toast with another glass of tea. Dinner I switched up the usual. Instead of a turkey burger patty I had a chicken breast tenderloin that I seasoned with pepper and garlic. I didn't think to weigh it but I am sure it was less than 3 ounces. It was pretty good and I got to use my new cooker. Anyway with the chicken I had one cup of green beans, one sliced apple and one half of a banana. Finally dessert was one cup of ice cream. Breakfast was 286 calories, lunch was 160 calories, dinner was 222 calories, and dessert was 240 calories. All that made for a day with 908 calories. My fitness pal yelled at me like it always does when I come in under 1200 calories. But the bigger point is that I stayed with it today. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">This shows the two inserts but they both come out and there is a circle flat plate that is bigger. But the one on here that is the two halves I used this weekend to cook the omelets. The were delicious and they cooked really well. The only real problem is that the non-sticky stuff is wearing off. Also I can make little bites of stuff. I really want to make stuffed mushrooms in there. It came with the cook book and I honestly want to make most everything in there. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We today just finished the last two cookies and by we I mean the girls. I cross my heart that I didn't have one. While they were good I was proud of myself for being strong and not over eating them. So yay me!!! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Yesterday of our List of stuff to do we made Frozen Bananas. No pictures because it wasn't really a picture kind of activity. I cut up the bananas early in the morning and threw them in the freezer so when they were done with their dinner they could have their dessert. Pumpkin ate all of them, but Love Bug left a little bit in the bowl. But to be fair she's smaller and I gave her just about the same amount as pumpkin. Today we went to the library. We apparently chose the absolute wrong time to go because there was nowhere to park near the building. Our library has only like five parking spots in front of it. When we went inside we saw that they were in the middle of some kind of program and there were people dressed as pirates. But the bad part is that there was a hoard of people in there. But we toughed it out and the girls played and they each got a couple of books. I got a couple books on blogging so hopefully soon I will figure out what I should do to get some followers or maybe just a little help to make this blog better. I also got a book on ribbon crafts and a few other things. All in all I ended up with like 6 books before I made myself stop. I really do have a love affair with books. It's kind of sad really. I would almost rather read than do anything else. Which is good right now considering I don't want to get overheated. The hotter it is outside then the hotter it is in my house. Inside it's 83 right now at 8 pm inside the house. It's just the way our house is. It sucks but what am I going to do about it. So reading right now is a good thing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I will be back on tomorrow to talk about the diet and how it is going. Talk to you then. XOXO</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-39168085002830338712013-07-08T06:40:00.000-07:002013-07-08T06:40:28.373-07:00Back to military diet day one<span style="color: purple;">Well as I predicted before this week didn't go as well as I would have hoped. I did gain weight, but I was hoping that if I did it would only be around five pounds. Well here I am Monday morning and I gained 5.7 pounds. So it is bitter sweet. I mean I am no where near where I started and I kept it in my goal so yay, but boo that I gained. This morning I weighed 243.7. And if you remember when I ended my diet last time I weighed 237.9. Don't get me wrong losing just over 20 pounds in a few months is pretty bad ass but we had a lot of family time this week since the hubby was off and when we have family time it is more difficult to eat well since we are usually out. Although I have noticed myself trying my hardest to make the better choices for me and my girls. Even on the fourth instead of the candy and other crap they could have had I brought star shaped marshmallows instead since they love those and could devour them. Also it has been 4 days and there are still cookies left that we made on the third. That never happens. That being said I did have a box of dark chocolate raisinettes last night. I am not really a big chocolate fan but I really like it with raisins. And the dark chocolate ones have extra antioxidants or something. However the second helping at dinner I knew was a bad idea as soon as I got up to get it. But I am starting back on the diet this morning since my hubby goes back to work today. So I'll get a late lunch but at least I will be feeling better. And I do. Whenever I am on the diet I feel better not only about myself but health wise. Since I have been on the diet I'm good while I am on it but as soon as I come off if I eat anything greasy or not really all that good for me my stomach hurts and I usually spend a lot of time in the bathroom. So it's more advantageous for me to eat better. Which is a good thing. This works better for me. I have read how some people don't like it and either don't lose weight or they only lose like 1 or 2 pounds but for me this is better than anything else I have ever tried. And I've tried my fair share along with all the diet pills on the market. I just never really had any significant weight loss or enough to make me want to keep going. I get discouraged really easily. I always want something to work the first or second time and when it doesn't then I'm usually done and trying to move onto something else. But this came around and I decided to give it a try. I haven't really been exercising while on it which I should but I am still losing a decent amount of weight and it seems for the most part to be staying off. Or at the very least not gaining it back as fast as I should . On Friday I got to go yard saling with my hubby and we found one of those ready set go machines for $2. It's a really cool little gadget. I will post a picture of it on here later but it is really kind of cool it cooks stuff faster and healthier with no oil and I made for dinner omelets in it with tomatoes, salsa, and cheese and they turned out great. Plus it really helps with the portion size. The timer is broken on it but hey as long as it still heats up I know that I can still cook with it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Well I'm going to go and get my breakfast. I'll be back on later talk to you guys then. XOXO</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-70262379744985802642013-07-05T06:13:00.005-07:002013-07-05T06:13:57.784-07:00Busy, busy, busyI know I missed a day again. But yesterday was a holiday and it's not like I have anyone on here actually following my blog. It tells me that I have a big, fat zero under followers. If I did have some I probably would have taken a few minutes to get on here. <br />
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Yesterday was the fourth of July. We woke up bright and early and I had to start making the deviled eggs. The night beforehand we made cookies. The firecracker cookies and they turned out pretty good even though I had the wrong size French vanilla cake box. Anyway, so we started on the lower calorie sugar cookies. I followed the recipe exactly and I didn't realize that they had to sit in the fridge for an hour. So we did it and I let it sit in there for a little over an hour. When I got the dough out and started to roll it I thought that it was weird because I had to work to roll it out since it kept on almost springing back to where it started. But I stuck it out figuring maybe that was what was supposed to happen and they would be fine once they cooked. So we cut out and decorated like 15 cookies and I baked them and noticed that they didn't really brown up but I was still willing to give them a chance. When they finally got done I tasted one and it was sooooo rubbery. Not that it tasted bad. I mean it wasn't horrible but I couldn't get over the rubbery feeling when I was chewing the cookie. So that recipe is going into the trash. Yesterday I made the deviled eggs that were red, white, and blue. It took a little extra time but it wasn't too bad. I had to hold the eggs into the water, vinegar and dye since I didn't want to dye the entire egg. But they turned out really good and the vinegar didn't effect the taste of the egg like I was nervous about. Although when I planned on making them at first my in-laws were going to make burgers and hotdogs on the grill. But those plans changed. They decided, after I got everything for the eggs, to make spaghetti instead. Now spaghetti and deviled eggs don't go together but I had already told Pumpkin about the eggs and she loved them so we made the eggs and took them out there and ate them with the spaghetti. <br />
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But enough about food. I mean I keep trying no to think too much about the food so I don't over eat. I finally weighed myself this morning and I have gained. It was 4.6 pounds but it's not as bad as I thought that it was. I haven't been anywhere near as careful as I should have been. We got a small pool from walmart so that the girls could swim a little bit since they haven't really been in a while. They loved it. The went out to the pool two times to play. I just wish we could bring the pool to our house here. They said that I could bring the girls out to swim in the morning, but it will probably be only on the weekends. I only go out there once a week and that's enough. But we lit the smoke bombs which are Pumpkin's favorite. They have been since she was little and realized she could run around in the smoke. We had a total of 36 smoke bombs. We also had a bunch of poppers which were almost as fun. Finally when it got dark we started to do the fireworks. We got a pretty good amount and it was really fun. Love Bug got scared of the noises but she was fine once she was inside staring outside the door. We left right after the fireworks were done but we have to go back out today to clean up from yesterday. We left a bunch of stuff out there. But hopefully it won't take too long since we have a bunch of stuff to do at home. I was hoping to get through some of our things and do a pretty much spring cleaning. I throw more stuff away when my hubby is there. We also have to figure out what we are going to do today from our summer fun to do list. But mostly cleaning is going to get done. <br />
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Well I'm getting off of here XOXO.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-20352535606501410962013-07-03T05:44:00.000-07:002013-07-03T05:44:26.392-07:00I missed another day<span style="color: purple;">Any other week than this one I am on here at least once a day. But since my hubby has this week off we have been going nonstop. He wants to cram as much family time into this week as possible. Yesterday we were barely at home until it got to be the evening just before dinner. But my house still looks like crap. It's amazing since we weren't even here most of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We started out in the morning going to the 3.2 mile round trip bike path. My hubby went for a walk and since the girls won't make it that far walking we played in the sports fields beside it. They ran back and forth as far as they could. They loved going down the hills. But they got plenty of exercise and so did I following them. Then we went for a short drive by the military base so that they could make the airplanes fart. Okay, okay I know that is gross but it is kind of a tradition for us. It started when Pumpkin was small. My hubby loves airplanes and passed that love onto her and so he would drive by the airplanes and one day he asked if she could make them fart and now every time we pass by the airplanes they make them fart and then we all say who the fart is most like. Then we went and looked at the camp site over here so that we could drive by and look at the campers. Which is something else we like to do. After coming home to change and get stuff ready we went to mark another thing off of our list. We went to a further away park and had a picnic and let the girls play afterward. Love Bug climbed the ladder which I didn't think that she was old enough but she made it all the way multiple times by herself. I even got it on video. After we left there we made an impromptu visit to a dealership that sells campers so that we could look inside them. That is another thing we do every once in a while. If we were rich we would absolutely go out and get a camper and then go on vacation more. But right now it's just not in the cards for us. When we finally got home it was around 4 and dinner is usually around 5. So all we really had time to do was play UNO with Pumpkin. We just taught her the day before yesterday while we were waiting for the satellite to be set up. She loves it and is already pretty good at it. She loves to throw down her draw three's and wild draw four's. I know it's normally draw two but my UNO set is Harry Potter themed and fluffy the three headed dog from Harry Potter 1 is on the card so it's draw three for the three headed dog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Today the plan is to make cookies from scratch. We are going to make lower calorie sugar cookies, firecracker cookies, and for the hubby chocolate chip cookies. Tomorrow I am going to make red white and blue deviled eggs. I found on pinterest where you can dye the white part of the egg different colors after they are cooked. My girls love deviled eggs and I thought that it would be really cute to make those. They'll be gone before we even come home. I also have a lot of cleaning this morning. The guy that works on our house is coming by this morning to work on the light in our living room. However we are thinking of getting some lamps and using those instead of the overhead lights because we have had to call him over a bunch of times for lights and he doesn't really fix them he just makes it so they will work for a little while. The light in our closet has gone out like three times already. He fixed the light in the bedroom once and now it's back to not working. I swear it's not us. If anything I try to be super easy on the lights so they don't break. I just get so tired of calling him back once a week just to fix the lights because there is something wrong again. We also might go on a hike today. Just for fun. We haven't gone on a hike in a few years. Not since I was just barely pregnant with Love Bug. I also need to make a schedule so that we can make sure that we do everything on our list. Plus that way I know when I need to get something for it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Well I'm going to get off here for now. I'll try to get back on today or tomorrow. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-88006513812121838192013-07-01T05:07:00.000-07:002013-07-01T05:07:05.806-07:00Sorry about yesterday<span style="color: purple;">I really did mean to get on here yesterday. We had a really busy day. I went grocery shopping and took both of the girls. You parents out there with more than one kid know what a nightmare that can be. Love Bug was yelling because she thought that it was funny and trying to grab everything both in the cart and off of the shelves that we got too close to. Pumpkin was trying to yell back at Love Bug thinking it was funny too, kept on running back and forth down the isles we were on and then most everything we passed she asked if we could have it and when I told her no she made a face until the next thing she wanted came along. But I finally got out of there I got some poppers so yay. It took me forever to find them. Plus I got everything I need to make three different types of cookies. I found a lower calorie sugar cookie recipe for sugar cookies that uses Splenda. I also saw a recipe on pinterest called fire cracker cookies. They looked really fun and patriotic and I wanted to make them last year but I didn't have the opportunity. And finding the right color sprinkles this time of year was pretty much impossible. Finally I got one that has a multicolor, brown, blue, and red white and blue sprinkles. Then I am making chocolate chip cookies since that is my hubby's favorite. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">After lunch we went out to my in-laws house. We wanted to make sure they didn't care that it was okay that we came over there and shot off fireworks on Thursday since we really can't do it where we are at. While we were out there my mother-in-law kept telling me that Emily's cheeks were starting to get chubby. That was kind of making me upset. I mean I see her everyday. Her cheeks aren't getting chubby. If anything I think she is thinning out and losing some of her baby chunkiness. And I have been trying to have them eat better and healthier so when she says that the baby's cheeks are getting chunkier it kind of hurt. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">When we finally got back home for good I had to start cleaning the house. I didn't do anything on Saturday so my house was a disaster. It looked like a tornado went through it and left all of the girls' toys in the living room. We are getting rid of cable tv and switching to satellite. We will be paying less a month and my hubby will get the NFL Sunday ticket so he'll be able to watch all his Patriots football games this year and I will get a DVR for shows that we don't get to watch at night because my hubby works evenings and we like to watch certain shows together. So we'll be able to see them pretty much new and skip the commercials and it won't be on a computer screen that is more pixilated. Also the girls will have Disney Junior channel that plays their Disney junior shows all day and night. The girls have been wanting to see a show on there that is only exclusively on that channel called Henry Hugglemonster. So Pumpkin is getting a receiver put in her room. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We tried to watch a movie after the girls went to bed last night called Mama. We heard that it was really scary. That it was the scariest movie that people have said they have seen in a while. Well I beg to differ. 45 minutes into the movie I had not even jumped once. My hubby and I were actually kind of bored. I mean it was kind of obvious what was going to happen before it did. So we ended up turning it off early and went to bed and I read more of my new book Inferno by Dan Brown. It's the fourth book in the series and it starts out slow but once you get into it, it starts getting pretty good. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">But anyway that is why I didn't write on here yesterday. For any followers that I may have I apologize but hey I've already been on here once today maybe you'll get a second time. Talk to you guys soon. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-31844405225523027362013-06-29T11:45:00.001-07:002013-06-29T11:45:19.202-07:00After the weigh in<span style="color: purple;">I weighed myself this morning after the girls came and woke me up together, before 7am. So yay. Then I got yelled at because I didn't turn on their Disney junior shows and I set up my wii fit so that I could weigh myself. I lost a total of exactly 2 pounds yesterday. So I'm at the lowest that I have been since before I got pregnant. And if I lose more I will be back to where I was just after high school. I didn't hit 200 pounds until after high school. So I am hoping that I can get there and past it again so that I can have the ability to say that I finally weigh less than I was in high school. I almost can't wait to be able to do that. So this week my weight loss was 4.3 pounds. Not as good as last week but I have kept some of the weight off and actually lower than I was last week. So all in all I'm happy with the weight loss. I really am going to try to make sure that I don't overdo it this week and that I either maintain the weight loss or try to keep it under three pounds for the week or a longshot hope that I will lose some more. </span><br />
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I love them. I so very much miss the beach. This is the first time I have ever lived inland. I don't really like it. I always imagined when I would have kids I would take them to the beach and no offense the beach is not attached to a lake. The beach is salt water and endless ocean and burning your feet in the sand, looking for seashells, and seagulls dive bombing you for any food you have, and fighting the undertow. I just miss the ocean breeze you feel everyday. If it weren't so outrageous then I would have at least one if not more rooms decorated in all ocean stuff. On our way back we stopped at a yard sale and I finally found a blender for one dollar woo hoo. A really, really old blender but hey it will serve it's purpose. And when I say old I mean </div>
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But at only a dollar I really can't complain. Now if I can just find the smaller table everything would be great. I mean I really don't want to pay an arm and a leg for a table that my kids are probably going to tear apart. Not that I am upset about them for that I mean they are kids and while they got into trouble I am not going to get overly angry for something that is normal for children. <br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Honestly I completely forgot about the ice cream until after I took the picture and ate the dinner. But it was one half of a cup of ice cream. If you guys need a visual look at yesterday's picture. The calorie count for the ice cream was the same as yesterday too which was at 120. So all together today I ate 716 calories. But back to regular food tomorrow. I can honestly say that I'm not sure if I am looking forward to it. I feel better and have fewer stomach issues when I am on it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We got to mark one of the items off our list today. We played on the table with shaving cream. It ended up everywhere. It took Love Bug a little while to get into it but once she did it was all over her face, clothes, hair, up and down her arms, even on the wall behind her. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Pumpkin had no problem and took to it right away. Even after Love Bug got done playing and was ready to take a shower Pumpkin still stayed out and played until the shaving cream had just basically become liquid. This was one of the easier activities to clean up. Plus I think my table was cleaner afterward. I've read all about what kind of a cool cleaner that shaving cream is. I got the raspberry smelling kind from the dollar tree. So they smelled good afterward. Plus my house smelled like raspberries after we were done for a little while so overall I can't complain. We were going through my cookbooks to find out what Pumpkin was going to make on the kids make the dinner night and she has decided on a Hawaiian pizza with the pineapple and ham. It's kind of hard because there are so many things that she tells me that she doesn't like. I tried to keep it healthy and we looked exclusively in the Hungry Girl cookbooks. That way we have a lower calorie meal so that I can continue to lose as much weight as I can. My hubby who is also trying to lose weight said this morning that I probably weigh less than him now and to be honest that made me feel pretty good. I mean the woman is supposed to weigh less than the man and I never have. Even when I was at my thinnest he was in the navy and able to work out way more and had to keep himself in shape for his job. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Well I'm getting sleepy so I am going to go. I'll probably be back on tomorrow to let everyone know how my last weigh in went. XOXO</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-20269985409379134362013-06-28T12:40:00.000-07:002013-06-28T12:40:08.307-07:00The good and the a little bad<span style="color: purple;">I woke up at around 7am this morning. I actually slept in but I had a feeling that it would. At some point after midnight last night we got so much rain, thunder, lightening, and wind that I would have almost sworn that there was a tornado. It was really loud but I honestly fell asleep through it. I could sleep through just about everything. Even when I would fall asleep in the living room so that I would hear if anyone (i.e. my husband coming or from work) came in the door and I still didn't hear him most of the time. It was just easier to just go to sleep in the bedroom since I didn't hear my hubby come home and if I am sleeping well he won't wake me up to move me. Which is sweet. As soon as I came into the living room I heard Love Bug making some whiney noises from her bedroom to let me know she was awake. I always make sure that her bedroom door is closed at night because if no she would wonder around the house and enevidably end up in either my bed or her sister's and there's no telling what she will get into so it's just easier to go and close her door. That way she'll get a full nights sleep. But anyway back to the whole diet and weight loss thing. I did what I set out to do I lost 0.8 pounds which put me at 239.9. So right now I am at what I was at the end of the diet last week. Whatever I lose today will just be extra so I am excited for tomorrow morning. So that was the good. The little bit of bad is that since it is Friday and I went yard saling I stopped and got a large vanilla coke zero. But I don't feel to bad about it. I have been eating a lot of ice. And I'm sure it won't add too much. Breakfast this morning was one small apple sliced, one slice of American cheese I tore into quarters, and 5 saltine crackers. The calories for that meal was 221.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Pumpkin so wants to be so like me sometimes so she had to have the same breakfast that I did. But if she is eating better I am not going to complain. I have really tried with them lately. I don't want to deny them the right to be kids and have some junk food but I try to limit to only once a day. Like the day before yesterday they had a chocolate brownie for a snack so I gave them a frozen banana for dessert. I know it's not going to be perfect but I am going to try. Lunch was one slice of white bread toast and one hard boiled egg and one slice of toast. It contained 130 calories and it was obviously a very light meal. It's the only one I have on this diet that feels kind of small. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">And a plus, no burned toast today and the egg doesn't look as bad as yesterday's did. After I took the picture I cut the egg up into really tiny pieces so that I would be forced to make more bites so that it would take more time to eat it. So I only really have one more meal of my diet left. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">We went yard saling this morning. It was fun. We didn't get to leave until about 9 am. But I went to go and get cash and then we started. At the very first yard sale we found like a huge plastic bottle thing filled with cookie cutters for $2. There has to be at least 80 in there and they are for all different seasons or no season at all just all kinds of them. The only cookie cutters I have are Christmas and a few stars. So I'm excited to be able to make some cookies with the girls that aren't Christmas themed and I don't have to wait until Christmas to do it. However I want to try to find a recipe that maybe isn't too bad calorie wise. If not we'll still make cookies but I probably will end up giving most of them away to my in laws and my neighbors. I also got myself two books. The Blind Side and Message in a Bottle. I loved the movie The Blind Side and Message in a Bottle was the first movie I ever cried to. After that all the waterworks seem to spill out anytime someone else cries on tv. If I see them cry most of the time I am going to start tearing up too. The girls each got themselves a little toy and a Barbie doll. That way they didn't come home empty handed when I got stuff. I still haven't found a smaller kitchen table or a blender but I have been looking. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I got to Skype with my best friend Debra today. She just moved so I haven't been able to talk to her much. Sadly the move wasn't closer to me :( But I'll be okay. At least she gets on Skype now so we can actually see each other even though I hate seeing my face on there. I always think I look horrible. Looking down at a computer isn't the best angle so my hair always looks bad and my face always look HUGE. She texted me pictures earlier and they were really old pictures. We were in 9th grade. It was our last day of school and I can't believe I ever went out of the house like that. There was a group of six of us that hung out together and we were all in it. But it was so funny to see those pictures that I haven't seen since I was 14. It's amazing how much has changed. I mean the only one of us out of the six that are friends are me and her. Every one went their own way. I just couldn't believer how different everything was back then and we were the cool kids in our grade. It just brought back a lot of memories. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I'll be back on later to tell you guys about dinner and about how much fun playing in shaving cream was. Talk to you guys soon. XOXO</span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-75539853185491596692013-06-27T20:04:00.000-07:002013-06-27T20:04:05.067-07:00Yay Dinner Day 2<span style="color: purple;">This is going to be short tonight. I'm already getting tired, it's getting late, and my contacts are starting to bug me. For dinner tonight I had 2 Jenny-O turkey hot dogs, one half cup of crinkle cut steamed carrots, one cup of steamed broccoli, and one half of a banana. Plus all the water I can drink. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Again using the small plates makes it looks like there is so much there and I wasn't hungry today really at all. My stomach didn't growl once today. The calories in the dinner are 241. Then again I had ice cream but only one half of a cup this time. The calories for that is 120. So in total for the day I had 840 calories. Which is 136 calories less than yesterday. Yay!! So here's hoping for 0.8 pounds lost for tomorrow. I found that I ate so well on this diet last week going back to eating the crap I was eating before kills my stomach and I can't eat as much of it. So that is always a good thing. If my stomach shrinks then I will loose the weight and get my food portions under control. Tomorrow I am going to be on my last day and I will eat the least amount of food. Although the only meal that I really notice it at is lunch when I will only have one hard boiled egg and I believe either the toast or the crackers. I'll have to look at the meals tomorrow. This is honestly one of the better diets I have ever tried. It's really not that hard to stay on. I feel better while I am on it. I during the day feel like I have more energy than I did before but when it is bedtime I get so tired that I fall out pretty easily. No headache today even though I didn't have a drop of soda or tea. Just the water so awesome. However if I don't go to bed soon there is a really good possibility that I will have a headache soon. Tomorrow I get to work on our grocery list for the next two weeks which will be fun since I am going to take a week off of the diet. I'm nervous but the hubby has the week off so tuna will be off limits so that's two meals that I would have to change. But I'll be back on it the week after. But I'll still be on here keeping you guys posted about the day to day things that go on or how I feel about things. Talk to you guys tomorrow. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-36008296892551551722013-06-27T11:24:00.002-07:002013-06-27T11:24:12.948-07:003 Meals, 3 Pictures<span style="color: purple;">I really meant to get on here yesterday to talk about my dinner and dessert. I really meant to but I didn't feel too well last night. But I had dinner last night obviously. It consisted of one 3 ounce turkey burger patty with no bread or condiments, one half of a banana, one small apple cut into slices, and one cup of steamed green beans. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Oh and one cup of vanilla ice cream. Since I used this small plate it looks like so much more. I was stuffed after I ate this. The dinner itself had 290 calories and the dessert had 240 calories. So for an entire day I had 976 calories. And that was the day that I get to eat the most. So this morning I got up and weighed myself. I weighed 240.7 which meant that I lost a total of 1.5 pounds which isn't that bad since I am kinda bloated right now. Not because of the diet, because once a month, every month, I get bloated but I usually gain weight during that time so I am still very happy with losing over a pound. So I had breakfast this morning consisting of one large egg scrambled, one slice of white bread toast, and one half of a banana. This had a total of 179 calories.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">The bread was less burned today woo hoo. This still filled me up. I was still full when it came time for lunch. Which today lunch was one cup of fat free cottage cheese, one large hard-boiled egg, and five saltine crackers. Lunch's calorie total was 300. The one cup of cottage cheese is a LOT of cottage cheese so it's a good thing that I like it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I had a really hard time getting the shell off of the egg so that's why it looks so funky. And you know you all want my Twilight cup. I got that cup from the movie theater when I went to see breaking dawn 2 with Pumpkin and my little sister when she came to visit. I'm not an obsessed Twilight fan. I'm more of a Harry Potter fan but I do like the Twilight movies and I have read all of the books. But it is a huge cup. It holds 6 cups of water so if I have that and drink from it all day and if I drink at least two of them I get the amount of water I need for the day. So only one more meal today and then tomorrow and then I am done. I so hope that I lose at least 0.8 today so that I can be where I was at the end of my diet last week and I'll still have another day to loose so that I am below that number. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I am so excited for the fourth of July. We bought fireworks and have our shirts and bows ready and I am thinking of make deviled eggs with red white and blue stripes to take over to my husbands parents because that is where we set off the fireworks. We are going to Dollar Tree today to see if we can find any poppers. If the do I will get a bunch of them if not I am going to go to Wally World tomorrow and I know they do. And since they are the girls' favorite we have to get a bunch. The fourth usually entails us going to the nearest fireworks stand and getting more because we ran out too fast. Plus we are very patriotic in our family. A lot of the men in our family were in the military including my dad, my father-in-law, and my hubby. Actually they were all in the Navy. The all loved the time they were in. We still wish we were. My hubby has an uncle who was a Colonel in Air Force and my nephew used to be in a Marine, but it wasn't a good fit for him. I am very proud to have family members who have served. I even still watch those videos of soldiers and sailors coming home and surprising their families. Those bring me to tears just about every time I watch them. Of course I know what it is like to have my military family member gone on deployment and missing them and wishing they were back so bad and the joy when I got to see him again. When my hubby was overseas on deployment, I was miserable at first but then I got busy and then I got proud that I was actually doing stuff by myself for the first time and then I broke my ankle and had to be in the hospital and somehow I got lucky enough that my husband got to come home for two weeks. When he left we moved and then when he got back if I could have ran at him I would have. But as it was I still had my cast on my leg. So when I watch the videos I get transplanted back into that time when I missed him and how happy I was to see him. But I gladly support all the troops and love the military.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">But I will try to be back later to talk about my dinner. Hope to see you there. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-11556977182363591242013-06-26T13:31:00.001-07:002013-06-26T13:31:07.393-07:00Breakfast and Lunch on day 1<span style="color: purple;">Good I guess now here it is afternoon. I had to eat a late lunch today since it consisted mostly of tuna and my hubby had to leave for work before I could eat that. But anyway I weighed myself this morning and it was 242.2. Lost 0.2 in two days but gained 2.3 in four days which isn't as bad as it could have been. I mean I could have gained it all back and then some. So while I wish that I didn't gain at all, it could have been worse. But I had breakfast this morning and just like I promised there are pictures. Breakfast was ones slice of white toast with two tablespoons of chunky peanut butter on it and one very small orange. Plus a glass of splenda sweetened iced tea. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Okay the bread looks all jacked up because I forgot about it while peeling the orange so it got burned a little and I had to scrape the burned parts off and a little of the crust came off with it. Besides I never claimed to be the best picture taker but at least I try. And you know that you guys are jealous of my laminate blue countertops. Oh plus my kick ass snowman ice cubes. I know it's almost July and honestly I got the tray at Christmas a few years ago from the dollar tree and it's like one of those silicon trays and it is so much easier to get the ice out of there than a conventional ice tray. But anyway back to the food. The diet just called for peanut butter and I like chunky better. I looked at the calories and they are exactly the same for chunky and creamy. So I went with what I like. Also I was supposed to have half a grapefruit but like I probably mentioned before I can't stand them. Even trying grapefruit juice kinda makes me sick. But with what I made counting the calories on my fitness pal online it came out to 286 and mostly from the peanut butter. I probably would have saved even more if I had chosen to have whole wheat or reduced fat or another type of bread but that's what I have to get for my family so I had to adapt. Besides it didn't specify what kind of bread. Okay lunch was fun. I had 1/2 cup of tuna just a little bit of mustard and a dash of Mrs. Dash and again one slice of toast. Not burned this time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I so don't want to clean up today. Not that I don't have the energy I just know that it is getting kinda warm in the house since it is like 100 outside. Even with a fan going in the living room it still says that it is 82 in the house. What I really need to do is go through stuff in my bedroom but that is the hottest room in the house so I know that I am going to be sweating a bunch. Although that isn't always the worst thing. I still have my childhood wish of having a maid. Probably even more now that I have kids and they make a big mess. My dryer has been running today since I had to wash my sheets and blankets since Love Bug peed all over them. I know it was an accident but I wasn't planning on washing those today. But in trying to keep the house cool all of my blinds and curtains are closed so my house is kind of dark. We only opened the door once when my hubby had to leave and he kind of ran outside so that we could close the door. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-59402693192638316782013-06-25T20:03:00.002-07:002013-06-25T20:03:59.754-07:00Late again<span style="color: purple;">I know, I know I'm late posting on here again. Everyone felt better today. Thank goodness. The hubby is still a little weak and he had to go into work but other than that he felt pretty good. Plus, no nightmares for the girls. Very happy about that. We caught our fifth mouse this season. They somehow found a way into the walls and then made a hole in Pumpkins room. It sucks royally but we are going to get something to take care of the problem tomorrow. Probably some steel wool and tape so they can't get back in. I really don't like mice. Thankfully I have only heard them running around but I haven't actually seen one except for on the trap. I won't even take those out. I make my hubby do it. I just get too nervous that I think that they will somehow jump out at me. I know if they could do that then they wouldn't still be in the trap they would have gotten free, but I just don't want to take that chance. I really hate bugs too. I made the hubby go and kill a bug that was sitting on my glasses I found when I went to take my contacts out for the night. After he got the bug off and killed it I wouldn't even put the glasses on my face until they were thoroughly cleaned. And of all bugs spiders are the worst. I won't even go near one if I can help it. My fear is so bad that I won't even look at the screen when in Harry Potter 2 they have the giant obviously fake spider on screen. What's sad is that I have a lot of fears. Bugs, Rodents, Snakes, Most rabid animals like opossums or raccoons, I have a fear of the dark. That one really sucks. I never go anywhere in the dark. There haven't been very many incidence where I've had to turn on my lights because it was getting darker. If I am in a new house I start shaking. Even in this house that we have been in for almost a year I still have to go to sleep with the television on or I am awake for hours. I have a total of 6 nightlights in my 3 bedroom house. I can't see anything in the dark and my eyes never really adjust so I can never see where I am going or if someone or something is out there with me. For a while when my hubby was on deployment I carried a knife around with me through the house for just in case and we lived in a very safe place. Luckily no one has ever been hurt. It's just kind of embarrassing being almost (boo) 30 and still afraid of the dark. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I'm going to put her hair in pigtails. Her hair is so fine that really that is all I can do with it right now. Pumpkin is my mini model for the bows so everyone can get an idea of the size. Here is the one I made for Pumpkin:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">This is more of a flag bow. I made two of them I'm going to be doing her hair in like a two tiered pigtail. We'll see how it goes. I haven't tried it before. Then there is the bow that I finally got around to making for myself today:</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I hope they will look cute on the fourth considering how hard we have been working on our outfits. Well.....Mostly theirs I didn't make a shirt for myself. Just the bow. I finally went through my craft cabinet today and got rid of the scraps and trash and leftover stuff I wouldn't use. I had to make room for the girls' DVDs. They really don't like to take care of them which I understand to an extent I mean they're kids. It just gets annoying when they whine because they can't find the movie they are looking for because last time they watched it they don't take care of it. So at that point it could be anywhere. So we are implementing a system where she almost checks them out and can't get a new movie unless she brings the old one back in its box. We'll see how well this goes over. I know that I posted it on here before but the link to my facebook page so the you can see ALL the bows and jewelry that I have made is:</span><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeths-unique-creations/287420431319927?ref=hl">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Elizabeths-unique-creations/287420431319927?ref=hl</a><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">You guys should come and check I'm about done for the night. I am going to start on the diet again tomorrow so I will be on more than once and hopefully with some pictures of the plates of food. Until then XOXO</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7995758666113222300.post-23597786139129767542013-06-24T20:23:00.000-07:002013-06-24T20:23:10.141-07:00Okay, okay <span style="color: purple;">Okay, okay I know this is my first and only post today. I am finding that the diet is the easiest to do in the last half of the week. I didn't even have the option to start the diet today. Last night for a lack of a better word SUCKED. I finally fell asleep around 11. About 12 Love Bug woke up crying her scared cry so that meant that she probably had a bad dream. So she came into the living room to sleep with me and she is SOOOOOOOO not the easiest person to sleep with. She kicks and rolls constantly. Not even long enough for me to fall asleep. The most sill she stayed was when I had to get up a little bit later. Anyway about 3 am Pumpkin wakes up and comes in the living room to tell me that she has had a nightmare too. Since I already had Love Bug on the couch with me I told Pumpkin she could turn on her television to comfort her to sleep. About that time I can see my bedroom light come on and I think that they have woken my hubby up so I go in there to apologize and find out he had been getting sick for a little while. So basically I was awake since around midnight. My hubby finally stopped getting sick around 6 am. So being tired anyway I didn't think that today was a good day to start. Plus my hubby was so sick he didn't go into work and with him here I can't eat tuna. He can't stand the smell of it. Seriously whenever I have it I have to make sure I spray febreeze everywhere and take a shower and brush my teeth like twice. I take the can of tuna outside, wash all the dishes that had tuna on them and make sure the counters are clean. It's better if I can open up the windows but right now that isn't an option. It's been constantly in the 90's and just so muggy that I try to keep the house as closed and dark as possible to keep out the heat but it still gets kind of warm. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I weighed myself today and I had gained 2.4 pounds. Not as bad as I thought or as bad as it could be. I will weigh myself again on Wednesday when I start the diet. I will have to take a week off because my hubby thankfully has the week of the Fourth of July off. I am so excited. We went and got some fireworks to set off. We always have to get a bunch of smoke bombs and the little poppers that you throw on the ground and they make a snapping noise. Pumpkin has always loved running through the smoke bomb's smoke. Ever since she could walk she would go in a circle around the smoke bomb laughing and cackling. Still even now. Love Bug can actually join her this year. Last year she was barely 1. I think she will enjoy a lot more now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">I made both of the girls two matching bows each. I will try to post them on here tomorrow. The really turned out cute. I am so excited for them to wear their new bows. Both of them are so different, but they are both made out of just the red, white, and blue ribbon I got. When I make bows I am so glad that I have two little girls who get to wear them. They are mostly who I have made them for. I have only sold a handful of bows. I would love to sell more, however. I don't want to used a site like ebay or etsy that make you pay a fee for your items. I only really sell them for at the most $5 each so by the time the site takes out their fee I am barely left with any profit if any at all. Plus I am still at the beginning stages of making bows, there are still a lot of techniques I don't know yet. I try to make different types of bows so that I can learn and have a variety of different types for potential customers to choose from. I try to sell them on facebook but it seems that even when I post on the site I still only have one or two people like my page, but don't order anything. Honestly I would love to have enough orders that it would take me more than one day to complete all the orders I have. The very first person who ordered a bow from me kept in contact because she said that her mother-in-law used to make bows and had some extra craft supplies that I could have. After a few months she asked me if I could make a couple bows for a charity auctions she was putting together and I didn't mind so up until I had to give her the bows she kept telling me that her daughter hid all the stuff and she couldn't find them. At first I was like okay, whatever, she was giving me them for free so if it took a while I wasn't going to complain. Well, that was the last time I had heard from her and then all of the sudden on facebook she posted pictures of some bows that she made. Now it didn't bother me that she made the bows or even that she used the stuff her mother-in-law didn't use anymore. What did bother me is that she lied about it. If she had said that she had changed her mind that she wanted to keep it to try her hand at it then I would have been okay with it. The bows she made were very different than the ones that I made. I really don't understand why she lied about it. I know I was not, am not, and will not be the only person to make bows. Everyone's styles are different so no two bows are the same. But since I don't feel the necessity to lie to people or break promises I kind of hope people who after they have met me would show me the same courtesy. I know that it is not the way it goes. That a thought like that is naïve. It just kind of upset me. But it usually does when that scenario presents itself. It's like when we moved into this house it was covered on the inside with cobwebs. The people who lived here before had moved out a while before we got here and her uncle paid the rest of her rental agreement money while she was gone. Then when the lease ran out they went ahead and changed all the carpet in the house and the linoleum in the bathrooms and entrance. However, there were cobwebs and dirt and dust and even the walls needed washed when we moved in. When we were first looking at it they were in the process of getting ready to change the carpet and the linoleum so we thought that they would at least clean it up before we moved in. We were very mistaken. If I were the Landlord or responsible for a property and a new family was going to move in I would make sure that the house was cleaned well. No matter how long it took or how many long nights it took I would be embarrassed if someone moved into a filthy house that I was responsible for. I even before we move out of a house make sure the house is cleaned to the best of my ability. Every floor is vacuumed, swept, mopped all surfaces wiped including the windows, all fans dusted. Anything I can clean up I do. I expect it clean when we move in so I try to leave it as clean as possible when we move out. So anyway I just wish some people would show me the same courtesy that I would show them. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Today was relatively uneventful. I didn't do much since my hubby was sick and like most men he needed taken care of all day. We didn't go anywhere and I got my cleaning done early so that I could make the bows this afternoon. The only person I talked to on the phone was my mother and that was only for less than five minutes. I went out to the car but only to get a cd that we needed inside. Even though I didn't get much done I felt like I was busy all day long. Probably because it took more energy because I was so tired. Even now my eyes are drooping but it didn't feel right to miss a day on here. I kind of makes me feel good to see that people whom I don't even know reading my blog. Feel free to leave comments I would love to hear from you guys. Any tips or pointers or what I do that you like. I'll be back on here tomorrow. XOXO</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07015973529826267933noreply@blogger.com0