Shedding the baby weight…again!

Today was superb. Not diet-wise. But I digress.

my hair totally listened to me today and looked pretty darn awesome. We got to the fingerprinting place early because I remembered how last time it was a disaster and we were there for over an hour. There was NOBODY there when we walked in. As I filled in my paperwork, one by one people started coming in so I started writing faster! We were in and out in ten minutes. TEN MINUTES! A GOVERNMENT BUILDING! TEN MINUTES! I spent the whole drive over to Jason’s Deli with a “wtf” expression plastered on my face.  It reminded me of when we decided to tell robert’s parents that we were getting married and helen (mil) invited the whole troop out with us. I hit the margaritas a little hard out of sheer nerves. Apparently nobody was surprised. We later learned, that after rob had come to visit me in canada for 6 weeks, the fact that I was coming back with him here for a week sent up a bunch of flags. Either we GOT married or we’re GETTING married. I sat there kind of staring at my food for a good 10 minutes before I realized it wasn’t a joke. Nobody was going to drop their forks or throw their plates.  I hadn’t even been wearing my engagement ring. I didn’t drop any clues at all. Apparently I’d already dropped the biggest clue of all without even knowing it.  So on the way to Jason’s deli, I just kept waiting for that OMG moment to arrive but it never did.

We went to see Pineapple Express after we were done with lunch. It was funny, but not being a stoner myself, I found it to be really over the top.  We had a gift card for AMC so we didn’t technically pay to see it, and since we’d just barely eaten lunch, we skipped popcorn.

Afterward, I wanted to stop at old navy just to look at jeans and maybe try on a couple shirts if there were good sales. Not much in my tastes as far as shirts go. I grabbed a couple of v-neck tees and I tried on a size 18 jean which is a size smaller than my current jeans which I have to use my belt on and even THEN, I look ridiculous.

TOO BIG!

I am elated. According to Old Navy Jeans (and I like their jeans) I am a size 16!!! I have not been a size 16 in at least 8 years. EIGHT YEARS.  It was just the motivation I needed. But I didn’t buy a pair today. I held out. I have a pair of inbetweeny pants which, while they aren’t that flattering, I already have them!  Now, onto the scary part of today’s entry.

Today:

breakfast: 5 tater tots I stole from rob when he wasn’t looking

lunch: Turkey slimwich from Jasons Deli with Baked Lays

snack: 2 cheesesticks from sonic (I was freaking starving!!!)

dinner: 3ct chicken strips and fries from chick fil-a

all in all, today wasn’t that terrible, food wise. But I’m a little disappointed regardless. Rob told me that every once in awhile I’ll have to go over a little bit to boost my metabolism. It kind of makes sense in a backward kind of way. My TOM seems to be just about over. Maybe I’ll finally stop holding onto all that water.

I really hope my greencard photo turned out alright. They don’t let you see it and they take it as quickly as possible. With my luck, I’ll be blinking. FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS.

Filed under: daily ponderings on August 14th, 2008