Losingmore

The weekend was hard this week…..not just because of all the candy, actually, that was less of a problem than it could have been.  I bought candy I really don’t like that much, and just a little bit of the stuff I do, but I was able to resist opening up the bags early and having “samples”.  So that part was good.  The hard part came, in that my mother seems to think that Halloween is this BIG friggen holiday…and we should celebrate with cakes and lots and lots of goodies!  sigh…..

I am sorry, I used to get into the holiday spirit a lot more when I was younger, and my kids were younger, but honestly, it is just extra work to me.  Not that I don’t like the decorations, because I do….but I just don’t want to be the one dealing with all of it.  Truth be told, since the basement remodel, things down there on the “storage” side are in shambles.  I had visions of getting my butt down there and doing massive organizing…but it just never happened.  There is so much crap down there, and A LOT of leftover crap from the remodel that I just am not sure what to do with….DS should do something with it, so I can get to organizing our stuff…but lets face it…the man is a bonafide PIG….I guess I am just going to have to eventually go down there and do it myself…but I just don’t want to.  I get tired of picking up after everyone else, especially him….so anyway, this makes getting to the decorating stuff a pain in the butt, and putting it back a pain in the butt, so I just rather not bother.   And then my mom complains that I have no holiday spirit.

So my mother came over to spend Halloween with us.  I shouldn’t really care.  She is my mother.  Part of me didn’t care, but part of me didn’t want her there, and then the rest of me felt guilty for not wanting her there.  So I was in a grumpy mood all day.   I planned to eat liberally, as I had saved all my flex points for Saturday…and I did…but I have no idea what some of the things I ate were worth.  So I just practiced portion control.  I had one reeses cup.  That is ALL the candy I ate.  I had chicken chili ( which was fine and on plan) and three mini corn dogs.  About a 1/4 cup of a recipe makeover for buffalo chicken dip with celery and 2 glasses of wine.  I also had a pc of homemade cake my mom brought over.  I have no idea how many points were in that.

DS felt better on Saturday.  Well enough to trick or treat.  Fever was gone.  It never got very high…so I don’t think he had the swine flu.  Just a random bug.

Ate at Olive garden on Sunday.  One thing for sure, is that you go through points awful fast when you eat out….even if you plan.  How is it that restaurant food in general is sooooooo high in fat and calories?  its mind boggling.   Got salad with dsg on the side.  Got the shrimp pasta primevera.  Ate half.  Had one breadstick.  Still used up gobs of points on one meal!  Stayed within the points range I needed to for the day though.

Came home yesterday and thought the house felt cool.  Ds came in later in the evening, and said his room was freezing.  I went to turn up the thermostat, and nothing happened.  So I yelled down to dh, who was playing the ps3 game that is going to ruin our marriage….call of duty….and told him I thought something was wrong with the furnace.  Sure enough, something was wrong.  We started a fire in the woodstove, but it was almost time to go to bed.  We had a cold night….got down in the 30’s. The guy finally came today to fix it.  It didn’t cost us an arm and a leg, thank goodness.

On track with food today…..doubt that I will see any numbers move this week.  Would be happy with just one.  One lousy pound…I would be happy.