Loosin It… Again

I can’t believe that it is already half way through November!  Time flies when you are having fun!  So Renee and I are back on the bandwagon.  Although truth be told, I am not really feeling very motivated.  I am behaving, but I am not being “good.”  It seems like I am always on a diet or being overly conscious of my eating around the holidays.  I guess that is a good thing, because if I went whole hog I would have a lot more weight to lose!

It has been a crazy week.  The car that I have been driving, our Tahoe had the heater coil go out.  Ended up iwth anti freeze ALL OVER the front carpet.  Took that it to get fix, decided to drive our minivan that has been sitting around collecting dust.  The brakes were seized, had to take THAT in.  Then DH goes to check on his daily commuter car, front end was shaking.  They tell him he needed all new tires, bearings, and shocks.  OMG… we have spent almost $3k at the mechanic this week.  And that doesn’t include MY car getting fixed.  My car sheared off an engine mount last winter and is still sitting in our driveway out of fear of the repair bill.  The problem with having tons of vehicles is that you have to maintain and fix tons of vehicles.

Okay… back to weight loss… So far I have lost 5 pounds in two weeks.  Sounds great, but in reality it is just getting rid of some water retention from being sick.  I know that I haven’t earned that loss.  Need to get busy so that I can get to a weight that I can live with.  I am also trying to revise my expectations to determine what that healthy weight is????  Have you asked yourself that?  The older I get the more I realize that my expectations to get back into size 6 pants are NOT gonna happen!  Time to figure out what size,shape, etc can I accept.  I THINK that the new target number is 150 and I would be THRILLED to be a size 12.  (If you told me 15 years ago that I would love to be that size, I would have told you that you were NUTS.)  But I think this tummy has been stretched to it’s max with two kids, too much fat, to go back to being small.

Well ladies… I hope everyone is doing well.  Miss you all….

Hi ladies!  I hope everyone is doing well.  It seems like a lot of us journal chicks have abandoned the blogs.  So sad!  Things are going well here.  I decided to try journalling on the Chicks website on FB.  I miss having an easy place to go where I can just log on and see everyone right there!

Tomorrow starts the end to a busy week.  This morning DS had  a play at school  OMG.. it was just a little skit but he did so well.  He had lines in front of the whole school… and whenever he said his lines (he was alittle mouse) the whole school would crack up laughing.  So Proud!  Tomorrow he has a Halloween party at school.  Mom has agreed to watch Austin so that I can go.  I am going to dress up and the whole NINE yards! 

This Saturday, the town near us is having their hometown Halloween, with a costume contest, Pumpkin Carving Contest, and Pumpkin Pie bake off.  I always enter a pie…this year I am doing a Pumpkin Streudle and a pumpkin pie from Paula Dean’s cookbook.  Definitely not figure friendly.  The fact that that woman doesn’t wiehg 800 lbs escapes me!  The recipe calls for cream cheese, BUTTER, HALF AND HALF, and egg yolks.  LOL… cook off is the perfect time to make that pie, cause none of it will be at my house!

Then there is a horse show Sunday.  My friend wants us to take our filly (young female horse), but I don’t think I will have the energy.  So we will see how that goes.

Well ladies… I hope all is well!  Take care of yourself!

Hi there,

I don’t get here much anymore.  FB seems to be easier.  But I do miss everyone!  I wish we had a forum similar to the journals.  It is a big part of my day that I miss terribly.  Things are going horrible on the weight front.  I got my Mirena implant four months and quickly started gaining weight.  I thought it was a change in my milk supply and over eating.  Then my hair started falling out.  I was more concerned about my hair rather than weight, so I did some research.  There are THOUSANDS of complaints about women losing their hair and gaining 15-20 pounds instantly on this implant.  I am soooo mad!  I was actually seizing the day and loosing weight, and once I got that thing put in.. BAM!  I hit a brick wall.  Then I got frustarted and went back to my old ways.  So… I am back at pre-preggo weight.  Feel HORRID because I am loosing my hair and gaining weight again.  It is really hard to get motivated.  DH is going to get snipped… but until then I have to leave it in.  It will have to be surgically removed, which I hear is very uncomfortable.  It is just soooo depressing that this cycle never seems to end.  I am working out and getting lots of exercise, but it seems for not.  I guess if I didn’t get exercise I would be bigger!

On a more upbeat front… kids are doing well.  Austin is CRAWLING!  Cam loves school, but likes to say he hates it.  I guess it isn’t cool to like school when you are in 2nd grade.  DH is working a lot, but he seems to like it.  I am not workign at all… and I hate it!  LOL… not made out to be a stay at home.  I hate all the work involved with keeping the house neat and orderly. 

Well ladies… those of you that are still out there… I hope all is well and htings are going great! HUGS!

Even though I don’t get here to post very often, don’t want to lose all my hard work!  I hope everyone is doing well.  We finished up DS’s second week of school with the cold from hell that has not passed through every family member.  DS#2 included.  It has been a lot of sleepless nights, as he doesn’t like to lay flat and he prefers to be held the whole time.  I was the last to get the crud, so I am in the heat of it right now. 

Not too much else to report.  I did finally get a small job, so next week I will have to work on a report.  It will be a tough one… but I will get paid so it doesn’t matter at this point.  Baby is crying… I better go!  Have a great Monday ladies!

DS started second grade today!!!!  It was a joyous occassion.  LOL… I’ll miss him but he was really difficult this summer.  So it will be a nice break.  Trying to get some stuff done around the house, but I wanted to check is and say “hello.”  We are painting the deck, which is turning out to be quite the project.  Hopefully I will get it done before the rain hits this fall.  Hope all is well with everyone!

HI ladies…  I have to do this fast.  DS #2 is getting tired of being in his high chair and is telling me ALL ABOUT IT!  Had a good weekend.  It was family day at DH’s work.  I am not kididng you… 20,000 people must have descended on that place… it was mayhem.  We walked and walked and walked and walked, and still didn’t even see half the stuff.  Finally DS#1 lost it and we had to leave.  But it was a good workout. 

Right now I am getting ready to prep the deck to be stained.  LOL… that is why I am on the computer!  I reallyam not looking forward to the task.  OK… full blown crying now… better go…  I hope everyone is well!  School starts next Tues…   YEAH!!!!!!

LOL..  I guess I should keep my spot so I don’t lose all my hard work!  ;-)  Since my last post… I got together with my old college roommates.  It went great.  They have really grown and changed and it was  a lot of fun to see each other and get caught up.  I found out one of my other roommates got married and had a child, and I thought she was in Nepal, so it was a huge surprise.  I hope to get together with her soon! 

This weekend was really busy.  Sat I made pickles.  Not sure if it is worth the time, hassle and expense, but the deed is done and now we wait to see if they turn out okay.  I changed my mom’s recipe to remove the alum because I could taste it in the pickles.  Very metallic icky taste. 

Sunday we took the boat out.  It was supposed to be nice and sunny, but there were clouds over the lake so it was pretty cool.  DH wimped out so I had to go on the tube with ds.  OMG… my arms are so sore that even my arm pitts ache! 

Monday my friends had the day off so we went on a marathon horse ride.  It was GREAT!!!!  My horse was so good.  He normally is not a very good trail horse, but he is turning into a pretty good trail horse.  He just needed some miles!  The girls that we went with decided to go for a longer ride, so they gave us “directions” out.  LOL… we got so lost.  You should have seen us, sitting there on horse back wishing we had an Iphone, because I am sure they have an “APP” to get us out of there!  We finally ran into a biker who told us which way was North!  So we got out.  I am not too sore from the ride.

Today… I need ot clean house.  It is a disaster and has been horribly neglected over the last few weeks.  I don’t have any work, so basically I don’t have any excuse.  Just need to get my hiney in gear and get it done.  DS is at a farm today with his gma.  It is so cool.  I have never been there, but would love to go with the kids.

I hope all is well with everyone!  I miss you all…

I just can’t seem to sit my butt down and get my work done!  It is driving me nuts! 

A few of my college roommates found me on facebook.  I have kind of mixed feelings.  I lived with three of them for three years.  Two of them we just basically lost track of each other.  I had a kid, they didn’t and we drifted.  The other got involved in a bad relationship, and it was hard to watch her self destruct so I removed myself from the situation.  She has since moved out of state and left the relationship.  I had found her before on FB, but never requested to be friends.  I guess I was afraid that the situation hadn’t changed much.  But she requested to be friends and I accepted.  Looking through her pics, I realize that she has her life back on track.  So now I am feeling very guilty that I didn’t give her the benefit of the doubt.  We are all planning on meeting for lunch on Saturday.  I am excited, yet nervous.  I knew these three women better than anyone else, and I guess in many ways they know me better than anyone else.

It will be very interesting.  I’ll have to let you guys know how it goes!  Well the baby is crying so I better go.  Have a great day ladies.

Hi Ladies!  I haven’t been very regular lately.  I just can’t seem to find the time to sit and really write down what all has been happening in our lives lately.  After getting back from vacation, the temperature here skyrocketed out of control.  We actually hit 103 with 80% humidity one day.  Of course our heat pump decided to die this year, so it was really miserable.    But we survived. 

I have also been busy planning DS 7th birthday.  OMG.. where does the time go?  I made an adorable “Shark Attack Cake.”  The kids were so funny… and impressed.  At least something impressed them.  I am finding that young boys are very hard to impress and find things that they like. 

There weren’t nearly as many people as last year, but they all had fun and that is the most important thing.  For his birthday we “adopted” four box turtles.  They are about seven years old, and full of personality.  DS named them “Biggy,” “Chomper,” “Squishy,” and “Nippy.”  I couldn’t bear to leave them in the indoor aquarium all the time so we made a large outdoor home for them during the day.  They LOVE it!  In the evening they come in so nothing can eat them.

Work has been really slow but I do have a commercial report that I am working on and it is taking me forever.  LOL… notice the time and that I am posting rather than working!  Other than that order, I have had no other work.  So it is slow to say the least.  OH… and I got to testify in court for the first time for one of my reports.  It was in a divoce case.  I had been hired to do the appraisal, and in response to my appraisal the other side hired an appraiser.  There was a rather “sizeable” difference in our values.  I testified first.  During my testimony the other appraiser arrived.  The lawyer for my client asked her to step outside as they finished my testimony.  My testimony went well.  In a past life I really wanted to be a criminal lawyer, so it was actually kind of fun.  I had prepared well, and my report was much stronger than the other appraiser.  I didn’t stick around for her testimony, but I heard it didn’t go well.  

My weight still hasn’t dropped down.  I am actually thinking of having this implant removed.  It pinches and I think the hormones are messing with more than my weight.  ;)  Austin is doing great.  He is rolling over, sitting up (kind of), and still spitting up a ton.  But he is growing like a weed, so I guess there are no worries.  He is starting to eat real food… he loves it is so funny. 

Well ladies… the baby woke up… so I better get him back to sleep.  I miss you all and hope that you are doing well!

Morning Ladies.  I have been MIA… again… but this time for good reason!  VACATION!!!!  I hear you all are suffering through a horrible summer, not the case here!  Normally we go east of the mountains to go camping because it is dry, hot, and sunny.  This year because of FIL passing we didn’t get our ducks in a row, so we camped on this side.  It was only five days, but the weather was great and it was a lot of fun.  Took our ski boat, and towed everyone around this huge Mountain lake.  I even got to use my water skiis that dh bought right before I found out I was preggo last year.  Got up on the first try!  So proud of myself, but I didn’t go very far because the boots were pretty loose.  So after a couple hundred yards I decided to fall on MY terms.  LOL… a little more scary when you are older.  I didn’t get any good pics of the Mtn, it is a glacier so it still has snow and it looks like it is jutting out of the lake, so beautiful.

Both boys did well.  Austin wasn’t so sure about camping the first day, but once he realized there were lots of family members there to hold and coddle him, he was SOLD!  Cameron got eaten alive by mosquitos and his eyes nearly swelled shut, but it didn’t slow him down a bit.  He loves hanging out with all of his cousins, even though they are all teeneagers.  (OK… I have to write another post about teenagers… don’t have time today but suffice to say they are HORRIBLE!!!)  I am dreading the day when we enter the teenage years.

Right after we got home from camping, we got a thunder and lightning storm and torrential rain!  LOL… timed that one just right.  The next day we headed out of town for DH’s 30th reunion.  Interesting.  There were three common themes…  “Sorry to hear about your dad.”  He lived in a smaller town and his dad was the pharmacist, most of the kids went to his store for candy.  The second theme… “OMG… you have a 4 1/2 month old baby!!!!”  I am twelve years younger, and yes we started later.  Most of them had kids right out of highschool and now have 4 1/2 month old grandchildren!  The third theme… “I had a huge crush on you in highschool!”  I don’t know how many women came up to us and told him that they had a crush on him in H.S.  It was at least 6 if not more.  And those were the women who said it in front of me, he said even more came up to him when I would step away.  I guess age and alcohol make people bold!  My dh is very shy, tall, with dark hair and handsome, so I don’t blame them for having crushes, it was just so strange to have all of these women come up to him and tell him.  Some were married, divorced, single… didn’t seem to matter.  He was horribly embarrassed.  He wanted to leave early, so we only stayed for 3 hours and left.  

Now we are back home and I am trying to find the bottom of a huge pile of laundry, clean house, and write a report that was supposed to be done before we left.  So I better get to it ladies.  I hope everyone is doing well!  I miss you… and yes I still miss the journals!!!