Loosin It… Again

LOL… I swear I just posted that it was Friday.  This week really flew by!  (I am glad!)  I am finishing up my last bit of work, then I need to put my “New Customer Lists” together.  I have been putting it off for so long.  But… It is something that I NEED to do if I ever want to get some work.

Weight was WAY up this morning.  We had sushi last night, so I am blaming it on the Miso soup.  It seems like everytime we go get Japanese food my weight jumps for the next few days.  We will see what it says tomorrow.  Still havent’ decided if I am going to log it on my weight ticker. 

This weekend will be busy as usual.  Sat night we are going to watch the Lipizzaner Stallion show.  Very excited.  I saw them when Iwas a kid, so it will be interesting to see how the show has changed.  DH and DS#1 are going.  My dad agreed to babysit the baby.  So I need to pump a lot of milk so that won’t be a catastrophe! 

Sunday will likely be house cleaning and yard work.  I really HATE to waste a weekend on such mundane tasks but it needs to get done.  It will be hard, because it is so beautiful this weekend.  70 degrees and sunshine!  We don’t get this very often!

I hope you ladies have a great weekend!

I love short weeks!  Although I have been trying to get the same report done for the last 3 days with little success.  In fact, I am working on it right now!  LOL… can’t you tell!

Scale has not been kind to me this week. But if truth be told, I haven’t been very good to my body either.  I haven’t had any deliberate exercise and food hasn’t been the best.  Not bad choices, just bad timing.  I get really hungry right before bed and so I will eat a bowl of cereal or yogurt or attack DS jelly bean bowl.  I know the breast feeding is playing a small role, but it is also my lack of self control.  So I need to grab that by the horns.

Weekend was good.  Sat DS’s and I went to the barn, DH ended up working a 10 hour day of over time.  Poor guy!  Sun and Mon were pretty relaxed.  We hung out at home, bottled my beer and made DH’s beer.  It is fermenting downstairs right now.  I have no idea where we are going to be 4 CASES of beer.   I suggested giving some of it away, and you would think I had suggested we gave away our first born!

I haven’t been getting very much traffic to my new web site, so I started a blog.  Hoping that maybe it would get caught by some of the search engines and attract some interest.  I got it all set up, wrote the first post, posted it.  Then I wanted to go back and edit something, it asked my for my password.  It said it was invalid.  So then I requested my password be sent to me… told me that my user name was invalid.  So I got mad, deleted the whole dang thing, and set up a new one.  Went to go log in… told me the user name was not valid!  I JUST set up.  I know it was valid.  So now I am mad.  I’ll attack it again tomorrow.

Well ladies, I better get back to work.  I don’t get paid to blog.  (LOL… which is a good thing considering I really suck at it!)

Enough said!  Have a great weekend ladies!

I just tried to take some pics of myself for the website… and all I can say is YUCk!  I know I am my own worst critic, but even my mom who loves me unconditionally admits… I don’t take pictures well.  I guess that is why they invented photo shop.  LOL… I think I will put my hair on Cindi Crawfords face and body and call it good.

I got a little bit of work done yesterday.  I still have to finish up two reports and then write one more.  It is a lot harder to work from home then I imagined.  I hope it gets easier over time.  Problem is that I have a major distraction… and adorable little baby that I would rather play with than work!  He is being pretty good.  The batteries in his swing died, so he doesn’t want to go to sleep.  He is starting to bat at things.  We have some toys dangling off of his swing and keeps taking a “swing” at them.  It is amazing to watch them grow and develop.  He is still puking though…  not as bad.  So I am hopeful that this will go away altogether in a couple of months.

Thanks for all of the well wishes yesterday.  I was sooo glad to hear that things went well.  It is a lot of pressure being the only one that knows about the procedure.  Hopefully it will be a positive outcome.  They will be great parents and it will be fun having kids close in DS age later on.

Well… I better get back to work.  I am downloading updates to my program.  LOL… haven’t updated since October and it says it will take 70 mins on my high speed connection!

My SIL just called with the good news that she is pregnant.  It is really early so things could still change, but right now her HGC levels are great.  She went from 180 to 560!  So all your finger crossing is working…keep it up!!!!!

Now… if you could keep your fingers crossed that I can get my work done without playing on the computer… that would be helpful as well! 

I talked with DH last night about his mom’s list, and although he isn’t comfortable with it we both agreed that this is her way of dealing with the loss.  My SIL stopped by this  morning to pick up a disc, and she said she was surprised by some of the items on the list as well, and we all agree that we will keep these things for a while and then offer them back to her once she has had some time to deal with things.  I called her last night, we weren’t close before and I rarely spoke with her.  But I imagine nights are lonely.  During the day she is busy with the garden and chores, but at night she is alone in that house with no one to talk to.  Even though FIL could be a real pain in the butt, he was her partner.  We talked for over 20 minutes and she sounded good. She said my annoying SIL actually made the list for her, so we need to make sure that she actually wanted all of those items on there. 

In other news… my SIL that stopped by is currently going through IVF.  She had the procedure done 2 weeks ago last Thursday and got a positive HGC reading on Friday.  She was on her way back to the doc to get the second reading.  It shoud double every 24 to 48 hours… so ladies please keep her in your thoughts today.  They have been trying to have a child for over 10 years.  She was so nervous!  I actually thought maybe she had gotten some bad news, but she said she got good news on Friday but it doesn’t mean anything until they get the reading today to see how it is progressing.  They planted two eggs (?), I know she is hoping it will be twins so she can have her two kids in one shot.  DH and I asked them to be the guardians of our kids in the event something happened to us… so I know they will be good parents.  Besides… this family could really use some good news right now.

Okay… purpose of me being on this site… my weight is hovering at 176.  I am really disappointed in myself.  I have done a lot of mindless eating.  I do get ravenous at times because of the breastfeeding, but this has just been mindless hand to mouth business!  I need to stop it!

Work is busy… and I can’t seem to get motivated to get anything done.  I have three appraisals to write… and I can’t get ANYTHING done.  DS is sleeping right now, and I should be seizing the opportunity but I would rather putz around the net!  Well… I better get to it.  Have a great Tuesday ladies! 

Morning Everyone!  Weekend was great!  Saturday I stayed home and hung out with the boys and DH and I made my beer.  LOL… I LOVE oatmeal stout beer.  It is really hard to find and if you do find it it is really $$$.  So DH bought me the ingredients and we spent the afternoon making it.  YIKES… what a process.  It takes over two hours of intenssive labor (LOL… watching a pot of beer boil and cool).  Now it is sitting in the fermentor threatening to explode all over my bathroom!  I’ll let you know how it is in 4 weeks.  Hopefully it is good, because we will end up with two cases of the stuff. 

Sunday I went to the barn and rode and hung out with my friends.  We bought tickets to see the Lipizzaner Stallions at the end of the month.  I have seen them once before, but not in a big “show” setting.  DH even agreed to go… surprise surprise.  When I got home, it was late and DH was a jerk.  Trying to pick a fight.  I got ticked and snapped back at him, then out of the blue he says “mom sent a list of dad’s stuff she wants gone.”  As a recap… DH’s dad passed away almost a month ago.  His parents were married for almost sixty years, and now his mom is resolute that ALL of his stuff is to be out of the house by August 1rst.  She even put the date in BOLD that if it isn’t gone she is tossing it.

Okay… I can understand.  She is ready to claim some things as her own, get rid of his clothes and stuff that was his (wood carving equipment, wood working, pharmacy stuff…)  Then I get the list.  I am shocked.  She basically wants everything out of the house but the bare essentials.  She even wants someone to take the Flag that was presented to her at the funeral by the VFW and his medals from WWII.  The flag really bothers me because he had specifically requested that she be given the flag.  I think he would be terribly hurt to find out that she doesn’t want it.  She also doesn’t want any of the house plants, that were given to HER as gifts by all of the kids.  In fact lots of stuff on the list are items that were given to her… 

We know she wants to move, but everyone has told her to take it slow.  Don’t make any rash decisions.  Have any of you dealt with this?  Is this the normal part of the grieving process.  I know everyone grieves differently, but it seems unfair to sanitize him from her life.  She even got rid of all of his pictures.  Totally bizaar!  Needless to say, that is why DH was snippy and being a jerk.  He is hurt and he isn’t ready to deal with all of this yet.  I am a bit worried.  She is 82 years old, in good shape, but I still think she should take some time out and think about things that may be important to her.  

Well… I better get to work.  I am struggling trying to get back into the swong of things. 

WTH have I been!  I have a lot to say, but as usual not a lot of time to actually sit down and write it out.  DS #2 has been very demanding lately.  He is sitting in my lap right now dictating what I should say!  LOL…. lots of puke and gas!  I did waste THREE hours of my life watching the TBL finale, and I would like my time back thank you.  I wrote a little bit about this on Renee’s blog.  I would like to see the format of the show change, as it seems really unhealthy the lengths some of these contestants go through.  I imagine most of them will gain all the weight back within a year.  (Although… I loved seeing Mike and Tara!)  Both looked healthy and vibrant.  Maybe it is youth and elastic skin, but they didn’t look anorexic like Helen.  Did you notice her teeth?  Her gums were receding, much like someone with bulimia or sever starvation.  Very scary!

Obviously things have been really busy.  Still helping out at hte old business a little bit, but I also got some work!  OMG… big relief.  I was really starting to freak out that I wouldn’t have any $$$!  I still don’t have any money, but at least I have some work and will eventually get paid! 

Boys are doing well.  DS#1 is starting to feel a little bit left out and jelous.  It is to be expected.  He still adores his little brother, but he is tired of sharing time.  Every night I make sure to spend some time snuggling and talking with him, just the two of us.  It is hard finding time for myself, but in 18 years or so I am sure I will get some.

My weight is hovering between 173 and 175.  Obviously I am not taking advantage of hte breastfeeding and I find myself slipping for fast and convenient over healthy and sensible.  That has to change immediately!  I have been finding some time to ride.  It feels great!  I wish I could find more time to do it.  I am perpetually sore from riding, so it must be a great workout! 

DH has been working a fair amount of overtime, so I don’t see him as often as I would like.  But it is important to store up the extra $$$.  You never know with this economy, although it looks like things are beginning to turn around.  Hopefully within the next six months we will find bottom and start to work our way back out.

I really miss getting caught up with everyone!  Did anyone get copies of their old journals?  I never received mine.  Well he is starting to fuss!  I hope everyone is great!  I miss you all!!!!

Hi Ladies…  I haven’t been making it here as much as I would like.  Part is that life is just really busy and the other part is that I really haven’t “warmed” up to the Blogs.  I don’t know why a simple change in layout is so difficult, but I really do miss the journals.

Austin had his 2 month check up today.  As we were walking in the Doc that delivered him saw me coming and grabbed the baby carrier and walked us back to Austin’s doc… after he left Austin’s doc said that he had a “soft spot” for Austin.  I guess a near death experience will do that to you.  :)  The appt went fine… despite a hernia and the spitting up he is hitting all of his milestones and growing like a little week.  13.4 pounds and 24″.  According to his doc, “He is perfect.”  LOL… I couldn’t agree more!

Met up with my mom and she took the baby and I went to the barn.  I was supposed to meet a woman who wants to start riding with me.  She was 2.5 hours late, she couldn’t get her horse to load in the trailer.  I only had a few minutes by the time she showed up, so she saddled up and walked around the arena a few times to get her horse used to the place.  Then the horse didn’t want to load to go home.  It took about 20 minutes, but we finally got her back in.

My business partner called and we got some work.  Not from my website yet, but I haven’t expanded my key word search for the search engines yet.  I need to do that tonight.  But at least it is work!!!

We are going to see my MIL this weekend.  We are still working through some family drama.  My SIL decided to write a tribute to my FIL for the local paper, but some of the content was inappropriate.  Family got a little bit upset, so she decided to re-write it.

Tomorrow I am taking my mom out for Mother’s Day Lunch.  Turns out DS has early release so he will go with us too.  I need to find some time to finish painting the floor that I started at work.  I wish there were 36 hours in a day… I am sure that I would STILL run out of time!

I hope you all have a had a great week and have a wonderful Mother’s day weekend!  Big Hugs!!!

Okay… so I used their “web building” tools as html and I are really not friends!  I spent the better part of the day working on it and I still am not satisfied, but I would love to hear your feedback.  How does it look?

http://www.envisionappraisalservices.com

I also realized that I really should have shortened the name!  OMG… that is a lot to type in!  I put a discount on the site, because I am curious if it will bring in any work.  My busines scards don’t have the address on it… so if someone asks for a discount I will know where it came from.