Hi girls,
I'm feeling much better today. Unforutnately I think I ate like 30 points over! And tomorrow we're having a huge meal including my favorite-pie!! Argh! I did have a really busy day at work however, so if I could count all of the points from activity today I could eat another 15 points or somethign insane like that. Oh well. I bought myslef a new shower curtain today to cheer me up. I've been wanting it forever. The one we have now is a boring old grey one that is so ugly and depressing. I want my bathroom to have a sea motif so the curtain I got today is an underwater picture of a coral reef! I love it
I also got some cute little fishy shower hooks. Its nice to buy stuff you don't really need
Lolly, congrats on the ring downsize! Thanks so much for your encouragement too. You are a super chum!
Ali, that's great that you get to spend sometime with your family this weekend. Hopefully it will work out for Christmas. Its always such a challenge because everyone always wants to be with their own fam. We still haven';t gotten it figured out and this will be our fifth one.
Shalyne, you should run to Canada, or at least Saskatchewan. It is so beautiful here right now. Probably the best weather we've had in a couple of weeks. I wore a sleeveless shirt today and was still sweating. Its supposed to be like this all weekend. Might be bad though because it seems to me the past few years whatever the weather is at Thanksgiving its totally opposite at Christmas. Hopefully not though...
Tonight I'm baking pies. Should be interesting. I haven't made pastry on my own in about 4 years. Hopefully it will turn out. I am going to try this recipe I found for "healthy" pie crust. It doesn't use any lard. I can't imagine.
If you don't have anything to do you should check out this website.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/mskinner/ It is this awesome video called "Interview with God". I don't care what your beleifs are, the message here applies to everyone, plus it has some really beautiful photography. Turn on your sound too. I love it.
Anyway I'll probably stop by again beofre the weekend is over. Thanks everyone for your ongoing encouragement. Take care
Rina
The weekend
Then this week I started out everyday with good intentions but then ate out lots and have eaten over my points every single day this week. Its so horrible. I know I am going to have another gain this week and its my own fault. I didn't exercise once this week and because we have our car now we haven't had to walk everywhere like normal either. Plus on top of all of that I'm sad because it is Thanksgiving weekend and we can't go home because I work Saturday and DF works everyday but Sunday. He thinks we should make a flying trip for the day but it really sucks because we can't really afford it. I am so lonely for family right now. We haven't been home since the first weekend in August. Tonight is really bad for me. DF is working until 11:30 so I'm spending another Friday night doing nothing at home by my lonesome and all my buds are gone out of town for the holiday so I can't even go out for coffee or something. I feel so down right now. I miss home. My weight isn't going the way I want and when I'm near the food its like I don't care. I know poor me. Sorry everyone for having an online pity party. I'm actually doing much better than I was awhile ago. I just spent time going through all of the threads I missed this week and have been cheered up considerably. THings could be alot worse. At least I'm safe and I have great people who love me and I have a wonderful job and we aren't starving and my country is awesome and generally the people I love are safe and healthy. Its so hard to count your blessings when you feel like crap but there they are. I just need to keep putting things into perspective I guess. Anyway sorry again everyone. I hope you all have a terrific weekend and that by the next time I talk to you I'm back to my happy-go-lucky self. Sorry this whole post is focused on me and I haven't said anything about any of you and your lives. I'm not usually this self-centered. I think I'm going to go have some real fun now and work on my month end accounting (note: sarcasm). Take care everyone.
- not enough exercise, not concentrating enough (how did that half-eaten cookie get into my hand?) ... It really helps to read the posts here though, and Blokey and I have just made the commitment to sit down this weekend and plan our meals for the whole week, so I am feeling a lot more positive. And KUDOS to you for doing your measurements - believe me, they will go down faster than you can imagine (look at mine, I started right where you did). 
