wheezypi - I hope your husband and dad were able to fix things. Car trouble can be very, very stressful. JUST WORK CAR, us how I feel.
dgramie - augh, your poor hubby! that sounds like a lot of pain, I hope everything goes well with him. And yes! pop in here too and give us updates! I'm glad you got the wedding weight off, but I know how you feel. My scales are not moving right now, either.
betsy - haha, he said NOTHING. Maybe he just doesn't know what to say. I'm going with that. ALSO: question. How much space does a blueberry bush need? My mother bought me one and I have literally no idea where to put it. I finished planting last week (I TOLD HER I WAS DONE) but of course I get to their house at 7 last night and there it is waiting for me. Heh.
It sounds like your Father's Day was a great success and how awesome that your nephews took care of that work for you!
UBEE - welcome!
Pam - good job searcing our your options. THAT is one of the more necessary things I do, I always research menu options at chain restaurants.
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So, I had a great weekend. Went shopping on Friday, then out to dinner at a local foods restaurant, then walked and walked and walked in this great neighborhood to go out for drinks at a meadery and listen to live music and sit outside. Stopped at a chocolate place on the way back to the car (we were walking ALOT) and I tried a Vanilla honey fig black peppercorn mocha. It was just okay so I drank only a little bit. Also tried a beer-jalapeno brittle and a chocolate / bleu cheese truffle.
Saturday we had brunch (again, sitting outside). I had a really delicious veggie burger. Then went to a great bookstore, the Columbus Park of Roses, World Market, and the Franklin Park Conservatory, then out to dinner (well, in the end it was lunch, hah) at another place in the short north where I got tofu pad thai.
THEN the concert, which was amazing. Uh, here is a snippet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lx2a...layer_embedded
After the concert we went out for drinks (I was driving so I ordered something to sip - it was a combination of ginger ale, fresh lime, and whiskey was was delicious - and let my brother finish it.) at a whiskey bar. We're leaving there and it's one a.m. and it has been seven hours since dinner and I only ate half of mine, so I'm like: I'm hungry. I was thinking dessert or appetizers but instead we stopped at another local bar/restaurant and I had a taco salad with vegan chili on top. I was going to order nachos but my brother wanted a sandwich and I didn't want to eat all the nachos myself. The taco salad was the better option anyway, and I still got some chips and some vegan chili.
Sunday: brunch again. I had half of a savory lemon scone and really good coffee, and then ice cream at Jeni's (which does delicious organic / local ice cream). Said fare well to my brother and then had more stops to make to buy bagels for my folks. I stopped and walked around at an art / craft fair, and did a TINY amount of clothes shopping, and stopped, finally, at Trader Joe's on my way out of town. Oh if I lived near a Trader Joe's.
Made it to my folks in time for Father's Day dinner (a late one!). So, it was all good.
Hope y'all all had a great weekend.
Oh, the NSVs: no way I would've done this last year. When my brother wanted to go to the meadery he seemed to be suggesting that we drive. I asked how far it was and he said it was about a mile. I was like, just let me put on my other sandals and we'll walk. It was great.
Everyplace we ate was local so there was no way to look up nutrition info, but I made good choices even in the middle of not-great choices. Didn't finish the mocha because I didn't want it. Ate part of my veggie burger with the bun, then took the bun off for the rest. Ordered salads with sandwiches instead of fries. Didn't finish my DELICIOUS ice cream because I was done with it.
And, between those choices and all the walking and exercise, I was the same weight this morning as I was when I left Friday. SO YAY.
so hopefully this means good stuff for me. we just found that we didn't have anything for lunch in the house and hubby tried to force me into taco bell. I told him to shove it up his @$$ and made him go to blimpie to get me a spinach wrap instead 
WINNER! I'll take that 410 calories of deliciousness over a 560 high fat contented cantina bowl!
and share our thoughts. 
All to get a T shirt! Hope this yoga class I've signed up for gives me the same drive!
The transformation in the mirror caught me off guard. I was still hiding in my fat pants so people would not notice me as much. Time to let them notice because I am going to keep on losing.
