My Own Personal Biggest Looser

I need to loose weight. Like about 75 pounds. I don't know why, but I lack motivation for exercise and eating right. I am a total junk food junkie and I suppose that I'm addicted to sugar.

I've decided to start small in the hope that I can tolerate the changes.

Goal #1: Give up soda pop. This doesn't sound terribly difficult, but I'm libel to scratch out someone's eyes for a Dr Pepper in about 3 days.

My first 10 pound lost reward will be a new haircut and color.

If I can loose 40 pounds by the 4th of July, I'm going to go spend a night with a friend and go shopping for our family vacation to Florida this summer. (Yes, I know that this is a difficult goal. Isn't it supposed to be?)

I'm Back!!

I've been missing for awhile. We're suffering from too much to do and too little time.

We've been doing a little remodeling project.

Turning this:

Isn't that rose wallpaper awful??

I kid you not, when we were looking at this house our realtor told us that the bathroom had just been remodeled and it was "just georgous!!"

Someday I'll show you a picture of my living room. Lets just say that the previous owner really, REALLY liked rose wallpaper.

I do not.

Into this:

I still need to change the shower curtain.

This is not our finished bathroom. It was just made (in our opinion) liveable with new drywall, texturing and fresh paint. We also (I'm using the term we very loosly) rewired everything including a new ceiling light, bathroom fan and working electrical outlets. I can now plug my blow dryer into an outlet in my bathroom instead of the office. Aren't modern conviences amazing. We only have this one bathroom so the major renovation, complete with a new linen closet, tile shower, jacuzzi tub, new window and tile floor, will be done after we install another bathroom upstairs.

We apparently purchased the money pit.

You know what's better than marrying for money?

Marrying for home improvement skills.

Just Hanging On......

So, so, so sick with the tonsilitis/mononucleosis. I have never been this sick before. Able to swallow liquids now. I guess I started my New Year's diet early. 104 degree temperatures will melt fat off of anything:)

I'm intrigued by the "101 things in 1001 days." I think that I will return to my couch and try to come up with a few things to start mine with.

Family

My nieces and nephew are here tonight while their parents are at a Christmas party. That makes 7 kids 12 and under. The house is amazingly quiet. No yelling or screaming. Boy these cousins REALLY like each other:) It makes me very happy.

Miscellanous Musings

I think that I'm probably going to get kicked out of Holidailies. Do they do that?

I started the Flylady yesterday. So far I think that it's helped:) I also ordered recipe organizing software. Maybe I should start a diet now, too. I hope that I don't crash and burn with both. I have very good intentions.

Tonight is my office Christmas party. I have to go stag. For some reason, this makes me unconfortable. I have worked with some of these people for over 11 years. Eleven years should be enough time to get comfortable. Any shrinks out there want to comment on this?

Satisfying Sundays

I hate when I have to work on the weekend, but for some reason I get more done at home on those weekends than on non-work weekends. Must be that annoying voice in my head that keeps saying, "You have two whole days to get this stuff done. Slow down a little."

Last night I wraped most all of the stack of presents I had to wrap. There are still a few downstairs that are being hidden from little boys eyes and I finished our Christmas cards.

Today I did a lot of laundry, picked up and vacuumed the house, cleaned the bathroom and mopped the mudroom and the kitchen. I also changed our sheets.

I still need to make our bed and fold three!! baskets of laundry. I'm thinking that I'll get one of those 2 things done. 10 points for anyone that can guess which one:)


Tomorrow, it's back to work. I have a lot that I could write about that but I don't want to get "dooced." Highly doubtful that my boss is smart enough to find this site, but miracles do happen. Maybe I should google myself. Nothing there, I should be safe. I work for four men. Three of whom are "partners" although I think it's more of a benevolent dictatorship. I actually like the "dictator" quite a lot. It's one of the others that drives me and most of the others in the office crazy. He is very book smart but has NO people skills and NO common sense. He has no ethics and very little respect for anyone around him. To him it's "all about the money." He routinely gouges clients, employees included, especially if he thinks "they can afford it." He seems to think that he should get to decide how others spend their money, but he's so tight with his own that he's barely buying his kids Christmas presents. My respect level at this point is so low that I can barely be civil. However, the real kicker is that I've worked there longer than him. Our company Christmas party is next week and Craig can't go. I can't decide if it's worth the bother of getting a sitter which is sad considering that I truly enjoy everyone else that works there.

Time to wrangle my boys out of the bath and settle down to watch Frosty the Snowman. Sounds like a good time to me!

Best Ever?

How come when I make recipes that say they are the "best ever" I don't really like them. I made Orange Cranberry Bread and Lemon Blueberry bread tonight. The cranberry bread was really pretty good except that it was rather flat on top. The blueberry bread was OK. All the blueberries fell to the bottom of the pan so I kind of have blueberry upside down bread. Except that is is right side up. It, however, poofed up on top and looks like a loaf of bread. Oh well, at least I get an A for effort.