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Monday, July 25, 2005

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:22:13 GMT

This blog has been more work than fun nearly since I started. I'll be taking it down sometime this week. I'll still be around reading and will likely post comments as GinaMS.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:33:03 GMT

I hung five loads of wash out yesterday trusting the weatherman that we wouldn't get rain yesterday. Soon after lunch I looked out to see the sky looking pretty dark. A few minutes later I started seeing big rain drops on the deck. I flew outside grabbing my nearly dry clothes and stuffing them into the basket. I got inside just before the skies opened up. It then rained *hard* for the next hour.

Not much happening today. We need to get to the store for things like milk, bread, yogurt, cereal and of course WW friendly ice cream. I swear I'm addicted to Edy's Sugar Free. The Fudge Tracks flavor is to die for! The little 1/2 cup serving is the highlight of my day. Someone at my WW meeting shared the other night that the Kroger Light Ice Cream bars are only 2 pts. I'm boycotting Skinny Cows because they changed their formula and now they are 3 pts instead of 2. Not nice. I can justify 2 pts for a treat but 3 makes me think harder.

So that's my story on ice cream. Big deep thoughts here today on SitcomMom.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:08:57 GMT

Lori I can't find your Homeschool Blogger site. You would think all the time I've spent there I would have found it by now. If you haven't read there, try it but its addicting. Truly addicting. I would sign up my own there but as you may have noticed, I have a hard time getting here to update.

I told Lori this morning that I was trying to be on the computer less these days. Yeah well that's apparently over. I've been on and off all day. I did however get some work done so I earned this. Right? Right. Go with that.

What I got on here to tell all of you is this....I'm picking Lori, Friend Husband and darling babies from the airport when they return from Ethiopia. How cool is that??? I must make a mental note to control myself though. I don't want these poor children to remember someday that one of their first experiences in the US was with this crazy lady oohing and ahhing in their faces gushing about how adorable they are. Oh I'll still ooh, ahh and gush but I'll try to be more reserved.

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:30:39 GMT

I talked with Immax3 this morning for awhile and complained about my lack of motivation. Hey Lori, while I'm thinking about it, you need to change your blog to Immax5. FIVE kids. 1-2-3-4-5! FIVE of em! I just like to see that little vein her head throb. Before any of you think I'm being mean, understand that Lori and I joke around a lot. We both know the other one is messing around. I am so very happy for her and can't wait to meet her new babies.

Anyway my lack of motivation. Its bad. Very bad. It took me until 10:10 this morning to get dressed. I wandered into the computer and its now 11:25. So much for my vow that I was going to get back into doing Flylady and organize school this week.

I have indeed put my name into to WW to start working for them. There isn't an opening at my meeting right now but we're fairly centrally located so that I could be open to several meetings within a respectable amount of drive time. Last night after my meeting I went out to eat with three WW employees. I said "so what's it like to work for WW?" They said its like being a prize fighter. What? They get weighed once a month for Lifetime status and then weighed again at every monthly meeting. If you're over, no more work for you until you lose it. Yikes. I'm doing this to keep myself honest and I think it will work nicely!

I didn't lose. I did however stay exactly the same as last week. Right down to the same tenth of a pound. How strange is that? Two more weeks and then I'm a Lifetimer!

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:09:15 GMT

Our alarm clock is set to go off with music rather than beeping. I tend to get the first song I hear stuck in my head all day. This is what I heard today from the Christian radio station. Its called Grace Like Rain by Todd Agnew.

Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found.
Was blind but now I see so clearly

Hallelujah! Grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah! All my stains are washed away, washed away

Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
and grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed

Hallelujah! Grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah! All my stains are washed away, washed away

When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing your praise
than when we've first begun

Hallelujah! Grace like rain falls down on me
Hallelujah! All my stains are washed away, washed away

**So in other SitcomMom news....I've got a hair appointment at 1 today. I don't know what to do. DH wants it longer. I want it short. I go to a girl from our church. I think I'll go early and look at her books for ideas. Its one of the most expensive salons in the area so I try to stick with just the basics. I would love to get highlights but can't justify the cost.

Other than that nothing happening today. Its rainy and yuck. Our library is having a party all day with cake and ice cream. I promised the kidlets we would stop there after my haircut. We'll go to the Y tonight to exercise. I feel like maybe I've lost this week. Maybe not. I'm being very conscious of getting all my H2O and fruit/veg in this week.

Have a great day!

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:50:24 GMT

Lots to update!

The mouse is dead. We got him late Friday night. We've set the traps every night since but haven't caught anything so that must have been it. I cleaned and painted the closet. DH got the hardwood inside it done last night. We did hardwood earlier this spring but that closet and the coat closet still needed to be done. I'm hoping to get the coat closet done by the end of the month.

I wrote a rather angry e-mail to the district manager for our trash service. They responded yesterday with an offer to give us one of their big 96 gallon wheeled cans for free as long as we remain their customer. We took them up on it. We had it all lined up to start burning trash but its so much more work to haul the plastic, glass and tin than to just bag it up and let them take it.

Last week at WW I lost 2.6 lbs on my first week of maintenance. I gained .8 last night. Not a big deal. I think the difference was last week I weighed in first thing in the morning instead of my usual 5:30 p.m. After the meeting last night I went out to dinner with the WW receptionists. Awhile back I asked about working for them once I got to goal. It doesn't look like its going to work out. The woman they thought was leaving decided to stay. Oh well. They asked me to come out to eat with them every week. It was a lot of fun so I know I'll look forward to that each week.

I got up at 6:30 a.m. intending to work on lesson plans. Its now nearly 8 a.m. and I've done nothing. The internet sucked me in! We have dentist appointments today at 1. I better get moving so I can get something accomplished today.

Friday, July 08, 2005

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:53:30 GMT

I'm so angry I'm shaking. Not about the mouse. About our trash pickup.

We've had nothing but trouble with them since we bought this house three years ago. Trouble to the point that our attorney neighbor got involved. Today I saw they had attached an orange sticker to one of our cans. It said "please get new cans". Our cans are broken because their employees broke them. I refuse to buy new only to have them broken again. I called their customer service line and got the run around. I just e-mailed the district manager (not like I think that will help) and told her I would be telling my blog readers about my experiences with her company. So here ya go.

Cincinnati readers....its Rumpke. If you have the choice of trash companies in your part of town, choose someone else. I've added this story to our personal family blog and will encourage my husband to put it on his blog that has *serious* Cincinnati readership. I had trouble with another company awhile back and told them if they didn't correct it, I would be putting it on the Internet. That got the problem fixed right away. Bloggers have a lot of power. Don't be afraid to exercise it.

Way back when I worked for a large legal research company. One of my main duties was to troll the Internet looking for people misuing the company trademarks and also to see what if anything was being said about the company. You would be surprised at the influence that had on the Big Whigs.

Get out there! Make a difference! Terrorize a business that gives bad service!

Friday, July 08, 2005

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:43:49 GMT

Oh my ladies, we have a mouse in the house. Its been in our pantry!

I called my husband at work to tell him about the mouse and he suggested we get a real cat. Can you tell he's not a big fan of our cat? How I my Jazzy but he's the laziest thing. I'm emptying everything out and cleaning the shelves. Jazz wandered into the closet, sniffed around and went to take a nap. I don't think he's going to be any help.

I had just bought groceries the other night. I'm so thankful that there wasn't alot of food in there while we were gone and also that they/it hadn't started on the already open boxes of food in the kitchen. The only thing I've found that it got into was a box of graham crackers. The yicky thing is it left mouse droppings all over. Shudder.

Well I've had it on my summer project list to clean and paint that closet. I've been putting it off but I think it will get done today and tomorrow!

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:17:52 GMT

We're going away for the holiday weekend so I'm busy, busy, busy today. You would think after making these treks north to family for the last 13 years, I would have this down to a science. Its actually a lot better than it used to be. Simply not having baby stuff to drag along is a huge space/time saver!

I planned on squeezing another Y workout in today. I'm not sure though. I've been really sore since my last workout on Tuesday. I was up in the night last night with shooting pain in my thigh muscles. I'm leaning toward doing a DVD here. However if I go to the Y there's free babysitting. There's also a mocha frapp from the Y coffee house. Also if I stay home the reality is I probably won't get it done. I know myself too well!

Have a great holiday weekend. Stay safe! See ya on Tuesday.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:55:32 GMT

I'm back. I dunno. I got in a blog funk. I felt like this was taking up a lot of my time. It doesn't really I guess. It just felt like it KWIM?

So my goal story goes like this...I've been losing and gaining the same pound since mid May. My leader decided to get to the bottom of this and started asking me questions. She asked me if I was sure on my height. Pretty sure although admittedly I haven't measured myself since high school. They found a yard stick and I learned I'm an inch taller than I thought. That inch gives me five extra pounds and put me at goal the previous week! I'm hoping to lose a little more with maintenance. My leader thought I maybe wasn't eating enough given the amount of exercise I do. I upped my points and went harder at the gym yesterday. I would like to lose another 5 lbs. Although I think Weight Watchers is a great organization, I plan to never ever give them another dime after August 1st!

Speaking of August 1st...my daughter's 5th birthday is July 31st. Because I have to weigh in for Lifetime status the next day, there will be no birthday celebration for me. I think I'll put a piece of cake aside to enjoy *after* weigh in.

This makes my total weight loss from highest to current at somewhere around 85 pounds. I went from a size 24 to a 8/10. I've lost about 15 inches off my hips. Bra size has went from a 46DD to a 34D. In the weirdest change I've went from a size 9 shoe to a 7 1/2. Who knew feet could get fat?

I'm finding maintenance a little scary right now. I've got 4 extra points or approximately 200 extra calories a day. Yeah I'm living big! Intellectually I know I'm not gaining it back on that amount but its still intimidating.

I see the breast specialist at 3 p.m. today. Blech. I need to call my insurance agent. Double blech. I've got several other calls to make that I've been putting off. Triple blech. I don't normally procrastinate for this very reason--it piles up. I'm going to dive in and get it off my mind.