Weighing in Wednesday- Week 14

 

This week's weight loss:

-2.2

Total weight loss since Jan. 2, 2013:

-13.5

 

What worked for me this week:

 Adding the extra exercise and also really tracking every bite. Once I track in the evenings I know if I can have a snack with Hailey before bed or if I should just hold off.

What didn't work for me:

 Still haven't been able to get into the habit of drinking enough water! I really need to work on that!

 A non scale victory for me this past week:

Only eating two cookies in the evening! My mom sent home a dozen cookies that her and Hailey baked. So each night we sit together with a glass of milk and we each get two cookies. Sometimes it's really hard to close that bag!

 

 My goals for this week:

Work out at least three times a week, budget my points better and use them on healthier foods, and drink water! Lots and LOTS of water! (I'll just keep this goal again!)

See you next week!

Ten Things On Tuesday!!!

1. I gardened Sunday......it is now Tuesday and my legs are still sore! Yesterday I waddled around while my butt, thighs, and calves ached as though I had done a really hard leg workout! I like feeling sore because it makes me feel like I worked out, but normally I aim for that feeling after the gym and not after a Sunday in the yard!

 

2. Soccer starts this Saturday and as of last night we are officially ready! I can't get over how cute and super tiny her little cleats and shin guards are! Now that she has the gear she is super excited!

 

3. I realized on the way to work today that I don't have much going on this weekend! I am kind of excited! Maybe I can get some more yard work done and work on the basement and cleaning!

 

4. I haven't been to curves this week and didn't pack forgot my clothes for today! That means I have a date there every night this week. If not I will be heading there early on Saturday morning before soccer! I made a 3 day a week commitment! I have to follow through!

 

5. My magic bullet blender bit the dust yesterday! The blade attachment broke! Luckily I have another whole set as back up! I was back to smoothie making this morning!

 

6. I am not sure how weigh in will go tomorrow! I have been tracking everything and haven't gone over my points. Plus my extra activity should hopefully of helped! But I guess we will see tomorrow! I didn't even peak today!

 

7. I have a vendor fair in my building tomorrow and I am setting up my Scentsy! Hopefully someone will send me good vibes on selling lots and lots of stuff! I dropped off some books at the bowling alley the other day on our way out! Hopefully somewhere a long the way I will get a party to host!

 

8. Hailey's kindergarten field trip is Thursday! They are going to a theater and watching My Secret Garden. They are supposed to dress up. It's a play and lunch! Hopefully she will be excited! I have been keeping the details a secret! I wanted her to get really excited when Mrs. Durham tells the class and explains it.

 

9. I had a friend delete me off of Facebook and Instagram because I did not get out of the car and give HIM a hug. To be honest, I didn't feel like getting out of the car at the busy WaWa parking lot, I offered the "through the window" hug, but he didn't want that. This is one of my good friends that I have talked to almost everyday for the past 2 years. I figured it would blow over, but we haven't talked in about 3 weeks and last week I got the boot from his social media. Oh well, I really don't have time for pettiness and this seems like a constant for this person. Sucks losing a friend over something silly!

 

10. My project for last night and tonight is "Create Front Door Wreath"! I am curious how it will turn out. I have been looking for a couple months for ideas and finally decided to go ahead and do something. I have it over half way done, I just need to finish some painting tonight. If it turns out good, then I will share. If not, maybe it will become a wreath for my bathroom door! Ha!

 

So these are my ten things this beautiful Tuesday! What are your 10 things you would like to share?

Spring has Sprung!

So it's finally here! The moment we have all been waiting for...........SPRING HAS SPRUNG!

I have made mention about working on the flower beds and not knowing what to do! This is our first spring in this house and I really would like to make the yard look nice! Sunday is was supposed be 70 degrees and Sunday so I figured that would be a perfect time to start! I made a trip to Lowes on Saturday and picked up everything we needed!

Ever since we moved into the our old house, I have always wanted to plant flowers around the mailbox and make it look nice. The problem there was that our mailboxes were grouped together and Kenny said that was a no go in that are. Our mailbox at this house sits by it's self. Let me tell you about this mailbox a little. It was there when we moved in. It was nasty and had black all over it and rust. Even the post looked like it had mildew on it. I had planned on painting it, but after going out there yesterday and working for over an hour putting some scrubbing into action. I was able to get it looking brand new again! I also scrapped off all the nasty old letters and cut myself some new one! So no spray paint was needed! I also bought some little pavers at Lowes and made a little circle that kind of matches the one in the middle of the yard. I then planted and mulched a new little flower bed in the circle! I am sooooo excited and pleased with it. Not to mention proud of my hard work! Like I mentioned before, I am not a green thumb at all!

 

Now the next section I worked on was this odd little circlish things in the yard. It's kind of more an oval I guess. There didn't appear to be anything planted in it. And when I got digging there seemed to be about 4" of old mulch and then black plastic underneath. So I am thinking that someone just mulched over it and called it a day. For this one I picked perennials plants and flowers that will come back all year long. I also picked spring and summer bloomers so we will have flowers all summer long there. And in the middle I put some fountain grass which will bush out and become taller and more of a center piece! In order to garden this one, I had to first rake out a lot of old mulch. I then tried to straighten up some of the brick things that were out of place. Once I planted everything, then I mulched it again with some new fresh mulch! I can't wait to see it once things really start growing! And I am excited that all these will come back year after year! I will just have to freshen things up and trim the grass up!

 

So here is the before......

 

And here is the after!

Not only was it warm out, but it was sunny! My cheeks go a little touch of color on them and I have the start of a flip flop tan! Wahoo! Most this week is supposed to be beautiful and in the 70's and 80's! So I think it is official! Spring is here to stay!

My next project will be figuring out those crazy flower beds by the house! What a random mess! Stay tuned!

Truths About Me!

I was tagged by Sarah to share some self truths! I thought long and hard about something that people normally don't know about me! I am pretty much an open book and tell people everything at one point or another. I was able to come up with a couple things that maybe I mentioned!

Truth 1: I have never flown and I secretly am scared to fly. I am afraid the plane will crash. I know it's more likely for me to die in a car accident than in a plane crash, but something about falling from the sky scares me the most!

Truth 2: I stutter when I get nervous when I talk to someone. It's not really bad, and maybe they don't notice it, but I do! Especially if it's someone who intimidates me or a really cute guy! Ahhh!

Truth 3: I've never been to the West Coast, maybe this has to do with my first truth!

Truth 4: Bugs don't really bother me. I can deal with spiders and other bugs (I usually make hubby deal with them for me), but one thing I can NOT stand is roaches and crickets! Ahhhhh they give me cold chills! In fact I have them as I am typing this right now! And since moving to VA, I now have added a third thing to the list......SPIDER CRICKETS! and we have them in the house sometimes! They freak me out!

Truth 5: I'm allergic to mango, not to the point that my throat swells up or anything serious, but I get really itchy and get red bumps all ready. I have found that a lot of tropical stuff, like shaving creams and lotions, also have began bothering me. They normally say "fruit extract", but the itching makes me wonder if they have traces of mango in them.

Truth 6: My memory is like a sponge! I retain a lot of information without even knowing it. Something will come up and I will know the answer and have to remember how I had come up with that. I also know lyrics to songs with listening just once and I don't have to be really even listening to it. Ha! I amaze myself sometimes because other stuff I try so hard to remember goes in one ear and right out the other!

Truth 7: I really want another baby, but I am so scared of becoming a family of four. I don't know if it is because I am worried what people will say and how negative they will be, or that I am content with the way things are. My whole heart wants another one and for Hailey to have a sibling, but my head is constantly asking if we can afford it and if it is a good decision.

Truth 8: I spend a lot of time trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up, yet it seems so far away from ever reaching because I need so much more schooling and honestly I don't know if I am smart enough to get into these graduate education courses.

So those are some of my self truths! Now I'm tagging  Heather, Kaley, and Mandy, and would love to learn something new about them!

So What Wenesday!

Today I am linking up with Shannon at "L.A.I.D" for another round of "So What! Wednesday!"

This week I am saying SO WHAT to:

• The fact I can barely keep my eyes open sitting here this morning at work. I really want to be in my nice, warm, comfy bed. But I guess I will settle for this cold office and hard chair.

• Hailey choose to go to Grammy's house an extra day instead of coming to work with me this morning. But do you blame her? Who wants to get up at 4:30am and sit in a stuffy building all day?!? Plus with not bringing her, I didn't have to drive to work, I got to ride the vanpool.
 
• We have no food in the house and I had good intentions on stopping at Foodlion on my way home, but I left some coupons at home, so I am going to have to wait until tomorrow! I'm not paying full price when I could save an extra $2!
 
• My dishes are FINALLY clean and all done! Now I am super anal about them! Plus is it silly to be so proud of an empty sink when that's how it is supposed to be anyway?!?
 
• I was supposed to clean on my days off Monday and Tuesday, but instead I did nothing really. Now I am supposed to clean tonight and tomorrow.......we will see how well that goes!
 
• I have a birthday party in a couple weeks and all the good gifts are taken! I mean come on, it's three weeks away! It's not like I waited last minute! Now I will get stuck buying the lame gifts this year haha.

• Kenny asked if we had plans this weekend and before I could answer he said "to bad if we do, you guys want to come over on Saturday?" and he invited both brothers and their girl friends over. But believe me, he won't be the one helping clean anything. Luckily, besides a birthday party on Saturday morning that I knew he wasn't going to, we had nothing. Grrrr men!
 
• Speaking of hubby, he FINALLY took down the Christmas lights yesterday. Now I don't have to see those stupid gutter clips every time I look at the house. Better late then never I guess! PS: I've mentioned it every weekend since Christmas!

 

I just realized I need a vacation NOW! Somewhere warm and sunny! These are the things I am saying "So What!" to, what are you saying it to this week?!

Weighing in Wednesday- Week 13

 

This week's weight loss:

+1.0

Whomp whomp!

Total weight loss since Jan. 2, 2013:

-11.3lbs

 

 

 What worked for me this week:

 

Well, as you can see it was a gain this week. So apparently nothing worked for me this time. I guess it could of been a bigger gain if I had of plain given up, but I didn't. I tracked every bite even when I was over my points.

What didn't work for me:
 

 The fact we went to two different BIG Easter meals and I had food and dessert at both! I let myself go Sunday!

A non scale victory for me this past week:
 

Getting back into working out. I have gone twice this week already and have my gym clothes packed for today. I am supposed to devote at least three days a week to working out so I am hoping I can do that, and maybe an extra day or two on top of that!

 

My goals for this week:

Work out at least three times a week, budget my points better and use them on healthier foods, and drink water! Lots and LOTS of water!

See you next week!

Ten things on Tuesday!

1. I have been off the past two days and can not express to you how much I DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK TOMORROW!!! Think anyone will notice I'm not back?!?

2. I quit the YMCA, one because I only have a membership to get a discount on Hailey's after care. Basically the Y membership was the same price that I was saving on the aftercare, but basically I screwed myself with taxes because I couldn't claim the extra amount that I was still paying but putting towards the membership dues. And secondly it was 30 minutes away and I just never made time to get there. You figure that's an hour in just traveling would put us home after like 8pm on a school night.

3. I started Curves gym again. Now that my commute saves time, I can budget the 30 minutes for a curves routine and its on the way to pick up Hailey. I used to go before Hailey was born every single day, then when I had her and it didn't have a daycare I had to quit. I'm glad to be back! And no enrollment and its cheaper then the extra I was spending at the Y. I've been twice this week already!

4. I need to figure out what I'm going to plant in my yard! It's prime time for spring planting, or so I've been told!

5. Kenny FINALLY took down the Christmas lights today. He did it while I was at the gym. I noticed that those bright white gutter clips were missing as soon as I pulled in the drive way.

6. Hailey is gone for 3 whole nights and four days. She was supposed to go to work with me tomorrow but decided Grammy's house was cooler. Sheesh!

7. Hailey starts soccer on the 13th. I just heard from the coach tonight. She needs black shorts and black socks. Her shirt will be provided and will be light blue and she is a Colombian! I'm so excited for her!

8. I finally got a Bud Lime Margarita drink that filled my FB and Instagram feeds this weekend! It in the refrigerator getting nice and cold for tomorrow!

9. Tomorrow is weigh in and I feel like I gained. I have a feeling Ill be up most the night worrying about it! It is what it is, lets just say Easter was too yummy to resist.

10. Book club meeting is Sunday and I'm not even half way through. Sounds like I have some catching up to do!