Weekends Go Too Fast.

... And I'm sure you'll all agree, right?

Did you miss the baby update?

Even though I don't work on Mondays, the one day that Mr. Skinny and I have together is never long enough to cram in some serious bonding time, and spending time with both our families. It gets hectic, and there are days were it's non-stop eating. Like yesterday for example, we planned a family dinner with my family, then went to visit Mr. Skinny's family and they invited us for dinner, too! I didn't eat anything at Mr. Skinny's family, but I did save room for dessert - brownies and ice cream!

Anyways, today I had my first dentist appt in nearly 2 years. I was worried about cavities, that's always the story you hear, right? Someone doesn't go to the dentist for "x" amount of years, and then they have 6 cavities, have to have a root canal and whatever else the dentist does. The dental hygienist goes to my church, so she was telling me about her son's engagement party and wedding and her only grandson, so far. I know that I know her, but how many different sounds can you make with your mouth open and her hands in there? Seriously, she was actually asking me questions and all I could do was answer "uh-huh" or "unh-uh" without an explanataion. It was driving me bonkers! Oh, and seriously, she was digging so hard she knew I'd be sore and told me to rinse with salt water. Um, no thanks!

But good news, I don't have any cavities! I went food shopping after the appointment and somehow spent over my budget. I really need to get ahold of that. If we're going to keep trying to have a baby (more on that later in the week, I think), then we need to start a serious budget and pay stuff off. This debt is killing us. It's slowly crushing our souls, and sucking the life out of us. We don't even have a mortgage, rent, or really any "house" bills other than our Dish. We'll get it under control, sorry for rambling.

Now I'm sitting here, getting ready to make some dinner and contemplating where we our in our lives and what we can do to make things better.

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Tell me something about your weekend.

Do you have bad teeth or good teeth?

Are you happy where you are in your life?

Miss Me?

I didn't get killed by the big excavator that we rented this weekend. I have pictures! And running updates! Too bad I can't find my camera cord...

I'm still trying to balance working with blogging and running and everything. It's hard to figure out how to balance it all. Oh, right, it wouldn't be if I would get up earlier than 8am every morning. But that requires me to go to bed before 11 and I'm just not a fan of that any more. Who am I from the person who lived in Maryland. The one who was in bed by 9pm and up at 5:45am? I think she stayed in Maryland :)

I will be back tomorrow with a fabulous update, I hope.

Oh, and for an awesome chance to win a book AND a workout DVD, head over to Leah's blog to enter!

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Tell me something fun about your weekend!

Fresh Day.

I think I can say I'm out of my funk. Thanks for the encouraging words, it always helps to know that I'm not the only one who goes through this sort of thing. I woke up and went for a bike ride, not a long bike ride, but long enough that it felt good. I also tracked my food, and it felt good to do that, too. I focused on real food, fruits and vegetables. Filled my day with colorful vegetables, I'm trying to eat as many colors eat day as I can. It feels good after a few days of not eating well to be eating well again. It's a good cleansing.

On the job front, I'm getting used to my job. I don't love it, but it's bearable. I'm getting used to it, getting used to what George wants me to do, and how to ask what questions I want answered. It's complicated, but I'll keep going.

Honestly, that's all I did today, bike ride, work, and focus on eating better.

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How was your day?

Oatmeal.

First of all, thank you for all the kind comments on my last post! Each and every one of them made me smile!

Today has been a lazy day, other than my ravishing (is that the right word?) hunger. I feel like I eat something, I'm stuffed, then 20 minutes later, I'm hungry again! What the heck? I didn't have a chance to work out today, so I don't even have the excuse that I burned some extra calories and need to eat them. Sigh.

I was a nice big sister and took my brother's car to get the tires rotated, then I stopped at the store for the pizza crust for dinner. I really need to start making my own. Someday. Now I'm catching up on blogs and doing laundry. We were really overdue in the laundry department, it was pretty bad.

Anywho, today I need some advice from you dear readers. I want to make some oatmeal. A few months ago, I was adding some of the already packages Quaker oatmeal packets into my breakfast routine. They were okay, but didn't fill me. I see people like Kath eating oatmeal almost daily. I want to like oatmeal and make it in all kinds of cool ways, but I just don't know where to start. All different kinds of oats and how to make them. It's a big mess.

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Tell me about your experiences with oats. What kind do you use? How do you cook them? What kinds of add-ins do you add?

Thank you!