TSO.

Happy Monday! I am only okay with Mondays because I don't work :)

I didn't have any guesses on my kindergarten picture! I'll give you a clue. I'm in the left half of the class. I'll give you another clue, I've always been short. Now take a shot.

I want to do another weekend update. Week 12 pregnancy update will come on Wednesday. This weekend, Mr. Skinny and I had tickets to see Trans Siberian Orchestra, or TSO. If you don't know this awesome musical group, here's a preview of one of their shows.

Back when we knew we wanted to go see TSO and we knew the tickets were coming out, Mr. Skinny and I were trying to figure out how much we wanted to spend for tickets. We eventually decided that since we've seen this show twice before, we'd just get cheaper nosebleed tickets. We were still in the center, just all the way up the top. And I mean all the way, like next to last row up top.

So we got settled and starting talking and checking our phones to waste time for the show to start. This couple comes up to us...

"It is just the two of you?"

"Yes..."

"We do this every year, we buy extra tickets to give away. We're in the fifth row on the floor, center stage. Would you like to come sit with us?"

Jaws drop.

Mr. Skinny, looking at me, "it's up to you."

The husband, "C'mon. Fifth row."

"Sure!"

Holy. Cow. I don't know if it was because it's been 2 years since we saw TSO, or the show was that much better from the fifth row, but Mr. Skinny and I agreed that we would pay the money for close tickets from there on out because the show was incredible! 

At one point, one singer who sings a song in the back of the arena runs up and we got to slap her hand! Although according to Mr. Skinny she "almost kissed him". Ha. Ha. I didn't know kissing was code for high five-ing, but if it is, I've kissed a lot more people than I've been thinking. 

I promise, she has two arms, I just caught
her at an awkward mid-arm swing.

The awesome narrator. He's the only one without
long hair, but he still head bangs while playing
air guitar.

Super cutie singer. Don't tell Mr. Skinny. I'm a
sucker for dimples, but Mr. Skinny knows that,
he has them!

I thought this guy was super sexy and I don't know
why! 

All in all, it was an amazing show, and if you ever get the opportunity to go, you should totally take it!

Tell me:


Have you ever heard of or seen TSO?
Do you like rock concerts?

Mr. Skinny's Birthday Weekend.

I'll be doing my weekly pregnancy update tomorrow, I wanted to talk about my weekend for once! Today actually is Mr. Skinny's birthday, he's a Halloween baby, by the way, Happy Halloween! Anyway, growing up, his birthday wasn't ever special. I don't blame his parents, they have 5 kids and they weren't raised that way, as far as I can tell, but since I was raised with your birthday being your special day, you eat what you wanted and got to go where you wanted, within reason, of course. Well, I know how much Mr. Skinny loves trains, and since we're only about an hour from the Steamtown National Historic Site, I thought it would be a nice excuse to get away for a weekend and take a long train ride. And that it was. Minus the snowstorm that came out of nowhere! It was a beautiful preview of Christmas though and made me remember how beautiful snow is, even though I hate the cold. 

Now I can bombard you with pictures! 

The view from our room during the snow!

Because of the snow, Mr. Skinny actually got off work on Saturday, he didn't have to go in at all! He was happy about that for his birthday weekend. Once we knew the storm was coming we didn't know if we'd be able to go up at all and because I purchased the advanced reservations for our hotel (read: couldn't cancel the reservations, we would have just lost our money if we didn't go), we really didn't want to loose that money. And I was looking forward to a weekend alone. We decided to leave early and walk around the Steamtown Mall before we could check into our room. That was the best idea. I actually got my first pair of maternity jeans! They were on sale for $20 and they were petites, so I just had to get them. I've been wearing my bella band, but that's not entirely comfortable either. 

We ate at TGI Fridays, and I had pasta which was okay, but exactly what I wanted, I finished the whole thing, and then felt sick afterwards. Go figure! I can't eat as big of meals as I could before! We watched a lot of TV and spend time together. There was a pool, but we didn't go in it, Mr. Skinny was passed out by 8pm on Saturday night! 

The same view the next morning!

Sunday morning we were lounging around until the power went off in our hotel, so we checked out a little early and headed to breakfast at Perkins. Then off to our train ride.

Waiting for our train ride.

Our train.

The view during our ride.

I'm actually really happy there was snow, or else the ride would have probably been quite boring. It was a little annoying because the steam kept fogging up our windows and I couldn't get too many good pictures. The ride was about an hour and a half, then we stopped at the Tobyhanna Station and got out to look at the model trains, and grab a bite to eat, before getting on the train for the ride back. I actually fell asleep on the way back, I'm surprised Mr. Skinny didn't take a picture of that. But, I have an excuse to sleep randomly throughout the day.

Since today is Mr. Skinny's actual birthday, I'm making him a meatloaf for dinner and my mom is going to make mashed potatoes and broccoli. Seriously, I can't make good, creamy mashed potatoes to save my life! It's rather terrible actually. Then we have ice cream cake for dessert. I don't think we'll be able to eat as a family, but that's okay, Mr. Skinny felt like his birthday was this weekend anyway, not so much today.

All in all, it was a good weekend, but weekends slip away to nothing so quickly! How does that happen?! I keep telling Mr. Skinny we need to take a long weekend baby moon, but he'd rather pay off our debts than take a weekend vacation. I need to convince him to change that. :)

Tell me:


Have you ever been on a train?
Were your birthdays special growing up? Are you planning on making them a big deal for your kids?

I love New York!

Weekend recap: I went to New York City on Saturday! I really do love New York. It's such a different atmosphere than what I'm used to - being from the county and all! You really do see things in New York that you don't see anywhere else. I went with my two friends, and one of my friend's mom. My friend's mom has never been to the City, so we had to hit up the typical tourist-y spots - Central Park, Times Square, 5th Avenue, etc.

We also went to see Phantom of the Opera. I really didn't think that I'd like this show, but it just goes to show you that if it's a Broadway Production, it's gonna be awesome. I didn't know anything about the show, the basis for it or anything, but I loved it. Other than the fact that the company that purchased the tickets for the college canceled the tickets and told no one. So the students who were in charge had to foot the bill for 18 students, and while they'll get refunded, that's still a rediculous amount of money considering that the tickets were nearly $100 a piece!

NYC food was awesome as usual. I got a pretzel with mustard while waltzing around Central Park. For a late lunch/early dinner, we found an Irish Pub on a side street - Pigs n Whistles and I got delicious salmon, mashed potatoes and asparagus. Then we hit up the Hershey's store and no amount of self respect stopped me from buying a bag of Reese's mini peanut butter cups. Has anyone seen these? They're delicious!!! They're a million times better than Reese's pieces, which just suck, in my opinion. You don't even have to unwrap these mini beautys, just pop 'em in your mouth. Which is why I ate them all in 2 days - even though the nutrition information saying 6 servings. Oops. Here's some pictures, some taken with my iPhone, and some stole from Facebook - that's what it's there for, right?

Getting ready to pose on Times Square. I didn't post that picture because I am terrible at faces. No really. Ask my friends.

Times Square!

Yes, that is a peanut butter cup that weighs 0.5 pound each! I really wanted to buy this, but the $15 price tag detered me.

Majestic Theater

Central Park - Quiet Zone! I'd love to be able to just wake up and say "Oh, I'm gonna go hang in Central Park today."

But it was an awesome day, I'm trying to convince Mr. Skinny, country boy that he is, to come with me to NYC sometime. I think he'll like it if I plan it really well. He just might deck himself out in his Red Sox attire and get beat up. We'll see.

Sunday I hung out around the house. We plunged ourselves further into debt by going to Costco and fully stocking our freezer that was almost empty, as well as our fridge. Now we won't be going hungry and since I can continue working (yay for the government not shutting down), Mr. Skinny isn't quite as stressed. On the other side of the finances, we're having our landlord, who is an accountant, double check our state taxes so that we can see if we actually owe that money or not. Hopefully we don't, but we'll see.

finally friday

Since this is my first full week back to work and school since everything happened with Pop Pop, I feel like this week has been so long! I'm rather happy that it's finally Friday!

I don't have a lot going on this weekend, but I am planning for some Super Girly Time with two of my besties from college. I don't get to see them much, and we need some catch-up time. Apparently both of them are on the verge of being in a relationship and I didn't know this! They wanted to tell me in person, and I saw a glimpse of one yesterday and she blurted it out--I was in shock! I've known these girls throughout college and we've seen each other through it all. They were the first I told when I got engaged and they were there through all the wedding planning.

Other than Super Girly Time, there will be some packing, some cleaning, a lot of cooking, and a lot of homework and maybe even a house showing?! Yes, you read that right, we might be buying a house!!! Mr. Skinny absolutely hates living in our apartment, and I get rather annoyed with it as well.

Reasons why?
-I have to climb 39 steps to get into the apt. This means any groceries, heavy bags, suitcases need to be drug up 39 steps.
-My kitchen is miniscule. No lie. I have about 10-12 inches of counterspace on either side of my sink and that's it. That's it people! I can't cook in those conditions.
-The dining room table is on the opposite end of the apartment.
-There's a creepy attic door that opens and closes when it's windy
-The whole building shakes when it's really windy
-There's no where near enough outlets. For example, our microwave, toaster over, toaster, coffeepot, lamp, cell phone chargers and television are all plugged into one outlet. Yeah, I know it's not safe, but what are we supposed to do?

We have been dreaming of buying a house for quite a long time, and went our driving around the neighborhood a few months ago, and found a house we really liked. Lo and behold, it's still for sale, and we still like it! It's a half of a duplex, but it has a nice yard. I think the best part is that there are only 3 steps to get in the house! 3 steps! That's so nice!

Mr. Skinny can't stand paying rent when we won't be getting anything out of it. I'm just not looking forward to packing everything up. I'm going to try to not get my hopes up though, if for some reason we can't get it, I don't want to be so upset. We haven't even seen any houses yet, we just got the pre-approval and started looking at houses online. God will lead us to the right decision, whatever it is.

Oh! Last night I went to a spinning class, it was really great. If you remember, I went to one in January and didn't like it. This one was a lot better. The instructor was nice, plus it was great to actually know someone in the class. I think I might actually stick to this class!

Happy Friday!

TGIF!

I really feel like this week has been SO long! I mean, Monday seems like a lifetime ago. On Monday we thought that Pop Pop was okay, he just had the infection last thing we knew. We didn't know why he was still in the hospital, but we thought he was okay.

Tuesday we got the news that he might die in 2 weeks. Wednesday, we were told that replacing the pacemaker was going to be his only chance. Thursday, it was an 85% chance of coming off the table alive. This week has been so filled with ups and downs. It's just been a very, VERY long week.

I'd say we're looking forward to the weekend, but we aren't. We're going home, understandably so, to see Pop Pop. He's have the surgery early next week, and hopefully he'll come through. I wish we didn't have to go home. I wanted to have a nice relaxing, but productive weekend. No, we have to drive 3 1/2 hours tonight, and another 3 1/2 hours on Sunday back home.

I have a paper due on Wednesday that I need to get done this weekend. I have a ton of reading to do, and I have to start my research paper for my senior seminar. WW is on the back burner. I'm still eating right, mostly, and I haven't caved to the cravings yet. This weekend will be very hard though. But if I have a gain next week, it's not going to be the end of the world. We'll just take it day by day, and keep praying for Pop Pop.

I'm sorry that this blog has taken a turn from being about my WLJ to being about Pop Pop, but that's the only thing that matters right now.

Hope everyone has a safe and good weekend.

a weekend recap

The plan was to stay OP this weekend, and while I did, my plan changed. My friend didn't come over on Friday night. The truth be told, I told her that Mr. Skinny was sick at work and she might not want to come over. Call me a rotten friend, but we found out Mr. Skinny wasn't working late Friday night, and wasn't working at all on Saturday, so we wanted to have a date night. Some date night, grocery shopping and a Walmart run, oh so fun. That's what happens once you get married I suppose. I still did get Chinese, but I stuck to my original foods that I tracked and was good with that.

Once Mr. Skinny found out that he wasn't working Saturday, we gave my cousin/almost sister the option of coming to our apt. still, or we could go to their house. Of course, we went to their house. Her husband and son are both homebodies and would rather stay home. So we went there yesterday morning, and just got home about an hour ago. We had a good time, made lasagna last night, and I had too much of that. I would have rather have thrown up or had it come out the other end than feel how I felt last night. Oh my word, it was terrible. I haven't felt like that ever, I think, and it was a real eye opener. It showed me that I can't eat that much food anymore, and hopefully taught me not to do it again.

Other than that, I did okay, food wise, this weekend. I roughly tracked what I could, and still have about 20 WPs left, and I haven't even touched my APs yet. Hopefully that means I'll have a good loss this week.

Once my sports bra is finished drying, I'm planning on going to the gym and pounding out a good 4 miles or so on the treadmill. I need to get back into working out on a regular basis. Granted, school is starting this week, and it's going to take me awhile to find a balance between school, work, homework and working out. I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but I'll find it and it'll be okay.

Okay, I'm going to find a way to dry my sports bra faster, I need to get to the gym. I'm nervous for school to start and I think I'm going to take it out on the treadmill.

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How was your weekend? Anything upcoming that you're anxious about?

finally friday!

Honestly, I don't have that much to say today. I made an awesome fettuccine alfredo last night from Cooking Light. I really should start taking pictures of my recipes. The only problem with that is I'm afraid they won't be an interesting because they aren't original recipes. I get my recipes from other places; skinnytaste, WW and Cooking Light, mostly.

Would you like if I did recipe reviews?

Anyhow, I've been busy planning the Disney trip for my momma and I. Oh, and thinking about how the semester starts on Tuesday and I'm so not ready. I need a change. I don't want the semester to start, I'm done with school. It's not even senioritis - I am graduating in May - it's more because this isn't where I want to be right now. I want to be a mom, but I'm not going to rehash that, if you didn't read it, you can read it here.

I know that God has a plan for us, and we'll have kids when He's ready for us to. All I can do it keep saving money to pay off those bills and once we think we're ready to start TTC, then we can, but for right now, I need to stay focused on finding a good job, and finishing my college career with a bang!

My weekend plans? Tonight one of my friends from college is coming to visit and sleeping over. We're getting Chinese. There may or may not be some wine involved there tonight, as well as Disney movies.

Tomorrow my favorite cousin in the world is coming, who is basically my sister. She and her husband and son are coming to stay over. She's the one that's pregnant; she's due in May, right around the time of my finals, haha! I told her she has to wait until finals are over to have the baby. She's having another boy, which I am very excited for, just wishing I could join her in the baby makin' -- but my time will come.

It's going to be a slow day at work today, there's no one here! I'll probably just be stalking the 20's board and everyone's blogs. If you have some fun website, I'd appreciate it today. It's a loooooong way to 4 o'clock.

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What are your weekend plans?

Weekend Getaway!

It was wayyyy too short of a weekend. Mr. Skinny had to work on Saturday, so I picked him up from work around 3pm and we headed up to Hershey. There wasn't any traffic, but it was still a 2 hour drive. I got us there around 5:15. The parking lot of the hotel was packed, so I made Mr. Skinny drop me off, and I went to check us in. Mr. S didn't feel comfortable getting out of the car since he still had his work clothes on and people were walking into the hotel dressed to the T. We checked in, got all our information, then went up to check out the room, which was good, we had to change super quick, dinner was starting at 6:30, but we had to get our tickets about 6pm. We got there on time, no problem, just rushed.

Dinner was delicious! Crab cakes, chicken breast, buttermilk mashed potatoes, spinach (yuck!), roasted carrots. For dessert, individual little yule logs. It was dinner and a show, and the show was pretty good. It was a Christmas Musical - they sang over 40 traditional and not so traditional Christmas songs. After dinner, we went to Sweet Lights. We waited in line for an hour to see the lights. They were okay, but not all that. Honestly, after seeing the Disney lights last year, there's just no comparison. By the end of the lights we were so tired, we passed right out once we got back to the room.

Sunday morning we got up, went down to the Cocoa Beanery and got Hot Chocolate and breakfast. I grabbed a chocolate croissant, and Mr. Skinny got an apple danish. Delish! Then I took him over to the Hotel Hershey for his 60 minute deep tissue massage, went back to our hotel to check out and picked him up. He said the massage was pretty good, not everything he dreamed of though. We headed to the park next, got on about 4 rides, went through the Chocolate World tour, of course, and grabbed lunch.

Our weekend trip was over, that was it. It was incredibly short, and we're trying to plan for the next one. Maybe a spa weekend...?

At dinner

Part of the show

In the car driving through Sweet Lights

Part of the Sweet Lights

All bundled us for the park!

Mr. Skinny all bundled!

Office Christmas Party

...yeah, and I'm in charge. Oh yeah, I get to pick out the games, and make sure everyone signs up to bring food. I'm pretty proud of myself though, in regards to eating. I tried to track, I really tried to, but it's all casseroles, and souflees, and I'm not even sure what's in some of these things. I saved 19 WPs for this party, still have my 6 APs I earned on Friday, and had 16 DPs left (already tracked dinner). Even after tracking, I still have 9 WPs left, and I didn't touch my APs. I'm going to the gym after work today, already have my gym clothes, and I'll be earning some more APs.

Quick weekend recap: My parents came down on Saturday, we went to Red Lobster, but I got salmon and crab legs and didn't use any butter, but I did have my baked potato with sour cream and butter. Shame on me! Ate some of the appetizer, but I tracked what I could. The hubs and I got our Christmas tree! We decorated on Saturday night, along with a few glasses of wine. We went shopping yesterday and spent money we don't have. Come January 1st, we're done spending unnecessary money (more to come on that with my New Year's Resolutions Post).

Happy Monday everyone!

Thanksgiving Update!

I ate like a pig, seriously. I indulged in whatever I wanted and now I'm paying for it. Time for a weekend recap: Wednesday night, even though I got a 3 hour dismissal from work, the hubs worked until 4:30 or so, and didn't get home until 6. We got home around 10:30 or so, which wasn't too bad considering it was the night before Thanksgiving. Thursday was a normal turkey day filled with food, football, wine, and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Friday it took me a while to get moving, but I eventually got up and went for a 2 mile run/walk and dragged the hubs out with me. I really needed that, and I'm SO glad I went.

I went out shopping with the 'rents after that, and got the rest of my Christmas presents, well the ones that they bought for me for Christmas. I got a Nook, a pair of Bear Claws boots and a new pair of yoga pants.

Saturday was Thanksgiving: Part II - my parents house. I helped my mom make Thanksgiving dinner, and I'm super excited about it, I know how to do it now! I was amazed how easy it was to make stuffing! Everyone was there, my brother and his girlfriend were there, it was so nice to be with family. After dinner we watched home movies, my brother's girlfriend really wanted to watch them, and of course, little brothers don't want to get them out. After that we got out the Christmas decorations and put the tree up!!!

Me and my Harry Potter ornament :)

We needed the tall man's help!

Yeah, he didn't want to help...

All finished!

Then we played a family game of Monopoly - Christmas Story version. Chuck kicked our butts. Fair and square he won. I lost first, then Mom lost, then Dad lost.

Chuck sitting in his glory with all his properties and money. Too bad this isn't real life, or we'd be rich!

Now it's back to real life. I had a paper due at 2pm today that I just started on Sunday, go me! I haven't learned not to procrastinate yet in my 3+ years of college. Oh well. And I had to get back OP yesterday. I'm still struggling with it. I still don't know how I feel about the new plan, but I'm going to trust WW, and I know that they did their research and didn't just pull a new plan out of their butts. I just need to get myself back on plan. I tracked everything I ate for the past two days. But since I got new points, I'm not sure if I can count it as OP or not. I think I'm going to. I'll hop on the scale on Friday and own up to no WIs for 2 weeks, and a week of eating whatever I wanted. Hopefully it will be my real weight compared to just a bloating and salt blah, blah, blah.

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How was your Thanksgiving?

I'm baa-ack!

Sorry I've been slacking. I felt like I didn't have anything very important to update you guys on. I've fallen off the WW bandwagon, it's terrible. I think the bandwagon is dragging me along behind it actually. I can see it, it's always in my mind, but I don't really want to try to climb back on. I'm enjoying my crab dip, and banana bread w/ butter, and chicken noodle soup w/ buttered bread wayyy too much to climb back on that bandwagon right now. After Thanksgiving, I'll hop back on the bandwagon. I already have my meals planned out for next week, complete with points and all, even though they may be completely irrelevant because of the new WW plan. I do eat mostly home cooked, healthy meals, so I'm just going to keep my menu, and I'll see how the points play out with it.

On an update with my life. I went to see Harry Potter at midnight Thursday night/Friday am and I thought it was pretty awesome. This was the best movie by far. They followed the storyline, included a lot of lines from the book, although some things did annoy me, but that's what happens when you make a movie from a book.

My friends and I at the premiere.

Saturday I went with my mom up to NYC to see the Rockettes. We walked around Times Square, went into Macy's - holy cow is that Macy's HUGE! If you've never been there, it's 9 floors and takes up a whole block! It's incredible. Then we walked around the Toys R Us which is also huge, they have a ferris wheel in the Toys R Us - for real! And a Hagan-Daas, Seattle's Best Coffee, a moving T-Rex and a real size Barbie House. It was pretty cool.

Then we went to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall, and the show was really great, it was only about an hour and a half, but the synchronization was incredible. The costumes were really great, too.

Mom and I at Radio City

The Living Nativity

Christmas in NYC (I think?)

We had a great time in NYC. I think we're going to make it an annual thing for us. I'd like to go on a shopping trip next time, so we have the whole day to just walk around. I want to see the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and just walk around all day.

On a side note - I'm getting sick, I think. My throat is starting to feel funny, and I'm blaming myself and the fact that I haven't been taking my vitamins like I used to. I did do a 30 minute run yesterday, and I'm pretty excited for that. Once the hubs gets on a normal paying schedule, like, ya know, without missing paid holidays because he just had to start a new job, I'm going to join a gym. I love running outside, and the cold doesn't bother me, but I don't really have the space to run. Okay, well I do, but it's all hills, and when I say ALL hills, I mean it. Yesterday I had to run on the road, there was no sidewalk since I ran farther, and I am not very excited about that. It made me very nervous.

The hubs seems to like his job, which is pretty good, he's working a lot longer days, which it hard for both of us to get used to. We'll have to start going away on weekends he's not working, just to spend some time together.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and I've decided that I will only eat stuffing, turkey and green bean casserole, and I will only have 1 plateful. That's my plan for my parents' thanksgiving dinner. My in-laws might be a different story however, and I'm not sure what my plan of attack will be for that dinner.

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What is your plan of attack for Thanksgiving dinner?

Where are you going for T-day?

Awesome Weekend

I had a great weekend. My field trip to Jamestown was pretty fun and I got to hang out with new people, which was a lot more fun than I thought. We went to Jamestown Settlement on Saturday, which was really hands on and great for kids, although it had it's faults. Yesterday we went to Historic Jamestown, where the actual site of the original settlement was, and had a tour there.

The highlight of the weekend was Saturday night though. I got to hang out with people I usually don't, 3 other people, and we went out to eat at a tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, and we went to a bar. I know I'm super lame, but this is the first bar I'd ever been to. I had no idea what to order, so one of the guys I was with was super sweet and ordered me the drink that one of his old girlfriends used to drink, and I have to say, it was pretty good. We didn't drink too much, I only had one drink and we were back to our hotel by 10pm. If we weren't up that morning at 6am, I bet we would have stayed out later. My dinner was soo good! I had crab stuffed flounder with fresh veggies and oven roasted potatoes. There were no lights in the tavern, so we ate by candlelight, which was different. I had a great time, really. It was so much fun.

Once I got home yesterday, I roughly tracked everything, expecting to go wayyy over my points, and surprisingly, I tracked most of what I can remember, and I'm still OP. I used most of my APs and all my weeklies, but I didn't go totally overboard. I'm super proud of myself. Walking around most of Saturday totally helped me, and I went for a run yesterday morning, so it all balanced out.

I am super excited for this week. I'm only working 2 days this week (I normally work 3) because of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 comes out on Thursday night, well Friday morning, however you want to look at it. Thursday night at midnight, so technically Friday. I took off work on Friday because of that, I knew that I'd be dead tired if I came to work. Saturday I'm going to NYC with my mom to see the Rockettes, and I'm super excited about that, too. I had a paper due this week, but the prof. moved the date, so it's not due until after Thanksgiving now.

DH started his new job today, I'll let you guys know how he likes it either tomorrow or on Tuesday. I'm praying he's not nervous, and he likes everyone who he's working with.

Happy Monday everyone!

WI Friday, yes back to Friday

I changed it back. I'm hoping that after the New Year I'll go back to Tuesday WI, but with everything that's going on, I'm thinking I'll just keep it on Fridays.

The outcome of this week - a 0.6 gain. This is from last Friday to now. I'll take it, I didn't eat really well all week, and this is what I expected. I did track everything, mostly, and ended up being around -50 for the week. It's a step in the right direction that I tracked it all anyways, and I'm sure I've had worse weeks if I would have tracked it all. I'm really planning on being OP for the next week, even though I am going on a field trip this weekend, and next Thursday night I'm going to see Harry Potter at midnight. I think I'm going to WI on Thursday morning, and just record whatever that was on Friday. The weekend after that I'm going to NYC to see the Rockettes with my mom, and I'm sure I'll have some delicious, but bad for me foods there. And, of course, that week includes Thanksgiving, which I'm still not sure how to handle.

I've been keeping up with my running though, and I'm pretty excited about that. I successfully ran another 25 minutes on Wednesday night, and I'm going to try really hard to run tomorrow while I'm in Jamestown.

I'll update after my Jamestown trip, I'm really excited about it and I'm hoping I have a blast!

Happy Friday and have a great weekend!

Relaxing Weekend

We had a great weekend, I'm not going to lie and it was glorious! Friday night we went to Costco and Walmart to get our food for the next week. Well more than a week's worth of food at Costco. Saturday we slept in, watched college football then finally got dressed and went on a date! :) We went to see Due Date, which was pretty funny, not as good as The Hangover, but still pretty funny. We grabbed some pizza and went out for ice cream. I tracked everything, used my weeklies, but I tracked everything as best I could.

Today we got up and watched Charles Stanley. I had a field trip to go on, so we couldn't go to church. We went to the Smithsonian - Museum of Natural History. After we were done with the exhibit, a bunch of us grabbed lunch. We went to a pub, it was the only restaurant that we could find, and I got a chicken Caesar salad, but I split a brownie sundae with one of the other girls. We didn't eat the whole thing, which was a NSV - non scale victory - in itself. We got some walking in, too, so that was a plus. I didn't get to run this weekend, though. It was a relaxing weekend.

I will say that I stayed OP all weekend, I tracked everything, and I used all my weeklies and 2 of my APs, but that's okay. I made the plan work, and I'm determined to have a good WI on Tuesday.

The hubs applied to a few more jobs, but we're really hoping for this one job, and it's the only lead we have. He's going to call the company again on Tuesday and see if they have any updates. I pray that we get this job, and soon. I know God has a plan for us though. I'm okay though, and I don't really know why. I'm not worried, it's strange. I'm still happy. I'm hoping that its because I know God has a plan, but it might just be that it didn't hit us yet.

Goodbye SparkPeople! Hi again, WW...

Yes, I will be back on WW now. I liked Spark People, I wanted it to work, but I think it's my own fault that it didn't work, for me, as well as I would have liked. I loved that I could eat peanut butter without having a serious cut in my points. I need the good fat, but I'm not content with a pb&banana sandwich being 9 points on WW, I'll get my good fat in other ways.

I know I went to Olive Garden this past weekend, but I thought I did good. And yes, I may have snuck some fries in last night for dinner, but I only ate half of them. I'm just frustrated right now and I'm sick of tracking what I eat.

The reason behind this switch was my WI this morning - I maintained. Now I had/have (not sure if I still do) a goal of being 150 by Christmas. I started the month of Oct. at 165, I figured 5lbs./month and I could easily get there. Well I forgot to factor in my fantastic week of the month where I gain or maintain because of my "being a woman", if ya know what I mean. I'll keep going, but I'm frustrated. I've been running this week, too, and maybe I just didn't drink enough water or something. I want to have a bangin' week, I haven't seen one of those in a month. I need to track everything, honestly, and truthfully. I've been planning my meals out, mostly, and sticking to them. I've been getting all my GHGs in.

On a side note, the hubs didn't get paid for his overtime he worked last week, and we're just barely making it by, and it's his birthday and I really wanted to go out to eat tonight, but he said we don't have the money, but it's his birthday! I know he just has to talk to the accountant, at least I hope and think so, and they'll pay him for it. What a crappy Friday, is it time to go home yet?

As for this weekend's plans, we're going to my cousin's house tomorrow after Chuck gets off work. At least I'll be able to get a run in either tonight or tomorrow, and I can eat a good, healthy breakfast and lunch before who knows what I'll eat for dinner. Sunday is Chuck's birthday, so who knows what I'll eat then, too. I just need to be smart, and make a conscious effort to stay on track.

I'll probably post tomorrow and do a monthly recap, not so excited for that, I don't think I've done very well.

Happy Hump Day!

Wow, I can't believe it's Wednesday already! This week is already flying by and I can't believe it. Let's start with last weekend. Well, I had a blast, and I didn't really eat right at all. I didn't splurge like I would have, but I didn't really watch what I ate. We went to Olive Garden, oh yes, my weakness - pasta. I got grilled shrimp caprese, ate all the shrimp, and only about 1/2 of the pasta. I also had two helpings of salad, and breadsticks with alfredo sauce. Not as bad as I used to, but still, pretty bad.

I made dinner for my family, too, and although it was a WW-friendly dinner, I had two helpings, plus some leftovers late at night. I didn't get my GHGs in, and I didn't track anything on SP.

Follow through to Monday, I went to shadow a museum education program at a park, and I left my lunch in the car because I didn't know where to put it, and I ended up not eating lunch. Yeah, I know, not the brightest idea. With all that, I got home late which totally messed up my dinner plans. So what did I make? Pasta. Again, if you forgot in the minute it took you to read, pasta is my weakness. I had two plate-fulls, but I stopped myself from eating the rest and I took it for lunch yesterday. I ended up skipping class last night just so I could come home and run, and I successfully finished Week 6, Day 1, after my half-attempt on Saturday at home.

I am convinced that all this means that the scale will go up this week, and with it is the goal that I had set for myself, to loose 15 lbs. by Christmas. With this week's WI, even if I just maintain, I'm still 13 lbs. from that goal. Yes, it's still possible, but not realistic, especially with Thanksgiving in the mix. I'll keep running, that's for sure. I'm thinking that God got me started running to sort of, not turn off, but lower the baby fever that I've been having. I know that I can't run with a belly, and I realize that, and it's making me wait to have babies until I'm ready. Okay, now that I've said that I feel really selfish. Oh boy. Anywho, I'll keep running, and keep losing weight so that I can have them babies when the time is ready.

WI Friday

I'm down 0.6 - I'm not dissappointed, really, I was just hoping that maybe because I had no clue what to expect I'd have one of those really lucky WIs and loose like 2 lbs. No, my luck doesn't work like that. I'm not complaining, a loss is a loss, and I've been loosing pretty consistantly.

I think my body is working out with my increase of running now. And I've been tracking on SP rather than WW, and with that comes eating more "points" I think. With my WI this week, I think I'm going to keep tracking on SP and see how the next few weeks go, then I might cancel my WW subscription, after I print all my fav. recipes, of course.

I'm hoping I have an awesome WI maybe next week, I'm never going to get to my goal of being 150 by Christmas, and 135 by my birthday in March. I'll push back to being at goal by next summer, I want to look awesome in a bikini - I know, selfish & vain reasoning.

We're headed to PA this weekend - where we both grew up. I'm cooking for my family tomorrow evening, and that will def. be WW friendly - but who knows what else I'll be eating, and I'll try to eat well, and track everything. I'm definitely going for a run tomorrow, and I think I'm going shopping with my mom, so I'll get some walking in. I can't plan for everything though, and I know that. It's a part of the journey and I need to learn to go with the flow, and make smart choices. I CAN do this!