Another ONE bites the dust...

and another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust yeahhhhaahhhhhhh! I used to love that song by Queen. My sister and I used to request it at weddings. Anyway, I've lost another pound, I wish it was more but atleast it was a loss.
I had this week off and god knows where the time went. It was good to have it off though and I don't go back to work until Tuesday.
I've got lots to do today, cleaning, getting things ready for Easter weekend. I hate cleaning.
I drove the route I take the dog on for our walks just to see how far I actually walk--6kms in total!! I was doing this 2-3 times a week in the summer. We're working our way back up to that now, I'd probably have to have a search and rescue team sent out to find me if I tried it now!

Light bulb moment.......

I went into our local grocery store this morning after dropping off kids. I spy the WW frozen dinners and all the low point treats start jumping out at me as I walk down the isles. I start putting one thing after another into my cart when I realize that most of the "fat free" and "low points" foods are snacks! Here I am buying stuff I never used to buy( frozen dinners, cookies, chocolate bars) but I've got them in my cart because they're "low fat" and they say WW Smart Choice! Here's the thing. My weight gain has never been about the crap I eat because in all honesty, I don't really eat that much crap. I DO have a weakness for Miss Vicki's chips but I don't particularily like ice cream or doughnuts, muffins and I rarely eat cookies. I've had 2 packages of the Cadbury Thins bars in my cupboard for well over 3 months that I forgot about until yesterday!!! We live in a very small town( 12000 people) so there really isn't take out.......other than Subway and I only get a veggie sub which is like $7 and so not worth it. We only eat out about 1 every 2 weeks and that's usually at the golden arches because I have the kids and we've been out all day. My problem is portion control--plain and simple. I eat too much! So... back to my shopping cart. I realize that I STILL don't need these things to help me lose weight and why am I spending all this money on it??!! It's like I'm sabotaging my self. So I put back the WW stuff and the thin Oreos and bought what I actually went in there for in the first place. I'm calling this an NSV.

STS

No loss to celebrate this week....I'm a little disappointed but that's life.

This weekend is going to be very busy. Tomorrow I have to clean the house, bake a birthday cake for my son, wrap gifts, take son to another birthday party in Georgetown, get my daughter ready for her sleepover......I feel like I'm forgetting something.........nope, that's it! Then on Sunday, my son is having his birthday party, he turns 5 on Monday. There's going to be 4 boys in total--this is a first--he's never had a b-day party with friends.
I know, it sounds..........insane BUT I have next week off so that should be plenty of time to recuperate : )
I would love to be able to just buy one of those pre-decorated cakes from Zehr's but I can't because my daughter has a peanut allergy. Because of that, I've made all the birthday cakes!

Well, my application got processed and I'll find out in May/June if I got in. I'm starting to have doubts if this is the right thing to do. I guess there's no point in worrying about it now, I haven't even been accepted!

On a positive note, my bathroom is coming along great.

Facebook

I now have a Facebook page--after being convinced that it's not a bad thing from my sister!! Anyway, I've got a few pic on it that I can't seem to download to this blog : ( Look me up if you like!

Pamela Cull

TGIF!

I'm so glad it's Friday--I'm not working today and I actually slept in a bit! I've got to go grocery shopping and buy running shoes for my daughter. I have NO idea what to make for dinner tonight and am totally uninspired!

Oh yeah.....I lost another almost 2 lbs again! I say almost because I don't have a digital scale and really don't want to buy another scale just so I can say I lost 1.7 blahblahblah....
I'm cheap like that : )

We got our new dishwasher yesterday--it's so quiet. I can't believe I'm excited about a new dishwasher, I must be getting old.

I think I'm going to get started on the kitchen painting this weekend and try to convince Chris that it won't be that bad to paint the flowered tiles in the backsplash. I 'm going to do a test on one you can't really see but I may have to wait until next week when he's not home as much.

I'm working out my routine finally--I'm still wondering if I was a bit ambitious with the song but I've got to try. We learned a new routine that we're performing at the open house on the 15th of April. It's not hard and it's short, only 3 mins. That's what got me worried about my own routine, the song is 7 mins long! I was tired after we did the the 3 min routine but then I realized, we did it 4-5 times PLUS our regular class. I should be ok...

This week, my boss gave all of us a copy of the book The Secret. I've started reading it but just can't get into it right now. What I've read is pretty good and makes sense but it's not exactly full of surprises.

Anyway, I'm off to start another cup of coffee....have a good one!

Up a pound! Damn TOM : (

I guess a pound isn't so bad but it still sucks. I think I'm actually going to have to exercise to start really losing weight.............more than just the bellydancing. Now that the roads are clear, I'm starting to walk Ginger more. We don't go on the trails but a nice stroll through the town isn't bad.

I tried to fax my college application at work yesterday but nobody would leave me alone!! I'm taking it to a place here in town that'll do it. I can mail it I suppose but then I'd have to send a cheque....

The kids are officially on March Break and everyone wants playdates and activites planned....HELLO, I work!!
I'm off both Monday and Friday but I've got running around to do on one of those days. Yesterday, the dishwasher went KAPUT as did my electric kettle and new crockpot(used 3x). We went out last night to look for a new dishwasher but it has to be a Kenmore--DH wants all appliances to be the same brand, something about people liking that when you sell the house. More on that front. Anyway, DD is talking to her friend on the phone and asked if she could go to her house to play. I told her we were going out to buy a dishwasher. Here's the response I get....

Can't you do that tomorrow so I can go to J's house? WTF???
I informed the 7year old going on 16 that her social life didn't dictate what we(DH and I) do, we don't work around her schedule!! Holy crap!

Back to the same appliances for resale value......I ask DH if he's thinking we should sell the house, totally mortified because I really like where we are. He's like, " no, not right now but at some point we may have to consider it." I'm thinking most appliances last 10 years, is he thinking of moving in that time frame? He assures me it's not a consideration, he's done a ton of work on the house and it still needs stuff done. We have room to add on if we need to. Our house is a raised bungalow on a 141x161 ft lot on a dead-end street with 6 houses on it. We're the last house on the street and we back on to conservation land AND part of the Credit River!! It's very peaceful in our yard especially in the summer at about 7 am sitting on the deck, sipping coffee and just listening to the river and the birds. Who wouldn't love that??!!

3 Good things happened today....

FIRST--I bought doughnuts from our local bakery for the us as a treat, I took one little bite and..........HATED THEM!! The used to make REALLY good doughnuts but I don't know what happened this time! I actually threw it out, the old me would've eaten it anyway. I just kept thinking "it's not good and SOOOO not worth it" and it worked!

SECOND--I called the course co-ordinator at Conestoga College and she told me I could still apply for Sept. PHEW. I thought I was too late. I told the principal at school what I was doing and he told me to put his name down as a referrence. It looks like everything is looking up--I can't wait.

THIRD--It's more of a parental brag than anything but .........my daughter got her report card today and did extremely well--I won't go into details but suffice it to say her lowest grade was a B+ and that was in Gym. She's in grade 2 but is in a 2/3 split(there's only 5 kids that are grade 2, the rest gr.3) and she loves her teacher. She has grown so much since being in this class, it's amazing. I hope my son gets this teacher when he's in gr.2.

It's Sunday

I weighed myself on Friday and I'm down another pound--that's 7 pounds in 6 weeks--not bad!!

Yesterday, we went to a friends house for dinner and had a great time. They've listed their house and it looks like they've made up their minds to move to Kingston. It's kind of sad, we've had some really good times at their house and Kingston is about 4 hours away from here.

Anyway, we celebrated it MAYBE being the last big get together at their house--there's actually 3 couples and we all take turns doing dinner parties through out the year. I drank too much but also kept up the water intake so I don't have a hang-over.............damn that Robert Mondavi Sauvignon Blanc..and the Pinot Grigio. Holy crap , we drank 2 bottles between the 2 of us!!! Oh well--I have the whole week to repent......

On a positive note, it's bellydancing tonight and I have to show the instructors part of the routine I've made up. I'm hoping they can give some ideas for one part of the song, I can't quite get it to flow the way I want. I'm going to buy a skirt for the routine--I think it'll help!!