One month down...

Well tomorrow will officially be my first full month on WW. I must say I am very pleased. I don't feel like my clothes fit much differently (well maybe my scrub pants are a little looser on my softball player thighs as D refers to them...even though I was a ballerina and not a softball player), but the scale certainly does show...

I so love seeing the scale change. No way in he!! am I going to post my weight at any time though. For as short as I am, I always sound obese by most standards, even according to my doctor. I hate that about being short and being muscular. The scale never shows you are made of muscle. Not to say I don't have some chunk, because Lord knows I do.

I am a total freak and weigh myself almost daily. I know you shouldn't so you can see a real change, but I can't help it. When I have a really good day, I just have to see it! I sometimes even go home at the end of the day and jump on the scale! Which is a big no-no since you usually weigh more at the end of the day...too bad! As of this morning I am down almost 8 pounds in a month. I am pretty proud of myself. I have always struggled with my weight, other than a few year stint in high school of not eating. I am a big fan of food...especially down home southern cooking and baking. I just can't get enough. But all-be-damned...I can actually control myself on this "diet".

I hate saying I am on a diet because I feel like it is such a negative word. Diets never work for me because I don't ever feel enough pressure to do them right. Maybe this is the point in my life where I realize, I need to grow up and take better care of my body. D and I are both trying to watch what we eat, and he has even lost almost 10 lbs as well.

Every week he asks what my weight is and I gladly tell him because I know it is coming down. D knew me at my skinniest (105 lbs when I graduated) and he knows me now, which is close to my heaviest. He says how good I am doing and it means so much to hear that he is behind me 110% on this. The other night I made some baked bbq chicken and some Velveeta shells and cheese. I knew the mac would be high in points and lord have mercy! 8 or 9 points per 1 serving...that's 1 cup! After I told him how many points it was, he said, "Well, you can't eat that any more...I guess we shouldn't buy that one." He is so "into" knowing how many points I have had for the day, how many I have left...he even reminds me not to drink my points (ie. Dr. Pepper, my secret lover....).

So I am almost halfway to my goal weight. I would like to lose a total of 20 to 25. If I lost 25, it would put me looking thin but being nowhere near as skinny as I was in HS. Which is good because I am just too wide hip/shouldered to be that thin...I look like a bobble head doll!

So here is to being, let's say 1/3 the way done!! Yea to me!

Vegas...another one bites the dust!!

Well, we are finally back from Vegas and I think D had a great time!! A few months back I told him I was planning a birthday trip for him and that he needed to make for sure he had the Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday off for his birthday. Of course, people at work knew where we were really going, but D had no clue!

About a month ago I told him we were going skiing....I am terrible at keeping secrets and he knows it. So he bought that whole thing, hook, line, and sinker! I told him I had a cabin for us, a fancy dinner planned for his birthday on Friday, skiing lessons, planned...the whole shebang! When he got home from work on Wednesday, I gave him his birthday card. I found this really awesome card from Target that had a felt green cover on it (like a poker table) with a Royal flush 3D cards as well as 3D poker chips. He was amazed by the card and thought it was so cool! **Sidenote- D is a huge poker nut! Like we watch every dang poker show that is on TV, and I mean all of them. We play fairly regularly, but he loves it way more than I do...** Score 1 point for me!

So he opens the card, but doesn't really read it...he is just so amazed with the card, I guess he temporarily forgot how to read! LOL Then he finally reads what I wrote and figured out we were going to Vegas. The look on his face was priceless! His reaction was even better! He started pacing back and forth saying, "No, you didn't! No, you didn't!!!" I had him so good, a guy he works with was even going to let him borrow his snowboard and some other gear to take!!

Score double points for me! Wifey 3, D 0...

He had to go check in at work the next morning then when he got home we were hitting the road. While he was gone, I packed our bags and left a few things for him to grab that I knew he would want to pack and we were out of there! We hit the road about 12 or so in the afternoon....we should have got there about 4:45 at the latest, but with our luck, we got stuck in some AMAZING traffic and didn't get there until 6. But we were both so excited it didn't matter.

It was a little bittersweet for D to go and I could tell he was having a little trouble with it. The last time he was there was 10 years ago and he was with his dad. His dad passed about 5 1/2 years ago unexpectedly from a massive heart attack in his sleep. It still hits him hard every once in a while and this was one of those moments.

We stayed at the Luxor, which was connected to the Excalibur, which he stayed at when he came with his dad. As soon as we got there and got settled in we were out the door to explore it all! We made a pit stop at the Excalibur's video arcade so D could find a machine he played with his dad...well we found it and was ecstatic! He even wanted a picture with it. He told me that they would play this game together for hours (since D was not near old enough to gamble) and win as many tickets as they could...he even went into great detail to tell me about the toy they bought with the tickets. He was really precious....

Then we made our way over LV BLVD to the Tropicana...which I heard is being torn down this summer....and then to the MGM for dinner at The Rain Forest Cafe. The food was decent...nothing fabulous. I tried to stay good with WW and got a plain cheese pizza and only ate 3 of the small slices. I boxed up the rest and gave it to a homeless person on one of the bridges over LV BLVD. I figured he needed it more than I did.



Then we went to New York, New York...I loved it! It was crazy inside though! Really busy and what not, but it was fun. We threw a couple of bucks into some machines to see what we could get. Nothing that night but it was fun!

Then next morning we woke up early to go to some damn time share BS thing...we figured why not since the were giving us 2 tickets to a show, $125 in casino money, and $50 in food. It was a total waste of time which we knew it would be but hey, we got everything we promised and came back to the hotel unharmed! We walked around the Excailur for a little while again, and stumbled across this fun little place where you can crack open and oyster and get a pearl...yes I am a sucker for that type of stuff and D doesn't know how to tell me no. :D Score one point for D!

We fished out a slimey little critter, whacked it one, two, three!!! And the guy helping us popped it open and pulled out a huge pinkish golden pearl... :D He starts telling us all about it ya-da ya-da-ya...and asks me what I want to make with it...I said a pendant because I already have a ring from D with a pearl in it and there was only 1 so earrings were out of the question. D picked out the prettiest little pendant to stick it to....

Diamonds and sapphires. The guy said something about being encircled by stars of the sky and the deep blue seas is what it meant. I didn't care I just thought it was beautiful. Wifey 3 points, D 2 points! Since we bought a piece of jewelry from him he let us pick out another little critter to whack...this time D picked out a greenish golden pearl...very interesting. I picked out another pretty little bobble to stick it in.

And yet again, we were able to pick out another pearl. I know it sounds like a vicious cycle and it is, but I love me some pearls...maybe I will have 3 daughters and they can each have one someday. ;) This time we didn't buy any jewelry with it, but it was another huge bright pink pearl.

After pearl shopping, we went back to the room to get ready for dinner. I had planned a dinner at Top of the World, on top of the Stratosphere. Dinner was pretty good. We each had a steak (and this is where I fell off the WW bandwagon) and I had some cheesy augratin potatoes...oops! Then we each had some cheesecake lollipops...2 a piece and they were amazing! I totally recommend the strawberry something or other ones...yumm-o! We got there just in time for sunset and then to see the Strip light up all sparkly...

After that we cashed in out free show tickets and went and saw a show at the Luxor (we could only pick shows there or at Excalibur), and nothing sounded too exciting, but we were told by the people selling tickets that this show was really great and super erotic and what not...totally perfect for baby making right?

Wrong! The show was called Fantasy...dull!!! If they call that erotic, then they REALLY missed the point. At no point were either one of us hot and bothered...at all. The host is Angelica Bridges (a former Baywatch girl) and she looked old...and she sang....a lot. And she wasn't that great. She was super skinny with huge fake boobs and that was it. D and I both agreed we could have gone without her singing. Then her *co-star* as she called him was this funny guy, who I don't remember his name, but he was totally out of place in an "erotic" show. He was funny, just weird to have him there, KWIM?

Then next morning we went and ran all over the Strip! NY NY was first, then all the way down....I made my first gambling experience in Vegas a good one....at Caesar's Palace I won $373 off a $3 spin. I cashed out pretty quickly after that! Then we jumped across the street and made out way back. I made another gambling attempt at Bill's Gambling Hall, and won $176 off a $0.30 spin. Yet again, I cashed out quickly. I was really super excited that I won. I never win at gambling, but to win in Vegas felt amazing!

While walking down the strip, we stopped in the Monte Carlo and found the most AMAZING little cupcake bakery. It was called the Cupcakery and I definitely recommend the strawberry shortcake cupcake! We split it and loved it!



When D visited 10 years ago, they didn't venture farther than the corner where the Tropicana, MGM, Excalibur/Luxor and NY NY were because his dad was unable to walk very far. Mandalay Bay was just being built, so they didn't go there either. They did take a cab to the Stratosphere, but that was it. So it was as new to him as it was to me.

After walking a very, very long 9 hours, we got some dinner and heading back to the room to rest for a bit. They were observing some energy conservation day there in LV that night, so we took that time to re-coop until the lights went back on an hour later.

We went do to Freemont Street to watch the light show. We both had a great time. He went with his dad and kept telling me how much fun it was, and honestly it was really pretty great. Just to see the old, original LV was a lot of fun. We aren't into the whole "club" scene, and it was just really cool to see all the old stuff in LV.

I was done after that and we took a cab to the hotel. D walked me to our room and then he went back downstairs to gamble and play some poker. We overall had a really great time and cannot wait to go again when we won't be as rushed to see it all again and we can just take our time. D was so sweet the entire time! He opened every door for me and held my hand (he isn't a big PD person and doesn't hold open a lot of doors)...he kept telling me how sweet I was for doing all this for him over and over.... Wifey 3 points, D a million points over!

*Now...to update my 101 in 1001....#5 done...obviously with the whole post dedicated to it. #11...added another book to my library. The first was Sandra Brown's Envy, which was pretty good. I love mystery-esk books. The other one I just finished was Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song, and I loved it. Yes I wanted to see it because it is being made into a movie and yes I will probably see the movie too, but I prefer to read the book first. And it was really worth it. I loved it!! #47...visiting another state...1 down a few more to go! Obviously we live in Cali and drove into Nevada to go to Vegas. And #96....I am not quite ready to cross this one off my list yet because I said I would buy a piece of nice diamond jewelry and while the 2nd pearl pendant was bought by me, and it is nice, it isn't diamond...so close but no dice. Hope everyone enjoys!!

Back from the City of Angels

Well yesterday was interesting....we left our house at about 10:30am to head to LA. It is roughly a 2 hour drive. Well it was far from that, let me tell you. We finally arrived at our friends house around 2pm....yes a 2 hour drive turned into a 3 1/2 hour nightmare!

Traffic was HORRIBLE! Well before we even hit LA traffic was sucking. Then when we got just south of LA we hit a major traffic jam that we were stuck in for 2 hours.

I now see why there is so much smog and nasty air in LA. This is the crap we were stuck in forever. A lot of it was just crazy roads and road construction. But then it turned into a really nasty car wreck....there was a car off to the side of the road that had caught fire. It had already burned out by the time we got to it, but from the looks of it, it was pretty bad. I sure hope the drive and any passengers got out ok.

So after that little traffic jam, traffic picked up finally and it wasn't bad at all. I managed to get a few pictures as well. The next one is downtown LA. You can see how hazy it is out there...yuck!

We found a fellow Okie in the traffic jam!!!

The Hollywood sign way in the distance!!!

After we finally got to my friend's house, we jumped right back into the car and headed out for lunch. We went to one of her favorite restaurants around the corner...it was ok. It was a Japanese BBQ place and you cooked your meat on a little grill right at your table. It kind of reminded me of melting pot, but way cheaper. It was ok, I guess. D wasn't too excited about it. He isn't into all that kind of stuff but he was still a good sport about it all.

After lunch we drove down to Hollywood and Highland...can I say wow?!? Crazy business down there. It is the main part of the Hollywood Blvd drag I guess. It is right where El Capitan, The Kodak Theater, and Grauman's Chinese Theater are all located. We saw all the main people's star on the sidewalk...it was pretty cool. Of course Michael Jackson's star had a ton of people around it, but whatever.

We went into the Grauman's entrance area where the stars put their hands and feet into the concrete. That was pretty cool I must say. D got his picture taken with Adam Sandler's feet. He is a big fan!

Next we walked down to Madame Tassauds Wax Museum. They had a few of the figure out on display. It is unreal how real they look. They had Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Samuel L. Jackson, and Marilyn Monroe out on display. Perfect photo op....

Next we continued down Hollywood Blvd to this little biniki shop my friend loves. She is a model in LA and gets a lot of her suits from this shop I guess. We walk in and see these huge bird cages right away....a little weird, but hey, it is LA. The lady at the shop had several cockatoos and big birds like that. Then my friend notices on of her pictures on display behind the register. It was really weird to see her picture up there modeling one of the suits in the shop. So we are on our way out and we are talking to the shop lady about her animals and she pulls this bin out from under one of the cages and uncovers it....and boom. There is a freaking sloth in there!!

A sloth?!?! Yup...better believe it. So She picks it up and put it to D's chest and she just clings on for dear life. She was adorable! Her name was Pokie and she was so cute!!!

D has now checked another one of those weird life experiences off his list that he never thought he would do. I mean, yea we have seen sloths in the zoo's and stuff, but never in person! I am a pretty big fan of this picture. I think we look pretty cute in it to be quite honest. Our friends were joking that we looked like we had a child and were posing like proud parents! LOL....Only in LA... After that we decided to head back to our car and drive home. We weren't looking forward to the drive at all! We were just praying that it wasn't as bad on the way home as it was getting there. And thankfully it wasn't!

On another note, I had another weigh in today with WW....and I am down almost 6 lbs!! Almost 4 from last week. I worked super hard this week and am so stoked! D is pretty proud of me as well. I was worried because of lunch yesterday and the Marble Slab that we ate, but between yesterday morning and this morning, I dropped another 1/2 pound! Super yea for me!

But I guess I will go ahead and jump off here now...D needs a hair cut and I think we are going to take our boys for a walk and do a little cleaning around the house. Hope everyone has a super fabulous day!

Road trip!!!

Heading to LA today with the hubs!! Super exciting!! We are headed up to see some friends from high school and I am stoked!!!

I'll post pictures later!

I'm such a jerk...and a 101 in 1001 update...

So this week has been pretty rough. I have been super cranky (that whole Navy and the, well....you know) because D hasn't been home. And damn it, I moved here away from all my friends and family to be with him and he is gone 3 weeks out of the month...WTF?!?! So he came home last night (YEA!) and today he had to take back the rental truck he had to use to get out to El Centro...On the way back from getting him at the car rental place, he made some craptastic comment about how the house was dirty. That totally rubbed me the wrong way today.



Yes I know, there are dishes in the sink, the trash needs to be taken out and I need to clean off the counter tops and fold the mountain of laundry...yes jerk, I KNOW! But in my defence, I have been working 12 hour days, I get up at 6:15, leave at 7:15, work for 12 hours, then drive home and get home about 8:30-8:45 at night. Umm, sorry I am exhausted after all that. I have to be in bed by like 10 because other wise, I just don't function the next day at all. So the dishes just don't get done along with all the other stuff until the weekend.



So he jumps on me and I jump right back. I told him that I don't enjoy doing all the housework by myself while he sits and watches tv. So after he drops me to get my hair done (which needed to be done desperately and dropping me off because his battery was dead in his truck) he goes and runs some errands and gets a new battery.



He calls me as I am finishing up and I let him know I am going to walk around the corner to the grocery store. He tells me he is washing my car for me....aww...so sweet! *Side note* I work just off the beach, like maybe 100 yards, and for some damn reason the seagulls LOVE, LOVE to dive bomb my car, and Thursday it was covered.



I was planning on doing it after my hair, so it was a nice surprise. Anywho, I get home unload the groceries and I notice the dishwasher is hot...and the sink is empty of dishes!! Such a great hubby. I was so excited that he did them! I know it too me to whine and bitch, but hopefully this is a start of something new and he will do it more often without me asking...he already does laundry occasionally. ;)



Now, on to my 101 in 1001....update to #25. I tried 2 new restaurants this past week. Last Friday I tried the Corvette Diner. It was okay I guess. Definitely a sensory overload I tell you that much. It was loud and crazy and just too much. The place was decorated really weird, the waitresses and waiters were dressed in a 50's dinner way...it was ok but...exhausting! Tonight I went out with a friend and tried Sammy's Woodfired Pizza. It is a SoCal and Vegas area place. Pretty stinking good pizza.

So I am doing pretty good with WW too. I am thinking that I am going to change my weigh in day but I am not for sure. right now I am down 3 pounds from last Sunday when I weighed in, but I don't feel like it is real weight. I did great all week and stayed under my points and didn't use any extra, except for Sunday night and tonight. More so on Sunday and not much today, but still I used more than I would have liked to.

What do ya'll think? I just wonder if it is realy weight or not. I haven't been this weight in a while, like since my appi surgery in September, and I am just nervous that it isn't real...KWIM?

IDK....

Well, we (hopefully, both of us) are off to LA tomorrow to visit a few friends. I have a friend that lives in LA and one of our friends from back home is there. I can't wait to hear an Oklahoma accent again....*sigh*

Well kiddies, I am gonna hit the sack now....tomorrow is going to come earlier than I would like...TTFN!

Damn...I suck!!!

So yea....I haven't posted in a while and I feel kind of bad about it. I got so caught up in the weekend with my friend being in town and all the running around we did. We went to a few local bars, the San Diego Zoo, walked around La Jolla's Seal Beach....and Ithink that is about it. We did go to the mall for a brief bit so I could get a new purse...thanks to my friend Brittney!!! Thanks girl! ;) I will try to post a picture of it later.

I took D to Seal Beach on Sunday after we dropped my friend off at the airport. He had never been out there and it was such an amazing day out and we didn't want to sit inside, we just headed out for some sun. He bought me a seal rescue shirt and magnet to save the seals on Seal Beach. It is a really beautiful beach and it is a shame that removing these seals is even an issue...I mean, it is their habitat and we are invading it. It just sickens me that people want to push these seals away from something that belongs to them.

So I tried to stay as focused as I could on my WW diet but I didn't do super hot. I only lost 0.4 lbs. I hope this week is better. And I hope when we leave for D's birthday trip, I hope I do well too.

Going to try and go to LA this weekend. I have a fellow Okie who is a model and lives in NoHo and she invited me up there to visit for the weekend. Another one of our friends from middle school and high school is coming into town for the weekend as well, so I am going to try and go visit. I don't think D is too willing to go, so if he decides not to then I will probably stay the weekend so me and my friends can catch up. It is so nice to have some more Okies out here who talk like me!

I haven't worked any more recently on my 101 in 1001 list. D and I wanna go on a whale watching cruise here pretty soon....we just need to find a time to do it. He is supposed to be coming home on Thursday...we'll see. I hate that he comes home for like 2 nights and then leaves again for a week and then some.

The Navy is totally cock-blocking me right now. And I am not a fan...not to mention that it isn't helping with this whole baby making thing. Not that we are really trying, but we aren't doing anything to stop it.

So we have about 2 weeks left on our offer for the short sale house we are under contract on. We gave the bank 2 months to get us an approval letter so that we can officially enter escrow. I really want this house and I am really happy with it. I keep imagining our stuff inside and I can see myself decorating it and making it our house....*sigh*.....

Well I think it is time for bed now....I will repost some pics of the past weekend later. TTFN

YEA!!! She's here!!!

YEA!!!!!!!!!!!! My Kimmie Lou made it this morning and I am so way happy!! It has been way to long since I had a fellow Okie around. It was hell getting her at the airport though...damn Airport Nazi people.

I was waiting for her to walk to my car and the damn security lady kept walking up to me to have me move my car....she was being plain riduculous! So after driving around twelve hundred times, I finally found my Kimmie and off we went!

We drove out to La Jolla for a bit. I was showing her where I work and the seals. Yea....I work right across from the beach where wild seals come lay everyday. Pretty wild huh??

Yuppers...be jealous...I work here. It is a beyond beautiful day today too. It has been pretty grey and windy all week and last weekend, but it is really warm today. Just perfect for walking around outside in downtown La Jolla. Oh...even better, there are a ton of baby seals being born right now and they are so sweet!! They are so tiny!!

After we ran to Seal Beach we ran over to the 32nd Street base to pick up some tickets for the zoo tomorrow...freaking $31 each! Geeze.....at least it is a really awesome zoo! Saturday we are going to go kayaking and I think Sunday before she leaves we are going to go on a whale watching tour. I am way excited! We also ran over to Coronado Island so we could get into the ocean. I think walking in the sand was a dman good work out too...my calves and the back of my legs are KILLING me!

Can you tell it is hella windy here? Like ridiculously...my hair was all over the place!

Well...now...having Kimmie here is going to make WW pretty hard. Not gonna lie. But I still plan on working out. Luckily she wants to do INSANITY with me so that is good. I think she is in for a rude awakening though. I am pretty sore still from yesterday's workout. I sort of went over board with my point for today...like I have 4 left for today and we still have to go eat dinner. But, we are going for sushi and I already looked it up and it isn't horrible. Like I should only go over about 1 or 2 points for the day depending on what I have to drink. I know I still have a ton of weekly points, but I hate to eat those cause I feel like it is cheating and cheating is bad. And I know I have 18 activity points already this week, but I don't want to use that either, because again, I feel like it is cheating.

Another update to the Green Monster smoothie...I made it again yesterday but substituted 1 cup of strawberries for the 1/2 cup of blueberries. It didn't taste much different honestly than the regular Green Monster. The banana flavor is just so strong, it is all I taste. I am going to see if I can convince Kimmie to drink a Green Monster while she is here...she isn't a big "health" food eater so I don't know how I can convince her. Well...I can try.

I think it is nap time though....I haven't been to sleep yet since I got off work this mornign at 8 and I am pretty beat!

New recipe...check!

So last night I was reading yet another friend's blog...thanks Dani! She had tried this smoothie called a Green Monster. It totally sounded questionable...honestly. I thought she was totally lying when she tried it. I put it in my WW tracker recipe thingy and it calculated up to 5 points.

Any who...here it is:

Green Monster Smoothie-

2-3 cups spinach (I used 2 cups of organic baby spinach) WW 0 points

1 to 1 1/4 cups of milk (I used 1 cup FAT FREE...I know some people think fat free milk is like water, but I hate milk...so gross!!) WW 2 points for 1 cup

1 whole banana WW 2 points for 1

1/2 blueberries (I used frozen to give it more of a slushie texture) WW 0.5 points for 1/2 cup

ice cubes

Total WW points according to WW recipe builder is 5 points.

All of my ingredients!

Layer all ingredients in this order: Spinach, sliced banana, blueberries, milk.

Then blend until smooth. After blended add 5 to 6 ice cubes.

Blend again until smooth!

Viola! Completed smoothie! Now that is a TON of smoothie!

It tastes like a regular banana smoothie to me. I don't really taste much of the blueberry and none of the spinach. I had about half of it with my breakfast and I am going to have the other part with my lunch. It is pretty filling too! It takes care of a lot of my needed fruits and veggies for the day as well. 2 fruit as well as 2 veggies (because of all the spinach).

Now I also bought some frozen strawberries as well as red raspberries to try with the smoothie as well. I think it will be good. The strawberries come to the same number of points as the blueberries. The raspberries, because they are sweetened are a little more. But hey...I will take it!

Now 5 poitns might be a lot for some people, but if you think about it, 5 points split during the day isn't bad at all. I thought I was going to be able to drink it all, but since I had a wheat english muffin for breakfast, it just wasn't gonna happen!

Again...thanks Dani for the great recipe!

Now...for some INSANITY!!

My new list of goals...

So I was looking at some friends blog from The Nest, and I saw how she made a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. Talk about a great idea!! I just finished my list and I feel pretty awesome about it. It is full of lots of random little things. From the serious stuff....starting a family anf buying a house. To the silly stuff...painting a wall in my house red and learning how to snow board. Today will be my official start and the end date will be May 24th, 2012. That includes the leap day in 2012.

On to other news...one of my good friends from back home will be coming to visit in 3 days! I am so excited! She will be the first one of my friends to come visit since we have been here. One of D's friends came and visited a few months back, but it will be nice to have one of my friends here. Hopefully the weather will cooperate while she is here so we can enjoy the sights of San Diego. So far we are planning to go to Seal Beach the day she gets here and walk around downtown La Jolla (compared to the Rodeo drive of San Diego). Then Friday we are going to the SD Zoo...it was totally awesome! And so far on Saturday we plan on going kayaking in the La Jolla Coves in the Pacific Ocean. Then she leaves Sunday... :( But I am so excited! It is going to be a blast.

Well D left again today for an unknown amount of time. He left last Monday and was supposed to be gone for 3 weeks, but came home Tuesday night and left the next morning, then came home Friday night and left again this morning. He doesn't know when he will be home this time. It kind of sucks...no really sucks....that he keeps leaving. When we moved here he was supposed to be here for 3 years and not leave. And now that we are here we find out he will come and go every 3 weeks. So much for shore duty...

But the good thing is, is that he will be home in time for us to go on his surprise birthday trip!! I told him we were going to Big Bear to go skiing and he totally bought it! I can't wait to see his face when I tell him we are really going to Vegas the night before we leave. I have never been and I am so super excited about it.

I kind of fell off the band wagon this week with my INSANITY work-out...with D coming and going and working 12 hour days all week, I was just so tired. I did pretty decent with WW though. I lost 2 pounds, but I don't know if that was from AF leaving or because of working-out and WW. But heck...it is 2 pounds and I will take it!

Saturday night I did HORRIBLE with WW....really all day Saturday. I went to a baby shower of a friend and ugh...damn DQ ice cream cake. I kept to the fruit and veggies most of the time I was there. Had a few chips and a cookie or 2. Not horrible because I was trying to be really good. Well that damn DQ cake was 11 points for 1 piece!! I tried to make it a small piece, but I didn't know what was considered a small piece so I went a head a counted it as a regular size piece. But boy howdy was it good!! Chocolate ice cream with a layer of fudge and cookie crumbs layered with more vanilla ice cream on top. I am really gonna pay for that I have a feeling! Then we went out to dinner with a guy D works with. I had a salad but I had too much coke to drink and that is just bad.

But this is a new week and I AM going to do better. Even though I have a friend coming into town.

Sunday, we went and took a look at the house I picked out for us to buy. D was really pleased with it. It is a 3 story townhouse in a quite little area. It is in a nice area of Chula Vista which is just south of SD. Good schools and nicer homes than most of SD. We are hoping that we can move forward with it pretty soon. It is a short sale house, but it has already been assigned to a negotiator with the bank so we are hoping that it will go quickly. The agent for the sellers is really aggressive so I am hoping with her on it, it will push the bank to get them to move forward. I hope we can get it before the home buyers money is gone so we can still qualify.

Well I am going to jump of the computer know...I am the normal wifey duties to take care of. Even though D is gone, I think I should still work on the laundry and dishes! :D

So disappointed in myself!

So yesterday I did amazingly well in WW....well, no exersice, unless you count a little romp around with Daniel....but today I totally blew it! I had my lunch and dinner all sat out today to take to work and I did so good! Until lunch...the man that I take care of wanted to go out to eat...at a burger place. Ugh! So not what I needed to be eating! And it was really good too!!

And to top it off, that is the only thing healthy they even serve there...just burgers and fries, milkshakes and cupcakes. Lord!! But I changed some things around with the rest of my food today and I will end up using only 1 of my weekly points. And since Daniel is OOT again, I am doing INSANITY tonight. So that right there is 6 points since I do it about 30 to 40 minutes at a high intensity.

Usually with INSANITY, you get one night a week "off". The program has the day off on Sundays but sometimes during the week it is just so hard to get it done after I get home from a 12 hour shift. I am just so stinking tired! I don't get home until about 8:30 or so, then I usually start my work out by 8:45...in the shower by 9:30 and bed by 10. Then next thing you know, the alarm is blaring and it is time to get up at 6!! Grrr....and tomorrow I am doing a favor for a friend and taking her tots to daycare. She has to be at work at 6, so I have to be at her house by 5:30am and then take them to daycare....then come home and get ready for work. Tomorrow is going to be a long day..............

At least Thursday is my Friday and I don't work again until Monday night. Not so bad huh?? I can't complain though. Next Thursday morning one of my friends from back home will be here and I am so stoked! I cannot wait! She is so much fun to hang out with and I know we are going to have a blast! Too bad Daniel won't be home for him to drive us around.

On another note, I am about to finish, what I believe is my 10th book of the year. I am trying to read as much as I can this year. I used to read all the time when I was in MS and HS, but just grew out of it in college since it was required so much. But I have found the time again and am starting quite a library. I am a big James Patterson fan, but I am trying to broaden my horizons a little more. I am pretty open to most books, except trashy romance novels...yuck! But once I can figure it out, I will post a list off to the side of what books I have read.

Gotta get back to work now...

Time to get healthy...

Well today was my first official start to WW Online. I was freaking starving all day. I don't know if it was because I ate breakfast at 5:30 this morning and it just threw me off or what. I usually don't eat until closer to 7 when I have to work, so when Daniel got up to leave town this morning I fixed both of us a bite to eat.

Note to self: 5:30 is to early to eat in the morning.

I did manage so far to drink half of my water for the day. I got a late start on it, but hey...at least I got that much in. I know I will be getting much more in since I still have INSANITY to do tonight. I always drink a ton of water then.

Tomorrow I am going to try and eat breakfast a little later, and drink my water earlier. I know I am being hard on myself and it is only the first day, but that is exactly what I don't want to do. I don't want to get into the habit of, "Oh, well...there is always tomorrow..." etc. I hate that. I guess that is why diets never worked for me. I can work out unitl I am blue in the face and sweating like a cow in the desert, but I won't loose a pound. I may loose fat, but gosh almighty, I gain what I loose in fat in muscle. I am just one of those people who gain muscle easily.

I used to have a trainer when I lived in OK and he told me I had man muscles....therefore, my muscles get bigger and bulkier before they will get long and lean. Thanks mom and dad for the genetics...I appreciate it really.

On to another note, Daniel left town...again...for 3 weeks. He is thinking he is going to get to come home the weekend and I sure hope so. Us moving to California was supposed to be time for us to enjoy each other without having to say good bye. So far this is the 3rd time. I hate it. I know that is part of being a military spouse, but quite honestly, that is not what shore duty is supposed to be about, damnit. Oh well, can't do much about that. Let's just hope he has fun playing with guns and blowing stuff up in the desert.

Next weekend I have a good friend from home coming to visit...I am so happy!! I cannot wait! She has never been to California and I can't wait to show her around. She will only be her 3 1/2 days, but I am sure we can find some trouble to get into! ;)

Well I guess that is about it for now....I will try to write again tomorrow, but working days has me all messed up. I work all day, work-out as soon as I get home, then shower and pass out. But I can get online occassionally at work (like I am now) so I will have to try again tomorrow...