YummY! Down on This

I’ve decided that I have too many blogs.  Counting this one I had 13 going at once.

Well,  I deleted 3 of them.  2 craft blogs and 1 photo blog bit the dust.  The content from them will now be posted at THIS blog.

I’m also working on starting a vlog.  Starting with a weight loss theme, but maybe expanding the horizons of it as time goes on.

I’m going to make the vlog its on page, but until then:

Once upon a time there was a little wooden frame all alone on the clearance shelf. It was a deeply discounted christmas object, and since I like little crafty frames, and it was only 20 cents I thought I just had to buy it.

I really wasn’t a fan of the little cottage in the bottom corner, as I didn’t know what I’d put in the frame to match it.  So the first thing I did when I got home was pop it off.  It popped off easily, but not cleanly.  Now I had to find something to cover the spot with.

I had a kids bead necklace kit I’d gotten a while back just because I liked the pink skull. And it seemed to be the perfect size to replace the cottage I had popped off.

So, while Parker napped I painted the frame. Then I fed Parker, then while he napped some more I hot glued the skull and flowers to the frame and strung the beads on a string to hang the frame with between them.

Then I fed Parker again (babies eat a lot)then while he sat in his swing I quickly cross stitched a tiny cross stitch to go with the frame and skull.

What do you think?

What is your weight today? 227.2
What have you done towards your goal? -2 pounds
Are there any planned additions/changes to your routine? This will be my first FULL week. 
This week’s mini-goals :
- Drink (at least) 64 oz of water a day
- Start a food log.  Log EVERYTHING.  Be accountable!!!
What was you overall mood this past week? Tired, edging toward crabby…

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Sitting here thinking about the week ahead I can’t help but think about how HORRID today was.  I ate 1 and ½ pizzas (no joke) and a ham sandwich, and 2 sausage egg and cheese croissant breakfast sandwiches, a box of (4) valentine chocolates and ½ a can of Pringles today.  I’ve drank umpteen cups of coffee and no water at all.

Sheesh…no wonder I can’t button my jeans I could even still fit in when I was pregnant anymore! I’m eating myself further and further toward the 300 pound mark!

I stripped this morning, before breakfast but after my first cup of coffee, and weighed in at 227.7

I have set myself a first mini-goal of dropping 20 pounds and being at 217.

The first week I can probably drop 5, most of it being water weight.  And probably 2 pounds a week after that.  So I’m setting my first mini-goal to have lost 20 pounds by March 2nd.

To do this I’m going to have to start exercising again.  I’m not 100% sure how I’m gonna do that.  I was walking a mile every day, but haven’t found the time for that since I started work.  I have 2 good exercise videos, but can’t use them cause hubby’s always watching TV.  Can’t use my Wii fit for the same reason.

I guess I could start getting up earlier, when hubby goes to work and try working out when he is NOT home, but when he’s not home there is no one else to watch Parker while I exercise.  If he’s in “good baby” mode he’ll swing while I work out.  If he’s in “crabby baby” mode I can’t do anything but hold and try to soothe him.

I’ll figure something out.

In the meantime I’m going to start logging all my foods, sort of using Fly Lady’s Body Clutter Investigator (http://www.flylady.net/images/bc_investigator.PDF) as a template.  Gotta be accountable for everything that goes in my body.  If I’m embarrassed enough its sure to make an impact.

Hubby woke me up this morning digging in the closet in a desperate search for clean pants to wear to work.  That is when I realized I should probably do some laundry since he was obviously out of clean jeans.  So I rolled out of bed at 7am and have done 2 loads of jeans so far, and have a load of colors in the wash, with a load of whites waiting in the wings and 2 loads of towels not far behind.

And thus ends my laundry report…I’m sure you found it to be SUPER interesting, right?

ALL THE LITTLE THINGS
(to be thankful for)

1.  Parker napping in his swing.
2.  Food in the fridge for breakfast.
3.  Coffee, coffee and more coffee.
4.  Indoor plumbing.  Having live without a working indoor toilet before, and as cold as it has been, I have a new appreciation for it.

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If you cant get enough of me, I’ve also recently updated:

Parker 365
Random Animals
Pawesome

I did one Sweet or Sour post over at Parker 365, if you wanna see pictures of Parker head on over.

Meanwhile, I’m getting ready for bed.  Sleep is good, but has been soured by Parker. 

As someone who has never went to sleep quickly, I find I’m getting less sleep than ever, as I’m often woken up almost as quickly as I go to sleep.

On the bright side, I’ve found that if I bring him into bed with me when he wakes up at 5:30 or later (because he won’t go back to sleep in his crib after that time) then I can bring him in bed with me, and the little sweetie will sleep chest to chest with me for another hour or so.

My sleep tonight is also going to be soured by the fact that I have to get up at 6 in the morning, and work for 10 hours.  Bah….humbug.

Well, goodnight everyone and Sweet Dreams….

Well, we’ve done it.  We’ve all succeeded in surviving 2009 and living into a new decade.

If you HAVEN’T suceeded in surviving 2009 then that is awesome in its own way because it means my blog has an afterlife readership that might boost my undead book sells if I ever write that earth shattering novel.

Anyway…

How did you welcome in 2010?

We rang in the new year in a relaxed fashion.  Hubby watched some of his “How I met Your Mother” DVDs while I played online, because I have a dislike of that show, other than Barney’s character.

Then we watched some of “Big Bang Theory” together.  I’m coming to be CRAZY about that show.

All three of us (him, me and baby makes three) watched the ball drop before I fed Parker and put him to bed.

He slept almost 5 hours straight, then went back to sleep and slept another hour and a half so I was fairly rested today.

Now I wanted to get some bloggage in before feeding Parker and putting him to bed again.  I hope he sleeps as well tonight as he did last night.

For 2010 I resolve to “Go Green.”

Or, I should say I resolve to “Go Green(er).”

Recently our city started a curbside recycling program, which my husband instantly hated.

“Until they clean up our water,” he says, “Its useless to do anything else.”

He wont even TRY to separate the recyclable stuff.

I try to keep it separate, but he ends up tossing my stash in the trash.

See, he refuses to put the recycling trash can in the back yard where I can reach it.  In fact, he refuses even to put it close to the fence, near the regular trash can.

For me to reach it I have to either get the key and unlock the back gate, or go out the front door and around the house.

So, instead of taking one thing out at a time I try to collect a bagfull and take it all at once.

Robert inevitably thinks the “trash” is taking too much counter space and ends up tossing it out.

So, I plan on stashing my recyclables in a different spot and making sure I get them into the recycling can before hubby tosses them.

Other “Greener” steps I plan to take are:

1.  STOP USING SANDWICH BAGS: When I take lunch to work I had been putting everything in sandwich baggies.  This year I’m going to nix the bags and put everything in reuseable plastic containers.

2.  “UPCYCLE”: I’m going to try to us as much “junk” as I can for a different purpose.  Such as large boxes becoming toys for my rats, and magazines being scavanged for pictures for my art before being tossed into the recycle can.

3.  TURNING IT OFF: I have a tendancy to leave lights on.  I leave the TV on even though I’m not sitting where I can see it most the time.  I need to focus on turning off lights when I leave a room, and turning off the tv.  I can use my small radio for background noise if/when I need it.

Thats all I have so far.

I’m open to any suggestions.  Give me your simple and easy Green ideas.

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Club House. All opinions are 100% mine.

My mother in law is baking some chicken tonight.  I hope she’s going to make some rice and make some chicken gravy to go with it.

She makes excellent gravy using only her meat drippings, water and flour.  I’ve watched her do it and even attempted it a couple of times on my own.

Unfortunately, whenever I try to make gravy’s on my own it usually comes out more like walpaper paste than gravy.  I long ago stopped trying to make gravy from scratch the way my mother in law does, and started using gravy starter packages like the Clubhouse mixes. 

See, it takes so much stress out of the whole gravy making process.  You don’t have to worry if you’re using enough drippings to flavor it, or to make sure you don’t put in too much water, or if your going to burn the flour.  You don’t even have to worry if you’re going to have lumpy gravy!

You just add a little something to the packaged mix and voila….you’ve made gravy “just like mom used to make”.

And for the daring experimental cooks out there, the clubhouse website even has a tips video to help you take a gravy mix and make it your own.  People wont even know it came from a mix when you’re done! Click here to watch the gravy tips video

You can sign up for the Clubhouse Newsletter and a chance to win a Clubhouse Great Gravy Gift Pack.  Click here for the newsletter sign-up and contest entry.