Something other than the usual ....

Let's see if I can report about something other than my ongoing "battle" with losing weight. Maybe when I lose another 20 lbs I will talk about it again:).

I am at work today, switched days with my boss, he worked Sat/Sun. I work Mo/Tue. Which is nice, I had a weekend off, which I was excited about, because DH had signed up for vacation time, but we found out lst minute that he had to go to work last weekend and has next weekend off instead. And i will be working:(. Well only Saturday, I took Sunday off, it's our 6th years weding anniversary and we would like to go to Scaramento to have dinner at a nice restaurant.
That's the one thing missing up here, not much of a selection when it comes to going out in general. I do miss all the etnic foods. Thai and japanese are onthe top of my list. We have a decent mexican restaurant here and a Panda Chinese, but that's about it.
there than that I love, love, love being here, have not regreted one day that we moved here. And it's so perfect having alll the land (8 acres) for the boys to run around on.

The home addition is coming along. Only one more inspection! After that we can bust out more wall space for the extra windows I want to have put in. I want floor to ceiling windows as much as I can on all the walls. Once you beome acustomed to waking up every morning to seeing the mountain and nature only, you are hooked. We don't need to draw the curtains or blinds, and no matter what the weather is like, it's always beautiful.

So, once we put in more windows, I will paint the room and then it's time for the hardwood floors. After that we can pretty much move in. There are still things I want to do to give it the finishing touch, but some of it will have to wait. We are broke:)

The painters came out this morning, finally. With all the rain we had we kept postponing over and over. Now, that it's been nice and dry for over a week we are ready to move along.

I need to take more pictures and add them to our home project website. Haven't updated it since November.

As for the adoption, I think I am getting to the point where I just want to chuck it. I seem to be more at peace not having to deal with any of it, or better yet any of the people involved. But then there is still the "What if". Ok, if someone would come and say 'We have a baby/child right here right now for you" I would not hestitate at all, unfortunately things like this don't happen, at least not to us.

Anyone out there?????????? If so please let me know!!

Wednesday/Thursday

It's March!! Soon it's going to be spring! I can't wait for it to warm up some more and just go for a walk with shorts and a T-shirt.
The house is coming along, Steve taped and textured the garage yesterday and today, now it needs to be painted, which is my job and I am trying to get out of it. Why can't he do it, he said he would spray paint everything, but now it's too much work for him to cover everything (tools etc.). Well, he got me at the wrong time and I pretty much told him that it ain't gonna happen soon, at least not for another week or so. Poor guy looked so sad, but man can't he do his freaking garage himself. Well, I am sorry to say, but I have been pretty bitchy and mean to him today. Not that it's an excuse but the o'l hag showed up, and I am so tired and I really don't want to work tomorrow. 12 hours it's just so freaking long. And there is no going anywhere to take a break, I am on my own and most of the time it's slow and boring.



The past two days just weren’t what I would have liked them to be. So, what is it that I am not so happy about? Wednesday’s candy incident, is was one thing, maybe that bothers me more than I care to admit, or is it maybe because I feel yesterday could have been better as well. I don’t think I overate at the luncheon, I wasn’t that bad. I had about a ¼ head of the green cabbage, a couple ¼’s of small red potatoes, some baby carrots and I don’t think even 4 oz of meat. And all seems to have been prepared separately and with very little salt. It tasted ok, but nothing to stuff yourself silly with.
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DH tortilla soup was a different deal though. We had leftovers last night and I stuffed myself to the rim. I have not broken down the nutrients yet, but I used the generic in my online food journal and it came out high. Do not think DH’s was that bad. He told me boneless, skinless chicken breast, corn, black beans, chicken broth, and seasonings.
Plus, the cheese and tortilla strips, which I think would be the biggest kickers. Two small corn tortilla are 120 calories and I made about 12 for the both of us, that is not counting them being fried in oil. Well, at least I didn’t have another candy bar. Sometimes, when I have something containing chocolate it happens that I have to start all over again to break myself of the habit. Rounding the evening meal off with something sweet is such a hard habit to break, especially during the time before the ol’ hag comes for a visit.
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So, let’s just write the last 2 days off as being not so “perfect” and move on.
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Today, I am planning to go for a walk (I bought a new pedometer) and get all of my water in. Yet another thing I have been slacking off on in almost a week now. Why is it that I have to constantly remind myself to do the right thing?