I have fingernails! Actual long ones without fake ones on top! Can you believe it? I had fake ones a bit ago but just let them grow out and for some reason I am not biting them!! HA HA
I actually had to call my mom and ask her how to give myself a manicure! So funny!
My goal--try to keep them 7 weeks until we all see each other.
Wish me luck!
Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
I hate the scale
Last Friday: 212
Today: 209
I know, it's still a loss, but I was hoping for more. This week, I am going to start exercising.
Today: 209
I know, it's still a loss, but I was hoping for more. This week, I am going to start exercising.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Biggest Loser
I have finally gotten my butt in gear and I have a plan to loose 40 lbs by September 11th. My buddies at the CCSA (pottery peeps) have started a Biggest Loser CCSA and I have joined. We are going to weigh ourselves every Friday and post our weights. There will be a final weigh-in on the first day of convention, which happens to be September 11th. Wish me luck because the winner gets a piece of artwork from each contestant and there are 40 people signed up. Won't my stores be rocking with all those new samples!!!!! I am really going to do it this time, not just for the artwork, but also for Reagan. I don't want her to be the kid with the fat mom when she goes to school. So, to keep myself double in check, I am also going to post my progress on this blog, so today, I weighed in at 212.5. Faint...pass out....
Sunday, April 26, 2009
It's America's Day
so why shouldn't we celebrate???
I was thinking about a July 4th BBQ. If everyone can make it we can discuss details. I was also thinking since Kirky and Kramer always get stuck with hosting that maybe we could do a park/picnic kinda thing. Room for the little ones to run around too!! House, I'm not sure if you can swing it but it sure has been awhile since you've been in sunny FL. If the park thing doesn't work out I can see about hosting it at our house. I'll see what pans out.
So let me know what you think. I'd have to work Sat until about 1pm so maybe we could do it Sunday if that works for everyone. I'll also have Monday off(postal holiday) so if everyone else does we could do Sun or Mon. whichever.
LEMME KNOW!!!
Attached are pics of our brand new yard we just sodded and Elena "installed" all the shrubs. It came out so nice, we love it.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Love fixes everything
I have been spending a lot of time with Reagan theses days. Not just because she is my offspring, but more so because Brian has been working like a dog to get our front yard "sod ready". The sod is coming Friday and the transformation will be complete. I will post pictures, because in all the years we have lived here, this will be the nicest our house has ever looked. I'm excited. Ok, so spending time with Reagan is exhausting and sometimes a pain in the ass. Yes, I love her but she can really push my buttons. She has started the "why" phase and I have to say, I am not a fan. She also is very stubborn and it seems like she does the opposite of what I ask of her at times. We have been working everyday at the studio, and working later than I would like, so that means more time of just her and me. More time for her and I to butt heads (watch out for the teenage years). Today was rough, and then I get home and get this picture and my heart is happy and my eyes well up with tears. I just love this face and who she is turing into and all that she does. Even on the bad days, love fixes everything......
Thursday, April 16, 2009
More Layoffs
Today is a sad day at TrialGraphix. The parent company is restructuring and together with the crappy economy, more of my co-workers are being laid off. This sucks! It is a positive that my entire team is not effected but still, ya know?
It is a crappy start to the day!
It is a crappy start to the day!
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Picture Pages!
Okay...you ASKED for it! The following post is chock full o' pictures. Mostly, from last weekend's birthday bonanza, but there are few randoms thrown in at the beginning!
Before you get into the pictures, I'll give you a brief update. Loki is FINALLY crawling. He's been crawling comando style for some time, now. It's been HILARIOUS to watch, but really sad because he has these carpet rash spots on his elbows from where he pulls himself along. But now he's figured out how do a REAL crawl, though he will often resort to the comando style. Luckily, he's still VERY slow - so we haven't had to too much baby proofing, yet.
I do need to post a work related post - but it just exhausts me to think about. My telemarketing empire is quickly crumbling, yet again. Good help is hard to come by.
And Whitebread is simultaneously job hunting and applying to IT programs at a few different universities.
More to come next week. Happy Easter everyone! Enjoy the pics!
A few weeks ago, we hosted a SUPRISE 30th Birthday party for a highschool friend of mine. She has a little boy that is a week younger than Loki. This is ME cutting HER cake!
This is our fully loaded bus sitting in the Bristol Motor Speedway Parking lot waiting for a few more guests. We really had them crammed in there and we weren't even at capacity. I SERIOUSLY underestimated the size of some of these race fans!
It typically is not difficult to entertain our child. He can pretty much entertain himself - though he does prefer to be doing whatever it is that you're doing. He LOVES making the bed with his daddy. He also, really likes helping mama with the laundry. His job is to sit in the basket and throw everything out - which he does PERFECTLY. Even if he's not in the basket while I'm doing laundry, he'll pull everything out and throw it on the ground. Such a big helper!
The little cake on the left is the low sugar banana birthday cake I made for Loki - which he eventually devoured but was VERY unsure of early on. He just didn't know what to do with it and he never did stick his whole hand into it. The cake on the right is a hummingbird cake that I made for my Mom. Loki was born on her birthday! The hummingbird cake had pineapple, banana & pecans in it. It was RIDICULOUS and delicious! Thank you, Paula Dean (recipe credit - only for the hummingbird cake - Paula doesn't do low sugar)!
This is just ONE of the birthday presents Loki got - his very own pirate ship! It's actually the second pirate ship he's now received. He also got one at Christmas - but that one is really for much older children - he can (and does) play with this one, now. (Notice his lack of interest in it at the moment - he was COMPLETELY enthralled with that wooden puzzle!)
On Saturday, (Loki's actual birthday) we went to his girlfriends 1st Birthday party: Turner. Turner had a Vietnamese Bar-B-Q birthday party. Here she is DEVOURING her cow cake. I'm pretty sure that there was cake in her ear before it was all said and done! LOL!!!
This is the very NON-low sugar pig cake that Turner's grandma made for Loki. While I wasn't thrilled about the idea of him having all that sugar, I wasn't exactly going to say, "No," after they went to all that trouble. And it WAS super cute. Much to my thrill, he didn't like the icing, anyway!
Loki's inner dialouge, "Mwahahahahah! You'll never be able to keep all that SUGAR away from me, you EVIL mother!"
Check out all my TEETH! I've got 5 NOW!!! All the better to bite you with!
"Really, Dad?! Is this necessary?"
This is probably one of my MOST favorite pictures, EVER. The boys were in almost matching outfits - but don't they look handsome. Do you really think that Loki is a spitting image of Whitebread? Come on, there's TOTALLY a little bit of me, in there!
I think I mentioned in an earlier post about the importance of the 1st Birthday in Vietnamese culture. Part of the 1st birthday tradition involves predicting the child's future. A tray of various items is set in front of the child and whatever the baby picks up first represents their future. The objects on the tray range from a piece of cloth, a bag of rice, a CD, a bandaid, a ruler, a brush, money, a book and a pen (there may have been more - I don't remember them all).
Look! Our little Architectural Engineer! (or maybe teacher) but DEFINITELY a natural born LEADER (he picked the RULER)! Turner picked up the CD & the piece of cloth at the same time - so, she'll be a fashionable IT geek - a rather RARE pairing!
On Sunday, we hosted Aleaa's 5th birthday party in our back yard. This is a picture of her being held by her father with her half-sister, Camilla. The party was a BLAST. The magician was a HIT. He kept making things disappear and for some reason, Aleaa was just CERTAIN that they were all going to magically appear in HER hat - though he didn't do a SINGLE trick that did that. It was just super cute! We had a GREAT time - but it was a BUSY weekend and we were WORN out by the time it was all over!
Before you get into the pictures, I'll give you a brief update. Loki is FINALLY crawling. He's been crawling comando style for some time, now. It's been HILARIOUS to watch, but really sad because he has these carpet rash spots on his elbows from where he pulls himself along. But now he's figured out how do a REAL crawl, though he will often resort to the comando style. Luckily, he's still VERY slow - so we haven't had to too much baby proofing, yet.
I do need to post a work related post - but it just exhausts me to think about. My telemarketing empire is quickly crumbling, yet again. Good help is hard to come by.
And Whitebread is simultaneously job hunting and applying to IT programs at a few different universities.
More to come next week. Happy Easter everyone! Enjoy the pics!
A few weeks ago, we hosted a SUPRISE 30th Birthday party for a highschool friend of mine. She has a little boy that is a week younger than Loki. This is ME cutting HER cake!
This is our fully loaded bus sitting in the Bristol Motor Speedway Parking lot waiting for a few more guests. We really had them crammed in there and we weren't even at capacity. I SERIOUSLY underestimated the size of some of these race fans!
It typically is not difficult to entertain our child. He can pretty much entertain himself - though he does prefer to be doing whatever it is that you're doing. He LOVES making the bed with his daddy. He also, really likes helping mama with the laundry. His job is to sit in the basket and throw everything out - which he does PERFECTLY. Even if he's not in the basket while I'm doing laundry, he'll pull everything out and throw it on the ground. Such a big helper!
The little cake on the left is the low sugar banana birthday cake I made for Loki - which he eventually devoured but was VERY unsure of early on. He just didn't know what to do with it and he never did stick his whole hand into it. The cake on the right is a hummingbird cake that I made for my Mom. Loki was born on her birthday! The hummingbird cake had pineapple, banana & pecans in it. It was RIDICULOUS and delicious! Thank you, Paula Dean (recipe credit - only for the hummingbird cake - Paula doesn't do low sugar)!
This is just ONE of the birthday presents Loki got - his very own pirate ship! It's actually the second pirate ship he's now received. He also got one at Christmas - but that one is really for much older children - he can (and does) play with this one, now. (Notice his lack of interest in it at the moment - he was COMPLETELY enthralled with that wooden puzzle!)
On Saturday, (Loki's actual birthday) we went to his girlfriends 1st Birthday party: Turner. Turner had a Vietnamese Bar-B-Q birthday party. Here she is DEVOURING her cow cake. I'm pretty sure that there was cake in her ear before it was all said and done! LOL!!!
This is the very NON-low sugar pig cake that Turner's grandma made for Loki. While I wasn't thrilled about the idea of him having all that sugar, I wasn't exactly going to say, "No," after they went to all that trouble. And it WAS super cute. Much to my thrill, he didn't like the icing, anyway!
Loki's inner dialouge, "Mwahahahahah! You'll never be able to keep all that SUGAR away from me, you EVIL mother!"
Check out all my TEETH! I've got 5 NOW!!! All the better to bite you with!
"Really, Dad?! Is this necessary?"
This is probably one of my MOST favorite pictures, EVER. The boys were in almost matching outfits - but don't they look handsome. Do you really think that Loki is a spitting image of Whitebread? Come on, there's TOTALLY a little bit of me, in there!
I think I mentioned in an earlier post about the importance of the 1st Birthday in Vietnamese culture. Part of the 1st birthday tradition involves predicting the child's future. A tray of various items is set in front of the child and whatever the baby picks up first represents their future. The objects on the tray range from a piece of cloth, a bag of rice, a CD, a bandaid, a ruler, a brush, money, a book and a pen (there may have been more - I don't remember them all).
Look! Our little Architectural Engineer! (or maybe teacher) but DEFINITELY a natural born LEADER (he picked the RULER)! Turner picked up the CD & the piece of cloth at the same time - so, she'll be a fashionable IT geek - a rather RARE pairing!
On Sunday, we hosted Aleaa's 5th birthday party in our back yard. This is a picture of her being held by her father with her half-sister, Camilla. The party was a BLAST. The magician was a HIT. He kept making things disappear and for some reason, Aleaa was just CERTAIN that they were all going to magically appear in HER hat - though he didn't do a SINGLE trick that did that. It was just super cute! We had a GREAT time - but it was a BUSY weekend and we were WORN out by the time it was all over!
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