Posted on June 13, 2008
I stepped on the scale again this morning, and to my utter and total dismay, I have gained yet another pound. That really does solidify that I have gained ten pounds since I stopped dieting (which was almost a year ago.) That is totally unacceptable, and it must be stopped. I am putting this out on my blog so I have to stop making excuses for not eating healthy and exercising. Knowing that all you know that I need to step it up will help motivate me to get back with the program.
I have to admit, it really really sucks when you are over thirty and your metabolism craps out on you. I was hoping that I would be able to just watch my diet to maintain my weight loss. But, unfortunately, getting older has had an adverse effect on my weight. Luckily, if I start my program back up, I will have caught it before I had to go up a clothing size. But I gotta tell ya, these pants are getting a bit tight, and not in the shapely flattering way, in the gut hanging over the top kind of way.
Posted on June 12, 2008
Ellen recommended the book Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet for our book club. I started reading it last week because it is a long book (weighing in at almost 1,000 pages) and I wanted to make sure I finished it before book club for this upcoming Monday. I LOVED IT. It has really been a long time since I was this “captured” by a book. And I do mean captured. I ignored Chloe, stopped cleaning my house, laundry piled up, and ceased grocery shopping. I finished the book in three days. Like an addict (or obsessive compulsive personality, take your pick) I started reading the second in the series, The World Without End. Ellen warned me that the books were very similar, but that is what I wanted, and I was not disappointed. It is equally as captivating as the first book. Poor Chloe and John, I have been reading for two days and I am on page 640, I suspect Chloe is going to have to fend for herself at least one more day so I can finish the book.
I have to admit, this is one of the reason I don’t read as much as I would like to. If I find a good book, I become entranced and enmeshed and I cannot pull myself out of it. The first author I really remember having this effect on me was Ann Rice when I was in high school. I couldn’t put her books down and I read almost everything she wrote. When I walked away from one of her books, my internal dialog took on her voice, if that makes any sense at all. Its almost scary.
I also get to a point where I really don’t want to do anything else, and like I said, I ignore everything just so I can read. This is bad when you are a mom. I keep trying to pull myself away and play with Chloe, but the minute she gets distracted with something else, I am back in my book. At least when the TV is on, I can play with her and have that as background noise. Its hard to play and read at the same time. Her nap time is completely taken up with reading, so I don’t do any of the chores I usually save until she is sleeping. I think there is a third book in this series, but I may have to wait and read it later, I need time to recuperate!
Posted on June 11, 2008
Turn me into “What Not to Wear” on TLC. I promise that I will be surprised when Stacy and Clinton show up to embarrass me. And I will pretend to be embarrassed as they watch the “secret” footage of how bad my ass looks in my jeans. I will be combative and fight for the clothes I am so desperately attached to in my closet. I will act shocked and surprised with the $5,000, pretend to be ashamed to spend that much money and time only on myself, and be astonished that it costs $400 for a sleek and sexy pair of strappy sandals. I will even cry when they suggest cutting my hair even shorter! All of these things and more, I promise! Whatever it takes to get that $5,000 and a free week in New York. Especially, if it means I get to sleep in!
Posted on June 10, 2008
I ran outside to get our mail and LOCKED MYSELF OUT OF THE HOUSE! Luckily, Chloe was napping, so she was blissfully unaware that I was outside kicking and yelling at the door to let me in! Of course, all the other doors and windows in our house were also locked, I was barefoot, and I didn’t have my phone. Thank goodness my neighbor was home and we had given Ellen a key so she could check on our cats when we are out of town. So, my neighbor drove me over to Ellen’s I got her key, and then my neighbor drove me back home.
So, what did I learn from this experience:
1) double check to make sure the door is unlocked before shutting it. We never lock the handle on our door, only the deadbolt. I suspect that one of the kids, either mine or someone else’s, locked the handle when we weren’t watching.
2) Have some sort of code with your significant other so if they get a phone call from a strange number, they answer. I called John from my neighbor’s house to get Ellen’s phone number and she could bring me a key. Of course, John didn’t answer because he didn’t recognize the number.
3) GET A HIDE-A-KEY. You would think with the number of times I lock myself out of my car and my house this would have already happened, of course it hasn’t.
4) I am also thinking of stashing a pair of shoes in our garage so, if I get locked out barefooted, I have another option.
Any other suggestions for this particular issue? I am open and willing to save myself from having this particular panic attack EVER AGAIN!
Posted on June 8, 2008
Chloe let the ice cream melt before she started to eat it. Needless to say, I had to “Shout” the heck out of this dress!
I had to strip her for the ride home. The good news is it made for some darn good pictures:
Posted on June 7, 2008
Today we drug James (kicking and screaming) to New York. It was HOT. 95 degrees, to be exact. But, we still had a great time.
1st we went to the financial district, here’s Chloe chasing birds outside the Custom House:
Then we went to Times Square, where there were no pigeons to be found:
Next was Rockfeller Center, where we tried to get Chloe’s picture taken with Elmo at the “NBC Experience” store. She was happy to wave at him from a distance, but when he tried to pick her up for a picture, well this is how it turned out:
Elmos says, “Toddlers are delicious’ (Elmo sounds remarkably like John.)
Off to Central park, where Chloe chased pigeons and squirrels. She was in Heaven!
Central Park was followed by FAO Schwartz, and then a long walk to a Japanese bookstore that James wanted to see. Chloe fell asleep somewhere along the way, and she slept through a delicious meal at a Cuban restaurant. James introduced me to fried plantains, now that’s delicious!
Tomorrow the boys are going to Philly. Originally, Chloe and I were going to go with them, but its supposed to be in the late 90′s again tomorrow, and I just don’t think she should be out in the heat two days in a row after getting her first sunburn. So, pity me tomorrow while I am sitting in my air conditioned house all day and the boys are out melting in Philadelphia. sniff.
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