Ugh, It’s been such a gloomy, rainy day! Don’t like gloomy days either. I like my sunshine and warm weather! Come back warm weather wherever you went! I’m waiting for summer to get here so I can venture out and go SWIMMING! I’m hoping to get a bit of a tan this year and to also see about getting Katie interested in swimming too. Hopefully she’ll take to it like a fish like I did because that would be great.

Yesterday and today I just have not felt 100% and so I hope I’m not getting sick. I thought yesterday I was just having a bit of a down day but then I had this sign and that sign to tell me that I might be heading towards getting sick. I took some Tylenol last night and think I might again tonight. Had a much easier time exercising today as well. Brad didn’t do his exercise this morning and actually told me while he was at work today that he felt ‘blah’ because he didn’t exercise and I told him, ya, that will happen! Hopefully tomorrow he will get back on but he has to do it himself.

I’m contemplating chicken, mashed potatoes and peas for dinner. I have a few other choices but that sounds gooood. Tonight is The Biggest Loser! Yes! My motivation show, whooo! Nothing too big happened today. Surprise, surprise! I cleaned our baby turtles little tank not too long ago. I don’t think I’ve mentioned our turtle on here? He’s so tiny! Love the little guy. We just call him Mr. Turtle, lol. Original right??? Haha. I’m working on a new layout IDEA. Might take me a long time to get it together but we’ll see. Tomorrow is April 1st?!? How did that happen so fast? This year has really taken off! I’m glad, BRING ON SUMMER!!!!

I had a tough time this morning with my exercise. I guess because I’ve had the last 2 days off so I had to really push myself but that’s good! I’m very proud of Brad!!! He got up 30 minutes earlier this morning and did 15 minutes on the treadmill! SO HAPPY! I hope he continues to do it. It will help him SO MUCH! Katie wasn’t in such a good mood this morning – she threw a fit and wouldn’t stop crying so I was glad for nap time! She was good this afternoon though. Two ladies from church came over a little after 4PM for a monthly visit and that was nice. Just talked about randomness!

I’m pretty tired.. I think I might lay down on the couch for a bit. I can’t wait for dinner, lol. I’m gonna cook us some Boca burgers and If their gonna enough, I’m gonna keep buying them. Gonna make some sliced potatoes with them and possibly something else. Nothing comes on tonight, boo!!! Our show FRINGE comes back April 6th and I can’t wait! Their last episode was in January? February? Been too long! I’m soooooooo sad that ER is ending THIS THURSDAY. I’m gonna bawl my eyes out. I love that show! Their gonna have an hour long “memory” episode and then the series finale will be 2 hours long. Get ready for some tears Thursday!

Have a great Monday evening, I’m out!

What a nice, relaxing Sunday. It’s nice to be able just lay around, literally since Monday – Friday all day I am constantly busy busy. We got up this morning and got ready for church. Usually we wait until we get to church and until Katie starts fussing to feed her but I thought this morning I’d feed her right before we left home so maybe she’d be more content. Fed her some formula and a couple of veggie puffs and we were out the door. Church went well, not a lot of people were there today. There was a lesson after the usual church services but we had to go home since Katie was super tired by that time. Once we got home, I fed Katie her bottle, put her to bed and then came downstairs, put on some more laundry and fixed myself lunch! I boiled some eggs the other day so today I added a chopped boiled egg to my salad and It was good! After a while, Brad went upstairs to listen to his audio book on his mp3 player and I soon followed and we got to lay in bed together and eventually fell asleep. It was so, so nice and he was so warm! Got up and have just had a lazy afternoon, really.

Right now, dinner is cooking and Brad is watching Corpse Bride on his computer. I’m so hungry and can’t wait to eat! I’m also ready for this week to start so I can get back on the treadmill! I’m ready ready!! It’s unreal that in a few days It will be APRIL. Which means May is creeping up and Katie’s 1st birthday! I’ll have to start planning a little get together for her 1st birthday. Can’t believe it, already! Also, just want to say that my husband is amazing. Truly. Have a great Sunday evening!!

Saturday! Today was my day to rest from exercise and get the house CLEAN! I love to clean. Really. I was raised around my Grandma and Aunt and they are both on the verge of neat freaks so I’m the same way but I LOVE IT. What’s better than a clean house??? I did a bit of cleaning this morning and finished the rest this evening when Katie was down for her afternoon nap. I did the downstairs this morning and upstairs this evening. When I was cleaning upstairs, I always clean the bathroom but only scrub scrub the bathtub here or there. I hadn’t really cleaned it in a long while so I got out my goody cleaning products and scrubbed away! The outcome is a pretty white tub! It wasn’t bad dirty but had to get it really clean! If anything becomes to noticably dirty, I have to clean it!!

Overall, today was good. It felt pretty good outside until this late afternoon then It started to get a lot cooler. It’s only gonna get to 56 tomorrow, BOO! I want like high 70’s, low 80 temps! Yeah, yeah I’m a Southern girl who likes the hot weather! I’m ready to go SWIMMING and soak up some sun. I’m tired of cold, dreary, damp weather. Baahhh!! I also got 1 load of laundry done and will start up some more tomorrow after we come home from church. Fingers crossed that Katie is half-way decent tomorrow while at church. Our services last from 9AM-12PM so that’s a long time to try to keep a 10 month old quiet, espically when 12pm is her NAP time.

Welp, dinner is ready and soon we’re gonna watch online TV episodes, wahooot!! Have a great Saturday night!

Wahoo, I know a lot of you are probably happy that It’s finally Friday! Mine and Brad’s “weekend” begin on Thursday since he gets Thursday and Friday off. He works Saturdays and then gets Sunday off too! I did not want to get out of bed this morning. I usually don’t but on days that Brad has off I usually wind up getting up later than usual and It was way late this morning when I finally got up, ate breakfast and got Katie up and fed. Let her play and then at noon was nap time for her so put her down then came down and ate some lunch. Afterwards, did my exercise and then a shower. Knew we had to go grocery shopping today so I went ahead and plugged up my flat iron for my hair. Got Katie up and ready to feed her then I had a bit of a talk to Brad about getting the exercise into his life. He said he wants to get in shape before starting to go to the gym to do his weight-training and so he said he wanted to do it at home. I encouraged him and praised him. I’m very proud of him because he did about 20 min on the treadmill today! I just hope he sticks to it. He got a shower afterwards and we loaded up to go. We went to the store and picked up our usual groceries and whatnot. We’re having honey BBQ chicken, mashed potatoes and peas! Looove peas! Katie was way tired and hungry by the time we got home since she didn’t have her afternoon nap so she was freaking out. I put up the groceries when we got home then got her food ready and fed her then put her to bed and she was definetly ready. She cried when I first layed her down but by the time I got back downstairs I didn’t hear anything. Way, way over tired! Tomorrow and Sunday are my rest days from exercise. I use Saturday as a cleaning day and Sunday is church, laundry and hopefully some relaxing. We’re supposed to get some intense storms tonight in the middle of the night so hopefully it won’t be too bad.

Just waiting on the chicken to finish cooking! Hope everyone has a good evening!

Oh I had so much fun this evening! Did my usual routine today but I was glad Brad had the day off today. I did my exercise, got myself a shower and then fed Katie. Afterwards, we got ready and decided to head out to Tupelo because we had to buy our chinchilla some more food since the local pet shop has apparently closed down! Got everything together and off we went! First stop was Petsmart where we browsed at pretty much everything and picked up the chinchilla food and dust! Decided we’d go venture around the mall next so got Katie into her stroller and we went to quite a few stores. Last stop was Dick’s Sporting Goods and wow, I know where I’m gonna go for all my exercise needs. Katie fell asleep right before we went into the Sporting Goods store and slept for just a bit before waking back up. We wound up back at the food court trying to decide what we wanted to do for dinner. Either eat the food court, go to Red Lobster or Applebee’s – both of which would come out a bit more expensive than our usual. OR! I suggested Taco Bell since I looove Taco Bell. Brad said no and then he suggested the Chinest Buffet! YES! Loaded up and off we went to eat dinner.

Drove over, went inside and got our table. They got Katie a high chair and she was so good! I started feeding her-her veggie puffs and she scarfed them down haha! Brad went and got his plate while I fed her then I went and got my plate and he did the same and fed her. Mmmm had some sushi and It was delicious! Actually had a little of this and that. I ate a lot of seafood and crab meat. DROOOOOL! Had the salmon sushi roll and the california roll. Ate our fortune cookies and went to pay at the front…. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve always loved bananas! I espically used to love to make myself a daily banana sandwich with a good bit of mayo. Now that I’m into this new lifestyle of mine, I have half a banana in the morning and the rest in the late afternoon! I’d say the banana is my favorite fruit. I knew all fruits were good for you and you always hear, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away!” but Brad sent me an article just on the lovely banana! Click here to find out what the banana can do for you! I called Mom yesterday and was talking about all the benefits of bananas that I read on that article. Her reply? “If it does all that I need a whole truckload of bananas” Haha!! When I was eating honey nut cheerios, I added a bit of fresh banana to the cereal and that was pretty good.

Well, here we are, half-way through the week already! Last night Brad & I ate dinner while watching The Biggest Loser. Brad also asked me before we watched the show If I would do some exercises with him afterwards and I said sure! After the show & dinner, we both attempted push ups and sit ups, lol. I could only do 2 full body push ups and then I tried some on my knees. I don’t like sit ups at all haha. Can’t complain about today either. After my exercise today I did a couple jumping jacks and like 2 push ups. I can definetly feel it in my mid section. That’s an area I’m really gonna have to work on. I’d eventually like to have a flat stomach!

Tomorrow and Friday Brad is off work, wooo! Would say we could try to go to the park but It’s supposed to rain and even possibly storm until SUNDAY! Boooooo! Okie, I’m gonna go clean our baby turtles tank out! Have a good rest of Wednesday!

I’ll admit. Getting my life aligned as far as exercise goes was really, really hard. It took me from late 2006 until late 2008 to really start to open my eyes on how I needed to change my life and make exercise a high priority. It was rough mentally a lot because I was struggling with myself. It’s like since I’ve started this new go at exercise this year, my mind is clear. I know exactly what I want and need to do. I’m committed to keeping this lifestyle for good. And why not? Losing weight and living a healthy, long life sound like good enough reasons to me! It was hard at first because I didn’t want change. Now that I’ve accepted all this, I feel amazing.

I really love the treadmill. Also, see my mp3 player? Love that too!! Music really helps motivate me & I can’t say that enough!!! Another good day. It’s currently 70 degrees outside but the clouds have definetly moved in and It might rain tonight. That’s good though we need some rain to get those spring flowers blooming! I love the beauty of spring and just nature in general. Have you ever really sat and looked at nature? I LOVE it. Last night Brad stopped by the store and picked up some Acai Berry supplement pills for me! I’ve heard GREAT things about the Acai Berry so hey, If it’ll give me even more energy and boost my metabolism then I am FOR IT! While he was at the store, he went ahead and bought his list of new lifestyle food. He plans on checking out the gym Thursday and going from there. *HOLDS BREATH* PLEASE let him do this and stick with it. Read the rest of this entry »

Katie is really starting to do things now! When I put her down for her afternoon nap not long ago, I went & fixed my hair then heard her crying so went in and she was pulled up to the side of the crib except not straight up, kindof slanted and she couldn’t get down, lol. As I stated before, she can sit up but just hasn’t until TODAY! While she was playing this morning on the floor, she went from laying to this…

YAY! Probably not the 1st time she’s done it but now she’s really gotten the hang of it! This afternoon while playing she also was contemplating pulling up to the couch. Speaking of babies. I don’t think I want anymore babies. Why not? Well, I want to lose as much weight as I can and then why would I want to turn around and get pregnant again thus gaining weight yet AGAIN? Plus, I don’t have that “need” feeling going on for another baby. I might change my mind years down the road but I don’t think so. If I wanted another one I would want that baby and Katie to be pretty close in age. Read the rest of this entry »

Oooh so I upgraded my wordpress yesterday to the latest and I have to say I LOVE the dashboard! It’s very nice! I’m gonna start trying to blog daily and It may be a while before I come up with a new layout for the site. Just depends on my creativity.

I haven’t updated about Katie in a while! She’s now 10 months old. WOW. 2 months and she’ll be ONE year! Crazy, crazy. She has learned to get up on her hands and knees recently and has started to take tiny steps here and there. She CAN sit up but most of the time tends to lean backwards instead of forward. Today Brad and I saw her pull up on her knees in her crib so It won’t be long before she’ll be pulling up to everything! She’s been saying “ma ma ma” and “ba ba ba” for maybe a month now? It’s cute. She also has been doing this happy head shake thing, lol. Silly, silly girl. Read the rest of this entry »