Picture of the day – A new book

 

Its picture of the day time!

So I have a picture of books with rain,  this is because I got a new book and I wish it was raining while I read it.  Well I wish it was raining period, but I am not god and I can not control the weather so I am stuck with the sun.  Anyway.  I got a new book today, so I put down Twilight ( cause I was bored and wanted to read something, that had rain in it) and I am reading my new book.

I am already on page 40 and just started reading it like an hour ago.  Yes I know I am a slow reader but I can’t help it,  I have dyslexia, and when I read I have to re read at the same time just so I can under stand what I am reading.  So please don’t make fun of me.

On a side note,  one of the reasons I hated school so much was the reading out loud part.  Remember that,  when the teacher would go from person to person and have each person read, yeah this is a really bad thing when you suffer from dyslexia, its nothing like being the center of attention with a reading disorder and then have everyone laugh at you and asking if you are stupid.  Oh the great childhood memories…. nothing like scares that you caring around for a life time.

oh well, time to move on

I will have more information on the book shortly……….

No black Friday shopping for me!

No i did not go black Friday shopping,  I actually never go.  I don’t see the point.  Yes there are a few good deals but for me most are not worth the stress of it all.  and to be honest i have found that waiting until the last-minute usually pays off.  as the sales on black Friday can be found again closer to the actual date.  Also In some cases, i can get a better deal during another time of the year.

But more importantly I don’t buy big expensive gifts,  It’s not the money that matters it’s the thought and I don’t believe in going broke for one day.  To me Birthdays are more important that giving gifts on Christmas.

So No black Friday Shopping for me.  I enjoyed today and relaxed and slept in with my kids and went to a book store for a few and then walked home ( to burn off the fatty foods I will be eating tonight)

its that time of the year,again

It’s time for Christmas; well it seems to have started last night on thanksgiving.

We had to cut Thanksgiving short yesterday; well we only had 3 hours of thanksgiving to be honest.  My fiancé had to go into work at 6pm and worked until 6am this morning, so I guess black Friday turned into black Thursday.  In short our day was spent with him sleeping all day (preparing for work) and then rushing over to my step moms house for thanksgiving dinner (and I am not joking all we had time for was dinner), we got there at 2:45pm and ate at 3ish and left at 5pm, to rush back home so he can change into his cloths for work and then he was gone, leaving me and the kids to the FX marathon of Kung Fu Panda.  And then it was off to a very lonely bed, in which I shared with my children so I wouldn’t be so alone last night.

To make up for yesterday, I am cooking Thanksgiving dinner tonight, in order to get the family time in and then we will be putting in a movie (either planes or turbo).  But until than I am letting him sleep, while I cook and clean. after the cleaning part I will be taking a small break to go to a local second-hand book store and get some new to me ( and to the kids) books. And than back home for some cooking,eating and family time.

I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving,  and Happy Holidays and let the Christmas music begin, turn on the lights and let Christmas season start.

Picture of the day….. Charlie Brown

 

I know its delayed,  but a Happy Thanksgiving to you Charlie Brown…..

Hope you enjoy your picture of the day and have a great time with friends and family this day.  and remember that thanksgiving is about giving to others, and for the blessing that we have been given ( to be able to eat the harvest).

and please don’t shop on thanksgiving………..

Happy Thanksgiving……..

Happy Thanksgiving to all… and don’t forget to check out google

Day care time

Well the kids have been in day care for 3 weeks total, even though they were not really in day care for the 2nd week as they were so sick and we couldn’t take them.  Now the kids are feeling better, but not 100%. But this week brought us a dilemma.

The first week of day care went great; the kids seemed to like it and by kids I mean my son (my little lady cried her eyes out when we dropped her off and when we picked her up).  My son, actually, loved it.  He was excited every day and when we picked him up he would tell us no (he didn’t want to leave) and for us to leave, he wanted to play.  But by Friday he had started to get sick (and he had his first “accident” at day care, he tripped and fell and hit his head) and by Sunday it was full blown sick

So he missed day care almost all the 2nd week, we brought him in on Wednesday only to pick him back up as he started to run a temp again.  So we kept him home the rest of the week. The little lady went on Wednesday and Friday

Which brings us to this Monday…… We asked are son on Sunday if he was excited about going to school, he said no we asked him why , and being 2 he just repeated no.  We dropped it not thinking much of it. And then Monday came we dropped them off and he started to cry.  The kid that would push us to go and leave the 1st week was no crying for us to not let him go.

We of course left him, telling him the usually, go play with your friends and we will see you later, don’t worry you will have fun.  When I went to pick him up, we ran to me excited to see me (which was great) eager to leave and go home.

these actions continued on Tuesday and again today ( Wednesday)  and now I am worried to why all of a sudden does he not want to go,  did something happen that my little man can’t tell me ( that he is unable to express) or is this because he isn’t 100% better.  We asked him every day this week if he was excited to go to day care, and he said no.  We asked him if he had fun and played, he says play yes, and friends yes and then we ask him if he is excited about going tomorrow and he says no.  Very firmly no. We asked him every day this week if he was excited to go to day care, and he said no.  We asked him if he had fun and played, he says play yes, and friends yes and then we ask him if he is excited about going tomorrow and he says no.  Very firmly no.

Yes I am actually worried about this, and I don’t know what to do.  His first week went great and now this.  I don’t understand and I don’t know what to do to help him. I do wonder if this is normal for kids or if something is really wrong.  I am at a loss of what to do.

its WEIGH IN TIME! and its time for the measurements

As you all may be aware of, I was really sick last week and I missed my weigh in.  When I finally weighed myself I didn’t count it  as I was sick and as we know we tend to lose weight being sick.  In short last week’s weight didn’t count.

But regardless of last week I am do for a weigh in today and my make-up measurements too…..

soooo da da da da daaaaaa daaaaaa daaaaaa daaaaaaa………………………..

This week……………………….

153.0

Yep, I look like I haven’t gained anything back yet.  Actually I lost 0.8 pounds (ounces).  This could be due to me still recovering but I will take it.

Now for the measurements

My old measurements measurement: Neck 15″, Shoulder 48“Chest 42”; Arms L R 13 ” waist 42 (sad day when your chest and waist are the same) butt/hips 43″, thigh L 23 r 24″, calf L 15″ R 16′

New: Neck 14.5, shoulder 44″ chest 40.5″waist 39″Arms L&R 13″butt.hip, 42″thigh R 22 L 22.5, R 15.5, L 15.5

So in all, I lost everywhere.

I can tell you that my cloths that I bought right before I got my job are fitting different. It feels like I am thinning out more on my bottom half that my top half, even though the measurements speak differently.  I think my biggest issues are my arms and stomach (abs) area.  I will need to start working those areas out a lot more.

For my goal, I think I am doing well.  I still am hoping to meet my (4 months from now) goal of weighing 110, but my long-term goal of eating healthier is doing really good.  I haven’t just cut down on the amount of food I eat but also the types of food.  I have slowed down (but not stopped) eating fast food.  My soda consumption has gone down dramatically and I am drinking more water.

Right now my every day diet is pretty basic.  I eat apples and cheese and crackers for both breakfast and lunch, with either 1/3 of soda or a small juice box for a drink ( and drinking water throughout the day).  For Dinner I eat chicken (in any form, including sandwich or chicken burger) or fish. And I will drink maybe another 1/3 of soda, milk or juice.

In short I am wasting a lot of soda, and trying to substitute soda for juice.  And recently discovered that drinking a glass of milk has more calories than the small about of soda I have been drinking, but on the plus it does have some vitamins in it.

I have also been walking a lot.  On Monday, Tues and Thursdays I ride the bus to the kid’s day care center, pick them up and walk from their day care to our house, which is almost 3 miles and on Wednesday and Fridays I walk from the bus stop to my house which is almost 2 miles.

I will have to figure out some small work outs that I can do on my arms and abs in order to lose some more inches off of those places.

I know that this week will be tough, sort of, but I have my goal in place and seeing it actually work has been helping me stay focused.  Also, I am not a fan of turkey and sweets, my only problem will be staying away from the mashed potatoes and bread.

Wish me luck and happy thanksgiving to all.

Doctor Who 50th – its starting !

In case you haven’t noticed today is the 50th anniversary of Doctor who, in that the season has started and we will soon meet our new doctor and learn about the past doctor (played by john hurt, which I can’t separate from “Hellboy“)

For starters:  go to http://www.google.com, and you see that even they are doing something to celebrate the doctor.

I have been looking forward to this now for what seems like forever.  After this is over we will start playing Doctor who monopoly.  Yes I love the doctor and I am very excited about this event.

 

Here’s to you Doctor! And the end of Matt Smith, I will miss you as the doctor

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Happy National Adoption Day

its national adoption day. A Day to celebrate Adoptions, so to those adopted and to the adoptive parents Happy day to you!

getting better and a lot to do

It’s Thursday and I am starting to feel better, but as I am feeling better I am noticing that my house is not. All the hard work that I did this past Sunday is nowhere in sight.  Its seems like my clean house up and left, or ran away while I was under the weather.  And I am now trying to find it, by finding it, I mean cleaning my house.  The good news is that a least I won’t have to do a massive cleaning spree this weekend, which means folks….. I get to spend more time with my kids (in hopes they are both feeling better) and if I dare say it….. I may be able to possibly read more than a chapter of my book.

But enough about me, on to my little babies. They had their first week at day care last week and it went good.  up until Sunday night.   As you might have read and if not I will say it again, my babies have been sick, very sick since Sunday.  and Sunday/ Monday around 11 to midnight, we got up and rushed both of them to the er (as the urgent cares in our area were closed down), the ER said both kids had pink eye (well at least little lady did, and for Mr it could have been popped blood vessels, either way they still gave him meds as a precaution) and a cold.  That “cold” raged on so far all week, and we took them to the doctor today, it turns out little lady has an ear infection and MR, well they don’t know what he has, but they do know that he has a virus of some sort, just not sure what it is.  They then sent us on our way and told us good luck with that.  So MR is still really sick with a fever raging around 103 (going up and down) and coughing his head off (up coughing with what seems to be every hour). Right now the babes are sleeping, which allows me time to clean and write this.  But I am still hoping that when we wake up in the morning that the fevers will be gone and my little babes will be back to their bouncing selves.

Ohhhh and some good news,  its raining right now.  Raining in Phoenix!

weigh in missed this week………due to sickness

As you can tell I missed my Monday weigh-in but for a good reason ,  I have been and still am sick.   well actually the whole family is sick.   I was incredibly sick on both Monday and Tuesday which is why the weigh in was missed.  The kids are still really sick,  and have already gone to the ER once and have a doctor appointment tomorrow, fevers are still up for them and show no real sign of going down,  the down side of day care I guess.  I am still sick but I am finally eating some, so I am getting better.

But as for me,  I missed my weigh in and even though I can tell you now what my weight is today, we all know that weight would be incorrect as it is influenced by my sickness.  which means by next week I would have gained some of that weight back .

So that you do know what it is, its 153.8.

but keep in mind that this will more than likely go up by next weigh in.

In short no real loss this week for me,  but keep tuned in for next week.

Its Sunday….Cleaning day

Hello To All

I know its been a while since I posted something or anything at all.  ( which includes my picture posts)

I have been busy,  trying to get things figured out.  We ( my fiance and I ) have been dealing with a lot of unwanted drama and bull (you know what) due to his sister.  In Short a lot of stuff has had us preoccupied and we had to make a lot of difficult choices do to her inability to be a good and normal person.

So today we are having to clean our house, and deal with 2 sick kids.  Our weekend was shot before it even started but we spent some good time with some friends of ours last night and we had a family movie / double date w/ kids at our friends house.  Basically a barque and we watch MU ( Monsters University).  It was really kind of them to have us over as they don’t have kids and our kids ( Our son that it) can be a hand full.

But we have much to handle right now, and one of them is cleaning our house.  Cleaning for us will be our relaxing time ( which is sad,  nothing like calling cleaning relaxing).  We have a lot to do next week and we are hoping that things go  well, good.

picture of the day……. Thanks

picture of the day…. proving that thanksgiving is when “people” put their issues aside for a good meal.

this is in honor of all the facebook post I have been seeing ” 30 days of thanks”

what I am thankful for ( the 1st 12 thanks)

1) a job

2) my children

3) friends

4) family

5) good movies

6)good books, enjoying re rereading the same books over and over.

7) for good neighbors

8) for my former high school helping me out

9) for phones,  so I can talk to my family

10) for the internet , so i can do double communication with them

11) my extended family ( My daughter’s mom, dad, sister and their friends)

12) to my children’s doctors, who I am thankful for acting quickly during the labor which I believe saved their lives

 

 

 

week 3 weigh in …………mmmm still loosing?

Well today is weigh in,  what do you think?  mmmmm well…… I know you are waiting on pins and needles for this ( as I have been all week-long) 

starting weight  (10/21/13) 162.8

week 1 ( 10/28/13) 161.4

week 2 ( 11/04/13) 158.2

week 3 ( current week : 11/11/13) ………….. 156.6

that’s a weight loss of  6.2 pounds

I think I am doing pretty good and I have 7 pounds to lose to reach my November goal of the 140’s.  

So far over  the last week,  i have cut my soda to around 1 can a day ( some days a lot less with just a taste or so,  and a couple of days with 2 sodas),  I am eating a lot less, in carbs, but still need to cut them.  My weekend really blew my total I think,  as i had  some pizza on Friday and ended up ( do to the time restraints) had Arby’s for dinner,  which below my goal for the week.  But I did walk 2 miles on Monday, Wednesday and Friday ( for a total of 6 miles) and i walk a mile on Saturday and Sunday ( 2 miles today )  for a total walking of 8 miles. I will be moving that up this week, as I will be walking home from the bus all week-long , which is 2 miles.  

Stayed tuned for week 4 when we do not only a weigh in but we will be measuring too.

(measurement from 10/21/13 : Neck 15″, Shoulder 48″Chest 42″ ;Arms L R 13 ” waist 42 ( sad day when your chest and waist are the same) butt/hips 43″, thigh L 23 r 24″, calf L 15″ R 16′) 

picture of the day – wow

 

okay this is just magical,  almost polar express.  It’s Duomo Cathedral in Milan, Italy.  for a moment I was looking for Santa’s elves.

I know it’s not Christmas,  and I am not trying to post a Christmas picture. but this just screamed to me.  And if I am to be honest, Christmas is in my soul, fused to my DNA.  I love Christmas.  Well I love my idea of Christmas.  For me Christmas stood for miracles and its the only time of the year that people actually think of others,  not just their families but others, strangers, people they never meet before.  It’s the time of the year where others think about how to help a stranger on the street.  Its seems to be the only time of the year were humanity is still alive.

So in short I love this picture.

So Long and good Bye to Blockbuster……..

Blockbuster announced that they will be closing their remaining stores, around 300 of them.  There are about 30 of them that are independently owned that will not be affected but in full, the age of renting movies or waiting in most cases to rent the new movie are over.  its kinda sad to think about it,  a part of my childhood gone.

I don’t know about your childhood but in mine we rented, when we had the money.  growing up with a single mom we didn’t have much money so once a month, ( we would save all month) we would order a pizza and rent a movie. back than this was a big deal for me and my (small) family.

Now, there is on demand, but it’s not the same.  doesn’t really have the same feeling like it did make in the day.

 

Half way through my Saturday – getting ready for cooking

It’s 11:30am,  I am cleaning my house, as obviously even though I am getting back into the swing of things at work, my family already got into the grove of me being gone and has left my house a disaster.  So i am cleaning and cleaning and cleaning.

Once I am done we are going to do a quick walk through of the choices of recipes and then off to the store to buy the ingredients that we need.

I am trying to do something easy, healthy ( non fat, good for you food) ,  new, different and never tried,  but more importantly something I have to make from scratch.

Again before I can do any of that I need to clean my house………. but first lunch,  broccoli and cheese.mmmmmmm

picture of the day – all I can say is tooo cute for words

 

okay here you go… some cuteness for the day…. Nothing else can be said

happy picture of the day, hope you enjoy

Friday blog

Happy Friday to all

Yes it’s the weekend already. And I just finished my first full week at my new job, and yes there were bumps in the road this week, especially today.

To start… I got up late today, my alarm never went off (or if you ask my fiancé, it went off but I didn’t get up, either way I was late.  I obviously missed my bus, so he was kind enough to take me to work today (awesome he is, even though he was not happy about it), which meant I was not late (on time, yay! to him).

Once I got to work I immediately started to file,  as I had nothing to do… yep I filed and filed and filed,  from 8am till about 10am, in which I was done filing and asked the office manager for some work,  in which she was nice enough to give me some more work…. FILING! Yep I filed some more. (13 years of accounting and I am filing, yay me!).  Regardless I am happy to have some work, so I started filing again, until 12pm rolled around and guess what actually work came in, I was able to do a deposit.  And this is where it gets fun.

By fun I mean went downhill, something so easy and should have taken about 30 mins to do, took over an hour and I felt so stupid.  My hold up….. New system and not paying attention, I was so eager that I messed up.  Yep I blew it.  But I was able to correct my mistakes, with the manager’s help.  She didn’t get mad at all, which was great cause I felt like an ass.  There is nothing like feeling like an ass with your boss watching you.  Yay me, with all these years of accounting knowledge and I am messing up a simple deposit.

But after all that I at least knew that once I pulled my head out of my butt, that I actually knew what I was doing.  So I felt better that in the future I could do it just fine.  I guess sometimes you have to figure out how not to do something in order to know how to do something.  Lesson learned.

The rest of my day went okay, did more filing, took some initiative (which my bosses seemed to like, but the reality was I was bored and wanted some more to do). And then some deals came through, I was able to prep 1/2 but, I found errors so I get to fix them, and by fix I mean my boss will show me what to do so in the future I will know what to do.  And then the main boss lady said hey you all did good today its 4 pm now go home and enjoy yourselves.  So I did!

In all it was an okay day, and I guess a day for me is never complete without feeling like an ass by the end of it, since that happened already today the rest of my day should be good.

this week should be good,  I am going to try to actually cook or bake something from scratch, in short  wait for my epic fail blog on Saturday when I tell you the disaster that happened.

Well it’s time to go, Happy Friday (or what’s left of it) to all.

 

one downfall of a new job

the only down fall with working, with the new job,  I get home at 6:30,  which means I get 1 hour with my daughter before she goes to bed ( and 30 mins of that is with her whining as she is tired and wants to go to bed),  I get 2 hours with my son, and then he is off to bed. My fiance gets home at 9:30 or so ,  and we get 1 hour together before I have to go to bed in order to get up at 6:00 am to get ready for school.

I guess this is the down fall that all parents and people in relationships,  we all have to work and make sacrifices,  The goal is to enjoy them time you have and to make the best of it.

At least this time around I am enjoying myself,  if I have learned anything in my life ( and after my last job) is don’t waste your time at a job you don’t like,  as you spend most of your time at that place, and you don’t want to spend most of your time miserable.  Be happy with what you do and you will be happy with your life,  this is my goal,  to be happy with my employment.

going to try something new …

Going to try something new this weekend…. I am going to cook, well cook something from scratch.  I have been trying to find recipes on-line,  healthy recipes to go with my weight loss and healthy eating.  I don’t want to be gaining all the weight that I just lost.

I will be cooking on Saturday, with the help of my children ( hopefully) and my (soon to be) stepson.  I am going to try to make this a fun family time thing.

I say from scratch as i know how to cook basic things,  but I can’t cook from scratch.

A few choices from this meal are ( from my understanding these are healthy recipes

Healthified Pumpkin Bread

Healthified Homemade Pizza

Healthified Tex-Mex Chicken Skillet

Healthified Seared Tilapia with Lemon-Tarragon Sauce

Healthified Creamy Peach-Berry Dessert

Healthified Greek Chicken Pizza

(recipes are from http://www.livebetteramerica.com/food-recipes/healthy-recipes/healthified-recipes/healthified%20recipes)

I am open to any ideas that you may have on a from scratch (healthy)recipe,

Things to learn

There are several things I want to do,  but there are just as meaning things that I would love to learn to do

1) I want to learn how to drive,  Yes i know I am 32, and you would assume that I would have had my DL by now but I don’t, I am afraid of driving.  I want to learn how to drive, to be independent and be able to go somewhere without asking my fiance to take me or waiting on an unreliable bus. ( that isn’t to say that our truck is reliable, its not)

2) to cook, and enjoy cooking,  yes i know its odd to say both together,  but the reality is I don’t know how to cook, i mess up cookies ( so i now buy pre made cookie dough),  I want to be able to to cook something other than hamburger helper or spaghetti but more importantly I want to enjoy it.  I would love to be able to say I can make thanksgiving dinner and want to make it)

3) I want to learn how to garden,  I now that one is weird but, I don’t have a green thumb, and I know I can be taught.  I just want to be able to keep one of my plants alive, longer than 3 weeks.  or grow something in my back yard.

4) I want to learn how to sew,  I am short so there really isn’t much in my side and when you see petite cloths , they look more like old lady cloths, for some reason designers think petite means old lady,  we ll I am not an old lady and i am tired of shopping in the kids section for capris,  So I would like to learn how to him jeans and also make a few thing too.

5) don’t laugh,  I want to learn to ride a bike.  Okay stop laughing, yes I am 32 and never really learn to ride a bike. Yes I had a bike, but lived in an apartment and my mother wouldn’t let me out side ( cause it was a bad neighborhood) so I never. I would like to learn, I would like to learn so i can help teach my kids to ride their bikes when they are old enough.

6) I want to lean something new each day,  I want to experience something new and different everyday

 

becoming a new me

I have been making goals, some big and some small ones (in hope of helping me achieve the big goals), I have also made some silly goals, like going to comic con, for the idea of having fun.  Goals like these are more like rewards for meeting the big goals.

The real reasons for these goals are to help improve myself, inside and out.  I want to feel good when I look at myself, not just physically but mentally.  In the end, I want to be able to look back at my life and be proud of my achievements.

for the past 32 years I have basically just floated through it, making no efforts and for the past 13 years I have taken no risk, and I feel like I have wasted my time and opportunities to better myself.  Regardless of the reasons to why I choose to pass up the opportunities (self-sabotage), I can’t live in the past and I have to think about not only my future but my babies.

What I am wanting in the end, of all of this (the goals and all) is to be financially stable, self-motivated, self-assure, and all around happy and a good person.  I want to be a good example to my children, and be the change I want in my life.  I know that I am the only one that can make me happy and make this happen in my life.  The lottery is a wish and a good dream, but it’s not real and I can’t keep on leaning on that as my back up plan.

If I am wanting to really change my life, I am going to have to start doing something, taking risks and facing my fears.  I have to actually do something besides watch my life pass me by.  I have to be the change I want.

I am 32 years old, mother of 2 babies (and a 3rd one that I gave up for adoption), and the future wife to a very luck (and great) man. And I have a full life full of challenges and obstacles in front of me and I am afraid but that will not stop me from achieving my goals.

(That was my roar)

a week already….

Well tomorrow will be officially one week from my first day at my new job, and I feel…. good but still a fish out of water.

Almost everyone i know has asked me ” how do you  like the new job” ,  and its good and everyone is so nice, and generally seem to like working there and like each other. It is just that,  I don’t have any job duties and I have been mostly filing…. so I don’t really have a place yet.  This kinda bothers me as I am used to having, well having a function that runs with the company and I feel a little useless.  I am hoping that tomorrow I will get more work as some responsibilities as I am running out of filing to do.

on a side note,  I am actually hoping to succeed at this job and become something and if not, then actually learn something I can take to my forever job. Also, the longer I am at this job, it makes my old job seem like kids stuff,  in short it really wasn’t real “accounting”,  it was data entry with some a/p and a/r. And I can tell you our bookkeeper ( at the old job) really didn’t do much compared to these girls.  In short I am loving this place more and more. I am so happy I have this opportunity at this place,  and opportunity to actually learn new and different things.

Regardless of where I am planning on being and what my forever job will be, I will be using this time  in order to get somethings in my life worked out and fixed, I guess in short take care of somethings in order for me to move up in the world.

A recap of the week… I believe I am enjoying my self and I think I am like this new stuff, Now only to regain the self-confidence I lost at my old job.

Picture of the day….. Off to Paris, again

 

Ok we are off to Paris France again for our Picture of the day,  after all its a train ride away from England.

well what you are looking at is the top of the Louvre Pyramid , which is the main entrance to the Louvre Museum.  This is the museum that was featured in the book/movie the Da Vince Code, but besides that, this museum houses some the worlds most beautiful art and history and from what I am told is a must see before you die ( in short a line on that bucket list to scratch off)

this is on my list , but not a bucket list, its more of things to do before I am 40 ( 8 years from now).

 

Anne Rice all over

My Anne Rice moment seems to be happening all over again.

By that I mean, Anne Rice is coming to town next week ( changing hands book store)  and I am going to miss it.  As my fiance is working and we don’t have the money.

this is the 2nd time I would have had the chance to meet her, and this is the second time I would have missed.

Last time she was in town, I missed her due to prior obligation and due to money and transportation.  I am so bummed.  I have been “dying” to meet her ( get it, a little bit of vampire humor) and each opportunity I get, seems to be smashed by something,  someday I hope to meet her.

Since that time where I missed her, anytime something happens that we can’t go to or miss,  we call it an Anne rice moment or its Anne Rice all over again.

So right now, I am sitting at my Anne Rice moment and seeing it happen all over again.

Picture of the day – ?

Well as you can see , there is no picture today,  I wasn’t able to find anything that jumped out at me.  Sorry for the disappointment but nothing really spoke to me.

I do my best to pick pictures that “speak” to me….. but nothing did it today.

I miss my rain from last night,  it was a teaser, I wish It would come back……. oh rain why did you have to leave.

November 5th

Remember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason, the gunpowder treason, should ever be forgot.

 

V

 

Books, books and more books…..

As you may all know, I am back to work and now that I am working , again, which means that I am back on the bus…… yay me ( insert rolling eyes and barf look)

as I am now back on the bus,  that means I need something to do while I am on the bus,  by something to do I mean…. reading a book

I am up for any suggestion.. sort of… no love  or political stories….. my life is already full of love and well really politics is everywhere and really tired of the news.

In short what I am asking do you have any good reads that you can suggest to me.

I have already read the true blood series, game of thrones,  and the mortal instruments.  And no to 50 shades,  not because I have a problem with this book,  it’s just me,  I may be over 30 years old, but I giggle like a school girl with stories like this.

So throw me a good story……….. Please

picture of the day – Rain in the desert

Picture of the day….. Well it’s actually raining in AZ, Phoenix that is…. YAY! ( insert me jumping and running around with excitement.)

Yes it is raining in the valley of the sun, it is raining in the desert.  So happy right now.  a few moments ago the wind started blowing like crazy and you could hear the thunder pounding and see the lightning dancing in the distance…. and right now I felt a sprinkle.

I understand you are thinking sprinkle ?  you are jumping up and down for a sprinkle?

Yes yes I am ,  its rain to us…… one sprinkle can lead to a down flood of rain and within 15 mins my street will be too flooded to drive on

You have to understand our soil doesn’t know how to deal with the rain so it take it a while to suck up the water,, In short when it rains it floods in phoenix.  but we love it.

I am enjoying this Monday rain!

Weigh in time……… and my weight for this week is

I know you are all sitting on pins and needles, just wondering what my weigh in this week is.  well wait no more the time has come and my weight is……

last Monday 161.4

and this week start weight is…..

are you ready for it

its……..

158.2

that’s right, you read that correctly,  I now weight 158.2, that’s a 3.2 pounds , and I believe that’s pretty good.  For a moment there I was afraid I wouldn’t have lost anything or worse, was back to 162.  So it looks like i am headed in the right direction.

So far my weight loss total is 4.6 pounds

My goal weight for the end of the month is to be in the 140’s ( even if that means being 149 pounds and 11 ounces, as long as I am in the 140’s)

Also today I managed to walk a total of 2 miles … I know amazing ,  tomorrow will be the same,  i figured if i walked around 2 mile for 4 of the 7 days this week it could help.

I am doing pretty good on the soda ,  Not drinking as much,  but I have to make sure that i drink lots of water.

I am really hoping things will keep up and I will stay on target, and well we might me looking at another great week.

Being a parent – the worst thing

worst part of being a parent… is when your child is sick and there is nothing you can do to help them.

Sunday night:

 

My little Lady Sophia is sick and she can’t sleep because she can’t breathe. I had to put her in the shower, I held her tight just so the steam could hopefully open her nose up.  She fell asleep in my arms….

I feel so bad for her and nevertheless she will be sleeping with us tonight…

but I did learn that while my son is a cuddle bug when sick, the little lady is a whiner.

Goals – for a new month… week 1 of Nov

Goals for the week

as it is the first week of this month,  November, I am setting my self some goals.  well I am setting weekly goals in general.

so for this week,

I will finish up with my child care stuff

I will keep up with the 1 soda a day thing – no I am not cutting it out completely yet,  It will take some time.  Caffeine is an addiction and it takes time

I will stay happy and not let the stress of it all get to me.  I know this week will be tough,  between the new job and the kids ( I will miss my kids after 3 1/2 months at home with them) , I know it will take its toll but I will need to be strong and take each day at a time.

I will start looking at each day as a blessing

I will start making plans for my future. and get caught up on my bills.  I will figure out some way to become current so I don’t lose my house and everything I worked so hard for.

I will walk a mile each day

I will not eat fast food ( I ate fast food twice last week,  not proud of it but I did)

I will keep my calories controlled and do my best to stay on a good eating regiment

I will finish the laundry up and dishes ( by Sunday)

and last but not least , the most important , I will keep focus on my goals in order to achieve each goal.

 

Picture of the day – Its Monday

 

Happy Monday – Picture of the day

For those of you that don’t know,  this is my first Monday workday at my new job… I am so excited and nervous … but happy too.

Happy Monday to you all and I hope you all have a great day

cloths shopping – second hand style

Happy Sunday to all.  Today I am going cloths shopping,  but not to a regular store.

My new job requires me to dress business causal, which has become a problem for me as, well I don’t have any business casual cloths that fit me.

After having 2 kids in 2 years , I haven’t gone back to my pre prego weight,  I am at 161 and I was at 125, So nothing fits.  But due to my budget or lack of  budget I can’t afford to actually go to a store and buy new cloths, so I am going to try something new and different. I am going to go shopping at a second-hand or used cloths store.

this is my first time shopping at these types of stores so I don’t know really where to go, I went online last night and found some places to try out today.

Wish me luck that I can find something.