Tuesday, September 04, 2012
6:14am
It’s Tuesday
morning, and I’m feeling a little bit weak. After the fantasy draft last night,
both Brian and me were excited, and I didn’t end up falling asleep until 1:30am,
even with the help of a sleeping pill, and got up a little before six this
morning, so I’ve had less than 5 hours of sleep, and I’m tired. There will be
napping today, for sure.
I weighed 232.4
yesterday, which means I’ve gained 1.8 pounds in the last 2 weeks, which means
I haven’t been doing so well at all. I must be honest and say, I haven’t really
tried, at all. I’ve kept up with my calories here and there, and I didn’t walk
at all one week, and just 3 days last week.
Starting
yesterday, I began walking again. I walked for 20 minutes, and was sweating at
10 minutes, so I know I burned off some calories yesterday, and actually did
some good.
We have also got
to start stretching again every day. While I was thinking about it just now, I
got Brian out of his chair, and we just stretched. I guess we are going to have
to do it when I think about it, cause I usually forget completely about it.
I did good all
day yesterday, I had cookie crisp cereal, coffee, and that was it. Then last
night, during the fantasy draft, Mama made rotel dip first, then she made a
cake, and then she made jambalaya, and I drank 2 cokes. So in that one meal, I
had over 1700 calories. In that one meal! Which is exactly why I don’t eat over
there, ever, and bring my food every day.
Today I guess
we’ll have cereal for breakfast, and soup for lunch, without crackers for me. I
do have some tuna in the fridge already made up. That might be good to eat for
lunch. I used lite mayo, so it’s probably got 300 calories per sandwich in the
tuna, plus the bread, will be 500 calories. Breakfast is 300, coffee is 300, so
that’s 1100 right there. I’m going to have to eat something lighter for lunch,
and soup only has about 240 calories, so that’s what I’m going to do, and I”ll
cook tonight, out of my cookbook. I’ve got to go to town today anyway, for cat
food, so I might just go ahead and buy groceries as well.
We are
boycotting Walmart, so it’s going to be a pain in the ass to go to Brookshires,
cause I don’t think they have the selection Walmart does. I don’t know, the Rayville
Brookshire’s is so small, but still, I need to shop there, every customer
counts there, and they employee a good many people, so I’m going to shop
locally, although I’d much rather go to Bastrop and go to Super One.
I’ve been sewing
in every room in the house, just about. I started in my office, moved to
Brian’s mancave, moved to the dining room table, and now I’ve set up my table
in the living room. I can’t find anywhere really functional for me, so we’ve
decided to set up my sewing room in my office, complete with cutting table,
shelves for fabric storage, sewing machine and table, tv, and no more kitty
litter box.
In order to set
all this up, I’ve got to start by cleaning off Mama’s old desk at work, file
papers and such, so that I can move my computer and all my pictures and files
to that desk at work, because I’m using my old desk as my cutting table.
It’ll probably
be a week’s worth of work over there, cause she hasn’t filed all year. I’m
going to get started on it this morning, as soon as she prints out her file
labels. I’ll do that this morning, and then when I wake up this afternoon, I’ll
go ahead and go over the B customer list, and start on the C. If I have any
time I will work on some more filing.
That’s step one.
Step all the time is I’ve got to get the laundry room cleaned up, so I can put
the kitty litter box in there, and out of my sewing room, cause Brian refuses
to go in the room with the litter box, he thinks it’s gross.
I have no idea
what I’m going to wear today. I’m thinking shorts, cause it may be hot today,
like it was yesterday. I don’t even know what shirts I have in my closet. I
know I have a green shirt that just came out of the washer, and I may wear it,
or my ¾ length black shirt, that I wore on a date with Brian on about our 3rd
of 4th date, but it was the first time we took pictures together.
I wish I could
French braid my own hair, cause I would wear it that way today. I think I’ll
try to do it anyway.
1:20pm
Today I’ve had
cereal (150), milk (100) coffee w/creamer and sugar (200), clam chowder (420) =
(870) for the day, already. I’m really upset, cause I’ve only got 330 calories
left to eat or drink today, and I could really go for a piece of cake right
now. I don’t even feel that I’ve really eaten anything all day, really. I
really don’t. I mean all I’ve had is cereal and clam chowder. I’m kinda pissed
off about it. Maybe I feel this way because I haven’t cooked anything in about
3 weeks. That could be it. I’ll cook tonight. Hopefully, that will help.
I do miss
cooking. I always like pulling out a recipe and whipping something up that I’ve
never had before, especially if it’s low cal. It’s so much fun to cook
something different, and try something new, and most of the time it’s good,
although there have been a couple of recipes that Brian has picked out that we
didn’t care for, but just a couple.
4pm
Brian and I just
got back from Delhi. We got to take Mama’s 4runner, cause she needs an
inspection sticker, it’s been out since the end of July, and she’s just now
noticing it. We stopped and fueled her up, and I got a DIET COKE, not a coke,
at the Chevron, although I really wanted a coke, but it’s not so bad now that I’m
drinking it.
Then we went by
the bank, and Vanessa at Regions is super nice, and it’s not her fault, but the
new banking procedures at Regions are the absolute pits, and I just know they
are going to lose a lot of customers from it. What they do, is if you are making
a commercial or any deposit, they take every check and scan it through a
machine while you sit there, and if it doesn’t balance, then they have to fix
it, and it takes forever to run it through and balance it. They are supposed to
do all of this at the end of the day, like every other bank, but they aren’t, I
guess so they can leave on time, but it’s a very big inconvenience to every
customer. And this is the drive thru.
When we finally
left there, we went to Mooney’s Garage to get Mama’s inspection sticker, and he
had some piece of crap boat he was inspecting, and I know that’s exactly why they came to him,
cause he’ll put a sticker on anything. There was another lady after that boat,
standing there waiting for her sticker, and then another truck drove up while
we were waiting. Brian decided we could come back, although I didn’t want to,
cause I didn’t like the feel of that place.
We went to
Family Dollar, and bought a couple of Christmas presents for Maddie Grace and
Myles, and picked us up a couple of cute little things to hang on the wall, and
a couple of kitty beds, cause they were a great price, less than what I find at
Petsmart, and Petco.
We went back to
Mooney’s and not one person had budged, everyone was still waiting, so we
called Mama, and she told us to go to Ogden’s Tire, which we found 2-18 wheelers
waiting, and another car, so we said forget it, I’ll go to the Jiffy Lube in
Rayville in the next couple of days.
We stopped by
Brookshire’s on the way out, and picked up some milk and half and half, and I
got this great magazine called Good and Fresh, that looks like it has some low
cal recipes in it, that I’m willing to try if Brian is.
I’ve got about 6
or 7 magazines I’m subscribed to, maybe more, and I’ve got this months crammed
into my computer case, meaning to read them every day, but just haven’t had the
chance really. I’ve got to catch up though.
I know I’m
subscribed to Horticulture, Organic Gardening, Bon Appetite, Angels Among Us, Southern
Living, Prevention, The English Garden, Cooking Light, and I think that’s all I can think of right
now. Not to mention sales papers, and ads sent this way. I’ve got lots to look
at, and I really need to get started, cause I’m way behind.
The only thing
about the cooking magazines, is usually I can’t find one or more of the
ingredients, cause they always put something exotic in there, and it just sux,
so I don’t think I’m going to subscribe next year to those. I’ve heard of
Rachel Ray, but I’m just not a big fan, and I think the last thing on her mind
is low cal, same thing with Paula Deen. But they do make good tasting food, it’s
just that I’m watching my calories.
Tonight I think
I’m going to make a Southwestern Noodle Bowl. I have all the ingredients, and
when it says bell pepper, I’m substituting that for Jalepenos, cause I just
love them so much, and it adds that kick of spice, which I absolutely love.
Other than that,
I’ve got all the ingredients in the cabinet, and in the refrigerator, cause I
went shopping for this stuff a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve still got all the
ingredients.
Things have
really slowed down since we lost David, and we are just living day to day. I’ve
got to pick back up where I left off though, but I don’t feel as forceful as before about the weight loss,
and I don’t feel like it’s my #1 priority anymore, and I definitely don’t talk
about it as much, in person, or on facebook.
I’m undecided as
to whether I will post what I ate all day online, or not, I’m just undecided.
So until I decide, I won’t post it at all. Best not to do anything when I’m not
sure. But I think I’ve decided not to. It’ll be here on my blog.
Brian and I are
talking about buying some weights. I want a leg lift machine, and a squat bar,
and some 5, 10, and 15 pound dumbbells. We really need to go to Academy and get
those as soon as we can, like tomorrow, and I might run up there tomorrow and
go by Hancock’s, cause I’ve got to get the material to make Kandi’s baby
nephew a quilt, and I really need to go ahead and start on it within the next
couple of weeks. Maybe I can take Mama’s 4runner to Monroe, and get her an
inspection sticker. Our car just rides so rough and is so loud. Never again
will I buy a car, I want something high off the ground, that offers a smooth,
quiet ride.
First we got to
get Brian a truck, and then in a couple of years, we’ll work on getting me a
new ride. I’ve never had a brand new car, and I’d really like to have one
sometime in my lifetime, sooner is always better than later, but eventually
will do just fine for me.
I’m ready to go
home, we’ve got 30 minutes left. First
thing I’m going to do is sit on my couch and make some coffee, and put on some
clothes to wash. Second, I’m going to go for a walk, and then third I’m going
to make dinner.
After we eat, I
figure I’ll sew for a while. We recorded this show Dad Sullivan is watching
called Into the West, and I’d like to sit down tonight behind the sewing
machine and watch it for a while.
Brian will
probably be playing football most of the night, but maybe he’ll sit down with
me and watch it a little while later on.
Mama’s busy
cleaning and vacuuming the house, and Daddy’s done gone to the deer camp. His
job is to check the army worms in the duck blinds, so he’ll be at it all
evening, and probably some tomorrow, and probably some more over the course of
the next couple months.
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