Tuesday, June 29, 2010
how do I?
How do I make my friends list do the thing where it tells me which people have posted new blogs?
dang
Dang! Facebook really has killed my blog!
Sorry!
A little update on what we have been doing.
I am at a weightloss plateau. I am only 19lbs away from being my half. Half of what I was when I started to lose weight. I hope to get back to the gym this summer. Have again been sidelined due to my crappy back and my crappy galbladder!
I finished w/ school in May - another 4.0 semester. Nervously anticipating the fall, my good friend and study buddy Laura had to succome to the economy and get a job. And my other study partner Robert is taking the class in Fallon. So I don't have a study partner at this time. I am nervous because last semester I was totally having an "off" semester and they literally carried me.
My computer crashed in May and I lost all of my pictures. The only pictures I have are what I have posted on Facebook and my blog. That is a little sad.
I have friends from Bosnia who are going to be in NYC in Sept I was really hoping to be able to go visit them - but it doesn't look promising. I will be flying to Chicago in Sept to drive back to Carson w/ Stacie. She is coming out to help me for a week or so to help w/ Don's 40th birthday party. Then she is embarking on a drive from Carson to Vegas, to Phoenix, to San Antonio and then back to Chicago! Kinda glad I am only doing one leg of that!!
Don is still in school. He is getting his masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. He could make a fortune just off of friends and family! haha He works for Rural Regional Center in Fallon. We are hopeful and prayerful that he will get to transfer to Carson City soon. He has been making that 70mile drive since Oct. But at least now he has the weekends and holidays off! That is so awesome! But the Carson office is only 5 minutes and 3 miles from our house! He is turning 40 in September and due to budget concerns I have had to downsize the sit down dinner party w/ bounce house to probably a lunch or appetizer party at a local park so I don't have to rent a bounce house. Like us most of Don's family who is coming have young kiddos so I need to make sure they are entertained. Is a park party for a 40 yr old man ghetto??
Brooklyn is kicking butt and taking names!! She is awesome! A great kid! She is still doing plays through the Brewery Arts Center. They just finished A Midsummer Night's Dream. After taking the year off of soccer she is going to play in a rec league in the fall. Competitive just is too much of a time commitment for her.
She tried track and field last spring and hated it cause of the running...so I laughed my butt off when she said she wanted to try cross country in the fall! I said, you know it's all running right? No shot put in cross country. I think she changed her mind. She just scored a perfect 500/500 on the English/Reading CRT (standardized testing) and 432 on math (still above avg). We are in the process of filling out the paper work to apply to the Davidson Academy. It is a charter school for academically superior kids, they meets at the UNR campus, and once they have completed all of the required stuff for high school they go on to take college classes until their graduation date. It is an amazing school! We are prayerful that she gets in!
Ava is Ava. She is fiesty. My friend Laura said that she was like babysitting twins. Nice. She is super cute and has an amazing vocabulary. The least of which is, "WhAT??" "Because I said why not!" and she sings everything! I think that is the coolest thing about her. She sings songs that she learned at school or church or saw on Nick Jr. She will sing for hours. She love to swim and has little fear of anything!
Don and I are trying to plan a getaway this summer for the 2 of us - we need a break. but finding someone who is willing to watch Ava or close enough to watch the girls is hard to find. So we are hoping Don's mom will be able to watch the girls for a weekend in July. She is nice to have around...
As far as summer vacations go I have instituted another ban of travelling to visit families (his and mine). It's no vacation! I am tired of doing all of the traveling to see people who don't care enough to come visit us. It is a waste of a vacation day. Our next vacation will be a vacation. I do this every few years or so. I know times are tough all around but we are not exempt from that either and we still manage to make our families a priority to see. Which usually means I don't grocery shop for 2-3 weeks before and we just scrape by with what we have in the house.
The weather here has been very nice! It was a long wet winter and therefore a mild summer. Today was the hottest day so far and I don't think we broke 100. It is funny cause Don had the opportunity to transfer to Vegas, which we declined at this time until we see if Brooklyn gets into Davidson, but he was soo whiney about the heat yesterday! haha it was 96! I was dying! And he was the one that wanted to move down to Vegas! He wouldn't last a summer there!!
So find me on Facebook - I have lot of pics posted there! And if you miss us - come and visit! Where our house is small we would rearrange to accomodate you!
Sorry!
A little update on what we have been doing.
I am at a weightloss plateau. I am only 19lbs away from being my half. Half of what I was when I started to lose weight. I hope to get back to the gym this summer. Have again been sidelined due to my crappy back and my crappy galbladder!
I finished w/ school in May - another 4.0 semester. Nervously anticipating the fall, my good friend and study buddy Laura had to succome to the economy and get a job. And my other study partner Robert is taking the class in Fallon. So I don't have a study partner at this time. I am nervous because last semester I was totally having an "off" semester and they literally carried me.
My computer crashed in May and I lost all of my pictures. The only pictures I have are what I have posted on Facebook and my blog. That is a little sad.
I have friends from Bosnia who are going to be in NYC in Sept I was really hoping to be able to go visit them - but it doesn't look promising. I will be flying to Chicago in Sept to drive back to Carson w/ Stacie. She is coming out to help me for a week or so to help w/ Don's 40th birthday party. Then she is embarking on a drive from Carson to Vegas, to Phoenix, to San Antonio and then back to Chicago! Kinda glad I am only doing one leg of that!!
Don is still in school. He is getting his masters in Marriage and Family Therapy. He could make a fortune just off of friends and family! haha He works for Rural Regional Center in Fallon. We are hopeful and prayerful that he will get to transfer to Carson City soon. He has been making that 70mile drive since Oct. But at least now he has the weekends and holidays off! That is so awesome! But the Carson office is only 5 minutes and 3 miles from our house! He is turning 40 in September and due to budget concerns I have had to downsize the sit down dinner party w/ bounce house to probably a lunch or appetizer party at a local park so I don't have to rent a bounce house. Like us most of Don's family who is coming have young kiddos so I need to make sure they are entertained. Is a park party for a 40 yr old man ghetto??
Brooklyn is kicking butt and taking names!! She is awesome! A great kid! She is still doing plays through the Brewery Arts Center. They just finished A Midsummer Night's Dream. After taking the year off of soccer she is going to play in a rec league in the fall. Competitive just is too much of a time commitment for her.
She tried track and field last spring and hated it cause of the running...so I laughed my butt off when she said she wanted to try cross country in the fall! I said, you know it's all running right? No shot put in cross country. I think she changed her mind. She just scored a perfect 500/500 on the English/Reading CRT (standardized testing) and 432 on math (still above avg). We are in the process of filling out the paper work to apply to the Davidson Academy. It is a charter school for academically superior kids, they meets at the UNR campus, and once they have completed all of the required stuff for high school they go on to take college classes until their graduation date. It is an amazing school! We are prayerful that she gets in!
Ava is Ava. She is fiesty. My friend Laura said that she was like babysitting twins. Nice. She is super cute and has an amazing vocabulary. The least of which is, "WhAT??" "Because I said why not!" and she sings everything! I think that is the coolest thing about her. She sings songs that she learned at school or church or saw on Nick Jr. She will sing for hours. She love to swim and has little fear of anything!
Don and I are trying to plan a getaway this summer for the 2 of us - we need a break. but finding someone who is willing to watch Ava or close enough to watch the girls is hard to find. So we are hoping Don's mom will be able to watch the girls for a weekend in July. She is nice to have around...
As far as summer vacations go I have instituted another ban of travelling to visit families (his and mine). It's no vacation! I am tired of doing all of the traveling to see people who don't care enough to come visit us. It is a waste of a vacation day. Our next vacation will be a vacation. I do this every few years or so. I know times are tough all around but we are not exempt from that either and we still manage to make our families a priority to see. Which usually means I don't grocery shop for 2-3 weeks before and we just scrape by with what we have in the house.
The weather here has been very nice! It was a long wet winter and therefore a mild summer. Today was the hottest day so far and I don't think we broke 100. It is funny cause Don had the opportunity to transfer to Vegas, which we declined at this time until we see if Brooklyn gets into Davidson, but he was soo whiney about the heat yesterday! haha it was 96! I was dying! And he was the one that wanted to move down to Vegas! He wouldn't last a summer there!!
So find me on Facebook - I have lot of pics posted there! And if you miss us - come and visit! Where our house is small we would rearrange to accomodate you!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Follow up
Thanks for your comments, I am fine. I wrote that last post in a heated moment, and mostly meant it to be funny. I would not retaliate and make up some great rumor about my accusers.
All is well, thank you all for keeping me grouned!
All is well, thank you all for keeping me grouned!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
double jeopardy
So recently it was brought to my attention in a very Jr. High fashion that certain people think that I have been talking badly about them. This infuriates me to NO END!
Cause the people who are closest to me and this situation know that I have stayed above the fray the entire time! I MEAN ENTIRE TIME!!! These people have yet to fill me in on anything that I may have said -
SO - my question is this: Do the laws of double jeopardy apply to B*S and gossip?? Cause I got NONE of the joy or satisfaction of gossipping!
Since I have already been: ACCUSED, CONVICTED AND PUNISHED for this crap - shouldn't I at least get the joy or satisfaction of spreading some juicy rumors?
Soooo as I ponder this for a few more days the pros versus the cons - I may be able to come up with something really really juicy. hahaha
Actually, I have been trying to get over my butt hurt and just let it go - but if I can't check back in a few days...I may have some really great gossip!
**** DISCLAMER: THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE ON MY BLOG DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS HELD BY ANY OF MY FAMILY OR FRIENDS ****
Cause the people who are closest to me and this situation know that I have stayed above the fray the entire time! I MEAN ENTIRE TIME!!! These people have yet to fill me in on anything that I may have said -
SO - my question is this: Do the laws of double jeopardy apply to B*S and gossip?? Cause I got NONE of the joy or satisfaction of gossipping!
Since I have already been: ACCUSED, CONVICTED AND PUNISHED for this crap - shouldn't I at least get the joy or satisfaction of spreading some juicy rumors?
Soooo as I ponder this for a few more days the pros versus the cons - I may be able to come up with something really really juicy. hahaha
Actually, I have been trying to get over my butt hurt and just let it go - but if I can't check back in a few days...I may have some really great gossip!
**** DISCLAMER: THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS EXPRESSED HERE ON MY BLOG DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OR OPINIONS HELD BY ANY OF MY FAMILY OR FRIENDS ****
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
SERIOUSLY??? WHAT THE EFF!??!
WHO IS THAT?
Yeah that's me! In a nine west brand jeans - size 12! (I had some help in the lycra dept getting these zipped up)
Yep and that's my behind too! Brooklyn said I still have "pointy things" on my thighs. yes dear, thank Grandma Chrissy for those saddle bags.Still have a ways to go. I haven't been able to get to the gym since the end of July because of this back thing. So I am frustrated with my weight loss - but I haven't gained any weight. I am at just above 90lbs. And know that if I was able to do any cardio or weights I could be down at least 100 - but oh well. About the back I am going to have to have the discectomy - I have a disc that it herniated so badly between my l4 -l5 that it is pressing the peripheral nerve against the spinal column above. So it feels like I have a charlie horse from my left buttock to my calf - on a good day. So the Dr. will be cutting that part of the disc off and then clearing the disc between l5-s1 out as it is pressing on my sciatic. Fun stuff - don't be jealous! On a bad day it feels like a charlie horse on fire. I am going to try to wait until Christmas break, I can't afford to miss my chemistry class. Cholesterol update - it went up again. The only reason that makes sense as to why it goes up is that my parents passed down some crappy cholesterol gene. It is still in the 170's so nothing to worry about. And I just resized my wedding rings down to a 6.
So luckily I had a friend who was between a size 8 -14 in the year after she had twins give me a bunch of handmedowns- see the entire outfit above - so these levis can rest peacefully in the goodwill bag!facebook officially killed my blog. sorry - i post pictures of the girls there - I will post some of the kids - eventually to my blog
Not flattering at all - comic relief only
So I held on to this pair of Levi's from when I wasn't so fat. I put them on last Saturday. And they are hideous! Super high waisted! And Super tapered at the legs! So tapered in the ankle that they bunch around my shoes. And super baggy through the hips. Sick sick sick.
Not very flattering at all! I know! Thankfully for my friend Nina - I have a bunch of clothes ranging from size 8-14 so I can officially retire these lesbian mom jeans to the good will
Not very flattering at all! I know! Thankfully for my friend Nina - I have a bunch of clothes ranging from size 8-14 so I can officially retire these lesbian mom jeans to the good will
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Fat Facts - July Edition
Me Now
Me last June
Lets not forget November
May 2009
July 2009
July 2009Here are the fat facts for July 2009. Since my journey began in January 2009 and as of yesterday's date - 7/14/2009 I have lost 71 lbs! Despite no fewer then 4 plateaus i have still lost 9 inches around my belly button, 7 1/2 around my bust, 10 inches in my hips, 8 inches on the muffin top (not the same measurement as the belly button) I keep a bunch of random measurements totalling 43inches over all!!! I am down at least 3 pants sizes, could be 4 I wouldn't buy new clothes at my heaviest. I am still flabby and very cheesey - I can't seem to tone my utters up or my arm flab or the cheese on my thighs. I spoke w/ a plastic surgeon he said that I would be a good candidate for surgery after I have lost 100lbs for at least 1 year. (for every 100lbs you lose you have aprox 10lbs excess skin) It will be costly but I think worth it - not too far away from that 100 lb mark, I may get there by September after all. I don't want to stop at 100lbs though just my first goal. To be at the low end of what Mr. BMI says is "normal" I would need to get down to 107lbs, that's less then what Holly weighed when she was anorexic! I said I am going to get there just to say I was there since Jr. High. If my body won't let me I will get down as low as my body will let me go. And go from there.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
RIDDLE ME THIS
I have a riddle that I can't seem to figure out. I need help understanding.
I had my blood work done a year ago - before I started to lose ANY weight at all
and this was my results as far as cholesterol goes:
I had my blood work done a year ago - before I started to lose ANY weight at all
and this was my results as far as cholesterol goes:
Cholesterol: 173
Triglycerides: 134
HDL: 36
LDL: 110
Normal is
Cholesterol: 100-199
Tri: 0-149
HDL (good cholesterol): 40-59
LDL (bad cholesterol): 0-99
So I was a little high in the LDL and a little low in the HDL. SOOO I work out, I lose 60+ pounds (more now) but 60 when I had my labs re-done, and here are my results.
Cholesterol: 179
Tri: 89
HDL: 35
LDL: 126
So my question is how can this be? How can my over all cholesterol go up, my good cholesterol get lower and my bad cholesterol get higher? I am doing EXACTLY what I am supposed to do! My numbers were better when I was sitting on my butt eating Bon Bons. Why? Why? Why? Pray tell! I know that my current numbers aren't that bad - but I am stressed. I am re-doing the labs in a few months so I am hoping that there is an improvement, but in the mean time why did they get worse?
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Mother's Day Pictures
For Mother's Day Don took the girls to get their pictures taken in their beautiful Easter Dresses. I guess they went a little too close to nap time - Ava was not 100% cooperative!
Pretty girls
Pretty girls
Graduation Party!
Let me preface this post by saying without Aunt Kathy and Naliea we would have very few pictures! I was just enjoying visiting with everyone so much - I didn't take many pictures.
We had a great time! We had the party at a Q's a bbq joint here in Carson. It was awesome! Lots of food and lots of family. I thank everyone who came to help put a dent in all of the food.
The cake with the party theme
Ava eating cake
Rick, Gma Abbie and Deidra (taken by Naliea)
Naliea
Uncle Carl and Ava
Don and Ava
The original picture Don's graduation party 1988
Uncle Carl, Don and Aunt Kathy
The remake 2009 Don, Ava, Uncle Carl and Aunt Kathy
The original 1988 Don being an older brother
The remake Don, Jeff and Ella
Me cutting the cake - also on the table was a collage of Don's high school graduation pictures
Jase being a cutie
Lorelei and Jase
Ava and Evan
Me - taken by Naliea
Grandma Abbie and Deidra - by Aunt Kathy
Steve - by Aunt Kathy
Steve and Sean - by Aunt Kathy
Sean and Amanda - by Aunt Kathy
Lori, Ryan and Jase - Aunt Kathy
Ella, Jeff, Evan and Julie - Aunt Kathy
Don, Ava, Brooklyn and Me - again - taken by Aunt Kathy
We had a great time! We had the party at a Q's a bbq joint here in Carson. It was awesome! Lots of food and lots of family. I thank everyone who came to help put a dent in all of the food.
The cake with the party theme
Ava eating cake
Rick, Gma Abbie and Deidra (taken by Naliea)
Naliea
Uncle Carl and Ava
Don and Ava
The original picture Don's graduation party 1988Uncle Carl, Don and Aunt Kathy
The remake 2009 Don, Ava, Uncle Carl and Aunt Kathy
The original 1988 Don being an older brother
The remake Don, Jeff and Ella
Me cutting the cake - also on the table was a collage of Don's high school graduation pictures
Jase being a cutie
Lorelei and Jase
Ava and Evan
Me - taken by Naliea
Grandma Abbie and Deidra - by Aunt Kathy
Steve - by Aunt Kathy
Steve and Sean - by Aunt Kathy
Sean and Amanda - by Aunt Kathy
Lori, Ryan and Jase - Aunt Kathy
Ella, Jeff, Evan and Julie - Aunt Kathy
Don, Ava, Brooklyn and Me - again - taken by Aunt KathyDon's Graduation 5-9-09
Friday, May 22, 2009
Brooklyn - Pudding Face, Suessical the Musical and Crazy Hair Day
So, about a week ago I made banana pudding and chocolate pudding and mixed them, Brooklyn thought it was so gross - I told her just to try it - she wouldn't so I had her by the arm and was trying to get her to taste it - she wouldn't - so I tackled her to the ground and made her eat it.
It was in her hair - everywhere! She ended up liking it though
There were 3 different plays - her group were the more advanced and she did so good! They all did really - i loved all the singing and dancing
AND FINALLY !!!!
Looks pretty like this
Alas it won't last long
I teased the crap out of it - It took an hour and twenty minutes to tease and hair spray it.
It was in her hair - everywhere! She ended up liking it thoughShe was in Suessical the Musical last Friday for her school. She LOVES a reason to dress up - she dressed up like Dr. Suess. She looked very cute!
There were 3 different plays - her group were the more advanced and she did so good! They all did really - i loved all the singing and dancing
AND FINALLY !!!!CRAZY HAIR DAY 5-22-09
Brooklyn loves any reason to dress up. She is a crazy hair day freak! Always wanting to perfect last year's masterpiece. I braided her hair last night in 25 braids -
Looks pretty like this
Alas it won't last longI teased the crap out of it - It took an hour and twenty minutes to tease and hair spray it.
Then comes the color..... Blue with orange polka dots!!
She loved it!! She was 5 minutes late for school, so she had to check in at the office to get a tardy pass - the office ladies loved it!! She got her picture taken again for the end of the year slide show. They all asked me if it was a wig. That is her favorite compliment on crazy hair day - is to ask her if it's a wig.
She had to slouch it was rubbing the ceiling of the car
will be posting pics of Don's graduation next
She loved it!! She was 5 minutes late for school, so she had to check in at the office to get a tardy pass - the office ladies loved it!! She got her picture taken again for the end of the year slide show. They all asked me if it was a wig. That is her favorite compliment on crazy hair day - is to ask her if it's a wig.
She had to slouch it was rubbing the ceiling of the car
will be posting pics of Don's graduation next
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