August 25th
So, one of the things we've done to cope with the stress of 3 kids and two parents who work full time is to get a cleaning lady every two weeks. It's the only way I can be sure that the toilets are cleaned at least once in a blue moon. It is usually chaos on the mornings the cleaning lady is coming, everything that is not nailed down goes into the drawers, the cupboards, the laundry room, the closets and the dishwasher. This morning the dishes in the dishwasher were clean but sort of "not clean" so I took out the clean ones (had no leftover food crust on them), added the new dirty ones and added dirty silverware to the clean silverware and started it up. So here I sit eating my Jenny Craig cereal with the only spoon left in my drawer, a grapefruit spoon (I used the huge serving spoon last night for my late night bowl of cereal). I know my cleaning lady thinks I'm a disaster because she talks about other people and how their houses aren't as "bad". And by the way Rhonda, she thinks we have way too much underwear, she only keeps 3 weeks worth.... Why am I discussing my best friend's underwear drawer with our cleaning lady?
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Blog #2
August 23
Well, I am having a hard time with this blogging site so I will be moving to a new one before I do much more blogging. If you've found this one, thanks for coming and stay tuned!! I am officially contributing to Valerie Bertinelli's second career as a weight loss motivator! I joined Jenny Craig today, program starts on Wednesday. My "coach" is a working mother with 6 kids (all hers) ages 19 down to 3! YIKES! I had to talk about my motivation to do this program....hmmmm.... does the fact that the folks at the Wendy's drive through know me seem like a problem? The other thing I really liked is that when you could pick out your 3 favorite food categories (like Mexican, Italian, Vegetarian, Desserts) that Cheesy was one of the options. The only thing that would be better would be a sour cream category! We will be doing a lot of talking about why we eat, I have already nailed that down to emotional eating caused by stress. So, while my weight loss journey is about to begin, the stress reduction journey has to start NOW! Not to completely change subjects but I almost died this morning when Adam walked out of his room wearing nice khaki shorts, a polo shirt, his Reebok tennies and LONG BLACK SOCKS! He said it looked cool! Cooper looked at me and rolled his eyes! Where is this cool, at a nursing home?
Well, I am having a hard time with this blogging site so I will be moving to a new one before I do much more blogging. If you've found this one, thanks for coming and stay tuned!! I am officially contributing to Valerie Bertinelli's second career as a weight loss motivator! I joined Jenny Craig today, program starts on Wednesday. My "coach" is a working mother with 6 kids (all hers) ages 19 down to 3! YIKES! I had to talk about my motivation to do this program....hmmmm.... does the fact that the folks at the Wendy's drive through know me seem like a problem? The other thing I really liked is that when you could pick out your 3 favorite food categories (like Mexican, Italian, Vegetarian, Desserts) that Cheesy was one of the options. The only thing that would be better would be a sour cream category! We will be doing a lot of talking about why we eat, I have already nailed that down to emotional eating caused by stress. So, while my weight loss journey is about to begin, the stress reduction journey has to start NOW! Not to completely change subjects but I almost died this morning when Adam walked out of his room wearing nice khaki shorts, a polo shirt, his Reebok tennies and LONG BLACK SOCKS! He said it looked cool! Cooper looked at me and rolled his eyes! Where is this cool, at a nursing home?
Blog #1
August 22
OK, I have been wanting to start a blog for some time now, maybe it's the first step in my journey to some day be a "real" writer!! I figured what better time to get started then when I have just gotten off the phone with a Jenny Craig consultant. Yes, I am going to lose some darn weight... My first appointment is tomorrow at 6:00 pm and I am taking the diet police with me (Maclaine). I took a survey last night and I am an emotional eater (imagine that) and a stress eater (plenty of that) and I like comfort foods, ie., cheese, lots and lots of cheese, extra extra cheese and for those that know me well, sour cream on everything. I also drink way too much soda - Mountain Dew is my poison of choice. Finally, the fact that the folks at Kwik Shop and Wendy's know me so well isn't because I am a health food nut my standard breakfast of Mountain Dew and bacon isn't going to help me lose the rolls I've developed around my middle. I'm hoping that my follower friends can help me keep on track by following my weight loss journey and the adventures of having a stressful career and raising three very active and high maintenance children (Adam - 13, Cooper - 11, Maclaine - 9). My life's cast also includes a helpful but sometimes moody straight spouse (Tim) and a fun-loving, soul searching gay husband (Paul), two sisters (Sue and Kathi) and great friends at work, at home, new friends and very old friends. I don't know how often I will write, my goal is to make this first of all funny, second of all inspirational (or at least help you feel like you aren't alone in the maddening world of over stimulation and multi-tasking and putting mommy last on the list). Thanks for coming along on the ride with me!!
OK, I have been wanting to start a blog for some time now, maybe it's the first step in my journey to some day be a "real" writer!! I figured what better time to get started then when I have just gotten off the phone with a Jenny Craig consultant. Yes, I am going to lose some darn weight... My first appointment is tomorrow at 6:00 pm and I am taking the diet police with me (Maclaine). I took a survey last night and I am an emotional eater (imagine that) and a stress eater (plenty of that) and I like comfort foods, ie., cheese, lots and lots of cheese, extra extra cheese and for those that know me well, sour cream on everything. I also drink way too much soda - Mountain Dew is my poison of choice. Finally, the fact that the folks at Kwik Shop and Wendy's know me so well isn't because I am a health food nut my standard breakfast of Mountain Dew and bacon isn't going to help me lose the rolls I've developed around my middle. I'm hoping that my follower friends can help me keep on track by following my weight loss journey and the adventures of having a stressful career and raising three very active and high maintenance children (Adam - 13, Cooper - 11, Maclaine - 9). My life's cast also includes a helpful but sometimes moody straight spouse (Tim) and a fun-loving, soul searching gay husband (Paul), two sisters (Sue and Kathi) and great friends at work, at home, new friends and very old friends. I don't know how often I will write, my goal is to make this first of all funny, second of all inspirational (or at least help you feel like you aren't alone in the maddening world of over stimulation and multi-tasking and putting mommy last on the list). Thanks for coming along on the ride with me!!
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