So I've completed my sixth week on Weight Watchers. Up till this past week, it has been "smooth sailing." This past week though, ROUGH WATERS! Even though technically I stayed within the total allotment of points I have to work with (the target and extra allowance, that extra49 scares the beejeebus outta me) I honestly was preparing myself for my first gain due to a stress-eatting week. Hitting another car on your way to Weight Watchers then waiting a whole damn week, worrying about whether the cost to fix your vehicle is going to be to high that the insurance company says WRITE OFF really threw me off this week. Some of my decisions over the past week have not been the greatest and a little to "pre-WW" for my liking, but I journalled it all anyway and decided to buck up, go to weigh-in Tuesday and accept the responsiblity for the choices IIIIIII chose to make. Imagine my surprise when I stepped on the scale Tuesday and had a bigger loss then I did the previous week??!! (I still think seeing only a 0.8 loss the week before was cause of having the crap scared out of me from the collision on the way there!). So my grand total of weight loss over the last six weeks is at 13.2 pounds! Wooohooo!
I made the committment to myself to start fresh yesterday (my weeks runs Wednesday to Tuesday), had a good day yesterday and now that the insurance company finally called this morning with the news that they are gonna fix the almost $1800's in damage to the truck the stress of having that possibility is no longer hanging over my head!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Out of the mouths of babes! And Husbands!
A couple months back I was watching "Remember the Titans" on TV. It's based on the true story of two schools, one black one white, which are closed down in 1971 and the students all integrated into one and focuses on how the relationships and trust have to develop between the black and white players on the football team. My 11-year old was watching some of it with me. Kids, unless of course TAUGHT to discriminate people who look different from them, he didn't understand why alot of white people in the movie were angry. I tried to explain to him segregation then, he still thought they were a bunch of morons and we continued to watch the movie. Throughout it, every once in awhile he would say outloud OBAMA! After about the tenth time, I looked at him and asked,
Me: "Do you even know who Obama is?"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "Who is he?"
With the best "mothers don't know anything look on his face" he says, "A boxer!"
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One night as hubby and I are cleaning off the table after supper (kids have retreated to the dungeon a.k.a the basement) hubby says if we don't have any plans, he thinks he will go lay on the couch and watch a movie.
Me: "Whatcha gonna watch?"
Unbeknownst to us, our 15-year-old had come upstairs and was just coming down the hallway towards the kitchen......
Him: Gonna watch Borne, wanna watch it with me?"
Her: ACKKKKK!! OMG PORN!!???? OMG MY EARS! I SO DIDN'T NEED TO HEAR THAT!!
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Being pretty tight with the purse strings, when things go on sale that we normally use, I tend to buy a few to have on hand cause there is no damn way I am paying full price when I know it will likely go on sale a couple weeks down the road for about half! This is definitely the case for toilet paper. Sobeys had a brand on we normally wouldn't buy about a month ago, Charmin Ultra Soft double rolls. After my son plugging the toilet AGAIN last week (he has this thing about toilet paper), the topic came up after supper.
Me: "Hey John? Can you plunge the toilet? "The Boy" plugged it again and I tried but the damn thing is blocked right up! I can't budge it!"
Him: "It's no damn wonder! Using that toilet paper is liking wiping your ass with a blanket!!"
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The abovementioned 15 year picked up some tickets for a concert she is going to in a couple months. Being a teen, she of course purchased the floor seats I told her I wasn't comfortable with her buying, so hubby was going to call Harbour Station and see if we could turn the tickets in for ones with assigned seating.
While flipping through the white pages of the phone book,
Him: "I don't know why the hell they can not put it in here under H-A-B!"
Me: "Try H-A-R, since it's Harrrrrrrbour Station, not Habour Station" (No, he isn't from Jersey!)
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While discussing a mutual acquaintance who is not "well loved" by his inlaws, I mention that I've never found him to be mean or not nice, I just think he is a quiet person, who isn't into being phony by kissing up to people he isn't comfortable around (like really, how can you be comfortable around people you KNOW do not like you?)
Husband: "I like him. He's a nice guy. He just really likes his smokes, booze and pot."
Me: "He smokes dope?"
Him: "They both do."
Him: "I think she smokes it for pain. He does it for the moral support!"
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God I love my family!
Me: "Do you even know who Obama is?"
Him: "Yeah."
Me: "Who is he?"
With the best "mothers don't know anything look on his face" he says, "A boxer!"
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One night as hubby and I are cleaning off the table after supper (kids have retreated to the dungeon a.k.a the basement) hubby says if we don't have any plans, he thinks he will go lay on the couch and watch a movie.
Me: "Whatcha gonna watch?"
Unbeknownst to us, our 15-year-old had come upstairs and was just coming down the hallway towards the kitchen......
Him: Gonna watch Borne, wanna watch it with me?"
Her: ACKKKKK!! OMG PORN!!???? OMG MY EARS! I SO DIDN'T NEED TO HEAR THAT!!
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Being pretty tight with the purse strings, when things go on sale that we normally use, I tend to buy a few to have on hand cause there is no damn way I am paying full price when I know it will likely go on sale a couple weeks down the road for about half! This is definitely the case for toilet paper. Sobeys had a brand on we normally wouldn't buy about a month ago, Charmin Ultra Soft double rolls. After my son plugging the toilet AGAIN last week (he has this thing about toilet paper), the topic came up after supper.
Me: "Hey John? Can you plunge the toilet? "The Boy" plugged it again and I tried but the damn thing is blocked right up! I can't budge it!"
Him: "It's no damn wonder! Using that toilet paper is liking wiping your ass with a blanket!!"
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The abovementioned 15 year picked up some tickets for a concert she is going to in a couple months. Being a teen, she of course purchased the floor seats I told her I wasn't comfortable with her buying, so hubby was going to call Harbour Station and see if we could turn the tickets in for ones with assigned seating.
While flipping through the white pages of the phone book,
Him: "I don't know why the hell they can not put it in here under H-A-B!"
Me: "Try H-A-R, since it's Harrrrrrrbour Station, not Habour Station" (No, he isn't from Jersey!)
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While discussing a mutual acquaintance who is not "well loved" by his inlaws, I mention that I've never found him to be mean or not nice, I just think he is a quiet person, who isn't into being phony by kissing up to people he isn't comfortable around (like really, how can you be comfortable around people you KNOW do not like you?)
Husband: "I like him. He's a nice guy. He just really likes his smokes, booze and pot."
Me: "He smokes dope?"
Him: "They both do."
Him: "I think she smokes it for pain. He does it for the moral support!"
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God I love my family!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
And the waiting begins....
Have you ever felt like all the forces in the universe have gotten together and said "Hey, how can we *#*# with (insert name here) TODAY? Well, I am pretty sure there is some cosmic comedian laughing his ass off at us this morning, lemme tell ya!!
Hubby comes home from work on Sunday all stressed out cause AGAIN something is wrong with his truck. He thinks it is likely a wheel bearing going in the truck, and knowing how freaky I am about money, is probably wondering if tonight is the night he goes to sleep and I beat him to death with my pillow! We have the "and how much is THIS gonna cost" discussion (okay, so discussion might be a nice way of saying it), and being the tightwad (and hoarder of monies that I am), to his surprise, I don't go ninja on his ass! He takes the vehicle to the garage Monday morning, I pick him up and he says they aren't sure if they can fix it that day, that he might not get it back till Tuesday. Pain in the ass for me, but no biggie. He drives the kids to school and off to work he goes. Few hours later he calls me, and by the sound of his voice I almost toss my cookies.
Him: "So, the garage called me."
Me: "Do I need to sit down?"
Him: "Might be a good idea."
Me: "Do I need a bucket?"
Him: " A Bucket?"
Me: "Incase I puke!"
Him: "Oh! Well anyway, there are two different ones they can use, an econo with 12mth warranty and the good one with 36 mths. Since I plan on having the .....
Me: "How much?"
Him: "Blah Blah Blah, Yadda Yadda Yadda"
Me: "How much?"
Him: " More Blah, Yadda (My pillow-swinging abilities can make a grown man shake!)"
Me: "How f'n much!"
Him: "Well I told him to go with the 36mths and it's gonna be 602 takes and installed"
At this point, if he had have been in my house, I probably would have loaded up my pillowcase with rolls of quarters and challenged him to a pillowfight cause this was the price we had discussed the day before and I was prepared for. Many words were said, by ME, that I can not post here cause my daughter creeps this page and I would never want to teach a kid bad bad words! Crazy ass had me thinking it was over a thousand by the voice on him when he called!
Fast forward to yesterday around 10 a.m.
Hubby calls, truck is done (they tore it apart Monday afternoon before they closed), its about 70bucks cheaper (misquote on part price) and can I go get it? This truck is to me what my pillowcase is to my husband! It scares the beejeebus outta me! To me, it is like a big friggin tank and I am NOT G.I. Jane!! We agree he is just gonna have to leave work a bit early and pick it up.
Close to five hubby's coworker pulls in the yard with my van, hubby not far behind in his truck! Yeah! Hubby drives coworker home, comes in for a bit, grabs a quick bite to eat and we jump in the NEWLY FIXED TRUCK to run me to Weight Watchers.
When they say accidents happen only a few kilometers/minutes from home, they aren't kidding ya!
We are coming down Somerset, about to go through the Paradise Row intersection, straight through the GREEN LIGHT, when the chick coming the opposite way decides to make a lefthand turn through the intersection AFTER her green light has stopped flashing (as she stated to us and to the officer). I see her beginning to make the turn, let out a huge gasp (likely a bad bad word) and CLOSE MY EYES! (Thank god I wasn't driving huh LOL). Next thing I know THUD BANG tossed forward a bit (thank you inventor of seatbelts!) and look up to see my husband's Chevy Silverado making out with her Chev Malibu. As she was exiting her car, it was at that point I noticed movement in her backseat as her two VERY young children shifted in their carseats. And it was at THAT point I almost puked chili all over the interior of our NEWLY FIXED TRUCK! As a mom, I damn near dropped dead thinking of this other mom and the fear she must have felt knowing her two babies were in the car! THANKFULLY NO INJURIES! My biggest concern was if her kids were okay. (My neck was a bit sore last night and I had a headache, but it was the stress of it! I'm fine now.) The kids were fine, the older of the two (maybe 3 years old?), according to the mom, kept saying SEE MOM I knew this was gonna happen! Told you we shoulda just went right home!! I told ya! (She said they were in a car accident last year, so he has been through an accident before). Police were called and while we waited for them an ambulance happened to be driving by and checked on us, tow truck got there for her car (which I am figuring might be done based on the way her front passenger wheel seemed to be leaning in for a high 5 to the front drivers side wheel) the tow thingy wouldn't go down on the tow truck LOL, they finally got that working, put her and her kids in the back of an unmarked car, and we all finally were able to move out of the middle of the intersection (sorry supper hour traffic people!).
Phone call has been made to our insurance and now I am just sitting here waiting on an adjustor to get back to me sometime within the next couple of hours.
Cosmic comedian........you're an asshole!
Hubby comes home from work on Sunday all stressed out cause AGAIN something is wrong with his truck. He thinks it is likely a wheel bearing going in the truck, and knowing how freaky I am about money, is probably wondering if tonight is the night he goes to sleep and I beat him to death with my pillow! We have the "and how much is THIS gonna cost" discussion (okay, so discussion might be a nice way of saying it), and being the tightwad (and hoarder of monies that I am), to his surprise, I don't go ninja on his ass! He takes the vehicle to the garage Monday morning, I pick him up and he says they aren't sure if they can fix it that day, that he might not get it back till Tuesday. Pain in the ass for me, but no biggie. He drives the kids to school and off to work he goes. Few hours later he calls me, and by the sound of his voice I almost toss my cookies.
Him: "So, the garage called me."
Me: "Do I need to sit down?"
Him: "Might be a good idea."
Me: "Do I need a bucket?"
Him: " A Bucket?"
Me: "Incase I puke!"
Him: "Oh! Well anyway, there are two different ones they can use, an econo with 12mth warranty and the good one with 36 mths. Since I plan on having the .....
Me: "How much?"
Him: "Blah Blah Blah, Yadda Yadda Yadda"
Me: "How much?"
Him: " More Blah, Yadda (My pillow-swinging abilities can make a grown man shake!)"
Me: "How f'n much!"
Him: "Well I told him to go with the 36mths and it's gonna be 602 takes and installed"
At this point, if he had have been in my house, I probably would have loaded up my pillowcase with rolls of quarters and challenged him to a pillowfight cause this was the price we had discussed the day before and I was prepared for. Many words were said, by ME, that I can not post here cause my daughter creeps this page and I would never want to teach a kid bad bad words! Crazy ass had me thinking it was over a thousand by the voice on him when he called!
Fast forward to yesterday around 10 a.m.
Hubby calls, truck is done (they tore it apart Monday afternoon before they closed), its about 70bucks cheaper (misquote on part price) and can I go get it? This truck is to me what my pillowcase is to my husband! It scares the beejeebus outta me! To me, it is like a big friggin tank and I am NOT G.I. Jane!! We agree he is just gonna have to leave work a bit early and pick it up.
Close to five hubby's coworker pulls in the yard with my van, hubby not far behind in his truck! Yeah! Hubby drives coworker home, comes in for a bit, grabs a quick bite to eat and we jump in the NEWLY FIXED TRUCK to run me to Weight Watchers.
When they say accidents happen only a few kilometers/minutes from home, they aren't kidding ya!
We are coming down Somerset, about to go through the Paradise Row intersection, straight through the GREEN LIGHT, when the chick coming the opposite way decides to make a lefthand turn through the intersection AFTER her green light has stopped flashing (as she stated to us and to the officer). I see her beginning to make the turn, let out a huge gasp (likely a bad bad word) and CLOSE MY EYES! (Thank god I wasn't driving huh LOL). Next thing I know THUD BANG tossed forward a bit (thank you inventor of seatbelts!) and look up to see my husband's Chevy Silverado making out with her Chev Malibu. As she was exiting her car, it was at that point I noticed movement in her backseat as her two VERY young children shifted in their carseats. And it was at THAT point I almost puked chili all over the interior of our NEWLY FIXED TRUCK! As a mom, I damn near dropped dead thinking of this other mom and the fear she must have felt knowing her two babies were in the car! THANKFULLY NO INJURIES! My biggest concern was if her kids were okay. (My neck was a bit sore last night and I had a headache, but it was the stress of it! I'm fine now.) The kids were fine, the older of the two (maybe 3 years old?), according to the mom, kept saying SEE MOM I knew this was gonna happen! Told you we shoulda just went right home!! I told ya! (She said they were in a car accident last year, so he has been through an accident before). Police were called and while we waited for them an ambulance happened to be driving by and checked on us, tow truck got there for her car (which I am figuring might be done based on the way her front passenger wheel seemed to be leaning in for a high 5 to the front drivers side wheel) the tow thingy wouldn't go down on the tow truck LOL, they finally got that working, put her and her kids in the back of an unmarked car, and we all finally were able to move out of the middle of the intersection (sorry supper hour traffic people!).
Phone call has been made to our insurance and now I am just sitting here waiting on an adjustor to get back to me sometime within the next couple of hours.
Cosmic comedian........you're an asshole!
Week 5 done
Just a quickie to report last night's results, was down another 0.8 pounds. whether that was all I was supposed to lose this last week or not is unknown. Somehow I would imagine the stress of being in a car accident on your WAY to weigh-in could affect that.
Onward we go......
Onward we go......
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
2 For 1
Realized I never got around to an update last week on how WW is going.
Last week I had a loss of 1.6 pounds
Tonight was a loss of 2 pounds
Bringing my four weeks total to 10.6 pounds lost!!
Last week I had a loss of 1.6 pounds
Tonight was a loss of 2 pounds
Bringing my four weeks total to 10.6 pounds lost!!
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