Why do I keep this job? Luke has told me we could run the bookstore together. Maybe because I still want some independence, maybe it’s the approaching wedding, but really I don’t know how much more I can take. Here’s what I'm talking about. I started a new job a few months ago to help pay for the wedding and I love most of the people I work with, but there are a couple of people who seem to think that if I’m gone (including when I have to call in sick to take care of Clary) that my desk somehow turns into a trashcan. Exhibit A:

Oh yes that would be the outside wrapping of letter sized paper left on my desk while I was out sick for one day, waiting for me when I came back to work the next day. The printer happens to be next to my desk so I guess for some people it’s easier to drop the trash on my desk instead of the actual trashcan.  And the rest of the paper? Faxes and mail that some think belong in a pile on top of my keyboard instead of my tray. I tell you some of these people make most Downworlders look like girl scouts! And the actual trashcan’s location?

On the other side of my desk, about two feet away! Oh yes. So I have to visit another office this week and decided to leave a reminder at my desk…

I think Clary’s rubbing off on me.

Read more »

Today I've started the Special K diet, I had thought about doing it once before, but back then their selection wasn't the greatest. Now they have different ways you can go with it, if you go to their website http://www.specialk.com you can choose between four different types of diet plans including a Chocolate Lover's Plan, hello! Can you guess which one I chose? On my plan it has my "regular" meal as dinner, but since I would get a lot of "is that all your eating??" type of comments at work I decided to switch my "regular' meal during the week days to lunch time. I'm also hoping to start boot camp at the Y next week to get some much needed exercise in and hopefully start using my Wii Fit Plus again. Lil Seal keeps asking me when I'm going to charge the balance board so I can't put it off forever. lol So we'll see how it goes, of course I did buy all the stuff for the full two weeks so if I don't complete it my hubby would probably be mad there's all this Special K stuff laying around in the cupboards!

 

Here's my meal plan for today:

 

Chocolatey Delight Cereal in the morning (which I didn't actually have)

Chocolatey Pretzel Cereal Bar as a mid-morning snack

My Regular Meal for Lunch (I had the cereal bar here so it's like dessert)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Meal Bar for dinner (I'll probably switch this to the Cereal I didn't have in the morning and have the meal bar if I'm still hungry)

Chocolate Delight Snack Bar as an afternoon/evening snack

 

They say you can have your normal drink(s) like you would if you weren't on the diet, but what's the point in going on a diet when you're going to have a Route 44?!? So now I'm trying to completely kick my Coke/Pepsi/Rootbeer habit and I'm making more pink lemonade, ice tea (the California kind not this dang Southern brown water stuff) and I bought some Crystal Light to try. I've already tried the Crystal Light Pink Lemonade and I didn't really care for it, it was ok, but it left a chalky taste in my mouth. I think I'll stick to Country Time and keep the Crystal Light as back-up and of course there's the good old fashioned water!

 

Well wish me luck! Day 1 is almost done and I didn't kill anybody or go out into the woods and hunt down a deer.

 

 

 

Read more »

With another hair dresser! And let me tell you I don’t know how people have actual affairs because I still feel guilty! My affair started during Spring Break when my hubby knew I wasn’t feeling my best and that I really wanted to get a hair cut and possibly a color. My split ends were getting so bad I contemplated taking scissors to my own hair, but I just can’t do that, it’s not that I’m afraid of going short, I’m not the type to cry when I get my haircut shorter than an inch and I know some people who will put a Flobee to their hair and call it  day (hi Babe, love you) but I just can’t do it. So my hubby told me he was giving me a “spa day”! Woot! I called my hairdresser, left her a message, left her a message on FB, but I knew it might be difficult to get in. So I did a good ol’ Google search and found Mode Hair Utopia I like calling it Mode because it reminds me of Ugly Betty (I miss that show).  I liked their site and they have an FB page, but I still wanted to hear from people who had gotten their haircut there. One of my twitter friends @ohsnapitsjayrod is a client and recommended I give it a try. So after 4 days of not hearing from my hair dresser I called up Mode. To say I was nervous is putting it mildly, I’ve been to that hair dresser that tells you your hair will look great short and spikey and proceeds to make you look like a porcupine! This is how I found the hair dresser I have now, she helped me get my hair back in shape after going to that hairdresser. But I made my appointment with Victoria because I knew my “spa day” window wouldn’t stay open for long.
When Friday came around, I was excited that I was going to get my hair done! I must admit though I was secretly hoping something would go wrong so I wouldn’t feel so guilty about cheating on my hair dresser. But it didn’t, Victoria was great, I showed her the cut I was going for and the color I was hoping to achieve and she talked to me about the colors and explained how the color would come out and how it would work with my natural color. She explained everything she was doing, which was great and then once it came time to rinse off and wash my hair came the head/scalp massage! I was in heaven and yes I almost fell asleep (it was that good) I was also given a hand treatment which left my hands feeling very soft. By the time it was all said and done I had actually cut about 6 inches off (I didn’t realize my hair was that long) and when I went to work on Monday I received so many compliments and a lot of people were asking me how I got my hair to curl that way. I’m actually taking the time to do my hair where as before I would just straighten it and go.
Here are my before and after pics…
 
I took my after pic the day after I got my hair done because by the time we finished it was already about 8 and I still had to go to Walmart. So what do you think about my new do? Have you ever cheated on your hair dresser? Did you go back to your original HD or did you stick to your new HD?

Read more »

It's been a week since I decided to give up what was becoming a bad habit. I noticed I had been taking my lunches so that I would have enough time to make the beginning of Sonic's Happy Hour. A large coke everyday? Very unhealthy. So I went to Walmart and bought some Crystal Light 5 calorie drink mixes, which I haven't tried yet and I still have my Cherry Blossom Lipton To Go drink mix, but I use that sparingly because as per usual when I really like something the makers discontinue it!! Does this happen to anyone else? Now I still have the occasional soda, I haven't gone cold turkey I'm just not drinking sodas everyday and in such huge amounts. Although I do hope I can give up sodas completely, since I have in the past, but I'm not going to sweat it if I don't, but here's hoping!

Posted via Blogaway

Read more »

It's been a week since I decided to give up what was becoming a bad habit. I noticed I had been taking my lunches so that I would have enough time to make the beginning of Sonic's Happy Hour. A large coke everyday? Very unhealthy. So I went to Walmart and bought some Crystal Light 5 calorie drink mixes, which I haven't tried yet and I still have my Cherry Blossom Lipton To Go drink mix, but I use that sparingly because as per usual when I really like something the makers discontinue it!! Does this happen to anyone else? Now I still have the occasional soda, I haven't gone cold turkey I'm just not drinking sodas everyday and in such huge amounts. Although I do hope I can give up sodas completely, since I have in the past, but I'm not going to sweat it if I don't, but here's hoping!

Posted via Blogaway

Read more »

It's been one of those weeks where even though it was a short week it still seemed to take forever! So I was happy to see that Trashcan brought me some Calgon lotion to use at work. Makes me wish I was on the beach in Hawaii!

Read more »

My favorite book of 2010! Thanks BTFF (@cariblogs) for recommending I read the series.

Read more »

Sometimes/most of the time it feels like you’re a single parent even though you’re married. You’re the one who has to play the good cop and the bad cop. You set the rules. You help with homework, sign the school work, permission slips. Take them to school/daycare in the morning, pick them up after work. If they’re sick? Yep you’re the one who stays up with them and then you go to work the next morning or have to take a sick day from work to stay home with them. And then, and then…pow! Somebody wants to throw their two cents in! Really? Now you want to tell me because he feels hot to you that I should give him some Tylenol, never mind the fact that I just pumped him full of another medication. Now you want to know why he can’t watch a certain TV show? Could it be because it comes on during the school week at 9 o’clock and oh yeah he should be sleeping already?!? Now you want to know why his teacher is giving him sooo much homework? Could it be that he’s no longer in Kindergarten and needs to learn more than his ABC’s and that he’s had this much homework since the school year began?
Now this doesn’t happen often (and if it happens to you all the time, you have my deepest sympathies) and usually when it does it’s because he’s working extra hours or the night shift, but really that’s no excuse for this type of behavior. I guess what irks me is that he thinks he can come into the middle of whatever situation may be  going on and insert himself into the scene. If he would just ask for an update about what’s been going on, I would be a much happier wife and mother! Has this every played out in your household? How do you handle it? I guess I’m handling it rather well considering I haven’t appeared on a “very special episode of Snapped”.

Read more »

Read more »