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Today was DEFINITELY  a busy day!  It was a better food day as well.  Not a great food day, but definitely better.  I’m exhausted I must admit!  I came home, changed into my workout clothes for Zumba…and decided that I’d do a little bit of my Biggest Loser Boot Camp DVD.  I WAS SWEATING before I even left to Zumba! ;-)  It was a good thing.  When I started the first routine for Zumba, I could feel it.  When we did my favorite song that has squats in the routine, I was REALLY feeling it.  I do wish my knee was not hurting so bad, but I may have to invest in another brace, I’ve not had one in forever!  Okay…off to bed…tomorrow is date night!  My honey isn’t feeling so good, but he’s trying!

It wasn’t a great food day…I won’t even lie about that!  I had ordered Girl Scout Cookies from a co-worker…they were delivered today.  The new cookie (Dulce De Leche) was AWESOME…but I didn’t seem to want to stop at one.  On a more positive note, my DS got to take the test that the teacher didn’t want to let him make up.  I got a note from her.

Mrs. Williams!
Jarrod made an 88 on the exam today, he surprised me! And yes, I should have had more faith (you were right!) We put it in to see what happened to his grade changed to a 78. We will hold off on the S/D quiz because he has a unit test on Friday that can bring up the grade higher.
Thanks

I have to admit I felt so validated to be right this time!  Jane, I wasn’t rude, I didn’t lose my temper, but I did stand my ground.  I’m very thankful for everyone listening to me and praying with me and for me with this situation.  Tomorrow will be a new day and I will be BACK OP and back to my normal self!  Tomorrow will be Zumba so I’ll have something to look forward to!

I got to talk to all my girls today (thanks Anj, Nancy, Kama, Lori and Nicole)!  I generally talk to them everyday and I’m VERY thankful!  I made it to Zumba (also made for a good day)!  I am LIVID, however, at the moment because my son has missed several days of school since the spring semester started.  One of his teachers has decided that he hasn’t missed school because he’s sick, he’s just randomly missed school because he didn’t want to come to school.  If I had her number, she’d NOT be happy with me right now!  Just so you know, I’ve missed y’all terribly!

Well, I was running late…(yes it’s SO like me…) and I finally get there and Chris greets me and helps me carry my baked goods in.  The kids were already gone so I didn’t get to see them open their cards or anything.  He gave me 18 yellow roses and a cute little card.  Our evening was so unexpected!  We promptedly had to leave in order to make the movie that he bought tickets in advance to.  What was he thinking?  He KNEW I’d be late!  We managed to make it to see He’s Just Not that Into You…it was the 3:45 showing and we got there about 3:50ish…we missed MOST of the previews and all.  We left, I was letting him drive the CRV…then we drove up to the DARTRail station.  I was thinking “what are we doing?”  We got out and he bought us tickets and we waited on the train to get there.  He never let me know on what we were doing.  We got off at CityPlace and took the trolley to downtown Dallas.  We got off the trolley and walked probably a half mile or so to The Dream Cafe.  I splurged just a little and got a coffee milkshake that I shared with Chris…I had the ceasar salad, chicken enchiladas and the brownie with ice cream.  I didn’t eat but maybe half of each of my chicken enchildas, most all of my salad and a little bit of the brownie and ice cream (and I ate the strawberry garnishes with my brownie and my shake).  We were both about to pop when we got up, but it was REALLY a lot of fun.  We walked back to the trolley stop and waited for the trolley.  We talked a little while we waited, then got back on the trolley.  The trolley we were riding on was 100 years old.  It was built in Philly in 1909 and ran in Portugual for 70 years and her name was Petunia.  We rode it back to CityPlace and then hopped back on the DARTRail and headed back to the station and headed home.  It was a good night.  Food wise, it wasn’t the BEST day foodwise, but it was a lot of fun and some workouts.  This morning we got up and took about a 35 minute walk before we had our “after date night” bagel and then we walked another 10 minute walk home.  I’m proud of myself because I’ve managed to get a workout (of some sort) in Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.  It makes me feel so much better when I’m working out!

Are you thinking what I’m thinking??  How did the weekend fly by so quickly?!?  Right?  Well, I tell you, yesterday was a good day, but could have been better if I’d not been fighting a migraine.  I will manage to get through this too.  Friday when I got off work, I headed straight to Chris’.  Admittedly, I was a TAD frustrated because he’d not communicated with me too well about what we were doing or if I should meet him somewhere else or what.  I got there and it was fine.  We took his son to the church for the Bible lock in.  His son always makes me feel so good.  Before he would even head into the room and hug and tell his dad bye, he walked over and hugged and kissed me and told me bye.  Chris hadn’t made ANY plans for our evening so we opted to head to Studio Movie Grill to see what was showing.  We decided to stay and see Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  It was pretty good.  I tried to make a good choice, but even their salads didn’t sound too good.  I managed to make an okay choice, but I didn’t eat too much of it.  I really wanted the turkey burger with sweet potato fries, but Chris thought I’d be better with the chicken nachos.  They were okay, they weren’t GREAT…I didn’t eat too terribly much of them…not even half.  Chris finished them off for me.  Yesterday morning Chris and I got up and got dressed for a walk.  We walked around the neighborhood and across Coit Road (a major intersection) for about an hour.  We stopped briefly and headed in Einstein Bros. for our Saturday morning ritual.  My order is almost always the same…onion bagel with a reduced fat schmear on the side and a 20 oz. bottle of water.  I don’t use NEARLY so much cream cheese as they do when they put it on there…so I feel better doing it that way.  Chris and I share the reduced fat schmear.  He’s really trying to be more supportive of my weight loss efforts.  After walking around for an hour, getting our bagel and walking home, we did a few more things (pick up both kids got the guys a hair cut) we headed to Fort Worth.  We were supposed to meet one of his daughter’s friends and her mom, but there was a miscommunication so we wound up in two different places.  It was really an enjoyable day.  Although his daughter threw a fit.  Things seemed to turn around and she decided to make the best of the day.  We enjoyed ourselves for the most part…although I was fighting a migraine for the better part of the day.  I refused to let it get to me if I could keep from it.  I took some Excedrin Migraine when we ate lunch (yes, I had a soda) and then had to take some more when we ate dinner (yes, I had another soda).  The MINUTE we walked through the door at Chris’ house, I grabbed two bottles of water.  One bottle took me about a minute and a half to finish.  I was happy that we got out and walked yesterday and we were still moving around (although not as actively as we had before).  It would have been so much better if I’d not been fighting a migraine.  Today, on my agenda, is a workout.  I’ve just NOT decided which one to do.  I don’t know if it is going to be a walk outside or a walking DVD or Zumba.  Be forewarned though, as I’ve been craving and wanting a burger, I will likely get myself one today.  Unfortunately, it won’t be NEARLY as good for me as the one I could have had at Studio Movie Grill.  Darn my luck…I don’t know of anyone that makes the turkey burger or anything like that.  I’ll have to see what I can find!

My Diet Tribe already knows, but…Doctor said I did have some sinus issues…I have a mucus cyst on the left side.  She put me on migraine meds and on some meds to help me sleep and supposed to help keep the migraines at bay.  She wants to see me in about a month.  I also talked to her about my goal weight as well.  She thinks 130 would be a good weight for me.  I think that’s totally doable.  Off to bed…Oh!  Before I forget…I didn’t make it to Zumba, but I did walk another 3 miles tonight with Leslie!  I did the original WATP with 2 pound weights!  There’s 6 APs for my new week!

It started out to be an absolutely frustrating day.  I get to work (mind you we are in the middle of an audit) and find out that my immediate supervisor has resigned.  She and I had talked so I had a feeling it might be coming.  I was praying that she wouldn’t, but she does deserve to be happy.  Life’s really too short.  Then I get a closing almost thrown at me because all I’d previously been asked to do was a title search.  And they wanted this closing done by early afternoon.  Yep, I got it done, but it did not make for a good day!  With everything going on…it was stressful at best!

I stopped at my dad’s for a few minutes tonight.  I can’t stay long over there because they have 3 cats and I’m allergic to them.  I managed to make it for a half hour or so.  Sometimes I simply don’t know what to do with my dad.  I need to sit down and have a long conversation with him, but I just can’t bring myself to do it because we have some issues in our past…we were finally making some headway and he turns it around and it’s like he stabs me in the heart.  I still keep trying, but it’s not always easy.

I got home…and although after this stressful day, I REALLY just wanted crawl into my pjs and hide away from everyone and everything…I didn’t.  To my Diet Tribe: YES, I heard you in my head!  And I remembered my blog on the 31st and I changed clothes…but instead of changing into my pjs…I changed into my workout clothes.  I didn’t do as much as I did on Monday, but I did walk 3 miles tonight!  I did Leslie’s Walk Away Your Waistline…so it was a multi-muscle walk.  A little walking, a little moving around, a little arm work…I feel WORLDS better now that I worked out.  It certainly helped ease my level of stress.  Now, I’m anxiously waiting for tomorrow to get here so I can find out my results from my CT scan…and if I have an ear infection.  My left ear is hurting…but I feel good about my workout!  Thanks, buddies, for your support during all of this!

Well, first of all, I didn’t go to Zumba because I’ve been having stomach issues all day long.  Didn’t think that’d make a good impression.  I also think I may be getting an ear infection.  Okay…now to the true source of my frustration…as you may be aware, I had a doctor’s appointment scheduled for today at 5:15 pm.  I get there early (FOR ONCE) to walk in and hear the receptionist look at me and say “you didn’t get your voicemail?”…mmmm…really?  Would I be here if I had?  Apparently my doctor was sick today.  I do understand that it happens, but if you have my cell phone number, WHY WOULD YOU CALL MY HOUSE the day of my appointment?  I’m really going to come all the way home or make a point to call voicemail before I come to my doctor’s appointment?!  I’m feeling a little crazy about that.  Then with this audit, it seems that there are things going to happen with this that are not too good.  I love the place I’m working…I love the people I work with.  I hate that this audit is tearing us all apart.  I don’t know how to fix this and I don’t think it’s solely my responsibility to fix it.  My doctor’s appointment has been rescheduled for 8:30 on Thursday so hopefully I’ll find out what the results are with the CT scan.  I do hope this whole audit doesn’t tear all of us apart.  Sheesh…can I just fall apart now?

Well, I felt a bit like a failure this morning, I must admit.  I had such a headache yesterday after seeing the love of my life that I came home (after walking 1.5 miles with him around Waterloo Lake) and laid down to see if I could get my head to ease.  Well, I didn’t expect to doze off until he called.  UUGGGGHHH!  Anyway, so I’m up at 10:30/11 pm trying to eat a little bit of something so I could take my blood pressure meds and get to bed.  Then I realized I’d not written in my journal for yesterday, which is something I’ve been trying to do on a pretty regular basis.  Needless to say, I had a very hard time trying to get myself up this morning.  By the time I did, I only had time to start my threads on WW.com and get showered and ready to head to work.  The audit was very frustrating today, I must admit.  But, I am a woman with a plan…so I couldn’t give up!  I drove home, and changed my clothes and grabbed my trusty DVDs to head to the living room.  I grabbed my Leslie Sansone (WATP) Heart Healthy Walk which equals a 2 mile walk.  Then I grabbed an oldie, but good, Firm Off Weight Walk and did a 20 minute Upper Body strength training seesion…then about 25 to 30 minutes of Yoga with Leslie’s You Can Do! Yoga.  I have to admit, I’ve not done a workout like that in a while.  I really only had on the calendar to do the Walk and the Strength Training…but I’m pretty glad I did the Yoga as well.  My eating wasn’t the best today, but I do feel like I have a handle on part of what’s going on in my world!  Tomorrow, if all goes well, I’ll be heading to Zumba!  I LOVE Zumba Tuesdays!