EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeee

Looking at the clock right now, there is approx 4 days, 15 hours, and 44 minutes left until we close on our house!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell I'm excited?

It's all coming together!  We now have a 52" flat screen tv for the living room which we bought a few weeks ago and got a KILLER deal on, a 42" flat screen for one of the bedrooms that we're going to use for my tv room to escape to when Hubbs is watching hockey or plaing Xbox (bought at the same time as the other one and also got a good deal on), brand-spankin' new front-loader washer/dryer which will be delivered on Monday, a dining room table (counter-height) with eight barstools which we'll pick up Monday (cuz the delivery charge was $89!!!), and a king-sized mattress set that we'll also pick up on Monday.  We also bought white 2" Faux-wood mini blinds for each window in the house, new door knobs and deadbolts for each exterior door, and we've decided on "Baked Scone" as our interior paint color after we prime the whole thing and paint the ceilings .  We didn't buy the paint yet.  We'll do that Thursday night.  Hubbs wants to paint the kitchen "Red Pepper."  I'm not a big fan of red so I'm going to try to convince him to go for a light olive or celery green.  =) 

So, the only thing left is living room furniture.  We've picked out a really nice set of leather recliners....sofa, loveseat, and chair.  We better go order it!  I think the lady said it takes two weeks if they don't have it in stock!  ***Note to self: go to Ashley tomorrow and order furniture

Please don't think I'm bragging about our new stuff.  I'm just excited!  .....and no, we're not paying for all of it....there's NO way we could do that!  Thank God for loving Mas, Grandmas, and cashing in stocks! 

EEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!  I can't wait to get moved in and have all my friends over!  It's going to be so nice to be able to have more than 4 people in the house at once!  ....and did I mention there are 2 1/2 bathrooms???  No more having to call dibs on the toilet!  LOL

Ok, I'm outy.  Have to start thinking about what to do for dinner.  I think we have a turkey kielbasa in the fridge.  Maybe I'll fry that up and make some mac and cheese.  Num nums!

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I missed WW on Saturday.....I was going to go the early weigh in with Danielle, but I found out too late that the weigh in was at 7:00 instead of 7:30 like I thought.....and I already had an appt so I couldn't go to the later one.  =(  However, I think I'm up from two weeks ago.  Being sick for a week really threw me off.  I had no appetite so I hardly ate.  When I did get my appetite back, I was just to elated that I stuffed myself.  Not to mention I didn't want to get off the couch to cook.  Don't ask what happened this week now that I'm not sick anymore cuz I have no idea.  LOL

Back to the Grind

* Back to work today.  Ugh.  I was motivated until about 2:00.   Then time stood still.  I hate that!

* Trying to find the will to pack some more today.  Have ZERO motivation.  Mainly cuz all the easy stuff to pack has been done already.  Well, there's always this weekend.

* Feeling a little bit better every day.

* Still have the cough pretty bad.....I wonder how long that will stick around.

* I've decided strawberries and cherries are my favorite fruit.

* I've planned out our dinner menu this week:

Tonight - Bocaza

Wed - Turkey Kielbasa and whole grain mac and cheese

Thurs - Spaghetti 

Fri - Tacos

* I actually paid attention to my prices today while I shopped!  However, the whole grain mac and cheese was not cheap.  Nor were the Gold Peak teas I bought.

* Eating healthy costs more and that pisses me off.  No wonder I'm fat.  

* Vitamin Cottage didn't have peanut butter.  They said they aren't getting the peanuts to grind into PB.  WTF?!?!?  I went there specifically for PB.  Grrr.  Oh well, bought a box of Caramel Nut Brownie Luna Bars instead.  Num nums! 

* Annoyance of the day: slow checkers at Wal-Mart.  Seriously, people!

* It's going to cost a pretty penny to clean the carpets and deodorize the house.  Smoking stinks!  P U!!!

* Ok, I need my HGTV fix for the evening.  Bye bye!

Hooray for Pity Parties!

So, apparently, my pity party worked cuz I'm feeling better today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was losing hope there for a minute.  Still have the cough, of course....that probably won't go away for a couple of weeks.  But I feel HUMAN today!  SO excited!  Ma and I are going to Best Buy to look at washers and dryers!  Eeeeeeeeeee!

.....AND.....I got some things packed yesterday and I also have some stuff to give away to the Good Will.  I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something!  As I should be!  Moving day will be here before we know it!!!!!!!

You know you're dehydrated when you drink a Nalgene full of water and don't need to pee.  Ooops!

I best be fillin' this up and drinking some more!

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Even though I still feel like crap, I just filled up my little suitcase full of clothes and found some motivation to keep packing!!!!   If I move slow and take frequent breaks, I might be able to get some stuff done here!  I see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!!

Sick of Being Sick

So, here we are.....day EIGHT of my ear, throat, and sinus infection.  As you can see from my last post I knew it was coming, but I had no idea it would put me down for over a week.  This is ridiculous.  I'm on day three of my 5-day azithromycin packet and usually by now I'm up an about with only a cough left.  Instead, I'm still couch surfing with fatigue and ZERO energy, wheezing, congestion, a horrible cough, ear pain, and dizziness.  Not to mention that over all yucky feeling.  

I am SO annoyed.  I have so much I need to be getting done for MOVING DAY (woo hoo!) and yet I have less than zero energy.  Ma did come over yesterday and packed up a good portion of the kitchen.  At least we've made a dent.  But I also realized today that we packed away the can opener.  Hmmm......

So, yeah.  I'm throwing myself a pity party here.  Waaahhhhh!  I'm going to attempt to do some laundry.  Even though I'm just laying around, I'd at least like to do that in clean clothes.  

Feel free to send healing vibes my way......I could really use 'em.

Quickie

* I did make it 'till dinner and had a Jimmy John's with no mayo

* At weigh in, I found out I'm down 3.8 lbs!!!  Woo hooo!

* Saturday sucked food wise.  I had to help Jared out at Mike the Headless Chicken Days in Fruita while Steve was at work.  I VERY quickly had a severe allergic reaction to some random pollen out there and got a really bad cough and lost my voice.

* Didn't sleep for shit last night because of the above-mentioned cough.  Feel a tiny bit better today, but the lack of sleep does NOT help.  Thinking this cough feels a little like the beginning of a sinus infection.  People, I do NOT have time to be sick here!  I have SO much packing to do.  Wah!  

* Centennial Band has a concert this evening up at Devil's Kitchen on the monument.  I think I'm going to try to convince Hubbs to drop me off cuz the parking situation is going to be a pain in the ass.  Also, I'm supposed to wear khaki pants with my uber-sexy Centennial Band polo but I don't have any.  I think I'm going to just break the rules and wear jean capris. (which is a first for me!)

Hungry!

It is taking every ounce of willpower I have not to go into the kitchen and eat everything in sight.  I am STARVING!  I hate it!  I had plenty of food today and just had some popcorn at about 3:00.  I will make it to dinner.  I will make it to dinner.  I will make it to dinner.  I will make it to dinner..............

P.S.  I don't have any carrots, so no...I can't have any as a snack.

***Update:  I just had a snack: roughly 1/4c. strawberries with about 1Tbs ff Cool Whip = 0pts and a hand full of fresh green beans and a little broccoli slaw with a sprinkle of salt = 0pts.  That should tide me over for about 20 min.    To look on the bright side, at least I got a serving of veggies in now.  =)   

I had some veggies today with dinner!  *faints*

Can I just say how much I'm freaking out about weigh in on Saturday????

23 more days!!!!

Our First House

On Friday, June 5th we will be closing on our FIRST HOUSE!!!!!

EEeeeeeeEEEEeeeee!

The dude countered our offer, which I figured he would.  We're paying list price plus closing costs so we only have to come up with our 3.5% down payment.  It's totally worth it!  The house was listed below market and is big!  1763 square feet......4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 2 car garage, laundry room, nice-sized yard and it's in North GJ!  I can hop on the interstate and get to work in 8 MIN!!!!!!!!!  

OMG, I'm so excited.  EEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The bad news?  Now we have to pack and move.  Ugh.  NOT looking forward to that.  =P------

WW

Day three on WW.  I'm starving today.....I hate that!!!  I need to go buy some veggies to munch on when I've got the munchies but I don't want to spend points, ya know?

Food logs from the weekend and today:

Saturday: Brownie Luna bar - 4pts KFC Extra Crispy chicken wing w/skin - 4pts tuna mac made with lite miracle whip and olives - 7pts apples slices and grapes - 2pts bad of 94% ff popcorn - 2pts 2 servings of orange chicken - 17 pts Total pts: 36 Weekly pts used: 8 ------------------------------------ Sunday: 1 packet reg flavor instant oatmeal - 2pts 1/4 c 1% milk - .5pts pepperoni lean pocket - 6pts bag of 94%ff popcorn - 2pts 4oz chicken breast - 4pts 3/4 c brown rice - 3pts 1 c stir fry veggies - 0pts Strawberry shortcake!: 1/6 of a sugar free angel food cake, 1/2 c sliced strawberries, 6 Tbs ff cool whip - 2 pts!!!! yoplait thick and creamy light cinnamon roll yogurt - 2pts 1 c wheat chex mixed with 1 c multi grain cheerios - 5.5pts Total pts: 27....didn't quite eat 'em all ------------------------------------ Monday: 2 cups of coffee with non-dairy powder creamer - 2pts Strawberry Luna Bar - 3pts Brownie Luna Bar - 4pts tuna mac w/ff miracle whip - 6pts Brownie Luna Bar - 4pts 1c whole wheat pasta - 3pts 5oz turkey kielbasa - 5pts handful of wheat chex - 1pt Total points: 28....really hungry today....if I go to bed soon I'll be ok. =)

Moms rule!

It's Mother's Day.....Happy Mother's Day, you motha'!  =)

So, Ma is the best.  She is so selfless.  She knows I'm back on the WW wagon so she chose chicken stir fry as her Mother's Day meal cuz she knows it'll be good for the diet.

Doesn't get much better than that, does it?  I love you 2 Tons, Ma!

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We're putting an offer on  a duplex today!.....if you look down the line there in my past posts...there's one from our first day of house shopping.  The duplex I described is exactly what we're getting.  It's in a better location.....down the street a bit instead of right on the round-a-bout.  Since it has four bedrooms instead of just three, we'll be able to have a media room!  So it'll be master, spare, studio, media room!  Yippie!  The people that were in there before were smokers and picked the most hideous carpet and paint colors....one bedroom is BRIGHT orange.  So, we'll have to replace carpet and clean and paint the walls. 

Hubbs gets home tonight from his business trip (YAY!) so we'll sign the contract and send it off first thing Monday morning.  

Ok, third time's a charm, right?  Cross your fingers!!!!!

......I've already picked out a couch, love seat, and dining room table (hee hee).  Now I gotta pick carpet and paint.  That is not going to be easy!

WW

*Goin' to Weight Watchers on Saturday at 8:30am....  

*meeting a couple of my friends there....

*we're can be an accountability group as Danielle calls it.

*Guess that better be my last Burger King for awhile.  

The Sunday Update

* I didn't plan it this way, but I'm updating again....and it's Sunday....so I'm calling this the Sunday Update

* I lost 2 lbs this week.  I didn't really "try"....but I don't think I ate as much.  ....and I had a lot more fiber than usual.  I don't know if that had anything to do with it.

* I really want to be done with the house hunting.  I just want to get a house, fix it up (if needed), buy some furniture and move in!  Is that too much to ask?!?!?!?

*  I want to be in our new house before it gets really hot.  I do NOT want to be moving when it's 85 degrees.  Although, I'm pretty sure I've missed that window.

* Found a really cute house built in 1979 with tons of potential!!!!!  Lots of upgrades we can do to make a profit.  I think we're going to put a bid in!  We wanted to get a second showing today, but I'm not able to get a hold of my realtor.  It is Sunday after all!   =)

* I'm also frustrated with the house stuff cuz I have champagne taste on a beer budget.  It's very annoying.

* Speaking of champagne tastes......looked at a open house today----gorgeous!  However, it was $10,000 above our max and the owner sounded stingy.  *rolls eyes*......let's just go with the older house.  The curb appeal was amazing and it has aspen trees!  I love aspen trees!

* Still not motivated to work around the house.  Tons of laundry to do and I've been sitting on my ass all day today.  I HAVE to do some today!  Grrrrr!

Ok, I'm outy.  Have a great rest of the day!

P.S.  Can you believe it's MAY already?!?!?  That's just craziness!