New Goals – Day 1

So, I have some new lifestyle goals. The biggest of which is to drop some unhealthy weight!

I have a six month goal, with shorter monthly goals in the interim. We’ll see how it goes. It requires dropping about 2.5 pounds a week, and I’m not sure realistic that is. I know it can be done, but does it require 2.5 hours of workout a day? Or will 30 minutes a day do along with watching what and when I eat? We’ll find out! I guess, more than weight, my goal is to be about 5 pant sizes smaller than I am now. This time next month I want to be able to slide my 14′s on without unbuttoning them, and the month after that the 12′s, and ideally I want to be back in an 8 by the end of the year. I’ve been wearing size 16 jeans, which I can slide on without opening, and which start to fall off about an hour later from the stretch jeans get. I can fit into the 14s but I don’t like how they look, so that is my short term goal. Fit in them and like how they look. Then we’ll go from there. Yah, I’m a fat ass. Someone else in a 14 or 16 might not be, but I am basically five feet even and it’s too much on my small frame. I’m not asking to be a size 0 or 2 like I was before I had kids. I’m just asking to drop back into the clothes that are in my closet.

Daily Goal: To have my hair done daily. No, not go get it done, but set it the night before (or cover it so it’s still done) so it is styled and finished for the day. I tried today, but I misjudged and my hair wasn’t dry enough to let the curlers out. I think doing this before bedtime is a better option than in the morning. I don’t wear makeup, so for me to feel “done” that hair is what needs to be done.

Those are two big goals for me, so I’m going to stop there for now. I am holding myself accountable.

Good Morning!

What is everyone doing today?

I’ve done a little bit of work, taken the boy to camp and it’s eyebrow ripping day today. Not sure what comes after all that lol I need to head to the food store as well… but I didn’t write my meal plan :( I guess I should do that first.

Updatey Goodness

Hi!

Where to start…  we went to Orlando this past weekend. Sorry local gals – we went up in one car and I knew I wouldn’t be able to get away so I didn’t even bother posting about it. I will be uploading pictures at some point, so expect a photo spam post.

We hit Animal Kingdom (something we almost never do), MGM (excuse me, Disney’s Hollywood Studios) & Magic Kingdom. We were up early enough to see them *open* on both Sunday & Monday. Not. In. Years. It was a real treat for the kids. We left around 2 PM on Monday and were home around 6PM (hit those rain storms headed up and back).

We’ll be back up in Sept or Oct, the boys want to stay at Wilderness Lodge – we’ll see. That will depend on if the work I am expecting comes through and a few other things as well. It’s their birthday trip, so I usually try to keep them in on the plans and such.

Tuesday morning we had M’s IEP. All is well. Again, we won’t know until the year starts if he gets his aid in the classroom for next year, but I hope so. Some goals were met, some are the same and we added some new ones. His speech went from being a profound delay at last years IEP to a mild, age appropriate delay. Whoo Fucking Hoo Mal! Our private speech gal is going to have her work cut out for her to keep him as a client, but I love her and she’s really awesome and I attribute most of his success to her. She said his /r/ sound really, really needs work ;)   I hope she can find a legitimate reason to keep him. He performs well in the speech room, but not as well outside. I think that alone means he should keep it up.

Tuesday night he was supposed to read a story he wrote at Barnes & Noble. I have video. It didn’t go well. He was all ready to read, went up there, and froze. Poor kid. I sat with him, and tried to convince him to read. No go.

Wednesday I got my hair done. My girl went in at 8AM for me! She is a peach. I was done by 10 and we went to Target (aka that vast time suck) and bought a box storage thing for outside for my new seat cushions, a couple of fans and some misc. other things we probably didn’t need at all. Wed afternoon is therapy with all the kids, where they act like animals and irritate the fuck out of me. Then we had dinner with my moms twin brother, his wife and their daughter. We almost never see them (they live in Reno) and my dad is still livid he didn’t bother to come out when mom was dying (and by the time he was going to come out he told him not to bother, there was no time and we’ll see you at the funeral in a few days. Fucker.). I told my Gram not to expect me to rearrange my entire day for family who doesn’t really want to see us again as I had to break a promise to Dorian to make dinner at a reasonable time.

Today I have been working, just dropped Fish off at work, and I am uploading pictures from, well, all of May. I’ll be making a few photo posts later on. It’s going to take all day to upload.

Our fence is complete! They will come out tomorrow or Monday to inspect it. It’s pouring now, so I can’t go enjoy it lol We’re having a party on Sunday, so just in time! I hope it doesn’t rain :( I think I “scheduled” it in between rain storms lol

Dor has his first sleepover weekend after next, so that’s exciting. We need to go get him some PJs and a gift to take with him.

And I think that’s everything!

May 11, 2009

Long day yesterday. Culminated in brushing my dreads out. Still brushing them out today. I had them for 23 weeks exactly (that’s just shy of 5 lunar months for those who are mathmatically challanged). I was going to force it to wait a year, but I was getting really frustrated with them. I just kept losing length. My fucking hair was barely past my earlobes. They started out being halfway down my back. That is nearly 3/4 of my full length in shrinkage. I wasn’t loving it and I wasn’t interested in extensions. I have about half of them combed out, and haven’t lost too much length or hair overall (accounting for how much should be in the trash b/c I have almost 6 months worth of hair loss that I am currently combing out). I hope to finish by the end of today so I can do a deep conditioning treatment (my hair actually isn’t in bad shape, yay!) and then see about trimming it so it’s even. I also need to see Chrissy about getting it dyed. Yesterday.

That’s all the news for today (so far).

My dreads are two months old today!

The studio lights my uncle is sending me should be here sometime this month. I will take better photos then! Michael’s shadow made it into all of these lol


The black line in the middle is one of my few black dreads – somehow when it was sections she got my black chunks all together (which kind of rocks, if you ask me, it was just unexpected).