~~ Wednesday Weigh in ~~

Well its been a while since I've weighed in, I think the last one that I posted here was week 59 at 172.6lbs? It is now ....

Week 62 = 170.6lbs

(-2lbs)

I'm actually really surprised by this weigh in, I feel like I've been eating every hour, although they are "good" snacks I've still been snacking a lot! ;) I think I will do bi-monthly weigh ins so every 15 days or so? So my next weigh in will be November 15th, I will still weigh myself at home every week but I just wont be posting anything till the 15th.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

As most of you know, today is Halloween! It's a fun time of year, a time of year that my hubby really enjoys. This is our second year converting our garage into a Haunted Garage, it is fun to have the neighbors come by and their kids seem to really enjoy it. Hopefully this year we will have more kids then last, the weather should be nice so there's no reason why people won't come out!? Halloween sure isn't like when I was young, there were kids everywhere no matter what the weather was like. We didn't have all the indoor activities like they do now in the malls, which I'm sure as a parent you are grateful for having the choice to Trick or Treat indoors as opposed to bundling up your little one finding a costume to fit over top of the piles of clothes and facing the elements of outdoors!? I think I still prefer the old fashioned way, where you walk your neighborhood and yell at people's doors, maybe get a few scares!? BOO ! ;) But at least now you do have that choice. We didn't buy any new costumes this year so I will be dressed up as a skeleton again and the dog will be in her sheriff costume! Last year we just left her in the house but I think I would like to try and have her outside, hopefully she will be a good dog! :) I will try to take lots of pics and post some here on the weekend.

Weekend Review ... a day late ;)

Well the weekend was busy for me, or at least Saturday was fairly busy - I managed to get all my visiting done and was home for supper! :) I started off Saturday morning and went to see my brother at work since my Mom is not much of a morning person anymore I needed to waste time till she was ready for company! ;) So I asked my brother what the kids wanted for Christmas, he didn't really give me any more ideas then before I asked!? How could you're kid not have a Christmas wish list!? I remember when I was his age, my list was sooo long I had to edit it! My brother ended up giving me two CAT shirts that they had on clearance, they are nice and I always wanted a CAT shirt. Next stop was my Mom's, by now she should be dressed and ready for company! LOL I visited her for about an hour or so and then went to see Denise, we also had a good visit since her little one was napping we could actually have a conversation!! :) Then I went to my Dad's and had a super quick visit with him cause by now I was super tired and wanted to go home! I'll have to go back to my Dad's soon anyway so I can empty out my old hope chest.

Sunday was pretty relaxed, the usual house cleaning crap - we decided not to go visit the Grandparents cause hubby got invited to go Quading with the boys. I got a little scrapbooking in on Sunday and I cleaned out my pantry! Oh- and I went grocery shopping for "staples", that's about it for my weekend! Tomorrow is weigh in day and I think it should be a good one? We will see, I feel like I'm eating all the time but good things!

Happy Friday! :)

It was a bit of a challenge getting to work this morning, it rained/ snowed last night so the roads were a little icy. A lot of the bridges in and around town were closed so you couldn't even go over them if you wanted too!? I took my usual 'ring road' highway to get here today, which wasn't too bad but when I got to the overpasses it looked like someone had put blue, red and yellow Christmas lights all over it cause of all the emergency vehicles on it! Then everyone that was detoured to go down the highway the opposite way they wanted to go, cause they couldn't get over the bridge, started driving trough the ditch to go the way they wanted! It was crazy - I thought there would be another accident for sure!

Well my BBT dropped to 36.68C (98.02F) so that can't be good news~! I guess

that maybe I am just having one of my 35CD!? I am woke up this morning to a nasal drip! I think I may be getting my winter cold, now that I'm at work and dealing with this nasal issue I am also dealing with a very hot face! My cheeks are hot hot hot - I'm very flushed today, my throat better not start to get scratchy! We have our race banquet next weekend and I don't want to be sick for that!

Not too much planned for this weekend, tomorrow I am going to head out to St.Albert to visit Denise and on Sunday we may go visiting the Grandparents!? If it's nice out I would like to use the leaf sucker upper thingy that the hubby has to suck up all the leaves that have fallen off the hedge in the front yard (looks kinda messy and will probably turn into mush over the winter). Other then that I don't think I have anything on my agenda, hopefully we will finish the Halloween Haunted Garage - I'll try to take some pics and post here when it is done. My brother is trying to plan a "play date" for his new puppy and wants me to come over with my dog for a visit, maybe during the week sometime or this weekend?! I'm trying to convince him to come to my house for Halloween and bring the kids to check out the Haunted House and the dogs can play in the yard!? ;)

Getting back on track

Well I think I am getting back on track, it is Wednesday today and usually on Wednesday's I have my weigh in ..... so I peaked - it looks good, I'm back down to where I feel I should be but I am not going to do an official weigh in post until the end of the month, then again mid-month (Nov.15th). As for my BBT it is still what I like to consider high (even though I don't know what my low is) 36.80C (98.24F) but I am still too chicken to test and see if it really means anything? Hubby thinks I should wait till Friday, which I think will be tough but I really don't want to see a (-)!! It's like getting a F on a test in school - feel like such a failure!

It is gorgeous outside today - almost nicer then a summer day! Maybe it's our "Indian summer", hopefully it will stay nice for Halloween? Hubby is working hard on getting the haunted garage done, I took a quick walk through it yesterday and it's starting to look really good! I didn't sleep very well last night, kept tossing and turning, so I'm a little tired today. Not too much else is new in my life? I think I will go out to St.Albert again this weekend and visit Denise before the snow starts to fly and I won't want to drive that far! ;) Other then that .... I don't think I have any other plans! ? Quite the boring life now that the summer is over!

Stuff ....

The city opened another section of our "ring road" yesterday, the orange section on the map above is now open. Which made my drive to work this morning a snap!! It was awesome, I work on the right hand side of the map kinda on the road where the little green square is and I live almost at the first yellow dot on the orange line. So I just jumped on the freeway and away I went, 8 minutes later I was at work!! :o There are no lights on this section of the highway and the speed limit is 100km/hr so it moves quite well. It pretty much cut my drive to work in half! :) !!

So last night we went over to my MIL's to watch her after her surgery, she seemed OK - just a little tired. I just sat and watched TV for a while and every once and a while I would check on her in the bedroom. She sat up with us for a little while and was telling us how they couldn't get her to sleep so they just went ahead with the surgery anyway and just froze her! ewww -- I don't think I could do that! I would pass out! :P Speaking of passing out ... thankfully there was no drama last night and I never had to call 911!! I don't do well in those situations! ;)

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Well AF is now 4 days late and my BBT is still fairly high - 36.76C (98.17F). Which is good news but I have had a 35CD before and I don't feel any different (I don't think)? So I'm kinda scared to POAS, not because I'm worried about seeing a BFP but in fact I really don't want to see another BFN! I think I would rather see AF - it's less discouraging! ? We'll see ..... I think I will give it a few more days and just watch my BBT, if it stays high then I will use my last HPT to see what it says! ;) Hopefully it stuck this time! :> I'm so nervous and I just know that now that I actually said something AF will show up .... that's usually how it goes, once I show just a little bit of hope I get crushed! :(

Weekend review

Well - back to work for another work week! :( I often wish that we had tons of money and that I could stay at home, not that my job is hard. It's not very exciting at all, but I just enjoy being a homebody! ;) I'm sure after a while though the luxury would wear off and it would become just as tedious as coming to work everyday and at least I have adult contact here, at home I would just have my dog! he he

So as for my weekend, I felt I had to work a little harder to work off some extra pounds so I tried hard to keep myself busy. Friday was pretty relaxed though and I don't think we did much. Saturday was house cleaning day and then I went outside to rake up the leaves. We don't get too many leaves in our yard since we chopped down the four large trees but there was still two

garbage bags. The hubby started planning his "haunted garage" for Halloween and moved his car over to his parents. I also went shopping to Costco on Saturday and bought some stuff to put in our new upright freezer. Sunday I decided to clean the basement, the cob webs were starting to get to me and there was this musty smell that I hate! I bought some reed diffusers at Costco (three for $25) and put two of them downstairs. Last year we went through most of our boxes from moving in and sorted out stuff we want to keep and stuff for a garage sale that was suppose to happen this fall but didn't! So I had to move all our garage sale boxes back into one of the bedrooms in our basement so that hopefully the hubby will start demo on it!! Then I vacuumed the entire basement (top to bottom) and moved the treadmill into a corner so if I wanted to I could still use it. I think it looks really good now but would look even better if the drywall was taped and mudded so I could put a coat of primer on it! ;)

We have to go over to my MIL's tonight, as I am typing this she is getting surgery done to her jaw/ mouth. I think she is going to be hurtin' when we go see her after supper!? I guess she needs to be watched for the first 24 hours and my FIL needs to step out for a few hours so it's up to us to go watch her. I hope nothing major happens cause I don't really deal well in those situations! We were hoping to jump in their hot tub for a little while but now my hubby has plans to go met this guy for a job so I may be stuck by myself and probably won't go in.

Wednesday weigh in ?

I have decided that to weigh in every week at this stage in my weight loss journey is becoming frustrating, too record one pound up this week and then a half pound lost the next. Last week I decided that I am no longer going to post my weekly weigh in's on here anymore, I thought that from now on I would like to only post my weigh in's once a month. However lately my weigh in's haven't been the greatest and I am wondering if I should still post them so that I am liable for them and not feel like it's OK to keep gaining! I am now officially 4lbs higher then my lowest weight and even though it is only 4lbs it feels like 14lbs!! I feel really heavy lately, my clothes don't fit right and I feel like I have little energy. It's funny how 4lbs can make that much of a difference and maybe it's because TOM is around the corner and only a few days away but it still sucks to see the scale go up! I think it is time for me to smarten up, buckle down and get back on track! I feel like I am headed for a train wreck! I think I will set a new mini-goal ... it's been a while since I had one of those and with Halloween just around the corner with all those tempting mini chocolate bars I need to stay focused! My new mini-goal is too loose 5lbs by our race banquet on Nov 3rd, that's 2 weeks away - and I think should be achievable?! I want to look my best at the banquet and I want to be able to enjoy the meal without the guilt of making a piggy of myself! ? Then if I end up gaining a pound or two from the banquet meal it won't put me over my 5lb leeway that I said was OK to fluctuate between.

The hubby took the dog back to the vet today to get her stitches out and for him to see how she is progressing. Well I just got off the phone with him and he

said that the vet says everything looks really good. She seems to be healing good and it's OK that she is not putting full weight on her leg just yet, that it is part of the healing process. She has also had a cough since coming home and he said it was because they put a tube down her throat and it got a little irritated but should clear up on it's own (just like my MIL said). So I guess she goes back again in 4 more weeks too check it out again for the final time and by then she should be good!? ;)

I went out to St.Albert last night for the Jobie meeting, which was short and sweet but there was lots of people there that I hadn't seen for a long time so I ended up socializing longer then expected and didn't get home till 10pm. I also stopped by my Dad's house while I was out there to pick up some old puzzles I had. My MIL is going for surgery on the 22nd and asked if I could pick some up so she would have something to do. So I just grabbed them all - my back seat is full of puzzles! Some of them I have never even opened the box yet, they are brand new! I used to love sitting down and build a puzzle, I would put a 1000 piece puzzle together in an afternoon and if I liked it I would build it again and again. Now I have no time for puzzles but I still enjoy helping build them.

BBT = 36.84C (98.31F) -- It sure would be nice if my BBT stayed high!! If it drops to 35C then I may get grouchy! ;)

Sleepy today ....

Well they say that only 26% of our city voted yesterday!! That's pretty bad - they said before that they were expecting low numbers but 26% is really low!!



I'm really tired today, maybe I didn't sleep very well? Tonight I have to go to a Jobie meeting, I told them in June that I would come back for this meeting to return all the scrapbooks I borrowed. The only problem is that this is my late week at work so I am here till 5pm and then I have to go home, get changed, grab a quick bite to eat and be out in St.Albert for 7ish. And it will probably take me an hour to get there cause of rush hour!? I'm going to try the new freeway that they just built, hopefully the traffic won't be too bad on it and I can get there a little quicker. I also plan on it being a late night too, the meeting probably won't be over till 9ish and then I'll visit for a bit and drive all the way back home! ;)



The dog hurt her leg again yesterday, being an idiot outside and running with the neighbor dogs. Hubby was mad at her and when he brought her in the house she was limping so bad that she wouldn't even put weight on it at all - just limped around everywhere. I massaged her leg a lot and this morning she seems to be better!? Tomorrow is her doctor appointment and I'm hoping that he likes what he sees?

BBT this morning was 36.68C (98.02F)

Weekend review

So my Mom left on Sunday to Vegas, the sad thing about it all is that I could have been going with her if I would have had an up to date passport! But then I found out after she left that that law has not been passed just yet - as of January 2008 you will need a passport to go so I could have actually went with her!? grrr Oh well - we couldn't really afford to go anyway (not after spending almost $2000 on the dog!).

Speaking of the dog, I am a little worried that this operation she had has done nothing at all to help her leg?! Maybe I am just expecting too much, it has only been a week and a half, but she seems to be no better off then she was before? She doesn't seem to want to put any weight on her foot when she is just standing but when she walks she will put some weight on it? I hope it wasn't a complete waste of money or I'll be pissed! She goes back to the vet on Wednesday to get a few stitches out and we can ask him all our questions then.

Today is voting day!!! I however will not be voting, I know it's my demographic right to vote and I should vote but I have no idea about who to vote for and what they stand for! ? It just bores me to watch those debates or read about the different candidates! I trust that there are enough people out there to vote for me! ;) I'm sure that statement alone is enough to boil my hubbies blood - he has tried for many years to get me to vote, it just isn't in me!

As for the rest of my weekend .... it was good, I didn't do much and I think I am starting to pay for my laziness. My jeans this morning were a little bit tighter then usual and maybe that has to do with the fact that TOM is coming but I think it has a lot to do with my lazy attitude! ;) I would like to start doing my pilates again, I really enjoyed them. Denise and her hubby came over on Saturday night and we sat around the fire outside, it was really nice. And on Sunday we visited the Grandparents, something we haven't done in a really long time. We also picked up a shuffle board from my in-laws that they wanted to get rid of and we were happy to take off their hands! :) Now we just have to finish our basement so we can entertain people and they can play a few games on the shuffle board! he he On the weekend I also bought a BBT, I thought it would be fun to track and see for a few months. This morning I was at 36.86C (98.35F) -- pretty hot!! LOL But that's cause TOM is almost here (maybe?). ;)

Some pics of puppy!

I finally made time to upload a few pics of my puppy after her surgery. This first picture was taken when we finally got home from picking her up from the vet. She doesn't look too happy in this pic, maybe she is still doped up!? lol I bought her the little green frog in front of her as a "get well soon" gift, she seemed to like it but not as much as the stuffy my Mom bought her! :(

You can just barely see the cut they made on her knee, apparently there are no stitches there that need to be removed so they must all be inside stitches? You can also see another tiny little cut close to her tail where she had a skin tag and the vet removed free of charge for cosmetic reasons only! ;) There are stitches on that cut and they need to be removed in another week.

Her leg actually looked worse a couple days later, you could see some bruising on her knee that went from purple to brown and now it is a shade of yellow. And it was like she had razor burn on the inside of her leg? It looks much better now and I think it must feel better cause she is being playful again and wants us to throw the ball for her when we go outside. I think she even forgot herself cause she squatted down really fast and then started yelping, she just over did it a bit. She is starting to eat more now, which is good, but she still isn't eating quite as much as before the surgery!? She is also coughing more now too so we will have to let the vet know about that when we take her in to get the stitches removed.

Weigh in Wednesday!

Week 59= 172.6lbs

(+1.6lbs)

I'm not surprised, I haven't been on top of my water intake lately and I'm pretty sure that is what my problem is. Either that or it's because I haven't been exercising very much. I looked at my little graph chart that Ticker Factory plots for me after I register my weigh in with them and I noticed that my dots are starting to go up hill!!! I must put a stop to that!!! I am also thinking that I will only post my weigh in's once a month now instead of every week? It is frustrating to post that I have gained a pound this week and then the next week I post that I lost it!? Which equals nothing!

Yesterday was a fairly busy evening for us, after supper one of our track friends came over to talk to my hubby about working on his car. And then after he left my inlaws came over to help my hubby get our new upright deep freeze downstairs! I'm so happy we finally got ourselves a good deep freeze, now I can clean out the fridge one a bit and move things downstairs and maybe be able to stock it up a bit! Of course with all the visitors the dog was getting excited and wanted to play but she isn't quite ready yet. She ended up hurting her leg and started yelping, now she is limping again! :( It's nothing major she just over did it, I just will just be nice to have her back at 100%!

holidays are over ! :(

So, I'm back at work today :( Actually my holidays felt like they lasted a really long time and they didn't fly by as usual! ? Although I am awfully tired today, the dog kept me up for most of the night. I think her fur is starting to grow in and it is itchy but she can't scratch it so I have become her own personal bum/ leg scratcher! ;) Either that or she has just become more of a sucky dog and just wanted me to pet her!? I'm not sure but she kept head butting the bed so that I would pet her!? Apparently the hubby didn't even notice! grrrrr

So to wrap up my holidays, Friday I re-arranged our bedroom so that now the bed is away from the window and the heat register is not covered by the bed. Then my mom came over bearing gifts for the dog and some nice warm fuzzy socks for me! I can't remember what I did Saturday!? Probably nothing! he he Sunday was so nice outside, but I decided to go through the filing cabinet and shred old papers and organize it a bit better so I was stuck inside. And on Monday we had our absolute last race of the year! And boy was it busy!! Lots of cars showed up to make their final trips down the track and thankfully they all left pretty early too so we went out for dinner with some of the staff. When I got home there was a delivery at our back door, I had forgotten that we were getting our up-right deep freeze that day!! Yah! Now we just have to get it downstairs!

So we ended up doing nothing for Thanksgiving, no turkey dinners, no ham, no family festivities. We were OK with that though it was nice just doing our own thing. Hopefully everyone else had good Turkey day, everyone in Canada that is!?

Weigh in ..... Thursday ?! ? ;)

OK -- so I forgot! he he .... with all the things I had to do yesterday I completely forgot to weigh in until after I was already dressed and I wasn't about to get undressed just to weigh in. So I changed my weigh in day to today! ;) Yesterday morning I had to get the dog to the vets for her surgery and had to leave the house by 7:30am. Of course traffic was horrible and there were accidents everywhere so it took me extra time to get to St.Albert, a drive that usually takes me 30-45 minutes took me over an hour yesterday! After I dropped her off I planned on doing a little visiting since I was in the city but my girlfriend wasn't ready for me to come over till 11am, so I went shopping! I went to Michael's and spent my gift card on some new die cutter shapes for my new Cricut die cutter! Then I went to the local bookstore (Chapter's) and looked around to see what they had and get a coffee at Starbucks! Then it was almost time to go to my girlfriends so I headed back in that direction. I had a good visit with her and met her new baby boy, he sure is a cutie! Then I headed to my other girlfriends house and had a good visit with her too. I headed home around 3:30, oh - and the vet called at about 12:00 to let us know that she was out of surgery and that everything went well! :)

So this morning I weighed in and for:

Week 58 = 171.0lbs

(0lbs)

no loss.... no gain!

I'm OK with this, I thought I had over did it the other day when we went out for our anniversary/ birthday dinner at Red Lobster but I guess I did OK or maybe it was because I gave myself that extra day to burn it off!~? lol

Well I have four more days off from work, and we picked up the dog this morning. She seems to be doing OK, not as dopey as I thought she would be but she does seem more tired then usual. She is now on three different meds and one vitamin, she doesn't seem to have much of an appetite yet - hopefully that will improve a bit by tomorrow. I took pics of her shaved leg and I must say it looks good, you can barely even see where they cut her open -- no stitches to take out, all of them were internal. I should have asked how many stitches but didn't think of it. We have to do 12 weeks of physio!!! :o And he said as long as I take her for short walks and she is using her leg we shouldn't need to do too much physio. So hopefully I can download the pics I took and post a few here for you!

Tuesday .....

Well my holidays are going good so far, I am starting to get a little nervous about the dogs surgery. :( My weekend was good, it was our last weekend full of racing!! The race season is officially over, just in time too - everyone was getting tired of being out there. Now we just have the banquet to go to which I can hardly wait for!! I went for a ride down the track in one of the guys race car during our "fun day" Saturday, his car is much faster then our car was and it was quite a thrill to feel what it was like to go that fast! Usually when you have a passenger in your car you're only suppose to go 1/8 mile instead of the full 1/4 mile but Lorne kept his foot in it and we ended up going 10.3 in the 1/4 mile @ 132 miles/hour!! I gave him crap that he didn't shut it down half track but it was still kinda fun! ;)

I didn't have time to go shopping on Saturday cause I slept in too late! :o So instead I went shopping yesterday, I found some gift cards that we got as wedding gifts two years ago and thought that I should spend them before they expire or I loose them! So I bought the hubby some new pants and looked for the little couch I wanted to buy for the dog but was having a hard time finding one! I looked at Zellers, Toys R Us, and Wal-Mart and all they had were one seater couches like a love seat, which would be way too small for my dog! So instead I just bought another "dog bed" from the pet store.

I was also shopping for my "die cutter" and went to Michaels to find one but they were all sold out and the price on theirs was soooo expensive ($399) I asked if I could use one of the 40% off coupons but they said that you can't use those coupons on the "Cricut" cutter products!! But when I was at Wal-Mart looking for the couch I looked in their craft center and they had the exact same cutter for half the price!! So I picked it up from them and I bought some of the "Cricut" paper to try out the cutter with! Of course as soon as I got home I had to set it up and try it out! It is so easy to use, I really like it and think it will make some really nice cards and scrapbook decorations! Now I just have to buy more programs for it so I can cut more shapes! I also haven't quite figured out yet how I am going to attach the cut pieces onto paper? It cuts some of the patterns so skinny that there isn't really much room for the tape method I use on my scrapbooks and I'm not sure if I use a glue stick if it will leave glue marks everywhere ?~ I'll just have to play around some more with it!

So not only do I have to weigh in tomorrow but I also have to drop the dog off at the vets! I want to do some visiting while out in St.Albert so I should probably call them today to make sure they are free! ? I am now off to do some grocery shopping, it is the first Tuesday of the month and we get 10% off so we usually make this our big shoppping day! Then when I get home hopefully it will be a little warmer out and I can clean out my flower beds and paint the shed! ?