Category Archives: Life

I cannot believe the weather today.  I’m sitting here with the front and back door open, listening to the birds and the girgle of the fountain out back.  I so, so, so wish I could have sat on my back porch with a pot of coffee this morning instead of having to go to work.  Everyone is in just a great mood because of the weather, too.

M has been off work for two days getting his final preparations ready for his big day tomorrow.   He surfed yesterday and today and said it was beyond beautiful on the ocean.  I know he’s going to miss it so much when we leave.

I have to be up at 4:30 in the morning to accompany M so I have no hopes of being very productive tomorrow afternoon.  I’ll try to stitch but I usually can’t concentrate I am taking Summer Queen in to be framed on Sunday.  I can’t wait!  I have purchased a couple of supplies I need to finishmatize the 3 ornaments I’m working on and am looking forward to (hopefully) doing that Sunday as well.

It’s been a long time since I had a weekend that I considered *great.* Why was this weekend so great? No particular reason.

I finished the stitching on Red Desert Scissor Pocket and started and completed the stitching portion of an ornament. I still have the finishing portion to do on both, and two more ornaments to stitch and finish. As fast as the stitching portion went on my ornament I’m almost believing I can get the other two stitched by next weekend. I need to stop by the fabric store and grab some interfacing and thin batting so I can do some finishing work.

I conquered Mount Washmore. The only dirty clothes in the house when I went to bed last night were the clothes M and I were wearing before changing into pj’s.

Both puppies got a bath and pedicure.  They have pre-dental appointments to night.

I made Chicken Adobo.

I caught up on some of my DVR’d programs.

See! Nothing spectacular, but the weekend felt long and I felt like I’d done something when it was time to go to bed last night.

The downside? The weekend is over.

This next weekend starts a whirlwind month for us. First, M has his half-ironman this weekend. Next, it’s my stitchy weekend. Then we’re going to Disneyland on April 14^th, I’m taking my car to a car show on April 16^th  (I am beyond excited about this), and M has a half-marathon on April 17^th. April 23^rd (I think) we’re going to a horse show…or maybe it’s the next weekend. Whew!

Thank you for the lovely comments on Summer Queen.  I’m looking forward to getting her framed and will share that also as soon as it’s done.  I’ve decided to go with framing similar to Spring Queen, and will probably use a deep blue-green velvet mat and silver filet.

My mother called me just as I was going home last night to tell me that my uncle is doing as well as can be expected after his 4-hour surgery.  They ended up removing the upper left lobe of his lung, part of the chest wall, and 2 partial ribs.  He’s expected to be in ICU for 3 days if there are no setbacks.  They intended on getting him out of bed today.  She said they allowed her to see him for a few minutes once he was out of recovery and his color was really good although he was still out of it.  Plus he was not on any type of ‘support.’ 

Bless her heart, she was so stressed out.  I could hear it in her voice and when I asked her how she was holding up she started crying which, of course, started my waterworks as well.  I don’t think she realized how stressed she was until that minute.  She and my dad had just walked in the door and she called me because she knew I was worrying. 

I was too tired to think properly last night so I didn’t stitch.  I tried reading my current book, but couldn’t concentrate on that either. 

It’s really Thursday, finally, which means it’s WW day for me today and I almost talked myself out of going this morning, but I’ll be good and go.  It’s not that I don’t want to weigh in, I just want to be lazy and not have to go anywhere for lunch today.  My incentive?  My PP start over today 😆

I have been trying to keep up with my stitching blogs and have wanted to comment on so many but I can’t.  They have their settings in such a way that you have to have a blogger account or a google account.  I can’t even do open ID 🙁  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STITCHY BLOGGERS…ALLOW MORE OPTIONS TO COMMENT! 

Before I settled in for the weekend, I did manage to get some running around done on Saturday morning.  I had hoped to come home with a new iron (I did product reviews all week long), however, M had other ideas.  He NEEDED a Dyson Hand-held.  So, that’s what we ended up buying 😆

I spent the majority of my weekend beading Spring Queen.  I’m having a heck of a time though because I broke the ‘snap’ part of my handi-clamp because I clamped it in my stand too hard.  (By the way – they do sell replacements.)  This of course means I can’t use my stand, so I can’t use my magnifier/light.  I had to rig it up to my desk and while it’s working it’s so much slower not using a stand and just resting the rods on my desk.  It’s low and wears my back out.  My eyes are bad enough that I need the magnifier in order to not pierce stitches.  It sucks getting old!

And in non-whining news – M managed to crash and burn on his tri-bike yesterday.  First time that’s ever happened and he’s very lucky he wasn’t hurt more than he was (no dings in his helmet).  Besides his pride (his words, not mine) he’s sporting some magnificent road-rash on the side of his knee and he has some scratches and a gouge on the side of his bike.  Fortunately, again, he didn’t ding his deraileur and nothing seems to be out of sinc.  It would be awful to try to reset things at this stage, just 3 weeks out of his race.

Just sayin’

I don’t know why I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks. There has been plenty to blog about. Nothing over the top exciting, but my life has not ground to a standstill.

The last time I blogged about my weight I was rather indifferent to the .2 gain that I had. That was 2 weigh-ins ago. Last week I was down .6. Today, I am back up .6. My WW peeps think I’m not eating enough. I had 13 WPs left. I also had 8 PPs left last night. I am not starving. In fact, I’m rarely hungry enough to snack in the evenings, unlike before the new plan. I am NOT gorging myself on free fruits or vegetables that take up room in my stomach but still leave me tons of PPs left over at the end of every day.

So this week my plan is to eat every single point every single day and to TRY to eat every weekly point on top of that.  It was even suggested to me to use the regular foods instead of low-fat versions (mayo, cheeses, whole eggs instead of whites only, etc.). 

Today we had a birthday lunch for BigBoss at Olive Garden. There will be no problem eating my daily points today. I have 4 left over right now! The funny thing is I had a hard time making myself eat my lunch because I was full!

The other question my WW peeps asked me about was if I was meeting my GHGs and with the exception of the Healthy Oils, I am. I do attempt the oils, it’s just that our menus don’t always include oils, so I’m trying to saute more of our foods with olive oil, etc.

Exercise is the next biggie. I’ll be adding it in gradually starting this week. I had intended to do that last week but something came up healthwise for me that stalled that. Everything is a-okay now, so no more reason not to.

I know it took me a long time to get to this weight, and I’m okay that it’s going to take me a long time to lose it healthily. I figure as long as I’m eating as healthy as I can in whatever circumstance I find myself then I’m on the right track. And I refuse to give up.

I will say this, I’m down one pant size and that’s a great thing. I’m getting rid of my clothing as I shrink out of it so I’m not tempted to wear it again. I have gotten to the point that if my clothing is tight and uncomfortable it’s a huge incentive to watch what I’m eating. I don’t want the temptation of the larger clothing being available to be comfy.

Stitching. Sigh. I have been stitching, but not near as much as I should be. I am thisclose to being finished with the stitching on Summer Queen. In fact, I should be finished with it by Sunday and already beading. Nothing going on tonight and I plan to stitch after supper until it’s time for bed.

This Saturday is my monthly stitch-in and while I promised myself at the beginning of the year to only take my needlepoint piece in I may fudge on that this time so I can get.her.done! Besides….I just got my first county fair email this week. Eeek!

M is still in training mode for his upcoming half ironman.

Son is working and going to school full time.

Puppies are doing great.

333 more days!

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