And onto other big news...

I may be a great auntie today!!!  My neice thinks she may be in early labor. God I feel old.  A great aunt at 28...lol!  My neice is 22.

Other than that, not much else going on in my world, except I really need to get Christmas presents wrapped.  I've got most of my daughters wrapped.  None of my sons and none of anyone elses...lol!

Tonight is our OB staff Christmas party, I should go, but I probably wont.  I didn't buy a gift for the gift exchange, and things are just too hectic around here right now.

Did HORRIBLE with eating and water yesterday.  50 lashes with a wet noodle on me.  I had NO willpower.  I told you, the holidays are awful at the nurses station!  Didn't even come close to the scale this morning.

I did figure out the digital picture frame stuff too, so overall a pretty productive day yesterday.

Have a great day everyone!

Ok, so I cant comment now either?

I've been trying to leave comments for everyone.  It isn't working!

please know that I'm thinking of all of you!

Good news, I found the CD... phew...after driving myself damn near crazy!

Also good news down to 154 this morning.  Whew!

Today is my mommy's birthday...and unfortunately I have to work :( and she'll be babysitting my kids...lol!  Of course, she says there is nothing she'd rather do.  So that's nice, I'd just like to have taken her out to lunch or something today.  She's my best friend...and I want her to know how appreciated she is, know what I mean?

For today, I've bought her some new shirts and a coat, and  a hot air balloon windchime, that I thought she'd like.  And she'll be getting one of the blasted digital photo frames I've been killing myself over.

Speaking of...does anyone have any experience with those?  I cannot for the life of me get my pictures in proper order.  I've tried doing it by date (which didn't work because some of my scanned pics dont have dates) I've tried renaming them with numbers...ugh, this is insane!

Ok, enough of that.  We're thawing out from the ice here, thank goodness.  Like I said gotta work today, and have to go in for a meeting with the hospital lawyers...one of our old docs is being sued,and I have to give a statement...ugh. 

But on the bright side...it's only 2 weeks until Christmas, and I cant wait to see my babies faces on Christmas morning.  It's so magical!  and if current weather patterns hold, it will definitely be a white Christmas, which makes it even better!

Happy Tuesday..and chug a lug!

Ok...I'm having a nervous breakdown

Someone PLEASE talk me off the ledge...or at least away from my fridge.

I got digital photo frames for my mom and mil for christmas...

Decided to go back from when my oldest was a baby and upload a lot of pics for them...

Bad news...I cannot find a disk from December of 2004 (when my ds was born) until July of 2005.  All of his baby pictures as well as all the other pics of family events etc...are gone

I am a wreck, I've been looking for them for an hour now, and I cant find the CD they were stored on...

All I wanna do now is cry...which I have been...and eat until I cant possibly eat any more...all his pictures are on there....oh god...I'm...devastated...

If anyone knows a psychic...please help me out here before I really go over the edge...

Fessing up

Ok, so I wasn't exactly forthcoming in my last post.  However, I just read Angela's post...and now, I'm here...fessing up.

I've felt extremely sorry for myself since the last time I posted, and am now avoiding the scale. 

This whole back thing just isn't fair.  And I get upset because I had such great progress at first, and then...whammo, I'm in pain, and cant exercise like I ACTUALLY wanted to!  And it just spirals out of control. 

I made those Christmas cookies...and have eaten more than my fair share of them.  Yesterday we had a family day (which was really nice) and went to the movies (popcorn and Pepsi -yep you're reading it here...full disclosure-even as I pictured Precious in the back of my mind telling me...you know that Pepsi is evil!) and then went to Pizza Hut (which shall hereby be known as quality time in the can).  And came home and ate more f***ing cookies.  Get up this morning, and without even consciously aware of it...ate 6 cookies while I was waiting to see if school was going to be canceled or not. F***!

Ok...so..maybe all is not completely lost.  Thats it...back to the scale...I'm going...right now...

ETA... 155.4, wtf, 5 pounds in a week?  surely that cant be right!

It probably is right though.  The question is, what can I do about it?

Snow day...continues!

Here I am...with another snow day for my princess.  And this time...definitely welldeserved.  The weather has been DREADFUL here.  there is 1/2 to 1 inch of ICE on everything out there.  It's like a winter wonderland!

Back is feeling better.  I'll probably give Yoga a go today. 

Have done really poorly with my water this weekend.  So need to step that back up too.

Hope everyone is doing well...and stays safe as mother nature pounds away! (pardon the pun...<giggle> )

New goals...

not to overindulge...

Reminder to drink my water

As soon as my back is feeling 100% again to really be aggressive with my exercises.

It is feeling slightly better today, but that's how I screwed mysefl before, so I think I'm just going to take it easy and wait a couple more days.  I hate even typing that, isn't that bizarre?  I like to exercise now...and I feel like I'm using this as an excuse.  Isn't this supposed to be a wahhhh free zone?

Ugh, ok, well have to work tonight, but then I'm off again...woohoo!

Have a great day all!

Thru the looking glass Thursday

Ok, so today I've been running around like a crazy person.  good news...I've almost got all of my Christmas cards out.  Bad news...I was conned into making my "famous" cutout cookies... <doh>  However, they have not been baked or eaten yet.

I'll be back later to check in on all your blogs.  I guess the best I can hope for is maintaining this week, I checked this morning...153.6 again...SHIT! 

My back is still bothering me.  A little background.  I herniated a disk 6 years ago...and have problems off and on because of it.  This time though, it feels like more muscle stuff than disk/nerve stuff.  Although I do have some tingling down my leg and a couple of toes are numb, they are like that a lot of the time.  But now, it's completely across my lower back.  So...no exercise for me today...dammit.

Oh well, I'm doing the best I can do.  And that's all i can ask for right?

Three fricking times...did anyone see that horse?

that kicked me while I'm down and stole my post, not once, not twice, but 3 separate times!  Now I'm not going to have any time to reply to anyone.

I completely blew it last night.  Had KFC with my mom <doh> and then <double doh, Homer Simpson style> a snickers bar afterward.

This morning in an effort to try and undo some of the damage.  I got up early, yes girls, you read that right...fricking 5am early.  That's insane to me.  Anyway, I did my Yoga and 2 pilates workouts, and now my back is absolutely KILLING me.  I had thought that the gentle stretches and stuff would help not aggravate it, but I was WAYYY wrong.

And then, I blew it again.  Some crazed little Christmas elf came and poured an ice cold can of Pepsi down my throat...can you believe that?

Ok, so no...that's a lie.  No excuses right?  I did it on purpose, but my reasoning is going to sound totally bizarre.  I have asthma, and a pulmonologist I saw a long time ago told me to drink caffeinated beverages when I am having trouble.  Well this morning, I was definitely feeling "tight" and wheezy in the chest.  Another reason for the yoga, to try and open things up so to speak.  So I drank the pepsi...and am not sure if it really made me feel better...or if it is just overshadowed now by the fact that my back hurts much more.

Crap...this is kind of a downer post.  There are good things though...I did exercise.  I have been drinking my water...and I got a solid 7 hours of sleep last night!  And I am off for the next 2 days.  So that's good right?

Feel free to beat me with a stick...lol.

Learn from my mistakes girls...take care of your bodies!

Trecherous Tuesday

Title definitely in honor of the crazy weather.  School was canceled for everyone in our area. Ice/snow and wild winds...too nasty for the kids to go.  So DD got to stay home.  Which was nice because we all slept in a bit this morning.

Yesterday...nope I didn't do my yoga, I decided that if I overdid it, then I'd be useless for the rest of the week. 

Today's plan does involve it though.

Hardly seems fair I get back on track, and then do something like this.  GRRR!

Ok, well I hope everyone has a great day!  Drink that water!

Today...

Last night, another crazy one. I'm so glad today is my day off.

I tweaked my back again.  UGH!  I hate this.  DS is still sick, which isn't a good thing, but at least he's willing to sit around with me today.  We've been lounging all day today watching cartoons and sleeping in my bed.

Ok, now the phone has rang like 12 times and it's taken me an hour to type this.

Today's goals...to rest.  I think my body needs it.  And to drink as much as I can today.  I may do my Yoga, I'm not sure depends on how much I can stretch without hurting myself today.  And of course to stay within my points.

Hope you all have a great day!