Category: pre-triplets

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We’re going to my uncle’s house today, which should be fun and full of food. Polly and I are going running in a little while in an attempted pre-emptive strike against the calories. I hardly think it’ll make a dent, though. But I’m not going to worry too much about points today. It’s hard to, when you’re having a dollop of this and a tiny spoonful of that. Today’s about eating a bunch of food and spending time with family. And boy do I have a lot to be thankful for this year!

Aside from the obvious wonderful friends and family, there’s:

1. 35 lbs gone

2. a new house

3. a new brother-in-law

4. my first niece or nephew on the way

5. a new job that I like and that pays decently

hmmm am I forgetting something?

oh yes…


and the wonderful guy that goes with it!

November 23, 2004

Ugh. Am tired. Did not sleep last night. Tossed and turned. Is this what I have to look forward to for the next year? My mind was racing. Reception hall…food…dresses…are we going to get yelled at by the church for living together…ugh. I have a feeling I will be taking a lot of Benadryl and Tylenol PM for the forseeable future. Just can’t turn my mind off. Okay, I will try to not get hooked on non-prescription drugs.

On the bright side, I’m pretty sure we have the reception taken care of. We went and visited the hotel in question, it’s nice (if a tad anonymous, but we will make it pretty) and the food looks incredible. No, I haven’t tasted it, but I’ve heard good things about them. But then this morning I heard something bad that may or may not have been true, so I’m a little nervous. But we haven’t signed anything yet. So we’ll see.

I’ll just be glad to have a few days off this week. Must…relax and enjoy engagement. Stop stressing!

11/17/04

Fine. Now I will try to recreate. But this post will never have the same carefree attitude, the same “i’m writing this post and it will get posted, not lost in the bowels of yahoo mail” tone. Hmmph.

Got some new glasses yesterday. Well, ordered them. I made George come along to the appointment, which ended up being a very good idea because we had pizza afterwards. Yum. Pizza from my favorite pizza place that we always order from but have never had at the restaurant. Yum. I think I like my new glasses, but it’s hard to tell because I have to look in the mirror thisclose because I forgot to bring my contacts. But I’m sure they’re better than these which aren’t the most feminine glasses. Though that picture does make me giggle a lot.

Then went to dance class. A girl in my class noticed my ring and asked if I got engaged. Not so strange except that I’m very shy in dance class and I’ve never talked to anyone about my private life. So I’m surprised she noticed the difference. Then again, I never did have this much bling before. Tee hee! Bling!

Then I went to the pub to meet Laurie. She had just gotten back from doing her nursing school thing at the hospital. This involves getting splashed in the face with various bodily fluids, so I can’t even tell you how much I admire Laurie. In spite of this, Laurie is one of those perfect girly girls to chat about your

wedding with because she too bought bridal magazines before she was engaged. And her budget was about the same as ours, so she will be a great resource. Yay Laurie!

Tonight I’m going to see Bridget Jones Diary with some of the girls from the pub. (Even though it’s not playing on the West Bank I told you Lindsay, call me a liar hmmph.) And then I might go catch up with Anne, who is in town for some law thing. (A case. Yes, that’s what that law thing is called.) Or maybe I’ll do that tomorrow night. I don’t know.

Well, don’t you know, I think this post came out maybe better than the cursed one that was lost before. But just in case, I’m going to copy to the clipboard before I send it on its merry way.

November 9, 2004

I really hope this post posts, and today, not in ten years. I  love the idea of emailing my blog posts in, but only when it works. Sigh. Because I want to post about my weekend.

Went to DC to visit Kristina, see my sister and Chris, and most importantly (sorry Kristina, Jenny, and Chris) to meet Alison, Ren and Gary’s new baby. Gaaa! She is very cute. But more on that later…

I got in to DC late Friday night (after midnight) and Kristina and I stayed at her boyfriend’s new house because it is closer to the IKEA and outlet mall. It is very neat (his house) which makes me somewhat envious (no piles of computers or magazines or other crap.) Kristina had gotten me some pumpkin soup from au bon pain (we don’t have them down here) and I ate that when we got to Mike’s house. It was very very very yummy. Mmmm. Yummy.

Went to sleep, woke up late, went to IKEA. Bought a present for Alison (stuffed katt), present for Chris (cool candelabra lamp thingy), shade for front door. Then we met Jenny for lunch at Olive Garden and looked at approximately one thousand wedding pictures. The ones from the professional photographer turned out well. There’s a nice one of George and me that I want to get a copy of. Anyway, after lunch (and pumpkin cheesecake yummmmmy) Kristina and I went to Potomac Mills, and I bought a cute ballerina-y skirt at H&M.

Went back to Kristina’s place, got ready for Chris’s birthday party. Dressed up like Carrie Bradshaw, started drinking wine. Anne came over, mixed us vodka tonics, got ready for party, took taxi to Chris’s friend’s house. Drank Brit-ini’s, sangria, and a little concoction they called Louisiana Sangrias (Fresca and something else) in honor of the birthday boy and Mrs. Federline.

It was fun. I talked at people a lot, as I do when I have imbibed too much. I hope I didn’t embarrass Chris too much. Eep! So we took a taxi back to Kristina’s (so they say, I don’t really remember) and passed out went to sleep.

Sunday we got up blearily, drove to Richmond and hung out with Ren and Alison and Gary’s dad and stepmom (I think) while Gary slept (he’s working nights.) Kristina, Anne and I took turns holding Alison until she started crying, then we’d pass her on to the next person (or Ren, her food source.) She was really cute. I can’t wait to see her when they come to Louisiana for her christening because by then she’ll really be doing things.

After we left Richmond, we met Mike and Bill for dinner at this Italian place. Yum. Then went back to Kristina’s, went to sleep, woke up I think fifteen minutes (okay, six hours) later to get to the airport. Got flight home, went to work very tired, and etc etc. Now I am somewhat more awake.

The end of my story about my trip! Pictures soon.

10/30/04

You know what I hate? When I email a post and it never shows up. And when it was funny. Course, I don’t remember what I said, so I could be over-estimating the quality of the post. But still. So it may show up at some point, and it will be all out of order. Blah.

Anyway. Last night I went to dinner and bowling with Regan, Mandy, and Melissa from Barnes & Noble. Even though I haven’t worked there in a year and a half, I’m glad I have managed to stay friends with them. They are really fun girls. My arm was sore this morning from the bowling, though. (I suck, in case you were wondering. But so did they, so even though I lost the first game with a whopping score of 54, I won the second one with a score of like 76 or something. Thank goodness they were drinking more than me, or else I never would’ve won.)

Today I’ve been working in the yard. It is 87 degrees outside. Hellish. But I dug up some stuff, which is always fun, in preparation for the trees I’m going to plant. I got ten trees for ten dollars from the Arbor Day Foundation, so as soon as they come in, they’ll be ready to go in the ground. Exciting!

10/28/04

Yes, yes, yes. I changed my blog template. But it’s so preeetttyyy! Now I’m trying to get the comments all fixed up. I know, also, I should be ashamed, as a web designer (though not a very accomplished one) to use a Blogger template that millions of other bloggers also use. So sue me. I’ll change it later. Maybe.

10/27/04

Okay, so I gained .2 this week. I want to say I’m not really concerned. I should be, probably, but I’m not. I know why I gained .2 and didn’t lose this week.

It started with two Krispy Kremes on Saturday morning and swiftly went downhill from there. Granted, the doughnuts were after a brutally hot 5K race that I ran nearly all of. (Can’t end sentence in preposition. Must figure that one out.) But ten points for two delicious rounds of fried, sweet love don’t offset the mere five activity points I earned for the race. So then it was the waffle cone of ice cream at Six Flags. And then later the half of a large pizza at dinner. I wasn’t that hungry. It’s just that it was sitting in front of me and it was so good. (Did I mention the five beers? At least they were light beers. Don’t laugh.)

Anyway, that was just Saturday. Sunday was Mexican food, Monday was leftovers. And so on and so forth.

But today is a fresh start. This week may be difficult, with dinners out and Halloween on Sunday. But I’m going bowling on Friday night. How many activity points is that? Ha ha.

Will be good this week. I swear.

10/26/04

I have yet more wedding pictures to post, but I’m being lazy. As if anyone (including, possibly, my sister) wants to see yet more pictures of the nuptials of Jenny and Rob. But post I will.

Had a fun weekend. Fun! Saturday morning Polly and I ran in a 5K. It was a teeny tiny 5K, maybe 30 people total. We didn’t even get numbers, it was so teeny. But the upside to teeny races is you get a better chance of finishing with a good-sounding place. (Or you could easily finish last.) Fortunately, I didn’t finish last, but I was the 5th female! That is terribly exciting to someone who is usually the 286th female. Okay, so this time there were maybe 10 or 15 females, but still! It was exciting! I didn’t get a medal or anything because they only gave out one award in each age group and a 27 year old girl (who, Polly and I couldn’t help but notice was wearing a THONG under her MESH RUNNING SHORTS) finished ahead of me. Ah well. I even beat Polly! Miracles do happen. She probably let me, but I don’t care!

So the race ends (and I finish in a miserable time of 37:12 – hey, we’re still having a heat wave, in fact the warmest October on record) and then they have door prizes. And this race had lots of door prizes, and since there were only about 30 participants, Polly and I each got prizes! Yay! I won a $20 gift certificate to an Italian restaurant and Polly won two sets of Halloween potholders and dishtowels. She very generously gave me one set of them. Tee hee. Okay, I came out ahead twice in this race. Sorry, Polly.

Anyway, so later, George and I and Polly and Colin went to Six Flags to use the free tickets Polly and I got at a race we did back in April. It was fun. I ate a massive waffle cone of ice cream. I didn’t ride too many rides because I am a wuss but I didn’t care. The log ride really was fun! And we got really wet! And then we rode another ride and got nauseous! And I didn’t realize George really doesn’t like rides that go upside down, until we were strapped into a ride, whirling around and I wondered aloud when we were going to go upside down. Well, the panic in his voice made me laugh, I’m sorry. So I’m an insensitive girlfriend, but it really was funny. Anyway, we only flipped around once or twice.

Saturday night was pub time and I ate HALF of a pizza. God, I love pizza. Pizza is why I will never get to my goal weight. Sigh. It’s worth it, though. Pizza or being thin? Pizza. I would rather have pizza and be fat. (I know, I know, it doesn’t have to be one or the other.)

Sunday was relaxing. Was going to work in the yard, but it is TOO DAMN HOT and I was worn out from Saturday. Then we went and ate Mexican food (hello, lots more points!) and watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What a great movie. That reminds me, I have to return it tonight. Damn. I hate Blockbuster.

Things. Too many things.

I don’t really have much to post right now, I’m just posting to post.

Last night I got a call back from Jane, the old friend calling me about the Morrissey concert. (I knew that’s why she was calling! Call me Pam, PI.) So I told her I couldn’t go because of work and money, and then after I got off the phone with her, I got all excited and thought to myself, “screw the iPod, go see Morrissey” and so I tried to call her back and there was no answer and now I’m ambivalent about it again but in four days maybe she’ll call me back and I’ll say “naaah, I can’t go” again and then the whole cycle will go on and on and on.

Maybe I should just spend the money on stuff for the house. The clutter is really getting to me, and we’re going to have visitors in a few weeks. I wish I could build shelves, I wish I knew how, I would be a shelf-building tornado right now. Unfortunately, I have a feeling they’d look exactly like shelves built by someone without a clue (or power tools) so I should give up on that idea for now. If I could just get stuff into closets, then I’ll feel better.

The other day, I got a cute shelf from Target for under $8 that I was going to put the shadowbox thing I made with my London marathon stuff. I was going to put the shelf up, put the shadowbox on it along with my two marathon pint glasses and from the hooks below the shelf, I was going to hang all of my medals. But as George and I were attempting to put it up, we discovered the sheetrock in the bedroom is quite thin, and not up to supporting a shelf. So instead of a shelf, there is a nickel-sized hole. At least I had a picture to cover it. Sigh. So now shelf is sitting in corner, as I am sure it will remain for quite a while.

The whole point of this shelf was to clear things (i.e., shadowbox) off wire rack in bedroom so I could take said wire rack downstairs and utilize more effectively in closet area by back door. But nooooooo.

Sigh. After work tonight, and before dance class, I’m going to do something drastic. We have too much crap!!!

Speaking of dance class, and the shimmy, it’s a shoulder shimmy. A booby-shaking shimmy. Must wear good sports bra to dance class tonight. Fortunately, we’re going to be doing more tap tonight,
so the shimmy might not be an issue. Might have more time to practice shaking my shoulders.

Yay!

Yaay! Am no longer annoyed. Kristina bought me a plane ticket to DC for the weekend of Nov 5, so I can see Alison! (The baby.) Yay! (Chris, mark your calendar!) Yay! IKEA! Yay! Chris! Yay! etc, etc! So I’ve pretty much given up on going to see Morrissey. Ah well. I’ll get over it. I’d rather see Alison.

Now I’m going to go read the new Bride’s magazine I bought. I know, I know, I’m jinxing myself. But it makes me feel better when I’m PMS-y. (Should make me feel worse, hmmm.)

Oh yeah, and I’m thinking of buying an iPod with my Delta Queen money. But I can’t use my iMac with it (old iMac) and George’s computers are all Linux so that makes it difficult, but not impossible. He can rig something up for me, I’m sure. I really really want one. And now I don’t have to pay for the plane ticket, so I can! Maybe.

(Kristina bought me the ticket as a combined Christmas/30th birthday present. Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday to me, even though said events are 3 and 3.5 months away!)

Things that suck

Am somewhat annoyed right now for a few reasons.

1. Didn’t sleep well last night. Have sinus infection.
2. Went to new doctor this morning for said sinus infection, also to see if she can prescribe less expensive generic drug for my allergies. Because my insurance’s prescription plan sucks, there really isn’t anything inexpensive to keep me from sneezing and having a congested nose. Even Claritin-D over the counter is expensive. And she didn’t even try to help with the sinus infection. Admittedly, I am annoyed with myself for not pushing it.
3. My boss treats me like a secretary. He tells me to order lunch for meeting I wasn’t told about. I am out of the loop. I am not a secretary. (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a secretary, but that is not what I was hired to do. To get lunch for meetings that I am not invited to attend. Otherwise, who is going to answer the phones?

Sigh.

At least the weekend was nice. Rented Ella Enchanted on Friday night. I love teen movies. Saturday, went to Curves, then to work at Delta Queen. Saturday night, went out with lots of friends. Had the most delicious pizza, but then things got tense when the waitress put a service charge on the bill. I had to go outside while the guys acted all “manly” about it. So now we won’t be able to go back there for a while, at least. Even
though half the party tipped her 20%, the irritated ones stiffed her. So she will think we all gave her 10%. I swear, I am not friends with assholes. Nevertheless, the night was fun. And then yesterday I went to work at Delta Queen, then George and I went to Lowe’s and to Whole Foods. And had coffee at a nice little coffee shop and it was nice enough to sit outside. I can’t wait until it’s really fall, for real. Love fall!

Sept 16, 2004

All is safe. Anticlimactic. Boring. I drove for a million hours for this? To return to a New Orleans with gorgeous blue skies, lovely breezes (okay, breezes can be scary when associated with a hurricane, but come one people, these are lovely breezes), puffy clouds, etc, etc? I am insistent that George helps me put up the porch swing at once as I want to enjoy the gorgeous weather. And guess what, we get tomorrow off work too!

Didn’t lose or gain this week. After Tuesday’s orgy of Cheetos, Hot Tamales, York Peppermint Patties, ice cream and various other road-trip delights, I am thrilled I didn’t gain a bit. Now it’s time to get back on track. I think I’ll be okay this week, too. But it is time to lose again!!!