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WW Wednesday Update…

Written on February 24, 2010

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know my story… or at least part of it… and why I started this blog started in the first place. (By the way, I have my pictures in my weight loss journey back up on the blog here. The story is coming soon.) Since reaching my lifetime goal though, I’ve become distracted – not only here on the blog (losing your purpose for blogging is VERY hard… just so you know), but also in general terms of life.

I’m not saying I’ve lost my life purpose… because that’s still becoming clear to me, but I’ve lost that little push to workout daily… to eat right at every meal… to be the example to everyone. And now I’ve got that little voice inside me keeps saying that “you’ve got to get back on track… you’ve got to get back on track…” Or maybe that’s just my Weight Watcher’s leader….

What I’d like to do is become one of those skinny girls that you see out with their friends at local restaurants… bars… pool halls… wherever. You know the ones… they have a SUPER fast metabolism, and incidentally are also SUPER young… and can eat or drink seemingly whatever they want.

So not fair. I totally missed out on that. Boo.

Anyway… what was I saying?

Oh yeah… that I’ve seemingly lost my blogging purpose. Right.

So I am trying to get back on track… not only with what I am writing about (thanks to the Lady Bloggers Society – I am getting a plan of action in order) but also with the food that I have around me each day. And for this, I desperately need to go to the grocery store. So desperately. But I fear going to the grocery store because those Oreos have been calling my name ever since a couple of weeks ago when I was discussing them in a wonderful frozen format via Twitter with Gitzen Girl.

Seriously… frozen oreos are the best… or maybe frozen chocolate covered oreos… Mmmmm….

Ummm… sorry I just slipped into an Oreo food coma there and distracted myself.

So now you can see why I haven’t really been losing weight… all the distractions in life. They surround me, they surround you… we all just need to power through here somehow. Just how for me is yet to be determined. I’m working hard at it though– and trying to stay the course as much as I can. So far the week has been good to me.

And I promised my Weight Watcher’s leader that next Wednesday I would come back to a meeting. That I would see my friends there and catch up with everyone. I’m a little scared about weigh in… I don’t know why… after all I know what the number says on my scale at home.

So there’s my update on the Weight Watchers course.

How are you doing?

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Post it Tuesday…

Written on February 23, 2010

I was going to write some “letters” to various people/products today… but then this past week I saw “Post It Tuesdays” on Jessica’s blog (ATL Mom’s Guide) and was inspired to change my post to participate with SupahMommy’s group. Enjoy!

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We are dorks…

Written on February 22, 2010

I don’t talk about work very often at all because, frankly, it’s really not all that interesting. I work in finance and really most days are simply boring. Paperwork in, paperwork out. Staring at my computer {blankly} trying to solve problems. Really, I think I would lose any readership I have or could potentially have in the future if I even thought of writing about work days. That is unless you thrive on the paper processing, fighting with copy machines and talking to endless customer service agents that make you want to rip your hair out.

So yeah. Bo-oh-ring.

But not last week Wednesday. It was like a scene from ”The Office.” My boss likes doughnut holes. Yeah, you read that right… doughnut holes. So he and the coworker with the birthday this week decided to do an economic “experiment” loosely surrounding the theory of the “Law of Diminishing Returns.” The hypothesis was that as we ate the doughnut holes we would become less satisfied with them.

These are said doughnut holes early in the day… and by early I mean when I got there. At this point, a 1/2 container had already been consumed. Yes, you do see that there are 7 boxes of these lovely creations in our break room.

We ate them… and ate them… and ate them… ALL.DAY.LONG. Seriously. The law of diminishing returns DOES work in full effect with doughnut holes very much. We had more than 1/2 of them on Wednesday, and we were SO sick of them. It was horrible. But then the leftovers were there on Thursday.

So what were we to do… we had more doughnut holes on Thursday. Which I must add… were gross. I don’t want to see another doughnut hole for a VERY LONG TIME. It hurts to see them in the store. It feels painful to think about the number of them that I actually ate (even though my coworkers totally out ate me on this one… rightfully so!)

In the end my boss stated that if we were to do this experiment properly, we had to have a set timeline to eat a certain number and rank them on how satisfactory they were.

I’ll tell you now. I won’t be participating in this type of “experiment” anytime soon.

Yuck.

(Just for full disclosure here… if any script writers from ”The Office” or any other show related around office work are reading this… keep in mind that this was OUR idea and catastrophe - contact me before incorporating this idea into any of your scripts! Just sayin’… credit should be due.)

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Dreaming of things…

Written on February 20, 2010

I feel kind of funny putting this in writing today. Why? Well… I think I know what I’m going to be writing about tomorrow… and then none of these things matter. Really. God has been laying some serious stuff on my heart which I am hoping to share with you in a post tomorrow — umm, if I can put it all into words. I think.

Anyway… I had another blog post in mind for today – but I need to do a little “more” to it, so it will likely appear sometime next week. It’s about horoscopes — and specifically MY horoscopes for 2010. It’s entertaining me….

So this morning as I was browsing around the confines of the internet (whilst skipping my workout thank you very much!) I discovered that I *want* a lot of things. So I decided to put them into a post to see how many of them are just simply “fad” types of things for me… or something that I will truly want to purchase in the coming futures days, months, years… you get the idea.

The first thing I want (or rather will need soon…) is a new car.

I love the VW Jetta — but would go for anything newer and with more working parts than my current vehicle has at the moment. I think it’s the squealing of the vehicle (not to mention snide looks from other drivers/passersby) when I am not hitting my gas pedal. Yeah, and no one know what’s wrong. Fun times.

A new television (or 2…) would be nice. The one in my bedroom wakes me up with the “crack” thing that it does. Annoying. My dad has said if he had to deal with it, it would have been trashed a long time ago. I really do like the television in my living room, but unfortunately things do not last forever and I fear that it’s life may be coming to an end someday soon. I hope not. But it’s getting “up there” in it’s TV life.

A new camera would be nice… I’ve done a little research and the Nikon D90 would be more camera than I think I would ever, in my entire life, need. I want to take much better pictures than I can with my point-and-shoot… so this may be something I will start saving for. Merely $2 per week for the next year… and hope that I can find a good sale.

Along with the new camera, I’d like to get the Adobe Creative Design Suite. It would be helpful for some projects that I’ve been working on… and potentially to start my own design firm one day. Or at least more easily be able to help others with their needs. And be able to edit the photos with the pictures I’m taking with the new camera.

Finally… the last thing that I am dreaming of is either the Kindle or the Nook. I’m not sure which would be better… or which I would prefer. I’ve seen the kindle in action on an airplane — although it wasn’t a personal demonstration… and I’m pretty sure that the person next to me would have wanted me reading with them… so I refrained from being TOO nosy — and I know I can see a demonstration of the Nook at my local B&N.

Ultimately my question is… would I really ever use it… and is there an option of a “library check out” kind of thing for books I don’t want to buy — but want to read? (i.e. you get the book for 2 weeks and it disappears/locked up after).

So maybe you dear bloggy friends can give me some advice. Yes, besides telling you about all of the things that I am dreaming about here – I need advice. If you have/use any of the specific items above… can you tell me if it’s worth it — or would recommend an alternative?

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