A Fun Sunday

My work gave me today off.  I usually have to request weekend days off to get them...but today I was just given it.  It was nice to not have plans per se.  Even though we did have a fun day!

We woke up early, which didn't feel too early cause of the Time Clock Change this morning.  Then we took a drive up North for breakfast.  Beth's Cafe, for you Non-Locals, its a whole in the wall cafe that serves the most amazing food.  Open 24 hrs, and you can order anything off the menu at any time during the day.  They are most famous for their 12 egg omelet.  If you watch Man Vs Food, you may have seen the episode that he visited Beth's Cafe. 

Today was the second time we have been there, and just as good as the first.  Oh yeah and All You Can Eat Hash browns!!!  :-)

After breakfast we went to Costco and had to get Coffee, and I picked up a nice warm pair of winter gloves.  Mainly to take walks with as its getting chillier here.  Then my sister and I went to Target, where I picked up a brown sheet to use as the backing of my quilt!  Its getting closer to being finished.

Which brings me to the rest of my day, sewing!!!  I got the top all finished.  And was uber excited to sit on the couch and try it out.  Its going to be the most perfect throw blanket for the couch!  I'm going to work on the border next, and hopefully have that part finished tomorrow. 

Well its clean up time, bath time for Angelina, and then bed time!  This weekend went fast!  Hope you all enjoyed yours!!!

What I Have Been Working On

My oh My days go by so fast.  I have to be at work in an hour, but I wanted to share what I have been working on.  Hope everyone had a great Saturday.  Tomorrow I have off, and we are going out to breakfast, and then spend all day in our pjs!  Heck I might even wear my Pjs to breakfast!  LOL

Busy Day

Even though I woke to the alarm at 5:30 to get a good start on the day, I still run out of time.

I felt good this morning.  Woke up and exercised right away.  Lovely One Mile WATP this morning.  Took my shower and got all ready.  Then I worked on my quilt until Angelina woke up.  Then we took a walk to Starbucks for some Hot Chocolate, then walked to the grocery store to get some items I needed for the kitchen.  Walked home, and made home made pizza for a late lunch.  Angelina my picky eater even ate some! 

Now Angelina is taking a bath, she gets to go with her Daddy to a work Bowling Evening get together.  I have to go to work.  So there you have it, my busy day, but what a fine day it was.

I have an hour left before work and I plan on just relaxing on the couch reading my book.  The Hunger Games.  Have a great Friday Evening Everyone!

Shortest Post Ever

Good Night!

Haha, well I can't just leave it at that....but I was busy today.  I managed to do my exercising DVD this morning and walked for 2 miles.  Did random stuff around the house and even walked to the store in the evening time.  So a good exercising day.  I spent a good portion of my free time today working on my quilt, finally!  I have 14 rows, and they are all sewn together, minus two rows in the middle where I have to come up with another idea, as the original plan isn't going to work.  But that's the fun part about doing your own quilt with no patter!!!  Yahoo for that!

More tomorrow on my exercising plan, food plan, video plan, work schedule, and Life In General!  Good Night Everyone!!!!  Much Love!

On Sale Now

I don't think I have mentioned it on my blog yet, but I am making Duct Tape Wallets and am selling them.  I have made a handful for family and friends, and many have gotten compliments...so I decided to try the Etsy thing.  LOL 

Its been a lot of fun making them.  I first started off by watching a Youtube instructional video, and I have since been making them using my own pattern.  I have make Bi-Fold, Tri-Fold, and just started trying out Coin Pouches.  I have discovered that snaps work real well with duct tape, and look decorative while being useful.

I love making something with my hands, and its a great feeling when you have a finished product that is actually usable.  :-)  Here are some pictures of the wallets I added to my shop today.  I'll list my shop's address at the end in case any of you are curious about the others.

Click Here To Visit My Etsy Shop

Our Bodies Are Smarter Then We Are

Why is it when you can't have something, you want it all the more?

This can be anything from Food, to Love, to More Time, to even things like a new car, or new job.  The min. we say NO to ourselves, its the same min we want it even more then before.  Or we get reminders of it, we start seeing that new car everywhere, we see commercials of that Dairy Queen Blizzard, the clock seems to tick faster.  I'm sure everyone has experienced this before.

My experience today is that of Food.  Yesterday's Post I shared how I wasn't going to deprive myself of anything.  I'm done giving up Meat, Dairy, Food in general, and even though its only been 1/2 of a day, I'm feeling great.  Better then I have felt in a long time.  I woke up this morning, exercised by walking 1 mile to my DvD.  I had energy and the drive to make home made pancakes for breakfast, and only had 3 small ones, a teeny bit of syrup with cut up pears on top.  I felt no need to sneak a piece of Halloween candy, strange as that is.

Me and Angelina walked to Safeway to pick up her new movie that she knew came out on TUESDAY!  Toy Story 3.  If you have never tried Safeway's Chinese Express, I urge you to.  Its great tasting Chinese Food, on a budget.  Most times whenever I walk over there I take lunch home with me, feeling guilty as I do.  Today I didn't even have the slightest craving for it, strange once again.

Since I have given up dairy, and processed foods, I have been craving Kraft Mac and Cheese, like no other!  Today at Safeway when you bought Toy Story 3, you got a few items for free, one being a box of Kraft Mac and Cheese Toy Story Shapes.  We got home, getting ready to fix lunch, and amazingly enough the drive to have Mac and Cheese was no longer there, and we had a tuna sandwich instead!  Unbelievably Strange with a capital S!!!

This just proves to me that its not a good idea to tell yourself NO to things.  That your body, an amazing machine, will take care of itself. 

Enjoy your Tuesday!!!! 

Have any of you experienced this first hand?  I'm curious!

Is Giving Up Something Always the Right Road?

I am not sure what it was this evening, but something got me thinking.  Does Dieting mean Giving Up Something?  Or Should it mean that rather.  This is still a debate for me. 

Ever since I have felt the need to lose weight (Junior'ish in High school)  I have felt that I had to give up something to get the weight off.  Now I know giving up candy bars is necessary, but I'm not talking about Candy, or the obvious things here. 

Through out the end of my high school years I dabbled in giving up food all together.  I remember clearly eating little to nothing during the day, but not being able to continue once I got home.  I never lost weight. 

About a year after I graduated, I did it again.  This time it worked.  I was able to get through the day with little to nothing to eat, and I was showing results.  It was easier this time around because I was busy with College, Work, and Tutoring.  This went on until I met Mike, which was in 2003.  Then I fell in love, and got comfortable, and gained all of what I lost and then some. 

I remember at one point I wanted to lose the weight and new I couldn't give up food, so I gave up Carbs.  That didn't work, so I gave up Sugar, ALL SUGAR.  At this point we got married and pregnant, and baby fat was cute to have :-)  I didn't think about dieting for months after having Angelina.  But then the urge to give up food snuck up again.  Needless to say it didn't work.

Then I decided to give up Meat, then it was all processed foods, when that wasn't giving me the results, I just moved on to something else to "give up" 

I am currently not consuming Dairy.  I thought I would try it for a week and see what happens. 

I think I have some sort of mentality that I have to Give Up something.  Like I am punishing myself.  Or disguising my want to lose weight.  I was discussing this is Mike, and I mentioned, maybe I have the need to cover up what I'm doing, the end result is to lose weight, but I have to tell people that I am not eating "something" so they wouldn't know I'm actually on a diet.  Is this making sense to anyone out there?  Wow I am a mess aren't I?


So this is where this leads me.  I am not going to deprive myself of anything.  I am going to just use small portion control, listen to my body when I'm full, and just LIVE!!!!  No worries, and see how I feel.  Of course I will keep you all updated, and if anyone has any thoughts or suggestions or anything that you think might help me out, please let me know!!!

P.S. I know how bad not eating is, and I will never do that again!  Thanks for always reading!  Hugs!