My son and I have been having muliple discussions at home regarding Soda. The other day, we got into a very heated discussion in fact! He drinks Mountain Dew. I hate the stuff and myself, drink Diet Coke. Its not like I am totally again drinking Pop; I have one a day at the most; some days I dont even have anything.
Anyways, getting back on track here . . . He drinks waaaaay to much MD (Mountain Dew). I will give him the 1/2 can in the mornings before school (as I have my Coffee) and I will give him ONE can of MD after school to get him thru his homework, but at thats it ! Over the holidays he was drinking up to 3 cans a day. Not to mention cost and calories, its just flat out bad for anyone to drink that much. I was finding MD cans hidden in the bathroom, his closet, his clothing drawers, errrrr I was so mad!
Since there are only about 10 cans of MD left in the entire house, I told him – No More MD unless it is diet Dew. Well he freaked! (he hates diet Dew!)
Eventually we worked out a deal in which he will have a little in the mornings (half can or less) and only ONE can after school. I will give him that as long as he eats more Veggies, less meat and potatoes, and either maintains his weight, or losses a few pounds.
Since I am like a total calorie counter, and I tend to blab about it to him all the time – he is getting good at figuring how much calories are in the foods that he eats. So the past few days have been pretty good. He is keeping to his ‘eating better’ plan and I am allowing him to have his MD.
All good in the end. Lets hope it continues that way ! (after all, he IS only 14)
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I have decided that I want to go to Las Vegas this June. The kiddo and I cannot really afford any type of ‘normal’ vacation this year, so he suggested we zip down there for a couple days.
I have been searching on line and Excalibur is the best price and entertainment for Families. The only bad reviews I have read is that there are tons of, I guess you would call them Peddlers, trying to get you to listen to a life insurance quote, or sell you a condo share, or some other product. But they dont really bother me much, I am very good at ignoring people!
The prices start at $44 a nite; not too bad. Compaired to our hotel in NYC last summer, this is a bargain for sure! They have so much kid stuff there now, I am sure our trip would be fun. RollerCoaster, Pool, SpongeBob Ride, Aqariums, Tigers, the list goes on.
We still have a few months to decide, oh – and I would need someone to take care our animals that would be stuck at home . . . any volunteers!? heeheehee
I achieved my mini goal of loosing 7 pounds this Month! wee hee ! My Big Goal is to loose 20 pounds by the end of March (started in January) and so far, I am on track. I figure if I loose 7 lbs a month, I will hit the Jackpot. Now, however, is Wednesday and I will have to really concentrate on not gaining anything for the rest of the month. I tend to do terrible on the weekends, but today I have a good attitude and hopefully will just plow right thru the weekend. Hopefully.
Just the other day, my son decided he didn’t want clothing in his closet anymore and that he wanted his Nerf on the wall instead! Well it IS his closet after all, so who am I to tell him what to do with his closet.
He is however, running low on money; these things cost a little penny. He might have to break down and sell textbooks that he no longer uses in school. I refuse to buy Nerf for him, so he needs to get creative. I have better things to spend my money on, like everyday food, home and heat! sheesh.
Well get this. The lovely co-worker I was talking about in my last post complained to my boss about me. She requested a little meeting with Me, Her and the Boss to exchange feedback. Her words were something to the effect that she felt ‘threatened’ by me, that she just wants to be friends with everyone and have good relationships with all us. (I just about puked). What a joke! She smokes (she has eczema because of smoking) she stinks, and she is an idiot! She did admit she messed up big time but she always relies on the “thats the way I was trained” spiel. My Gosh woman, think out side the box, dont follow blindly – look for more and better ideas to improve our jobs!
Anyway, the boss said to ‘be nice’ before we went into the little huddle, and I was nice. I apologied profusly,said I was having a bad week, gave some other lame excuses and she actually bought it! After the meeting the boss said I did good, heeheehee.
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I have to complain about work here for a bit. I am so angry at these stupid people! I cannot say much, but my co-worker just lost our company over $3000 smackers due to her being so dang stupid. It was a file I was working on, but she was to much of an idot to notice, so basicly she just threw the money out the door. Makes me wonder if she is taking the wrong kind of medication, perhaps she is taking vitamins for men instead of for women, or . . . perhaps she is not even human?! I bet she is an alien from another galaxy. That would explain why everyone dislikes her so stinkin’ much. I am not the only one ya know, that thinks she is an idiot ! ! errrrrr . . . .
The weather has finally broke a little and it is snowing. I can breath better and I even slept better last night. This week we are supposed to get snow almost every day. This is just wonderful ! I love the snow, I love shoveling, I love being outside in the stuff, and my depressing mood is finally turning around.
Now all I have to do is get better in my eating habbits. I loose like 2 lbs last week, however I gain 1 lb back over the weekend. The weekends are soooo hard. I need to find a food that will work as a natural appetite suppressant for me. I do good during the week, but then the weekend comes and I loose control. Lets see . . . oh yeah, this past weekend was the Caserole Weekend. Man do I make a mean Caserole! Yupe, it was good. I gotta stop cooking such good food. But I do gotta feed the teenager. . . . ahhhh, I have got to figure this out!
Its been a hard weekend. I have not slept very much. The reason being; our three cats. They have been fighting, growling, running around, and bouncing on my bed all night long! I sleep in a loft, so I hear everything that goes on in the house. I do like where I sleep, its just some nights are hard. So now I am oh-so-very-tired. I even took a nap yesterday, but it did not help much. I have been taking my vitamins, and eating correctly, so hopefully I will not get sick from being over tired. I hate this ! ! I think I just might take another nap today. ugh.
Here is a pic of what the three furballs do all day. I keep them awake as much as possible so they will sleep at night, but some days it is hard. Gosh, sounds just like having little kids around the house again. eek ! nooooooo !
Today I am going to attempt to make a Chicken Casserole with no recipe. I always need to have instructions whenever I cook something however today, I am going to wing it. I have been searching on line for a recipe that sounds good but have not found one I like, so I am going to take what I do like and make my own invention. I hope it turns out. Usually I cook pretty dang good, so I might have to take some diet pills so that I dont eat too much!
The big question is will the Kiddo like it? I am going to stop at Costco on the way home and pick up one of their baked chickens, yum ! I love food !
I have been keeping track of my head pains for the past three months and have finally figured out why. I seem to get headaches at least once a month. So I did a google search and found out that this is a common thing for women my age and it for headachs to occur around ‘that time of the month’. Heck if I knew! I am pretty much in denial when it comes to me getting old. I know women ‘change’ when they get older, but I am flat-out refusing for it to happen to me and I fight it every way I can! Using the best wrinkle cream helps a little, but I think that, as my Dad used to say “its all in your head”. and I tend to believe this as well. As soon as I figured out why I was getting these terrible headache every month, I can now combat them so it wont happen anymore. And ya know what!? It works! I usually have a headache for at least 5 days in a row. This month; 1 day. Wee Hee ! The mind is a wonderful thing for sure.
