So I didn’t exactly do all 30 days of the 30 Day Shred. I barely made it 2 weeks before I wanted to just die from lack of sleep and pms. I did keep up with the mostly healthy eating, and I started running again last week. Overall, I went from 28.20% body fat on April 1 to 26.5% today, so that’s nice. I’ve also lost 4.6 pounds and 2.25″ over my thighs, hips, and waist. Yay me! Not bad for one month’s work.
May Day update
May 1st, 2011i’m not pregnant!
April 18th, 20115 days late, one pg test, and a period later… *whew* I apparently need to get back on the pill, but the pills I used pre-catie (along with several others) send me into a downward spiral of depression, and the ones that DO work are about $100/month WITH insurance. Freaking hormones…can’t live with them, can’t afford them. All I want for xmas this year is for john to get a vasectomy.
in other news, i’m a fucking slacker made entirely of slack. kitchen is a mess, haven’t done laundry in about a week, haven’t hung up the laundry i have done from the past 2 weeks, the dark hardwood floor looks like ass from all of the rain/sand/dirt (and i still haven’t given it a thorough cleaning from the snow days in february). Haven’t worked out in a week because i’ve had pms from hell. I still haven’t mailed a couple of things to england; the baby will be 5 before I get around to it. I pretty much suck all around. But I’m 50 pgs from finishing Game of Thrones, that’s something, right? right!?
14
April 14th, 2011Happy Anniversary to meeeee!! Oh hindsight, you fickle thing, you. Four years ago if I’d known then what I know now….. Okay, let’s move that back even more. 5 years ago, if i’d known then what i know now, I wouldn’t have had to photoshop a crackwhore slag out of my wedding pics, ha! Fuckfarts aside, it really was a fantastic day. I pride myself on my ability to shove that shitty part out of my mind for 15 hours and not let it get to me until the day after the wedding so that I could enjoy how awesome our wedding really was.
MY dream wedding entailed renting a giant humvee of a limo in LA and gathering 20 or so of our closest friends and driving to Vegas and having Elvis marry us in the drive-through chapel. John’s dream wedding entailed…well…his dream wedding ended up being our actual wedding (sans my whore-of-honor of course, that’s no one’s dream wedding). And he was right, it really was worth it. Our wedding is easily one of the top 10 days of my life, and the best wedding I’ve ever been to; Mark’s was really close to first, but I figured since I played a major role in mine and only a minor role in his, mine should really take first prize.
So to celebrate our fourth year of marriage, we bought sheets. From Ikea, because we’re big spenders like that. And it turns out, Ikea has some pretty great linens; I like them more than the high-dollar ones we have. In addition to linens, the fourth anniversary gift is also flowers, which I did not get. Can you believe that? He didn’t buy me flowers, how rude. Except not, because I specifically asked him to not buy them. He buys me flowers more than any other husband I ever hear about, so I didn’t want him to do it on this day because it’s “traditional” and he’s anything but. This is the man who, for the past four years, has brought me flowers on the 14th of almost every single month. I think I can let him slide on this one day. Instead, he surprises me with something else: He had my diamond ring fixed. A couple of years ago I noticed that the diamond was a bit loose and that the band was cracked. Not really a big deal, but it needed to be fixed. Yet it’s just one of those things that neither of us got around to doing and I just kind of forgot about it since I don’t really wear it on a daily basis, so it wasn’t exactly a necessity. So imagine my surprise when he comes home from ‘the bank’ and asks me how my days was (… it’s good I guess) and says “would you like it to get better?” and then whips out my beautiful diamond ring, fixed, clean, and wonderful. All without my knowing. What a guy. And he said he didn’t have any romantic surprises left in him after the trip to Italy; he sells himself short sometimes (well how else can he sell himself *rimshot*).
Dinner was mexican food on the patio at the Blue Goose, totally high end. John had water, Catie had pink lemonade, and I had a sangria margarita, woot. Then we came home, gave catie a bath, read some books and put her to bed, then he played WoW for a while while I watched Grey’s Season 4 and had a couple of beers. We’ll be heading up to the bedroom soon for married sex before I delve into Game of Thrones before going to bed. Married life is pretty much the best, and I’m not even being facetious at all.
Day 14:
Activity – chasing a 3 year old around the patio at blue goose. in the morning i chased her around trying to get her dressed. three year olds require a lot of chasing.
brekkie – cereal
lunch – leftover lentils w/ pasta
dinner – crab and shrimp enchiladas w/ a sangria margarita
dessert – two beers
13
April 13th, 2011And again with the not working out. I was all set to do it, and then after dinner my stomach just gave a sickening lurch and I spent some quality time making butt soup. I blame the lentils. And the PMS.
Day 13:
Brekkie – toast w/ pb&j
Lunch – popcorn with curry seasoning and a coke.
Dinner – pasta w/ lentil marinara
Dessert – handful of chocolate chips
12
April 13th, 201112 was a better day. Sleep makes me happy.
Day 12:
Activity – 30DS level TWO!
Brekkie – cereal
Lunch – apple w/ peanut butter and some cheddar cheese
Dinner – black bean and corn quesadillas
11 – fail
April 13th, 2011So much for my 30DS in 30 days. We got hit by a crazy thunderstorm Sunday night; 70mph wind, golfball sized hail, rain, thunder, etc. Trampoline ended up wrapped around the neighbor’s back porch, fences down, gutters dented, etc. Good times. So I was on NO sleep, in no mood to really cook anything decent after working and cleaning up the yard, and ready to go to bed around 8.
Day 11:
Activity – cleaning the yard
brekkie – I think i had cereal
lunch – leftover sesame noodles w/ broccoli
dinner – hot dogs & baked beans w/ noodles/broccoli on the side. classy.
snack – beer
10
April 10th, 2011Today was a better day, i think it’s because i went to bed early and got some solid sleep for a change. Spent the day at home doing water fights with the hose; taught catie how to hide from john with the hose in hand to spray him as soon as he walks out of the house. Comedy ensued. Didn’t eat any meat today so that probably helped as well. Finally finished day 10 of the 30 day shred and i can really feel and see a difference. Body fat % is down and i’ve lost a pound, whee. And I learned how to make popcorn on the stove-top today for the first time! So domestic.
Day 10:
activity – gardening, hosing around, 30ds level 1
brekkie – crust off of a pb&j
lunch – mexican tortilla pizza
dinner – sesame noodles w/ broccoli
dessert – an orange, a crapload of popcorn
9
April 10th, 2011I went to bed early last night and completely neglected to post my day. I know you were all on the edge of your seat for it. I felt like crap all freaking day due to allergies and a headache that wouldn’t go away, but i powered through because we had a lot to get through. Catie got a haircut, went to costco, went to ikea; doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you’re trying to herd a three-year-old, it takes about twice as long.
Day 9:
Activity – running after catie here there and everywhere; 30DS level 1
brekkie – leftover frittata
lunch – leftover pizza
dinner – split some swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, lingonberries, and pasta with meatballs with catie and john
8
April 8th, 2011we were looking out of our bathroom window this morning and comparing the grass in our yard to that of our neighbors and discussing how ours is mostly green all over and the neighbors, who have dogs, have green splotches due to dog poop, and catie informed us “someday I can be a dog and poop in our yard!” uh, okay! and then she told us about a dream she had where she was a dog and she ran around in our yard and licked us because she was a friendly dog. Pretty cute.
Weird how i don’t really talk about her much on the blog, i think it’s mainly because i like to keep her to myself. I’m not a very private person at all (bet you couldn’t have figured that out what with my talking about my buttsoup), but I just like keeping her private. There are about a bajillion mommy-blogs out there detailing every single step their kid takes, and they’re kind of all the same; almost all kids do the same thing at approximately the same time. I don’t want her to be generic. She’s perfect and special (not like the olympics) and she’s strong and brave and funny and adventurous and smart and beautiful and she’s mine all mine. Mine with which to read and jump and play and cuddle on the couch watching curious george and sing to sleep and rub her hair and hug and love. Well, sometimes I do share her with John. When he’s nice.
day 8:
brekkie – leftover frittata, coffee
lunch – fried rice with kimchi and leftover chopped up steak from a couple of nights ago
snack – smoothie
dinner – pizza (catie wanted pineapple pizza, and i wanted to play in the sandbox with her instead of make dinner. worth it.)
dessert – guinness
7
April 7th, 2011Nothing really new to report. I’ve finished knitting something and now I just have to haul my arse to the post office and hopefully it will get to England before the baby is born, we’ll see if that happens. I could really use a Guinness, but I’m trying to be good and not drink anything carbonated. Today is the last day of anything chocolate for a while because (TMI) my poop is freaking foul and chocolatey and I’m grossing myself out whenever I take a dump. Byproduct of being allergic to chocolate.
Day 7:
activity – 30DS level 1
brekkie – pancakes, coffee
lunch – homemade mexican pizza (i know, i know, but it’s like I’m addicted or something)
snack – smoothie (yogurt, strawberries, banana, blueberries, splash of apple juice)
dinner – asparagus, ham, & cheese frittata with some extra roasted asparagus on the side (my pee stinks)
dessert – handful of chocolate chips (no more!!)