Being Fat Sucks…
Posted by: lifelemons on: June 19, 2008
I’ve discovered that I am extremely upset about being fat. It really has never bothered me until after I had the baby. I don’t mean to say that I was ecstatic to be fat before the baby it’s just that my fat is somehow different now. I am the absolute heaviest I have ever been in my entire life currently and I am sick of it! None of my clothes fit, I managed to find two pairs of capris out of the 50 bazillion pairs that I own that I could actually squeeze my muffin top bigger stomach into. I am still secretly wearing my maternity pants (this is probably not normal?) to work and the jeans on the weekend. I need help! Not only am I fatter but now I am turning into a fashion disaster.
Tom has lost 100 pounds, yes 100 pounds! Before we were equally fat together and maybe that is why I am now so uncomfortable in my skin anymore.
Yesterday we went to an Orioles game. I am about to take Tom’s picture and an older gentleman offers to take the picture for me so we can both be in it. OMG! I looked at the picture afterwards and I look like an elephant. My face is enormous! I mean to tell you huge! That rattled my cage and I kept thinking back to that picture. Then the game ended and we began our trek four blocks back to where the car is parked. I couldn’t keep up with Tom at all. My shorts were riding up while I walked, my flip-flops were slipping off my feet and Tom acts like we are in a marathon. He keeps yelling, “Hurry up, you need to keep up, blah, blah, blah!” I tried to explain I couldn’t walk as fast as him but he didn’t want to hear it, he couldn’t understand how my cavs could be hurting already. Please keep in mind that we were walking up hills and everything it’s not like it was a flat surface. So about a block from the parking garage my legs felt like one big cramp. I started crying, of course, it was so embarrassing to me that I couldn’t keep pace with Tom and that he kept hurrying me along.
It doesn’t help either that like every weekend one if not both of my parents will say “You need to follow Tom’s lead, look how good he’s doing!” As to which I am perfectly aware of what Tom is doing as I used to do the same thing and I am the one who taught him the diet before I became pregnant.
So starting today and am going back into weight loss mode. No more junk of any kind. I am going to start writing down everything I eat and make myself keep count of what I am putting in my mouth. Hopefully this will help my self esteem that has dwindled down into nothing.
Hot As Blue Blazes!
Posted by: lifelemons on: June 8, 2008
- In: Money Pit
- 3 Comments
Our air conditioner broke, that’s right, I had central air and it was taken away just like that. So I am sweating to death and praying for some relief. Unfortunately we are in the middle of a heat wave which I am sure will be the first of many this summer, lucky me! We immediately called out our friend to look at the unit since he is in HVAC and of course we need a total and complete new system. Our unit thing in the basement is a “dinosaur” and apparently the unit outside is “the cheapest crap you can buy.” It was the only thing we hadn’t replaced so I guess we can’t be too surprised. Saturday morning I thought it was a blessing the thing did work. It lasted until sometime Sunday morning because the thermostat read 72′ when I woke up and checked it. ‘Tis my life.
So thank you money pit, thank you for another $3,000-$5,000 that I need to fix the air.
Blog Stalkers…
Posted by: lifelemons on: June 5, 2008
Come out, come out wherever you are!
You know who you are lurking in the shadows, afraid to comment. Or maybe you think you have somehow out-witted me and I don’t have any idea your checking up on me. I know who you are, oh yes I know you’re there.
So lets have it lurkers… Show your cards, I already know your there, just make your presence known.
23 Days ‘Til Vacation And Counting…
Posted by: lifelemons on: June 4, 2008
I know I just got back to work but, all I can think of is how vacation is right around the corner! Tom bought us tickets for the Cardinals game and I am stoked! Last time we went to the game it was a ton of fun, except for the part when I slipped on water after the game and was almost trampled to death by the other fans leaving the stadium while my husband kept walking without realizing I fell, but I digress.
I think we might go to Branson this year which will be awesome, hopefully we will be able to catch a show or two.
Work has been a smidge interesting lately, my boss pulled me aside and asked me to be the back-up for the girl that is in charge of our team. I thought that was quite exciting and of course as I predicted my first day as “boss” the complainers took me aside and bitched for 45 minutes about the girl in charge of us. Then when I told them what work we were going to be doing differently for the week, the one told me that she is not going to do it, “that is her work!” So I explained that while she is on vacation it is “our work.” What a biznatch. I don’t need aggravation at 7:30 in the morning, can’t people just do as they’re told? Apparently not.
I kind of like being “boss.” I think I clearly need to be a manager, it is much funner giving orders instead of taking them! :wink:
Ants Part Three
Posted by: lifelemons on: June 2, 2008
Well the disgusting ants are all gone, thank the Lord! We had the guy come out and spray and he also checked for other pests, of course we had termites. Do you see the shock on my face, I am just so surprised! ‘
The man sprayed the first time he came out and killed a fair amount of the ants, randomly you would see dead ants all over the floor like they came out of the woodwork to die! It was pretty gross but at least they were dead. Then he made an appointment to come back and treat the termites, it rained the day of our first appointment so he finally was able to come back this past week in between all the rain we’ve been having. All the termites were treated and he re-sprayed for ants once more. The first time he sprayed we were still in the process of cleaning up the backyard, we have since finished the majority of the work and his re-spray was probably more effective with out all the crap in the back yard. Now there are no ants! I repeat no ants!
It is like night and day, before there were so many ants you could hardly believe your eyes and now there aren’t any. I was even working out in the yard yesterday and didn’t see a single one! I am very pleased!
I did sign up for the yearly contract and this way they will come out quarterly and re-spray. They will also come out if you have a flare up through out the year if you give them a call. I think it is a pretty good deal all in all and the man seemed very nice and down to earth.
The man told me that the ants are worse this year because we didn’t have a real good snow to kill them off. I believe he is correct!
La-Te-Da
Posted by: lifelemons on: May 28, 2008
Surprisingly returning to work has not been so bad, the few days before I returned I would occasionally cry and proclaim to Tom that I don’t want to go to work!
I have since gotten over that, Tom was right I have to work so I need to make the best of it and try to get the day to pass fast so I can come home to them. It would probably be harder on me if she was in daycare but Tom is watching her so I don’t worry quite so much.
We already have a pretty good morning routine going on!
It is amazing what a child does to your brain, I think about her constantly. Lately when people talk to me I don’t always pay attention to what there saying because I am so consumed with my own thoughts, it’s craziness!
Our Italy vacation is being post-poned until early next May, we want to be able to save a good chunk of money to do everything we want to do and stay longer than a week. To top it off we are going to bring Hannah so that just makes it better! Tom and I really want to do family vacations, when we where growing up my parents took my brother and I on every vacation, it didn’t matter if it was the Bahamas or the local beach. I want to be the same way with my child(ren). This year will be Hannie’s first vacation, we are going to head to Missouri for the fourth of July/family reunion. I am super excited! More and more as I get older I realize how much I really, really, really miss my family. Hopefully we will be able to visit Missouri every other year so that she can know her family too.
Yesterday I took the plunge and finally got my hair highlighted after like three years of not doing it! It looks really good, at least that’s what everyone tells me.
The Hair:
My 12 Weeks Are Up. Already?
Posted by: lifelemons on: May 22, 2008
Starting tomorrow I will enter into my last weekend of freedom.
I will then return to the daily grind on Tuesday.
I really, really, really, really don’t want to go back to work.
I don’t want to leave Hannah for nine hours a day.
I don’t want to sit at a desk all day when I could be home with my family.
Why wasn’t I born rich?
Bling Bling Baby!
Posted by: lifelemons on: May 20, 2008
We had decided long ago that we would get Hannie’s ears pierced.
Today was the big day, poor little baby had no idea what was about to happen to her and then bam the first ear. Followed by baby pain tears, the worst tears ever! Then bam the other ear, she continued crying.
I can’t help but imagine she was cussing us and wondering what the hell is wrong with her parents! Much to my surprise she stopped crying after one minute. I guess she realized it wasn’t that bad after all.
Here is our unsuccessful attempts at a picture:
Ants Part Two
Posted by: lifelemons on: May 15, 2008
Can you believe those buggers are still alive! Some of them died so I am going to assume that I saw new ants that made there way into the house. Of course the ants are worse in Hannah’s room, WTF! I noticed it looked like they were coming through the tiny crevice in her windowsill. So left with no other options I called the exterminator to come out today. Hopefully this will do the trick, I can’t have ants in my babies room and right now that is the only place they are!
Yesterday as I was talking to the exterminator he says, “Talk it over with your husband and see what option you want to do, the one time application or the year contract.” I wanted to saying something witty and humorous but bit my tongue. I like how he just assumed that I was married and furthermore that I couldn’t make a decision without my husband. Of course when I did talk to Tom I got his usual…”What ever you want to do is fine.” I am still in debate, I want to do the year long contract but I don’t want to spend the money. But, I could very well need the contract all year since the ants were allowed to get this bad by the previous owners of the house.
I don’t know how in God’s name the people before us could live with bugs in there house, disgusting. When we first started renovating the house there were roaches, mice and ants. The only thing still holding strong are the ants. I think I would shit a brick if I saw a roach climbing up a wall. I am not afraid of bugs by any means but I also don’t want them crawling around on myself or my belongings.
After all this I hope to God I don’t see another ant the rest of the year. In case anyone else is going through this the exterminator told me that the ants are extremely bad this year. There may not be hope for any of us!
Look Who's Looking
My blog is worth $13,548.96.
How much is your blog worth?
