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Today is day one of my new eating and vitamins. 

Woke up and took like 12 vitamins this morning and it took like 2 glasses of water to get them all down. lol, but not bad I was thinking wow I’m going to feel so sick after swallowing all of these. But it wasn’t bad at all.

The doctor’s office says I weigh 202 pounds, but that’s with my clothes on.

I weighed myself at home this morning in my pjs and it says 199.6, Daily I’ll be going off of this one.

I had weighed 198 before the weekend, but we went to Lawrence for our marriage prep class and to KC for our friend’s birthday. I figured I’d make that my last hurrah, and boy did we!

What am I looking at? Well I'm excited...

Today I’ve eaten my apple cinnamon oatmeal for breakfast. It’s okay, a little bland so I’ve added some Splenda and more cinnamon. The consistency is really weird a little bit like cream of wheat and oatmeal together, but they warned me about that.  So that was not too bad. Next week I think I’ll look into a bar or sausage egg and cheese thing.

I’ve gone to Walmart and I picked me up a handy dandy Hamilton Beach Single serve blender that you use the mixer as the cup. Never used one of these before, but it’s really nice and only $14.00.  Made a Mint Chocolate shake. Super yummy! I think next time I’ll mix the mix with water and then add it to the ice. Got little chunks of mix in the bottom of it this time, but wasn’t bad.

I got kind of hungry so I opened my afternoon snack before lunch... they are soy nuts and I ate a few then went and made my lunch about a half an hour later. It was chicken noodle soup and it was really good. Felt pretty full afterwards.

Ate some more of my soy nuts and drank my Iced Tea package also for the rest of the afternoon. Didn’t get hungry. 

Home is creamy chicken noodle soup with veggies and then my evening snack of smores!!

More vitamins before bed. I need bigger vitamin holders mine don’t hold all of my pills.  But not a bad day.

This weekend was a ton of fun! JustAnUglyMonkey and I had our marriage prep course. It was okay. Okay it was boring and the best part about it was that Justin and I got to take a mini vacation. It was fun being with him and laughing about our answers. That was the good thing that came out of this weekend. Making fun of our marriage prep class. It did have really good information for new couples or couple who already don’t live together. But we’ve been together for 10 years now and have discussed pretty much all of the topics they had there. One other thing that I’m so greatful for the meeting was Monkey wrote me a love letter, granted we had to write each other love letters, but it’s my favorite thing. It’s so funny and yet sweet. It’s the best love letter I’ve ever gotten. 

We also got to go to KC and see Lincoln Lawyer. It was a great movie!! Before the show we went to eat dinner with our friends at Longhorns. We ate like Kings and Queens! We had stuffed mushrooms and spicy shrimps for appetizers and steaks, salads, and home style macaroni and cheese. We all had tasty drinks, it was a Blue Moon with oranges weekend for my Monkey and Bud Lite for our friend and Margaritias for us girls!! The drinks came with rock candy stirrers so of course we had to have a couple of those.

We got to the movie early so we headed over to the theater’s bar for some more tasty beverages. I got something called a Christmas Carol, that was pretty much hot chocolate with every alcohol under the sink. I was very warm and toasty drinking it. We had about an hour to kill before the movie so I pulled out my handy dandy pack of cards and we played Bullshit. I actually won once!

Movie was good, feel a little bit asleep at the end, but it was wasn’t because the movie was boring, it was just me. Sunday we all gathered up and went to the Argosy for brunch. We almost didn’t make it in time to get in for the breakfast price, but it turned out to be a birthday miracle and they let us have it since we were in line.

Breakfast/Brunch was Amazing! Knowing that it was my last day of eating whatever I wanted I pretty much grabbed a place of each dessert and took a bite of them all. It was too much fun.

We went shopping after that. We got some great wedding cake toppers at the Converse store and some really squishy flip-flops for me. We helped our friends look at bunk beds for their little girls, but all Monkey found was this awesome baseball chair, until he found the football one!

Well that’s all for now little Spring chicks!

Sweet Thoughts

I have a dream. I would really like to open up a new and used bookstore with a bakery cafe attached to it. I’ve always wanted to own a cafe, my dad and I dreamed it up a long time ago. He always wanted to own a restaurant and call it Natalia’s after his grandmother, my great grandmother. We would sell desserts, sandwiches, soups and beverages. We would have meeting rooms where you could have your lunch meeting catered and have all the hookups for any presentation you might need. I would offer comfy places to sit and chat, write the next great American novel, or read. There would be some kind of rule from the bookstore that you had to buy it before you could come to the cafe with it. Something like I don’t come over to your house and spill coffee on your books don’t spill on mine, now go pay the lady, kind of thing. I would also like to have a rental program for college text books, because they are WAY to expensive and they just take advantage of students who already pay a lot for school. I would like my cafe to be active in the community, because the community is what keeps it alive. I would also like to wrap up things that I couldn’t use for the next day, but were still tasty and take over to the hospital to give to families that are in waiting room or sitting with loved ones, at no cost, just out of love. I know what it is like in a waiting room and how people don’t take care of themselves and they worry, a little sweet and some love can make all the difference.

What-nots and So and Sos

Wedding things are running good everything is coming together nicely, we’re getting closer and closer what is it now? 2 months?? Time is just flying, I still have things to do and confirm. I’ve started to tan and I’m looking nice and brown. I have to finish my wedding flowers and JustAnUglyMonkey has to pick out suits for him and his guys. We go to our meeting this wedding for our marriage classes so that should be fun. My mom and dad went shopping with me last night and we picked out my dad’s suit!! He looks so handsome, it is dark, dark navy with a pin stripe, and my mom picked out a new dress, it is very mod it is black and orange and she’s going to wear a shawl with it, and the sexiest pair of black fringe sandals!! Love them! 

I went to see the doctor, well turns out that I’m obese and actually like 5% percent away from being morbidly obese. SHOCK! APPALLED! GASP! I know, I know.... If anyone has seen me in real life, yes I have a little extra lovin’ around me, but I don’t see myself as booking a tank next to Shamu at Sea world. Last time I weighed myself in the basement I weighed 197 lbs. But! at the office I weighed 202.... grrr, I would have gladly gotten naked right there to take off those last few pounds.... BUT! Because of my families health issues it would behove me to lose some weight to get healthy. I know that I’ve been trying to do this by myself for some time now, but now I’m going to a specialist. I’ll be monitored weekly to get all of those lovely numbers were they need to be to fight off diabetes, heart problems etc. It will totally be worth it to not have to poke myself for the rest of my life. Plus! Someday when we decide to have babies it will hopefully be easier to take the weight off again.  So I’m sure I’ll be talking about all of that soon. 

Spring Cleaning!!! We keep cleaning out a little more and more each time we can. The house looks like a mess  sometimes because I was feeling a little puny. I think I was trying to do too much and not accomplishing much. It’s always the house that suffers. I’ve got lovely clean laundry, but I’m sucking at putting it away because I ran out of hangers or something, don’t get me wrong I have TONS of hangers, but I was too lazy to walk all the way back up stairs to go dig them all out of the closets. But not any more! I’ve gotten rid of a lot and I’ve got a lot more to go through. Our new bedroom furniture arrived so  I’m so excited for when they will all be in one place, I think that’s part of the problem, clothes going too many places I need it to be simplified. 

I’ve also got some pretty cute things to put up in my kitchen for Spring, it’s really fun having a house to decorate! I am so surprised the kitties have left them alone too! 

Sometime I’m going to have to capture a video of a conversation with me and the Phil. He really does talk to you. He has an opinion about EVERYTHING. If you’re cooking dinner he’s talking, if you’re talking on the phone he’s talking, if your reading a book, he’s talking, if your walking around doing random things in the house he’s talking, or he’s asleep. That’s it Phil has 2 modes yapping your ear off or asleep.

*Update*

 I had my 2nd visit with the doctors today did a EKG and took some blood, told me my blood pressure was a little high, but not too bad. I told them that it was probably because I knew I have to get poked with needles, ahhh and guess what they sent me to do next....get blood drawn.... ick.... But the staff was AMAZINGLY friendly. I think I’m going to like it there.

Oh! Oh! the Other day I was out buying BATMAN and Dinosaur wrapping paper (for a 41 year-old’s birthday) and I am walking around the store and this older woman is on her cell phone yelling extremely loudly, “What?!? What? I have a urinary infection?? What?!? What?! Oh an ear infection?! What? I can’t hear you talk louder.” I’m just going to take a stab at it, but I’m going to guess it’s an ear infection, if not kindly direct yourself to the cranberry juice aisle lady.

That’s about all for today folks!

Peace and hair grease!