Christmas

I had a pretty good Christmas this year. We has several Christmases to go to this year. We started out with my Dad's house on Christmas Eve afternoon. From my dad I got a Dirk Pitt novel that I will try to read even though it's not my particular flavor of book. I also got some DVDs, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (my favorite of the four), Fred Claus, Step-Brothers, and a Larry the Cable Guy Christmas movie. Later that evening we went to Steve's mom's house for Christmas and dinner. I got a Snowman candle holder, a crockpot that I wanted that the lid will hook closed on, gloves, a reed diffuser (from Steve's brother), and a couple of picture frames. We didn't go to church that evening because the roads were slick and our Christmas eve service isn't until 11pm. Christmas morning Steve and I celebrated our third Christmas together. He got me a pair of slippers, the Enchanted soundtrack, the Twilight soundtrack, the 20th Edition of Dirty Dancing DVD, pajamas, my KitchenAid mixer, earrings, a calendar, two computer games that I wanted, and stocking stuffers like scrunchis and nail polish. We spent the day enjoying each others company and getting out the new stuff we got. Then we went to my mom and Terry's house that evening for turkey dinner and Christmas with the immediate family. I got an 8 foot ladder, some picture frames, a "Faith, Hope, and Love" plaque, and lots of fun stocking stuffers. We also got movies from my lil brother and movie theatre gift certificates and a gift certificate to eat out from my older bro. We had dinner at Steve's sister Michelle's house on Friday. She and her husband got me a gift certificate to Kohl's and got us a gift certificate to Walmart to share. His dad was there from Virginia and got me earrings/necklace, a J bookmark, a candle, a prayer journal and devotional, a lettering thing for the wall, body spray, and lotion. We also got money from grandparents on my side. So that's just what I got for Christmas and not counting all the stuff Steve got. All in all, I got a lot of neat stuff and have enjoyed using the gift cards to get stuff that I get to pick out. Hopefully I remembered everything cause I obviously got a lot of stuff this year!

My sweetie is sleeping right now because he has to go to work tonight. I can't complain too much though because since he is going to work tonight, he won't have to work on New Year's eve! Yay! We will be staying home, most likely. I don't really feel the need to go out and party of the day that all the drunk drivers are out trying to kill people. I am glad Steve won't be out on the road that night going to work too. I think that's it for now. I spent the afternoon getting the Christmas stuff put away and will have Steve help me with the tree when he gets up. Hard to believe it's over!

Good News!

I changed my weigh-in day to Thursdays because I thought it would be more accurate and since I usually eat a bit worse on the weekends. So, as of today, I lost another 1.2lbs for a total of 21 lbs! I wanted to hit the 20lb mark by Christmas and I did it! Yay!!!

Update

If I can just get through this week alive, and then Monday, I will have six days off straight. I took next Tuesday off so that I can cook whatever I need to cook to get ready for the holiday. Plus with 7 different Christmas dinners to go to, I need a day when I can have a bit of a break. Steve isn't sure what he will be working yet but he will likely be sleeping that day from work the previous night. My brother will be down at some point that day and will be camping out at our house that night. I made cookies last night and put them in the freezer so they will keep until the days that I need them. I will be making chocolate covered pretzel sticks tomorrow evening for work people. I will make the rest of them next week since I don't think I can freeze them.

I didn't go to the gym last week except for briefly on Monday. Wednesday I didn't really feel like dealing with people so I just stayed home and did my treadmill and 500 crunches. Friday I was still having cramps so I stayed home and relaxed. I still lost 0.8lb this week so that is good. I will probably weigh again after I leave the gym tonight just out of curiousity. I am really going back and forth about joining the next bootcamp thing. It's only $110 so it's not really the money issue though that is a consideration. It is just so time consuming. Most nights I wouldn't get home until seven in the evening. Generally on those nights I don't eat very well because standing in the kitchen cooking dinner is the last thing I want to do on legs that feel like jello. And it takes away time that I get to spend with my husband. I already don't get much time with him and it really cuts into it. But on the other hand, I know I need the workout. I haven't decided yet, though I know I need to soon. I want to keep the numbers going down.

The weather is crappy out today so I don't know if anyone will show up or not today.

So far for Christmas I have: the Long's on Saturday 20th @ 1pm, Dad's on 24th @ 2pm, Steve's mom on 24th @ 5pm, Christmas eve church service the 24th at 11pm, Christmas morning at our house (just me and Steve, yay!), Mom's on 25th @ 5pm, Michelle's (Steve's sister) on 26th - not sure what time, and Wittler's on 27th @ 12pm. So needless to say, we will be pretty busy. I am looking forward to our first Christmas in our new house. Casey will be staying at mom's the night before and Eric will be at his parents' house so we will have the house all to ourselves. I will be making cinnamon rolls and have juice and we will just get to enjoy each other's company while we open presents.

I have no idea what we are doing for New Year's. I might work a half a day on New Year's Eve, I don't know. Steve might have to work that night so I might not be able to kiss him at midnight. :( Oh well, I get to kiss him every day anyways, lol. Hard to believe it is going to be 2009 very soon!

So many things....

A lot of things have happened this week/weekend already. I lost an old friend of mine yesterday morning. He has been fighting leukemia and had gotten through those treatments. However, he got sick recently (possibly pneumonia) and just wasn't able to win the fight. He is just a year or two older than me, relatively newly wed, and was always full of oneryness. So, rest in peace Nate, you will be missed.

This week I lost 2 lbs so I have just another 1.8 lbs to lose before I am offically down to my pre-thanksgiving weight. I am going to work really hard on not letting this happen over Christmas. I have worked too hard to have a set back like that. I wasn't able to make it though the gym last night. I ended up crying during the workout and just went home. I thought it would be a good distraction but I ended up just embarrassing myself. I hope that people don't bug me about it on Wednesday.

Steve and I went to Eureka this weekend to go to the Madrigal dinner on Saturday night. I had a really nice time and it's amazing how little has changed since I did the dinner four years ago. I knew all but three of the songs and was even able to pick out my lines. The food wasn't as good as it used to be but it's probably just another product of the economy. I was able to see my old director so that was nice. We stayed at the Sleep Inn in Washington and it must have been pretty recently built because it was really nice. They even had a free hot breakfast in the morning. It was nice getting away with my husband for the weekend and just spending time with him. It doesn't happen very often that we get alone time. We have both been reading the last three of the Twilight books and once he caught up to where I was in the third one (he let me read before he did), we ended up finishing it and starting the fourth one by reading it to each other. I really enjoyed that. :) I didn't even really want to come home. Which brings me to my next topic and paragraph...

My husband is completely amazing. I know I have said this a lot before but it has never been so true. He is so different that anyone that I have ever been with. He doesn't fit into those sterotypes that most men do. He supports me and does everything he can to make me happy. I only hope that I do the same thing for him. Part of the reason I am not sure that I want kids is because I honestly don't want to have to share him with anyone. It may sound selfish but so what? I don't want anything to come between us as kids invariably do. It's still an option and I know we could work it out if it did but it becomes less of an option every day. I have never really felt a great calling to become a mother and I really don't like little kids (except my nephew - I love that kid no matter what). The world is already over-populated so why should I add to that? Plus I see way to many people out there that should never ever ever have children and they just keep getting pregnant. And I have to deal with their messed up kids every day. So no thanks.

Okay, enough of that. I am really looking forward to Christmas this year. So far we have 6 different Christmases to go to and I haven't heard anything from the Long's yet. So we will be plenty busy. I am taking the 23rd off so I will be off from the 23rd to the 28th. I will really be needing that break. I have been super busy at work. It's a good thing because it makes the day go faster and I feel like I am earning my keep that way. I am looking forward to being licensed so I am not so limited in the people that I can see. Iowa is so wierd with their requirements.

So that is all for today. I need to get some other stuff taken care of before I go home for lunch.

boo :(

So I gained this week. I gained 3.8lbs which is frustrating. I know what happened though. I did great for the first two thanksgiving dinners but the third one totally derailed me. So while I probably would have been okay, I let it get me down and ended up eating badly all weekend. I was also really bad about taking my medication for my PCOS so I am sure that didn't help. At any rate, I am "back on the wagon" this week and am still going to the gym. It will probably take me two weeks to lose what I gained. However, it's part of the process I guess. This is the first gain I have had and it would be awesome if it were the last. I know I am going to be extra careful around christmas because I have seven different christmases so far. Anyways, that's it for now.