Sam!

I have things just about how I want. Now if I could get the archives changed over too. lol Then I have some more graphics I want to make.

I went to Sam's last night, just found one in NYC, any way it was a nice one. But it was pouring rain! I went there cause I had heard there was some JoAnna M. Lund books there, but mine didn't have any. I did get Mastercook there though for only 15 dollars! At compUSA for the exact same one it was 45 dollars! Just last week! Any way compUSA is a rip off! lol I also got my step father some CDs of Louis Lamar (sp) books. 9 CDs with 16 books on them. That's his favorite author, so he is going to be really happy. I am thinking we will go to the Dale Evan's and Will Rogers Museum when we go to Branson this summer.

Then after that we were trying to find our way back to the highway, cause turning out of the Sam's parking lot you could only turn one way, the drive way didn't allow you to turn back towards the highway, so we had to look for a place to turn around, and we came across a really nice RV place, so we went there and looked around. We looked at the pop ups to see how they will do in the rain since that may be the kind we get, if we ever we get one. They did really well. Vince had been worried about condensation, but I have been in many pop ups and never remember condensation. So since it was pouring rain and there was nothing in there, I think I finally convinced him. lol

Any way I am excited to start using my Mastercook program. But, something has taken over our PC and it isn't letting me get to my yahoo groups where I have a lot of my recipes, grrrrrrr. I am doing a Nortin Antivirus scan right now. I hope this can get fixed!

Bad Hair Day

Still updating the blog. I love a lot of new things I've been finding online. Tomorrow, I'm going to try to draw some more things.

Last night we went to the grocery store, Pathmark. I always style my hair before going out any where. But, I was tired so I just combed it, and went last night. And wouldn't you know it, the first time EVER in NYC I ran into 3 Jehovah's Witness families in the cheese isle at the grocery store. What was really funny was Vince was talking to his mother on the cell phone at the time, and was saying who had went to a wedding in Virginia, and it just so happened to be the first brother we bumped into's family! lol Vince was talking to his mom on the phone saying oh they went, and at the same time we run into that brother. Then there was two more that came along with in a few minutes. lol Wouldn't you know had to be on a bad hair day!

Then we hurried home cause I wanted to get some out of print JoAnna Lund books off ebay, and wow was that a fight to the finish. I won with only 4 seconds to go. Whoa I was a typing maniac, the last 4 minutes of the auction 4 other people got in on the bidding and wow was it going fast. But, I got them and at not too bad of a price. 3 books for 15.50. Now today I want to go to Sam's and pick up a couple of books I heard were there. lol

Any way, I'm really hoping I can get my nephews to journaling in their blogs soon. So I want to work on some more graphics for both my blog and theirs. It's been fun the past couple of days. Now if I can just keep remembering to come here. lol Stay tuned for more!

Updates

Well, I am updating my blog as you can see. Trying to make it fresh and new. And looking for new ideas. I will probably be doing a lot more as time goes by. But, I need to do some other stuff too. So I think this will be it for today. And probably try to get back on it on Wednesday. Or maybe come back later today. Tomorrow Vince wants to go to a Car show. So probably won't be on tomorrow much.

Oh I made a new Blog Sisters linkie, any Blog Sisters who want it email me. I will try to add it to options at ringsurf.com when I can. I am really liking the new one. We sure needed something else. lol hahaha If any of you other Blog Sisters out there are graphic artists and would like to donate some other blinkies for Blog Sisters Blinkies just email me and let me know. I will be glad to take them into consideration.

On the lookout!

I actually remembered to come back today.

I went to Office Max, and they didn't have any Mastercooks, I also went to circuit City. I ended up just buying a 10 dollar program called custom Cook Book, don't get it! I can't get it to show up in the program list, plus it does nothing that the box leads you to believe it does. Like it said you could take this health quiz and it would plan out a meal plan and exercise plan especially for you. Well, that was such a lie! The health quiz is very very vague. Couldn't be customized at all! And then after you take it it doesn't give you a meal plan or exercise plan customized. It only says, exercise 3 times a week for 30 minutes. Uh I knew that! Oh and the customized meal plan, eat meat, veggies, fruit and whole grains. Hmmmmmm, so customized, there! That was all it said, not how much, not what kind.... nothing. I was expecting it to say something like Breakfast-apple, 1 cup cheerios, lunch ham sandwich, ect. Exercise, bike ride 30 minutes on Tuesday. ect. There was nothing like that at all! Any way, I will still look for Mastercook! lol Just a heads up on that other program though, it's all lies. lol hahaha

I will probably go to Best Buy tomorrow though and look for Mastercook. And I also need to go grocery shopping for some cheese. BTW, I love Lite Laughing Cow cheese, it's great, and I get to have one a day and not even count it cause it's only 35 calories! MMMMM I like to have a triangle with my dates or pear. Yum yum. Also I bought some little squares of laughing cow that is only 10 cals a square, sometimes I will just have one square on one reduced fat Ritz cracker and that's pretty good too! I also love Skinny Cow ice cream, my newest two favorites are Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, and Strawberry Cheesecake. MMMMMMM MM MMM. lol They also have a bit of fiber, not as much as weight watchers ice creams, but there is a bit in there. So that's a added benefit.

I'm starting to get excited about going to Silver Dollar City next month. I will be back later though and say more about it. Bye for now.

Hunter

It's been a week, but I'm back again. lol At least this time it wasn't months.

The weight loss ball keeps on rolling. Down 57 pounds now! Yeah!

Let's see, not a whole lot else going on. I really want to get a Mastercook recipe program though so I can have a off line recipe thing. So I am looking forward to looking for one. My only problem is I don't know if I should get Mastercook Cooking Light which is a older version, or get the new version of plain Mastercook. I don't really care about recipes that aren't light. But, at the same time, I am not sure if the newer version will have more options that I will like in the actual parts I will use in coming up with my own recipes, making shopping list etc. Decisions, decisions.

My nephew, Hunter's, vision is getting worse. He's been legally blind really since birth. Even though there was no way of testing his vision till about a year ago, when they came out with a new testing machine. Usually the test babies and small children's vision by shining a light in their pupil and can tell by the curvature of the light reflecting back how well or not they can see. But, with him, there was never a reflection at all it was always just dark. Last year some one came out with a new machine that tests for children like him. And he has had glasses ever since. They are really really thick, but he has them at least. Now, they say his vision is getting worse and they want to teach him to use a cane. Well, all I can say is WATCH OUT! He has a helmet he wears now to protect his head, cause his toes are not the right lengths and that puts him off balance and he falls a lot. So now with a helmet and a cane, some one could get hurt! I wouldn't trust him with a cane myself. lol I would be scared! And he's protected against any retaliation since he wears a helmet. lol haha

Here's a pic of him.
He just turned 5 in January, but this pic was taken November 17, 2003.



I guess that's about all the news I have for now. I will try once again to get back sooner. Let's hope! lol

I'm back

I don't know why it takes me so long to get back here. Any how, I'm back, and maybe I will start remembering to come here again. lol

A few weeks ago on March 3rd I fell and bruised a kidney, I was in the hospital for 4 days from that, and pretty much almost been bedridden since. I was doing better for about a week, and now I'm back to almost bedridden again.

The good news is I have lost a lot of weight. So far it's 54 pounds! So I'm pretty proud of that. I have lost 5 dress sizes as well! Here's a new pic this year, from our Anniversary.



This is last years.



I've found some really good new recipes by Joanna M. Lund. So my time in bed I've been reading and reading her cookbooks and newsletters. They are great. I ordered a bunch with my part of the income tax return. So I have plenty of reading material. In fact I have about 5 years of newsletters (monthly with 30 recipes each, plus several articles), plus about 10 books to read. lol Each newsletter takes me about 30 minutes to read. So I still have plenty to read. lol

And I've gotten every thing watched on my tivo as well. lol So it's not such a bad stay in bed. I will just be glad when the pain goes away. At least when I am in bed I don't hurt. At first I hurt badly no matter what, and I was constantly throwing up from the pain. Now it's just when I get out of bed.

Any way we will be going on vacation soon, to see my parents and visit Silver Dollar City. Can't wait for pics from there. Although most of them of me will probably look kind of sloppy since I've only bought one new thing since losing the weight and that was the dress I got my anniversary pic taken in. Maybe I can get at least one more outfit before vacation for a pic there. I want to get one of those old time tin types taken of Vince and I. And then one of the whole family together. I think that will be fun.

Well, I hope I make it back to my blog tomorrow. lol Till next time! :)

Visit

I'm back again. I don't know why it takes me so long to get back here.

Any way I went to Kansas and it was a nice visit.

Been so busy it seems.

I am joining Curves on Tuesday. I've already went and had one work out there and really liked it. So I am excited to get started there. They forgot to weigh and measure me before the work out so I have to wait till Tuesday. I'm pretty excited about that, cause I am anxious to know my measurements. Oh and to get my BMI done too!

Any way other then that just been working on JWLW and getting it going really well. It's been really nice. The chats are going well. So we may start having themed chats soon. IE Recipes, exercise, some kind of topic that we talk about that week, preplanned. The new weight loss buddy program I think is working well too. I send out reminders on Fridays to contact our weight loss buddy and I think that is helping. I've found a lot of neat virtual card places to send to my WLB.

My mom is finally back online and I can't wait to show her how to blog too! I have blogs for my nephews set up also when they start getting online soon

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Grandma Martha

It's been a long time again. I haven't lost much more weight. I've lost around 31 pounds.

Any way, I will be gone for a couple of week starting Monday. I am going back home to Kansas for about a week and a half. My last grandma died on Thursday. So I will go to her funeral and be with my family for a little while.

I am going to miss Vince so much. I hate leaving him. I haven't been away from him in nearly 2 years. And I hated that 2 weeks too. So this is scary and not much fun at all.

On the bright side we got our season passes to Silver Dollar City, and I really can't wait to start camping with Vince. This will be Vince's first camping trip ever!

New Recipes

Hmmm I don't know how it's been so long since I last updated again! It didn't seem that long ago. Any way, I am loving my new recipe book. I am putting the recipes up on JWLW so that more the group can use them if they want.

I've changed more things with JWLW I put in a recipe file so that every one can put in recipes for diets they are on. That way other members on the same diet can get more recipes. We used to just send them in emails, but this way we have files and people can scan through just recipes if they want ideas for a meal. I like it a lot. I've been adding at least 2 recipes a day. And then I am adding Richard Simmons monthly recipes that I get too.

So far I've lost 30 pounds now. If I could just update the blog more often. lol I will add a new pic soon, hopefully.

New Cookbooks

Oops been a long time since I checked in last. I'm up to walking 30 minutes in the AMs.

I bought a new diabetic crock pot recipe book, A Deluxe Potful of Recipes and love it. It's by JoAnna M. Lund. I was at Costco and BJ's. I'm definitely going to use a lot of her recipes. So many good ones! It's hard for me to find a recipe book that has new ideas. So I really like this one. So happy that Pat McKinley told me they were at Costco! She lives in the same state as JoAnna Lund.

Motivation

I forgot to say I started wearing my pedometer yesterday-got batteries for it at Wal-mart. Yesterday I wore it for my exercise and I walked 1620 steps and 1.29 miles. Today I walked 1.52 miles, and I can't remember the steps. But, that's a very big increase in one day I think.

I got real low blood sugar yesterday so didn't feel like going to Wal-mart like I was supposed to. So didn't get my Louis Armstrong CDs.

We had a pretty good turn out for our weekly chat with JWLW last night, 5 people showed up. So that's good. I'm hoping it will get to going really well. Then I figure by July 2004, I will add a Sunday chat too. And maybe eventually a Friday chat. Just to keep people motivated.

Sooth the Soul

Yesterday we went to Wal-mart. I got some things I had been wanting. They had some really good deals on CDs. I got a 3 CD set of Nat King Cole-had songs like I get my Kicks on Route 66, and Unbelievable, and a 2 CD set of Ella Fitzgerald-A Tisket, A Tasket. They had a 3 CD set of Louis Armstrong that I wanted but the case was all broken up. I will get it today though if I can't find it at the other Wal-mart cause they are such a good deal and I love their music so much. Our first song we danced to was Unbelievable-Nat King Cole, and our parent dance at the wedding was to A kiss to Build a dream on-Louis Armstrong. I love to listen to them while I'm in a bubble bath (and Etta James, and Billy Holiday-Brown Eyes) they are very comforting, winter time, warm, lovey songs that just make me feel good. So I think I will start dancing to them more. Especially now that it's cooled down so I can close the windows and blinds and no one will see me. lol

I also went to a buffet but remained on plan. I had crab legs, green beans, and just a little bit of Chow Mai Fun. (about 1/3 of a cup of it.) The rest was just crab legs and green beans. It was really good. I didn't even have their butter. Oh I did have some egg drop soup with green onions, but that is still good for me.

Let's see....... I also got some pillow protectors that are hypoallergenic, supposed to keep the dust mites and stuff like that from breeding. I hope they work. But, they were only 1 dollar more then the regular pillow protectors so I think they are worth the chance.