Friday, September 05, 2008

  • 'Cause I wanted to prove a point...



    Ya know, now that I've watched that video a bajilion and one times, I notice that I really haven't lost all that much. *shrugs* Oh well. I'm still proud of myself. ^_^

  • Routine!!

    Well it is that time of year again when routine smacks you upside the head. Alex is in school. Lilith will be starting school next Friday AND she is so self-sufficient now that she doesn't need me for much more than supervision and food making. More routine- Hubster is at work and I'm working (not at this very moment mind you) 2-3 times a week, 4 hour shifts, 10-2. Yup. How routine is that? Sure, there are smatterings of catering functions on the weekends still... but... meh.

    So I have the warm fuzzies about it all!

    I got up, did the morning routine for school, made myself some coffee, put on Treehouse (which Lilith never watches anyways...), and played Final Fantasy I. By 10:30 I was napping. By 11:30 Lilith wanted lunch. In about 45 minutes I'll attempt to put her down for a nap. Until then I'll play some more FFI. After that I'll start cleaning and prep for supper.

    Hell, I've even hopped back onto TheDailyPlate.com after a month's hiatus. I thought I could do without it easily however I haven't lost an ounce all August (but I didn't gain anything either... too freakin' busy to gain weight!). Now that my life is back to being routine, I can fall back into concentrating on weight loss. Hey, I've told many people that I'd like to see myself at 150lbs by Christmas, and I stand by that. It is doable. It is, um, 35lbs in 3 (almost 4) months. Eurk!! Okay, I'd have to work on that hardcore, but it isn't impossible by no means. This summer has been more of a maintenance thing than losing. If only I could afford kick boxing classes but we're going to start saving up for Christmas. Hey! The Biggest Loser season 6 starts on the 16th... that's a good motivator!!

    Anyhoodle, I know I promised Niagara pictures but they're slow coming. Truth be told, I got my nails done on Tuesday and so my manual accuity is a little low. Poor excuse, I know, but that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

    "But Dawna... you're typing a massive blog!" You say.

    Well... HAH to you. I'm used to having long nails so they don't get in the way. It is the nail bed's pressure that I find irritating so it isn't an incompentance thing but a discomfort thing. Besides, writing a blog takes a lot less time than sifting through 300 pictures! Okay, I don't know if there's 300 BUT I do know that the one day I took pictures off my camera (Hubster did most of them) was a 100 picture dump.

    At least I have the 2nd and last video clip for you. It isn't much... but it is something.


Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

  • Inspiration of Dreams

    Awww... the title is a lot more poetic, really.

    I just woke up from a 2 hour nap and realized, holy shit, I won't get back to sleep until, like, 2 AM, which is bad 'cause Alex's first day back to school is tomorrow morning. Heh. That'll be good... I'll be half asleep to send her off. Not that it is much of a big deal, really. She's going into grade 5.

    A 5th grader. Yes, I am smarter than her. I still kick her ass in all things trivia.

    Lilith's first day isn't until the 12th. Her teacher is staggering the roll-ins 'cause they're JK kids; going to school is totally new to them. Although, she will be going to the school for about 15 minutes tomorrow as we're going in to dot a few "i"s and cross a few "t"s and make little I.D. tags for her. Hee. So cute.

    Back to the topic at hand though:

    I'm going to spend my sleeplessness by fixing up all my holiday pictures and stuff so I can share the love of my extra-awesome long weekend. Lets just say that you'll soon share my newly found love of beluga whales.

    *sighs woefully*

    I wish I could have gone swimming with them.

    So yeah, hopefully tomorrow I'll have all my pictures up for viewing. Of course, I'll have only the coolest ones here on blog and ALL of them on Facebook because I am sharing the love of the experience with family and stuff over there.

    Until then, arriva derci!

Monday, September 01, 2008

  • Welcome Back, welcome back, wel-come baaaack...

    Ugh. I cannot believe how over whelming the whole experience has been. Honestly, my brain is still trying to catch up so much that I can hardly sleep and I can't complete a Sudoku puzzle.

    Yes, we just got in about 2 hours ago and for the most part, today has been incredibly miserable. Miserable as far as Dawna got inflated. Seriously! The more time I spent away from home, the more heavy/bloated I got. When going shopping at the Vaughn Mills Mall... it was heart wrenching to see myself bulging at the seams whenever I tried on clothing. "Only water-weight/bloat" I told myself.

    Luckily, that's all it was... and the clothes I bought looks AWESOME. Size 12 bitches. Size 12. It blows my mind that this is where I'm at!

    Anyhoodle, I need a nap. Pictures and whatnot will be later.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

  • Pack Rat

    Well, I don't know how much time I'll have to say "bye bye" tomorrow 'cause I'm going to be doing a lot of last minute cleaning and packing sooooo...

    Tomorrow evening we're heading off to Niagara Falls for the long weekend. Be sure to check back periodically because I'm taking my laptop with me and I just might update at night before bed. Goodness knows I'm going to want to empty my camera!

Friday, August 22, 2008

  • Hee hee!

    Alex's friend just got into Gilmore Girls.

    A part of me wishes she would too so I can laugh endlessly as I sorta kinda like I am tonight... watching New York Minute.

    Okay, that's vague. I'm talking about Alex's little crush on Sam. Or, Jared Padalecki. *chuckles*


    As Dean Forrester (I think that's his last name) in Gilmore Girls



    As Trey Lipton in New York Minute



    And of course... Sam Winchester in Supernatural.

    Bahahaaaa... this movie is so bad. "These sisters got some sistah in 'em!"

Thursday, August 21, 2008

  • Ugh.

    Finally got my mouse and keyboard working properly again. I don't know what was wrong... but they were acting all wonky despite the fact that I had just replaced the batteries, turned my computer on and off again, and switched USB ports for their wireless hub. It got to such a point that I was just going to strap in my useless keyboard and continue using my laptop's portable mouse until I get myself something useful.

    Turns out that I had to hit the connect button on the mouse AND the hub at the same time for a few seconds. Who knew?! I guess that's why people should hold onto their instruction manuals until after the first battery change even if it does take 6 months!

    On the bright side... my desk looks nice and clean and now I am self-satisfied enough to not freak out over my new mp3 player's issues.

    Yeah, I got a SanDisk mini-monsta *rolls eyes*. What can I say? It was one of those "right thing at the right time" type of deals.

  • On The Road Again...

    Okay, not exactly "again".

    This time next week my family will be driving down to Niagara Falls. I'm so excited and I wish that  was so excited that I couldn't hide it but it isn't quite the case. Unfortunately I am so disgustingly overwhelmed by work, the hall, and my kids' neediness that I have a really hard time coping. For instance, I'm gaining a bit of weight (not much mind you) because I'm awefully sick of eating Subway AND I don't think I've had a home cooked meal since July. Eating out = fattiness, and it is hard to keep things on the low cal/fat when you are ALWAYS eating out. There's that, and I just don't have the mental energy to focus on what I should be eating.

    Frankly, I have no difficulties swallowing down a 3rd Lg 2x2 in a day, having an ice cream cone from Dairy Queen, or sneaking in a bit more fat (not a lot) by making a little less healthy choices simply because I can't control the preparation of the foods. It is more often than not the prep that is the biggest factor into a food's fattiness.

    Anyway, I am physically. mentally, and emotionally exhausted. Luckily I haven't snapped or bought myself a pack of smokes just yet... but my will is getting weaker. At least I have the trip to Niagara to look forward too. Heck, I don't even have locations planned to visit other than one of the wax museums and Marine Land. Otherwise, it's all okay... go with the flow. The only thing that I have planned to buy is a new purse. Would you believe my mother in law purposely bought one exactly like mine (different colour and all leather instead of half leather/half tweed like mine... but it wasn't for a lack of trying )? So yeah, need to buy a new purse.

    I also can't complain about work.Work's been going great! Sure, I'm starting to feel a little rage against gay men, but I'm thinking/hoping that it is a faze. I'm just saying'... that's all. I always have felt that men are, well, more rough around the edges and less likely to throw a diva fit than I would. It is odd to me to see differently.

    And then there's the catering thing. That's been going quite well too! If it wasn't for the fact that I have a house, two kids, and two cats to take care of; my life would be AWESOME. But my house is a pig sty, the kids are insecure, bitchy, and whiny, and the cats are a little lethargic.

    With all this plaguing my mind, it is hard to be excited. Sure, somewhere in the back of my head lies a giddy little school girl who is anxious to lose her little mind, but right now I'm on grown-up time.

    Grown-up time sucks.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

  • Dreamin'

    I had an odd dream last night/this morning.

    It was in the basement of my dad's house... but it was HUGE. Instead of a stairwell, there was an escalator. Somehow, it was a competition. A competition of what kind? I don't know... but I was competing in something and the prize was a basket of fresh vegetables (cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, etc). One of the major things I remember in the dream is all the spiders. There were spiders of various sizes everywhere.

    They didn't scare me, one way or another... I am not arachnophobic. But they "posed" as obstacles or things to avoid. I can't shake the image of all the webbing with tiny spiders dangling from the ceiling. Heck, I still visually feel as though I might have cobwebs and/or itty bitty spiders in my hair (I HATE that). There were BIG spiders in HUGE webs climbing along the walls. Some skittered on the escalator (I was trying to get into the basement) in front of me trying to block my path. No dice.

    Spidey go squish. Heh.

    Apparently I won or something, and to claim my prize, I had to go back up!

    Oh for...

    And so I went back up but was armed with aerosol hairspray and a lighter. Heh. You can imagine why, I am sure. Unfortunately, I ended up setting some old drapes on fire along with some spiders and their webbing. Meh, I got the spiders, didn't I?

    Well, as I stood at the top of the escalator, I looked down and saw flames lick up the walls and curl around cobwebs. I could hear the screeching sound of steam escaping from the spiders' exoskeletons. I could smell the rancid smell of burning house. All I cared about was my damned  basket, which never came.

    End dream.