Current obsession

Seriously, where has 'Words with Friends' been hiding all my life?!

Love this game!

Grocery Stores and other things

I heart the Giant by my house. It is super close and hardly ever crowded. Today was an interesting shopping day, found the yummy ingredients for this weeks FFwD recipe and stocked up on the usual stuff. What makes it interesting is answering the question, "But, why?" every 10 seconds. That is my son's favorite phrase. So, imagine walking down the aisle answering, "But, why?" to everything from the food on the shelves to what the intercom is saying to why the favorite Mickey doll can't be dragged on the floor... the store employees are very tolerant, because there is no such thing as a quiet grocery trip!

Apparently the local liquor store does not differentiate between Armagnac and other Cognac, the believe that they are one and the same. There was no Armagnac to be found for Friday's recipe, so I got a nice French Cognac and will hope for the best!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year!! Well, it has been a crazy busy 2 months, between the holidays, trying to get the house ready to put on the market, and losing a full blown battle with a sidewalk (injuries: ankle sprain, scraped elbow and knee), I cannot believe that it is January already!

The holidays were wonderful, Christmas with a toddler is magical, everything was so exciting for him and us by extension. I worked on Christmas, but we had a big dinner at the fire station with everyone's family. It was a very nice day, lots of cooking. I made vanilla cupcakes with buttercream for Christmas Eve, New York style crumb cake for Christmas morning, and sweet potato casserole for dinner. Also helped a coworker make Salted Nutella Fudge (amazing!). Everything turned out awesome and we were all in a food coma before 1800!

Ughhh...

I am sick, thought at first I was just fighting a cold, now, starting to believe it might have morphed into a sinus infection. Ughhhh..... I can't taste or smell anything. Being sick sucks.

Hershey and food

Spent last weekend in Hershey, PA for family birthday party. Grandma is turning 80 and Grandpa is turning 85. It was fun, but family wears me out.... There is a bit of tension between some of the family, but it was really good to see everyone, because no matter what, they are family and I love them! The drive was beautiful, the trees are starting to turn and it was a gorgeous day. Had a great time spending the weekend with Hubby and little man. It was really nice to get out of town and get a change of perspective. On Saturday there is a big fleamarket outside of town, there are lots of Amish farmers and bakers and we ate ourselves silly on whoopie pies, cookies, and cake!

Work is a little frustrating this week, sometimes the politics just get to me. When it got too bad this week, I just thought about the yummy recipes I was going to try this week: roasted cauliflower soup, apple pie muffins, and maybe some chocolate cupcakes! Speaking of, time to preheat the oven!

Been awhile....

OK, it has been a couple of months since the last post. I can't believe this summer has just flown by, it is already almost October!!! I am happy that the heat is going away, I love fall!

The weight loss journey is at a stall right now. I just can't bring myself to start up WW again. So, I am trying to be mindful about what I am eating and exercising. My goal is to maintain where I am now until I am focused on losing again.

Work is work, nothing too interesting, sometimes I feel like I am back in highschool though (and I did not really like highschool). We are supposed to get a new Tower Ladder truck soon, that will be awesome to be on and play with!

Family is great, little man started preschool (can't believe it!), he loves it! Darling Husband ruptured his Achilles tendon a couple weeks ago, so it has been a very interesting and challenging couple of weeks.

That is all for this post, the next one is going to talk about the food we are trying!

Blah, Blah

Ever feel like the world and the population in general woke up this morning determined to tick you off or grind your last nerve? That is the kind of day it is today. Nothing specific has happened, just irritating in general. I am going to try and limit my interactions with people, until the grumpiness has gone away. It is for the best.

Catch up

Well, it has been over a month since the last post.Busy, busy things going on, nothing too interesting, but time has just flown by. I blink and 2 weeks have gone by! At the beginning of April, I went to an awesome girls weekend in the OBX, love you ladies!!! We had a blast, danced and got crazy the first night, the next day, realized that we just can't hang like in college, so we lazed around most of the day and just talked. It was so great to spend some quality time with my besties!

No new adventures at work, I am currently going through a phase where I keep doing things not efficiently and it is starting to really piss me off. Might be time for a couple of days off. Between the deadlines for my current EMS stuff, new EMS stuff that I am doing, an Instructor 1 class, an ARFF DPO class, trying to study for an EMT Instructor test, and trying to keep track of it all, my brain has decided to check out. Hopefully things will ease up a bit in the next couple of weeks.

Weight loss is going OK, not great, but I haven't gained any back so that is good. I have readjusted my goals a bit, my goal for May 31 is now 20 pounds (instead of 25lbs), honestly, I will be thrilled to hit 20, because that means I lost 20 LBS!!!!!! My newest obsession is Jillian Michael's DVDs (I know that I am about 5 years behind that phenomena, better late than never), I rotate through Kettle bells, Yoga Meltdown, and 30 day Shred. It is awesome, and of course I am going to have to get No More Trouble Zones, and her newest Ripped. I have also read a couple of her books, some decent information. So, I am rotating those at home and at work it is all about bike, an nice quick arm weight work out, and the treadmill. I started incorporating some jogging into the treadmill routine and it feels great (my butt is super sore that night)! My next goal is the Army 10 miler in Oct. I am not looking to make any speed records, just finish and enjoy the run.

I am off to figure out when our dryer is going to get fixed, cause really, hanging the clothes to dry got old 10 days ago!

April 1

Well, it is April Fools Day, I don't know any really good jokes (just really bad ones!). I remember this day was huge when I was younger, especially in middle school, people got me a couple of times, it doesn't help that I am gullible about certain things! As I got older, I am still gullible at times, at other times, I just don't care what people are saying and just go along to get it over with. Probably a bit to much honesty at 0630, but oh well! Off to have coffee!

Blah, blah, and more blah...

Here I am, sitting at work, wondering if 8 pm is too early to go to bed. Considering it was not a challenging day, I think 8 pm is a bit too early. I have a pile of stuff I should be doing, but completely lack the motivation. It is just one of those days that I want to do something, but I don't want that something to be anything I have to do. Ughhh.... it is a conumdrum.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I am actually off today, probably the first St. Patrick's Day in years and what am I going to be doing?! Not much....at least not much party-wise. I am trying to remember some previous St. Patty's celebrations, but a lot of them are a bit green tinted hazy. Oh, college... good times. Tonight, I might make some green beer for hubby and me later, to go with our corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, but that is about it. I am attempting my first ever corned beef, so far it is easy, I put it in the slow cooker and it is doing it's thing. Hopefully it will be good! So, whatever you are doing, have a great green day!

The Bane of my Life: Cleaning

Cleaning is a necessary evil for me. I am not one of those people who clean when they are stressed (not sure if they are blessed or cursed), when I am stressed, I like to bury my head in a book. I am also not one of those people who enjoy cleaning, cannot even fathom that one. I guess it just is a never ending cycle and that really irritates me sometimes. I mean take laundry for example, it is never done, you do loads and loads of laundry, think that you are finished, and then poof, you go to bed and there is more laundry to be done the next day. Same with the dishes, unless you eat on paper plates and use disposable silverware (I have thought long and hard about switching), there is alway more dishes to be done. I can't even get away from cleaning at work, I have to clean there too. Ughhhhh....

OK, rant over, back to cleaning.

Happy times!

I hit -8 pounds today!!!  Very excited, bundled up my little angel and went to Borders, bought Archangel's Consort and Loose Ends, finally! But, before I dove into the books, I figured I had better write a post. I am pretty proud of myself for sticking with my book goals and not buying the books until I lost my goal poundage, it seems to be working pretty good. A cookie just doesn't compare to a new book. Not sure why I didn't think of this years ago....

In other news, trying to finalize the Girl's Weekend plans, very excited, can't wait to see my ladies! Researching hotels now. We also have these e-mail threads going on, it is so great, I feel more connected to my BFFs than I have in awhile and I love it! I think everyone having a smart phone or the equivalent really helps, just jot a quick email from anywhere and boom.

Work is ... work. Haven't run any cool calls lately, which is a good thing for the general public, but kinda bored. I need to practice with the chainsaws, so that is my goal for next week. I did figure out a good way to start them, use the weight of the chainsaw to your advantage, work smarter not harder! (Honestly, no matter what, it is pretty awesome to say I am going to work and play with chainsaws!)

The darling boy is doing good, his newest thing is to say, OK, or uh-huh and nuh-huh. It is really cute, he is also doing so good on his letters! He points to signs and says the letters he sees.

Everything going good, family goal for today, get the Christmas decorations down and put away... yeah, I know, we are THOSE people, oh, well.

Off to dive into Archangel's Consort and eat my salad!

The Week of Sickness

I have finally had enough of being sick, was sick over Christmas, lasted a week, got better, came to work and got sick again, hopefully this sinus hell will be over this week!

On the plus side, I did finish 4 of my 'currently reading books' last week, so I can start on some more!

Also decided to take the plunge and join Weight Watchers Online, I can't handle the meetings, but the online program is pretty awesome, especially with a smart phone! They have revamped their program and I actually don't feel homicidally (not a word, but I really like it!) hungry all the time, so I have hope that this will be successful!

Another positive has been making plans for the girls weekend! Woohoo, finally get together with my ladies!