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Two Days In a Row? HOT DANG!
OK ...I am blogging
two days in a row. WOO HOO! lol
How the HECK did that
happen? I must be eating my Wheaties or something. ;op~~
So I did get some
things done today. I umm.. ok.. cleaned and vac'd the living room. Cleaned
out the pellet stove in there. Vac'd the kitchen, cleaned the counter tops
and stove *ya know...the scrubby kind of cleaning of all the things that
swipes don't handle*. I still need to scrub the floor but I will do that
tomorrow night.
I firmly believe
that whomever thought white floors in a kitchen a good idea should spend
time in hell SCRUBBING THOSE SAME FLOORS for eternity. Ahem.
Ok I am better
now.
I have done 3
loads of laundry. I need to put it away though. I hate that part. lol
I vac'd the
breakfast room. That is all finished save cleaning the shelves off with the
teapots. They need to all be wiped down as its been about 6 months since
that was done. Its time to take it all down and wipe both the shelves and
chotskies off. I dust them off every week but this ole house is dusty and
after a while it just requires a good old fashioned wipe and wash.
The dishes are all caught up, the new dish drainer in place, and the bread
maker put away. Last night I made 5 loaves of bread. I shared a loaf with my
MIL and planed to share with my bro and sis in law but they weren't around.
I will share with them from what I make later this week. I really like the
bread I made. Its a multigrain bread made from
Bob's Red Mill 8 Grain Cereal.
 Not
only is the cereal a killer-good hot cereal, but when you make bread and add
the softened cereal to it, you have a heart-healthy multi-grain bread that
toasts up killer good. It is also great for peanut butter sandwiches or
grilled cheese. Michael & band
had a gig in Waldorf last night, and Brenna was still feeling punk, so I
just made grilled cheese and tomato soup for supper. Yumma!
Someone was
reallllyy hoping he would get some of that fresh baked bread.
"Any bread for a poor starving fur-child, mom???"
Tonight's supper
was home made split pea soup, home made bread and a fresh salad. IF it has
been summer time the salad would have been home-grown. ;0) Someday I will
have my cold frames in place to hopefully grown some sort of green year
round.
One of the
gazoodles of projects in line. I got a million of em I tell ya.
If you are a thrifter : i.e. someone who shops in thrift stores, the last
Friday of the month is half-price for clothing at local Goodwill stores.
Well, at least here in Maryland it works that way.
I am still dropping sizes *YEAH* and shrinking out of clothes *YEAH and oooo
nooo* so thrift stores have become necessary. I was down to ONE pair of
jeans that fit without sagging, bagging or falling down my still-ample-but-notibly-less-so-arse.
My goal in stopping in today was to get pants. So I grabbed anything that
looked like a possibility and took it into the changing room. Unfortunately
most of what I took IN came back OUT without plans for it to come home with
me.
Fortunately, someone else had been in the dressing room prior to my going in
and had left what they tried on and rejected. Double fortunately they were
ALL my size! There was a pile of 7 or 8 pair of pants of various colors all
in size 12 and 14. I wound up scoring probably a good number of pants: 2
black jeans, 2 blue jeans, 2 khaki, 1 army green, 1 dark grey, annndd I
think another pair. I picked up a pair of Mudd jeans and a pair of
Aeropostale and three shirts for Brenna. All of this for $42 baby! WOOT~!
I now have enough pants for church, play, dinner, and etc. for a good while.
Hopefully I can shrink out of them. My goal is to get solid into 10-12s in
pants.
Oh I forgot! I also picked up a dress that is *just a smidge* too small for
me. It fits great up top but across the hips and tummy it is a couple inches
too small. It is a tailored dress in a dark green and it is GORGEOUS. It
only cost me $3 so I bought it and decided to make it a "goal" dress. I mean
HECK its a size 10 and it almost fits me. Where it fits it is as if it is
tailored to me. Where it doesn't is across my stomach where I desperately
need a tummy tuck. So if nothing else it can be a dress I wear when I reach
my goal size or after/when/if I can get a tummy tuck. I don't even want to
worry about the tummy tuck until I lose some more weight. No more than 30
lbs, and that is all fat. I would rather firm up and I am not worried about
the weight as much as I am what size I wear/how I look and feel, if that
makes sense.
Let me tell you... putting on size 12s and HAVING THEM FIT. Multiple pairs?!
I haven't worn a size 12 .. since.. since.. probably SINCE I WAS 12. And no
I am not kidding. What a kick!
Tomorrow I have to put plastic and curtains on a bunch of windows in the
house. Once that is done the house will stay quite a bit warmer *I pray!*.
The heating bills in this big old house are terrible. I am hoping to lessen
that a fair amount this year. In the future new windows and doors are in
order, but that won't happen til I get my photography business pulling some
consistent monies in.
I will try to report in on my progress in curtain hanging and such tomorrow.
Not only will doing the curtains help winterize the house but it will ready
it for holiday decorating! We have to get the a/c units out of the windows
tomorrow too.
This is the third Sunday at the new church plant we are part of. The first
week we had 70 people. Last week it was 90. I suspect it will be even MORE
this week. We already have to look for a new location to meet because it
looks like we are quickly outgrowing our location. How exciting is that!
And this is just is just too funny because I was trying to take a "good"
picture of the two of the fur-kids sitting together. They NEVER sit together
like this, so while they were I thought I would get a pic.
Perry
just like any other 5 year old decided to stick his tongue out when Mom
gets out the camera.
Shia of course is, as always, the perfect
little princess.
Til
Next Time...
Kathie
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Comments (2)
Congratulations on the weight loss!!
Thanks so much for your encouragement. I can always count on you to lift me up.
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