On January 13th I weighed 208.8.

Today I weigh 207.6.

I lost 1.2 pounds this month.

Ug ug ug ug ug ug ug.

That is all.  *sob*

Weight this morning?  211.  You try not pooping for almost a week.  Carrying on…

Went to the doctors this morning for my quarterly blood panel and chat.  I go in that often to get all of my nutritional levels drawn and checked as well glucose,  cholesterol, triglycerides etc etc.  Blood pressure was great at 107/71.  Talked about my constipation and he suggested Metamucil three times a day as well as flax seed in everything.  Let’s give it a try!

The main reason other than that why I went in was… I will need skin removal surgery when I am done.  And… today I got a referral to a PLASTIC SURGEON!!!!!  I am stoked.  I thought I would have to wait up to a year when I was done losing weight to prove that I can maintain… but they said that since I’m ALREADY maintaining such a huge loss I probably won’t have to wait!  So… it will be closer to 9 months I would imagine before this happens… that gives me time to get to goal.  I am SO FREAKING EXCITED!!!!

So it’s been a good day.  Only have one daycare baby!  And she goes home by 3pm.

A doggie picture post later!

Well I did a BUNCH of batch cooking tonight and now we are SET for dinners for the next two weeks.  Cost?  Around $95 dollars.  This does not include starches/sides to go with though… but still.  Pretty good!!!!

I was going to do a bunch of recipes but I am far too lazy right now… but what I DID cook was… chili (two batches) spaghetti sauce (two batches) shrimp stir fry, chicken with mushrooms, salsa chicken, taco meat with peppers and onions, chicken pita pizza’s, beef and cheese burrito’s, chicken soup (double batch) and… I can’t remember.  But it was a lot.  And it was a really good thing to do with our lives SO FREAKING BUSY right now.

Let’s put it this way… it’s REALLY easy to stay on plan when everything is PLANNED OUT and really freaking hard to stay on plan when you are always on the go.  So I have to make this easy for me obviously!

Tonight we’re having the chicken and mushrooms dish.  3 cups sliced garlic chicken breast, sliced mushrooms, carrots, celery, red onions, garlic and a can of low sodium cream of chicken soup.  We having it over whole wheat yolkless egg noodles with a side of peaches and cream corn.  Yum.  So all I have to do is heat it up and we’re good to go.

On a different subject.

I am burned toast.  Spent.  Dried up.  Done.  I feel as if I am under appreciated, under valued, unloved by my kids.  I work my ass off from morning to night to do and make everything in their lives run smoothly.  My ENTIRE FREAKING WEEKEND was for them.  Everything I would have liked to do for myself didn’t happen… period.

So what does my wonderful husband do after I rant at him for like 20 minutes (not ABOUT him… just about my life in general)  he books me in for a spa day…

Hair cut, eyebrows done, mini manicure, mini pedicure, 30 minute massage… for this Saturday.

*happy sigh*

I knew there was  a reason that I married this man… intuitive and sensitive.  I need this like I need air…

Guess what arrived in the mail this week?

Proud mama   lol!

Bella… aka Boo, Booberry, Boodle, Boozey,  Bells… aka Ch. Cherfire’s Silver Nymph HIC TURNS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY!!!!!

From this… at one day of age (of course she’s the blue one

To earning her Canadian Championship with a three point major on a specialty weekend at just 10 months

To a Beloved almost one year old girl…

I couldn’t imagine my life, my home or my heart without my dear sweet Bella.  My heart dog extrordinaire.  She may never do great things in the specialty ring (though we’re sure going to try!) or produce that once in a life time influencial Collie… but she’ll always be my very first heart dog.

I’m looking forward to many many more years with my beautiful girl at my side.  My 100 pounds lost present.  My friend

A big happy birthday to her littermates as well.  Robbie (on 6 or 7 points now) Dusty (a good start in the show ring) and Bear, Merlin and Gelert whom are ALL loved and treasured family pets who have the best lives one can imagine.

And to think… my new puppy is due in just three weeks… and it starts all over again.  I CAN’T WAIT.

Weight bouncing bouncing bouncing due to my period.

On plan about 99%.  Popcorn last night was planned.

Feel yucky still from this cold and feel bad that I’m not participating at 3FC.  Just don’t have the energy!

Going to muster enough energy to get to the pool today at the very least.

I’m feeling too meh for one today

It’s also a bullety type of day

*weight this morning was 209.4.  Pretty good for having my period!

*Jeff’s dad’s Pancreatic surgery is tomorrow.  They are removing 1/2 his pancreas and his spleen.  He has a 17% chance of surviving the SURGERY but he won’t live long either way as it’s pretty much verified he has full blown pancreatic cancer.  We’ll know more after they biopsy the entire thing.  We’ve got monies put aside in case of emergency plane tickets.

*one of my daycare babies has chicken pox.  Making everyone else freak and worry and wonder and and and.  Meh.  My kids all had it so I’m not worried.  Go ahead and keep your kids home if you wish.  Makes no difference to me!

*I’m on day nine of doing one entire load of laundry per day from start to finish including putting away.  I like.

*I made a poor lunch choice today.  Well the oatmeal with raisins was fine… it was the 1 T of chocolate icing INSTEAD of a kiwi that was not.  What do you think would keep me longer?  Kiwi?  Icing?  … I ONLY make shit decisions like this while on my period.  Oh well.  At least it fits in my calories.

*I did really well on the 25 picture evaluation that Cheryl sent me.  I am actually a wee bit impressed with myself!  I learned that I am NOT an extremist when it comes to collies… I prefer moderate in more things than not.  I’m a body girl who loves a pretty face.

*Joanna’s CLUE goes in for her c-section tomorrow.  I can’t WAIT to see how many babies and how many blues/tri’s.  Yay!

*Bella and I are working on show stacking and letting ME place her.  She’s so easy and biddable.  I love it.  She needs a good grooming today.

*my daycare subsidy checks are STILL NOT HERE.  Apparently they were mailed yesterday.  Cross fingers?

*the dogs are bark bark barking outside along with about 10 other neighbor dogs.  Hey at least ALL of us have dogs so NONE of us can complain… lol!

*floors swept, vacuuming done, laundry done, kitchen cleaned, entrance cleaned… I was busy this morning.

off now to rest and think and read some more.  2 blissful hours of nap time ahead.  Ahhhhh….

Cheryl sent me 25 pictures of collies last night and had my evaluate every single one.  I’ll find out tonight how I did… lol!  She assures me I still get my puppy in April so I couldn’t have done too badly

I GOT MY LEARNER’S today!!!!!  Yayyyy!!!!!!!  Yes I’m 33.  I will not get into the like 9 write off accidents I’ve been in during my life.  But since I’ve had it a total of 1 year before I don’t have to wait to get my green N!  Yay!

I was 210.4 this morning.  Boo for that time of the month.

So puppies, driving and weight.  Yah that’s about right.

well actually today was just fine.  But I needed a catchy subtitle…

Scale this morning is 210 exactly which is just fine considering my monthly enemy will be here tomorrow most likely.  I’ll likely see a BIG drop after it goes away.

Keeping at 1200 FULL AND NUTRITIOUS calories.  I had the largest freaking salad for dinner tonight.  Like a huge serving bowl full of romaine, cucumbers, red onions, mushrooms and radishes.  1 cup of grilled lemon pepper chicken breast.  1/4 cup of herb and garlic feta cheese and 2 T Fat Free Ranch dressing.  I couldn’t finish it.  I am SO FULL and it was SOOOO GOOD!  All of that?  400 ish calories.  SCORE!

Today was a great daycare day.  Kids all got along.  We did tons of playing and crafts and music and… it was just good.

Kids are going to be home from dance in a few.  They are having Italian wedding soup (they love the meatballs!  lol!) with buttered toast and cucumbers.  They will be hungry hungry little hippo’s as they both had 2.5 hours of straight dance classes.

Bella’s ears both came out today and still look great.  I’ll leave them out now until it gets cold again and toss them back in   If you ever believe anyone that says you should only leave collie ears in till 6-7 months and then keep them out?  They lied.  Not if you want them to look good for life!  lol!  Work in progress I tell ya.

Still awaiting Charm pregnant confirmation… hopefully they’ll do an u/s soon?  *cross fingers*

Well off to heat up soup, get kids into bed and have a long hot and bubbly bath.  They the LAST HALF of the LAST LOTR’s and bed bed bed!!!

We’re not going to talk about my weight.  For the simple reason that I am PMS’ing and retaining water and so it’s better that way.  I’ll have a weight loss update for you NEXT week when the water GOES AWAY.

Moving on…

Collie stuff.  I went online shopping last night with my mad money (we give ourselves allowances every payday) and bought a new show choke, white lead, kennel water bucket, blunt tipped scissors for whiskers, kolestral and some coarse chalk.  I know how to party

I’ve made do for THIS long WITHOUT a grooming table… but that shall be no more!  My flatcoat friend Sandy’s husband Doug has offered to make me one!  He made Sandy’s (and I couldn’t tell it was homemade!) and lots of her friends.  So he’s going to make me one with wheels so I can use it as a cart too for under $100 AND he’s not charging me labour!  What a sweet sweet man!

I’ve got my eye set on some Plush Puppy stuff for my next purchases.  I think I’ll pick up the OMG spray and some pixie dust.

Yes.  I dream in collie.  Blue merle to be specific.

In other very exciting news… my online friend Joanna from Blacksheep Cardi’s is HAVING PUPPIES THIS WEEK!  Well SHE’S not having puppies… but CLUE IS!  She’s my second favourite blue merle in the whole world

Well I managed to survive another weekend full of dance and kids and cleaning and dogs… and made it through the Monday after.  I should be good to go for the week now