Boring.....

Not much going on, actually very boring. I guess thats a good thing for once.

The Simple Life

Oh soooooo hysterical. They are camp counselours at a Fat Farm.

Another 2.4 pounds down.....

The 2 Week Challenge

I have just completed the Activia 2 week challenge, and all I have to say is that it really does work.

Well, not really but I just have NO time.....

Thats Just Great!

My hair stylist at AF Bennett just quit. She called me to say that she has opened up her own salon. I hope there will still be endless cappucino's. Ohhh what will I do without the scalp massages.

The Secret Hatred

I work in the same building as EZ Pass or as I like to call them EZ Pass trash. Whatever you picture on the other side of the phone when you call them for help is exactly what you think they look like. Well, I get the priveledge to ride the elevator with them everyday. But I also get to park in the same parking lot with them. There is this one guy who I just know works for EZ Pass, he is about mid 30's and balding, very dopey looking, over weight, ya just know he drools when he talks and... Do I even need to keep going on... Anyway he drives a big old Lincoln Continental and blasts freestyle music out of it as he is doing 90 miles an hour to get one of the premium parking spots in the lot. I mean he will run you down, and crash into you to get this one particular parking spot. And when he gets it , he sits in his car eating some sort of breakfast food. Well, I have been getting to work early because of no school traffic so of course I have been parking in this spot, I mean its NOT his, and as he drives in and passes by and sees my car there I sware he wants to kill me. He literally looks at me through the corner of his eye. The other morning we literally had a race to the spot. I saw him behind me as we came to the security guard and we both made a mad dash through the parking lot. I mean I very well could have ran over some people because he just got me so aggravated, anyway I got the spot, but I am not sure for how much longer I can keep this up.

Bridal Showersssss

Yesterday was Dena's best friend's bridal shower. Dena was responsible for planning the entire party on her own.. Those who know Dena know this was a very risky decision having her handle the entire thing.. LOL (just kidding Dena).... well not really... All in all the shower was very nice, the favors, centerpieces and decor were all coordinated to my approval. All I would have changed though was the X-Rated male scratch off's.....Some of the little kids were questioning them.

The 1st Weigh In

Today was my 1st weigh in, and I lost 10.4 pounds. I couldnt believe it. I wasnt even hungry this week even still though I craved alot of junk. I couldnt wait till today becasue Sunday is FREE day. You can eat whatever you want. So let me go becasue I have a hunk of cheese to sink my teeth into that Steven brought me home. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi

As every one knows I do any service that I need done to myself at AF Bennett. For one its convenient having everything done in one place, and for the obvious reason, You are pampered while you are there, and sheltered from all the other riff raff that go to the $12.99 salons. Well, its been years since I have been in (as my mother would say) the common people salon. So being I was pressed for time having to do a whole bunch of things to prepare myself for a bridal shower on Sunday. I decided to have my manicure and pedicure done at another place. Now this wasnt just another random place. It came highly recommend by a friend of my mothers. She said they put clay masks on your legs and give a great massage etc. - Ok not to bad. My mother also adds thats.. This women knows what she is talking about because she has gone to AF Bennett and knows a "good" pedicure. Ok, I tell my mother to make the two of us appointments and she has no clue of the name, so she calls her friend who recommended us and she also has no idea what its called but said not to worry becasue you dont need an appointment - hmmm feeling a little fishy about the no appt. needed, I said well maybe we should try and get one anyway. So my mother drives there being its only a few minutes away to make us appointment's. We arrive there for our appt. at 6, and I walk to the women who seems to be the manager, and tell her that we have appts. So she starts to yell throughout the salon - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi - Mani/Pedi. And we are standing there waiting for someone to come - Oh did I not mention that all the workers were sitting there in plain site chatting with each other, oh and there were NO customers.... Finally someone who looks like she is there Mexican cleaning women comes, and takes me for my pedicure. Now I have to stand there as she removes all the items such as cleaning supplies, garbage cans and towels out of the pedicure bin so that I can sit there. After she was done I had to squeeze myself threw to get on this chair against a wall and up a step, that had I been an inch fatter I would have still been there now. The pedicure begins.... She places what looks like Palmolive into the basin, and proceeds to speak Sp'anese (Spanish & Chinese) to the girl next to her doing my mothers feet. You know they are talking about you, You just know it. She takes out a bottle that says callous remover pours it over my feet and with her gloved hand (cause she never takes them off) starts rubbing it into my feet. All that came to mind was seeing some mob movie, and remember them using a liquid to dislove away human bodies after killing them. Well this very well could have been the same stuff. Oh here comes the clay mask that I heard off. SLAM - She threw it onto the front of my legs and left it there as it landed. I almost feel like I am being filmed because this cant clearly be how everyone gets a pedicure. Its now time for her to remove the mask. She uses the water in the tub that I have been putting my feet in and out of to wash my legs off. Now feeling that I need an instant shower-SLAM- she throws the lotion on my legs and with a one handed motion massagses them switching hands on each commercial of the Mets game.. Yes we had a baseball game on this entire time, and she still has not stopped talking Sp'anese. Oh please let this end. Thank God its polish time...as she is polishing half of my toe nails I am dreading my manicure. I rather not even speak of that. My grand total was 28.00.. It would have been 18.oo but she said she gave me the premium pedicure.. All I could do was laugh.

Bad Hair Day, Week, All the time

I had my extensions removed a couple weeks ago, and my hair looks even worse then ever.. I have been having a very strong urge to just cut it all really short... Thankfully ponytails and headbands are what's IN this summer because its holding off my urge but I dont think it will do for much longer.

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

OMG I hate today - Hate, Hate, Hate it.

and I HATE typing in that NEW damn word verification too.

Kiss

I have been addicted to the reality show - Gene Simmons Family Jewels, I dont know what it is but his life just amazes me, and I love his kids and Shannon Tweed as he always calls her by her full name. I watched them get plastic surgery even with all the gore... I didnt realize that this was the 2nd season. I am sure Season 1 is on sale somewhere being he sells everything and anything. Its on A&E , Sundays at 9.

http://www.aetv.com/genesimmonsfamilyjewels/index.jsp

Cheese Tasting

All I have been thinking about is cheese, cheese, cheese ever since receiving an email from Steven speaking about his cheese tasting. Oh its such a weakness. I would give up a days worth of WW points for a nice hunk of cheese :)

Help! I Cant Breath

Last night I woke up at 1:00am gasping for air. I am not sure if it was anxiety or asthma or what had happened but it was horrifying. I go and wake up my mother who I hear snoring in her room and she says oh its your nerves and rolls back over. So I go back into my room, and then I guess curious to see if I died she finally comes in my room. I told her that if I lived till this morning to remind me to remove her as my emergency contact. Anyway, I am so anxious about going to sleep tonight that I am just going to keep posting till I pass out.. Hence the 25 NEW posts after this one... LOL

Coupons

I know, I know I have been very behind....
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Your Weight on Other Worlds

I felt this article was very appropriate.....
Feeling fat? Why not see what you'd weigh elsewhere in the solar system? If you were up on Mars, you could continue to stuff your face with Hostess Cup Cakes and weigh less than half of what you do now.
Anyway, I will see you all on Mars because I only weigh 38 pounds there...
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

Day One

Well, I didnt do so bad today with WW. In fact I am not even hungry - MAYBE this may actually not be so bad this time around. I even exercised. My total steps today was 3674. Still way too low but about a thousand more then when I started using the pedometer.

Weight Watchers

Yeah it may have taken me 2 weeks to actually get to Weight Watchers, after getting my blood results back, but I finally got there. I am so glad that the employees there never changed. It was a real treat for them to remember me. Probably because I usually just go in there, and sign up, and then I never go back.. LOL, I should just take the registration forms home with me and just drop them off every few weeks to throw them off.

Mother's Day

Ahhhh, Mother's Day... I have been dreading this day for months. Only becasue I know that my mother will be upset thinking about my grandmother. Fortunately Dena & Co. came over and they BBQ'ed and she was distracted, at least I think she was. We did toast my grandmother at 12:00am and wished her a Happy Mother's Day. Maybe that made her feel better. Either way, Its over now, and hopefully next year will be a better one for her. Though I did get her a QVC gift certificate so now she can buy all the Quacker Factory she wants and I know that makes her VERY happy.....

Happy Birthday!!!

OxyMorons

Here is just a silly site of all Oxymorons... Silent Screams, boneless ribs, pretty ugly, and hundreds more like that.
http://oxymoronlist.com/

I am seeing red

Ya know I wasn't going to post this story on my blog, but because I am more and more pissed off about it everyday I just had too. Me and my family attended a "BABIES" B-Day party over the past weekend, and "Babies" being the keyword. Well, the party was very nice, everyone was having alot of fun - laughing, eating etc. Until the end of the party at "gift time" this is when all HELL broke loose. Now anyone that has kids or is around kids will know you have jump hoops to keep other children away from the guest of honor when they are opening up there B-Day gifts/toys. Well, at this party the baby received one of those cool ride on toys. OK, anyone that knows my nephew knows that anything resembling a car is like us seeing a million dollars laying in the street. However, we kept him away from the toy for as long as we could until someone nicely said that he could ride it. Well, he was happy as could be at this point riding it back and forth. He then rides this little toy into a corner where the guest of honor was being held by one of the other adults. So he stayed there for awhile with the 2 of them. The adult was telling the baby to press the horn on the little car so he could see how it would light up... But every time she said that to the baby, my nephew would cover the horn with his hand so the baby couldn't press it. Now was that nice of him to do? Of course not. However he ONLY turned 3 a mere 2 weeks ago so he doesn't know any better, and he still has not picked up on the concept of what it is to "share". Don't get me wrong, my nephew is Spoiled with a capital S, and is use to getting everything he wants. But all this was very innocent. So after he covered the horn about 3 times. and I mean it couldn't be more then 3 times because it was no more then 5 minutes that he was even in that corner. My sister gets up to tell him to Stop. Well, out of NO where comes the father of the baby literally cutting my sister off to get into the corner where they are. He gets down on his knees so to get face to face with my nephew, and proceeds to put his BIG finger in his little face and very sternly and very scary if I was a baby and says "IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SHARE THEN YOUR GETTING OFF THIS TOY" now you would think that was bad enough for him to do but Noooooooooooo. He then grabs the sides of both my nephews arms and lifts him up by his shoulders taking him off the toy. Well, it felt as if the entire room went silent because all parties that were in that corner had there mouths dragging on the floor in disbelief. Apparently, no one taught this man about children etiquette. because you NEVER reprimand let alone grab someone Else's child. My nephew was left there standing and staring at the floor because he didn't know what the Hell just happened, and then he started to cry. Me and my family got up and walked out. Some people say that we should have said something. But ya know what, I don't regret not saying anything before I left. We were not about to stoop to his level and start an argument at a BABIES party. Had it NOT have been a party then yeah he would NOT have gotten away with any of us just leaving with a zipped mouth. I find out the other night that he has his own version of what happened. And that was that he heard a bang that caught his attention, and it was my nephew banging the car into the walls... Now I really have to laugh at that one because I don't even know what he is talking about. "IF" he was banging the car against any walls then it was so he could pass through on the toy. Not just to go crashing into walls on purpose. He also said that Joseph hit the adult that was holding his baby. Well, I just mentioned what I saw going on. So if Joseph hit the adult then I nor any of us saw it. And, believe me I don't doubt that he would have hit her but we didn't see it. Still though I am NOT seeing how this justified what he did to my nephew. I mean was he racing to protect the adult from a 3 year old beating her up or just worried he may have had to do some paint touch ups? Finally though my favorite is him saying that we just sat there and didn't get up until we saw him coming over. Oh yes...we were like Oh No here comes the father hurry up and tell Joseph to stop putting his hand on the horn. Come on now NO one even saw the father until he was up in Joseph's face! But still he had the balls to say that both parties should have handled things differently... Again I have to laugh because I am not sure how we were suppose to handle it. Obviously I am not going to make a "good" parent in his eyes because what I saw going on looked as innocent as I wrote, and I wouldn't have gotten up any quicker then my sister did. Bottom line is even IF all he said did truly happen it still did not give him the right to do what he did. He was So WRONG and really has NO clue how wrong he really was!!

One Of These Things is Not Like The Other Thing

I went and picked up the DVD and pictures from Joseph's B-Day party and as I am quickly scanning through them I come across this picture. Of course I went in to a non-stop bit of hysteria! All I could hear was that song from Sesame Street - Which One of these things is not like the other thing. If you still dont understand what I am talking about look closely at the photo and see "who" is the newest member of this gang...

Birthday Weekend Part 2

Today was my Godson, Michaels's B-Day party. I cant beleive he is 1 years old already. Everything for the party was perfect just as expected. There was even a new edition of some swings in the yard that Joseph & Nicholas had a GREAT time on the entire day. Dora was the guest of honor at this party. Joseph wasnt to thrilled with her but Nicky was
L-O-V-I-N-G her... lol. Michael clapped hands to her as she danced around for them - Simply Adore!

Birthday Weekend Part 1

Today was Joseph's birthday party. If your asking YES his birthday was 2 weeks ago, However, other family members felt that all the halls were waiting for them to call to book a party with them... Hence by the time we called this is the date we got. Anyway, it was a really nice event, We had it at Kiddie Palooza and it was worth every dime as far as a kiddie party is concerned. They had these kids occupied with something to do the entire time. Plus there were these enormous slides that all the kids LOVED. We also had Spongebob join the party. It was for a total of 2 hours and believe me thats just enough time of hearing screaming kids. All in all it was a great time.

P.S. Thanx Again Trish for letting us have the date :)

Bragging Rights

OK, well I took off work today because I had to bake a cake for Joseph's party tomorrow and for Michael's party on Sunday, along with about 100 cupcakes - 50 for each day. Joseph's party was the Disney Cars theme and Michael's was Dora & Diego. So being this all took me about 12 hours, I felt I deserved some bragging rights so I posted the pics.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my Godson's 1st Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mikey....

Love You;

Aunt Dee

xoxoxoxoxoox

10,000 Steps A Day

Well, if you are walking 10,00 steps a day then I applaud you. As per the American Heart Association this is the amount of steps you need to walk to be "considered" active. I bought a pedometer and as of tonight I have walked a whole whopping 2,915. Granted I didnt exercise tonight because my calves are in agony from the last 2 nights of the Gazelle. But even if I had I would have to be on there for like at LEAST 2 hours to make up 7,000 steps. And being I probably would go into cardiac arrest before that its just not happening. Well, here are the classifications for walking - Good Luck -
1) Under 5000 steps/day may be used as a "sedentary lifestyle index"
2) 5,000-7,499 steps/day is typical of daily activity excluding sports/exercise and might be considered "low active."
3) 7,500-9,999 likely includes some exercise or walking (and/or a job that requires more walking) and might be considered "somewhat active."
4) 10,000 steps/day indicates the point that should be used to classify individuals as "active".
5) Individuals who take more than 12,500 steps/day are likely to be classified as "highly active".