Hubby and I are going to have to start eating like college students again. I just checked our budget numbers for our Groceries for the month of May!

It is through the roof! I am surprised we are not living on the street yet.

We do eat 80% organic though – we feel it is better for us. We also shop each week for our groceries. I need to get a better handle on that and make sure that we don’t overspend this month.

I need a fainting couch.

Hopefully this month will be better.

Or we can make it up once the garden starts producing – oh, yea, I still have to plant that…

Hi Everyone!

It’s been a long time and I thought it was time to add another post. Yesterday I had forgotten to take my Breakfast Vitamins so I thought I would just add them to my lunch vitamins. NOT A GOOD IDEA! Within a half hour I was feeling sick and just not able to concentrate on anything I was doing. I ended up eating some fattening chips in order to soak up the vitamins and make me feel better. It worked. Within an hour I felt better and could function. I was close to asking my boss if I could go home for the day. Thankfully I even had the chips at my desk. However, the chips are not good for the waistline!

Above is a picture I took for a wedding on 1/1/11. It was for a good friend of mine and I was so happy to take her photo’s for her!

This was me yesterday afternoon after 6 hours of testing! I won’t find out if I passed the CAP (Certified Admin Professional) or the CPS (certified Professional Secretary) until just before the Holiday in December. I am both excited a scared at the same time. There are quite a few good things happening to me right now and I am really excited to share them with you – but I can’t yet. Not until I make sure I pass these exams. My IAAP Chapter has asked me to run for the Treasure Elect this year and will take effect next year. I am excited about this as I don’t know that much about accounting and I think it will be a good opportunity for me to learn about that and more about the IAAP as an organization.

My weight loss has been awful. I have been concentrating on the test since early October and while I tried it was too much for my brain to handle and I had to throw out the worrying about it. Well, with the test behind me I am moving full steam ahead and will continue the plan I had before to update you all on my efforts. Except with a few changes: I won’t update until Friday informing you how well the week went. I am going back to logging my info and will use either Myfitnesspal or the application for Lose it. I will hit the gym twice a day again and drink a lot more water than before.

I will blog a lot more in the upcoming weeks & months as well.

Remember the expression “Don’t bite off more than you can chew”? I think I did just that. I made a promise in my last Podcast that I will monitor my food intake and exercise in order to lose weight and make you very proud of me. Well… I bit off more than I can chew. I am trying to better myself by taking a test early November. The test spans two days and is a huge deal for me. But my thoughts were grandiose in thinking I can study, watch my weight and watch my food intake. I guess I had high hopes. Well, as you can guess, I failed at it. I just have too much stuff going on. Plus this fall my social calendar just picked up towards the end of September and I felt I didn’t have anytime to myself. With the calendar winding down and the test coming to a close (yikes!) I will have more time in November and December to concentrate of my weight loss. I just can’t beat myself up over it. It is really really really a tough thing to do. I hope you all can forgive me. I DO plan on giving you a play by play commentary on my weight loss efforts. It will just have to start in November. Maybe November 7th. I will keep blogging too. I just need to concentrate on taking this test. “I think I can I think I can…”

Have a good night!

BTW- those are my fur-babies paws!

In a Rut

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t move someone else’s stuff from the hook outside their shower. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t take over someone’s mirror space. If their stuff was there – maybe they had to step away to pee. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t sit on someone else clothes that are laid out on the bench. They might wrinkle! It is not very good etiquette.

Yes, this all happened to me this AM at the gym. I am not kidding.

# 1 I actually caught the person and moved my stuff back. After I inquired if she moved my things – she said she was about to place her stuff on the hook because it was “empty”. It was “empty” because you just moved my stuff. *facepalm*

I placed all my stuff at a spot by the mirror, yes in order to save it for me (I won’t lie), Went to the restroom and then checked the scale. When I came back to my spot someone had spread out their things OVER mine and was getting ready. *facepalm*

#3 I was laying out my things to put them one when a women SAT DOWN on my clothes right in front of me! *FACEPALM*

In the words of Job from Arrested Development “COME-ON”.

I am in the process of really hating my Truck right now – this week it has caused nothing by strain and frustration!

On a sunny note – I am going to be recording my new podcast in the next few days! Listen for it!

Y. Saturday at Walmart I wanted to punch everyone in the throat. Twice. Noone was watching what they were doing and it made me very angry. It’s like a bunch of lemmings got lose all at once!

P. I spent $200.00 dollars today on Supplements for my Thyroid disorder. See it Hates me! To be fair some of them were for my hubby as well. It sucks getting old.

O. The fire alarm in my house is out of battery or it has the H1N1 virus. It is going off every few minutes and is about to also get a punch to the throat.