Steak, Alzheimer's and Craps

I've been on this new WOE  (way of eating) since February now.  I'm down over 30 pounds and 3 pant sizes.  So very happy with the progress I'm making.  My parents came to visit at the beginning of June and stayed for 2 weeks.  We really had a wonderful time.  There was a lot of eating out, though.  I prefer to try to eat clean for most meals, but that wasn't going to happen.  I did at least manage to continue to eat LCHF.

I knew my protein was too high for those couple of weeks, but as we were in Black Hawk and eating at the buffets, meat and veggies was about all I could eat, and I'm certainly not complaining about having steak every night!).  I still managed to lose 2 pounds over the 2 weeks they were here, but that's definitely not as fast as I had been losing.

They've left for home on Tuesday, and I'm already down 1.2 lbs in those 2 days.

In other exciting, related news, I did awesome in Black Hawk!  My dad has stage 3 Alzheimer's, but he does pretty well for himself.  It's just the most recent things he can't remember.  So he can sit down at a black jack table and kick some butt.  But he decided he wanted to try to play some Craps with me.  I tried to explain, but there is so much going on, that he would forget what I had told him 5 minutes ago.  So I said, just do what I do!  We had so much fun together, and we won, which made it even better.  Mom didn't do so well, but we more than made up for it.  It was still a great time.

My children had never seen Michael Jackson's Thriller (videos included in post)

So we were flipping through the channels tonight and Michael Jackson's "This is It" was on.  None of us had ever seen it before, so we started watching.  What an amazing talent.  I don't know what happened in his private life, and I'm afraid he's taken much of that to the grave with him, but you just cannot discount the fact that he is one of the most remarkable entertainers of our lifetime.

While talking to my kids, as they had a lot of questions about Michael, I asked if they had ever seen the Thriller video, and I couldn't believe my ears when they said they hadn't.  Well, we had to fix that, and fast!  So up came youtube, speakers all the way up, everyone crowded around.  They were all enthralled, even Annie who can barely sit long enough to take a breath!

After the video, they had even more questions, now about the moonwalk, so back to youtube we went, and I found the first ever moon walk, which I believe he performed at Motown's 25th Anniversary.  I remember watching that one live on TV with all of my family around.

More questions, more videos, and it was really an amazing experience to share with my children something and someone from my generation who's music made an impact on the world.

And I thoroughly enjoyed it all over again.  It brought me back 27 years, to a much different time; a fun, carefree time, and I was able to enjoy it with my children.  What an amazing night.

I have embedded the videos for you, because you know you want to watch them too, now!

ENJOY!  We did!

Change in Day Care was Good, I Think

After pulling my children out of daycare, I was in a mad dash to find new arrangements for Annie; I was lucky that I could bring her to work with me Thursday and Friday since the boss was out of town.  I can't do it this week!

Not only did I find a place, but they are actually open 30 minutes later than the former daycare.  Yes, 30 whole minutes.  But that 30 minutes will make all the difference in the world for me.  I will now have Mommy Time!  I will have a whole 60 minutes after work before I need to pick her up (the other 30 is drive time).  And what is right next door to her new daycare?  That's right, a Snap Fitness gym.

I've been wanting to try this C25K program for a long time.  Couch to 5K.  It's to help people who have never run, begin a running regimen.  But I seriously could not find any consistent time to do it.  Because of hubsy's schedule, if I'm not at work, I'm with the kids.  No girl time, no alone time, no nothing.

But now I get an entire hour!  On days I don't go to the gym, I can actually get a manicure!  I am so excited I can't contain myself!

Just Bought Hubsy a Little Something

Ok, very little, but he'd mentioned it a couple of times, I just finally remembered.  We watch Bill O'Reilly before he goes to work at night, and he mentioned wanting to get a Bill O'Reilly membership.  It comes with a handy dandy Bill O'Reilly coffee mug.



He was so excited when he got the confirmation email.  It was really cute!

Oh Sweet Victory! It's the little things in life...

This is for anyone who's ever been stuck behind a parked train!  Hopefully it helps a little bit...

Last night my hubby gave a ticket to a Conductor! Oh sweet victory. It's kind of like the people who drive 10+ miles BELOW the speed limit. Drives me nuts. He gives them tickets, too, for impeding traffic.