Not too much going on around here. Today is Administrative Professional's day, which is what I do, so all of the people I support came into my co-workers (also administrative assistant) office, sang, and brought food in honor of us. Of course the food that they brought was Chocolate Cake Bars, Cherry Cheesecake, and Special K bars. They refused to each anything until we went through the line....so I had the smallest chocolate cake bar and special K bar I could find. I already inputted it into Spark People, and supper will be hard to get through without going over in calories, but it should work fine. And even if I do go over a bit, it won't kill me.

I weighed in again on Sunday night and I'm down a total of 11 pounds. That makes me very happy! The only bad thing is that my new pants and clothes that I just bought are getting too big. I went shopping way before I was planning on losing weight.....that makes me sad, since I love some of these clothes. I was reading a post on the message board over at Spark People about how 1 can of pop takes 12 gallons of water to get completely out of your system. I thought that was interesting. I need to see if I can find that post again and see if they ever posted the information to support that. I haven't had pop in a long time, it's been well over a month, I can't remember when we stopped drinking and buying it, but it was quite a while ago. And you know, I don't miss it. It's also nice that when we go out to eat, we don't have that extra $4+ added on the bill. So it makes it cheaper as well, if we just drink water. That's nice. Love saving me some money, lol.

Let's see, what else is new....I'm teaching a coffee filter book class at the LSS tomorrow night. I hope it goes ok. That reminds me, I gotta call Jen and see how many are signed up.

This weekend is going to be busy. Saturday we are having a new stove and refrigerator delivered. Yup, we broke down and bought one of each. Flat top stove and side by side fridge & freezer with water dispenser. Our current fridge is about 18 cubic feet and the new one is 25 or 26 cubic feet, can't remember what one! I'm looking forward to all the extra room in there since I've been buying lots of fresh veggies lately. The thing about the water dispenser on the fridge is that our current fridge doesn't have one, so we will have to figure out how to hook it up. We bought the kit and it doesn't look too complicated, but Jason wants to call a plumber in, cuz he thinks he has to do something down stairs in the basement to get the water to run up. I told Jason that Ma could come down and get it all set for us. You should have seen the look he gave me, LOL. It was priceless. I still vote for Ma to come down, cheaper that way, ya know.

This weekend Jason and I are going to go up to Mall of America on Sunday. All we are planning to hit is the Lego Store, Archiver's and IKEA. Speaking of IKEA, I gotta figure out what else I need from there, for my scrapping area. I use the little jars and such to store my ribbon and such in. There was also a really cool cutting board there that I wanted. And since I'm eating healthier, I think I'm going to get it. Sorta as a reward for me. I'm sure I will find all sorts of other treasures out there.

I've been trying to curb my scrapping spend some, and saving some money. Jason and I each get an "allowance" of $50-$100 to spend on whatever we want. I'm saving mine in hopes to get a Wishblade. So far I have $275 saved for it. It's a $450 machine without shipping. So I'm a little more than half way there. Gotta keep saving so I can get that. That means I have to stay out of Hobby Lobby this week since a ton of Scrapping stuff is 50% off. But I need to get some needles so I can sew some stuff on a LO. And fix the button on Jason's shirt. Wonder if I can get them at Target...will have to see!

Time Flies

I was thinking that it's almost the end of April, 2006. I graduated from high school 5 years ago. That is hard to believe. I still have lots of fun, vivid memories from back then. And lots of pictures. I should post a couple from way back then. We had a blast in high school. It seemed like there were constantly sleepovers at our house, in the green house of course! We stayed up all night, laughing, playing truth or dare and talking about boys. Then there were the dances. Oh my, those were so much fun! And running to Duluth or North Branch for shopping. I still can't believe that it's been that long since high school, it seems like yesterday. I wonder if there will be a 5 year reunion. It would be fun to see everyone again and see what they are doing. Tonight, I'm going to dig through my pictures and pull a couple out to scan in. Maybe even start Scrapping my high school years. That will be a lot of fun. Ma, expect a lot of phone calls to help date the pictures, LOL.

4 Pounds down!

Last week I stumpbled across a website called SparkPeople. It's a website where you can track calories, etc. to lose weight. They have a goals section where you can input goals and such as well. I started tracking tracking what I was eating and was horrified at the calories, fat, carbs, that I was eating. I weighed myself the day I signed for for SP and I weighed 268. OUCH! That is awful.

At the during of Jason, I jumped on the scale on Wednesday, April 12. It said I weight 264. Down 4 pounds!! I truly wasn't expecting a weight loss of that much. It shocked me. I was giddy the rest of the night. I hope to be down to 200 or less by the end of the year.

We haven't eaten out since I started SP and I have felt that I have eaten out every night. I steamed shrimp, made a healthy pizza loaded with veggies, it's been amazing. I'm actually shocked at how much food is in my calorie range. I can make this work. I can meet meet my goal. This is the first time that I have been on a diet that I feel I can stick with this.

Now I just need to keep up this enthusiam!

If you want to join SP, go to www.sparkpeople.com and if you would put my user name (AmPooh) in the referral field that would be great! It is a completely free site and offers, menus and such as well. Even a printable grocery list.