Squirrel Is In

Germs, caffeine dreams, and bustin' out...

I'm soooo sick.  I had to go to the doctor today.  My sinuses are all clogged up and I'm getting a chest cold.  For the past two nights I have been up coughing my head off.  I wanted to make another video but I really look and feel awful.  That and I can't think of anything to video blog about.  I keep trying to make a video of the hubby and my teenage son but they keep waving at the camera with their middle fingers.  I take that to mean "get that f*cking camera out of my face".  They are seriously no fun.

You know what sounds good right now?  A great big cup of cappuccino.  I got a prescription of some killer cough medicine and it is making me so tired.  I wish I lived closer to Oklahoma City so I could run down to the nearest Starbucks.  Mmmmmmm White Chocolate Mocha Latte......

Today while I was waiting for the evil empire (Wally World) to fill my prescription I went shopping.  I swear the purposely wait for a half an hour to have it ready just so that you are lured into the rest of the store.  Anyway, I went to the womens clothing area.  I found a nice black dress shirt to go with my black and gray pinstriped pants.  I have lost about 18 pounds. I really hate this because I am too big for a medium and too small for a large.  I bought this medium button up shirt and I got it home and I'm popping out of the darn thing like i've got big hooters or something (NOT). Yeah you really wanted to know that didn't you. LOL.  Yeah it's a slow news day folks, bear with me.

Ok, i'm going to close this really random post.  I'm putting myself to sleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

Ribs, the incredible shrinking stomach and the growing boy...

It was such a long rough weekend!  We had the annual rib roast fund raiser for the little league football teams on Saturday.  We had 6 giant smokers and we cooked 630 slabs of pork ribs.  Oh, did I mention it was a little over 100 degrees on Saturday?!!!  I finally gave out around 10:30pm.  I heard they were at it until 2:00am.  It was a nightmare.  My husband is the vice president of the club and along with the president decided that we will no longer do this fund raiser.  We made almost 5000 dollars but it is just too hard and we don't get enough parents to help.  Not to mention the only time of year we can do it it is as hot as Hell!  I'm surprised my husband didn't have a heart attack or a stroke.  He was one of the ones stoking the fires and loading and unloading the meat into the smokers.  He also cut and delivered all the wood the night before.  We cut down a giant Pecan tree a few weeks ago in our yard and one last year so we had a lot of great wood to smoke meat with.  It was a tense day.  My husband and the woman who is the little league president got into a little argument. I wasn't there but I heard it wasn't pretty.

Anyway.....

My diet is going GREAT I am now down to 147!!!!  I am only eating about 1100 calories a day and no longer feel like I am starving.  Over the weekend I was going to splurge and eat a big meal and I could only eat a 1/3 of it.  I think my stomach is shrinking.  My husband ate too many ribs and gained about three pounds.  After looking at all that raw meat all day I couldn't even eat it.

School starts in three days!!  I'm taking the boys to get the last of their cavities filled on Wednesday.  Thursday is the first day of school!  Tomorrow I've got to take T-man to the high school because they put him in Ag and home economics II.  He is not a happy camper about it.  He's going into the tenth grade this year.  I can't believe how fast he is growing up.  He's 5'11" now and still growing.  He's going to be a big boy.

Well i've gotta run now and do all the laundry from the weekend. See ya!

Another shot at weight loss and a shot at a campaign win.

I'm trying another way to loose weight.  The pills made me sick to my stomach and the low carb diet was just too hard and my friend Titania is a nutritionist and said not to do it that way.  So now I am limiting my calorie intake to under 1300 calories and eating more fruits and vegetables, eating Lean Cuisine and Healthy Choice frozen dinners, drinking skim milk and walking and or riding the torture device exercise bike.  No more soda unless it is diet. Drinking more water and these great low calorie (and some flavors are no calorie) drink called Fuze.  So far in the past two weeks I have lost 5 pounds.  My husband is on a 1600 calorie diet and has lost 13 pounds over the past few weeks.  It really sucks because he can eat more than me and I'm starving!  But, I won't have to diet for as long as my Hubby though because he's got a lot more weight to loose than I do.  I only need to loose 20 pounds he needs to loose about 80 pounds.  Because of the heart disease risk factors he's got to get down to around 175.  I think he can do it.  He's really doing good about calling me before he eats out and asking me to look up what he can eat on the menu that is low cal.

In other news, the campaign is doing well.  My brother came up with a great ad to put in the paper next week.  People are coming up to me that I don't know and asking me if i'm (Squirrel) and telling me that they are voting for me.  I'm getting a little anxious about it.  I haven't worked in two years and I'm a little scared thinking i'm getting in over my head.  Did I just say that out loud? No.  It's online, it doesn't count. LOL

Letting down the preacher and my coconut cream pie downfall

I feel like such a freaking heel!!!!!  I'm sure there are worse things you could do than what I did, like commit murder or rob a bank!!!!!!!  I promised the pastor of our church on Sunday that I would come to the church this morning at 9:30am and take care of some kids while he was attending a funeral.  I FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!!  At 10:40am I get my lazy ass out of bed and remember.  I race to the church and the people are starting to come out of the church.  I feel horrible!  I haven't gotten to talk to him.  I wrote him a card and put it in the mail and then I sent him an e-mail.  Oh well.  I'm sure he will forgive me.  Pastors kinda have to don't they? LOL (actually that was a very nervous LOL not a jovial one)

OK on to the diet report.

Day one:

10:00am: I took two Trimspa and drank a big glass of water.

11:00am: I have drank two more glasses of water, those pills make me thirsty.

11:30am: I'm getting a little hungry so I ate two french toast sticks.

1:30pm: I am getting hungry again.  I took the mid-day Trimspa and drank another glass of water.

1:45pm: I ate 1/8 of a piece of coconut creme pie.  Not exactly eating diet foods am I?!

3:00pm: I have drank 6 glasses of water and my eyeballs are floating.  Still, I'm not that hungry.

5:30pm: I just took the evening Trimspa.  I'm getting hungry again and I think i'm going to go eat a steak for dinner.

6:30pm: I ate a steak, corn, squash and a dinner salad for supper.  I seriously eyed the dessert menu but successfully avoided it.  Secretly though I knew I had Coconut Cream pie in the fridge at home! Mwahahahaha....

7:30pm: I went to the grocery store and bought strawberry and french vanilla slim fast for tomorrow.  "No more Coconut Cream Pie!" is my new motto.

8:00pm:  Decided that it would be a crime to let the Coconut Cream pie go to waste since the kids don't like coconut and making my husband eat it would be wrong since he is fatter than me.

A possible arrest and chocolate binging...

I'm sorry if you are sick of hearing nothing but the drama of Rabid but it seems like that is all that goes on around here these days. 

We made a police report about Rabid trying to get C-man to leave the school with her on Wednesday.  The chief of police went to the school this morning and got a copy of the video of her sneaking into the school and got a statement from C-man.  He is going to try and get the D.A. to charge Rabid with attempted child-stealing. 

As for me I'm just stressed out and wanting to sleep a lot.  I have been on a chocolate binge since Valentines Day.  I have so far eaten a half a bag of Hersheys Cherry Cordial Creme' Kisses.  They are sooo delicious!  I've gained 5 pounds back.  I even ate a Quarter pounder at McDonalds the other day.  I tend to eat when I'm stressed. 

Well folks I'm going to go lay down, eat some chocolate and watch a soap opera then take a nice hot bubble bath.... 

Hockey, Nerf, weather and cake GLORIOUS cake

Hockey last night was a let down.  The stupid Ref's stopped every fight.  They couldn't even get off with one punch before the refs went over there and stopped them.  Oh and we also lost 4 to 5, that sucked.  I still had some fun but it wasn't a heart pounding good time like I had hoped. 

I mentioned C-man's birthday was yesterday.  His cousin decided to buy him a Nerf air rifle.  Something in this house is going to get broken I just know it.  I told him not to shoot it in the house.  He just gave me that blank stare and said "well what if I accidently shoot it in the house?". Boys.

We are getting some more snow and rain today but not the 4 to 8 inches that they were predicting.  Thank goodness.  As it is it looks like my porch is going to cave from the weight of the ice that has been on it all week.  There is 3 or 4 inches of ice on that porch roof.

Damn, don't I have anything good to say?!  Well, my husband has lost about 10 pounds this week.  That's what he says but I find it hard to believe.  I lost 3 or 4.  We are really sticking to this low carb diet and it seems to be working.  It was hard not to eat C-man whole birthday cake.  It smells sooooo goooood.  I ate one tiny piece of it.  I had to.  It was my kids birthday.  I think theres some kind of rule that you have to. Really.

Cabin fever and bacon

School is out again today.  C-man has been out of school 7 days now if you count the weekend.  We have watched Fairly Odd Parents and Sponge Bob 4 times a day for 4 days in a row. If I was to guess how many times he has asked to go outside I would guess 24 to 30 times in 4 days.  Yesterday I finally broke down and said yes thinking he would want to come in quickly because of the bitter cold.  Nope he stayed out there at least an hour both times he went out.  Today he has a pretty bad stuffed up nose but that's not stopping him from running circles around the house like a maniac.

The evil Chihuahua Hal has been locked in his animal carrier except to go potty and to eat since last Friday.  I tried to let him out in the house after I took him out to potty thinking he got it out of his system but NO he saved two turds for the living room 10 seconds after letting him in the house.  Back in the box he went.

Hubby went on a business trip yesterday and T-man escaped to a friends house for the night.  So here I am alone with C-man and Hal.  Last night I thought i'd be nice and let C-man stay up an hour past bedtime to watch tv and when I said for him to go to bed he got mad.  I can't win.

"it's mine!!!"

30 minutes has past since I typed that last paragraph.  This diet and cabin fever is taking it's toll.  I just about burst into tears over bacon just now.  C-man is now sitting in his room being punished for sneaking into the kitchen and eating EVERY SINGLE PIECE of bacon I spent an hour cooking.  Bacon is the only thing on this diet with no carbs in it that has a good flavor to it THAT I CAN EAT!!! 

Help me, I need a Xanax.

Or a nice clean padded room where I can be alone.

Sorry can't talk right now, my mouth is full...

I HAD to try out the recipe of the Cheesey Hashbrown Casserole.  You know just to make sure it was good before taking one to Thanksgiving dinner at the MIL's house.  I made a few revisions to the recipe because when I poured two pounds of hashbrowns into a 9x13 inch pan they were overflowing.  There was no room to pour over the mixture and mix.  So I put some of the hashbrowns into a smaller pan.  I then mixed the ingredients together substituting the 16oz container of sour cream with an 8oz of sour cream and an 8oz of container of french onion dip.  I also added a can of cream of mushroom soup.  I then poured 2/3 of it in the big pan of hashbrowns and the other 1/3 in the smaller pan then I gently mixed and topped it with cheese and butter pats. It doesn't have to be mixed together really good as it melts together when cooking.  As you can see it was so good I couldn't wait for the family to come home for dinner tonight to start eating it.  Good thing I made two pans of it!  I could eat this stuff every day for a month.

I also wanted to share a picture of C-man getting his Little League trophy on Saturday.  Hubby is the guy in the blue shirt next to him.  I'm not too worried about Rabid stumbling on this blog as I am her googling names and finding it, so I think i'll post occasional pictures here.   Last night at MacDonalds went ok.  Rabid didn't do or say anything crazy.  Well she played in the balls and in the play place with C-man.  But that's not too nutty, it did say parents can play.  Personally I wouldn't do it as I'd be afraid of getting stuck and having to have the fire dept come and use the jaws of life to get my ass out of it.  I didn't even go.  The night was about her and C-man and she gets all weird if i'm around so I let them have their time.  Hubby did take my son T-man as a witness in case she did something.  Thankfully the hour was uneventful.  Well, i'm going to go eat some more of that cheesey delight...

losing weight, politics, christmas and frozen dogs

Oh yeah! It said 149.4 when I stepped on the scale this morning!  You and I both know that after I eat breakfast and lunch and put on my clothes it will be back up to 151 but that morning weight is what counts, right?

I was suppose to watch Glenn Beck's special The Extremists Agenda on CNN last night, I told T.J. I would but I got stuck at Wal-Mart with the boys and hubby while they showed me everything they want for Christmas.  Apparently last night Mr. Beck struck a chord with a lot of viewers some good and some bad.  I tried to read the transcript but I guess you had to be there.  I'm not exactly a political genius, I have a hard time voting.   I try and be objective but I always seem to mostly lean Republican.  Don't shoot me! **ducking and hiding behind the computer screen**

Last night while shopping I realized that Christmas this year isn't going to break me like usual.  The boys don't want electronics!!!  Yeah!!!  They finally got sick of video games!!!  T-man wants an array of long sleeve button up shirts from this great, cheap store called Steve and Barry's.  The boy also wants earrings and a watch.  How odd it is to buy my teenage son earrings.  These are cute. Do you think he'll like them? :) 

C-man is only 7 and you can find a lot of great toys for him that don't cost a fortune. 

All this talk about Christmas is making me want to move furniture around and dig out the Christmas tree.  Last year I was really sick and didn't even get the tree out.  We had the Christmas bookcase.  All the presents were all around the bookcase and on the shelves.  It was really sad...

We got our first freeze of the season last night.  It was suppose to snow a little but no such luck.  Hopefully we'll get some by Christmas.  I wanted to put the chihuahua out there last night and have him freeze solid so I could kick him into a million little pieces, but Hubby wouldn't let me.  He was apalled at my "vicious remark" concerning his baby.   

But then the dog didn't pee on HIS dresser.

Starving the family...

Presenting food to starve your chubby Hubby with.  Sweet and sour chicken stir fry with rice.  I caught him trying to feed the dog his dinner.  I walked in just as the dog was spitting out the rice.  Hubby says you know something is really yucky when the dog spits it out.  Then confirmation number two that my dinner was yucky was when the teenager walked in and asked me if I wanted his.  That boy will eat anything, I thought.  I thought it was great and I ate leftovers for lunch today.  After dinner last night Hubby was still hungry and was raiding C-mans Halloween candy bag and the carmel corn with walnuts I bought from the Boy Scouts right before I started this diet then later he ate a big bowl of neopolitian ice cream.  I think it's safe to say I have won this contest before it has even got started.