You would think that this picture was taken the same day as the one two weeks ago, alas, it was taken today and I am just as fat as I was two weeks ago. Sure I weigh a pound less....but the picture looks uncannily similar. Maybe two weeks from now, when I have not had to face delicious turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, and pie, will my picture look a slight bit different.

It might help if I changed clothes....or was not typing this with an ice cream scoop in my hand...heh...but alas, the clothes will serve as my control (so that I don't look thinner just cause of what I'm wearing.) and the ice cream scoop is a necessary evil, cause what is life without ice cream??!

Ten things real quick...

1. sorry there's no photo....

2. I feel yucky.

3. Yesterday's weight was 194...so that's good, right...a pound...heh. Oh well, so I'm not the biggest loser, but it's something, right?

4. I didn't really make it to the gym every day...but I had circumstances.

5. My dear friend Norman died last Saturday, and it's been tough, but I'm starting to do a lot better.

6. I'm not pregnant, I took a test Wednesday, and I started my period today.

7. We had a really good Thanksgiving.

8. My sexy hubby just did two cartwheels accross our living room in his boxers. :)

9. Tomorrow we're celebrating the two year anniversary of our engagement...but we still don't know how we're going to celebrate...but whatever it is, I'm totally going to take pictures!

10. I haven't scrapbooked in almost 2 whole weeks...but I'm going to tomorrow. I just got some of the new KI pop culture stuff, and I'm going to have fun!


I didn't really know if I had 10 things to say, but I did it! I'm going to go back to watching the "What Not To Wear" marathon now!

Love you!
Joy.

Today I am going to be blogging about my domestic failures. If you do not wish to have your Martha Stewart-esque image of me tarnished (haha) please look at the pretty smoothies and read no farther.




Last week I went to make smoothies for my dear sweet husband and I. Usually I make them with the drinkmaster 5000, but my husband likes his smoothies smoooooth...as in...no little banana chuncks he can't suck through the straw. Fine, that's just dandy, so I put everything into the blender, blended it...and picked up the jar to poor it into glasses.

This is when I found out that I had somehow not assembled the blender jar correctly when the contents poured from the bottom all over the counter. For a few seconds I was stunned, having no idea what possibly could have gone wrong. Then I decided I should probably think a little quicker as the juicy concoction began to spill from the counter down my cabinet-fronts to the floor.

So we laughed a lot as we cleaned it all up and started over on our smoothies, thinking that we'd better get it right that time, as we were using our very last banana. Sigh.

I still feel a little silly about it...but I figure...everyone's had a bit of a blender mishap before, right? Tell me I'm right, please. If you do, maybe I'll share my next domestic failure with you as well.

:) Love you guys!
Joy.

I know that this picture is disgusting and scary, but it had to be shown. I never realize how fat I've gotten until I see pictures of myself, ugh. I have gained 45 pounds in the 27 months I've lived in Wisconsin, I guess that's what happens when you sit around on your butt all the time and snack too much.

I'm officially giving up the sitting around on my butt. I dropped $90 yesterday on a gym membership....so that I'll actually go work out. I went for the first time tonight, and it's starting to come back to me....the lovely feeling of having burned calories...something I obviously have avoided in the past 27 months. I should really have taken a clue when I gained 10 pounds in the first three months I was up here.

I've been really overweight before, I got up to 225 pounds by the end of my junior year in high school. Over the next 2 years I lost 75 pounds and maintained my 150 for about five years...telling myself I would never get that fat again. Now, only now, that I have almost managed to make it back up to 200 am I making any changes. Hopefully it's not just too little too late.....Hopefully I don't get pregnant and gain 50 pounds I'll never get rid of....Hopefully I'll stick to my plan of working out at least 5 days a week.

Work has been totally stressful for the past 3.5 weeks, and it's only going to get more stressful, so I figure working out will be a good stress reliever as well...sometimes I just need time after a long day at work to focus on something other than work. Anyway...I need your help...I will try to post weekly pictures and weights, and # of days I actually went to work out, and you guys have to keep me to it, bug me lots if I'm late or if I forget.

:) Thanks!
Joy.

eliminate the negative. :)

We watched Blast from the Past last night, totally one of my favorite movies. He he he...it reminded us of...us! Coming out from underground and all. The mom was totally me...going nuts living down there, he he he, and the dad is SO Jason with all of his inventions and such. :)

Hopefully soon I can share a few scrappy pages with you all, I really HAVE been working on them, even if it's only two or three a week. They just need finishing touches, and then I can share.

Also, I'm still not pregnant, but I'm sure I'll tell you all when it happens. :) I even have a pregnancy test waiting in the wings...I'll use it in another week or two and let you know. ;)

Love you guys!
Joy.

...just kidding!

:)