Category: My Life

Weight Watchers was pretty fun today. I went to an early morning meeting run by a different Leader and weighed in and stayed for the meeting. I lost another 3.4 pounds, for a grand total of 25.4 pounds lost! I’m feeling very good about myself and the diet.

I liked this meeting a lot. I felt this woman was speaking to all of us and asking us what we thought, and felt. She is very good. I am considering going to this meeting more often.

I came home and had a quick breakfast and then took Greta in to the Vet for a recheck. All is well with my little girl.

It snowed a little before the sun came out, and I relaxed knowing that we weren’t going to have another foot of snow fall! This is one year I really am ready for spring.

Thirteen things about me that begin with the letter D

1. Daughter. My daughter Amanda, I love her dearly! I’ve told her before that even if she weren’t my daughter I would still want to be her friend. She is such a neat person!
2. Dogs. You know that my dogs are so important to me and Hubby and a very big part of our lives.
3. Driving. I really do not like to drive. I used to have no worries with it, but since my accident I have just not enjoyed it at all.
4. Drink. My favorite drink? Used to be coffee, but right now I am going through a tea phase in my life.
5. Dark Chocolate! Those of you who asked why chocolate didn’t make it on last weeks list, will see now, that it’s because it must be “dark chocolate”! The darker, the better!
6. Dreams. I’ve always been a dreamer. I dream a lot at night. Full length feature film type dreams.
7. Dachshunds, Dackels, Dachsies! Love them all!
8. Dress. I like to dress up every once in a while. And once I get to my goal weight I intend to actually buy myself a couple of dresses.
9. Dieting. I think I have been dieting most of my adult life. I hope that with the help of Weight Watchers I can kick the diet cycle and just learn how to eat healthfully!
10. Dusting. Something I truly hate to do. I try to keep up with it, but it’s a losing battle.
11. December. The month of my daughter’s birth, and the month that Arnie and Anneliese were born!
12. Darkness. I’m not a big fan of true darkness, but I love a dark night when you can see all the stars and a full moon.
13. DVD’s. I love DVD’s. I recently found some old Alfred Hitchcock shows on a DVD and Hubby and I are really enjoying watching them.

Today was my day of beauty. It’s the day that Margarita takes this plain Jane and turns her into a swan! LOL! I always love my days at her salon. I feel pampered, I feel relaxed and I always leave feeling better about the way I look.

Today was an important day. My hair had finally grown long enough to actually shape into a style.

When I arrived I wanted to show off the 22 pound weight loss, so I entered Margarita’s room with a tada and the words, “What do you think?”

Well, she was doing the hair of a man and he smiled and said, “Beautiful”. I blushed as I thought she had a woman in there!

Then it was my turn to get “the works”.

I left feeling like a million dollars. The reaction to my new hair style, so far, has been positive. I know I like it. What do you all think?

***I didn’t gain, nor did I lose at Weight Watchers last night. I stayed exactly the same.***

Thirteen things that begin with the Letter C that I like!

1. Cake. Yes, my favorite cake is chocolate cake with butter cream frosting! Hmmmm!

2. Canning. I love to can our fruits and vegetables each year! Then taste their sweetness all winter long!

3. Car. I love my car it’s a 2004 Cadillac DeVille. Oh it drives like a dream!

4. Chicken. Good thing for me. I am eating a lot of it on Weight Watchers! LOL!

5. Charcoal. I know many people like to cook on a gas grille outside, but I love charcoal. It just ads so much flavor to the meat/chicken/fish that I cook!

6. Candles. I love a certain candle that my sister gave me. It smells like Angel-food Cake!

7. Coffee. Yes, I love coffee. Any old way it is made.

8. Cruising. I never thought I would like it, but it turns out that I LOVE it.

9. Champagne. Although I don’t drink any longer, I really do love champagne! Ooooh, the bubbles!

10. Christmas! What a wonderful time of year. Bright lights, candles in the window and Christmas carols. Not to mention the presents!

11. Cats. I have had many cats in my life, from the one who was already with my family when I was born, Smoky, to the very last cat I had, Tigger. Cats are so neat, but my love of dogs doesn’t leave me a lot of room in my house or my heart for another cat.

12. Comfy chair. I have a Lane Snuggler, which is almost a mini love seat. I get a small corner of it, while the three dachshunds take over the rest. I think if I get another chair I will have to get the same one, or I will end up on the floor!

13. Canoe. My favorite restaurant ever. I am going to suggest to Hubby that we go there this week for dinner.

Today I decided to take a little time out for myself. I decided that I should go and find a new purse. I’ve lost 22 pounds, and I didn’t want to buy clothes, but a new purse would be perfect. So off I went.

Now I am not the type of person that will go into a store and just spend wildly. No, I love a good deal! I went to my favorite discounter and started to paw through their purses.

As I was entering the store I got a call from my friend, Gail. She lives in another state and quite often we will call each other and then through the marvels of the Verizon network, we go shopping together even though we are separated by several hundred miles.

We were chatting away, and I actually found a great bag.

While we continued our chat and I was wandering through the store, I happened to mention my inability to find a certain pair of shoes that I love! Gail asked who made them. I responded “Merrell”. She asked which ones and I described them and told her I was looking for the black leather ones, like this.

I have been all over New Hampshire looking for them with no luck. Gail has the same shoe! In fact she is also a big lover of this model. And as it turns out, Gail has an Outlet for these shoes near her home, and she got in her car and drove over (all while we were still on the phone) and although they didn’t have them right there, they called the distributor and they will be mailed directly to me! I am so excited!

You see, Gentle Reader, I am a shoe and purse junkie. There are two things that I absolutely love. Pocketbooks (purses) and shoes! It’s like an illness. Today I realized just how bad it was. Being in the purse section of this shop found me touching all the purses, smelling them, gently running my fingers over the softness of the leather. Yes, I am completely crazed when I get near discounted leather products!

It was a nice way to spend the day, and to treat myself for the last 6 weeks and the 22 pound weight loss.

I knew it was going to be a good night at Weight Watchers. I fixed Hubby his dinner, fed the dogs and walked them and then headed out through the snow laden streets of New Hampshire to my meeting.

I was the second person to arrive, and I weighed in. 2.4 pounds down! Yippee!!! I was so excited that I actually threw my arms in the air.

Because I was early I was able to talk to the Leader of our group and two other women about the program. We exchanged some thoughts and ideas and I really felt good about my accomplishment.

I love to eat. I love to cook. Embarking on this program was a big step for me. One I wasn’t sure I could do. However, since I am learning new ways to cook the foods I like, discovering new recipes for new foods, new ideas for meals, I find that it really does keep me interested, and I keep some quick meals in the freezer for those moments when I am not in the mood to cook anything at all.

Now here is the real challenge. Going out to eat. I haven’t been doing that at all since I started the diet, but I think it is time to give it a try. Perhaps a trip to Canoe next week would be fun!

After losing 22 pounds, I think it would be a nice way to celebrate!

Here are 13 things about me that begin with the letter B!

1. Bride. Getting married to Hubby and being his Bride was such a happy time in our life. I look back now, almost 20 years and being his Bride, still makes me smile!

2. Babies. Giving birth to my two daughters was the absolute BEST!!! I remember when the doctor handed Amanda to me and I saw her face for the first time. Talk about instant LOVE!

3. Berlin. Hubby and I lived there back in 1989. It was before the Berlin Wall came down and looking back, a fascinating time in history. Now, my best friend Uschi lives there!

4. Bavaria. One of the most beautiful places on earth. Also the place where we found our beloved Shubi!

5. Bread. This is my downfall. I love bread. I also make bread. Good bread. I had to stop baking it because I would eat way too much.

6. Bermuda. One of my favorite warm spots. I first went there when I was 13 with my parents, and years later spent several layovers there with Hubby.

7. Briarwood. This is a summer camp where I met my oldest and dearest friend, Gail. We were two 13 year old kids looking for something, and we found each other and the friendship of a lifetime.

8. Best Friends. I am so lucky to have several women who are my best and dearest friends. Some I have known since I first drew breath, others I have found along life’s road. All are special in their own ways!

9. Beaches. I grew up just down the road from the beach. So you could say that the sea and the sand are in my soul!

10. Bacon. I can’t help it. I love bacon. Crisp and smoky!

11. Bananas. Call me a monkey, but I love those too!

12. Breakfast. When I am not really watching what I eat, I love a good big breakfast. Bacon, pancakes, eggs, the lot! I love it so much I could eat Breakfast any time during the day.

13. Backpack. I have a great backpack and I love to use it when I travel. It is so comfortable and convenient to use.

13 A. Blog. I really love writing my blog and I hope that you all enjoy what I do too! (Thanks, Mar for reminding me! How could I have missed this one?)

There you go. Thirteen + things brought to you by the letter B about me this week!

Okay, I am almost up-to-here with these hot-flashes! I mean, this is getting to be too much!

When they started, I sort of thought, great, I won’t be freezing cold any more. Then they started coming in the night, and I thought, great, I won’t have to heat my bedroom so much. But now they are coming all the time, and that, my friends, is too much!

I try to dress once in the morning and then I do my hair. Fifteen minutes later, I am on fire and pulling off my clothes, my hair is askew and I look like I have fought a battle and lost.

The worst part is that the hot-flashes have started arriving about one per hour. Then I get so cold after them that I feel chilled.

This creates a tough atmosphere for sleep. Let’s just say I’m not sleeping much. I go from feeling suffocated to being ice cold and shaking. I try to just keep blankets around for a quick cover up, but then I’m on fire, and…..

I know, some of you are laughing. I admit when I had the first few hot-flashes I thought they were funny too, but right now, smack dab in the middle of menopause I’m just not laughing any more!

I remember years ago when I was a kid and I saw an episode on “All In The Family” about Edith going through the “change“, and Archie yelling at her to hurry up and finish “changing“!

Man, I wish it were that easy!