holy schmoly

So I've stayed up to see the "two moon" night.  Supposedly Mars is going to be the closest to Earth that it gets and won't happen again for over 200 more years.  Went out there at midnight and not really sure that we saw it.  There was a brighter larger star next to the moon, but wasn't quite like it was described to us earlier in the day. 

While waiting I decided to look at all the blogs from my hometown, which is A LOT.  I made it through 1,000 members and the number to the end changed each time.  Really strange how it jumped around.  I was hoping to find out how many people from my city blog.  

While doing this task I realized that I wish there was a much better way to narrow down whose blog I want to view.  I discovered: I don't really like guys blogs, don't like younger or older women blogs, too many blogs dedicated to wedding stuff and then just stopped (I am so guilty of that), and I need a "professional" photo (they were more catchy to stop and look at).

I've tried really hard not to have a "food" blog, but really lean towards those.  Doesn't surprise me in the least.  I did find a few that I marked to follow and now I just need to catch up on some of them so I'm not way behind when the author posts again.

Have a good one.

just liked it

We went out to eat last night.  Pizza Hut in Paris and there were clowns.  I guess it's  regular Thursday night thing.  They did some pretty neat stuff with balloons.  One I liked but didn't get photo was a doll sized Tinkerbell.

This was one of the first ones they did that I saw before getting greasy with the good stuff

call me...

A grill master!  

So my wonderful husband decided a few weeks back that we needed to have homemade BBQ.  He and our roommate cleaned out our garage and unburied our smoker/grill in the process.  He said he was going to do it on a Saturday, but of course things came up and it didn't happen on the day he said.  

Well while we were at the grocery yesterday he decided it was time and he bought a ten pack of thighs to be smoked today.  Of course, being the weekend and all he wanted to sleep in.  So i got up around sevenish and did my regular morning routine and then being the super sweet wife that I am took over the plan.

I pulled the grill out (the hard way because I couldn't figure out how to open the large part of the garage door) and started the coals and wood chips.  I started this early (before eight because he said it takes ten hours to smoke and finish).  

Fast forward four hours give and take and this is what I've done: 

The left side is half the pulled chicken and the right is the half unpulled.  

When he woke up around 11, he had the bright idea that we should have bought more so that we could take some to my parents this weekend when we go visit.  Well I had to go to the store to buy the rest of the meal, which I might add he also left up to me to make the decision of what that would be, and realized that I could just buy more meat then.  So add three more piles that size and that's what I DID!!!!

I will admit that he did the prep work for the first batch of chicken: spice rub.  Which helped me for the second batch.

Well to compliment the meal I decided to have slaw, Kroger macaroni salad (which is AMAZINGLY delicious, and one serving is worth 9 WW POINTS!), and grilled veggies 

When I texted this picture to my dad his comment was "you cheated".  WHAT?!?  That silly man thought these were store bought skewers.  How complimentary!  I took the time and cut all these bad boys up and stab them myself, thank you very much.  This isn't the total batch, we also had six more small wooden skewers.

slow walkers

So I've clocked out for my lunch break and I'm headed to the back to do my business on the internet, when I get stuck behind dum dedum dum dum (taunting sound)..... A SLOW WALKER!!!!

So it got me to thinking - "will I slow down too when I get that age?".  I used to be a normal paced walker but met my now husband and had to learn to walk FAST.  My two steps for his one, so I'm literally double timing it.

Anywho, I've noticed that, upon thinking about it, that it appears that the older a person gets the slower they start to walk.  Take my dad for example.  When we go to the store I literally walk circles around him!  He says "there isn't a rush", but there is.  To get back to relaxing DUH.  Then while working as a server one of the oldest ladies that works there is UNGODLY slow!  I used to couldn't stand to get behind her.  Now I'm thinking great behind the slow walker and two minutes out of my precious 30 minute break time waiting and walking at her pace.

I hope I don't slow down too much when I get older.

umm... really?!?

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on the license plate

Just really doesn't make that much sense to me!  Mind you it was a little old denture wearing man driving it, but still way too funny.

strawberries

This is another WW ish post.  I'm going out to dinner tonight with a friend and wanted to eat "super light" all day so I could eat "badly" at dinner.  Well I decided for breakfast I'd have two servings of scrambled egg white (1pt), a piece of toast (1 pt) and some strawberries (1 pt).  For lunch I made tomato and cucumber salad with onion (0 pt), orange (0 pt), yogurt (1 pt), and fresh cherries (1 pt), with a possibility of a cheese wedge (1 pt).  That totals to 6.

So while reading my handy dandy guide it says that a person can have 1 1/2 cup whole or sliced strawberries for 1 point with a max of 2 pts.  The max. number is supposed to be in case youre eating out and don't know the exact amount you've consumed.  My questions is how on earth can a person eat 1 1/2 cup whole strawberries for one 1 ptt as well as eating 1 1/2 cup sliced for 1 pt.  If I eat them whole I would only get a handful (maybe five or six), but slicing them I got TEN! 

Needless to say I ate them sliced, however I didn't eat the whole serving in one setting.  I ate a cup for breakfast and the other half for a mid morning snack.

Also I should mention just so I said it out loud that I didn't stay away from the cheese pizza sticks!  SHAME ON ME.  Oh well, maybe I'll do better at dinner. 

shame on me

So over the past week I've been reading this blog: http://elevenpoints.blogspot.com/ and am IN LOVE!! Kinda wish I could be a part or attempt to knock it off and have one here. Some times while I read it, I find it very encouraging to keep up my choices.

Anywho, today was a BAD DAY for my health. If you've read any of my past posts you'll know that I've been attempting to make healthier decisions when it comes to eating and usually I do.

Well today we had lunch provided: spaghetti, bread sticks, cookies, and cake. I knew it was happening and planned out a healthy way to consume above meal. I made a good choice for breakfast (cottage cheese with preserves) and drank 64 ounces of water within the two hours before the meal (in attempt to fill the belly with water so I wouldn't want so much good food). I also made a salad meal, with two fruits, and was only going to have a side of pasta.

Did I?

NO!!!

I had a full order of pasta and two bread sticks and didn't even count how many of those stupid oh so gooey chewy oatmeal raisin cookies! What makes all this worse is that I'm supposed, no am going to a friend's house this evening where I know there will be wonderful treats and adult beverages, which I haven't had in a very very looooonnnnnnggggg time b/c of this healthy choice making.

God if I was bulimic, don't ya know I would be in that bathroom still. I feel miserable of course. I told my self that since I didn't eat my salad for lunch than that's all I'm going to eat for dinner, but I'm so stuffed I don't even want that. But I know that as soon as I get there I'm going to see and smell it all. Should I bust the salad out and eat in front of them? Should I continue to shovel bad for me things, since my day is shot? Or should I just avoid it all together and only drink water and chew gum? If I do the last one I'll be starvin' Marvin by the time I get home. Maybe my belly will consume all the disgusting things I ate during the day.

Tomorrow I hope to start afresh and do a better job. I'm going to Costco and hope that I don't over indulge on all the fabulous samples. I'm going with my wonderful MIL and she steered me away from things last time we went. I hope she keeps it up tomorrow.

Woo Hoo

So it's Friday and the day wasn't too awful bad. We had inservice at the school today. Typically when we have inservice my LT makes me clean and sanitize ALL THE TOYS! Doesn't sound like too big of a deal, but let's count..... 36 (I think) buckets, full, to be dumped out, cleaned in soap water, then swished in bleach water, and put back in said buckets (which also have to be cleaned and sanitized), and then reshelf! It gets super duper exhausting! Today she only had me straighten them up and make sure there weren't any random toys in the wrong buckets. I try to do this daily so I only found six toys in the wrong buckets!

Then I got to do "easy" stuff: map, name tags, cutting (a lot), and a bit of paperwork. It was a nice reprieve.

Also our director fed us, which is a whole nother topic, a wonderful meal of spaghetti, bread sticks, cookies, and cake.

Well while I was cutting out letters our helper man came up to me and sorta basically kinda offered me a job, I think. He told me what he does. He started a small business: Rehabilitating Convicted Drug Addicts. The business is super super close to my house (with in 10 minutes). I got his email, now that I think of it I need to email him so he can send me updates.....done. It's really different from what I do now, but maybe that's what I need for my mommy clock to tick; getting away from children so I can have some of my own. From the way it sounded a licensed Therapist would set an "plan" and the counselors (my offer) would put it into motions while the Therapist isn't around. I think I could do that. It's basically what I do now, except with children with special needs. Put a plan into action. Wow it would be different to work with adults again.

The only sketchiness is that he doesn't know me from Bob off the street. He used to work for Vanderbilt and said he had a PhD in Psychology. He said that our HR lady suggested another past coworker who actually had a license to council, but she said no thanks. So he can't be too bad if our HR lady is going to point him in the direction of one of her people, right? I was outside, warming my bones, and he stopped to talk to me. Asked me if I liked working here and really liked me/my personalty from the first moment I stopped in the office to chat with the Director and AD. Oh yeah, he also said he would try to get me a contact out at Vanderbilt since I was still interested in working there too. Guess I must have made a good first impression, huh?!?

Bummer

So I received an email from the lady who I did a phone interview with about a part time position I REALLY WANT. I didn't get the job. I wish that I would have saved the email so that you could read it. The email was a tad bit confusing. I had to reread it three times and then call my husband to make sure I was reading it correctly. As of right now I'm rejected.

I still haven't heard back about the full time job I interviewed for in person yet, continuing to keep my fingers crossed.

EEEWWWW

So I've heard this commercial on the radio a few times now and can't believe it. It's super duper gross. I heard it while making dinner the other night and on my way to work again this morning.

Its the one about Matress Sale. It talks about how your matress is funky after eight years and what all has built up. Your matress has doubled in weight due to dead skin, dander, bed bugs and a variety of other disgusting stuff!!

Is this really true? EEEWWWW, Guess we should buy new matresses for all our room b/c lord knows how long our matresses have been around. And this time we should plastic them so none of that disgusting junk gets in there!

Just because

Well it's been almost a month since I've posted last. There isn't a real reason as to why I haven't, guess I just didn't have too much to complain or talk about really.

Just to start off, I had two interviews last week. One on Thursday that lasted 3 and 1/2 hours doing exactly what I do now, just for a better place (at least I think it is) and then a phone interview on Friday around noon to do what I sorta kinda went to school and got my degree in. The second one is only for a part time job working on Saturdays from 8 to 4, but by golly if it helps me reach my fullest potential in career world I would do a midnight shift!

Of course my LT is still being a B!t(h as usual. That could probably be a whole post on it's own, but I'm just plum fed up with it at the moment. I've complained enough verbally that I like to laugh at her now and just ignore her as much as possible.

On a better note I consulted on my very first TW party (thanks Lindsay) and I think it went REALLY WELL! I hope that I can get more bookings, I really enjoyed it. I get to go to a team meeting tomorrow night after my work meeting and we are playing with the Quick Chef, which is super fabulous.

Also I've discovered that even though I don't really have a themed blog, I really like to read ones about food. Imagine that, for those of you who know me personally. I'm going to try really hard to follow other topics (reading and movies maybe) and try even harder not to become one of the food blogs. I already think about the stuff enough as it is anyway, I don't need to talk about any more.

Well that sums it up really, I'm promising myself that I'm going to do better at blogging even if it's not to rant.

Peace