Week Three

I found in the third week that not only was it easier, but I also started eating less without having to think about it.  Also, the smarter food choices are becoming easier.  The later is being said though since my body greatly disagrees with the consumption of dairy and red meats and has for some time.  Because of this I have been going through the process of cutting back and out on these foods.

I miss cheese less, but I still miss it, and I only crave red meat when it is that dreaded shark week.

The disappointment this week though, was to find out that it is healthier for me to eat fast food than it is to eat Amy's Organic Chili - Medium (vegan).  Oh cripes that stuff is bad for you if you eat the entire can.  I don't know about anyone else, but that is what I tend to do because half the can (aka one serving) just does not cut it for me.

One of the biggest challenges that I am having is trying to find time to eat when I am home with my son.  He does not make it easy to make something healthy and heat-&-eat items tend to be... not healthy.  Combine that with trying to get my own business up and running, running a guild in WoW (yes, yes, I know, the WoW-crack is not a life necessity but I like that it is entertainment that costs me a grand $15/month and helps keep us on budget since I want to go out less) and I consider it a good day if I actually get lunch rather than grazing until my husband comes home from work.  Mentioning the WoW-crack though, I should say this is something that 95% of the time I do not touch until my husband is home and I can login to make sure everything is stocked up for people.

When it comes to eating out, yes, it is a transition.  Fortunately, I am one of those people that already loves salads and vege in general.  The only times I see running into problems are going out to eat at a couple of my favorite places.  The Mexican restaurant that I enjoy doesn't really "do" salads.  There is a small side salad.  It consists of lettuce, a smidge of tomato and a ton of onion.... with creamy jalapeno dressing.  Almost everything else has a ton of cheese or fat.  The Indian restaurant, well... let's just say that the healthiest thing on the menu is dessert. Hah!  It's delicious but I know it isn't healthy with as much cream is used in most of those dishes, not to mention coconut.  Aside from those two places I am usually golden, and if I do want a treat, my husband will generally share it with me.

Sure, I wish I was loosing weight faster.  Who wouldn't -- aside from the people working to maintain their healthy weight or looking to gain healthy weight?  This way seems to work better for me though since I am consistently loosing and my weight fluctuations are not coming into play on my weigh-in days.

If this is disjointed, my apologies.  Attempting to blog with an active toddler is not the easiest thing in the world to say the least.

Week Two on the Journey to Being Healthier

Week two of weight watchers and perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but it seems to be working.  I have counted calories and already eat "right" most of the time.  Cardio exercise is a weak point for me though.  Yet, despite the myriad of health issues that I have which have aided in my previous failure to keep myself healthy, it's working.

As expected, I am loosing one pound per week.  That may not seem like much, but it's huge to someone like me with severe weight fluctuations.

Oh yeah, I have a blog. Hah!

More business I suppose.  Hah!  Definitely more than "I suppose."

I am still becoming used to being a mother, and I try to suck it up but being an only child and then an adult with significant amounts of quiet, alone time to 24/7 noise and a tiny human can be trying at times to say the last.  It's worth it though.  That little grin and giggle melts my heart every time.

Fiber arts has resumed again now that I am more in the swing of parenthood.  So much so that I am making a collection of things to sell at the office.  If I am lucky, I will get around to making more soap and salt scrub to sell too.  I've even considered opening the etsy shop again but I find that I really do not like Etsy.  It's preferable to me to sell things face to face.  An even better occurrence would be if the spa I go to would like to sell some of the things that I make as well.

Aside from the daily business, after the success that my SiL and some of my best friends have had with Weight Watchers, I am signing up and giving it a go.  I can do this!  There are corsets to be bought and and all sorts of fun things whenever I lose some flub and become healthier/feel better.

Rawr!  I am pumped right now.

The Return to The Circle and Why I Probably Left.

I finally go to my local Sit & Stitch for the first time in months (or a year? or more?)... and I alternately feel awesome and irritated.  Instead of just sitting and socializing with all of the very nice old ladies, I ended up teaching a relatively new stitch fad to someone with a moderate+ case of tourrettes.

Now, I feel pretty damn awesome for having a well of patience that I often forget that I CAN have and successfully taking the time to figure out and teach this stitch her.  At the end of three hours, she had something new she understood and could do.  This gives me the warm fuzzies.

To add to this, somehow, I am the crochet "expert" of the group.  I didn't realize how much I was missed by not going.  Again with the warm fuzzies, especially since I am the only person there under the age of 55-60.  When I was more regularly attending before, I spent most of my evenings (or afternoons, depending on the scheduling of the time) there helping other people with their projects.  Not so much with the fuzzies now.

This is not what I was wanting for my afternoon.  I really just wanted to go and loaf about in the LYS and play with yarn (they have a bunch of brand new yarn that I really want to play with and didn't have a chance to, but I might work up swatches or kits for them next week with it).  I have projects to finish, that I really need to and should finish... Also projects to give my brain a break from the higher priority projects that I am working on.  I didn't get to work on any of them which is what I really hoped to be able to do without being distracted by other things or people when I go to the Sit & Stitch.

Really, I should say something so I can get something done while there... but they are all so nice... and cute... and still use the word "ejaculated" with it's original definition.  When they want to learn something or need help fixing something, I just do not have the heart to tell them no. =^v.v^=

My apologies.

Who entirely forgot that they had a blog?  A blog that should be updated with "ALL THE THINGZ!"?

I did, and I apologize to anyone that may stumble over to this tiny corner of the internet to read something.

Granted, I have been more than a little busy with life, but there are things that I have still been making.  Hopefully I will be better about posting in the near future.

Basic Towel Ring

Just a quick pop in to the land-o-blogs.

I -- literally -- just finished the "Basic Towel Ring" pattern and I love it.  It's simple, clean design would look good in any kitchen (given that it is done in the right colour(s), and now that I have tested the pattern out I plan on making more for winter holiday presents/stocking stuffers, etc.  Later I will post a picture of my tester.

ODAA Dinner

So this was the first year that I have gone with my husband to the ODAA seminar, and accordingly the dinner.  He keeps telling me that normally there is not as much talking/speeches/ect as there were this year and I don't quite know if I believe him.  Despite the extreme boredom and my back spasming while desperately trying to sit up straight and be on my best, well mannered behavior, the video at the end that I will likely never be able to show anyone -- EVER -- was worth it.

Sadly, I think that is all that I am allowed to mention about the video.  That's right, all I can say is that there was a video, and that it was worth watching.

If they had something like that video every year, I would say that sitting through the first 95% of dinner would be worthwhile.

I don't want it to sound like the dinner was horrible.  It was pretty standard with speeches, awards, thanks, and the best attempt that chefs can put in to feeding that many people all at once  (if I get to go next time, I will avoid the salmon and opt for the veggie plate if I can do so).  We sat at the same table as the husbeasts' boss and a couple of co-workers of his, but I wasn't sitting next to any of them, only people I didn't know and couldn't giggle with.  Sure, meeting new people is nice, so long as they actually want to talk to you and that was not the case for the people sitting around me tonight.  The new aquaintance that sat to my right was only interested in discussing the proper use of Hawaiian red salt with one of Beau's co-workers.  A great big fail on that man's part of the conversation IMO, that particular salt is only so interesting for so long.  The internet junkie in me wanted to blurt out something like L2USEMOARSALT!

I also found myself wanting to say childish and pointless things through out the night like "poopy" but that could have just been the rum and cokes trying to poke through the proper behavior filter in my brain.

Approximately 30 minutes into the event I was seriously considering breaking out my knitting, and how much of a faux pau that would be in a room full of prosecutors and judges.  I like to think that I choose correctly and did not break out the needles and yarn while the president of the ODAA droned on about people I didn't know doing things I don't remember and that they were giving said people a piece of paper for doing them.  Good for those people, apparently they did something good!  I applaud them, recognition is good, but it just kept going and going and going, like people would expect at a graduation almost.

Afterwards -- and this would be the real disappointment -- we went for drinks... and no one joined us.  For some reason I still don't understand, I thought that the people that my husband works with were more social.  Maybe it's because most of them go out to lunch on Fridays and seem like they are friends.  My bad, that will be a good reminder to not assume that people who work and go out to eat together actually want to spend time together (especially after spending all day together in a seminar).  The supper wasn't like some awkward company picnic where the boss breaks out the "Q" and grills while people hunker down in tenuous cliques with their families and the closest things they can call friends until it is socially acceptable to leave.  It always seems that people genuinely like each other, so really, I was surprised that people were so anti-social after the dinner tonight.

We did get to meet some people from another DA's office in another county, and they were nice guys.  Perhaps at the next conference there will be more people to hang out with.