Category: BlahBlahBabble

As of midnight last night, school was in session today.

As of 2:30 am this morning (when I couldn’t sleep), school was in session today.

As of 5:15 am, as Jason was getting up for school, school was in session today.

As of 5:45 am, 15 minutes before Jason leaves for the bus (I know, crazy, right?), school was in session today.

As of 6:05 am, after Jason had left for the bus, school was canceled. A neighbor was nice enough to come out and tell him, and he called home to verify that it was correct.

I really, really wish the school district decide this a bit earlier than 10 minutes before the bus comes. I realize not all kids get on the bus that early, but come on. They could have figured it out by 5:00 am so that Jason didn’t have to get up and get ready for school.

Meanwhile, I will post icicle photos and the beer cheese soup recipe later today! Boy, I sure hope we have enough bread and milk to make it through. I know we have bread, not sure about the milk, and we are all out of butter and margarine. We may have to fix that.

PS – Today’s weight loss total is now 10 pounds down from my highest weight in January according to the home scale, 7 pounds down from my January 1 start weight. w00t!

Damn, I totally forgot! It is delurking week! So if you are out there, and you don’t normally comment – here is your chance! DELURK!

I just accidentally closed my main Firefox browser window with a lot of tabs open while leaving a small comment window open. Losing all of my tabs in the process.

Want to guess how many tabs I had open? Anyone?

51 tabs. I know because it warned me before I shut the window. Before I realized that the pop-up comment window was still open.

Many tabs which were things I needed to bookmark but had not done yet because I need to close Firefox to record the latest Pointy Sticks podcast.

51 freakin’ tabs. I could just cry…

I skipped the WW meetings while we were in Kentucky, and I skipped last week too. Today, I woke up early. I debated about going, but the meeting location I went to before is almost a 30 minute drive from my house (close in Houston terms, but I still didn’t want to drive it.) So I finally looked up the times for a closer location and I made myself go.

I’m glad I did. I’m feeling a bit more “committed” to this then I was before.

I also learned that I have again been undereating for the most part. I currently get 28 points per day on the new & improved WW flex-points plan (which all equates to calories, fiber & fat grams; but counting points is easier.) I’ve been trying to stay below 28 points. Because if I do that, I’ll lose weight, right?

Wrong. I learned today at the welcome session after the meeting that I am supposed to use ALL of the points per day. All of them. Not almost all of them, but every single one. She said that their studies have shown that if you don’t eat all of your points, your metabolism won’t know what to do with itself and in the end, you’ll gain weight. Me? I gained 2 pounds. So from now on, points, points, points. I’m going to make sure I get 28 healthy points per day, and we’ll see what happens next Wednesday when I go in.

Today’s quote? “The best diet is the one that you don’t realize you are on.” That is what I love about Weight Watchers. I don’t have to deny myself stuff, which really makes life easier as I do have very specific cravings at times. Portion size and points. That is all I have to worry about.

I have learned that I can’t keep sweet snacks in the house because I have two sweet snackers living with me. I could have a box of Girl Scout cookies in the cabinet for 6 months and never open them. When I do open them, I will likely just have a few and then close the box back up. However, if Mike or Jason spot them, they can not resist – they must be opened. Once they are opened, they must be eaten.

Speaking of Girl Scout cookies, if you need any – let me know. I have a connection. They go on sale this Saturday!