It's a girl ...........

Sorry, missed posting last night as we had another one of those horrid storms go through.  Thunder, lightning and lots of hail, it's been a horrid summer.

My newest grandbaby was born at 9:30 this morning, a beautiful baby girl, 6 lbs 13 oz and her name is Alex.  I can't wait till tomorrow when she gets home and I can go cuddle her.

Been doing ok with the food.  The Biggest Loser is a really hard game to keep up with so have to do a nit more practicing on how to enter things.  I really messed it up and entered like 13000 calories for one day and couldn't figure out how to erase them.

Breakfast
1 pkg instant oatmeal w/2 oz milk (150)
4 oz yogurt (35)
1 cup grapfruit (100)
1 latte (100)

Snack
1 snack bar (100)

Lunch
1 cup raw peppers/cucumbers (50)
1 Chicken Terriyaki Bowl (270)

Snack
1 snack bar

Dinner
1/2 frozen pizza (440)

This should be interesting..........

In order to use my Wii Biggest Loser game I have to figure out how many calories I am eating during the day.  So you all are gonna get the pleasure of having me write it here so I can add up the calories so I know what to input in my game.


Breakfast
4 oz yogurt (35)
6 oz canteloupe (60)

Snack
1 snack bar (100)

Lunch
1 pkg Stouffer's Turkey & stuffing (260)
1/2 cup peppers/cucumbers (25)
1 banana (60)

Snack
1 snack bar (100)
1/2 cup hot apple cider (30)

Dinner
1 pkg Stouffer's Meatloaf (270)
1 cup steamed broccoli (50)
1/2 cup cucumbers/peppers (25)
1/2 tomato (25)

Snack
1 snack bar (100)

Total calories: 1140

Okay, so that was fun.  Did the 6 minute warm up and darn near kilt myself.  This is not going to be fun and all I can say is I'm real glad that you all can't see me cuz it ain't purdy.

Another storm or was it just my black mood ......

We had another thunder storm roll through last night and this time it came in the middle of the night.  The thunder was really intense with lots of hial.  I got up and looked out side at the sky and the clouds were rolling.  The thunder just kept booming and just when we thought it was moving on the storm circled around and came in for another round.

Things are better today we managed to avert a major financial disaster so now just have to be really careful with finances and we should be able to weather the storm (talk about a play on words).  I canceled my weekend in Banff so there are some savings there, couldn't cancel Vegas as everything is already paid for so I had better really have a good time.

Utilities are all caught up and we should be able to hold our heads above water for the next few months if we are really careful.  I bought some lettuce at the store the other day and for the first time in my life I am going to have hubby return it.  It stinks and has turned all yucky in the bad.  Tired of paying good money after bad for unedible produce.  They can stand behind thier money back if not satisfied guarantee.

Sorry, had to leave in the middle of the post as hubby wanted his dinner.  Food has been ok for the past couple of days, but no screaming hell.  Seems like I start out good and end up bad.  Tomorrow is another day and a fresh start.

Is life really worth the hassle ...........

It's amazing how life goes from one day to the next and things just change rapidly.  Up till now our life has been pretty even keeled.  We live comfortably, don't spend excessively and work hard for what we have.  And all of a sudden we find ourselves on a down hill slide.  Had to take my inheritance check from my Uncle and make our mortgage payment today.  Our rental units usually pay for themselves (we do not make any money on them, but they are a good investment, or so I thought).  We have one empty unit and now I find myself having to put our own money into them to keep them afloat.  Utilities both on our house and the rentals are due and there is no cash to pay them.  We thought of selling but the economy is so bad right now we'd lose our shirts if we sold.  So as of today we join the millions of others in the world that have to stuggle to make ends meet. 

Went to the grocery store and could not believe the price of fresh produce and every thing else.  Can see where I am going to have to get inventive and use up what is in the cupboards before buying anything else.  And of course with this comes my feelings of inadequacy because I'm powerless to do anything about it right now.  I really have to work at this or I will lose what little I have gained (or gain what little I have lost). 

I did set up the Biggest Loser on my Wii last night.  It is an interesting program so will see how it goes.  Have been wearing the pedometer from the DS program I bought all day.  I actually got them both at the used games store yesterday so they were a reasonable price.

Breakfast

2 pieces french toast w/small amount of margarine & diet syrup
1 latte

Lunch
salad w/dressing
Stoffer's Fried Chicken dinner (230)

Snack
iced coffee
2 slices french toast w/margarine & diet syrup
1 banana
1 snack bar

Dinner
toasted fried egg sandwich w/cheese & fresh tomatoes

Wow, wow, wow .............

It's been a couple of packed days so let's get some of it out of the road.  First what I have been eating:

Friday

Breakfast
4 oz yogurt
1 cup grapefruit

Lunch
1 pkg Uncle Ben's Sweet & Sour Rice (380) - a little high so have to be careful with these, but they are good
1/2 cup applesauce

Snack
1 snack bar (100)

Dinner
Went out to an East Indian restaurant with some of the girls from work.  We shared a lot of different things so I just had a taste of each, not sure of the calorie count but here goes:
1 piece chicken, lamb, shrimp and vegetables from an appetitzer plate
1.5 pieces of cottage cheese patty fried
2 pieces veggie balls
1/2 cup beef briyana w/mango chutnet
1/2 piece nan bread
I passed on the dessert, it didn't look all that appetizing.

As I said not sure about the calories but tried to take small portions.

Today

Breakfast
1 cup grapefruit
1 latte

Lunch
Taco Time Beef Taco Salad w/Ranch dressing (can you believe that 1 pkg of the dressing is 200 calories and they give you 2, I only used a little bit of it once I read that)
diet pop

Dinner
1/4 frozen pineapple and ham pizza
1 ice coffee

I came home last night determined to get hubby's computer back up and running.  He had gotten a virus from somewhere and we shut it down about 3 months ago.  I finally decided either I get it fixed or off to the junk yard it goes.  So after about 3 hours it was totally clean, the printer was working again (it had quit as well) and hubby is back in his own corner.  I have one more that I want to try to clean up as it has all my geneology on it so will give that a whirl sometime soon.

My brother got engaged yesterday.  He lost his wife to cancer almost 2 years ago and has been seeing this lovely lady.  So he popped the question and she said yes.  His wife was 15 years older than him so it will be nice for him to have someone closer to his own age and sharing his interests.

Got news that my son is going to be taking a job about 4 hours from us.  It makes me sad but it is a promotion for him so that is good.  It's with the same company he works for now.  It means I won't get to see them as often but so is life.

Hubby and I went to the mall this afternoon as I needed ink cartridges for the printers.  While we were these we met up with our grandson so we had a nice visit with him.  He had just gotten in from a camp job and was killing time till his girlfriend got of work.  He has matured so much in the past couple of years and I am really proud of him.

While at the mall I made an investment in the Wii Biggest Loser game.  I have been a little bored with the Wii Fit so decided I'd try this.  Also, got a fitness program for my DS.  It has a step counter that you wear and at the end of each day you plug it into the game and it gives all kind of information.  So I should lose weight like crazy now with all these new gadgets.

Thanks Tina and Skippy for the awards.  I'm afraid I'm not sure what they are all about and I don't really think my blog is so awesome.  It's just about me and pretty boring at times.  Thank you though that was very kind and thoughtful of you.  Skippy you are right, you , me and Tina are like the 3 Muskateers!!!!!  Look at us go!  Hugs to you both!

Will this day never end...........

I have no title for this post yet, brain is not fully engaged at this moment.  I have been awake since 3 and still have a meeting to go to yet tonight. 

Breakfast
1 pkg instant oatmeal (110) w/2 oz 1% milk (30)
4 oz yogurt (35)
1 cup grapefruit sections w/juice (100)

Coffee
1 cup hot apple cider (60)

Lunch
1/2 cup cucumber (25)
1 cup white & wild rice (210)
2 cheese sticks (120)
1/2 cup mixed fruit in juice (70)

Coffee
1 snack bar (100)
1 iced coffee (60)

Dinner
1 serving yellow Thia curry (390)
1 cup fresh beets (100)
1 low fat ice cream bar (90)

Total calories:  1500
Walking: 15 minutes (I forgot my step counter at home this morning)

Sitting here thinking I so do not want to go to this meeting, but at least I came up with the blog title.....

Back on track hopefully.........

Determined to get back on track today.........

Breakfast
4 oz yogurt (35)
1 banana (60)

Lunch
4 oz cottage cheese (90)
1 cup Smart Choice veggie soup (50)
4 oz apple sauce (50)

Snack
12 oz iced coffee (60)
3 PGX tablets w/1 very large glass of water

Dinner
1 pkg Healthy Choice Grilled Chicken Pepper Alfredo (260)
1 cup cucumber (50)
1 cup fresh garden beets (100)
1 low fat ice cream bar (90)

Total calories:  845
Wii time:  45 minutes
Walking: 15 minutes (6330 steps = 512 calories)

Did anyone happen to notice when I posted my scale picture on Monday that it was the wrong one?  I was reading comments tonight and noticed it......so I fixed it, now you have to figure out if you really noticed it or not........  It's been a good day for the most part, had a bit of an upset at work just before the end of the day but I am not going to let it get to me.  Anyway, I am tired and going to head off to bed, see you tomorrow!