Seriously

So I had to spend part of my weekend over a the in-laws place.

Wednesday we had an ice storm. We lost power for a couple of hours and it was fine. We got it back in a hurry so no problem. Thursday it warmed up and some ice started melting. Friday it was really warm and a lot of ice melted and there was wind. When ice falls off of power lines they bounce and if they bounce high enough they will hit the other wire that is up there also. If that happens then they break and people lose power. We just happen to be some of the lucky ones that lost power.

I called into the power company and they told me it would be 48-72 hours before we got our power back so I packed us up and told the hubby, "We are going to stay with your parents. Warn them that we are coming."

He didn't even argue and he stayed the night.

It was a night full of uncomfortable silences... awkward moments of them trying to interact with their grandson... horrible food... and a huge black lab that likes to lick...

Totally not my definition of fun.

Saturday I had to escape and went and got my hair cut. I have never driven so slow in my life!!

On my way back to their house the neighbor called and said that our power was back on. I have never been so thankful for anything in my whole life!!

Live Healthy Iowa

I got roped into doing the Live Healthy Iowa thing this year.

I am still not thrilled about it.

Anyways... Austin's mom and sister decided that they would like me to join them in it this year. I have no clue what brought the change about, I don't really care. All I know is that I couldn't say no.

Oh, how I would have loved to said no. Couldn't though. Really how would they have reacted if I had said no. There would have been questions and then how would I look when it came out that I don't like his sister. So I am stuck for the next 89 days.

Then I was checking the dashboard for it today, seeing how our 'team' was doing, and I think one of them is padding their activities time. Every Friday we are to record how much weight we have lost and how many minutes we have exercised and what type of exercise we have done. Let me tell you right now that is the part that is going to kill me. I already exercised 3 to 4 days per week for 45 minutes to an hour doing aerobics and walking on my treadmill just to maintain the weight I'm at.

So they sign me up for this group and I have to do all this and how bad would it look if I didn't lose any weight but my cow of sister-in-law did. Great so last Friday I lost 6 pounds and put that I worked out for 3.5 hours. I cut my time in half so it didn't become a huge deal and they wouldn't think that I was padding my time. I won't be doing that this week because there is no way that Raquel and her mom worked out for a total of 8 hours and 25 minutes. NO WAY. That would be about 4 hours a piece. Roughly 40 minutes a day or a little over an hour every other day.

I just don't see it.

If keep at the pace I'm at then I will be posting 7 hours of activity and that is just the time I am on the treadmill or doing my tape. That's not including all the minutes that I spend playing chase with Mason and other stuff like chasing the dogs outside and such... All which totally count.

I know, your thinking that if I can do that then why can't they? um... because.... I was at Robin's this last weekend and her elliptical had dust on it. I know not unusual for things to collect dust but dust where you supposedly stand... and she let it slip that she gets to do her wii fit from 5:30 to 6 and she does it every other day. Hello that would be 1.5 to 2 hours for the week which would leave Raquel with 6 hours.

1. There is no way she is doing it before work because she can't get her butt out of bed to get to work on time she is not going to get up and work out...
2. She works until 5:30. She goes home and cooks supper for her husband and then he leaves for work about 8.
3. After he leaves for work I can track her on Facebook playing games because she post all her scores.

No, I don't give benefit of the doubt. I know I could care less if they think I pad my times because they don't know that much about me. Pretty bad statement when I've known them for almost 14 years.

Woot Woot!!

Today I am celebrating my 6 pound weight loss with a nice HUGE piece of strawberry cake and ice cream...

It has been a crazy week and I'll be sure to update Monday...
1. Why I am losing weight
2. How I found myself stuck at the in-laws for 2 days
3. How clean my house is....
4. Just randomn crap for filler...

I have been doing AWESOME keeping up with my 365 project...

My Cowboy

I love when my son runs around the house in his little cowboy hat yelling yeehaa... Especially when he runs up to me and tips the front brim at me while giving me a cheeky grin. If only he would let me catch this with my camera...
(we might have watched PBR bull riding on tv last weekend. Since then everything is a bull and it bucks him off. EVERYTHING!!)

I Have a Feeling

I have a feeling that my year is going to be very busy...

My brother in law, Jesse, Marianne's husband, has cancer again.

Jesse had a full 6 month petscan done the day before Thanksgiving and there was nothing.

When we had Christmas at my mom's on the 27th he brought down his snow blower and helped my brothers dig out the propane tank and driveway. The next day he told Marianne he thought he pulled a muscle in his neck.

Three days later Marianne could feel the lump. The following Sunday the lump was noticeable on his neck. Two days later on Tuesday he went back to the hospital and had another scan done and it showed the lump in his neck, one in his armpit (where he had it before) and one in his pelvic region. The doctor said they were all on the left side and indicated that this was a good thing.

Friday he went in for a biopsy and had the cancer confirmed. He went through his first round of chemo that afternoon and spent the weekend in the hospital.
He is scheduled to have his pic line put back in on Monday.

Last time he had chemo every three weeks and was able to go on with life like normal. This time they are treating it just a little bit more aggressively and he will spend 3 days in the hospital with every chemo treatment.

Tonight when you hug your family good night and say your prayers please remember to say one for my sweet sister and her little family. Pray for peace, strength and understanding. Peace because their lives have been thrown into turmoil, strength because they have 2 boys, 5 and 9, that are destructively naughty, understanding because they are questioning why right now and don't know the love of our Lord. May they learn to take peace from Him in their time of need and let Him carry them.

I will be driving back and forth quite a bit now and into the future. So my posting will be sporadic. And yes it is possible... I'm hoping to get my BlackBerry to be able to let me post but for right now it will take me to the posting page and let me write the post but then there is no publish button and the couple of times there has been a publish button it hasn't worked. I know I'm spoiled... Austin's works and mine doesn't and that is just not right.

Do You See What I See?

Do you see that smile on my son's face.

Little victories...

International Delurking Week

Today is evidently the last day for this. As always though delurkers can delurk whenever they feel like it though.
I'm always happy to meet new people and I know there are a few out there because I know no one in Nashville, Virginia, North or South Dakota, New York or Texas. I might have missed a few but those are just some states with regular readers... Oh and Canada... that one surprises me because I complain about the snow ALOT...
Anyways... good to know huh?

Picture My Everyday

Well as I said on Facebook I am doing a 365 project. It took me awhile to get it up and going because not only have I not been home but the husband had decided to hog the computer. You can see my new website here.

And since we are on the subject... The husband worked from home 2 days last week... two. whole. days.

I got home from down home on Tuesday afternoon. It started snowing on Wednesday afternoon. Austin worked from home Thursday and Friday.

I know I have talked about my to-do list a couple of times on here. It has recently (um... last Thursday) come to my attention that we need an internet router so that Austin can sit in his recliner and work on his laptop on the days he has thinks it would be safer to must work from home.

Now on to other things...

Big things will be happening with this little blog. I have decided to move it. I just have to think of a new name and figure out how to busy body/idiot M~I~L/S~I~L proof it.