It happened one weekend

I don't know what "it" is, but I thought that was a catchy title! :0)


Hubby left Friday to go hunting. So I was home alone with Cinnamon and Sugar. They weren't too bad. Normally they get pretty antsy when one of us is gone. They'll sit along the back of the couch or at the top of the steps just staring at the door, waiting for our return.


However, at night in bed, it was a totally different story! I don't know what it was that they thought they were hearing, but they kept waking me up. Saturday night, Cinnamon was barking so bad that I even got up, sans PJs, to see what he was barking at. He wouldn't even jump off the bed and go looking with me, he stayed there! The little shit! I looked out our computer room window, didn't see anything, went to the landing over the front door, nothing. I think he was just hearing things. So Sunday night, I closed our bedroom door, and they didn't bark once!


Saturday, my mom, aunt and I went to dinner and a movie. We saw Hereafter. Save your money! It took forever to get to a point. If I hadn't have paid so darn much money to see the dang thing, I would have got up and left it was so boring. About 1/3 of the movie happens in France so they're talking French with subtitles. Ugh, I really do not like reading my movies. I'd rather read a book! Then, in the last 7-10 minutes of the movie, everything comes together and it's all happily-ever-after. To say I was disappointed is putting it mildly. Blah.


We had a potluck at church Sunday. I made a chile rellano casserole and pumpkin spice cupcakes. I expected the rellano to be hot but it was so mild I was embarrassed! I used a bag of mild Anaheim chiles and a bag of Big Jim Anaheim chiles. The Big Jims are supposed to be hot. Not this time! But all of it was eaten so that's good. The cupcakes were a hit too. I posted the recipe over on Grits, Greens and Everything In Between if you're interested.


Sunday evening I got started on cleaning out my bedroom closet of all my too big clothes. My closet is looking pretty good. However, my bed isn't as I threw all the too big clothes on it intending to sort through them and deal with them. Well, I ran out of time before my Sunday night shows started (Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters), so I didn't get back to them. I ended up just moving them over so I could go to sleep last night. I will deal with them tonight when I get home from work. I have to as Hubby will be back from his hunting trip this afternoon and I'm sure he won't be pleased with them piled on his side of the bed!


I have so many really nice work clothes that I think I will end up taking to our local YWCA for women there. I thought about taking them to a consignment shop, but I'd rather donate them to someone who is in need. However, I'm not going to get them pressed. They are all clean, just wrinkled from being tossed to the bottom of my closet.


Hubby did fill his deer tag. He shot a 2x3 buck. I'm sure we'll be skinning and processing it tonight. By we I mean them. I don't cut fresh deer. The last time I did that I about tossed my cookies the smell was so bad. I don't mind cooking it or eating it, but for some reason that fresh smell just turns my stomach.


How was your weekend? Did you get all accomplished that you wanted?

Life goes on

Life has been busy lately. Between keeping up with exercising, getting a new client at work, celebrating birthdays, and life in general, I've not taken the time to blog. Nothing has been so exciting or newsworthy to share.

Weight remains steady. Snacking remains. One of these days I will decide to quit the snacking and I know I'll start seeing some losses again.

So, since I've been AWOL, I'll share with you some photos of my babies. Sugar is wearing the pink fuzzy sweater. Cinnamon is au-naturale.

Ready for modeling

More pictures of my fur babies

The doggies just came back from the groomers. I couldn't resist taking pictures and showing them to you.

Cinnamon:

Sugar:

Aren't they just so cute??

Happy Birthday Cinnamon!

Today, my fur baby turns 4! Happy Birthday, Cinnamon!

A Step in the Right Direction

Last night I dusted off my Redwing walking shoes, dug out my Walk Away The Pounds videos, rooted around in my closet for my stretchy band and hand weights, and went for a walk. In my living room. Cinnamon is used to seeing me do this, although it has been a while. Sugar, on the other hand, has never seen me do this. In fact, when I was putting my walking shoes on, she thought we were going for a walk and was right there trying to help me tie my shoes.

So, at 9:20 last evening, I walked. I wonder what my neighbors thought if they saw me through our sheer curtains. Hopefully they didn't see my tummy sticking out of my too short t-shirt (which I only wear at home).

Hubby thought I was crazy since I'm still suffering from this cold. But I figured why not, I'm only going for a short walk, not a marathon. It felt good. It reminded me that I have muscles that used to be pretty toned not too long ago.

I'm ready for a change. The change may be single faceted or multi-faceted, but it will happen. Last night wasn't much, but it was definitely a step in the right direction.

AF graced me with her presence today

Woke up this morning, thanks to Sugar whining to go outside, and lo and behold, AF finally showed up. Woohoo! It's about time. But, I think this is really her, not a fake AF, as the doctor thinks happened last month.

The shots are going well. My first lupron shot of the cycle stung and was red. My first follistim shot sucked as Hubby gave it to me. This morning's was a bit better, but he is having a hard time depressing the pen's plunger. We're going to have to work on that. It was to awkward for me to do my own follistim shots in my arms. My boobs are just too big for me to be able to reach around to give the shot, while keeping my arm relaxed.

I think I may have had a "light bulb" moment this morning. I've heard many people call follistim "follisting" and I think I may have figured out why. When you are doing your shot, you wipe off the top of the pen and med cartridge with the alcohol swab. If you don't let it dry and you then stick the little needle in it, the first bit of liquid that goes into your flesh will be that tiny drop of alcohol, thus the sting! So I've been trying to let the alcohol dry on the top of the pen before putting the needle in it.

My weight has been on my mind a lot lately. The last few days I've been trying to eat less. Yesterday, I grabbed a hamburger for lunch but only ate half of it. Last night we went to dinner at Red Lobster. I got grilled chicken with wild rice, asparagus and a Caesar salad. I didn't eat all of the chicken, only one bite of the rice as it was way too salty, two-thirds of my asparagus and all of my salad. I know it's not a huge difference, but I'm hoping it's enough to start with and build upon.

I keep trying to get Hubby to come on walks with me. I think I'll just have to go without him. I'll take Cinnamon with me, as Sugar is just too much to handle on a walk. Hmmm, I think the river walk is calling my name! Here is a good picture of part of the river walk here.

Keeping busy

Hubby and I have been keeping busy. Between cleaning out our storage room, putting new shelves up in it, and then rearranging it, and then the upkeep of the new grass in the back yard, it seems we don't have much time to worry about TTC. Which is fine with me. There is enough time to worry while actually doing all the shots and stuff.

Tonight I want to finish up the storage room. Right now, all the stuff that was in there is on my side of the garage. So until we get that stuff put away, I can't park my car in the garage, which isn't that big of a deal as long as the weather is nice.

Wednesday, Hubby bought a new wheel barrow. We have one, but it is old and rusty, and the handles are splintering. He had wheeled it around the side of the house and leaned it against our gate, but had to go grab the key to unlock the gate. He then got busy with cleaning out the storage room and forgot to put it in the backyard. Can you believe someone came by and stole it overnight?!?! How sad. When he went back to Lowe's yesterday to get another one, he told the sales guy what happened and the sales guy said that Karma would come back and bite the person who stole it in the a$$! lol

Between all the stuff that we hauled off from the storage room, two sets of lawn clippings, and just some regular trash, Hubby had a truckload to haul to the dump. It cost $46 to dispose of it! Not even six months ago, it would have cost about $18. A local dump has closed, and the remaining dumps have decided to take advantage of those of us who now have fewer choices. The nerve of some people.

I want to catch a movie this weekend. There are several that I'd like to see. Kungfu Panda. The new Angelina Jolie movie (I was just reading it's review and darned if I can remember the title). A few others. We'll see. Hubby picked up a couple of rentals, so maybe I'll just watch those instead.

Tomorrow I take Sugar in to be groomed. It's a good thing, because yesterday it got to be 100 degrees here! The poor little thing has black fur, and even though it isn't that long, I'm sure it has to be very hot for her. I asked Hubby today if we should be providing more for the dogs during the afternoons while they are outside, but he said they have what they need. Bowls of ice water, food, shelter, and several trees that provide shade. The only other thing that I'd want is a pool, but since the dogs didn't ever use the little pool I got them last summer, I guess that is only something I'd enjoy. They've got several pillows/blankets to lay on, not to mention the lawn furniture that is on our back porch. Maybe some doggie mai tais.

If you have a green thumb and would like to come and help with the flowers in our backyard, please feel free to drop by. I've got to figure out a way to keep those darn little weeds out of my gardens. I have a few dandelions, but they aren't the problem. I keep pulling them, but that only seems to work for a few days. Who knew that keeping a pretty backyard was such hard work???

Cinnamon n Sugar

Here is Cinnamon in a couple of outfits (okay if you are a groaner you're no fun! :-)

This is Cinnamon when I dyed him pink.

Here is Cinnamon when we caught him "red lipped" when he was shredding some paper.

Here is my little Sugar. Since she is so dark, it is hard to get a good shot of her. The last photo is of when she was about six weeks old. The first one I took tonight.

They are both toy poodles. Cinnamon is three years old and Sugar is 1.5 years old.

I do not do that!!

My little toy poodle Sugar is in heat. I’ve heard of women’s cycles being in sync with each other, but a human and dog’s cycles? Hmmm.

Sugar is just about past the phase of bleeding, although we still keep the little panties with the liners on her. Yesterday it was so funny. After I let her and Cinnamon, our other toy poodle, in from having gone outside to potty, I put her little panties on. Cinnamon comes over and acts like he wants some on too! So, I took the red and white checked lacy panties and put them on him. He looked so cute. He was happy as a lark. Hubby groaned when he saw him. I am so amazed how jealousy fuels the actions between these two dogs.

So today when I’m home for lunch, I’m noticing how Sugar will get right in front of Cinnamon and then just flip around so her bottom is right in front of him. Even though we call them brother and sister, they are not. They’re distantly related, but not siblings. Also, Cinnamon is fixed. I laughed when I saw her keep doing that. I can feel her pain!

Here she is, in the prime time for becoming pregnant, and all she wants is someone to give her a little. I told Hubby what she was doing and I said, “Aren’t you glad I don’t do that?” when he replied, “You do!” He is such a stinker!

My MIL told us we could go ahead and get her fixed since we have had no luck in finding a stud for her. She is pretty small, and we were hoping to breed her with another small toy so we could get teacups. But we weren’t successful. Actually, I’m quite fine about this. I think I’d have an awfully hard time giving away her puppies, although I think she’d make a great mom.

When I get home tonight, if I get a chance, I’ll see if I can find a couple of pictures of my fur babies to post. They are just too cute!