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Raw Food Day

I am trying something new today.  Raw foods and V8 Light Splash juice only - hopefully I can do this twice a week to trick my metabolism.

I was very active this weekend.  Walked the kids to the park - and actually played on the park.  Monkey bars are awesome for shoulders and arms - and if you haven't done it in awhile - it's TOUGH.  I did back flips with the hand rings - remember that?  There is a little bridge, so I get Savanna involved in singing "lunge, lunge, lunge and lunge" all the way across and back, then we skip or hop or kick.  It's fun!  Sunday we visited a different park - I skipped while pushing the stroller, did high step-ups on a concrete step, did some abs on the park bench.  Much more fun being outside with your kids than being in a gym alone.

I'm heading to Mexico in June... so that's a full 3 months to get ready for a bathing suit without being embarrassed of having 2 kids within 2 years.  Scary!!!!!

That didn't take long...

Amber developed the barking cough over-night.  Nice.  I hate coughs, they are scary, especially in little ones.  Her daddy is staying home with her and taking her to the doctor this morning.  He's such a good daddy.

(long sigh)  Sick kids just make you have a sick heart, but both of our kids usually have a good disposition even when ill.

Hellooooooo

Amber got her tubes - all is well, she is sleeping much better and as much as 6 hours in a row and IN HER CRIB every single night!  However, Croup is going around daycare, so I'm just waiting on her or Savanna or both to get the barking cough.  That's the way it goes with kids in daycare - just expect the next illness to come around after they've gotten over the last one.

By the gym scale, I've lost 4 lbs.  I'm not sure if that's "real" weight loss, but surely at least 2 lbs of it is, and I'll take that with my 1 lb per week goal, especially considering I ate 18 pieces of Go-Diva chocolate last week. 

Quick Update

Amber got her tubes on Monday - we were back home by 8:00 a.m. - yep, that quick and that easy.  She recovered very well, like nothing happened.  All is well!

Me?  I am going to barf up chocolate from V.D. day.  I think my skin is turning brown.

The New Slimfast?

I have a MAJOR sweettooth these days, so I bought Slim Fast Optima Protein Snack bars in Whipped Peanut Nougat - and I gotta say, I really like them.  It's better than a candy bar, and has a little protein.  110 calories, 3.5 fat, 16 carbs, 5 protein - probably not the BEST option, but not the worst either - and let's face it, I will never be a fitness guru or a totally lean really low body fat % person.  I aim to be in shape, have a better than average body fat %, be healthy, and to look decent in a bathing suit - I do not expect to not have cellulite because I will never eat to a really lean diet, and I will never be able to workout hard 6 days a week - and isn't that the way most of us are?  But I digress...

So I was looking on the back of the box, and I'm actually interested in this Slim Fast diet thingie.

For a person currently weighing up to 140 lbs... (the weight categories go up by 30 lbs and all that changes is adding snacks and more fruits or veggies, the snacks being the snack bars of course - gotta promote your own product - I only have 1 a day to satisfy my cravings, I can't imagine 3 a day being a good thing).

• It suggests a Slim Fast Meal on the Go shake - which I probably would rather have real food for breakfast, although I'm not good at real food for breakfast because I eat it at work - so it has to be nukable but eggbeaters works, and Kashi hot cereal works
• A SF Fast Meal Combination, which is a high protein shake with like 1/2 a turkey sandwich on whole wheat (they call it a sensible food choice) - I like this idea
• 1 sensible meal where 2/3 your plate is lean veggie and the other 1/3 is your lean protein - the example is carrots, snow peas and grilled salmon to be about 500 calories - I really like this idea
• And have 3 fruits or veggies

Now that seems simple enough to follow.  I like the plate portion breakdown thinking ALOT.  Seems like Slimfast has come along way since the liquid diet days.

Adult Accidental Overdoses?

In reading Heath Ledger's cause of death though sad and untimely, I am reminded of Anna Nicole Smith, and perplexed at how an adult would not consider "hmmm, I've got this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this and this - possibly I should not take them *all* together or even within 4 hours of each other."

I don't know, that's just the conservative side of me. But this is coming from the person that while pregnant cleaned out the cat litter box with bleach and then realized as the fumes made me gag - oops, ammonia and bleach = toxic.  I coulda killed myself then, right?  Not to mention that I wasn't even supposed to be near cat litter (despite the gloves and mask).

Progress

I made it to the gym today during lunch.  24 Hour Fitness is certainly not LifeTime Fitness, but it'll do for 50% less the cost.

I'm having my whole wheat turkey pastrami laughing cow snack - very good actually, but higher in carbs that what I was thinking. This pastrami has a funny texture too...

Amber is getting tubes on Monday.  My sweet little bitty baby girl!!!!!!!!!!!!

Poor Britney

I confess.  I'm watching videos of Britney's British accent from TMZ.com.  I tell ya - if I had a mob like that following me around CONSTANTLY, I'd probably have 19 personalities - and the strongest one would be "I'll KILL ALL YOU ASSHOLES, MOVE THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY." 

Seriously, it is absolutely RIDICULOUS the way they follow her around.  She cannot even put one foot in front of the other.  Wouldn't it make anyone crazy?  I'd be walking around in circles, scared for my life too.  I can't believe that she can't be protected any more than she is - how do you live like that?  It is terribly sad - no amount of money IN THE WORLD, would make me want to lose my identity and privacy the way she's lost hers.  Granted, she makes bad choices and seems to go where the paps are - but still... they act like she's Jesus showing up for the 2nd coming.

And the other interesting thing in the news, besides politics???, is that the main on again/off again suspect - or maybe he was always the main suspect - in the Natalie Holloway case was caught on camera saying she basically seized in front of him, stopped breathing, so he called a friend who threw her body out to sea - but now that it's been made public, he says he lied.  Yeh.  Right. IDIOT.

A little better

The kids are sleeping somewhat better, so I am feeling more human today.

Waiting, waiting, waiting on the ENT's office to call me with an appointment time for Amber to have her "procedure" for tubes - this week I thought.  I hate calling it "surgery", so I don't. This kid has a temper.  She isn't bad, but she can get herself all in a bunch and it is difficult sometimes to get her calmed down, she flails her arms, and gets her legs going - we still swaddle her, it's really more of a straight-jacket method of calming her, but it works magically and perfectly.  She is a pincher. She can pinch bruises on adults.  I'm hoping tubes will turn her back into the calm, laid back baby that she was early on - or, maybe she is sick of her sister pestering her, so she's coming up with her own pestering method, which is screaming; however, Savanna is very good at ignoring it, I am not.

BWAAAAA SLEEP???

Um, let's see last night I went to bed at 8 p.m., took 2 sleep aid pills hoping for a decent few hours of sleep.  At 9:40, I awoke to a SCREAMING BABY - whom I took away from husband thus pissing him off and "making him feel incompetent" - or some shit.  Then woke at 12:40 a.m. to a hungry kid, then 2:30 to a half-hungry kid who only took 2 ounces wasting my time, then 4:00 a.m. to a kid I could do nothing with - so by 5 a.m. I decided to just put her in the fucking swing and leave the room, which didn't work because she apparently woke my husband up who then attended to her, and I pretty much couldn't go back to sleep because the other kid I own started coughing her ass off.

Yes - this is the way it has gone all week.

I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL SHE GETS TUBES IN HER EARS.  God, I hope it helps her sleep, otherwise, I WILL GO BATSHIT CRAZY.