I had a lovely weekend with my family and his with all the family partying and whatnot. I got to sit on outdoor furniture of varying styles and relax while people chattered around me and with me. I really did miss the familial interaction! We get to do some of it all over again next month when we go to the powwow I can hardly wait

Maybe. I would love to take my son for a few days into Disney in Florida. They have some really fabulous Disney vacation packages that we could take advantage of if we wanted. There is also the ultimate homeschool field trip, would be great to take with my son. I want to see his face when he walks in the gates and sees the beauty of this make-believe filled world…I just want him to stay in the wonder part, the superficial. If you go any deeper than that, you get into some trouble …

I was helping my hubby move things around our apartment yesterday and my feet & knees starting acting up. Today, I was helping some more but noticed that my feet felt kind of tight, which is weird since I am wearing flip flops. Lo and behold, I take a look down and my feet are swollen!!! They hurt so very much. I just touched one and it sent searing pains through my nerves. I guess walking around on concrete floors for the whole day without any real support on my feet has taken its toll. Right now, I am sitting with my feet up for a while so I can blog and let them rest. I would attribute these issues to age, but I have had problems with my knees and feet since I was ten, and moreso since 1998 when I got into a really bad car accident. Thankfully, my hubby saw what I was struggling with and understands that I have to sit for a while.

It’s that time of year again! Everyone will be pulling out their surgical masks and work gloves so they can spray down their living spaces for all the critters and crawlies that come out in the warm weather. I am putting down mouse “food”, ant baits, roach baits, and spraying for mites, fleas, bedbugs…you name it… so we can rest easily every day knowing we put up the best defense we could against being invaded. We live in an apartment complex, so whatever everyone has, you more than likely get also… and that’s exactly what I am trying to protect us against. I HATE seeing things that belong outside in my home! Hopefully, our preemptive strike will yield great results!

I was in desperate need of new jeans, so I talked my hubby into coming to the mall with me to pick out some new ones.

What a harrowing experience that was!

First, I went into a store I have never been in before that looked like they had cute jeans. Off the bat, the manager sees me looking at the jeans and asks me what size I am. I told him, and he shows me where all those sizes are in the piles. I looked up at the mannequins, and back down to the jeans in disbelief. HOW could a mannequin have PANTY LINES???

The jeans were just THAT tight.

SO I ask the guy “Are ALL these jeans tight fitting like that?”

He answered me in his swarthy Milan accent: “Yes honey! Everyone wants to look sexy these days, you know?”

I was like “Uh, no I can’t be looking like that. The kids in my youth group and stuff… I can’t have these on!”

He asks “What you mean? Why not?”

I got a little louder so he could hear me, since I was kind of mumbling the first time… “My girls at church in my youth group need to see a better model than this. I can’t show up in these tight jeans trying to look sexy. We teach them modesty. Thank you anyway” and I left to go recount the story to my husband who was in the food court with our son.

I eventually found myself a pair of not-as-tight-as-those-jeans jeans to be worn with longer shirts to cover the posterior. I also found a nice pair that fit like the ones I already had on. They make the sizes all crazy now and out of 3 of the same size jeans only 2 fit, and one of those just barely. If I was any other person, my self-esteem would have been hurt.

I also got myself some much needed undershirts and overshirts …4 for like 16 bucks. Got myself a cute blue hoodie to go with the blue shirt that I got that goes with my birthday sneakers (which I never showed you!!!)

and a pretty dressy shirt. ALL that for about $45 bucks. I love bargain shopping when I can find things that fit nicely and don’t show off all my goodies to the world!

I was just watching a show on the Food channel about how they make different food items in restaurants *unwrapped*. Cheesecake Factory had these GORGEOUS breaded fried mac n cheese balls. After seeing all the mess they put in those things, I just HAD to see what the calorie count was….

A WHOPPING 1570 calories with 69 grams of fat ….

O
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G

It may just be the appetizer that will kill many people. *shudders*

So I lost like 2 inches off my waist before I went to Jamaica. I was doing some serious sets of ab workouts that helped me out a lot. Somehow, those inches squished down to my thighs *LOL*. Will I continue to do the ab workouts and get rid of or at least maintain the loss? I sure hope so. I would hate to gain it back after such hard work for more than 3 weeks!

I have over 500 pictures from our trip to Jamaica. You can see them in a collection I have on flickr. I took so many good shots. I got many pictures from our food choices, too. There was so much going on there. WE had so much fun just running around the resort jumping in the water, trying new foods, and generally soaking up the luxury.