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Weekend Update!!

This past weekend went by in a crazy, hazy, overly-productive whirl!! WHEW!!! It has taken me two days of being back at work to finally feel recouped!!! πŸ˜‰

Anyway, the weekend started with a mini girls’ night in at my house (always fun!!!) My husband and I actually got home about 50 minutes before either of my girlfriends were going to arrive. Well, in my sometimes A.D.D. way, I told Jason that we just had to rearrange the living room – as if it were imperative to my future happiness!!! LOL! Being the FABULOUS man that he is, he just rolled up his sleeves and said, “Whatever makes you happy, Baby!”!!!! What you might not know is that rearranging living room furniture in my house means that a piano has to be moved over carpet – NOT TOO EASY!!! Anyway, we managed to get it completely done with about 10 minutes to spare (Jason and I are a GREAT design team, and we work great together on this stuff!!!)

Girls night was fun; drinks, chatting, giggling, chic-flick, magazines, dinner – you know, the usual!!! Well one of my girlfriends stayed the night so that we could go up to the outlet mall and spend the day shopping with another one of our girlfriends that we met up with later in the day, and man-oh-man!!! No wonder they are so small – WE WALKED FOR HOURS!!!! WHEW!!! Don’t get me wrong, I had a blast and would do it again in a heartbeat, but at one point I was just praying for ANYPLACE to sit to get off of my tired feet!!! I did manage to find a treasure that day – it was a Liz Claiborne winter coat that was originally $175, marked down to $99, then again to $54, and I got it for 50% from that!!!! WHOOOOO! HOOOOO!!!! I didn’t even know that Liz Claiborne made plus-sized clothing, but they do!!! YEAH!! I will be going there again, and again, and again, and again!!! πŸ™‚

Sunday: well flashback to Friday night, my best friend Dawn (we’ve been best friends since we were both 12) was helping motivate me to get some unfinished projects in my house completed, and I promised her that I would do one project from start to finish on Sunday – so Sunday came. Now, my husband and I live in a small condo townhouse, and have for a little over 3 years. The place has had all sorts of remodeling done, mostly by my husband, and one of the things that has been bugging me is that he built me this beautifully walk-in closet/dressing room that I have completely outgrown!!! (CONFESSION: I am a little bit of a fashion-hoar!!!) Anyway, he and I spent the day hanging shelves, installing rods, moving bookcases and reorganizing and purging clothes, shoes, boots, jewelry, accessories, bags, purses, so that I only kept the things that I absolutely LOVED!!! So, by the time Sunday night hit – the closet was looking like my own little personal fashion boutique and I was spent!!!

I awoke at 3am that morning, sure that I had dreamed the closet makeover, and I had to get up just to check – OH MY GOSH! IT WASN’T A DREAM!!!! YES! YES! YESSSSS!!! πŸ˜‰

Well, I was soooo excited that it was done that I then couldn’t sleep, so I decided to read a little bit to see if that would make me tired! Two hours later of reading Bridget Jones Diary and I finally fell back to sleep!!! HA! HA! HA!!!

OK, I am back to work – all is going well!!! Weigh in day is tomorrow morning, and I am praying for a loss, but I will keep you posted!!!

Jason and I are also going camping, at the beach, with my sister-in-law and our niece and 2 nephews on Thursday, and will not be back until Sunday night!!! So I will be away for a bit, but I will be back!! I can’t wait to tell you all about it – I know it will be a BLAST!!!

Anyway, I miss all of you – I hope you are still out there!?!?!?! I will see what I can do about posting some pics from me NEW walk-in closet this evening!!! πŸ˜‰

Weekend Update!

Ok, so as I have said in previous posts, I don’t usually do so hot on the weekends!!! Too much freedom to NOT STAY ON PLAN!!! Anyway, this weekend has been no different, so I just ran into the office and told my husband that I needed help make something FABULOUSLY HEALTHY for dinner, and of course – him being the FABULOUS husband that he is, agreed to grill some chicken and corn on the cobb for our dinner this evening!!! WHEW!!! I just don’t want to have to report a bad weigh in, and with about half my week over – that is EXACTLY what I would have done if I didn’t ask for help!!!

Anyway, today has been a good day!!! I have gone garage sale-ing (does anyone know how to spell that???), which I LOVE to do!!! I found too many treasures, which is ironic, because my husband and I just donated something like 4 bags of miscellaneous stuff to a nearby Goodwill!! Go figure!!! I am taking a drawing class 2 nights during the week, so I did some of my homework for that today, and may spend a little bit more time on it tonight! We are now just trying to stay inside, out of the heat, and not spend any more money!! My official plan for this evening is to do some reading, watching a rented movie (Bonneville – I haven’t heard of it so I will have to tell you about it after I watch it!), after dinner go to the local track and do some walking with my sweetie, and then come home and do some bouncing on the new REBOUNDER my sweetie just got for me!!!!! YEAH!!! I have ALWAYS wanted one of those – it is supposed to be really good for your lymphnodes!!! Again, I will have to let you know on that! I did try it out this morning for about 5 minutes and it was REALLY energizing!!!! WHAA-HOOO!!! πŸ˜‰

Have a GREAT evening! I will talk to you all later!!!
-Christina πŸ˜‰

Oh, the pic today is of a similar purse to one that I found at an estate sale today!!! YEAH!!! I LOVE FASHION ACCESSORIES!!!!

This New Weekend!!!

Bonjour mon ami!!!

It is Saturday morning and the old me always used weekends as 2 days of eat-whatever-the-hell-you-want-because-you-have-done-GREAT-all-week-and-you-deserve-to-live-a-little nutritional NIGHTMARE!!!! It is amazing what one is willing to do to one’s body in the name of “You deserve this!”

REALLY???
This is what I deserve?????
Bloating?
Emergency bathroom breaks????
The inability to TOUCH MY TOES????

WHAAAAA???? There has got to be more to life than this!!! Well, thankfully you are now dealing with the NEW Christina!!! I am planning my day, not around food and meals, but my day is about GETTING OFF OF MY BUTT and having some real fun with my life!!!

Today, I am going to have a very French breakfast – Les Tartine, which is about a 1 foot section of baguette, sometimes toasted, and is buttered and jellied!! It is soooo delicous!! This is about 1/2 of the length of an American baguette and equals about 5 points. After adding my 2 tablespoons of whipped butter, and 2 tablesppons of sugar free fruit preserves, the total points of this breakfast comes to only 7 points!!!! WHAA-HOO!!! πŸ˜‰

I will pack some cruditΓ©s with me to go out shopping with one of my girlfriends, and make sure to pack my water!! one can never get enough hydration!! I think a deli sandwich for lunch – heavy on the veggies, please – will be a very satisfying lunch!!! Finally for dinner, tonight it is homemade, which is ALWAYS EASY to be both healthy AND DELICIOUS, which I love!!!

Alrighty – I am off for the day! I hope everything is going well for each of you – I can’t wait to hear how you are all progressing!!!

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– Christina πŸ˜‰