Monday, July 28, 2008

Quick Word

Still livin' easy here in MO.

Daddy arrived Saturday morning - was dropped off here by a company plane on the way to Osh Kosh for the big air show.

The kids have been so excited to see him. He only took four phone calls from work today. Things are a little dicey I guess - with his boss being canned last week and them putting him back on salary with promises of overtime still. He's just slightly on eggshells.

Tomorrow morning we leave early for a visit to the "local" osteo doc to likely have Zachary get his brace off and be released back to a normal life. You should see the hysterical photos of him swimming around with his left arm in the air like some sort of fleshy periscope... give him an inch...

After the doc appointment we're headed back to Branson and Silver Dollar City again. We have to do one of those silly time share lecture things, but we'll get free hotel for two nights if we endure it.

We should be back here either late Thursday night or early evening Friday - haven't decided yet. After that we'll have another week here before heading home. I've been told that some have asked if we're ever coming back! LOL! Of COURSE I'm coming back... My scrappy stuff is back there!!! :0)

My gramma and one of my aunts head back to California Sunday morning. It should be a busy weekend here. My cousin from NYC is supposed to be in for a couple of days. We haven't seen my KC cousins yet - dunno if we will or not. Why is it that I feel so much guilt about not visiting family if I get this close (three hour drive) to them??? But they never feel the same guilt over visiting us - in fact they NEVER have.

Still T-Tapping. Only three inches lost this last week for a total of 15. I have been enjoying my vacation food...it's like being on a cruise...

More frightfully interesting information later...

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Minus One Foot

Or twelve inches... That T-Tapp stuff really does work! I've been Tapping since Sunday the 13th - doing the 15 minute Basic Plus workout every day but last Saturday, and I'm down 12 inches overall.

There's a storm rolling in here or I'd tell you more - but I'm pretty excited.

Oh - and I'm still eating like I'm on vacation...

Sunday, July 20, 2008

This Is Only A Test...

I'm testing my ability to make blog posts from my cell phone out here in the sticks.


Next I'll try sending a photo maybe...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Let's Just Ignore...

that weight loss ticker for a bit... In case you didn't notice - it says "hasn't been updated in 80 days - please update". Well... I haven't had the heart to move it UP and back down again... besides - all my passwords and sign in ID junque is at home... AND I deserve a free pass for the month of July...

First is Independence Day with it's hot dogs, potato salad, chips and ice cream.

My dog, Oscar, had his 3rd birthday on July 5. I had another hot dog in his honor.

Next is my wedding anniversary on the 8th. We've been happily married for 10 years now - not too bad for 18 total (giggle snort). This was our first year ever apart on our anniversary. So I had to go the "comfort food" route. He promises to make it up to me when he gets here...so that outta count some calories too...

Then we spent 3 days at Silver Dollar City and funnel cake is the staple diet there...along with frozen lemonades. Not my fault.

My dad and husband both celebrate their birthdays on the 10th. Celebration = food, whether we're together or not.

My sister cats had their 3rd birthday on the 13th. I wasn't thinking of them - but did eat badly in their honor.

Then my son had an 11th birthday yesterday - had to make him the lemonade cheesecake pie he requested. Again, not my fault. I did make a sugar/fat free (`cept for the graham cracker crust and cool whip with chocolate shavings on top...) chocolate pie too. The leftovers are quite good for breakfast...

My twin aunts celebrate their (muffle muffle) birthday on Saturday. Twin doses of cake and ice cream will be had following a grilled dinner.

There is some good news here... I HAVE been doing my T-Tapp workouts every day (since Sunday) and already I have a measurable difference in the right direction. I'm also exercising in the water - I hate touching the muddy bottom, so I have to tread all the time - and if we go out in the boat I must tighten and hold everything in an attempt not to end up bruised by my own flailing body parts.

So let's just ignore that little ticker until i get home with my scale again...

Monday, July 14, 2008

Notes From MO

Not a lot of time to update you here - I'm borrowing the wireless for a few minutes on my dad's laptop.

We've (the kiddos, the dog and me - just in case you're thinking now would be a good time to stop by and steal all our junque...) been on vacation for the last two weeks!

We're kickin' our heels up at the old "homestead" in the Ozarks of MO. My grandparents have had this place on the lake since the very early 60's and it's probably the first place I ever swam. (And now that I think about it, it's the last place I swam too...)

I've set up housekeeping in one of my twin aunt's single wide trailer. That in and of itself was quite a feat... Apparently, whomever stayed here last wasn't much for housekeeping. The place reeked of mold and mildew, accented with just a hint of dried dog doo and a nostril slamming dose of dust. Of course, there were the signs of life left behind by winter's rodent guests as well as the fresh carcases of the ants that have been camping out here for who knows how long. I'm just thankful that my other aunt (the one that's down here most every weekend keeping an eye on things from her place next door) had the place fumigated a couple of days before we arrived to bed down.

It took a couple of days of cleaning, but we finally got the place livable again - can't complain tho, when the rent is so low :0) I do believe I heard my owner aunt say something about "changing the locks". Seems that my cousin's wife didn't want to stay here any more since the place didn't smell right to her... I need to stop here.

Last week we spent three nights in a condo in Branson. We is now the twin aunts, my three kids, and my cousin's two kids (both within months of being the same age as Mack - they split wedding duties at my other cousin's wedding last fall...) We had a ball eating and playing our way through Silver Dollar City in the on and off rain.

We'll be heading back to SDC for a few days when Daddy joins us - but I can't tell you when that will be, cuz I don't want you to go rob our junque out from under us...

There's a whole bunch more to tell - like how Zack totally soaked his cast at "Splash Harbor" (who knew... thanks *great* aunt, for the permission while mom was away...) and how it was replaced with a brace that he'll wear until the 29th. How the fireworks were pretty lame - not the usual lake viewing pleasure. How the kids are riding their bikes all the time and just loving it. How the dog has found a way out of the fenced yard and runs away down to gramma's house on the corner at every opportunity. How a trip to Walmart is a major excursion since it's a 30 minute drive instead of 3 minutes from home. How I'm learning how to plan better menus and grocery lists... How we're doing "summer-home school" and just "loving" it (not all of us - but it is motivating to have the lake just a short walk away when we're done... How the two youngest have turned into fish and the oldest is quite the angler now. (All he's asked for for his 11th b-day in 12 hours is fishing tackle and a trip to Bass Pro...) How I somehow seem to be gaining weight - could it possibly be all these huge family meals??? How I've started exercising again and I'm being faithful to my T-Tapp boot camp. How my cell phone totally crashed and erased everything on it - contacts, pix, ring tones, scheduler - everything! And how annoyed I was with Sprint (oddly #3 for WORST customer service...) when I called to see how to get my ringtones back and the guy said "how many" and I said "8 or 10" and he said, "that's too many - we can credit you with 3" and I said, "but I just bought them 6 months ago" and he said, "they re-download them and call back when they show up on your bill next month and tell them to look up my notes for this date and next time take care of your phone!!" and I said "EXCUSE ME???? It was never MY plan for the phone to short out and erase all my stuff... I was told it was a manufacturing defect!" (I hate Sprint...)

But... there's not time to tell you all that stuff - and this puter is pretty annoying - it keeps jumping my cursor all over the place and screwing up my typing.

Just wanted to say "hi" and that I'm still here... and miss bloggin' at ya... and I promise pix when I can get back to my own puter... but it will be awhile...
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