It's Official

...as if you didn't already know...I'm a p-i-g, hog! :) I just finished an entire bag of dill pickle potato chips. It took me two work days but they're gone, the bag is in the garbage and I've the pickled tongue to prove it!

Friday!!!!!!

I never thought it would actually show up - it's Friday...naw, not really. This week flew by, faster than I ever thought a week could fly. So Wednesday I ate at the Country Inn, and yesterday I ate at Subway and Taco John's - not good, not good at all...fortunately, when I got on the scale, I was still at 196. Thank goodness! I need to stop the eating out. But it won't happen this weekend - Andy's coming up, so we'll eat out at least twice I'm guessing. Olive Garden - here we come!

Food Thursday included a chicken bacon ranch sub from subway - got the 9-grain wheat bread. Yummy. Last night I had Taco Johns - their grilled burrito is just sooooo good. I only ate about 6 of my potato oles, not bad, I think! Other than that, I really didn't eat anything else. I've been keeping as busy as I can keep myself so I won't eat. I forget to eat when I'm really busy.

I saw Rachel Getting Married last night - depressing as all heck but Anne Hathaway does a damn good job of playing a whiny selfish recovering addict. Good grief. I hope she wasn't basing it off a real person, I'd hate to think someone could be that obnoxious and needy.

I also saw Red Road and Miss Potter...Red Road was a freaky weird movie from Glasgow, Scotland - interesting story, sad. Slow to get into it, but worth watching. Miss Potter was so sweet - it was Beatrix Potter's story. I have to say I could feel her pain - 34-year old woman living with her parents - of course this was 1902 instead of 2009, but still...Excellent movie, highly recommend it.

I'm still reading Under the Banner of Heaven - savoring it, really. So far it's a collection of people's stories - they'll all tie together I'm gathering, but sooo good.

I think that's all that's gone on...will update you on the Andy weekend come Monday sometime! :)

Good Grease!

Oh dear - I've done it now...I just finished a patty melt w/ french fries from the Country Inn. In about 5 more minutes I'll be rushing to the bathroom. Yag - we call them sliders. And I should eat them, but doggone it, that's good grease!

I need to have some kind of reminder attached to me surgically that reminds me that overeating is miserable and not to do it. blech...

So the last two days have been pretty bad for me...eating WAAAAAAYYYY too much and getting zero exercise. The breakdown:
Monday's food
--diet coke (good grief, I shouldn't even have to type this anymore, should I?)
--2 Karianna's bars
--c. potato/sausage hotdish
--milky way
--pepperoni pizza from the gas station

Tuesday's food
--diet coke
--2 Karianna's bars (thank goodness they're all gone now)
--breakfast burrito from the gas station
--rice/chicken/broccoli bowl
--Joe Jitter's House Salad w/ copious amounts of ranch dressing

add to all this crap, now I've just had that patty melt...ugh...I don't think I want to get on the scale tomorrow morning

On a non-food note, I've finished Inkheart. It was good, i'll read the second book and even intend to see the movie. I'll let you know the comparison. I've started reading Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer...so far, really good. Its about fundamentalist mormons and the wacky (mostly criminal) things they do and get away with.

Russell and I watched The Duchess Monday night...good movie, I think. Kiera Knightly is always interesting to see. Apparently it was based on a true story - sad what people have done to live sometimes.

American Idol is heating up - auditions will be over after tonight and next week is Hollywood week. I'm liking the new judge - she is a good match for Simon and she gets along well with Paula so far! ;)

Waiting for sunshine today - hope you get some too! :)

Patient update

Don't you hate it when you can TELL a person smokes - meaning, they smell like an ashtray, literally? yuk - I've had two of those today.

Meanwhile - I haven't updated you guys on crazy staring lady! She's better!!!!!! She's back!!!!! She's amazing!!!!! I'm so thrilled for her. She was nearly catatonic four months ago and now she's a fully functioning human being. Praise God, I say! She needed to be back - her daughter is 16 and what 16 year old girl doesn't need her mom?

Oh the sunshine...

...that I have missed! I finished a marathon movie watching weekend last night with Defiance. I saw Gran Torino before that and wow - what a Sunday afternoon! It was gorgeous sunshine when I walked in and dark night when I walked out! Both movies are well worth the time and effort to go see. Gran Torino - well - the acting, ugh, I've seen better. Clint Eastwood nails an old codger attitude and speech right ont he head but the kids acting in the movie...not so much. The story was fantastic and I loved hearing people laugh at the racial slurs just as much as I did! :) (Didn't make me feel so silly anyway). The movie even got some applause! The theatre was really full for a Sunday afternoon, I thought. Lots of people there, very surprising for a 4.05 movie. There was a line clear to the door for tickets when i walked in - shocking - but it was a super cold day, so I shouldn't have been surprised, no? Defiance - omigosh - fantastic movie also. A Schindler's List of sorts, but this is in Belorussia about the Bielski brothers - the 4 of them end up rescuing 1200 jews by wandering the forest for four years. Good movie, needed to be told. We need to keep remembering the the Holocaust did happen and Hitler was evil.

As for my food intake - well - not too bad!

--Diet Coke (duh)
--b-e-chz toasty
--2 cups of potato/green bean/sausage hot dish
--one of Karianna's bars (modest size)
--snack ziploc bag of chex mix
--Nerds Rope - Hey, I love them!
--sourdough bacon cheeseburger from BK
--1/4 of a small fries (Buster and Soda loved the other 3/4)

I know - I could have gone without the BK run, but it was late and I hadn't had dinner and I was driving by....quit whining Anne! ;)

So I'm finally getting really into Inkheart - of course now that I only have about 50 pages left! It's become quite a good story. I just might go see the movie after all.

Speaking of movies (again)...I pulled the Oscar nominations today and I have a whole list of more movies to see! Thankfully a ton of them are on Netflix already...I should have most of the movies available watched by the time the Oscars actually occur! I don't anticipate a marathon movie weekend coming up soon, but you never know!

Weight loss day umpteen

Ok - so it's Sunday...did I write on Friday? Hold on, I'll check, I can't remember...oh dear, I've been really slacking!!!! It was Thursday I last blogged. Ok, so let's see...Thursday was a good day, mainly because I realized I'm maintaining well - not going up in weight, but staying at my usual. That's good - for a start. I haven't been on the treadmill since the first time this week, so I need to get on it today or tomorrow.

Friday's food
--breakfast cookie
--toasty
--rice/chicken/broccoli bowl from Schwan's
--2 grasshopper cookies
--2 reese's miniatures
--Erbert's and Gerbert's Narmer with a pickle (narmer is turkey, cheese, avocado and lettuce - i don't take the tomato - yukky) on wheat.
--lots of Diet Coke

So - not a ton of food, but lots of white food! Bread is evil sometimes, no?

Saturday's food
--breakfast cookie (2)
--chex mix (I was at a movie, cut me some slack)
--2 cups of potato/sausage/green bean/cheesy hotdish

And I only had the DC, cookies and chex mix all day - had the hot dish at 8 or so last night. I was at a couple of movies, so didn't really eat much. It was a strange day.

So I saw Benjamin Button on Thursday, and Doubt last Saturday. Yesterday I saw Slumdog Millionaire and Revolutionary Road. I love two movie days! In fact, I love them so much I'm doing it again today - but I'll tell you about that tomorrow. Slumdog was fantastic - I recommend it to anyone, especially if you're interested in seeing what these poor kids can go through living in the slums of India. I'm continually amazed at how humans can survive terrible conditions.

Revolutionary Road - well - I told you I'd read the book, right? The book is depressing at best, but full of interesting characters. The movie was pretty spot on. You only miss out on the characters rich back-stories. Otherwise, it tells the story very well. I don't recommend seeing it if you're already down in the dumps. It will definitely NOT lift you up as Slumdog will. But it's worth watching. Kate Winslet is a darn good actress if I do say so myself. I like her a lot! :)

Still working my way through reading Inkheart. Emma saw the movie yesterday and said it was good - I'm not sure I really want to see Capricorn in full cinematic glory - he's pretty brutal. So I'm going to wait to get through the book before I make a decision on seeing the movie.

Ok - I'm going to finish my taxes today before I head out for my movies...

Weigh In Day! :)

This morning = 196 - excellent.

I went to see Benjamin Button today and made a Duluth day out of it - shopping at the scrapbooking place, car wash, shoe shopping, and the like. With the long day I did eat out twice, but only ate half of the curly fries at Arbys for lunch and half of the fries with my Burger King supper. :) I didn't feel stuffed like I usually do after a fast food meal, so I must be doing something right...at least I hope so!

Benjamin Button was fabulous, btw

Anyway - so food totals today include
--breakfast cookie w/ DC
--bacon beef and cheddar w/ curly fries and Dr Pepper
--1/2 bag of Dill Pickle chips while at the car wash
--sourdough bacon cheeseburger sans tomato w/ 1/2 small fries and DC

so far, so good! I know I need to add more veggies into this diet, and it'll come along soon, I hope! :)

Am still reading Inkheart - it's difficult to get into, but I've been told to just keep pushing on, it gets better!