Monthly Archives: May 2009

Vegas

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the new mommies, expecting mommies and mom’s. :smile: I hope you have a wonderful day!

We’re off to VEGAS BABY!! We’re leaving the house early this afternoon, making a stop at the beer store on the way to get some new bottles for hubby. Then, we are in the air until 8:30 p.m. Las Vegas time! I’m taking my laptop with me, so feel free to drop me a line, comment here, message me on Facebook, whatever. Bringing my camera along for some awesome shots of everything in the area! We’re planning on getting some time in at Red Rock and hopefully some horses will be out there running around. :camera: The weather is supposed to be HOT though, each day the low is in the 70′s and the highs are in the 97-100°F range. So, we’ll see what we end up doing with the afternoons. I see movies and a/c in our future. Plus, we’re going to gamble a little. We only pull the slots, so, it’s limited to what we can win. Last time we were there I won $200 on the slots, not a loss at all. :smile: Wish us luck! We are meeting up with a friend and her crew for dinner on Friday night. I think we met on Twitter, but we’ve been talking online for a while. She and her family live there, so how can we not meet up and have dinner? We found a great hotel near the strip, but it has a full kitchen and it’s always a good nights sleep in these hotels. We stayed at one in Atlanta and really liked it. The Air Force base is very close by to the hotel, we actually thought of staying there, but there are rules. You cannot stay there more than 3 guaranteed nights, since hubby is retired, active duty has priority and we don’t have kids with us either. That’s okay, we’re visiting the base to get cheap tickets and find out about the area.

I’ve been doing really well on my weight loss. I haven’t posted anything about it as I was stuck at a plateau for a while and wanted to get past that. I’ve now moved past that and every pound is a victory! I started on July 28, 2008 at 144 lbs. I changed my eating habits and worked out more and I’m now officially at 122 pounds! I wore a size 12 when I started, I’m in a size 4 now. :party: :cloud9: I’m 4’11″ so my actual recommended weight is 99-115 pounds. I’ve been drinking water or Crystal Light and that’s it. No juice, which was really hard for me to wean off of. I haven’t been snacking a lot and keeping busy over the past few weeks has helped. I still run a mile when I go to the gym and when we get back I will be stepping that up a little. I also do the elliptical and the bike while I’m there. Now it’s time to start the crunches and get everything toned as I lose the last 10 or so pounds. I haven’t weighed under 120 since 1999 when I started working at the truck garage. So, that’s my goal for myself right now. To get those last 3 or 5 pounds off by my birthday in October! Sounds easy, we’ll see though. I want to be in my size 4 jeans that are a little snug right now, on my 45th birthday! I wear a 4 in shorts, weird that I wear a 6 in Levi’s. Anyhow, I’m still taking my vitamins, eating my salad and protein each day. I have a lot more energy than I did a year ago. Oh and I bought a dress! My first dressy purchase since losing weight. :pinkhearts: I will have someone take a photo of hubby and I while we are all dressed up so you can see it. I looked at my driver’s license and Military ID photos last night. I look SO different now. My face is definitely different. My weight was 130 when I got my driver’s license, I lied on it though, it was much higher I’m sure, that was last January. My Military ID has my weight at 115, which is a lie too, they carried that over from my last one and I didn’t deny it, they never asked actually. Now I can state it proudly when I get my next card or license. :grin:

Have a great week and I hope to post at least once from Vegas! :kiss:

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We’ve got reservations for a week at an Extended Stay hotel. Kitchen, couch, king size bed, non-smoking room, a gym, pool, jacuzzi we can use. $4.99 for the entire visit for internet. Guess how much for a WEEK? $400. Yup. That’s right. The plane tickets went on sale 2 weeks ago and we snagged them for $600 total. Car rental is $220 for a week. Not too shabby for a trip. We have $250 for gambling set aside.

I cannot wait. It’s been since NEVER that we’ve been gone a week from our kids. Ever. And we’ve always driven to the vacation spot, so we usually go to Williamsburg or somewhere nearby.

Sleeping in, spending time with each other. Heaven.

Hey, it’s May!

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I cannot believe it’s May already! Wow, the year is nearly halfway over. I’m already planning MY wish list for Santa!

Hubby is leaving on Monday for a few days. He’s heading to San Diego. I’m actually glad now that I’m not going, I have TOO MUCH TO DO! He will be back on Friday, he rests on Saturday, then we leave for Vegas on Sunday for a week! Yay!

I’ve been working on revamping my photo biz site. It should be done soon. I’m just uploading and posting the photos on my business Flickr and then I have to do a header and some light coding. I will let everyone know when it’s completed though! It’s been taking up a lot of my time lately.

I really do like my new computer. I’ve had it for a week or so and I’m getting used to Vista. I like the Media center! I’ve been putting all my CD’s on it today. Hubby hooked up the TV tuner card so I can watch TV if I want to, or listen while I’m doing something. I haven’t tried out the recording thing yet though. I will get in the near future, at least one new DVD burner, the one that it came with sucks. I’m currently using my Lightscribe burner for all my CD’s and DVD’s. It’s fast, but really a little noisy. I bought it for work, so I don’t want to use it too much. I also have TWO open bays in the case for internal hard drives. I see those filled up by the year’s end. I think I have another slot for another DVD burner. I had two in my old tower, I miss them! They are pretty old though, so I won’t be transferring them over. I’ve been putting the new computer through the tests. Lightroom is a huge memory hog, but, I can have that and two other programs open and a graphics program open as well with no issues so far. :smile:

Life here is always busy.  The little girlie will be two years old at the end of the month. I cannot believe it. I cannot imagine life without her around. I will be watching her one last time on Tuesday while her mommy is at her last French class for the semester. We are going to miss her so much while we are on vacation! Hubby will be gone nearly two weeks from her. She only really has him as a male role model and loves her Pap-paw a lot. It will be hard on her I think. I took some photos of them together today and I am planning in printing out some to hang in her room so she can see him while he’s gone. I want to get some of me and her tomorrow and of her mommy and I. She is so funny now, she smiles a silly cheesy grin when you ask her to smile! *LOL*

The youngest is applying for an apprenticeship at a local tattoo place, so, we’ll see how that pans out time wise with watching the little girlie. It’s night’s at least, 2-9, maybe 3 times a week. She’s a great artist, has to do a portfolio of different drawings and will be bringing that back to the guy sometime in the near future. I really don’t care where she works to tell you the truth, as long as she’s happy with what she’s doing and she’s safe doing it. It’s not a food related job, which is great and not surrounded by high school kids is a good thing too.

Hubby and I went to Outback last night for dinner. We ate for $29 and had an appetizer. We each ordered the 6 oz. steak and the two sides for $9.99, an appetizer of the crab stuffed shrimp and I had a Coke, he had water. After the tip it was under $40! Great deal! I couldn’t hear myself think throughout dinner though. They sat us backing a loud table of 4 or 5 women and a baby. They were so loud. Once they left we sat there talking for a while, just so we could get our money’s worth of quiet!

I hope to post again before we leave for Vegas! Thank you for reading! :kiss: