A Quick Update

from my grandparents' house (yes, we're just visiting everyone). We had a great time visiting my husband's family, and we stopped by grandparents' house to see them and my parents on the way home. Happily, I have only gained 3 lbs on my 2 weeks of vacation (yes, considering what I was eating, that is quite a feat!). We will return home on Monday or Sunday, and then the job hunt will begin in earnest. I hope it goes well. I got a great reference letter from one of my former bosses, so I hope that will help. Hope everyone is doing well. It will take forever to catch up on blogs. :)

Checking in....

All of our stuff is in a truck ready to be moved in tomorrow. And then the next day, we are headed out of town for a couple of weeks. Then I should be on regularly (and with a cable modem!). I hope everyone is doing well.

I have been tagged.....

and it's a good thing too since I can't really think of anything to blog about. :) Thanks, Dawn!

So, here goes:

5 things in my refrigerator:
1. Yougurt (in tupperware since Miss Priss decided to open all of them)
2. Bottled water. I don't drink it, but Miss Priss drinks a lot more water if it comes out of a bottle. Go figure.
3. Steaks for dinner.
4. Corn to go with the steaks (I love when corn is cheap!)
5. Milk.

5 things in my closet:
1. Clothes.
2. Magazines (I just toss my magazines in a box in my closet when I'm done with them)
3. Shoes. Lots of shoes.
4. Boxes of clothes (winter clothes, clothes that will fit again soon)
5. Hubby's clothes.

5 things in my purse:
1. Cell phone.
2. Diaper bag stuff (my purse doubles as a diaper bag -- I just don't feel like carrying two bags)
3. Keys.
4. Wallet.
5. Lots of change in the bottom.

5 things in my car:
1. Two carseats that take up all the room in the backseat.
2. Lots of pens and paper. I make lists in the car (while my husband drives, don't worry), so the paper and pens always get left in there.
3. A tire guage and ice scraper.
4. Miss Priss's books. And toys.
5. Dora window shade and Monkey window shade on the back windows. They actually don't shade the sun completely, but if Miss Priss is complaining about the sun, I just pull it down, and suddenly the sun ceases to exist in her mind. Works wonders.

So, I tag:
Lynsey
Amanda
Heather
Elise
Sabrina
Dana
AnneMeg

Sorry, I like to tag a bunch to see what everyone says. :)

And, I'm officially under 170. Yay! 169.6. I'll take it. Especially since I had another weekend of fast food last weekend. And, hopefully, packing to move will help too since that's a lot of exercise and keeps me busy so I don't eat from boredom.

I'm back....

and we have a place to live once we move. And Miss Priss is already enrolled in a pre-school that starts in the fall. My mother-in-law is keeping them when I go back to work. So, I'll be on sporadically for the next couple of weeks while we pack up. We are hoping to have an organized move (and therefore an organized home) when we get settled. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ahem. And after that, we will be off for a 2 week vacation to visit family. So. The next month or so will be hectic. But, I'm also excited about the possibilities. :)

Yesterday....

did turn out to be a beautiful day as I suspected it would when I woke up. The girls behaved very well -- both of them. Which, of course, means they'll probably be little terrors today. LOL. I got my housecleaning done early, so I had all day to kind of laze around and play with the girls. I think I'll do my housecleaning early everyday. That was very relaxing. I even made dinner. Steak and baked potatoes and grilled corn. Now, around my house, it is no secret that I'm the world's worst cook (a fact I accept). So the fact that my meal last night turned out well (and not overdone) was a pleasant surprise. I did promise my daughter that we could make chocolate chip cookies today. Hmmm.....maybe I'll look up a low(er) fat chocolate chip cookie recipe. Does such a thing exist? Or maybe I'll decide that....hell....they're chocolate chip cookies, in order for them to taste good, they have to have all the fat. LOL. I noticed that the local grocery store had ice cream on sale for 3/$10 -- a phenomenal deal on the brand I buy. Here's how well I'm doing on my diet -- I walked right by it and told myself that there was no need for ice cream no matter how good the deal because it will mess up the progress I'm making. Never thought I'd see the day where I could pass up ice cream. But, it's true. If I buy ice cream, I'll eat it at least once a day (and a lot of it), so it's best just to keep it out of the house completely. Hope everyone has a great weekend! :)