WWF and Glittertits13

Yea Horns!

Almost had an emergency. My shark hand-helf vaccuum was stuffed with dog hair. I put my finger deep into it to pull out the clumps and my finger got stuck. I was almost in panic mode, but I got it out. I have to say that the Shark is one of the best products ever when you have hardwood floors and pets...and a real Xmas tree.

So I LOVE Scrabble. Used to make my kids play it any time we lost power. Well my daughter got me addicted to Words with Friends. I typically play with random opponents. So now, I dont' know what to think. Glittertits13 (guessing at her occupation) is beating me like crazy and I have a journalism degree.



I got all my Xmas stuff down and put away. My tree is still so fresh and smells so good. I left it in the stand and put it in my side yard, so it looks like I have a tree growing. I'll take the stand off and put it out on recycle day which is a few days away.

So today, I intend to buy my black-eyed peans and greens for New Years. Would it be bad luck if I pass up champagne and have cocktails or wine instead? I typically get champagne for New Years, but it gives me a headache.

The little irritations

I had a great Xmas with my family and boyfriend. So good to spend time with everyone.

So I decided to join Weight Watchers to lose 10 lbs before summer. Well this week, I worked out every day of the week (except Xmas since gym was closed). I even had some long workouts since I had plenty of time being on holiday. I stuck to the WW points and didn't even eat half of the weekly points and tada....I gained a pound.

WTH? I think I know what it is. They encourage eating more fruit, some whole grains, and milk. I don't typically eat those foods much and I did this week. So anyway, I'll just cut back on those foods and stick to WW. I even cut back on my wine intake this week :)

So my irritation list of the day:

• I was up one pound first week of WW and have decided I'm not drinking wine tonight. Blah.
• My company's benefit system is apparently not real-time and I cannot seem to figure out how much vacation time I have.I will lose it if I don't take it, but I think I took it and the system hasn't counted it yet.
• My company's HR people apparently don't have phones and the ones who do have numbers listed are wrong and I get the Sales department.
• My company's HR people apparently can't answer emails about our benefits system and I need to take off tomorrow or Friday possibly depending on my vacation hours accrued.
• The lady at Subway poured a pound of vinegar on my salad and made it all soggy.
• I bought one item at the store using a $50 bill and they had no change and I backed up the line.....but I really needed to break that dang bill and it's all I had.
• I asked my daughter to clean the cat box and she said "I just cleaned it last week". (Hello, the cat has pooed since last week.... alot.)
• My son has not picked up the dog poo in the yard....we have an 80-lb dog. This needs to be done.
• My boss is on vacation, but he keeps checking in on us every day.
• I had to buy a whole sewing kit because I couldn't find a stupid tape measure to purchase on its own. (Figured maybe I gained a pound, but lost 5 inches last week....Hahaha)

Okay, I think I'm done for the moment.  I'm going to take it easy the rest of the day and hit the gym running tonight.

Hookem Horns!!!! Bowl game at 7pm.

Xmas is around the corner

This is not my son in the picture, but this seems to sum up his life right now. 

Well I'm a little disappointed with other people's behavior lately. Tailgating, speeding, cutting people off, flipping people off, honking of horns, speeding through parking lots and stealing people's spots, standing in the store taking up the entire aisle and refusing to move over.

Really? Come on people. It's Christmas. I guess I haven't had enough of it, so I'm headed out to do a little more shopping today.

Went to the high school football playoffs in Cowboys stadium last week. The games were awesome. There were so many talented players.

So some guy on SquawkBox today said to buy Weight Watchers WTW. He says all these health insurance companies are beginning to pay for WW in an attempt to help out their obese customers. He specifically said United Health, but I know my BC/BS also covers WW. This guy, who I didn't pay attention to who he was..maybe he was paid by WW:), anyway, he says their online business alone is enough.

My daughter downloaded Words with Friends on my phone. Now, I really do need to go and buy a second battery.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and remembers the reason for the season.

'White' people food and my new retirement plan

My daughter's boss told her to bring 'white' people food to the company Xmas pot luck since she is white. Well you learn something new every day. Her boss said white people food is broccoli rice casserole. Who'd a thunk it? So, anyway I'll be making that this week for her party.


On another note, I made chicken tenderloins this weekend. You wrap them around a jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese and pecans and then hold it together with bacon and put it on a skewer. Awesome!!! Next time I will cut the tenderolins in half and use more jalapenos.

Random pic of me and Elvis last year

So speaking of pecans, they are very expensive. About 3 tbsp of pecans is about $2 and a bag is $8. So my new retirement plan is to coerce my two pecan trees to produce a lot of pecans. Must Google to figure out how to make this happen. I think my pecan business might earn me more money than my stocks at this point.


Hope everyone has a great holiday season!

TGIF!!!

It was a rough week, but I'm feeling so much better today. My mom is in good spirits even though she had surgery. My daughter is finally talking to me again after a recent blow up. My son got his immunization for college and got registered. My ex-husband brought me some things of mine he found in storage. My boyfriend took me to lunch and then came back over to work out with me yesterday.

There were 14 people crammed in the small sauna at the gym last night. Guess everyone had the same idea.....get warm.

So the boyfriend and I decided to go look at different lake homes on the weekends. Last weekend, we went to Lake Fork. Boy was the lake low. This weekend we are staying close to home and going to cruise around Lake Lewisville.

Curious to see if will be warm enough to go top-down in the car. The forecast calls for the sun to be out.

So going to try a new recipe this weekend. It is chicken breast on a skewer wrapped in bacon and jalapenos. Check back to see how it turns out. I'm pretty sure nothing can go wrong with that.

Rough week

Yesterday, my mom had surgery for breast cancer. She was stuck in a hospital for 13 hours. She came home in a little bit of pain, but in great spirits. She was immediately running around feeding the dogs, cleaning up dishes, making salad, and making funnies....could have been the drugs.

This is me and mom in the Dominican Republic a few years ago.

While mom was in surgery the rest of the family was at my cousin's son's funeral. He was 23 years old. He was brilliant and free-spirited. That funeral is one of the worse things I've experienced recently. He has such a great kid with a passion for so many things. My cousin was so distraught. It hurt me to see her in such pain. Rest in Peace Darwin.

On a cheerier note (is cheerier a word?), Ryan is 20 today. I remember being at the hospital in labor. It was the 50th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, so go figure today is the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.  Ryan was born in Austin the same night as the Yogurt Shop murders. I remember being in labor watching the news about how four young teenagers were killed that evening, but I also remember watching Night Court....anyone remember that show?

By the way, it is freezing in Texas literally. It was 24 degrees this morning and it is only the first part of December. What the heck? How am I going to work on my golf game in this weather?