Archive for May, 2009

Dang it.  I really was going to try to make a full mini this month for the color challenge, and I think its painfully obvious it just ISNT going to happen!

Geeze if you want some fantastic freebies, you really should play the color challenge each month at DSO!  KimB always does a fantastic job of picking colors, and the kits, minis, quick pages, everyone comes up with ALWAYS amaze me!

The May colors were GREAT!!  Very different from the pastels we see everyday, so I was really planning on knocking something out with them!

She made a way cute posting bonus, so if you play you get this mini set FREE…

Time has ran away from me this month though, so all I managed was a few papers.  *sigh*  Maybe I will find the time to revisit this swatch at a later date!

You can download these papers right HERE.
Please do not share my files.  That’s very rude.  And remember, if you want tons of coordinated stuff – go do the challenge!  You have until the 31st!!

WANT FREE STUFF?

Listen, I used to do a little thing on here called “You oughta know…” 

So today I wanted do one since I haven’t in a LONG time, so I decided to introduce you to an up and coming musician.  I love this girl.  She does a REQUEST TUESDAY on  youtube and I can NOT believe she is not signed with some big huge record label.

Here’s the deal.  
I want you to go buy her cd. 

Yep, SHE made a cd and is selling it.  Just go to http://www.meghantonjes.com/music/Music.html  Down at the bottom click the BUY NOW button.  Its that simple.  $10 and you will have supported an undiscovered talent and you will feel GREAT! lol..

What will you get from me? 

Well, if you buy her cd between NOW and SUNDAY (May 31) and send me your receipt, I’ll let you have any ONE of my products, past or present, for FREE.  You choose.  So if something just retired that you wished you would have nabbed, NOW is how you can get it!  This does NOT included services or gift certificates.  It does include retired products.  You must buy her CD – the i tunes and all that mess do NOT count.

Why am I doing this? 

Because I really think if you do not support the artists you LIKE, you have no right to complain when the likes of Paris Hilton put out albums. LOL

and man, if you like to listen to music while you play on your pc, just load up her channel and there ya go!  Seriously!

‘till next time…

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ps: Meghan, if you read this – Hugs and Support girl!

So this is what “healthy” looks like?

The NS diet is going ok, I guess.  No cheating yet.  So that’s good.
My mid-morning cocktail. LOL.

Lunch wasn’t too bad.  The chicken salad is WAY better then the tuna salad.  As long as I kept myself from thinking CATFOOD while I was eating I was thinking it was pretty good. LOL…  I love that I can have FF Cottage Cheese with my salad.  It makes that little tablespoon of FF Salad Dressing go a long way!

Supper.  OY.  As long as I held my breath while I took a bite to not SMELL it it was ok.  Well not really, but smelling it while chewing it made me gag.  ahah!

Post script:  See, THIS apparently is what healthy looks like. 

Because I spent the ENTIRE DAY yesterday either HUGGING one of these or sitting on it.  OY!  When will I learn to READ packages!

See, I am allergic to MUSHROOMS, and the first dinner meal I ate (above)…  MUSHROOM GRAVY with Salisbury Steak and Rice.  Why I didn’t look at the name of the food, I have NO IDEA!  I was thinking eat the one that looks like it will taste the worst then everything else will be a step up. LOL  So yesterday I enjoyed the joys of food poisoning. heheh!  I am really surprised I am not in the hospital.  Last time I ate mushrooms I went into anaphylactic shock.  The man-thang has since gone through the Nutrisystem and boxed up everything he thinks I should not eat. 

Anyhoo…  Just a few days in and already some progress.  What is that 266?  6 pounds in 3 days? 

I don’t think the dieting is what has caused this… LOL..

Both kids stayed home sick yesterday.  Bub had an upset tummy, and sis… well it will be easier to just show you.

So this is what “angry hair follicles” look like…

yea, that’s what the doctor said.  She has angry hair  follicles, caused by something in her environment and we should find out what it is.  UMMMM…  Thanks for that help. lol

anyhoo… everyone is better TODAY.  Bub is gone on a field trip with the band, and Bug is happy at school enjoying her field day/ book carnival.  Me, I’m playing catch up on the bazillion emails I got in the last few days!

Thank you all so much who have commented and emailed wishing me luck!  I love you all.  REALLY.

My THANKFUL THURSDAY ENTRY:

I am thankful I’m not in the hospital
I am thankful both my kids are not sick today
I am thankful my hubby has gotten  his hours back at work
I am thankful for the wonderful new members of our team at DSO
I am thankful for ALL OF YOU!

~B

Today is a brand new day. 

Today is the first day for a brand new me.  Well, maybe not brand new ME, but a new attitude anyway.  I hope.  A new journey to say the least.

In order for me to tell you where I’m going, I really think I need to tell you where I’ve been.  So you will understand.  See, you are going to play a big role in the new ME.  In order for you to do that, you need to get me.  You know?

Insert fairytale music and a story board that reads “Once upon a time…”

This was me.
 

A new mommy, and a size 8.  Man, I hadn’t been a size 8 since like 7th grade.  I think I was the healthiest right then, than I ever have been.  Or probably will be again.  Physically healthy anyway. 

There I was a new mommy and mad, crazy, I would rather die then be alone, in love with this guy…

For the sake of this story, lets just call him “Douche”.   Douche there was a cheater.  He nearly broke me.   That year and a half for me was pure hell…  He sucked. 

But then something wondrous happened. GOD gave me this guy…

*insert heavenly harps playing and birds singing…*

Now this guy, this one was good.  He loved me.  He loved my son.  He saved me.  Took me away from all the craziness that was “the Douche”, just long enough for me to heal.  And then we came home. 

When we came home, we got this…  isn’t she cute.

By this photo we had already had her for 5 years.  And when she came so did about 60 pounds. 

That really was ok with me though.  I have never been a makeup/fix hair/care what I looked like kind of girl.  In truth, still not.  I could care less what I look like or what you think about the way I look.  That’s just not me.

Last year, (or year before?) we bought our home.  And with our home came about another 80 pounds.

That brings us up to today.

This is me (on the right)…

All 272 pounds of me.  And today starts a whole new journey for me.  I am back on Nutrisystem.  I need to lose weight.  I am fat. 

There, I said it out loud too.  I feel better already. 

Two Hundred and Seventy Two pounds. 

No way to take it back now, its out there.  Out there for you and everyone else who stumbles on my blog to see. 

Wow, I kind of feel naked.  That’s ok though.  I like naked. Usually.  Ok, maybe not so much right now.  But I did need you to know.

See, you read my blog.  I need you, for support.  You, in a sense, complete me. (lol, sorry it popped into my head and I had to say it!)

If you come to my blog looking for freebies or scrap goodies, I’m sorry.  My mojo has smothered in one of my fat rolls and I am now on a journey to find it.  It may take a while. 

If you come by here because you are my friend, then YOU are who I am telling this story to today.  

I probably won’t post much between now and the 5th.  I am training up some new girls, and training up some new management, getting everything in line so I can take a vacation from DSO.  I need a vacation, because I need to work on something more important right now.

I need, from you…  If you could spare a little encouragement from time to time.  Maybe if you notice I haven’t mentioned it, just ask me how its going, the dieting… that would be a huge huge help for me. 

See, my hubby (above), he loves me.  In fact he tells me I am perfect.  He doesn’t care if I am fat or skinny.  So he is no help in this area.  But I need help.  I really do.  I’m so tired.  And really tired of –> being tired.  It’s too much.

I can do this.

I will do this.

for them…