Drama Banquet

Tonight was Kaite's drama banquet for this year. It's hard to imagine that she will be a senior soon. I know alot of these kids in drama and I must say that they are all very talented kids. They put alot of hard work and dedication into the program and I am proud of all of them. Ms. Battice our director is awesome! She does a wonderful job with the kids and program too. She requires alot from them but in return we are rewarded with a wonderful show.

Tomorrow is Jeff's 46th birthday and this past week we celebrated our 20th anniversary. Where does the time go?! Jason and Nicole are coming over tomorrow for a barbecue. Jason will also be helping his dad work on his truck (it broke down last week-end when we were driving up north and towing our trailer). Afterwards, I am hoping for a bon fire or some family game playing Cranium. We all enjoy playing that game!

Sunday is the first of many graduation parties we have to go to this year. It's for my bosses daughter Janae. I just love her. She worked with me last year as our administrative assistant. She's really smart. I wish her all of the luck in the world and I know that she will be successful in whatever she chooses to do.

Some pictures from the banquet tonight. Kaite won the mock award for the person mostly like to get "lost" while driving. This is pretty funny since we got lost on the way to the banquet LOL!

Changes

Learning how to customize my blog...sorry for the changes. The picture, of course, is from Jeff and taken off of our deck in the backyard. He's love for photography is quite evident. I think he even has a flickr account?!

Day 1 - another beginning

I don't believe in diets!!! There I said it, however, I do believe that a person has to eat healthy food in moderation so that is what I am going to try to do. My goals are quite simple yet they will take every effort of my being to obtain them. If they weren't hard I wouldn't be hear in the first place
so here goes:

1. No snacking at night after dinner.
2. Eat smaller portions (listen to your stomach).
3. Excerise!!! (when foot is better - until then try to do upper body)
4. Love yourself for who you are RIGHT NOW!!! TODAY!!!
5. Reward yourself when you have reached a goal.

So those are the long terms goals and with that I hope to lose about 50lbs. Yep 50lbs or more depending on what my body says. I would like to be a size 6/8 today I am a size 14/16.

When Kaite gets back from Mackinaw I am going to take a beginning picture of my body and hopefully each week another picture as I progress through this change :)

Bad Foot

Well the doc said yesterday that I have to keep my foot wrapped and in the ortho boot another 2 weeks..... damn! I was really hoping to be able to start working out again. I think I might try ago this week just to do some upper body excerises. (However you spell it). Anways, thats my plan for now. Will check back later.

Accountability

Isn't that what we all need? Someone or something to hold us accountable for our actions. I am hoping that this blog will do just that for me as I try to change lifetime bad habits into better ones.

Bad habit No. 1 - Always having a snack at night, even if I am not hungry.
Bad habit No. 2 - Eating when I am already full or to large of portions.
Bad habit No. 3 - Emotional eating.

Better habit No. 1 - Don't eat after dinner!
Better habit No. 2 - Eat 1/2 portion sizes and listen to your stomach.
Better habit No. 3 - Journaling.

They say it takes 3 weeks to break a bad habit, hopefully that is true because these habits I have had all of my life :(

Daniel said on the biggest loser the other day "NEVER GIVE UP" and that is what I am going to do - NOT GIVE UP!!