fin

the party is done, it was a hit...i got a standing ovation via the speaker phone yesterday from a full department  it was awesome.  what i found, is that it's hard to have a party with 650 people and see and hang out with everyone that you wanted to.  i wish i would have taken pictures, but i didn't want to walk around with a honkin' camera and have everyone think that i was hired to take pictures.   :)

the tablecloths were fuzzy hot pink, green, and silver...they were awesome. the theme was a "candyland" theme.  we had a candy bar, stocked with chocolate Crocs....the cutest things ever.  the buffets were scattered, and that was the one thing I would have done differently.  they were all over the first floor of the hotel, so you'd turn a corner and lo and behold, more food that you may have missed, had you not wandered over in that direction. 

 the photobooths were a blast.  i loved them, you could go in as many times as you wanted...so we did.  we didn't have fun or anything.....

it's almost over

actually a lot of things...the end of the year, my holiday party, the end of t and my second year of being married.  :)

but, i'll admit, when i started this, i was referring to my holiday party.  so, when i started work, the second day i was there, i was asked to help out with this party.  there was a committee already in place, but since i was familiar with the area, i was to help out and get involved. first we started with no budget, and by that, i mean not a lot at ALL.  then it expanded in the past couple months to a substantial one.  we all had different ideas of what it should look like, some better than others (the little people dancing in shoes idea, should never, ever come up again), but it's finally all come together.  in the past month or so, we had a wonderful corporate planner help us, and she really put the finishing touches on everything and was amazing. 

now, i'm just stuck waiting til friday.  the only thing that stinks is having to get ready at the hotel and meet t at the party, as i won't have time to go home and get ready.  i'd like to bring my big camera, as i'm sure i've never seen the likes of this before, so i just might.  i'm also excited for saturday, when the craziness will be OVER! 

our little computer mouse

this is our little girl mouse that we've had the longest and who is the sweetest thing EVER.  she is adorable and is getting old..after $100 vet bill for a $2.00 mouse last week, you can see how much we think of her.  she's not dead....just napping on the hot keyboard.  i thought this was adorable, even if you don't like mice.

whew, i'm glad that's over with

we went to a party a few weeks ago at someone's house.  it was a great party, lots of food, fun people, but the only downside that i saw, was that there was basically only hard liquor to drink.  SCARY!  it WAS a "martini" party, but let me tell you, with all vodka...things got out of control REALLY fast.  People were nuts, spilling drinks, spanking people, falling over, hitting people in the head...it was all quite funny and even more so if you weren't drinking that much. 

anyway, towards 10p.m. i walked out of the bathroom and the hostess was screaming at the host.  i believe he had just fallen on the floor after sitting on numerous people on a couch.  pretty harmless, i thought.  but that's me.  he followed her into the kitchen to quietly talk and she proceeded to yell at him some more.  let me tell you, you have never seen a place clear out so quickly in your life.  it was amazing. 

to me, it's never appropriate to yell at someone...but especially not in a public venue.  i don't understand how people don't get embarrassed by creating a scene.  when someone causes a scene it's almost embarrassing to ME! 

your thoughts???

the tree

we had a dilemma...to put a tree up or not.  last year, we didn't due to my surgery.  this year, i don't think we would have, but t's mom is coming next weekend and we felt the need to be festive.  all in all, we are glad we did.  i put up the tree, the christmas village, and various other things, but it makes it nice to come home to.  just try to get me to take it down before march this year! 

the solution

i had retreated into my old world for a while, of counting calories...and the hungrier i got, the more i counted.  it's the way my head works.  t knew i was having some issues with this and while maybe not comprehending fully, he found an action plan that has worked. 

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on my old path of working myself to death (which I'm still doing), i didn't eat breakfast, and most times, didn't have time to eat lunch.  that means, I would get home, starving and intake about 500 caloires all at once, then go to bed.  funny thing was, i wasn't losing weight. 

tony pulled up a website on a kitchy eating renovation plan online.  i'll admit, when i first heard about it, i thought he was crazy.  it was all infomercially, but on a lower budget.  what it turned out to be was an eating plan and not an unmanageable one.  what i found out was that i was intaking less than 1/3 of the calories that i needed in a day, hence causing my body to grab onto every fat cell known to man and hold on to them for dear life. 

on this plan, it doesn't have you count calories and i am STUFFED, most of the time.  t can use it, even with his food allergies because it is wholly modifiable.  it doesn't involve any protein powders or shakes, only real food and most importantly, deals with the glycemic index, which is how we regulate our blood sugar. 

i've been doing it for two days now...i'm doing a 14 day start to the program and it's going well.  i'm following it to a T, because i want to see if it really works.  the only thing that is somewhat hard, is no white bread, and really not really wheat bread, but you do get to have sprouted grain bread, which really is so good anyway, i never have missed the former. 

i'm drinking boatloads of water, reduced my sugar intake by crazy amounts, will not touch a diet coke again after learning what aspartame does to our liver, and am actually feeling pretty good. 

and lo and behold, two pounds have come off so far!!!