Working the List...

I've spent the day working the list....trying to get some regional things tied up, trying to get some local women's ministry things tied up, trying to nail down some SHS (homeschool yahoo group) things, trying to nail down produce co-op for this week, finishing chapel paperwork (well THAT will NEVER be done....), still working on what TOG books I should order for Unit 1.....

My list GREW instead of shrinking so I suspect I'll spend tomorrow doing the same thing I did today. EXCEPT I MUST go pick up meds at the pharmacy as the nurse was alarmed that I'm out.....I figure I must be taking something potent because this is the first time I've had anyone at a military clinic really care if I ran out of meds. LOL

OH - I discovered that a Chick Fil A oreo shake has 18 points in it - 18!!!!! (I only get 23 in a whole day)....a DQ blizzard (Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie) has 12 points.....what a bargain. I plead the 5th.

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8 DAYS UNTIL WE'RE ALL TOGETHER!

The older four - 16 1/2 years ago...From bottom center - Krista, Bre, Josiah and Jamin

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COUNTDOWN....9 days until we're all together!!!!

I KNOW how you all love the countdowns to when I get to see my babies....you really do. ::snort:: This time I'm going to maintain some sense of dignity and I'll not count down hour by hour.....(Who can ever forget that wait for the Red Cross to find them while Mike was deployed? ::snort::)

I've decided to post one photo a day until THE DAY arrives.....

9 DAYS UNTIL WE SEE THESE GALS AGAIN......

Is this how EVERYONE dresses in WA??? ::snort:: Palm Sunday at church.

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Highlights of Today

By far THIS:


Jared registered and paid the deposit for World View. I've not heard much of a group going this year from here...but he's going. He's still trying desperately to earn money. He's been removing cactus, mowing lawns, washing windows, trimming trees...and bemoaning the fact that "age discrimination" won't let him get a REAL job until he is 16...but will allow him to sweat in 100* heat for $2 an hour. ::snort::

I had a nice visit with Martha, a friend who had surgery last Wednesday.
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New Hairstyle

I mentioned the photos from Leadership Weekend convinced me to get a haircut and keep trying to lose weight.

I didn't want to post photos of the haircut until Mike got home (but he hasn't noticed). ::snort::

I wanted shorter and sportier - spiky maybe....but Heather the hairdresser said chic was what I needed? LOL


I think this would be a great photo for the PWOC Regional Board Photo - don't you? ::snort::


I don't know how Emily gets natural looking self-portraits - mine were distorted.
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Weekly Fitness Goals (click button for more info)

Exercise - I made it to the gym 5 days this week. I'm focusing on burning as many calories as possible during that 60 minutes. Two weeks ago I burned 475 in 60 minutes. Saturday I burned 585 in those 60 minutes. My goal had been 500 cal a day. Now I'm aiming for 600 cal a day. Why? Because I began this new point thing. I can SEE that it's "worth more" to burn more during those 60 minutes.

Nutrition - I continue to track what I eat with the spreadsheet/point system that Diane emailed me. I find that I don't NEED any of the bonus points or the exercise points - but it's nice to have them. Tracking points is very similar to tracking calories. I noted that the longer you do something the more "second nature" it becomes. This is good, but in this arena it can result in laxness. Switching up how I food journal has forced me to be "engaged" again. I am still mindful of my produce intake, fiber intake, cholesterol intake.....but I'm staying at or below 23 daily points....though I get extra points for exercise. Read carefully, I have only used those points ONCE but it's nice to know they are there. AND they aren't a straight exchange or there would be no benefit to exercise. For every 100 cal burned, I'm allowed approximately 50 more cal a day to eat. As I said - I don't use them....but knowing that 28 points ARE there seems easier to me than 23 points. ::snort:: (Thanks to Lis and Lisa H for their help with spreadsheets this week).

Weight Loss: - I lost another pound this week. Yesterday, when I talked to Heather, I told her I was unsure if I'd lost anything for the week. Friday night and Saturday I enjoyed much more bread (Chick Fil A Chicken Sandwhich tray) than I normally eat and had gained lbs......but after a day of eating produce and complex carbs.....I was back to where I was Friday a.m. - down a lb. That makes 3 lbs lost in 2 weeks of counting points...only 26 - 30 to go! ::snort::

Excel update: I use an excel on google for our United order. Heather has to be me IT support. Currently, I'm working with a spreadsheet with my TOG books listed in it AND the points sheet. I figure if I use the thing daily, I will learn how to make it work. I'm learning - but I have to call folks regularly for HELP - another goal of mine that has little to do with healthy living is getting comfortable with Excel. This points thing is helping me with that.....so there another goal in progress. ::snort::

On with a new week. To hear from more participants go here.

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Sunday

We went to the early service today.

We had a PWOC board meeting immediately after the service. I had promised 10 - 15 minutes and I think we kept it right at 15 min. AND we accomplished our business.

We had lunch, sorted through Bible Study material I had been promising Cheryl I would look through, ran to the commissary and came home.

I spent the entire afternoon with a laptop, a spreadsheet and my bookshelves. Lis sent me a spreadsheet with all of TOG year 2 books on it. I have been going through the shelves here and pulling the titles I have that are on the list (marking them purple), marking the ones I think I'll pass on gray.... I created a sheet of spine books and another sheet with unit 1 books....and I learned to sort all sorts of ways.....now I think I need to learn how to link the sheets (of course THAT is where I'll make tons of errors) so that if I color one purple on the main list it colors it purple on the other lists.....hmmmm...the problem would be if they are all sorted by different perimeters then they wouldn't all be on the same line number so the coloring would be off. ARGH.

I have so many books here that it is hard to believe I need to buy so many more just to do the "basic" history, spine and lit.....

I continue to work on the terminal to do list and to wonder where my summer has gone!

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