Mr. Singer

A year ago I was in Arizona visiting with my Mom. While I was there, my husband and I fell in love with their (my Mom and roommate Cyndi's cat) Singer.

He was a such a love! He would sit in my lap and sleep with me and just want to be loved all day. He was so handsome and so fat and just a friendly cat. He was afraid of his own shadow, too!! But he was so sweet and he was like our cat away from home. They had other cats, but Singer was just a good boy. We started calling him Mr. Singer. Whenever I talk to my Mom now I always ask how he is doing.

When my Mom called on Thursday to wish us a Happy Anniversary she told me sadly, that they were going to have to put their oldest cat, Jasmine, to sleep. She is 20, has no teeth and was peeing every where. I was sad, but I didn't really spend too much time with her. She slept a lot and spent most of her time with my Mom. She casually mentioned that Singer was "missing" but he does that a lot. He goes out for the day and comes back at night.

Well, yesterday, Singer still had not come home. They had Coyote's around the area. One got all the chicken's in a neighbors yard. So they are now afraid Singer was eaten by a Coyote. I'm very sad and heartbroken.

Hopefully, Singer will come back. He really is a unique cat.

It has been done!!

It's done! I have my goal weight set at 160 pounds! Actually, my doctor said 165 pounds would be fine, too. But I like 160 pounds. She was so happy to see me (my doctor) when she walked into the room. I seriously am the luckiest woman in the world to have such an amazing doctor. She is so sweet, kind, funny, caring, and understanding. She told me she wanted to march me into every room to talk to all the patients about weight loss so I could encourage them to lose weight and show them it could be done.

After my doctor's appointment, I had a little time to kill before my Weight Watchers meeting so I stopped into one of my favorite stores, Plato's Closet. I picked up two new shirts. I love that store. I could spend all day there.

I headed over to my meeting where I promptly gained. I new that was going to happen. I've been half assing things. I won't lie to you. I am getting serious about it again though. My weekends haven't been perfect after my anniversary dinner tonight (listen-this girl wants to celebrate) I am going to be 100% WW again. But in all honesty, I am so happy with myself and that is all that matters.

I also handed over my doctor's note and I'm so happy. I have 3.6 pounds to reach goal. My leader, Nancy, is on vacation for 2 weeks so I hope I don't hit goal while she is gone. That would kind of suck.

Now, that doesn't mean I'm not going to still try to get to 150, but for right now, I am just going to be happy with hitting goal and making lifetime.

Oh, did I mention next weekend I am getting to meet this lovely lady?

If you don't watch "The Biggest Loser", this is Olivia Ward, who won last season. She lost 129 pounds. Isn't that awesome? I'm so excited. I cannot wait to meet her.

Also next month I plan to blog EVERY SINGLE DAY! I did 31 days of blogging a few years ago in October and loved it. Can't wait to do it again!!

11 Years

Today is my 11 year wedding anniversary!! Unfortunatly, I am not at the Cape like we planned. Because my husband started a new position at work and couldn't take the time off. So I am home (I still took the time off) and he is not. Plus, he has karate tonight and doesn't really want me to go to see him "belt up".

Yep. Basically, I am home by myself all day today. Kind of sucks, right? But he promised me a nice dinner tomorrow night and a nice weekend together. So I can't really complain. And I get a 5 day weekend out of it.

New Orleans

So this chick, is most likely going to New Orleans in about 2 months. Why? Well, because my husbands new job is sending him and I invited myself along. Why not, right? I have the vacation time and I told him he isn't going without me. Plus, I've never been and I've always wanted to.



I've decided I need to get myself in "the best shape" I can between now and November 29th. I've been sort of blah about my eating and exercise. Oh, I've been running PLENTY (I did 15 miles Friday-Sunday). But I haven't been to the gym or really been following a healthy eating plan. So why not try to get into the best shape I can for a vacation? Right? I'm sure I'll be eating my way through most of it anyway.

I lost 0.4 pounds this week. Which is fine. But like I mentioned, I haven't been putting 100% into my eating. I'm perfectly happy with where I am right now, but I need to tone up my stomach. Putting on a pair of jeans for the first time in months on Friday was a wake up call. I don't wear them very often but it's gotten cold very quickly and I didn't want to a dress or capri pants. I need to dig out my long pants and skirts for fall. I hate to say goodbye to summer already.

I'm pretty excited about this trip. My husband will be working but I can go out and explore while he is doing his thing. Should be a lot of fun though. I can't wait.

Are you kidding me?

Really? Really? Look at this weather! 40's at night? Seriously? This is why I want to move out of Connecticut. Before you know it it will be 20 degrees during the day as a high and 400 feet of snow on the ground.

It's a small world after all

I can someone please recommend a good deodorant or a good detergent or something I can spray on my workout clothes? HOLY HELL do my shirts stink something fierce! And that is AFTER I've washed them. I nearly passed out when I was out on the treadmill and realized that smell in the garage was ME and not some poor dead animal. I had washed the shirt already and hadn't even started running yet. Yikes!! Problem is, I don't use anything strong because of my allergies. I use Tide Clear so it doesn't cause any problems. Maybe there is something I can spray on my clothes? Or again, a deodorant?

It really is a small world. We have a new girl at work and we got to talking and it turns out her boyfriend and I went to high school together. I didn't remember him at first (I really tried to block out most of high school-but what heavy girl didn't?) but after awhile I remembered him. She was talking to him at one point and asked him if he remembered me and I said to her "I was a little bigger then." And she said to me "Sarah said she was big then, but she is super tiny now." Which of course I laughed about. So today we were talking again and she was looking at my pictures in my cubicle and she couldn't get over my wedding photos and me now. She wanted to know how I did it. She also said I look so different. That I am so "tiny". I just don't think of myself as tiny. It's not a word I use to describe myself.

Anyway. Today I climbed back into bed after my alarm went off. I was so tired. Work was exhausting yesterday. But I got back up and went for my run. I can honestly say I was half asleep through most of it and don't remember it. Ha! But that is alright. I did it.

And it was another crazy, exhausting day at work. Which means I'll probably have a hard time getting up tomorrow morning. But Friday is a rest day so I can totally use that to help me get up in the morning. I hope.

I'm off to enjoy the rest of my night before I pass out from exhaustion. I can't wait to sleep this weekend.