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I'm loving this new "clean" eating plan. It's fantastic!! I feel like 50% better. I hope I can stick with it. Who knew that all I needed to do was exercise portion control (pun intended :P). I can still have the things I love as long as I eat the things I should, first. Oh, and I have a new friend, My Fitness Pal. He tracks everything from water consumption to foods at restaurants. The best part is; He's free!! Today I ran/walked 5.0 miles. I'm on a jogging plan and so far it's working. I ran/walk 5.0 yesterday too. I mean now that I'm not working there is no excuse for unhealthy eating and not exercising. James did kinda look at me funny when I remeasured my portion of pasta in the measuring cup even though the box told me how much of a serving I was eating. I just wanted to make sure?!?! I'm not obsessed but my goal is to bulk up and actually have abs that are visible to others. I know it's going to be hard but I can try (and dream) right? I need to look for some trails nearby the apartment so I don't give up. It would be awesome if our apartment had it's own mini gym but all we have is a pool. Oh well, I'll make due with what I've got.

Back to making spaghetti for the fiance. Let's hope he makes it in time for dinner!

My friend :)

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It's laundry and chore day today. So exciting, right? We have only three more days here and then we can start our journey home. So.... I'm in the process of starting to pack and man, do we have tons of food!! I'm thinking of ways to get rid of our overstocked supply that has to be refrigerated. It's going to be challenging eating everything and trying to eat healthy. I think I'm just going to stick to cutting portion size.

I'm looking forward to going home but I know when I get there I will have tons to do. Here's the crazy of things that need to be done asap!

1. Clean entire apartment - We have been gone for 3 months!!!

2. Send out wedding invitations - I need responses people.

3. Get rid of junk/unpack/organize - Almost finished setting everything up but I still have lots of junk we don't used that I'm either going to donate or sell on ebay.

4. Get a J-O-B. Enough said. If I even get part time work I'll be happy with that. So will my sewing machine. :)

Bring it on West Texas. I'm so ready to get back and learn about our area. Especially, in terms of good coupon spots. They have some stores here I've never ever heard of. Oh and we have a Hastings. Oh how I miss it. It's the closest thing we have to Half Price Books.

Tiny's big play day outside. He's too fast to catch on camera.

Trigger. I finally got a decent picture of her.

The Giants won the Super Bowl last night. I finally rooted for the winning team. Not a big deal to me since I've been a Steelers fan all my life but still a good game. 

UPDATE 11:05 am 

I think I might have broken the washer at the hotel. High volume of clothes washed but the next engineer came in to use it and magically it doesn't work anymore. oops. 

36: Super Bowl Sunday

I picked a weird day to start my "clean" eating program. I haven't cheated except for a couple of corn chips at lunch. I even ordered off the light menu...ooh-la-la. Anyway, I know it's Superbowl Sunday and I guess I should choose a side. I choose NY. I don't have a real reason just cause....

Yesterday we took Tiny and Trigger out to play I have some really neat action photos of Tiny, who got so excited, he threw up. Wow. That looks wrong. I mean I have action photos not Tiny puking action photos just to clarify. That would be extremely disgusting.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming already in progress......

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Working on my book still. I just haven't been motivated to read it lately. I must finish before we leave so I can sell it back to Half Price Books. Only 300 more pages to go! Gotta get back to work on that.

I'm also starting a new project when I get back home to test out several recipes on Pintrest. It's becoming one of my favorite places for recipe ideas. I'm going to be a Pintester. Yay! It sounds like fun and some work but I have all the time in the world to learn new things.

Wedding Planning is going well. I have some replies already without invitations being sent out. The sooner I find out the better and hopefully the cheaper it will be for us. I'm so ready bring it on!!!


Well back to work....err....reading I mean. >.<

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I just have to say first of all, that I'm really proud of my self for making and keeping my New Year's resolution. I made it at least one whole month! Let's see how long I can last before messing this up completely. I know lately I haven't been around. I haven't had much to talk about or much time. With James' training winding down he has the weirdest schedule ever. He's only had time off to sleep and I have been trying to keep up with him. It's not going to well and sometimes I forget what day it is. :O Thank God it is almost over!!


I can also say that I've almost been successful in staying away from cokes. I've had one coke in the last month and it was root beer at Taco Bueno. I recently read that there are now some studies that indicate that diet soda can cause heart attacks and strokes. YIKES!! It's a good thing I quit when I did. They said that it somehow weakens heart valves and are doing more research to pinpoint the direct element causing these problems. I dunno still scary in my opinion. I'll take plain water thank you. Read all about it!!

Anyway, on to the good news. Yesterday I nearly fell off the bed as I read that I had won a contest on the website I have been following for years, Hip2save.com. If you are unfamiliar with Hip2save, they are a coupon website that helps you save money by creating deal scenarios for different stores. I'm obsessed with this site and saving money. I frequent Collin's page at least 10 times a day and I felt so honored to be mentioned on the site as winner #3!!! I won a $50 gift certificate to CouponClutch.com. Basically I scored a new coupon binder that converts into a tote for easier traveling. I was/am excited!! I never thought I would win something so cool. With so many projects going on at once, I can def. use the help of a better binder. Speaking of which, I need to plan my coupon haul for today. James has been so excited by how much money we have saved that he's starting to follow along on all my hauls. Gotta love his enthusiasm :D We even scored free underwear last night that cost $25 a pair. He couldn't believe it.

I love this one. It's between this and zebra :)

I'm starting a new workout program as well. I was under the impression that moving away from all the yummy Mexican food was a good thing and I was correct. What I was incorrect about was my weight loss. Let's just say I want my pounds back!!! My weight loss has caused my clothes to become loose and not in a good way. I went from weighing 128 1bs. in the valley to a crazy 115 1bs. in Fort Worth. Any normal person would be jumping for joy until they figure out that it has been 3 months since I quit working and walking 4 miles a day. The depressing fact was I'm loosing muscle and it's turning to fat. So my new mission is to walk my 4 miles everyday and get it all back!

Finally some love for big booty girls!

My new camera is working out beautifully. I am in love. I have tried so many different cameras and none can compare to my Kodak. It's so user friendly and the photos are gorgeous at 16MP. I'm been really Paparazzi lately. James has even become annoyed. Sorry Hun :(  The only person (** ahem animal) whom I can't a decent photo of is Trigger. She's very intimidated by the green flash light that comes on. She physically backs away from the camera. I will get her on camera on of these days!!! Tiny on the other hand is the most happy with Mom's new camera. He tries to squeeze himself into every photo. Mostly because he wants me to only pay attention to him and not the camera. Gotta love the little man, he's quite hilarious and a HUGE dork.

Bub really misses Daddy.

Photobooth!! Poor James is so tired!

Tiny Alfalfa 5 years old

Nothing like a little King of the Hill after a long day!

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New post coming tomorrow..
I PROMISE. lots to update on but not enough time at the moment.

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I'm so tired... I worked out too hard. Goodnight.