I am very proud of my new blog I have to say. I was really struggling on how to switch the stupid templates b/c the “easy” uploading just wasn’t working it kept telling me “you link is corrupted” or something like that… so then I tried to look at the “help” links yeah well let’s just say they were not helpful at all. I think that in order for me to get a really cool background that I have to convert my current blogger to the new blogger but there is NO information as to how to do this… so I was just plainly stuck… so I had to cut and paste this page from a text file then change the text file. As you can see I do have some strange things the ‘weight loss’ box at the bottom wasn’t cooperating so I just left it there for now until I have more patience to try to figure it out. And I had to hand key all the links at the bottom so if you are NOT on the links please email me so I can add you there. In the moving of blog pages I lost ALL of my links so I had to try to remember who was all on there and may have missed someone! But Any Who!
So I have an announcement I am changing jobs… I know I know I do this so often it’s hard to keep track. But I’m going back to Express I took the job with them on Tuesday and I start in a week. I’m very excited about the new job. It’s the Branch Manager position so it’s kind of a BIG job but I think that with being the Branch Manager for PCS I think that I’m ready to go now, I have the skills necessary, or at least I hope I can fake it long enough in order to learn them in time. I’m going to have to do outside sales this is the part that I’m least excited about. But I figure that I’m pretty good at BSing so maybe I’ll be okay AND they know that I have never done outside sales before so they will train me on how to do it. And if I suck… well hopefully I won’t. But I am totally excepting for me to have days that I HATE b/c of the sales… but if I can get us big enough then I can hire an outside sales person and then not have to worry about it as much. That’s the plan anyway we’ll see what happens.
So we have been busy around here. I’m still stuck at my weight loss challenge. I seriously am going UP in numbers not down. I am losing inches I can tell you that b/c I can see it in myself and in my clothes but the darn numbers aren’t going down. So it’s all good but still frustrating at the same time. I think I’m going to start really dieting… I hate doing that and I know I have failed when I try but seriously maybe if I start to see SOME results it will get me more motivated to keep going b/c right now it’s really hard to stay motivated it’s like the biggest stair step ever I just can’t GET OFF!
Lehna’s Update. This girl let me tell you she doesn’t fall far from the tree. She is such the mimic the other day she told Maya to come watch the movie in her room and Maya like any little sister told her No. Then Lehna goes “don’t you tell me no little girl” Yep she may have heard that a couple of times in her life. She is just so funny. She is so dramatic is humorous. Yesterday we went to the USI vs. University of Milwaukee-Parkside Basketball game and they have a mascot of a bear and she CLUNG to us and cried about how she wanted to go home b/c she was afraid the bear was going to eat her. It was crazy. She doesn’t like any one in animal suits she gets SO freaked out. I told Tait this means NO DISNEYLAND for her not until she grows out of this or the kid won’t enjoy herself. She is getting so big. I think that with us going to the gym 3 times a week and her going to her very active preschool class she is starting to loose some of her extra poundage she is big anyway for her age but her weight was concerning. But she is starting to slim down. Which I’m really happy to see. She is still a funny kid. Her sense of humor is starting to grow and she is becoming quite the little lady. She still loves to dress up and play with her dolls. The other day all of her bears were dressed up in her princess outfits and she was teaching them school. Her imagination is very strong. She is still very dependant on others to play with her. She will play by herself but she doesn’t like it she would rather have Mom or Dad play with her when Sissy is busy playing.
Maya Update: Maya is the complete opposite of Lehna. Maya is so independent of anyone. She plays well with other children; she’s in the mine stage so you do have to keep this in mind. But she can totally be okay going into the front room playing with her doll house and have conversation all on her own and be totally okay. Where Lehna isn’t like this. Maya is also my bug girl and rock girl. She can’t go very long without looking for a rock to pick up and bring inside. She likes to hide them b/c she knows Helen won’t let her bring them inside. She is actually in this stage right now where all she wants to do is wear a dress. She has this pink dress that she wears CONSTANTLY she doesn’t like taking it off even to wash, it is kept clean, but not for very long. She likes to wear her night gowns too. She is still carrying around her pacifier We were doing really well as far as keeping it from her during the day and giving it to her at night but then we started slacking off on it. It’s just like her potty training we really haven’t tried on this either, but she truly has NO interest in this, we ask her and she tells us know all the time so she’s not really into it yet. Maya is just starting to shoot up like a weed too. She’s slimming down and going up. She is just so little to me still; it’s hard to believe she’s going to be 3! It seems like we were just waiting for her and now she’s here and is just growing up so big.
Well that’s all the updates I have for now.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
New Post
It’s time for another Update! So I went on to Blurb.com so I could upload my blog over the past 5 years and get everything in one shot… Well up loaded it and it is 350 pages! Yeah I don’t think I want to pay for a book that big… So I’m going to have to hack it down and delete some things to revamp it… so it’s all saved and bound very safely together. But I’ll work on that… hopefully in the next 5 years I’ll get it all done. I’m giving myself a large time frame, b/c I know what a procrastinator I can be.
So I have started a fitness competition at work. It’s a 14 week competition and it’s based on percentage. I have been trying to loose weight for the last couple of weeks but I haven’t been working on my diet at all so now it’s time to start working on my diet so I can win. It’s pretty exciting I know, but I’m trying to loose freaking weight so this should be fun. Well at least I’m hoping that by have people around me all trying to loose weight that that would help with having constant distractions of cookies and candy being brought into work. We have been working out at least 4 times a week so that’s a good thing, we are trying to vamp it up more to 6 times a week but we do get busy so we’ll see what happens.
So this weekend the rex plex had a huge open skate thing for like 2 hours on Saturday complete with a inflatable jumping castle soooo, never have ice skating before I thought it would be a good thing to try at least once. Tait I have to say was NOT excited about the new try but heck you only live once right. So we went and paid for skates and went up and got ready to skate our little hearts out. Now Lehna has done this before b/c in her preschool they take them once a month ice skating during her school so she kind of knew the in and outs of ice skating of where to go and all that jazz… So we stood in line got our skates and got ready to skate. Lehna was right off the back skating by herself; she was a little shy but not bad. Maya kept a hold of my hand and tried to skate, she did a lot of falling at first but soon she was addicted and didn’t want to stop, even when mom was down for the count. Tait was pretty funny. He didn’t think his skates were tight enough b/c he said he could feel his ankles turning as he tried to skate, but he hung onto the walls and tried the best he could. I had to stop and retie my skates SEVERAL times b/c the laces were constantly getting loose. Finally about a ½ hour left we went over to get some free lessons in the other arena and the instructor asked if I had ever done it before and I told her know, I think she could tell by the fear in my eyes and she took like Maya’s hands and lead her out onto the ice. So we were in the lesson rink and the teacher handed Maya a bucket and I kind of “road” with her, you know to help her, yeah right, and she soon took off right from underneath me. She was all over the rink with the bucket and was skating around laughing having a good time. One of the instructors came over to me and said to march with my place and place my hands out straight… so I tired… LOL this is where I went wrong… I ended up flat on my arse. It was hilarious it was the first time that I actually fell completely to my butt, usually I fall but not all the way done just to my knee so then getting up was another story. I asked Maya to come over and bring the bucket so I could use it to get up, the little rat came over to me laughed and skated away. Tait just laughed as he watched the whole thing. It was a good time. I think I would like to take lessons. Maya can start having the “tot and me classes” in March so I think April is when we will sign up until then we’ll just have to go during open skate and leave it at that.
Well that’s pretty much what’s been going on around here. We have been pretty busy with working out and trying new things. The girls are pretty happy about having memberships to the Rex Plex b/c they get to swim every time we work out.
I am happy to say that we finally got the computer from Kris so now we have a computer at home again yeah! So hopefully I’ll find my computer camera cord and be able to upload pictures soon! It’s nice not having to always rely on my work computer.
So I have started a fitness competition at work. It’s a 14 week competition and it’s based on percentage. I have been trying to loose weight for the last couple of weeks but I haven’t been working on my diet at all so now it’s time to start working on my diet so I can win. It’s pretty exciting I know, but I’m trying to loose freaking weight so this should be fun. Well at least I’m hoping that by have people around me all trying to loose weight that that would help with having constant distractions of cookies and candy being brought into work. We have been working out at least 4 times a week so that’s a good thing, we are trying to vamp it up more to 6 times a week but we do get busy so we’ll see what happens.
So this weekend the rex plex had a huge open skate thing for like 2 hours on Saturday complete with a inflatable jumping castle soooo, never have ice skating before I thought it would be a good thing to try at least once. Tait I have to say was NOT excited about the new try but heck you only live once right. So we went and paid for skates and went up and got ready to skate our little hearts out. Now Lehna has done this before b/c in her preschool they take them once a month ice skating during her school so she kind of knew the in and outs of ice skating of where to go and all that jazz… So we stood in line got our skates and got ready to skate. Lehna was right off the back skating by herself; she was a little shy but not bad. Maya kept a hold of my hand and tried to skate, she did a lot of falling at first but soon she was addicted and didn’t want to stop, even when mom was down for the count. Tait was pretty funny. He didn’t think his skates were tight enough b/c he said he could feel his ankles turning as he tried to skate, but he hung onto the walls and tried the best he could. I had to stop and retie my skates SEVERAL times b/c the laces were constantly getting loose. Finally about a ½ hour left we went over to get some free lessons in the other arena and the instructor asked if I had ever done it before and I told her know, I think she could tell by the fear in my eyes and she took like Maya’s hands and lead her out onto the ice. So we were in the lesson rink and the teacher handed Maya a bucket and I kind of “road” with her, you know to help her, yeah right, and she soon took off right from underneath me. She was all over the rink with the bucket and was skating around laughing having a good time. One of the instructors came over to me and said to march with my place and place my hands out straight… so I tired… LOL this is where I went wrong… I ended up flat on my arse. It was hilarious it was the first time that I actually fell completely to my butt, usually I fall but not all the way done just to my knee so then getting up was another story. I asked Maya to come over and bring the bucket so I could use it to get up, the little rat came over to me laughed and skated away. Tait just laughed as he watched the whole thing. It was a good time. I think I would like to take lessons. Maya can start having the “tot and me classes” in March so I think April is when we will sign up until then we’ll just have to go during open skate and leave it at that.
Well that’s pretty much what’s been going on around here. We have been pretty busy with working out and trying new things. The girls are pretty happy about having memberships to the Rex Plex b/c they get to swim every time we work out.
I am happy to say that we finally got the computer from Kris so now we have a computer at home again yeah! So hopefully I’ll find my computer camera cord and be able to upload pictures soon! It’s nice not having to always rely on my work computer.