Footprints on the Moon

I chose this particular picture and angle because now you can’t see the huge zit on my chin LOL Too bad my smile looks a little fake, but that was true of all the pictures I took today. Apparently I just wasn’t feeling it this afternoon!

I had a pretty good weekend though! Friday night, Erica and I went shopping, Saturday was my cousin Alex’s first birthday party, and then today I went to my friend Amy’s Pampered Chef party and then stopped off at the grocery store for some fresh veggies.

I had my second weigh-in this morning, and lost 2.2 pounds. That makes a total of 7lbs lost in two weeks. Yay!

Happy Sunday! Don’t mind the wet hair, I took this photo not long after I got out of the shower. I hope you have all had a good weekend. Myself, I’ve had a very busy, productive weekend. At least as far as housework goes.

In the last two days, I’ve gone grocery shopping, washed dishes twice, washed 4 loads of laundry, vacuumed the carpets, moved furniture and used the carpet cleaner in both the living room and the bedroom. And I feel tired just reading that over again. With all the furniture shuffling, there was a fair amount of stuff that did not get put back and will probably be disposed of at some point. Still didn’t find my TV remote, wii accessories, or DS games that have gone missing over the last couple of year. Maybe I’ll still find them– right now, my living room looks kind of like I just moved in! But I decided after I put the furniture back in my bedroom, I was DONE working for the weekend. I think I’ve been productive enough for one day!

Now that I’ve spent the rest of my evening watching lottery winners on TLC and I feel the need to buy some lottery tickets, I’m going to go dry my hair and get ready for bed. My bed’s got fresh sheets on it, and I’ve worked my butt off today — I ought to sleep REAL well tonight!

Hopefully, anyway. In the middle of freaking out about my finances, and sharing embarrassing stories about myself, I forgot to share with you one of the newest developments in my life: I am trying to lose weight. I’m not using a top diet pill, joined Weight Watchers.

Actually, it wasn’t so much forgot as it was I thought I might not tell you right away. I thought I’d tell a few close friends that I needed for support and then tell everyone else when I actually made some progress. I should have known better. I’m not one to keep secrets. At least, not one to keep my OWN secrets. Yours I will take to the grave. But noone who keeps a personal blog is to keen on keeping their lives private. Hence why I share with you my exact financial position and the fact that there is generally a pile of tissues behind my bed. And now, I will share with you that I am, once again, attempting to lose weight.

I do have progress pictures and measurements. I do know my exact weight. I have not, however, decided whether or not to share those particular details, at least not yet. Knowing me, I will before too much longer.

In any case, it has now been one full week since I joined weight watchers and bought a new scale (the purchases tell you this was prior to my money freakout) and so I had my first weigh in this morning.

*drum roll please*

I am down…

4.8 pounds! Woohoo! I have 7.7 lbs to go to get to my first small goal, and well, a whole lot more to get to my ultimate goal. Weight watchers is designed to help you lose 1-2 pounds a week, so I know I’ll settle into that rhythm within a couple of weeks. This initial success is very motivating, however!

Boy, I’m looking forward to the google searches that will land people here from THAT title lol It’s not so much a dirty little secret as it is a bad, slightly embarrassing habit.

Any guesses? What you are looking at is a pile of kleenexes that I pulled out from beneath/behind my bed. (For scale, the furniture in the background is one of my nightstands doubling as tv stands in the bedroom. Well, only one is a tv stand…) See, I have a bad habit of falling asleep with a kleenex in my hand. At some point, I fall asleep, my hand relaxes, and I drop the Kleenex, usually behind the bed.

I don’t really know why I feel compelled to share this with you other than the fact that I recently got the broom out to get all the tissues out from behind my bed and was amused by how many there were! These just about filled up a grocery bag. Apparently I need to stop holding tissues while I’m falling asleep. Or clean under my bed more often. Or both.

OH! And just to clarify, this isn’t a pile of snotty used tissues… they were used to wipe my watery eyes. I don’t know if that makes it less gross or not.

I haven’t felt like this in awhile. This panicked, what the heck am I going to do, feeling about money has been mostly gone since I started making progress on all of my debts. I sat down today to evaluate everything, though, and that feeling is back full force.

I’m looking at losing a decent portion of my paycheck going forward. The overtime has dried up at work, and in case you’re confused as to why this might be such a big problem, I’ve been pulling in 7 hours of overtime per week for the last 3 years. 7 hours isn’t a whole lot, but it adds up. I’ve got one more paycheck with 8 hours of overtime on it (opposed to the 14 from before), and then it’s just 40 hours of straight time after that.

I don’t know exactly what my paycheck is going to look like then, but I have a pretty good idea where it will be at and I’m freaking out. I’m looking at going back to barely making the minimum payments on everything instead of having several hundred extra dollars per month to pay down my accounts. It is scary and I’m thinking it might be time to look at additional part-time admin jobs, or anything really, to supplement my current income.

All I know is I am freaking out. I’ll update my account totals some other time. Just know that I’m not making much progress, but am slowly but surely still headed in the right direction.

This is what you get when I’m too lazy to get up and turn on the light or grab a real camera lol

I had a pretty good weekend. Finally got the busted up recliner out of my living room, it is now outdoor décor! I also went to dinner with family and chased my nephew around at the playground yesterday! Today was grocery shopping and cleaning. Yay?

For now, it’s off to bed to get ready for a new week! And to try and distract you from the brevity of this blog post by posting a picture of my nephew at the playground. Too cute

Um, whoops? I didn’t mean to go so long without posting. I’ve been drafting posts in my head, but I just haven’t quite managed to translate that into actually sitting down at the computer and typing something out. SO this is the picture I would have posted (and planned to!) on Sunday for my Self Portrait, had I just gotten around to it. Taken on Easter Sunday before I left for family gatherings.

I need to get myself in bed at the moment, but I’ll try not to let so much time pass before my next post! I’ll have to make a bigger effort to make time for blogging, I just feel like I’ve been so busy lately! Whether or not I have actually BEEN busy might be debatable.