Well, usually I stay on top of things better but this past year my house on a scale of one being unfit to live in and 10 being show-worthy has probably averaged at a 5, or maybe a 4.
I was a flybaby. I did awesome for years. YEARS!!!!
Even in school working multiple jobs I managed to do okay-ish.
There's nothing rotting anywhere and we have no bugs (well the occasionally earwig that gets inside and freaks my daughter out). But just a general state of disheveledness has entered the house.
I never used to spend a weekend cleaning and I loved that anytime anyone came over my house was "clean". Well, it was probably about an 8. My daughter can tell you how I used to make her dry the sink every time she would wash her hands. I think she may have thought I was insane for a bit.
So it's time to get back on the flywagon. If you've got some improving you could do at home, check out FlyLady.
I've been making a few excuses to not keep on top of things like I could pull a muscle cleaning a closet, I could slip and hurt myself mopping, I might kill a fish if I try to clean their tank, and my all time favorite excuse is there was a good movie on TV and I needed to watch it and order a pizza :).
I love pizza. Maybe I'll do that now, find a movie on netflix and order a pizza. The house can get clean another day, like when the kids move out :).
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Friday, November 29, 2013
Unique Me
Ten things that make me who I am...
In no particular order...
1)I have to eat foods in a certain way. Anything rectangular is short edges, long edges, then repeat till there's nothing left. Candy bars I eat the chocolate off first. Anything circular I take small bites around and around and around except cookies which are broken into quarters and the center eaten first then the edges.
2) I can't eat pork chops. Really, I can't I gag the second it touches my tongue. But I can eat bacon and pepperoni. Sausage is a bit iffy.
3) I am friendly to everyone but very difficult to get to know because underneath my happy exterior I'm really shy.
4) I like capitalism. Yes, I really do. I'd rather live here than in Russia or any other socialist/communist country.
5) Even though I'm generally a capitalist I think there are some services we should all have to equally pay for like the police and fire department.
6) Occasionally I will have a snickers and a soda for lunch. By occasionally I mean a couple times a week.
7) I really really hate chocolate ice cream. It's so gross.
8) I think kids should be allowed some independence and have some basic household responsibilities. I think 8 is not to young to start doing their own laundry.
9) I need very little personal time but would be just as fine spending a week alone as I would spending a week with a big group.
10) I'm one of the few people who truly love my job and what I do. I can't imagine being this happy doing anything else.
Unless I won the lottery and could just watch TV, read, and eat pizza for a living, that might be the only thing happier than what I do.
In no particular order...
1)I have to eat foods in a certain way. Anything rectangular is short edges, long edges, then repeat till there's nothing left. Candy bars I eat the chocolate off first. Anything circular I take small bites around and around and around except cookies which are broken into quarters and the center eaten first then the edges.
2) I can't eat pork chops. Really, I can't I gag the second it touches my tongue. But I can eat bacon and pepperoni. Sausage is a bit iffy.
3) I am friendly to everyone but very difficult to get to know because underneath my happy exterior I'm really shy.
4) I like capitalism. Yes, I really do. I'd rather live here than in Russia or any other socialist/communist country.
5) Even though I'm generally a capitalist I think there are some services we should all have to equally pay for like the police and fire department.
6) Occasionally I will have a snickers and a soda for lunch. By occasionally I mean a couple times a week.
7) I really really hate chocolate ice cream. It's so gross.
8) I think kids should be allowed some independence and have some basic household responsibilities. I think 8 is not to young to start doing their own laundry.
9) I need very little personal time but would be just as fine spending a week alone as I would spending a week with a big group.
10) I'm one of the few people who truly love my job and what I do. I can't imagine being this happy doing anything else.
Unless I won the lottery and could just watch TV, read, and eat pizza for a living, that might be the only thing happier than what I do.
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Happy Food Day
And Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Hanukkah.
Today was a day of lots of food. Little man was feeling better but still he's not ready for solids so still just milk for him. And thankfully I have awesome family members who don't try to feed my infant without permission. Seriously surprises me how many people have family that feeds their babies without asking!
That kid could have allergies, swallowing problems, or just not be ready yet. And besides I think the first time a baby eats is something special that the parents should be able to be the first to feed their own baby :). No, I don't feel strongly about that at all...
My brother in law made this awesome crock pot turkey with cilantro and onion. It was absolutely delicious. And juicy. And wonderful. And I ate way more than I should have. I ate so much of it that I **almost** couldn't eat a huge plateful of pie. But I managed.
Only a few more weeks to go and it's training time. I have for the past few years followed a month of the 8/1/1 raw vegan plan for January. I didn't last year because, well, I was sort of pregnant. But I've always felt awesome doing a month of all raw and mostly monomeals. I don't think it's something I could do for a lifetime, but a month, now that I can handle. And I should't say I do it 100%. I use a premade taco sauce on my salads. Which is definitely processed. And occasionally I'll put just a tiny bit of cheese on the salad as well.
I already have a printout for what fruit I plan to have each week so I can minimize my time staring at all the fruit, veggies, and berries at the grocery store. Ah, and another area I "cheat" on this is that I don't get raw nuts and seeds. I just don't want to pay the exorbant prices for raw nuts so I go with the storebought Planters cashews because I'm partial to cashews. I don't eat much in the way of nuts and seeds during January anyway.
And yes, I do get all my calories this way. It's actually pretty easy to eat enough calories in fruit and salad in a day and toss in some nuts if I'm falling short. I've tracked January before on FitDay and similar sites and the amount of nutrients per calorie that I get in January is pretty awesome too. I move toward a more paleo type of diet for the following few months. But then by late September usually I've fallen back into the SAD foods we all usually eat. It's the Red Lobster cheesey biscuits and hot lava cookies that just do me in and I fall off the wagon.
A really awesome Paleo blog is Marks Daily Apple. I've lurked there for years.
Other than starting off each post holiday binge with healthy eating; weight lifting and a bit of cardio also starts in January. I'm a big believer that you don't need to spend ten hours a day in a gym to get good results. I might look like someone who just had a baby four months ago right now but one good month of training should fix that. As long as baby boy behaves and starts sleeping better and my bad disks in my back don't cause me too extrememe of pain I should be able to keep a pretty good schedule for January.
My back has limited me quite a bit over the past two years. And as much as I know I should see a surgeon for it since the MRI wasn't pretty, I'm scared to death of someone doing anything to my spine. I try to not make excuses, espeically when it comes to my back pain. It's just some days are so bad I can't sleep at night. Sometimes moving is so damn painful and I can barely walk but not moving is just as painful. I don't even know what to compare it to for those of you who don't have back pain.
So to recap, baby boy is no longer projectile vomiting and managed to sleep a full 5 hours before waking up last night for the first time. And I feel like my pain is under control at least for now that my January should go smoothly :).
Today was a day of lots of food. Little man was feeling better but still he's not ready for solids so still just milk for him. And thankfully I have awesome family members who don't try to feed my infant without permission. Seriously surprises me how many people have family that feeds their babies without asking!
That kid could have allergies, swallowing problems, or just not be ready yet. And besides I think the first time a baby eats is something special that the parents should be able to be the first to feed their own baby :). No, I don't feel strongly about that at all...
My brother in law made this awesome crock pot turkey with cilantro and onion. It was absolutely delicious. And juicy. And wonderful. And I ate way more than I should have. I ate so much of it that I **almost** couldn't eat a huge plateful of pie. But I managed.
Only a few more weeks to go and it's training time. I have for the past few years followed a month of the 8/1/1 raw vegan plan for January. I didn't last year because, well, I was sort of pregnant. But I've always felt awesome doing a month of all raw and mostly monomeals. I don't think it's something I could do for a lifetime, but a month, now that I can handle. And I should't say I do it 100%. I use a premade taco sauce on my salads. Which is definitely processed. And occasionally I'll put just a tiny bit of cheese on the salad as well.
I already have a printout for what fruit I plan to have each week so I can minimize my time staring at all the fruit, veggies, and berries at the grocery store. Ah, and another area I "cheat" on this is that I don't get raw nuts and seeds. I just don't want to pay the exorbant prices for raw nuts so I go with the storebought Planters cashews because I'm partial to cashews. I don't eat much in the way of nuts and seeds during January anyway.
And yes, I do get all my calories this way. It's actually pretty easy to eat enough calories in fruit and salad in a day and toss in some nuts if I'm falling short. I've tracked January before on FitDay and similar sites and the amount of nutrients per calorie that I get in January is pretty awesome too. I move toward a more paleo type of diet for the following few months. But then by late September usually I've fallen back into the SAD foods we all usually eat. It's the Red Lobster cheesey biscuits and hot lava cookies that just do me in and I fall off the wagon.
A really awesome Paleo blog is Marks Daily Apple. I've lurked there for years.
Other than starting off each post holiday binge with healthy eating; weight lifting and a bit of cardio also starts in January. I'm a big believer that you don't need to spend ten hours a day in a gym to get good results. I might look like someone who just had a baby four months ago right now but one good month of training should fix that. As long as baby boy behaves and starts sleeping better and my bad disks in my back don't cause me too extrememe of pain I should be able to keep a pretty good schedule for January.
My back has limited me quite a bit over the past two years. And as much as I know I should see a surgeon for it since the MRI wasn't pretty, I'm scared to death of someone doing anything to my spine. I try to not make excuses, espeically when it comes to my back pain. It's just some days are so bad I can't sleep at night. Sometimes moving is so damn painful and I can barely walk but not moving is just as painful. I don't even know what to compare it to for those of you who don't have back pain.
So to recap, baby boy is no longer projectile vomiting and managed to sleep a full 5 hours before waking up last night for the first time. And I feel like my pain is under control at least for now that my January should go smoothly :).
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
What a Day
Random Wednesday...
Baby boy is sick. He threw up all over me. I'm sure he thought it was great fun. I didn't find it nearly as exciting as he did.
Tomorrow is going to be very exciting. Lots of great food since by brother in law is cooking ;). He is a pretty good cook. My sister and I both have great cooks at home. I would probably starve to death if I had to cook for myself. I don't think I'm qualified to evrn make a frozen pizza.
I forced my teenager to watch Zoolander with me tonight. Twice. She found it as crazy stupid and funny as I did.
Well sick baby needs me so back tomorrow.
Baby boy is sick. He threw up all over me. I'm sure he thought it was great fun. I didn't find it nearly as exciting as he did.
Tomorrow is going to be very exciting. Lots of great food since by brother in law is cooking ;). He is a pretty good cook. My sister and I both have great cooks at home. I would probably starve to death if I had to cook for myself. I don't think I'm qualified to evrn make a frozen pizza.
I forced my teenager to watch Zoolander with me tonight. Twice. She found it as crazy stupid and funny as I did.
Well sick baby needs me so back tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Yep, here I am.
Hi random internet stranger. Want to join me on my randomness? Yeah, I thought so :). This will mostly be about my training (or lack thereof) with some random parenting, scared of pudding, and maybe book review posts.
A group of us wonderful people who are not insane do a 10-13 mile mud run with obstacles. Maybe you've heard of it? The Tough Mudder? It's great fun.
We say every year, we're going to train for this and do it right and we'll all be amazing!!!!
Then all of a sudden the Tough Mudder is... NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
And we're all like, OMG!!! I thought we had more time!!!!! OH NO!!!
So then we drive our cars or steal someones van and all pile in and do this thing. We manage really well the first few miles. Obstacles are fairly close together and we run from one to the next. We get a nice rest break at each obstacle. And we ARE amazing. We crawl through mud. We get zapped with electricity. We dive into icy baths. We jump with enthusiasm after each obstacle!!!
Then something happens. We run part of the way to the next obstacle. And we only do high fives after. We do the monkey bars and fall in the water because our muddy palms just can't grip the bars (it has nothing at all to do with our lack of training or poor grip strength)- but actually I did make it except for last year.
Finally we get to the last few obstacles and some of us drag our worthless butts over to them, give them a good look, then walk around them. Hey, at least we stop and consider doing them. Or maybe the stopping and considering is just another way to work in resting. Wouldn't you like to know :).
However, I have an excuse for last year. I had just had a baby boy 7 weeks before the run. I'm sure my doctor would not have recommended me doing an 11 mile obstacle run had he known about it. So really, I couldn't train for it. And I still managed to run about half of it. So there :p.
If you've done the Tough Mudder you know that nothing is going to stop you if you've signed up for the darn thing. I could have been delivering that baby during the run and I STILL would have shown up.
Dedication... or insanity. Is there really any difference anyway?
Okay, so to the point after all that mess is that this year I'm not pregnant so I really can train for this thing. Training starts in January so I'm going to live up the next few weeks to the fullest and be as gluttony as possible. Plus Baby Boy does not sleep more than 4 hours at a time yet even though he's four months old. So exhaustion levels are pretty high right now. This Baby Boy better sleep at least 5 hours through by the time January rolls around because we're serious this year about the whole training thing. Really, we are.
A group of us wonderful people who are not insane do a 10-13 mile mud run with obstacles. Maybe you've heard of it? The Tough Mudder? It's great fun.
We say every year, we're going to train for this and do it right and we'll all be amazing!!!!
Then all of a sudden the Tough Mudder is... NEXT WEEKEND!!!!
And we're all like, OMG!!! I thought we had more time!!!!! OH NO!!!
So then we drive our cars or steal someones van and all pile in and do this thing. We manage really well the first few miles. Obstacles are fairly close together and we run from one to the next. We get a nice rest break at each obstacle. And we ARE amazing. We crawl through mud. We get zapped with electricity. We dive into icy baths. We jump with enthusiasm after each obstacle!!!
Then something happens. We run part of the way to the next obstacle. And we only do high fives after. We do the monkey bars and fall in the water because our muddy palms just can't grip the bars (it has nothing at all to do with our lack of training or poor grip strength)- but actually I did make it except for last year.
Finally we get to the last few obstacles and some of us drag our worthless butts over to them, give them a good look, then walk around them. Hey, at least we stop and consider doing them. Or maybe the stopping and considering is just another way to work in resting. Wouldn't you like to know :).
However, I have an excuse for last year. I had just had a baby boy 7 weeks before the run. I'm sure my doctor would not have recommended me doing an 11 mile obstacle run had he known about it. So really, I couldn't train for it. And I still managed to run about half of it. So there :p.
If you've done the Tough Mudder you know that nothing is going to stop you if you've signed up for the darn thing. I could have been delivering that baby during the run and I STILL would have shown up.
Dedication... or insanity. Is there really any difference anyway?
Okay, so to the point after all that mess is that this year I'm not pregnant so I really can train for this thing. Training starts in January so I'm going to live up the next few weeks to the fullest and be as gluttony as possible. Plus Baby Boy does not sleep more than 4 hours at a time yet even though he's four months old. So exhaustion levels are pretty high right now. This Baby Boy better sleep at least 5 hours through by the time January rolls around because we're serious this year about the whole training thing. Really, we are.
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