February 21st, 2010 by Missy

I have no idea what I was thinking last night. Dan is still in Minnesota and Anya slept over my parents’ house (leaving me in the room all alone) and I decided to watch.. I Am Legend before bed. I’m terrified of zombies. Yes, I know that zombies aren’t real, but that doesn’t stop me from being terrified of them. By the time the movie was over I was jumping at small noises. I got up to lock the door and Peri jumped up on the desk and knocked a hairbrush on the floor.. I think I was thisclose to hyperventilating.

Aaaanyway.. I watched Like Water for Chocolate afterward to try and take my mind off of zombies and now I’m taken with an obsession to make quail in rose petal sauce. I feel a little bad eating quail (they’re just so cute, aren’t they?) but I’m thinking I’ll make this dish for our anniversary or something. Suppose I’ll have to find a store / someone who sells quail meat first. I came across the Phoenix Permaculture Guild while I was searching and it got me thinking about raising my own quail. Not to eat (I know I could never eat something that I had raised myself), but for the eggs, the fun for the kids, etc, etc.

And, of course, then I started thinking about goats as well. I rather imagine, however, that most HOAs wouldn’t allow the raising of goats. Quail are so quiet / small / unobtrusive / native to Arizona that I’d think it wouldn’t be a problem, but goats may be another matter. Guess we won’t find out until we buy a house and get our hands on the HOA paperwork.

February 19th, 2010 by Missy

Today just feels so.. blah.

Dan is on his way to the airport right now since he is heading up to Minnesota for the weekend. I haven’t seen him since we went to sleep last night and I won’t see him until he gets home from work on Monday. I know that a weekend isn’t really that long, but it feels much longer with work today and Monday. Not to mention, I am just pathetic and needy and I don’t like not seeing him for any length of time.

I’m also signed up to help Katie move into the house that she is renting tomorrow and I’m not really looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t begrudge her the help or anything, it just isn’t exactly.. exciting.

Complaint upon complaint.. I just can’t seem to work up the motivation to exercise. Dan has been working out pretty darn regularly (and I can’t seem to keep my eyes off of his stomach whenever he takes his shirt off.. he is finding it quite amusing, I think) and I really should be working out with him, but every time he sets out to do it I just.. don’t. And I don’t even know why. It isn’t like I’m doing anything else while he is working out. I usually just a) stare at him, b) pretend I’m doing something else and not staring at him.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this unmotivated before. I mean, I’ve been substantially heavier than I am right now (I’m not even really that heavy right now.. 10lbs over my lightest weight) but I’ve never felt this BLAH about it. Blah. Blah. Blah, blah, blah.

All I really feel like doing is lying down and taking a nap. For like a week. Just.. wtf?

August 4th, 2009 by Missy

Had a nice run today.. ran to the end of the street and back (as opposed to just to the end of the street last time) which works out to be about a mile and a quarter. Think tomorrow we’ll do a weight training day (one of the P90X videos, I’m sure) and then run again on Thursday. Actually, now that I think about it.. I’m not sure we’ll do anything tomorrow. It is Open House up at school (since school starts on Thursday) so it is possible that we won’t really have time for a workout by the time Dan gets home from work, we go to Open House, eat, etc.. Guess we’ll see.

I need to plan out a longer run. Something that is 2 miles or so from the house would be nice.. I think that if we walk to the end of the road (toward Tatum instead of Scottsdale) and then run to Dynamite and back, it will be about two miles. Guess I’ll check in the car later.

Waiting for Dan to get back from the grocery store right now.. I want to experiment with making a diabetic friendly cake for my grandma (her birthday is coming up). Katie picked up some whole wheat pastry flour for me on the way home from work, and then I’ll use Splenda instead of sugar. It still won’t be -healthy- of course (too much fat) but at least it will be whole wheat and sugar free. I think she isn’t really watching her fat / caloric intake right now.. just sugar and starch and such. Basically, I’m just adapting an excellent red velvet cake recipe that I have and hoping it turns out well!

Workout today: Mile and a quarter jog.

August 3rd, 2009 by Missy

Talk about depressing. Compare the last time we did measurements…

…to today.

August 3rd, 2009 by Missy

Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday dear Me!
Happy birthday to me!

Had lunch with Dan today (yes, three slices of Pino’s pizza is awesome for losing weight.. but it is my birthday, right?) and then did some shopping with Katie. Bought a dress that doesn’t fit, but had better fit soon. Bought a jump rope. Read a couple more pages of the book that Dan picked up for me last night.

It is kind of funny about jumping rope. I swear I can remember jumping rope forever and ever as a kid, but I doubt I could jump for more than a minute, now. Anyway, seemed like it would be at least semi-fun and you can get a great workout in not a lot of time. I was planning to run in the mornings after I drop the kids off at the bus, but if Dan is going to run with me when he gets home from work, then I don’t really want to run in the mornings as well. So, yes.. jumping rope! We’ll see how that goes.

I’ll probably post my measurements after Dan gets home and has a chance to do them for me. They’re going to be pretty pathetic compared to the last ones that I posted. I really have gained a lot of weight.. I’m up to 146ish right now. Very depressing. Ah well, guess it’ll come back off.

August 2nd, 2009 by Missy

I’m sooooore. We ran again today (around a dirt road back behind the horse riding school across the street, which was nice.. no glue smell like on the normal route). Well, Dan ran and I slogged / walked. Anyway, my.. hips?.. are sore, and my butt too. I’m so out of shape.

Experimented with some Udon Noodle Soup, but it didn’t come out as well as I’d hoped. I buy these “Annie Chun’s Noodle Soup Bowls” and they are ridiculously tasty, but they cost like $5 each, which is ridiculous. Hopefully with some more experimentation, I’ll end up with something tasty and not as expensive. The one I just made was definitely too salty, and the noodles were slimy. I was expecting them to be the fat, round udon noodles, but instead they were kind of flattish, and not at all what I had been wanting. Also, the bok choy stems needed to be cooked longer and it needed more red chile pepper for sure.

July 31st, 2009 by Missy

Must.. stop.. being so lazy! I haven’t worked out in a while now, and it is really start to get to me. I’ve definitely put on some weight that needs to go back off, but mostly.. I’m just feeling lazy. I’m not sure what it is, but I just keep eating and eating and eating lately.

The kids go back to school on Thursday, and I’m planning to start running again once they start school. We’ll see how that actually goes. I also have plans with my grandma to go to the mall (too hot outside for Grandma) three times a week and walk. I doubt it’ll really be that much exercise for me, but it is better than sitting on my ass all day, and it will certainly be good for Grandma. I need to get back into some weight lifting as well. I was up to 5-6 pullups at one point, yet now I’m back down to one..

Unfortunately, my iPod has bitten the dust. It appears to have sustained some water damage (splashed being near the sink?) and I am not at all happy. It is JUST outside of the warranty period, so I’m pretty much out of luck. I ordered a new one and it arrived today — took me about forever to get my iTunes set back up and organized since it disappeared when Dan fixed my computer. I absolutely hate having to spend the extra money on a new one, though. I’m still sort of hoping that the other one can be fixed somehow, and then I can give it to Anya or something.

Anyway, not much really to say.. just that I’m hoping not to be so lazy. If I were really serious I’d probably start working out right now instead of waiting until the kids start school next week.. but what can I say?

February 8th, 2009 by Missy

Well, we are thirty days in. I started at 138lbs and I am.. up to 139. Dan started at 162 and is now at 152. Does this seem unfair to anyone else? He gets 2400 calories a day and I get 1800. Recently (starting yesterday, actually) I dropped my calorie limit to 1700.

Here are the measurements for Day 30 for both of us.

I’m really kicking myself for not doing measurements on Day One.

February 7th, 2009 by Missy

So browsing around the internet tonight, I came across this:

“I’m trying to lose 15 pounds by eating healthier food and exercising. The trouble is that I happen to love fried food. I’m thinking of buying a deep fat fryer to cook vegetables, like tempura, for dinner. Is there such a thing as light oil or is fried food going to be too high in calories to be worthwhile?”

I mean, seriously.. who would possibly think “I’d like to lose weight.. time to go buy a deep fryer!”? Yes, adding vegetables into your diet is a great idea when you are trying to lose weight, especially if you aren’t the kind of person who normally consumes vegetables.. but how can you even begin to delude yourself into thinking that deep fried vegetables are diet food?

On a P90X note — tomorrow is our first thirty days completed. We didn’t take a full set of measurements on Day 1, which I am seriously disappointed about. I’ll post our Day 30 measurements, though, so we can at least compare those with Day 60 and 90 and beyond, or whatnot.

February 1st, 2009 by Missy

Well, we finally sat down and started doing some painting tonight. The black and red are just blocked in with some base colors at the moment, so ignore those. The only thing even resembling “done” at the moment is the gold. Unfortunately, I think it is looking rather.. rough. And it does NOT photograph well with flash so Dan and I had to spend about forever finding a decent setting to take the picture with sans flash.

Anyway, I’m not sure if this is going to stick or not. I really like the idea of the gold armor with the black cloth and maybe some red accents but.. yeah, don’t know if I can pull it off.