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The kids built this leaf pile in the park we’d gone to.  This was Libby’s 8th or 9th try at running through the leaves because I wanted the effect of her BUSTING THROUGH AND MAKING THE LEAVES FLY!  She’s so small that even when she ran through them, they’d just move. LOL   When we finally did get the right effect, the kids went right back to rebuilding the leaf pile.  I think the reason why they had  hard time was that the leaves were GIGANTIC.  They were twice the size of my hand, and very heavy. But she managed!  [so much for WORDLESS Wednesday]

Wordless Wednesday

5 Minutes for Mom

This post has been removed because a certain blogger “platform” that’s supposedly there to help support bloggers, instead, takes advantage of them. So guess what? They can kiss my ass and they lose their backlink.

According to the Wii Fit, I have lost 25 lbs since June 3rd.  I mention that to Jimmy this morning and get “huh”. 

Not “hey, good job!”.  Not “Wow, that much?”.  Not “really? You don’t look like you even need to LOSE 25 lbs.”.  Oh wait – that last one is what Brad Pitt said (in my dream).

I digress, as usual.

I sat here thinking – if I can lose 5 lbs a month, that’s not too shabby.  8 lbs. would be better, but hey, beggars can’t be choosers, I suppose.

Then I got to thinking… hmm, is it really just cutting out the fat in my diet that is contributing to the weight loss?

So I tried to recall what I ate yesterday.  I started out with leftover spaghetti & butter w/Worcesterire sauce for breakfast, as it was handy.  [handy = it was still in the pan from the night before when I cooked it for my dinner, hence all I had to do was reheat it.]  That, with a cup of coffee with non-fat non-dairy full of sugary fake goodness, and we’ll call that breakfast.

For lunch, I had… oh wait, there was no lunch yesterday, as we were in the car most of the day.  We left at approximately 9:30, drove to a farm in Boonsboro, MD that had offered walnuts on craig’s list (for free).  So we went there and picked up 4 BIG bags of walnuts that turned out to be CRAWLING WITH MAGGOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That fact apparently didn’t phase the women offering them.

As soon as we left there, we drove to a nearby grocery store for me to grab some quick breakfast for the kids, while Jimmy escorted the few maggots that had crawled ONTO THE RUG IN THE CAR out of the car. [sidenote: by the time we got home, TONS of them had crawled out onto the newspapers we’d put them down on – oh and god only knows WHAT else had leaked out and has now permanently stained the rug in the back of the van. SO MUCH FOR FREE!]

While *I* was in the market, I misread a few of the signs that say “10/$10” as 10/$1 – and had loaded up on those items – which, to MY defense, were placed next to each other and next to a sign that said 6/$1.  When I got to the register, I found that I was severely BLIND and then had to go put all that stuff back because .10 “dirty gummi bears” is a deal. $1 “dirty gummi bears” is not.

[as a sidenote:  have you ever had BACON FLAVORED PLANTER’S PEANUTS?!? OMG GOOD!]

Anyway, back into the car I went and we went to a beautiful park for about eleventy billin hours and I took lots of photos of my children romping through the leaves.  The leaves that, as it turned out, had creepy crawlies in them as well.

Then it was off to look at some houses that Jimmy’s found for sale that he wanted to take a look at. 

From there, we went to another grocery store so I could pick up some things that were on sale there, in order to get gas points to get gas with (saved $.30/gal off!), over to JC Penney to pick up an order that my mom had sent to Anthony for his birthday – BACK to the market to actually BUY the gas that we’d forgotten, then to super Walmart to finish the shopping, refill the water bottles, and ummm… who knows what else.

We didn’t get home till almost 4pm – so no lunch for mama.  In fact, I opened a package of crackers and had 1 – then Zachary snatched them.

Because I hadn’t intended to spend the whole day out, I hadn’t taken anything out fo the freezer for dinner, and we don’t have a microwave anymore (it died), so all I really had were some frozen Boston Market dinners.  I made those for the rest of the family, but because they’re too high in fat, I decided to make this steaming basket thingie for me – except those aren’t made for anything BUT the microwave  – but I steamed the steaming basket thingie and it worked.

I took ONE BITE of it, and Libby gave me big puppydog eyes because she didn’t like her Boston Market meal.

So I had about an ounce of a ham steak that I cut up into the frying pan, along with 1 whole egg and 1 egg white – 2 pieces of toast made it a sandwich.  That was dinner.

Yeah, I guess I can see how I would be losing weight, huh?

And all of it was OH SO NUTRICIOUS!

blah.

But hey! 25 POUNDS, people!!!

I’ve been off both zoloft AND celebrex since Saturday. 

It didn’t start out as a cold-turkey quit of both of the meds I’ve been on for ohhhh… 2 YEARS or so.

 

But that’s how it turned out.

Since we don’t have health insurance, I KNOW we can’t afford to replace them when I run out.

SO I was trying to go every other day with them.

Then I forgot to take them the next day too.  So then we were three or four days in and I was all “well, what the hell, might as well” – cuz I’m an idiot. 

I’m in full-fledged BRAIN ZAP MODE.

I FUCKING HATE BRAIN ZAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brain zaps occur when you stop taking an antidepressant like zoloft (or the generic sertraline as I’ve been taking).  Your brain keeps firing those synapses all “Hey, you guys seen “z??” and no one ever answers.

zzzzzzzzzap.

It happens whenever I shift my eyes laterally.  Or up & down real fast for that matter.

It happens whenever I hear a loud, sudden noise.  In my house – with 3 kids who NEVER LEAVE ME ALONE.   With Screechy, the wonder kid as a daughter.

It happens for no apparent reason.  It happens when I TYPE.

I swear to god.

I’m about ready to google “LOW COST ZOLOFT” but I know the answers are all right in my spam folder.

Now add those fucking BRAIN ZAPS in with no medication to keep the uglies out of my head.

Yeah, it’s been a GRAND WEEK.

I haven’t been doing so bad without the arthritis meds, except for days when I’m on my feet alot, like when I go grocery shopping.

I’m back to snapping at my kids every 20 seconds – which is the frequency with which they INTERUPT ME NO MATTER WHAT I AM DOING.

I want so much to get back to marketing my blogs, writing GOOD reviews with proper English and grammar and all that good stuff – but I can’t put two thoughts together without being interrupted 17 times by one kid or another, or a cat.

Mostly, though, it’s the kids.

eBay anyone?

I am writing this  on all my blogs in order to reach a large audience.

As some of you may know, we are a homeschooling family of 3 kids. I was thinking that it would be a fun geography lesson for at least the 2 oldest ones if we could organize a holiday card and/or ornament exchange with people from around the world – or at least the ones that respond to my plea.

I figured what we’d do is, each day that we got a card and/or ornament from a new person, we’d research that area that day. It’d be a great way to "meet" some of my facebook/blogging buddies, as well as to introduce my kids to different areas of the country and world without TOO much hassle.

In return, we’d be happy to return a card and/or ornament to you as well!

If this is something you’d be able to do, please contact me via email (dawniemom at gmail.com) so we can work out details, addresses, etc. The more, the merrier!

Thanks,
Dawn