Saturday, April 28, 2007

New Pic!


James and I after his April 21st show. I was down 96.2 pounds here!
As of April 28th, I am down 98.6!!!!!!!! I have 1.4 pounds to goal.........I WILL get it next weekend!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Sitting and pouting only works if you are two...

Ok, if you REALLY hate your job, hate your working conditions and feel you deserve more money, what do most people do? QUIT!!!!!!!

Common sense, right? I have HATED some jobs before. When I was working at Denny's, I hated it. Well, only at the end. I hated getting up to go to work, I hated being there, I hated talking about it, and most of all, I was starting to hate myself. I stuck it our for the last 6 months, and quit. Why did I suffer that long you ask? Well, I was getting married and wanted my holiday pay. A month after I got back from the Wedding and Honeymoon, I took great pleasure in handing in my 2 weeks. That was the second best day of my life. (Second to marrying my soul mate)

Analogy:
You are dating someone and really don't like them, they treat you like crap and don't reciprocate what you do for them. Do you dump them? HELL YA!!!!! Well, unless you are so insecure that you put up with it for a while, and just bitch about it to everyone but the significant other.

Anyway, James and I were at West Ed on Sunday. As we were leaving, we crossed the picket line into the Casino. That's right, we are Scabs. And damn proud of it, too. So we crossed, got some mild harassment, and went in. Walked the Casino, talked about playing the VLT's and decided not. I have the worst luck in the world, so why bother. As we were leaving, we noticed the sign posted just inside the Casino. Very nice little message stating that the Casino apologizes for any inconvenience we may have while crossing the picket line....yadi yadi yada. It also says that not all of the picketers are casino employees. some are support staff from the UFCW. Also, that the striking workers are NOT allowed to have any physical contact, and if the harassment goes to far to notify security. Hmmmmm.

As we are leaving this nasty hippie guy gets in my face and tells me next time to support the workers. Why should I? Give me one reason why I should! It is Alberta for crying out loud. Find another job. I'm sure that You didn't go to school to become a Blackjack Dealer, or a VLT cleaner. lol

I am very much against unions. I will never be a part of one. I do have empathy for those who go to University, spend thousands of dollars to get their degree, and are in a position where being in a union is not a choice. Well, you can refuse to join the union, but you aren't able to work, and have just wasted a couple of years and a whole lot of money. My younger sister is a LPN. She spent years in school to achieve her dream, and I am damn proud of her for that. So should she give up her dream just because of the union BS? NO! My brother in-law is also in a Union. Can he just up an quit? Nope. He has a family. Plus, he isn't making minimum wage.

But when you work at Safeway, the Casino and any other place that requires you to only have a firm grasp of the English Language and be able to count to 10 without using your fingers or toes, you can quit and find another job. I think 85% of the stores in West Ed had a Help Wanted sign in their window.

I have supported those on strike before. To an extent. Nurses have gone on strike. Well, I would like to be taken care of by a happy nurse, rather then a bitchy one who has the tools to kill (or severely harm me). What about you? I would like to be taught by a teacher who enjoys their job, rather then be flunked by one who is trying to prove a point-teachers are over worked under paid. Students flunk when this happens. --THATS WHAT MUST HAVE HAPPENED!!
I noed that i was smrter than dat! lol

As I finish my rant, I would like to point out that there is no right or wrong on this side. However, this is MY blog. So I'm right. lol

Quitting is for Quitters. I would rather be a quitter then sit outside my job and pout about not getting my way.
~AH

More pics....told ya I would get 'em up. Now I need some NEW ones!



Another Yucky pic! This was taken by my MIL November 4th, 2006. She came to visit from Pittsburgh. I can't wait to see her again, and show her whats left of me....lol.

I was down 44.6 lbs here

Monday, April 16, 2007

Some pics.........




<--------- Ok here's a Pic, from the begining of December, 2006. I was down 53.6 pounds. Note the cubby cheeks, and the double chin.... (You can see half of my hubby's face, my dad in the back, and Tyler is the shorty reaching for the balloon. Celebrating his first birthday)


There is 27.6 pounds diff here. Personally, couldn't see the difference


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This is From Dylans birthday, back in August. I was down about 26 pounds. Felt good until I saw this pics. You can't really see much of me here (hubby blocking me...whew!) At this point I avoided cameras. I knew I was losing, but was still depressed about my weight.







***More Pics to come****


Oh, What Shall my Title be? So Many to Chose From......

Ok, so my last post was on Wednesday. Where do I begin? Thursday....I'm at work, same old same old. UNTIL (suspenseful muzak, please) a client walks in the door. We look at each other...I know I know him, he knows he knows me. But from where?
OMG!!!!! Mr. Reeves! I was best friends with his daughter from the time we were 2 until we were about 14ish. Blast from the past. Told me to Check Kim's website out. Ooooo. She lives in Australia and got married in Hawaii. So gorgeous. Don't get me wrong, I loved my wedding. But to have a beach wedding.....so bee-yoo-ti-ful.

Friday....oh! James and I went to the Trade Show @ Millennium Place. Surprised at how HUGE it was. Also, I think we were supposed to pay to get in. Oops. Well, I was just about beaned in the head with a small football. Yes, allowing 13 year old boys to play catch right were people walk is the BEST idea. I hope I have kids just like that.

So, we did the walk, checked out the booths. Walked past the booth for Camp Maskepetoon. OMG! Saw my first crush. *Sigh*. i think I blushed! Lol. James and I kept on going looking here and there, me getting a lolly from the nice Police Man (thanks, sweetie for opening it for me). Tra la la. I was in my own little world (as I usually am), and suddenly James says " Well, there is a face I haven't seen in a while". Hey! It's Jamie and Raffi! Back from the Land of Oz! Jamie & James became friends back in High School, and Raffi is her husband. They met in Aussie, and have been gone since January. Missed most of OUR winter, and got MOST of their summer. Hmmmm....Could I be more jealous??? YES!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday. Weigh in day. (Add ominous music here) YEA!!!!!!!!! Down 2.2 pounds. Less then 5 to go!!! The subject of this weeks meeting: Fear. What is your fear of Weight loss? The most obvious ones came up first...Will I be able to keep off the weight? Stuff like that. Well, mine is "Will I ever LOOK skinny in my own eyes?" Yes and no. With my clothes on, I think i look pretty good! Hell, I've lost 95.2 pounds in a year. I better look good. Ok, clothes on, GOOD! Clothes off.....well, thats another story. I have a little bit of extra skin hanging around. Ok, a LOT of skin! Best way to describe it...have you ever blown up a balloon and deflated it right away? Does it ever go back to it's original shape? There you go.

Sunday. James and I went SHOPPING!!!!!! YAY for shopping. An d we were good, too! He bought some new shirts, I bought some new shirts. I am very proud to say that I bought 3 new shirts. All the same size. MEDIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That right! I wear a medium!!!! I found one shirt that I really liked at Bootlegger for $10. Showed James. He told me to try it on. I fought saying it wouldn't fit. He made me try it on. I slowly come out of the room.....not only does it but, but it looks pretty good, too! A medium! I don't remember the last time I was a medium.

So, I figure about 2 more weeks of Weight Watchers, and then Goal. I just put some pics up, not the best, as I am hiding in most of them. i became the camera avoider for a while.... I know I have some from when Darlene (my MIL) was up in November, so I will post more later.
Until we meet again....or until I find the urge to babble.
AH

Wednesday, April 11, 2007


Now This is an Idol to keep. I love the body image.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Crazy? I was Crazy once. They put me in a rubber room. There were Rats there. Rats? I hate rats! They make me Crazy! Crazy? I was....

Crazy! lol. I took a sanity test at work today. Doo-Dah. Didn't go so well. Who knew that randomly making animal noises makes you crazy! At least it scares off Seagulls.....right Jill? BACAW!!!!!! LOL! My poor Jamesy-poo! Has he ever been with anyone that is SANE?!??!?!?! Let's see.....the girl with 3 personalities (how COOL is that?) The one that was never happy around him, and changed her personality to match his, the Bulimic-Suicidal Head Case,-- and who can forget the Mohawk girl who "liked" me but thought I was to "Vanilla". Couldn't believe that one! James told me that, and I was all "I'm not VANILLA!! I'm Rocky Road!!!" Note to self-think before you speak. James thought that I meant....well..... that I liked her back. Riiiiiight. I think Mohawks, piercings on the bridge of your nose, and the back of your neck, are just so damn sexy. oh baby oh baby. Lol. Could someone PLEASE hold me back.

So back to me, and my crazy self. I took the Crazy Test
http://www.selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=howcrazyru
and I found out, that yes, I am Crazy.
Your Results:
Your prediction for you Nutty - You're very random and very mad.

Ahhhh, wonderful. At least I get to wear a jacket that will allow me to hug myself ALL day, and be in a special room with bouncy walls. I can't hurt myself there. Added bonus, free hairdressing. They'll hook me up to one of those fancy thingies, and it will make my hair stick straight out. Score. I will save a fortune living there. Maybe I will make some new friends!

I challenge you to find out how crazy you are! Maybe I will see you there! lol!

Does anyone else think I have to much time on my hands?

Oh, and more last thing.... Dear god, when you finish your lane change, turn OFF your F-ing signal light. I appreciate that you used it in the first place. I really do. I like the 0.5 second notice that you are about to cut me off. so, you have cut me off, and now I have to stare at your blinky light???? I wonder how I got so crazy? Perhaps driving in Edmonton??? Watch out for the potholes. They are full of Gremlins...
TA!
ah





Sinful Bunnies, and other bad things...........

Damn Stupid Crappy Sweet Sinfully Delicious Turkey Dinner.
7 pounds to go. Yes, I only lost 1 pound this week. I had made Turkey Dinner Friday night (Gracias to my Sioux Chefs...) Mmmmm. Nummy Nummy. Mom brought my favorite bottle of Wine. That was Nummy, too. Pam brought Fruit Pizza. Les Sigh. HOW DID I NOT GAIN?????????? Lol. Love the pound I lost. Never wanna see it again!

My WW birthday is coming up! 1 Year this Saturday! I was hoping to be at goal by then. At least I managed to get myself into my healthy weight range by then. There is light at the end of the tunnel....I can see the light! It's getting brighter! Hmmmm, starting to sound a little scary! Eeep!

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Get out of the way, Dad, I'm cute!

OMG! Just had to post this story!

Dad, James and I were in Totem on Saturday picking up all the stuff we needed to put up the gutters on the house. So we had this push cart thingy (lo-ove my terminology) full of Ten foot gutters, downspouts and some other expensive junk. So, as I am attempting to navigate this thing without killing anyone, and destroying the store. i look up and the BIGGEST black man. No kidding, almost 7 feet tall, and about 400 lbs of muscle. Eep. I looked at Dad and James and said "Well, wouldn't want to piss him off in a dark back alley, would ya?" Dad turns around, looks at the guy and says Holy Crap! So, we're navigating this thing, and suddenly the guy is right behind Dad. Tells Dad to get out of his way (but it was in a nice tone....lol). Looks at me and says that I'm cute, I can stay. Lol. After he was gone, I looked at James and said to him "Well, aren't you going to defend my honor??? Go hit him or something". Riiiiiiight. Any one remember Bear from the movie Armageddon? Ya, there you go! (check the pic of him @ this link....www.ucmovie.com/images/cast/duncan-cast.jpg

By far the funniest thing that happened this weekend.

And James still hasn't punched out the Giant for saying that. What a "bad" husband. I love you, baby! xox

**~~**AH

Skin and Bones

Lol. Jill and I went out on Friday night (yes, same night that I ran into someone--read prev. post) I get to her mom's house to pick her up. She says to me: "Ooo, you gotta come upstairs so I can show my dad how good you look." Hmmmmm. We all agreed that that wasn't the best choice of words. Poor Jill. We need to get her some more friends that are OVER the age of 4. Lol. But we did come up with some kick-ass new nicknames. Anyone who knows Jill, knows that she is super skinny. God works in mysterious ways. The girl eats junk food like no tomorrow....And the cheese! She should be fat and stinky! But nooooooo, she's skinny-and smells......lol. Just kidding. She smells fine. (Gonna get my ass kicked for that one...) Anyway, a while back I had shown her my abundance of extra skin. We were talking about that, and she made some joke, so I turned and called her bones. History has been made, folks. We are now known as "Skin and Bones".

So, I made Blueberry Muffins Sunday night. Turned out pretty good. I could have sworn I had the Muffins and More cookbook. So, I hop on the net, and Google ( I love Google) Blueberry Muffins. Holy Jebus! 6 BAZILLION recipes! So, I took the first one. Cuz it looked the easiest. And had the least amount of ingredients. Now, I DID read some of the other recipes. They all said to add the blueberries just before you put them in the oven. I learned why. I'm standing in the kitchen mixing away, and I add the blueberries to the batter-like the recipe said too. Oh, dear god. I am talking BLUE! I called James in, and he laughed at them-and me. Thankfully the blueness went down as they baked, and ended up tasting really good. Whew! Crisis averted.

Silly BAD Mom. I sent her an email yesterday, asking her if I can swing by their house and pick up the Turkey Roaster pan thingy around 6. Will she be OK with this??? She emails back-OK, i will be home. So I get off work, drive home PUT ON MY WRANGLERS (!!!!!!) --YEA!!!! I accomplished my personal goal!! Hondy-tonk Badonk-a-donk! Ahem-I digress. Anyway, so I get all the way out to Fort Saskatchewan. It's 6pm on the nose. I don't have a key to the new house, so I ring the doorbell. No answer. I pull the car up to the driveway and stand on the bumper. No SUV in the garage. So, I call mom on her cell. I ask her where she is is. She tells me she's at Southgate Mall, and asks where I am. Then she pauses...."oh, no". She suddenly remembers. That's right. She FORGOT ME!!!!!!!! Humph. What if I was being chased by rabid dogs, or the Boogeyman? Dude, I could have DIED! It was scary. So, I toodled over to Safeway, did my Easter dinner shopping, then hopped over to Reitmans and check out what they had. I found some pants that I liked, but, why bother? They will probably be too big in a few weeks. I still had a G/C left over from Christmas, so I figured I might as well use it. I got 3 pairs of socks, 3 pairs of earrings and a necklace. i called James after I left and told him everything that I bought....of course I had to tease him. I played the bad wife, sounding remorseful, to make it sound like I spent ALOT of cash. Tee-hee! I spent $1.80. Lol. Yay me. I liked that Reitmans. Good store. Hmmmm, and with Mom and Dad out there, I have a good reason to be out there lots. Sweet!

So, I have done the groceries, bought myself something shiny. Now what? Ok, call Bones. Talk to Bones as I tour the Fort. Quaint little town. So, Bones and I get on the topic of butts. i have no butt left. My hubby however....well, he has a big tushie. He does! Apparently it's genetic. Anyway, So I told Bones that maybe our kids would have nicely proportioned asses. Lol. The I told her I should stuff tissues down my pants, rather then in my bra. See what James does. Bones tells me that you can actually buy panties that have foam inserts in them. Cool. Until you SHART!!! Nasty! Now you have skid marks on an otherwise perfect pair of panties. Doh.

~~AH