APRIL 2000
Welcome to April... I don't know where March went! It just snuck right by on me!
April 15, 2000
Well, I survived! I just turned 31 yesterday! Life is going well for me now! My husband and I are getting along well, I am still keeping the weight off, I have a new job where I make a lot more money and so on!
My husband bought me a new bed for my birthday! It is one of those Select Comfort Air Beds. It is soooo awesome! If anyone wants to buy one... You can use me as a reference! Just e-mail me at eldareed@hotmail.com for more information on how to use me as a reference! Click here to visit the Select Comfort Website. I have never slept better since we got this bed. It has a pillow top mattress and it is so nice!
I am doing customer service at my new job. I work for a consulting company. They handle class action lawsuits. So, I take calls from the members of the lawsuits. It is kind of interesting and the people are super nice, the employees that is... the customers are not always so nice! I started there two weeks ago. The only thing I don't like about it is all the sitting! I am hoping I don't gain a bunch of weight! I have gained 5 pounds but I needed to gain a little weight back! 105 pounds was just too skinny. I want to get some roller blades and use them when I get off work. I am also working full-time for the first time since I had the boys! They had never spent a day in day-care! They are going to extended day at their schools. They actually like it! I am glad of that! It makes it easier for me when I know they are happy!
Right now, my husband is in between jobs so he has been picking them up from school when they are done. That saves on my day-care bill and it gives them some quality time together. They have been enjoying that!
Ethan will be starting a new job a week from Monday. He is very excited about it! Actually, we are both excited about it! He will be driving an ice cream truck! Well, he will be working for a company that delivers frozen foods to customers homes. I am a little concerned because they have super good ice cream and other food and I don't want to gain all 60 or so pounds back! I will just have to order the bonless, skinless chicken breast and the fish and veggies!
It feels good to be working on my journal again! I may not add entries everyday now since I am so busy with my new job and trying to keep up with everything else besides! I will try to do better though!
I want to add some links to my diet links page! I have had people e-mail me with links to their pages and I just haven't taken the time to add them! So, I will try and get that done, hopefully tonight even!
Well, I better get back to working on other parts of my pages! Have a good night everyone! I hope some people still check back every now and again to see if I do anything here! E-mail me and let me know if you do! Thanks! eldareed@hotmail.com.
April 18, 2000
Hello, I lost a pound! That is good... I am maintaining my weight! Phew! I figured I was packing on the pounds! It felt like it anyway! I think it is all that inactivity from my new job! I need to buy myself some roller blades and get out there and use them! I have a bike but the last thing I want to do after sitting all day is get on a bike! But, I will still use my bike because it is a very nice bike! I do need to start watching my eating habits. I ate really bad last week. Of course my birthday was on Friday so I had cake and we went out to eat and all that. I am really surprised I lost a pound! Well, my husband and I are going to go and do something today. I think we are going to take a trip to the Mall of America! Something to do! Have a good day everyone:)
April 19, 2000
My eating habits were awful today! YIKES! I didn't have anything healthy to take to work today except for a big bag of baby carrots. I took two Kudo's Snickers Granola Bars. FATTENING! THEN, I had those Cream Saver's, you know, they are made by Life Saver's and they have cream in them. They are so good! I think I ate over half the darned bag today! Then, everyone had chocolate! SO, I HAD CHOCOLATE! Came home and made pizza rolls and curly fries for supper! Talk about BAD! Since I started working 8-5, my eating habits have gone to hell! I don't know how I managed to lose a pound last week! My jeans still fit ok too! I am going to get lulled into that false sense of security if I am not careful! You know the one... I eat like a pig, don't gain weight, think I can eat anything I want and then WHAM! I gained all 60 + pounds back when I wasn't looking! YIKES!!! So, I need to take measures to keep that from happening. What I really need to do is go to the grocery store tonight but I don't want to go there! I just want to stay home tonight and go to sleep! Well, after I fold my piles of laundry that is! I am so envious, my boys have the next five days off. I used to get to take their days off with them. Now that I have a real job, I don't get to. My husband hasn't started his new job yet, so he is staying home with them tomorrow and Friday. Hopefully, he will start his new job on Monday. SO, the boys will go to extended day that day. I want the next five days off!!!! Oh well! The money is nice! I better go! I need to accomplish something! Ethan did all sorts of housework while he was home today and I told him I would fold the laundry and put it away. So, I better stick to my promise! WAAAHHHH! Have a good night everyone!
April 24, 2000
Hello.... Well, I survived Easter, but I don't know that my diet did! I didn't do too bad on the candy! In fact, I did really good on the candy! It was the ham and the casseroles that did me in! YIKES! We helped my mother-in-law move on Saturday and on part of Sunday. She has a really nice new house and a big yard with a swimming pool. It is an above ground one. The boys haven't seen it yet and they are going to love it when they do! Anyway, I did lousy on the diet on Saturday too! I ate all sorts of chips and drank regular pop and had all sorts of other garbage that is no good for me! Tomorrow is weigh in day so I will see how bad I did this week! I tried to do better today but my husband started a new job with Schwans and he brought home an apple pie and cinnamon rolls. When I got home, he had pie baking and cinnamon rolls thawing out. Anyway, the pie was really good! I sure didn't need it though! I have to say that it was as good as my mom's pie. I need to start exercising so that I can firm up for summer. I want to go swimming with my boys this year darn it! Well, speaking of the boys, I need to drag them in the house and get them ready for bed! We have been reading the Harry Potter books. They are very good! Have a nice evening everyone:)
April 25, 2000
Well, the weigh in wasn't as horrible as I thought it would be! I only gained a pound! WOW! I guess I just feel fat for some reason these days! My jeans still fit ok. It is all that sitting I do at my new job! I am just not used to it! The scary thing though is that I am getting used to all the sitting! YUCK! I still want to get roller blades so that I can go out with my boys after I get home from work! I need a variety of exercises that I can do so that I don't get bored! Today I am making a major effort to drink a lot of water! I did a pretty good job of it! I probably won't sleep a wink tonight because I will have to keep getting up to go to the bathroom! As it is, I should get to bed now! That darned alarm clock goes off at 5:30 am and that is just too early! If I had my way, I would sleep until 9am every morning! Oh well, I do like the paycheck from my new job! So, I won't complain! Anyway, I better go to bed! Have a good night everyone:)
April 30, 2000
WOW! It is the last day of April already! Where does the time go? Well, I pigged out this weekend! I weighed myself this morning and I still weigh 110 pounds. I still fit into a pair of shorts that I didn't think would fit me anymore! We have been doing a lot of deep-fat frying. All that good Schwan's food ya know... You have to deep-fat fry the mushrooms or they don't taste as good! Tonight we made a fire pit out in the back yard. Well, it was sort of a make-shift one. We got bricks from one of our flower gardens and picked up a bunch of sticks and burned them and we cooked steak and chicken and hotdogs. It was fun and good! Unfortunately we didn't have any marshmallows to roast. We have decided we will do all our grilling that way from now on! I was looking at a $70 Weber grill but it worked out pretty good the way we did it. So, I am going to save my $70 and buy some new trees to plant out in the back yard. Well, eating won't be such a big problem for me this week as we are broke and have hardly any food in the house. So, it will be a good time for me to start back on my healthy eating habits! Well, I just wanted to post an entry since it is the last day of April! Have a good night everyone! Must get my kids to bed before they make me NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!