Category: Diary

I dont understand why an egg has 70 calories, but when i make a sunny-side up egg, it suddenly has like 100 calories. Everyone says that frying food makes it bad for you – and I totally understand that when it’s like fried chicken with breading and oil and stuff added, but I don’t understand why the egg’s calories would change when you just fry it in the pan. I’ve found some info online about how the proteins change when heat is added, but I can’t find anything that says why there would be more calories. so yah, i just don’t get it. if anyone out there does, please explain.

it took me all day yesterday, but i got all the pix from europe onto my laptop. after culling the crap ones, i have a total of 5,571. i cant wait to get started on my scrapbooking, but i shipped all my ticket stubs and stuff i’d collected back home from budapest, so i hafta wait for that box to arrive (the one from prague arrived like a week later which is crazy since on both boxes i chose the slow, cheap shipping methods). i also ordered some hungary and czech themed supplies from an online site, so i’ll have to wait on that stuff as well.

so sometimes i feel like i dont want to do girl scouts anymore because i get all stressed out because i have so much to do and i need to do it soon. but then i think im a little shit that im so lazy i cant even manage to do a little work once in awhile and i should get over it and i cant spend my life reading and watching tv ALL the time just because i want to

8pm. I’m on the plane to London! Naturally I was anxious starting out since I’m scared of airports (and this is my first time flying anywhere by myself), but now I’m quite content. They serve beers and wines on the plane (for free!) so I’ve had 3 cups of white wine. They didn’t card me which is a bad sign — it means I look old. I’ve even moved from buzzed to nicely drunk at this point. Popping both xanax and ambien helped as well. I’m fully zen (except now having to pee). Hopefully my plan will work and I’ll sleep the whole flight and wake up on London time. I’m soo excited! When I wake up tomorrow, I’ll be homeeee. I love you, LONDON!! Bleary-eyed and drunk, I’m going to leave this for here and go to bed.

[written at some point later of which I have no memory]
I had to go pee in the teensy WC (water closet). Now I feel a lot better in the bladder department, but I’m definitely drunk. Waiting in line for the potty I was seeing double. Woohoo for full on drunk. Attempting bed now – nite.

I have been sooo busy this week (and this month) with Girl Scouts. Not only am I still a troop leader (my girls are now in 4th grade), but I am also the Registrar and the Recruiter (two other positions) for our Service Unit (basically all the schools in Acworth). It’s a lot bigger job than I expected. I’m enjoying it, though. Tonight I have a team leaders meeting and then tomorrow night I have my regular meeting with my troop. Then Thurs night I’m meeting my friend Jenn for dinner. Busy busy.

Today is Lauren’s due date. The doctors kept telling her for the past two weeks that she would go any time now and probably not make it until her due date, but here we are and still no baby. She’s been trying all kinds of old wives’ tales about how to get the baby to come. People around here claim that if you eat this certain dish at an Italian restaurant nearby, that you’ll go into labor within 48 hours, but that didn’t happen.

I’ve been trying to diet and exercise the past couple of months. I’ve now lost about 15lbs, so that’s exciting.

I think Lucas has learned a new word. His first word was “meh” which means “more” as in he wants food. I think now he is saying “uh-puh” for “up” when he wants to be picked up.

Today Paul and I took Lucas to his first gymnastics class! They have a baby tumbling class that we signed him up for. I figured he’d like it since he loves to climb on everything. There were only two other little girls in his class. I think they might be a little older than him (like around 2). The instructor, Peggy, was very nice and enthusiastic. She showed us several things to do with our kids and then kinda let the kids have free reign to play on whichever station the kids wanted. We had Lucas swing from the bars (he really just held them while I swung him), crawl over mats, jump in the foam pit, and his very most favorite – the trampoline. It was really fun for all three of us to get out of the house and it’s a great way for Lucas to be around other kids and do new things. The lesson was 45 minutes long. By the time it was over, I was exhausted and Lucas passed out in the car on the ride home. I think he had a great time!

This weekend Paul, Lucas, and I went to the Love the Lake Festival in downtown Acworth. It was a mini-craft fair that they held by the lake to celebrate the city of Acworth being 150 years old. It was a gorgeous day – not too hot, sunny, slight breeze. First we walked along all the little tents of people selling their crafted goods. I showed enormous constraint by not wasting money on more perfumes and lotions that they were selling since I already own a ton. I ran into my co-leader for Girl Scouts and her daughters at the festival, too. We saw a bird show with parrots and a marionette show. Then we took Lucas over to the playground. I tried to take him one of those big, inflatable bounce houses, but he as scared of it. Instead he had immense fun climbing back and forth over a wooden board that separated the playground area from the grass. He got the hang of stepping down so he just went back and forth over the board while I swung on the swing set.

Wildkittn3 (5:51:36 PM): http://www.nationaldriverstest.com
Wildkittn3 (5:51:39 PM): see if you can pass that
Wildkittn3 (5:51:43 PM): i almost failed
ModernHecate (6:00:33 PM): i only missed two
Wildkittn3 (6:00:45 PM): damn, i just suck 😛
ModernHecate (6:01:40 PM): im never riding with you again

so tonight i made an awesome italian frittata. i hadnt ever made one before, so i wasnt too sure how it would come out, but since i guess in a way it is essentially a breakfast item it is covered automatically in my repertoire. i had half a plate of leftovers from the other night when i made the chicken and veggies dish, so i chopped up the chicken into chunks and threw it, plus eggplant, squash, red and green peppers, onions, and tomato in. then for the heck of it i threw in a half cup of cranberries to add a little sweet to all that salty. for the egg mixture i used 6 eggs, 3 tbl milk, 1/4c shredded cheddar, and 6oz of cottage cheese, and finally topped with another 1/4 of cheddar cheese. it was quite tasty and it made enough for like 5 servings so ill get to eat all the rest of the week.

today starts week 2 of the Biggest Loser competition. mom and i both lost 3 lbs last week, so we are tied still. i guess i really need to up my game if i’m going to beat her! according to my site, i will reach my goal weight sometime btwn jan -mar of next year. oi thats a long time! hopefully Vlad Tepes and his castle on a mountain knock off a couple of pounds (assuming i can even make it to the top!) yall should start making bets on how far up the mountain i make it.

anyhow its bedtime, night night

wow i haven’t blogged in a month! bad ally, bad ally *bangs head against the wall*

so here is what is up in reverse chronological order:

mom and i are having our own Biggest Loser contest (even tho i told mom i already knew she was the biggest loser. te he, j/k) where we have until sept 21st to be the one to lose the most weight and win the big pot o’ money. the rules aren’t finalized yet (despite this being day 5) but basically we start by each putting $20 in the pot, and then $5 every week. we have penalty fees as well: $5 each time we eat out somewhere (with one freebie), $1 for not losing weight that week, $1 per pound gained, etc. we are going to have weekly winners, but we haven’t figured out yet how to determine what the winner gets at the end of the week.

so i’ve been doing really kickass on it so far. i signed up for myfooddiary.com where i input what i eat and what exercise and it tracks my nutrition and yells at me when i eat badly. i’ve also been exercising every day. i am *totally* going to win this contest. i need the money for europe! it’s amazing how getting money is the most motivating weight loss program i’ve come across. my short term goal is to lose 20lbs during the contest, and to keep up the lifestyle to lose 60lbs!!! i think i’ve already lost two and i’m only on day 5.

in relation to the trying to lose weight, i’m back on the sugar busters way of eating (the one where paul lost 60lbs) which means i’m having to eat all kinds of different stuff. our fridge is packed (and for once not with leftovers rotting in the back)! plus i’m eating such a variety of foods i haven’t even gotten too bored of eating and wanted to eat out. i’m even attempting to cook dinner as we speak! the other day i made tacos and they were super yummy, but i already knew how to make tacos so no problems there. then today i tried to make lima beans from like the dried bag kind. it came out a nasty bean-paste looking glob. and aren’t lima beans supposed to be green? cuz mine weren’t. no idea what i did wrong – i did exactly as instructed per the package. oh wells. so then tonight i’m making chicken and sauteed veggies, only the veggies are squash and eggplant – two veggies i’ve never cooked before. i’ve never really even eaten an eggplant. it smelled kinda like a cucumber. i’ll see how it comes out. i put the cut veggies (randomly cut into cubes) in a pan and sprinkled on italian seasoning and lemon juice (lemon juice lowers the glycemic index of a meal). i baked the chicken with peppers, onions, and seasoned salt wrapped up in aluminum foil like i learned from jenn. then i made some sweet potato fries to go with it all.

updated: next time i’ll put lemon juice on the chicken as well and really douse it in the seasoned salt because it didn’t seem to have much flavor when it was done, but once again it was super juicy well cooked. i was able to add the salt and lemon juice to it post-baking and so it tastes pretty good. the veggies came out as well, altho next time i’ll use the salt instead of the italian herbs. i love the squash, but not sure how i feel about the eggplant just yet.

aside from dieting, my week has consisted of small amounts of work getting into the Girl Scout year, watching Harry Potter movies (i’m currently reading the books for the first time), and working on my scrapbook from 5 years ago – specifically Italy at the moment. I want to get my old europe book done before i go back again.

i had to go to the doctor on weds to meet with a General Surgeon at Kennestone about my gallbladder. I need to have it removed because it has a large gallstone in it. if i don’t get it taken care of, it can become gangrened and necrofy – awesome. next wednesday i have to get an MRI of my abdomen so they can get a good view of my guts. then paul and i both get to have surgeries the same week in august. all this medical stuff is seriously taking a toll on our pocketbook.