We had salad and grilled chicken last night for dinner. no picture, but it was good.
So I have been fighting with a stupid company the last three weeks. Anyway, I was dumb enough to click on a survey, which I thought at the time was from CVS marketing. It says, answer these few questions for a $50 gift card!!! BIG MISTAKE! Oh, so I answered the few questions about how many times do I shop at their store, do I fill perscriptions and stuff like that. And then at the end, it says, congratulations you have $50 to spend, you can select from these products, which ranged from diet pills, magazines, health and fitness products and all you have to do is pay shipping and handling. OK. so I select my products, which are free, and then I pay $9.97 for shipping and handiling.
So my surprise when I see a charge for $29.99 on my credit card. WTF??? So I call and the cusotmer service representative tells me I paid for a subscription, oh no I didn't, I don't want the subscrption, please cancel it. So they canceleed it...but I did not get my $29.99 back, I just paid for the first month and then it will cancel. Again WTF!!! Already mad. So imagine my surprise when I have another charge for $87.99, this really pisses me off. So I call back and tell them, I did not authorize a charge to my credit card, I did not receive any merchandise, nor did I order anything. I demanded that they reimburse my card. And still they try to sell me crap. I was furious and cussed and called the man everything I could think of...He told me I should be professional. BE professional??? What the hell? If your scamming @ss company was professional I wouldn't be making this phone call. Anyway, I got that $87.99 back - reimbursed to my card.
SO last night another charge for $89.99 WTF. Again with the arguing and name calling - I did not order anything, I told them they need to delete my account, if another charge shows up on my credit card, they would be hearing from my lawyer. OMG.
I then sent CVS a letter today demanding they cut all ties with this survey company who is scamming their customers. What a freaking crock of crap they have going on. I then called my bank and cancelled my credit card. J@ckholes!!
We have the girl tonight - menu should be left over grilled chicken and brocolli - hopefully DH gets around and puts it together.
He has been running around for me today getting Steve's nails clipped and shopping for my mother's Christmas present.
Made an error at work - I forgot to submit a few bills for payment - will show up as late. Not happy! must have been a pretty bad day.
So here's to better days - I was able to put on and wear my wedding rings today. First time in a few years! I did end up taking of the engagement ring because wearing both was still a little tight, but I could wear the wedding band.
Have a great evening! IP
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
I"m amazed at how fast the day goes when I'm not working.
I left work early on Wednesday. DH and the girl picked up KFC. I had chicken fingers and biscuits.
Thursday DH and I had a few things; cabbage and bacon, honey baked turkey. We cooked all day though. I made cranberry salad, watergate salad and dressing. DH made corn casserole and cabbage and bacon. We only ate a few of what we cooked.
Friday DH and I went to Sandusky to get my iced coffee and was so disappointed. They were out. We then tried to go to another store and we couldn't even find a parking place. Once we did, there were no carts and people were in line all the way through the store, it was difficult to look and then we would have spent hours in line, so we left. It was a bust! A wasted trip. We did get the girl. And ate some of the things we cooked on Thursday. DH and I vacuumed the leaves out of the yard and piled about twelve grass catchers full out to the curb; luckily they were picked up on Saturday so they didn't blow all over the place.
Saturday we tried to go shopping again. The girl had to have her eyebrows waxed and we stopped by Bath and Body Works for some presents. We went to a few other stores and picked up some more gifts. We took DH home and then the girl and I went to Wal-mart and the library. I made her read to me for a while. I just don't thnk she is going to get her book read this quarter. Either it is too hard or she just isn't interested.
Sunday I did the laundry and we all just sat around the house, which in itself was satisfying in itself. We ate left overs all weekend. And I am please I only gained a pound.
Monday - the joy of having a job. DH was offered a job but hasn't decided on whether or not he will take it, he is waiting on one more business; hoping they extend an offer as well. Looking for new insurance...is awful! I cyber shopped today - hopefully the girl is all finished for her birthday. We do have most of the Christmas shopping done as well. I think I still need a few things for my son. DH is nosy and found out all his gifts.
Still haven't heard if my son is coming up from Georgia, his plans will make my plans.
Have a great evening!
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
Sounds like you made some shopping attempts during the time off. In the past I have, this time I really concentrated on relaxing. And boy did it suit me :)
Either way, it sounds like you had some lovely days off...now back to work :) You cot things done and you were active. God for you during the days off...it doesn't sound like you were too rushed, thankfully.
I learn more and more about myself everyday. And I have now come to the conclusion that I have an addiction and will try to conquer that. Usually I am playing candy crush. I am on level 2,856. I started with the hopes of finishing the game, but the people keep adding to the game, so it is a useless venture. I will never, never beat the game. So I must stop this game playing. I don't spend money on it, but I win free lives and can get up to 6 hours of free life and I will play and play and play until my phone dies or I run out of time. This is a problem. So the girl was downloading games and we have it set up to download onto our phones as well, so we can see what she is downloading, anyway, this repixel app was downloaded and I looked at it and now OMG, for the last three nights I have sat for three and four hours and colored by the numbers on this stupid thing. I just feel I cannot stop until the picture is complete, I can't just walk away after doing one color, I have to complete all 27 colors. Again, three and four hours each night...this is a problem!! Too bad I don't get obsessive over my weight loss.
I will just have to delete those things from my phone and do something constructive and this does not include TV watching.
Not exactly sure when we will be eating Thanksgiving dinner, still TBD.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Be thankful.
IP
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
I don't remember the weekend, it went by so fast.
Friday night, I get home and DH had cooked hotdogs we bought at the butcher store last week. They were pretty good. I went to sleep when he did. But I only slept for about 45 minutes. I got up and did a few things around the house.
Saturday - I go shopping - we started off at a craft show - but I never find anything here and we were right across the street so we just went shopping. Lots of people out.
B: Fruity Pebbles
L: hotdog from Sam's
D: store bought shepherd's pie - it was delicious
S: slice of pumpkin pie
Sunday - didn't go anywhere or do anything - but laundry
B: cinammon roll
L/D - we ate about 3:00 - pork roast cooked in jeagersnitzel sauce, salad
D: dried mango
Had a call from my Telework case manager, been having a rough month. Matter-of-fact I think November sucks! I told him I will be better. After eating sugar this weekend, I feel like I had a hang over so will get back on eating the right things and logging again.
Have a great week! so glad this is a short week for me at work.
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
At that time, i wasn't eating well or not enough enough and i was bingeing later. i wasn't as prepared as i am now...or mindful.
it may take you a few days till you feel better from the sugar, but you will. then keep making good choices! you will be OK. maybe you are anxious about Thanksgiving.
You only slept 45 minutes the whole night? I hope tonight is better for you...
Just been very busy at work and I haven't taken the time to write in diet diaries. Volunteered to assist with a Safety project that hasn't been updated for over five years and now there is an audit coming. This causes lots of busy work, which I enjoy because the day goes by faster.
I haven't been logging food. I will start this again tomorrow. I get caught up in everything I forget to take time for myself.
I didn't even a plan a menu this week. DH did a good job though.
I don't think anyone is coming over for Thanksgiving, so we are just having a small dinner. In a way I'm glad.
Today my son turns 31. Miss him so much.
Last week when I got my hair colored I was talking about him. When I left the cashier ask me how old I was. I told her I was 50. That just sounded hideous. I realized when I got to my car she was asking to see if I qualified for the senior citizen discount. OMG...I hate getting old.
Still taking the telemove call - because I haven't been logging food, I haven't lost, but haven't gained.
Holiday time and food suck.
I will be a better person tomorrow!
have a great weekend!
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
You are a better person right now, you don't have to wait till tomorrow.
Good job volunteering, i am sure it DOES make the time fly faster at work! Smart, i'd say.
So I spent $90 getting my gray hair covered up and cut. However, this morning I can feel it changing back to gray. I will say this without feeling bad! I hate kids!
The YA is mad at us for making his little sister cry. Whatever! I emailed him and told him why she was crying. Not that I will miss him coming over, but I thought he should know it was nothing we did. Maybe he should be mad at his mom for helping her lie.
We had left over salisbury steak and cabbage for dinner. It was just ok.
B: english muffien, almond butter, iced vnailla latte (only 2 more left)
L: left over pot pie; yogurt, blackberries
S: balanced breaks
D: should be ham & cheese monte cristo again - depends on if DH got the ingredients.
Not a happy camper today about the kids. Will probably deal with that lt later today.
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
Friday the girl text me at 6:30 telling me she wasn't going to school, because her mother had a mild heart attack and was getting a stent put in. Her grandma already called her off. I tell her I'm sorry to hear about your mom, however, if you still want to go to school, let me know and i will come and take you. She said NO. Of course she did. So all day I'm asking myself what is she doing to help her mother? absolutely nothing! She missed school because her grandma didn't want to take her.
I went to get my gray covered up and get my hair cut and then DH and I went to do some Chrsimtas shopping. We ended up eating a late lunch at a pub. I had a pulled pork sandwich. We got the girl a sandwich for dinner. We ordered her a cookie bouquet for her birthday. We picked her up and went home. She ate and we just messed around the rest of the night.
Saturday when DH gets home, we go to a few craft shows and didn't really buy anything. At one craft show they gave us a raffle ticket and instead of looking at what was for sale I was more interested to see if my raffle ticket was at any of the vendor tables...it wasn't.
We get home and I make a chicken pot pie that turned out fabulously! I should have taken a picture of it...not sure why I stopped that, but I will start again. DH went to bed and the girl talked. I watched football and she played and talked. She complained about her phone for two days.
Sunday the girl and DH go grocery shopping, I do laundry. I even broke down and did the girls. I told her "thank you" goes a long way. DH and I decided to let her use his old Iphone 5 so she would stop complaining about her phone. I told her we are not paying for something that she would be restricted from using to talk to her dad by her mother and step-dad. she understands and said she would use it just on Wi-FI then. DH made salisbury steak, mashed potatoes and salad.
I didn't eat a lot over the weekend, but I did not eat the right foods either, so I ended up gaining 2.8 pounds. I will get this back off.
Work will be crazy the next week or so, we have a safety compliance audit and annual inventory that I will be deeply involved in, not to meniton my regular duties.
I will get back on track...
And as far as I'm concerned....Thanksgiving still comes, Kayla Birthday comes and then I'll worry about Christmas.
Have a great night! IP
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
2.8lb gain may also be due to salt / water weight.
have a good eve and stay happy!
I need more potassium.
I may also try to lessen my expensive habit of kombucha drinking...and use apple cider vinegar in seltzer again or actually learn to poop after work or something...!
DH made a fantastic apricot roasted chicken for dinner, even the girl ate it. Speaking of the girl. She was a bit standoffish, which I'm OK with. As I watched her squirm around and fume and sigh and mumble trying to do her homework, I offered to help and she kinda thawed out. We hung out with DH and then she and I left to go to a craft class at the library. She painted light switch plates for her room; I sent postcards. Her mother picked her up at the library.
I'm glad to be off work tomorrow; just feel really tired and run down. DH and I have planned some Christmas shopping tomorrow and then we have the girl this weekend. I also got tickets to see Radium Girls - a play about girls who painted watch dials to glow with radium and then got sick doing their job. Well if we don't like it, we can always leave early.
Saturday we are going to a craft show and that is about it. There is a hike on the calendar but BCGG's weather is supposed to move in sometime this weekend. I'm ready for it!
B: oatmeal scone; iced vanilla latte
S: yogurt, blueberries
L: sandwhich with baked chicken
S: balanced breaks
D: I'm not sure - I think I had chicken and dumplings but I think DH has been making whatever he wants.
So, I will try to take a few minutes to post over the weekend.
Have a great Thursday!
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
The first 82 days of my telemove session ended Monday. The 2nd one started yesterday. I lost about 18 pounds. My goal was to get to 299 so I can hopefully get that done in the next 82 days. I still feel I haven't given it my best effort. This I will have to work on.
Still feeling blue, not sure why, I can't change the how other people act, just my reactions to it...so I will work on this. My DH got p!ssy because I told him I didn't think he was telling me was funny and he was just laughing like no tomorrow - must be male humor or something.
Work is crazy with a tornado outbreak Sunday - people are still scrambling around.
B: oatmeal scone, vanilla iced latte
L: left over mac& cheese; yogurt
S: balanced breaks
D: not sure some kind of chicken
We have the girl tonight - we are going to the library for a craft thing, her mom is supposed to pick her up there.
Will continue to work on myself. Take care ladies. iP
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
Good of you to get thru already 82 days. That is a lot, almost 3 months! Congrats on losing 18 pounds – that’s also a LOT! Great job.
I see you eat a lot of cheese – I think that if you can forgo cheese some days of the week, that you may have an easier time losing weight. Cheese packs in a TON of calories per ounce, so if you can do without it, you’ll save yourself a ton of calories. That’s particularly the reason that I don’t eat MOST types of cheese, although cream cheese is a staple and I do use it on wraps in the mornings sometimes. But the wrap is low cal and the smoked fish that I put on the wrap I also low cal, so the cheese is balanced out…anyways…moving on!...
You cannot be responsible for other’s bad actions…might as well turn your “frown upside down!”…I heard a teenage (cute funny boy) say that to one of his friends at McDonalds earlier this week and I thought it was pretty funny. I’ve heard it before and just thought of it now when you mention you are feeling blue. Listen, you may as well just smile…
I am so sorry to hear of the Tornado Outbreak and I hope everyone’s life gets back to normal REALLY SOON. That’s so frustrating, I can imagine…I am glad it doesn’t sound like it reached you.
Saturday - I tried to get up but OMG i was just so tired. When DH got home we went on a few errands. We were going to a Holiday craft show but it was only on Friday. So we just drove around and ran into a local butcher block. They cook gourmet sausages from noon-4 with the hopes of getting people to buy there sausage. It works.
We sampled about six different sausages, four of them were just ok, very spicey. Two we bought - a maple bacon sausage and another type of sausage with herbs that tasted nice.
Then we DH finally realized where we were we stopped at a Spudnut Doughnut shop. They use a potatoe flour to make their doughnuts. They were delicious. We bought 1/2 dozen and took them home. Not that we needed them, but they were so good.
Once we got home, we mowed the front and back yard - hopefully for the last time. I have never had to mow grass in the month of November...ever!
DH went to bed and I settled in for FOOTBALL! Sooners had me on the edge of my seat, but they pulled out the victory.
Had almost 2375 calories - stupid doughnuts!
SUNDAY - again - tried to sleep with the time change - slept better but didn't seem to get enough. DH got home and we went shopping. I prefer to let him and the girl do it, but I decided to go a long. - walked a lot
B: English muffin
L: Slice of pizza
D: bacon, mac & cheese and cabbage
Laundry - without the girls - I seemed to finish 2 hours early, but maybe because I started sooner.
MONDAY - I was wide awake at 3:00, I finally got back to sleep and was up at 5:00. I opted not to exercise instead took an extra long shower and then I meditated. This was wonderful and may do this again.
Once I got to work DH texted me to tell me the YA did in fact trade the car off, so I called the insurance agent and canceled the insurance. I am not paying for a car he doesn't have any more. Saves me $125 a month. And that ungrateful thing can deal with his own insurance...and car payment. He still owes me $250 - I doubt I will ever see this. I was just going to give him the payment book for Christmas so I will just be out $100. He's a rat/snake/whatever!
Other than that - my office has been extremely busy, apparently there was bad weather I was not aware of....and they have been out doing storm surveys all day along with the media calls - the office as been quite more busy than usual.
B: english muffin w/almond butter; iced vanilla latte
L: left over mac n cheese
S: yogurt, blueberries morning - balanced breaks AM
D: I think London broil and roasted vegetables - depends on what time DH gets back from his doctor's appointment.
I can't wait until Friday - day off!
Progress as of today: 17.9 lbs lost so far, only 93.7 lbs to go!
Saturday I was tired too….but HAD to get up for a class…and was promptly tired after it, but still did a few things….and then I seriously got up to do laundry Sunday after which I just plain fell back to sleep again, till 3pm! I guess we all need sleep sometimes! Haha. Of course we do!
The herbed sausage sounds really nice. Who doesn’t like a good sausage!? I sure do. I wish they weren’t all so fatty! But man, they are good. I do eat them every so often. A nice change of pace. And some are actually lighter varieties in the stores. I was buying chicken sausages quite a bit not too long ago – I think it was last year where I was eating them pretty often – bringing them as part of my lunch at work with veggies. And some kinda grain, prob chips lol, on the side.
That’s so funny with your potato flour donuts. In the Jewish religion, there’s a week or so in the Springtime called Passover holiday and we can only eat cakes and pastries and food made of potato flour! We cannot eat anything with yeast that makes dough rise…so when you are writing about potato flour, it only makes me think of that holiday right away…bc that’s how I think of potato flour! Lol….no offense just something funny that came to my mind! Oh, 2375 calories – don’t worry about it :--P…it’s good to have some ups and downs…you’ll be OK!
Oh man how nice…the bacon, mac and cheese and cabbage is a GREAT mix! I’d mix that all together…eating some of that bacon and mac and cheese with cabbage any day…very cool and tasty and a way for it all to be a bit more filling!
I hope you got all your laundry done!
But I am glad to hear he traded the car or whatever…it’s good to see he had carried thru with his plans. Having a car and bills is so expensive. It’s so hard for young people. I hope that one day he does get back on track in the best of ways. I do wish the best for all…I do. :---)
You know, my office seems busy all of a sudden also. … and busy for no good reason though. Everyone is here on Monday. That’s for sure..Even one of the girls I despise is back from maternity leave…I am sorry I have to see her face!
Ohhh, I love those roasted veggies. I need to start cooking them now that it’s getting cooler out! Tonight I will run, in the dark.
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Beautiful wedding rings, so glad you can wear them! they are so pretty.
scammers are scammers, sounds like overall a lot of money taken from you. i hope you called your credit card too, saying you don't authorize those charges from that company.
dinner brocc and chick with girlie sound GOOD!
Donkey on 11/29/2017:
Isn't it a wonderful feeling to be able to wear your rings again? :-) Congratulations!!!
happy-1 on 12/06/2017:
Aaaaaaw! Pretty!!!!!