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135 whooooooo! That was my revised goal for Dec 18th, so I guess I can try to go a little lower by break. My original goal of 130 is probably still a bit steep, but maybe 133 or 132 would be really awesome!

My weigh-in day is lucky Friday - day after Thanksgiving and I'm down a pound. Yay. I suppose that force-fed thirty minute run yesterday helped. Yay. Single digits to pre-prego weight. Yay.

My healthy, happy family

My beautiful, adventurous daughter

My health

The roof over my head

The food in my belly

The support and kindness from random strangers, like you all!

Okay so Turkey Day went REALLY well.

I ate a little bit of everything but no desserts. I've been having some tummy issues and I really did NOT want any dessert. So that made my life easier.

I did already have a plate of leftovers this morning, though. :-)

Así es la vida.

Brian actually has work off today so we've been making the most of it and enjoying each other and our babe. Really nice.

Maybe even a little less. Stress sucks but it's doing wonders for my body.

Trying to do 100+ crunches at night, and some squats, lunges and push-ups when I'm not too worn out, but the gym has stopped existing for me.

Tea, papers, papers, more tea and more papers today.

Grad school is tough, but I realized yesterday I'm still succeeding at it, and that it isn't impossible. Which is a good feeling. Not much left before Christmas :)

My Pumpkin Chocolate Spiced Pie! I tried a little sliver (as you can see) and it's not award winning in my books so it's going to work. I've decided on a graham cracker crust pumpkin pie with a pecan strussel topping.

And YES! I'm going with the caramel for my chocolate pecan pie. I just can't not.

In my fridge I now have the dough for my pecan pie (which is SO beautiful. The butter was cold and broke up into perfect pieces. It's going to be so flaky and good, I can tell!), my graham cracker crust for the pumpkin, and the pecan strussel for my pumpkin. Oh and that beautiful bread. I've been havin fun today :)

You know food is an art to you when you make something and go "oh my god that's gorgeous!" like I did with my crust. Ha. Okay now off to watch Twilight with Ezra.

Not me, D.  I usually leave him in bed asleep but today for some reason ew were both awake early but I assumed he would stay in bed and try to fall back asleep so I quietly did my 15 mins of waking myself up and preparing myself to get out of bed and into the shower.  So when D comes in with me I think "wow, nice surprise!".  Nope.  He's grumpy as all get out.  Which in turn makes me grumpy because he won't tell me why he's grumpy and proceeds to stomp around all morning while I'm getting ready.  I finally get him to tell me what's wrong and he's mad that I didn't snuggle with him this morning.  I told him I assumed he was going back to sleep and he gets all pissy with me so I gave up and left for work.  Sometimes I remember why I'm not always sad to leave him in bed asleep in the mornings.  Grouch. 

I'm still in the process of changing my name, what a freaking mess that is.  Oh well, it's getting there. 

And I fell down the basement stairs last night.  I'm not sure what happened to tell you the truth.  All I know is I was walking down to get wood and the next thing I knew I was on the floor.  The side of my foot hurts like a bruise but there's nothing there, just sore to the touch and if I put all my weight on it and my knee hurts from landing on it.  So it could have been a lot worse but I have an insane fear of falling down the steps.  I mean I actively think about falling down the stairs almost every time I go down them and as I was falling last night I remember thinking "I wasn't thinking about falling".  Weird. 

Trying to shake this bad mood today, cookies would help. 

How do you talk to a 9 year old about the fact that her friend's father just shot and killed her friend's mother's boyfriend and is now on the run from the law?

Happy Turkey Week everyone!  I'm SO excited for this year!  Dinner on Friday was a huge hit.  I made onion tartlets which turned out really good!  I was experimenting for turkey day and they are a must!  But they take forever to cook so plan accordingly.  Then I made pot luck potatoes (cheesy potatoes) and homemade bread and chicken saltambuca which is a roman dish.  Basically we pounded chicken breasts thin, put on a layer of spinache and parm cheese and rolled them up and cooked them in a frying pan.  D also made some veggie dish with brussel sprouts, beets, carrots and sweet potato with a TON of spices on them and roasted them.  Too many spices for me but others seemed to enjoy them.  So after a ton of bitching from his mother, it ended up being a nice dinner. 

Oh, so with all of this cooking (and cleaning) I didn't have time to set the table.  Usually his mom always offers to help so I left the table setting for her to do.  Well isn't this the ONE time she doesnt offer to help!!  She sat on the couch like a bump on a log and didn't help with anything!  Maybe it's just because it was her b-day dinner but she didn't seem to have any interest in what we were doing at all.  So luckily BIL helped set the table and get everyone's drinks. 

Saturday was spent by the fire cleaning the kitchen and relaxing and folding laundry.  Then I got the genius idea to have a melting pot dinner!  We started with cheese fondue with carrots, celery, homemade bread and apple dippers.  Then onto mojo broth with filet mignon, pork chop, chicken, potatoes, broccoli and mushroom dippers.  Then dessert was pb chocolate with strawberries, rice crispie treats, banana, marshmallows rolled in grahm cracker crumbs and cheesecake dippers.  YUM!  It took like three hours from start to finish.  By the time you cut everything up, mix the cheese/broth/chocolate, clean in between each meal etc, you use a TON of dishes and it's a lot of work!  But it's so fun and we don't have to drive two hours up to the actual restaurant and we can do it in front of a roaring fire in our pj's watching the new Star Trek movie!  SO much better!!

Sunday was spent cleaning and then we went outside and raked leaves for about four hours!  The entire yard is finally done and it looks great!!  But my hands have HUGE blisters on them and my back is killing me!  But it's done!  Then I ran to JCP to get new bras and then to BJ's, Michale's and Target for misc items.  Got back home at 7 to the chili that's been in my crock pot all day smelling up the house!  It was delish! 

Today's menu is cheerios for breakfast, mid-morning snack of chedder rice cakes, salad and chili for lunch and whatever I can figure out for afternoon snack.  Oh and an orange somewhere in there!  I'm SO cold in my office right now!!  I'm not sure how long I can stand this freezing temp in my office!  65* is just rediculous!

Well the scale was up a pound this morning. 137.2. *shrugs* I didn't do anything to actually gain weight. I didn't work out yesterday and ate 1200 cals on the nose. One of which was canned soup at 9pm (canned soup 160 cals, light toast w/ splenda and cinnamon, 1/2 cup double churn vanilla bean ice cream, and popcorn I shared with Ezra). I always get in late from cake class, and that's what I had. Sooo I blame the Progresso and their Lite Zesty Santa Fe Style Chicken soup which contained more than 1K mgs of sodium. My poofy hands prove it :) So plenty of water, some exercise, and I should get the water weight to move. I think it's funny I used to get SO upset over moments like this in the past. Our bodies are like sponges. Considering we are mostly made of water, that extra 16 ounces hanging around is possible from time to time.

And I haven't drank this weekend. This is the longest stretch I can remember in.. well.. a long while. I can't even remember a time where I didn't drink Friday nights. I have caught myself wanting a drink. I ask myself why, and really it's just been so routine when the clock hits a certain time on a certain day, it pops into my head like an email popup. Kind of like when the clock hits noon and you know its lunch time! So I just need to remind myself that it's not apart of my routine anymore, and it totally goes away. I'm VERY VERY surprised how easy this is actually going. I guess when I make up my mind, I just follow through. It's time to get my health back.

Speaking of drugs and health, my dad is out of prison. According to my mom, he wants to be sober and he's tired of getting in trouble and going to jail, prison. Mind you, he's still mentally ill, but if he can stay away from the drugs and get back on his meds, he'll be 10 times better. I asked my mom if he was going to be at christmas dinner, and she told me that he's welcome. :) I'm kind of excited to see a sober dad. I need to give him a call every few days just to check in on him and make sure that he's doing well. I'm my fathers daughter. I take after him a lot more than my mom. He's an all or nothing, he's into extremes, and he's coo-coo in the noggin :) Like me and my little bro bro.

Welp I'm gunna finish up this oatmeal and play in fondant. Probably turn on the heat. Haha the high is 76 today in Phoenix, but I'm freezin! The nights are getting cold.

Happy Saturday!

For those that didn't see it last night:

I think it came out good. It was fun to make. We made roses too, but you wont see those until my final cake in 3 weeks (we take thanksgiving week off). FUNNN with fondant. Don't worry, fondant tastes nasty. Now the devils food with whip cream filling is good. But who can cut that purdy cake?