lulufit's Journal

big pile of dirt
Nov 11 2009 18:36

Today was a pretty good day. I straightened up the house, well, the first floor anyway. I made the kids help in the basement. I don't really know if they cleaned down there or not but they were down there for awhile. Plus, I just stuck the dirty clothes basket from their rooms into the washer so if I actually fold it tonight I'll be caught up with their laundry. My laundry is another story. It feels good to look around and see just a little bit of clutter. Well, a little for us anyways.

I need to wash the kitchen floor but we have a big pile of dirt sitting at the end of our driveway. What does one have to do with the other? Good question. Let me explain it in one word: kids. From the second that dirt was delivered (we need to fix the huge sink hole in our front yard) a couple of dump trucks, little shovels, buckets, toy snakes, lizards, frogs, My Little Ponies and dirty socks instantaneously appeared on top of it. I have swept my floor about three million times since saturday morning. I'm just not going to bother washing it until this weekend when my husband can finish up with the hole and use up all the dirt.

On another note, I am afraid that I am not losing weight this week. I keep stepping on the scale and not seeing it move. Worse yet, it looks like it might have moved one or two notched in the WRONG direction. Sucks because I am working out more. Maybe I need to eat a little more. We'll see. I know that I am fifteen pounds closer to my goal, but it just sucks that it has to take so long. I just keep telling myself that by my birthday in July I should be somewhat near my goal. That would mean that I need to lose thirty more pounds in the next eight months. I hope I can do it.