Gradituesday P, and a diet update.

Here are some of the thing that came to mind as I thought about things I'm grateful for today...

Paul – My kind friend who has supported me since I began my journey here.

Playtime – This is the best. To have the time, the privacy, the desire, the energy and all the toys to go with it makes playtime for TTWD the very best.

Pancakes – I haven’t had them in a while and I’ve been thinking about them later. Blueberry would be the best.

Pals – I love my internet pals! I have loved talking to folks our here for 3 years now. I have friends in my real life of course and I see them often, but I am most comfortable with my pals here.


Picnic – we have wonderful picnics in our mountains each summer. Sometimes we go up for breakfast, there is nothing like eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, donuts and muffins eaten in the crisp cool of a mountain morning. And if we stay long enough we make hot dogs for lunch!


Pool – I love our pool. I am not in it all that much but I love looking at it and sitting around it with friends at a gathering. I am hoping to have some very special friends sitting around it this summer. Of course when Nick and I do get in it late at night we don’t have to worry about what we will wear.


Popcorn – another snack that I really like. I just wish I liked it without the butter and extra salt.


Phone – My phone is my constant companion. For something none of us had or ever thought we wanted as little as 10 years ago it has become indispensable to me. I can go anywhere, do anything and still know that Nick and the kids (where ever they may be on the planet) can get in touch with me if they need me. As a mother especially that is a great comfort.





On to the diet. As Nick predicted this wasn’t a good week. I have gained 3 pounds in two weeks. Not the best news. I know what’s going on but stopping the slide it hard.

I didn’t share my weight with Nick before he left Friday. And I thought we would just let it slide one more week but this morning I jumped on the scale for a quick check. As Nick came in the bathroom I quickly hit the clear button, not that it did me any good. Nick asked me what I weighed. When I told him he just nodded and bent me over the counter. He talked as he spanked. He said we had both had a little vacation but vacation was over now and it was time go get back to work.

It was just a start but I truly felt better all day – and it was a rough day. But I felt centered and connected to Nick. Part of it was the spanking and part of it was taking the time to write Nick what I have been feeling lately. Getting it all out helped. It wasn’t anything major, it was mostly rambling, but I just hadn’t felt really close lately and writing helped.

I was careful with what I ate today and I made it to the gym. I’m hoping I can get back in the groove quickly. I have a feeling Nick that is going to insist on it!

Graditusday

It's Tuesday again and I have many things I am grateful for. I am determined this time around not to look in the dictionary. So I am just pulling from my head. I'm bound to miss some good ones this way. But here goes.




Mom – I had the best in the world! I enjoyed spending time with her when I was little and when I was grown. I also really, really enjoy being a mom.

Men – now they are the strangest things. Extremely hard to understand. Terrible difficult to train. But darn they sure do make life interesting and exciting. I wouldn’t want to do without mine.

Mthc – my friend, one of my triplets. I am so grateful that I met both her and David. They are very special!

Memories – I have contact with many older people. Many can’t tell you what they had for breakfast or whether or not they saw you yesterday. But many do hold on to their oldest memories. I have wonderful memories in my life already. Sometimes I love to just sit and sift through them.

Mind – mine may go off in strange directions occasionally but I am glad I have what’s left of it.

Money – I have never been money hungry. If money had been my greatest desire I wouldn’t have gone into education. But in light of today’s economy I am grateful for what we have.

Mail – E or snail, I do love my mail.

Marriage – I am a fan of marriage. I know it’s not for everyone but I am so happy in my marriage. We have some high expectations to live up to. Mom and Dad were married for 55 years and Nick’s folks working on 62 years. I hope we can beat them.

Diet update

On the diet front I did pretty well this week. I was down .8 pounds and it was a new low. Cross your fingers that I can maintain that for a week. Anytime I see a new low I don’t really believe it for a week or so.

I went out clothes shopping this weekend. The largest size pants I bought before I started the diet were 24’s. Now I am wearing mostly 16 and since women’s sizes are so very screwed up I can sometimes find a 14 that fits nicely. Saturday while I was shopping I tried on a 14 that was too big. Just for the fun of it I tried on a 12. I could get them buttoned and zipped (I looked like a stuffed sausage, but still)!!! Okay this goes to point out the stupidity of how women’s pants are sized rather that my superb dieting skills but I still nearly bought them just to be able to leave the tag on and show it off!

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Husband – I can’t think of anything I am more grateful for than my husband. My kids rank up there nearly as high but without Nick I wouldn't have them. Some day the kids will grow up and have spouses of their own. But my husband - I really believe him when he promised ‘so long as we both shall live’.

Hands – especially Nick’s hands. I love it when he will reach over and take my hand during church. I love it when I crawl in bed and he runs his hands all over my body and warms my shoulders when they are cold. Then, of course, there’s the spankings. We have wonderful toys but I love him to use his hand when he spanks me. As my pain threshold seems to be low my butt and his hand are about even in what we can give and take.













Hyacinth – my favorite flowers. The smell of hyacinth is the smell of spring itself!




Health – anyone that can say they have their health has everything.





Hamburger – a thick, juicy, medium rare burger with bacon, cheese melting down the sides. On a bun lightly toasted bun with ketchup and mayonnaise, maybe some crispy fries on the side and while I’m at it I’m thinking maybe a strawberry shake.




And please let us not forget the hard on!! Sorry no picture.

Diet Update

On the diet front I stayed exactly the same this week but I have higher hopes for this week since it has already gone done just a little since Friday. I thought I might be up slightly because Mollie and I at out that Thursday night but I held on. My biggest problem each week is going to eat at Nick’s mom’s for Sunday lunch. I love her cooking! And even after lunch is over and we are cleaning up there are little yeast rolls to nibble on, several different desserts to neaten up the edges! Even the cold bacon left over from breakfast is delicious when it’s at her house. It’s just hard to control myself. So cross your fingers for me and let’s see if I can’t get a down ward spiral going again.




And one more thing - stolen right off my twins site are the answers to the sex toy/kitchen gadgets...

Just because a few of you asked..................

This is a grill press. It is grooved and used with a similarly grooved square grill pan. It's awesome for grilling meats on the stove top but even better for making panini sandwiches. My favorite is a bbq chicken sandwich with roasted red peppers and cheese on it.

This lovely number is a BBQ Grill Basket. I've used it for cooking Tilapia. It holds 3 fillets. Perfect. Two for Scott and one for me. I have also used it for grilling veggies. Asparagus is PERFECT in it!


This is a meat tenderizer. Get your minds out of the friggin' gutter. Geeze.
Citrus juicer. I mean is that not obvious?

Garlic press. I gotta tell you when my daughter showed me how this worked I had to get one. You don't have to peel the garlic. Just pop a clove in. Squeeze. Out pops finely diced garlic pieces minus the skin which is left inside the press... completely intact and easily pulled out. How the heck does that happen?


Do you folks NOT know a cookie dough scoop when you see one?
Although this LOOKS like one of those apple thingies it's actually much bigger and used for pineapples. Look close it only has the dividers to do 4 pieces. It removes the tough outer rind or whatever it is, the core, and then leaves you with 4 chunks that are easy to slice and/or chunk.

Here's another little gem which I'm sure sent PK and others into the mind gutter. No, it's not sexual. No, I didn't add it in here to throw you off. It's a "tart shaper" and is used for making those little mini pecan tarts and other similarly shaped cookies. Saves you from having to press them with your fingers. Spray it with Pam and there you go. Works GREAT.


This can be used to grate spices, cheese, whatever....

This little item is for me and the grandbaby. The day is coming when I know she'll appreciate it. I already love it. It's a sealer/crust remover. You press down on a sandwich and ta-da. The crust comes off and you have a neatly sealed pocket sandwich. Great for PB&J.

This will zest your fruit... citrus, that is.


And last but not least this is a crinkle cutter. It's great for veggies, fries, cheese. I've had it for years and years and it still works as good as new.

I do LOVE Pampered Chef Products.

Gradituesday

Happy E Day everyone. Here is my list…

Email – oh the joy of keeping up with friends, making new one, giving and getting support, sympathy, understanding, teasing, tormenting, information, love…

Electricity – now this is important. It runs everything – lights, heat, AC, fans, TVs, stove, refrigerator, microwave, it charges cell phones, ipods, computers, and of course it runs Hitachi magic wands…

Elbow – now I couldn’t type with out them.

Elections – I especially liked this last one. I am proud to live in a country that manages to have elections and peaceful transfers of power for over 200 years.

Exercise – I don’t love it but it helps.

Eating – Love it! So much better than exercising but they do need to go hand in hand.

Excuses – I like that I can make them to Nick when I don’t do something he wants. I like it even better when he ignore the excuses.

Elizabeth – we have tons of them in the family.

Ears – These are very important. Being hard of hearing sucks, I have always had at least one person in my close family that has trouble hearing – and Nick and I even have a few problems. So good ears are a blessing. And I am glad that the Wildchild’s ear is healing.




Diet Update:

Not much to tell this time. I gained .6 pounds, probably – you know what my scales are like. Several have mentioned that I might need a new battery. But Nick and Mollie don’t see the fluctuations that I do.

Nick has made a few comments but he hasn’t done anything so far. Don’t know if he will or not. Don’t even know what I want him to do I just want to get off this plateau I have been on forever.


Update: Mollie spent the night with a friend and when I got out of the shower Nick joined me in the bathroom with the paddle - thankfully not the hair brush. It wasn't the hardest spanking I have ever gotten but it was stinging enough to get my attention about what I am eating this week. I didn't do so well on my snow day - snow days always make me want to eat! I am trying something different on the diet front this week I'll let you know how it's working next Tuesday.

Oh and if you are interested Cassie has a new post.