AuntTeeTee

There is nothing that can drag you out of a slump like weight loss!!

I LOST 4 LBS THIS WEEK!!! I’m doing my happy dance! hehehehe

Sabian is much better. Her medicine is working great! poor thing has been so bored. She is ready to get back to school.

Ariel is just heavy..I dont know how else to put that. She is a little over 30 weeks pregnant….tired..grumpy…lol..So she is getting some babying from me too.

Hubby is still being an a**hole. It isnt his job. He is being put back in the pre-fabrication position that makes a great deal of money,so he is elated. I dont understand whats going  on. He gets mad at me if I stay  up late with my daughters on my days off. It seems like everything I do is wrong. *sighs* but I am not going to let him drag me down this weekend. Its my first weekend off in 3 weeks and I am going to enjoy it!!!

I tried calling Sabian’s doctor to get her an appt for an hour & a half & never got to talk to anybody. Lucky me, working at the hospital has its advantages. I took her into my ER and had her seen. Unfortunately she has the shingles. I am sure most of you know what this is. When you have the chicken pox as a child, as it heals, the virus travels down your nerves to the nerve root and stays there. Most of the time it lies dormant and you would never know. However if it comes back, it comes back as shingles. Looking at it, it seems way worse than any chicken pox case I have ever seen. At least with the chicken pox its spots here & there. The shingles are blisters on top of blisters in huge sections. She has it all up her left arm, under her arm pit and on the left hand side of her back. According to the doctor, shingles typically infect people over 50 years old. My poor 13 year old is the exception. She has been in so much pain because it is right at the nerve roots. She is on 2 medications plus me putting calamine lotion on all of it. She is out of school for the entire week because she is contagious. We are keeping her away from her sister. The doctor said he preferred that Ariel go stay with a grandparent or something but we cant do that right now because my mom & step dad are fighting alot. So we have to seriously limit the girls contact with each other. Its been exhausting.

My hubby & I have done nothing but fight for days. Right now he thinks nothing I do is right..nothing I make for dinner is good enough..blah blah blah….So I have been sleeping on the couch.

Right now I am depressed but trying to make it through.

Even though I have exercised more this week, I maintained. Which is fine with me. I feel good & thats whats important to me.

Its been raining for 2 days now and we have 3 more days in our forecast. Lovely Texas weather. We did not get a hurricane this year, thank God, so I expected something in its place. Hence all the rain. My grass is growing like wild fire. I just wish it grew everywhere and not just in spots. lol

My hubby has been gone since around 1pm friday. He asked that they put him on the drivers list to deliver trailers, so he could make some more money.  Its been strange because we havent really been apart in 15 years. He is beyond ready to be home. He drove straight to Arkansas and delivered the trailer a little after midnight Saturday morning. Thankfully his dad lives there and was able to guide him by phone to his house. He slept some & then his dad wanted him to stay. He left this morning at 7:30 and should be home sometime around 3ish.

Ariel is doing well..just getting bigger everyday & looking forward to her baby shower

Sabian isnt feeling real well. I am taking her into the doctor tomorrow. I am not quite sure whats going on,but I would rather be safe than have her get worse. She has some kind of rash that is spreading. I have put caladryl on it over and over but I dont think its helping. On top of that, if you touch her left arm at all, she screams. She hasn’t done anything to break it though. So we will see. It just worries me.

Yes, I am abstaining from any bad food. Today there are all kinds of yummy looking & yummy smelling baked goods about the hospital. Grrrr my favs! But I will not give in. I shall have something that isnt going to add to my poundage. lol

Well I am off to read some more blogs! HAVE A WONDERFUL SUNDAY!

Sorry I havent been around the past couple of days. My off days I spend alot of my time exercising & running errands. Soooooooo news on the vehicle front….after much wrangling, we finally got a truck!! HEHEHEHE We managed to get both my car & my hubby’s truck traded in on a brand new 2010 Toyota Double cab Tundra. Guess who gets to drive that bad boy?! Little ol me!! YEAHHH! I love it! love that new car smell and the shininess! That was a load off my back. We are paying a little more for this truck than other one BUT still coming out wayyyyyyy ahead with giving 2 cars back & getting one.

Been planning the baby shower. I invited several people from work because they all know my daughter & want to bring gifts. Isnt that the sweetest?! We are making her baby shower into more of a party because she wants her granddaddy, her uncles & male cousins to join in the fun. I think its better because we can laugh at the men trying to play baby shower games like who can put on a diaper faster…giving them weird names like “hey Bob, today your name is Baby Butt paste”..lol Should be a blast!

I am going to try & get to everyone’s blogs! have a great day

Well we went into the car dealership. We filled out all the paperwork and they said it would be this morning before they knew anything. Our salesman (awesome guy) said that they would have to make several phone calls back & forth to Toyota to finally make a deal and explain our situation. I faxed in all the requested check stubs & stuff this morning. So my hubby gets a phone call about 1pm today and sure they can make a deal……IF we put down $500 and it will raise our payment from $790 a month to $950. I actually started laughing when he told me. Are these people stupid?! So we are giving back my car. We simply dont have the money to keep my car & my hubby’s truck.

Now to the work thing…well he got to work last week. This week he hasnt worked a day yet. :(  He has called in several times to the foreman only to be told there is nothing to do. So he finally called the owner….he says everyone worked today. They each built one trailer and went home. WHAT?! So my hubby told the owner he NEEDS some work. Tomorrow he goes back to work! yeahhh I guess sometimes you really do have to cut out the middle man!

Somehow everything will work out. Hubby & I are going to try private lenders and our bank to see if they will refinance his truck. Its just crazy. The interest we are being charged is outrageous!

On a good note..I am doing well with my challenge and exercise. Tonight is BL & I cannot tell you how much that show motivates me. I love it.

I guess I am off. I have about 30 minutes left here at work. Have a good night!

…Of work and then I get a day off. My schedule is so messed up right now. One lady is leaving..so they hired another already..problem is, she is under a very strict custody agreement with her ex who has custody of the kids. So they changed my entire schedule to accommodate the new lady. Granted I agreed to it because what else was I supposed to do?! So tomorrow I am off. Then I work Tuesday. Off Wednesday & Thursday.Then back to work Fri-Sun again. 2 weekends in a row sucks.

We are making a deal with the dealership we bought both of our cars from. Our salesman said instead of bringing my car back, how about we trade in both our vehicles for one new one. hmmm I didn’t know you could do that. So tomorrow we are supposed to meet with him & see what kind of deal they can work out for us. Keep your fingers crossed that it works. From what he said, we could get another vehicle but with lower payments than what we have been paying. YEAHHH!

My kids are fighting today..driving me nuts…I dont know why when their daddy is at home, they have to call me umpteen times! lol

Have a good Sunday all

I love my scale. We only visit once a week,but depending on his number, we may not be friends until the next Saturday. lol This Saturday he & I..were buds!!

I lost 2.5 lbs this week. yeahhhhh! I kinda got discouraged when I went to the doctor earlier in the week because I had only lost like 4 ounces. ugh…better than nothing but definitely frustrating. Then I hop on my friend & sometimes foe, the scale,before work this morning. AND PRESTO…2.5 lbs that said bye bye.I am very happy with that. I notice when I lose, I suddenly see that glorious light at the end of the tunnel of weight loss. Yet I have to remember that weight loss should be a gradual process so I dont gain it back.

Last night hubby & I headed to Home Depot to buy a new air conditioner. It was $431, but comes with a 5 year warranty for absolutely anything minus someone taking a sledge hammer to it. Thank God we had some money in savings. I sat down & reworked our budget minus one car & the extra insurance that went with it. It saves us a little over $600 a month. We used to go grocery shopping once every 2 weeks and I found a way to go once a week.  It will work out provided they keep hubby building trailers.

Both of my kiddos are doing good. Sabian still likes school for the most part.One or 2 teachers she frowns at,but thats kids right. lol Ariel is now in her 3rd trimester. She has about 11 weeks left. Can we say excited?!

I guess I am gonna get back to work but I will get around to everyone’s pages in a few. HAVE A GREAT SATURDAY!

Not really! I had a doctor’s appt yesterday. He went ahead & did some more lab work,but also changed my thyroid meds again. I am now taking:

5am- 200 mg Synthyroid & 25 mg Cytomel

10am- 50 mg of Cytomel

3pm-50 mg of Cytomel

Hubby had work yesterday & the day before. They told him to go ahead & come into work today but as of last night, they didnt have anything for him to build. So he went in today and I assuming they found him something because he didnt come back to the house. We decided to get rid of the newest car..mine. We are still kinda arguing about that because his truck note is $790 a month and my car is $497. He insists that we have to have a truck so whatever. How we will come up with that much is beyond me. but he is the man and thinks he knows all so I will let that go. lol

You ever heard the expression “when it rains, its pours”? Well in my house this month, it is. Our air conditioner went out last night. For the past couple of nights it didnt matter. We have been enjoying some low 60s high 50s weather overnight and low temps during the day. NOT TODAY! it will be back up to 85 by this afternoon. So windows open and pray for some breeze!

I am supposed to be at work today. I took the day off. Let my youngest stay home. I know probably not the best parenting but we are all stressed right now. Both of the girls are still asleep and its 11 already. I figure they deserve it.

On the weight loss front, I have been good. Got in my exercise and good food

Yesterday:

120 minutes on the treadmill

120 oz water

Breakfast: egg white omelette with red peppers and onions

Lunch: veggie burger; a few baked chips and a pickle

Dinner: Roasted chicken; Green beans, red potato and salad

Today so far I have just had a glass of skim milk, water and my meds.

Gotta get a list together and go grocery shopping. Not sure how to budget for less money but we will figure that one out too.

Sorry for not getting to everyone’s blogs but I am headed there now

HAVE AN AWESOME DAY & WEEKEND

Well my hubby is back at work today. He is not in the same job though. He called the shop foreman yesterday asking if there was ANYTHING he could do at the shop to make some money. The foreman put him to work today building trailers. We have no idea how money he will make or how long it will last but at least it is something for him to do right now. He will be working tomorrow as well. He was very happy to get to work. We are still going to make some changes because obviously this is a WAKE UP call that unemployment can strike anywhere & with anyone. He did find out that they lied to him though. When he got to work today, EVERYONE was back at work. So he was like huh?!..he started asking around and found out that they were never out of trailers to build. Its just that the owner is a total snake in the grass & does not know how to handle anything properly.

His mood is much better. He hasnt built trailers in a long time though and pulled some rib muscles. The upside to it all is that he builds alot of muscle when he builds. We are both looking forward to that. LOL

I want to thank all of you for helping me yesterday and for the past few days. I have never had so much support in my life and IT IS AWESOME! You are all friggin terrific and I am very happy to have you.

Ok so I figured I better start keeping some kind of log on how I eat. I was keeping a written journal but somehow I always forgot it. But if I am going to blog everyday, then perhaps that will help. I didnt do so well with the eating today but I did get in plenty of exercise & water.

120 minutes broken up into 4 segments on the treadmill

100 oz of water

Breakfast: scrambled eggs and toast

Lunch: Chicken Sandwich with lettuce on a wheat bun; fries…ugh…All from Burger King…yuck. Chicken is better than  greasy burger but I ate all those darn fries.

Dinner I havent actually gotten to just yet. Hubby is on the way home so I will figure out what to make.

Biggest Loser: I am enjoyed the show last night. Many times over I got teary eyed. Is it just me or are Bob & Jillian even meaner this season?

Anyway..I am off to the kitchen. I will be back in a bit to catch up on blogs.

Ok so yesterday my hubby was acting very strange. I figured he would because of losing his job. He forgot to get the kids..check that..he went to sleep! Despite 13 phone calls from me, he never answered and never woke up. So I had to beg someone to cover my desk, leave work and go get the kids. He won’t cook,so I had to stop & get everyone something to eat. By the time I get there its already 6 and he is still asleep. I woke him to let him know the girls are home. I feel sympathy for him..I really do..I know losing your job sucks and makes you feel lousy…so him sleeping I can understand. BUT (and this is embarrassing) I get home to find porn up on the computer screen in our room..(no one saw it but me) So that really ticked me off! I mean really…you can find the time to do THAT but you couldnt stay awake for 20 minutes to go get your kids?! I wanted to smack him in his head but I had to go back to work. pissed all the way there…..After I got back to work, I let it go because quite frankly I am too tired to deal with it.

I get home last night about 9ish….took a bath..talked to my kids. I went to my room to watch a little TV. He wanted to know what bills are due..I told him about $800 this week. He says “are you worried?” OF COURSE I AM WORRIED! these arent credit card bills that are due..its stuff like the phone bill, car insurance, car payment…..He says he isnt worried at all. HUH?! Why not? We have just regular household bills that I cannot pay on my own. Is he thinking about looking for a job? Noooo. One of the requirements to get & keep your unemployment is that you have to look for a job. So I pulled up  a job just like his for him to look at today. It takes about 2 weeks to get your first unemployment check.

So what’s normal for depression? He said yesterday he is depressed. Ok…so is it normal to act like nothing is wrong & the bills will pay themselves? Sleeping alot…I think is normal. I don’t know.