Weekend

This was Matt's first Friday off weekend.  Yesterday it was COLD, we stuck around home as much as possible, only running to take the recycling and we ended up renting some movies.  We stayed up until 2 watching dvds, it was the first time we have done that in a very long time.  I was all chipper and chatty, but the kids all fell asleep before the last movie was over. 

Today, we wanted to get out of the house a while.  I have only been weighing myself once a week the past 4 weeks and today I had a different number for the first time.  A pound MORE.  I tried to curl up in a ball and live on the couch, but Matt would not let me.  Not that he was much help.  He decided to lose some weight at the first of the year and by the 11th had already dropped 8 pounds.  Apparently if I will just eat 90% of what I have been, the pounds will fly right off.  Oh, and use the treadmill once or twice a week for 20 minutes.  Fucker.

Needless to say, I am discouraged, disenchanted and more than a little angry.  I am tired of it all, tired of feeling like a carb is like swallowing a lit firecracker, tired of flipping EVERY package over to see what the damage will be, tired of counting and measuring and weighing every bit I take and recording it and seeing that DAILY I am hitting the low end of my range and every single week, I weigh the EXACT same.  Well, except this week.  I will be fat forever, I might as well just buy the diabetic socks, a TV guide, a box of bonbons and quit pretending.

Yeah, a little angry.

Our hike was nice, I really did not want to go, but I made a deal with myself to get 3.66 miles a day 6 days a week and the sun was out...might as well get some of those miles actually moving through the world.

John has recently added MUCH more climbing wall space to the porch! 

We took the Hi Trail down to the picnic area and then milled around a while.

We decided to head downstream and ended up crossing the creek and walked back along one of the biking/hiking trails and saw this off in the distance.

So, we walked over to look at it.

I am not really sure what happened here...

It was a really cool spot, but on the way back to the picnic area, we saw park boundary signs, so it's not on the park property.  I am not sure who owns it, but I imagine it's an off-limits spot, which stinks. 

 We took the Grandfather Trail out, well I did.  Jake and Chan went back up the Hi Trail.
We walked a total of 2.5 miles, so after we got home and had dinner, I walked another 1.25 miles on the treadmill to get my miles in for the day.  I think I am taking tomorrow off, I usually laze on Sunday.

 

 After my bath, I had Matt trim 13 inches off my hair.  I liked it longer, but it was breaking and frizzing and just not very healthy.  : (  When I wore it back, I had a halo of short hairs sticking out.  Skanky.

Here is it dry, see how tired I am?  Last night is catching up with me...

I am off to bed.  Tomorrow we work on the roof more, then it's back at it on Monday.  Jake gets to work with the choreographer Monday night.  Dance, Dance.