Weight Rundown #6: Hello Again

My weight loss journey has been up and down. It has been challenging, and hard to stick to at times, but I never go too long before jumping right back on track. While I still swear by the program I got tired of paying the $40 a month for the Weight Watchers membership. I also got tired (well mostly just lazy) of tracking every single thing I ate. I'd done it long enough that I had learned to listen to my body and how it should feel when I'm dieting.

For the last month or so I haven't counted points or tracked calories, and I'm happy to say I'm down to 8.2 lbs lost. That's 33% of my overall weight loss goal, which feels pretty good. I'm loving the new low, but still have 1.8 lbs to go before I hit 10lbs lost, 6.8 before I'm in the "healthy" category, 11.8 for 20 lbs lost, and 16.8 lbs overall to go.  :)

Happy 19th Birthday Brother!

Happy birthday to my little Dexter look alike!

Wordless Wednesday: Captain Calamari

Tackle it Tuesday: Card Making

The principal at the school I work for is out for the rest of the week to recover from her foot surgery. Staff was going to buy her a card and flowers, so I of course volunteered to make the card instead. Who wants store bought when they can get handmade?

Anyway, I started off really conservative

It isn't bad, but it just isn't her. When I actually got thinking more about her personality and what she would like, I came up with this

Yep. That's definitely more her personality and sense of humor. Oh, and have I mentioned my new love of embossing?

As you can see, I'm still having lots of fun with my cricut. I'll just save the first card for another occasion :)

Tackle it Tuesday: More Orders

75 silver

and 75 gold

Orders of a single color get a bit hard on the eyes after a while. I'm happy these came out well, but also happy they are finished!

Spring Break To Do List

Since my husband and I both work for our local school district, we have spring break off together. This is most definitely one of the perks of our jobs :)

Since I don't intend on sitting on my butt the ENTIRE week (but definitely for some of it) I've been putting together a list of things I'd love to get accomplished:

1. Laundry. Lots and lots of laundry. Clothing, towels, bedding - everything.
2. Carpet cleaning. After an entire rainy season, my carpets near the front door are looking less than awesome.
3. Clean the microwave....it's just gross.
4. Finish painting the bathroom....I painted the walls but never finished the ceiling, lol.
5. Dusting dusting dusting.
6. Ship off 2 orders.
7. Finish up an order for 75 silver tissue packs.
8. Take my car to Toyota to have a recall thing taken care of....I've had the notice for months.....
9. Take a trip to Sacramento with the husband. Just for fun. :)
10. FINISH my thank you cards for my wedding which was EIGHT MONTHS AGO. Yea, I think I need to move this up to number one.
11. Keep working on centerpiece flowers for Brittany's upcoming baby shower. Even with getting together with the ladies to work on them, there are LOTS and LOTS to be made! I'll definitely be putting together a post on these  :)
12. Exercise? That'd be nice.
13. Roll all the quarters from last month's laundry

I'm sure the list will grow as I think of more things, but this is where it is at for now. Can I finish it all? We'll see!

Wordless Wednesday: Bathroom Surprise