mini update

Right now Jeremy and I are in the process of moving things around in the house… as in all my art, scrapbooking, rubber stamping, etc… is getting moved to the computer room… aka that room will be all mine… and Jeremy will be moving his computer and stuff down to the pit room… so, I am going to be a little MIA because I still have to clean the house etc for my PC party this weekend and work on this as well…

Also keep voting on the glasses… between you all, my family, and my WLS message board it is a dead tie… so please help me… btw they are the same cost etc…

 

You’re invited… and keep voting…

Hey all…

I am having a Pampered Chef party this coming Sunday at 2:30pm… I know that most of you can’t come because of where you all live, etc… but I am trying to get some items that will help keep me on track with this whole WLS thing lol… one of the things I am trying to get that you all might me instrested in is this… #1825 Prep Bowl Set - $20.00… if you follow the link you can see it…

These are glass bowls that have measurements on the side and they are all 1 cup in size… they also have lids… I think they will be great for dishing out my serving of stuff (because you can see 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc on the side) so I will be less likely to eat too much… I know that many of you are trying to lose weight also and this might be a great tool for you as well…

To place an order for My Show click on this link…
Click on order products and then put Shannon Owens in as your host then go shopping and place your order. Also… you can have it where everything is shipped straight to you and I still get the credit for the show…

If you have any questions please contact me… also keep voting on the glasses hehehe…

 

Help me Pick…

Well tonight I was picking up my new glasses… but I can’t decided… so that is why I need you all help… so help me pick… I will write a real post later on…

Set 1- Ted Baker… they have a bit of blue on the inside of the arms..

Set 2- Nine West- they have a bit of lime-ish green to them on the inside

Top pair set 1… set 2 bottom pair

Top pair set 1… set 2 bottom pair

 

I’m tired… so deal with a wacky post

Today has been a very long day…

Woke up an hour early… so I cleaned up the backyard some… aka I will take photos once I am done… but it was a lot of moving big stuff etc… and mowed the front lawn (very tiny) before Lore woke up… then got me dressed (so we could go out), tried to do something with my hair (which is now growing curly textured hair… remember all the hair I lost from the surgery… well this isn’t a good thing… I have stick straight hair… so just imagine what it looks like with both kinds of hair… a MESS 24/7)… got Lore up… shoved yogurt into her and then dressed her and out the door…

Lore had her eye exam this morning… her 3rd one in less than 1 year… long and short of it… they aren’t worried so much about her right eye and tracking… it shows signs of her growing out of it… but the right eye STILL not tearing has them majorly concerned… it is official that the lower part of her tear duct isn’t blocked… it has never showed signs that it was blocked… but it still doesn’t make tears… but now she is poking and rubbing and trying to stick things in her right eye… so the doc is going to talk to an eye doc surgeon (forget what they are called) and for now wait and see what happens but we could be back in a month or back Dec 2nd to see him and come up with a plan of attack… again she hated to have her eyes dialted… but mommy was smart and brough Ba (blanket) and Ooh (pooh bear) and a full sip sip (her sippy cup) with us…

She also let me put a BOW in her hair… OMG this is HUGE for us… they have never even lasted a sec in her hair… and she wore it for most of today… but lost it with her time with daddy tonight… argh… anyways… having to hold her so they could look before and after the drops and then other times took a toll on me today… I”m beat… but since she wouldn’t wear the sunglass thingies because of her eyes dialted we had to walk around Target for an hour till her eyes started to look more normal… so since she did really well getting poked and what not… she got a juice box and a bag of popcorn at Target for while we shopped around… I also got her something special… her very first Pooh and friends coloring book… oh she was so happy…

Came home tossed her down for a nap… because we were at the eye doc for almost THREE hours… and then an hour at target… she was pooped… she fell asleep 2 miles from home… where I was finally able to eat… ugh so bad for me… I also finally got to drink because Lore broke my sippy at the eye doc… she didn’t mean too… I am still behind on calories, protein, and wate for the day…

Changed clothes again because lore got me dirty… and tried to get me ready for my eye exam… well they didn’t get better this year like last year… they got worse… so new glasses for me… they are ordering in some frames for me to look at in different colors… so those should be in next week… and then if I like them I can order after that… Jeremy should get his new glasses on Monday… cheer…

Tomorrow I need to clean more… a lot more… I will explain that one later… but I also need to go get the bed ready… I covered it earlier today and well you can’t see it lol… opps… but before I go… I got this from Lisanne…

There are lots of baby name ideas websites out there, but this particular baby names advisor is lots of fun. I was so curious to see what the site would come up with for us and for our kid! If you try it out, too, please let me know what names it generates for you! Here are ours:

If Lorelei wasn’t Lorelei… she could of been a Meagan… we have a friend name that and well she is kind of ditzy… but I have always loved that name…
If Lorelei was a boy… it gave us the name Mario… umm don’t think so…

If I wasn’t a Shannon… I could of been a Mary (ugh… who wants a name that means Bitter)
But, if I was a boy… I could of been a Sammy… not Sam or Samuel… but Sammy… whatever

If Jeremy wasn’t a Jeremy… he could of been a Ulysses … SNORT
If Jeremy was a girl… he could of been a Cindy lol… omg that makes me laugh…

 

Free Photo

Walgreens has a new coupon code 4MOM for a free 8×10 print valid through 5/7/2008…

If you are like me and don’t have one near by but one is near by your parents or friends or other family members… upload the photos so they can get them free and pick them up…

 

NIN

Not sure if any of you like NIN (aka Nine Nich Nail)… but if you go to here you can get a free download of their new CD…

 

8 months out… and new goals…

Down 1 pound this last week… that is 94 pounds down… and at least lost while being on it lol… I’m looking for my measuring tape but I can’t find it because I am dying to see how many inches I have lost since joining the gym… I know I have had to lose something because I was there 5 times last week… and this week I have 2 training sessions with my trainer… whoop I found it… off to measure…

Measurement stats:
@ Curves before surgery
Bust- 58
Waist- 54
Abdomen-70
Hips- 67.5
Thighs- 35
Arms- 19.5

1 Month Out
Bust- 55
Waist- 49
Abdomen-67
Hips- 66
Thighs- 30
Arms- 16.5

almost 3 months out
Bust- 52
Waist- 47.5
Abdomen-63.5
Hips- 62
Thighs- 27
Arms- 16

4 months, 1 week, 5 days out
Bust- 51.5
Waist- 46
Abdomen- 61
Hips- 61
Thighs- 25.75
Arms- 15.75

5 months, 2 weeks, 3 days
Bust- 50
Waist- 45
Abs- 59
Hips- 59
Thighs- 25.75
Arms- 15.75

7months, 6 days
Bust- 50
Waist- 44.75
Abs- 58
Hips- 58
Thighs-24.75
Arms- 14.75
Ok that makes this a total of 53.75 inches lost so far… 4.25 since the last measurements…

8 months out from surgery extatly… and I have added some new measurements to help me track better… before all arm and thigh measurements were the left side…
Bust- 48
Waist- 44
Abs- 57
Hips- 56.5
L. Thighs-24
L. Arms- 14.5
Ok that is 60 inches lost so far… and get this 10 inches off the boobs and still no change in cup size… what the heck lol… but that is 6.25 inches lost in about 3 weeks… 3 weeks I have had a trainer… below are the new areas I am going to start to measure…

Neck- 15
Ribs/Ban- 40
R. Arm- 15
R. Thigh- 24.5
L. Calf- 17.25
R. Calf- 17.5

New goals…
By my birthday- July 12th I want to weigh (that is 10 weeks from now)- 225
That means I need to lose 21 pounds between now and then…

By September 5th (1 year out from surgery and 18 weeks from now) I want to weigh-200
That means I need to lose 46 pounds by then total but that is only 25 pounds from my birthday and on…

By Christmas I want to weigh (34 weeks from now)-170
That is a total of 76 pounds between now and then but only 30 pounds from Sept 5th

I would love to be 170 by Sept 5th… even better if I could hit 150… hehehe.. but I don’t think that is realistic… but I think these goals are… The one for Christmas is about 2 pounds a week… give or take…

Well off to wake up Lore…

 

Mommy’s new plan

Lorelei sees Jeremy as the one in charge… aka if she does something bad Daddy will yell at her… she sees me as the comforter… So, she doesn’t see me as mean in any light… even if I have to spank her… and before you all get after me about spanking… you don’t have a child that is moving items to climb onto them to get to things on the kitchen counters and getting knives etc…

Well, new game plan for Mommy… Lore throws lots of things in anger and in play… and well today I hit my breaking point of her tossing her food onto the floor… I picked it up and tossed it outside to the birds… I gave her 3 warnings… 4th time gone… She also kept sitting on her little food/art trey and I told her 2 times (she had lots of warnings last night) and I tossed it into the pit room… gone… she started to pitch a fit and threw her sippy… gave her 3 warnings again… and she didn’t try doing it a 4th time…

Mommy is done! I will not have a child that acts out like this… there are other ways to express oneself and she needs to learn that… it also doesn’t help that she is smart, creative, a problem solver, and extremely stong willed… not a good combo… so it might be a long few weeks lol… but I am tired of sucking up cherrios etc with the vacumm…

I also think it is the wrong day to cross me… my period finally showed up… took the nuva ring out Tuesday night… and it finally came today…

Last night we had our church photos taken… I soooo went for the touch up because ugh… I had a nasty shadow line where I have lost weight in my chin/neck area and my huge under eye bags… I even had make up on… didn’t help that lol… but got some cute photos of Lore… such a camera ham… Yesterday also marked that I have been to the gym 4 times this week… tomorrow I meet up with my trainer again… I also learned that I need to wear TWO sports bras to keep things in place and not feel like they are going to rip off my body lol… I wonder what I will weigh tomorrow with my period and stuff lol…

But off to do some more laundry…

 

ugh my tail bone…

Some how even at this weight I have a boney tail bone… ugh… and the pilates class totally kicked my butt… but in a good way… it showed me that I need something for my tail bone when we lay on the floor… and that I need to lose some more tummy fat to make it a little easier…

But, I need to shower because after working out and then the class silly me hit the outlet mall right up the road to look for sports bras… btw- the VF outlet awesome deals on them 5.50 for a sports bra… so I got a few that are all different styles and cuts… some I will wear over my current bras… others stand alone kind… btw Lane Bryant carries the Danskins ones… I need a 14/16 in their to get the right fit… how funny is that… a 40 DDD in a 14/16 anything lol… ok off to get unstinky…

oh yeah Lore got to pet a snake at the pet store in the mall… and then tried to steal a pug puppy lol…

 

Today…

Lets see… today has me-

Taking off all the boxes off my plants so they didn’t freeze last night…

Running to the mall to pick up leave in condistioner for my Lore’s hair at bath and body works…

Then running to the VF outlet mall with toddler in tow to try to find a sports bra… please pray for me that I don’t kill her!

Then hitting the gym in new sports bra so my girls don’t rip off my body… hoping to try to do the pilates class there… with some lifting in before that…

Also need to figure out what we are wearing for our family photos for the church directory tomorrow…

And on top of all of this… I should get my first period since July 2005… yeah I haven’t had one since just before I got pregnant with my daughter and then after having her I have been on depo shots for BC… and now I am on the nuvaring (however that is spelled) and it came out last night lol… and oh yeah… I totally couldn’t get that thing out last night… Jeremy had to do it… lol…

But, off to get dressed, find clothes for Lore, feed her and get out the door before 10am… so gotta run now… oh yeah didn’t get the job at Aquabilities… got one of those you suck letters yesterday in the mail… oh well…

 

5 and more…

One of Lore’s fave words is five (bive is how it sounds) because of those stupid stupid subway ads… she also tosses her hand out for 5 also lol…

But today when I weighed myself I went from 252 to 247… that is FIVE pounds… I haven’t really lost any weight since the end of Jan… so the trainer has paid off in just one week in my eyes… met with him today and learned the 30 min cycle for cardio in what he wants me to do… so now I have the 1 hour one and the 30 min one… and he is so psyched about the weight loss… So, I think I might be able to reach my goal of being 170 (or 150) by Sept 5th- one year annv. date of my gastric bypass… I think I will take measurements next week to see where I lost that 5 pounds hehehe…

Also… wanna hear a funny… I can wear a size 18/20 undies… but size 26 pants… WHAT IS UP WITH THAT… and the undies weren’t tight lol… but I can’t fit into a size 9 or size 2x in undies… but can wear 2x shorts… but I think I need to get a sports bra… oh the joy of trying those suckers on…

In other news… I was basically forced to quit my job yesterday because on Thursday it was decided that greeters are not allowed to sit anymore… sorry Nurses get to sit more than us and they are on their feet alllll the time… so I had to no choice… not with being paid 7.50 an hour… but once I learned that news Thursday night I went to fill out an application for a company on Friday… got pooped on by a bird… and had to take Lore with me… But, I am hoping that I will hear something about an interview this coming week… I still haven’t heard about aquablilities so there is still hope there too… but I called the GM on Friday to talk to him about the greeter’s meeting (that I wasn’t included in btw that happened on Thursday) and told him that I couldn’t stand for that long and be able to drive home let alone be able to stand at all on Sunday… he told me to come in and talk to him on Saturday… urgh so I did… and I told him that I just can’t do it but I would stay until I couldn’t do it anymore… I left at 12:45… made money to pay for the gas that it cost me to get there lol… sorry it is 3.59 and 3.69 in my area…

But, I am off to eat some steak… need some red meat… YUM!

 

Spring Cleaning…

Right now I am jealous of the Amish… I am sure some of you just said “What the heck” but they have their kids helping… where Lorelei is making a mess as soon as I clean it… this is the area that we are working the hardest on with Lore but she is being a brat and making it worse… she will help clean at church but that is because if she doesn’t she can’t leave the nursery and she really doesn’t like it lol… so since I can’t do that with her at home… I have ran out of ideas… and want to bang my head agaisnt the wall…

I am also sorting out some of my old clothes… I know some will end up in the trash (because they are trashed), others to goodwill, and others I am going to sell on craigs list… but since I am so behind in folding clothes our bedroom is a MESS… but I am at least sorting out stuff that is too big into the bottom of the closet… so I think that will help me with getting it cleaner sooner…

But my other trouble area in the kitchen… last night Lore picked up a plate and tossed it into the wall and it broke… after Jeremy got done yelling at her and smaking her hands I told him I am going to pack up the breakables period… I’m done… my pattern has been discontiued so I can’t replace the pieces… so I want to save what I have left… when she is older they might come back out that or I will just sell them off… but my kitchen is too small for what I have… so I need to pair down stuff and might give some of it away on freecycle… not sure yet…

All I know is that I am really tempted to call my dad and see if he would come out for a week and watch her so during the day I could get stuff done… instead of stuff getting undone because of Lore… but I am sure my mom would scream that it is unfair lol… oh well…

And Jeremy did end up having to get glasses last night… I think they are super cute… I will post a pick once they are in…

BTW- 5 days left if you want to order something from Stampin’ Up! before I lose my demoship and still get 15% off anything you want…

 

What I did today…

Was up at 8am (this is early for me), checked email, did some blog reading, posted stuff to my other blog for blog ad stuff… woke Lore up where we fought for most of this morning… argh! Stuffed some kind of a breakfast in her same for me and off we went…

Met with the trainer, Shane, today and it was awesome… today he taught me what to do after we are done working with weights… aka what to do cardio wise… so this is what I did today…

10 mins treadmill- speed- 2.8
10 min on the arc (arch) keeping met. over 6
15 mins on the treadmill speed 3
5 mins on the elpical
5 mins on th arc- keeping met. over 6 again
10 mins on treadmill- speed 2

That is 55 mins of straight cardio… he was impressed I didn’t puke… I reminded him that I never puked while I was pregnant… and if he wanted me to puke… he would have to try harder next time… it made him laugh… but as I get better at the cardio he will show me what to increase etc… he is really cool and laid back… great for me!! But he wants me to do this workout tomorrow (so after work I guess) and we meet again on Friday at 11am… I am really hoping to see some kind of results (weight loss or inches lost) in 2 to 3 weeks…

But, after that I had to go get a new scale because Jeremy and Nate broke mine… stupid boys… so after the gym… still all hot and sweaty… Lore and I ran to Bed Bath and Beyond to get a new one… I have to mail my other one back etc… but I also got a tiny skillet to make eggs in for Lore and I… sooo freaking cute…

After that ran into the Giant (food store) and got 5 more boxes of South Beach Living’s Strawberry Banana water mix (3g of protein, 5g of fiber- Sugar free), some fruit, some steaks- gonna grill tonight, and some other little things… came home made raspberry, strawberry, and pineapple fruit salad… Lore took off with the rest of the strawberries and was plucking the green tops off and popping them in her mouth… and I ate a mexi lean pocket for lunch…

And now I need to shower, get dressed again… and later tonight take Jeremy to the eye doc where he is so sure he is going to have to pick out glasses… poor guy… he only had to wear glasses as a kid for a year or something like that because he was lazy when he would read… but now he is going to have to wear real glasses…

May 7th Lore and I both see the eye doc… same office different locations lol… oy! But, I am off to get unstinky…

 

So tired…

Part of the reason I’m so tired is that I am due for my B12 shot today… but I am completely spent in dealing with stuff at work… my body doesn’t handle stress very well anymore… incase in point I have been dealing with a lot of water retention and my tummy not feeling well… I am also spent emotionally too… but I have read a lot of books at work… and yes I need to update my GoodReads list…

On Thursday and Sat hag girl said she was sorry… I’m not sure if she is really telling the truth in why she acted the way she did or not… but how can you not remember when you call someone a Bi&^% and a Wh$%^… I’m sorry but I just don’t understand that part of it all… but I am trying to believe her because if she is telling the truth then I feel really bad for her because part of her life just sucks… but the part I am really worried about is my feet… they should still hurt the next morning… but please keep praying for me… and pray for these girls… I think a lot of them are hurting… and they don’t even realize it…

But, because I can’t deal with this job in certain aspects, I am going to keep looking for a different job… I have a lead on a job and I am going to follow up on it…

In other news… and it is good news… I have hired myself a trainer for 30 min workouts… it breaks down to $17 an hour… unlike what LA Fitness that was charging $40 an hour… oh yeah they have a number of lawsuits against them now for that location… remember how I couldn’t walk for 3 days… yeah well a woman almost lost her job because of how they worked her over and she couldn’t MOVE for a week… But I am super excited about this… which is why I need to keep a part time job of sorts… so it can pay for that and our student loans… hehehe… my first workout with him is on Weds… but I am hoping once I get back some of my muscle ton that I can work my way up to an hour with him… but as is… 30 mins of non stop lifting and then going to do another 30 to 60 mins of cardio is going to be a lot for me… and I rather not over do it… and because of my workouts I have gotten some new shorts… I’m so excited because they are a 2x… and they have a draw string so I will get some good use out of them… but my goal is to hit 180 by Christmas… that is about 70 pounds I need to lose between now and then…

But, I didn’t get to way myself yesterday… Jeremy and his brother, Nate, broke my new scale… ugh boys… so I have to send it back and get a new one… but I think the new scale was almost caught up to the old scale… so that means I have lost another 6 pounds or so… but I’m not going to update my weight loss until the scale matches what it says now…

In Lorelei news… she can hiss like a snake now (thanks to mommy letting her watch part of Snakes on a Plane (and hush I didn’t realize it was an R movie until after she saw the snakes lol), she can make turtle noises (aka I make her snap her teeth together… get it… snapping turtles lol)… she runs up to us and says “I gotta get ya”… Me juice (she wants juice), mine, now, and told Jeremy this weekend- “I need puppies”… She also got a new bike helmet… it is yellow with white duckes (they dont’ quack they bafck according to Lorelei)… Jeremy’s dad helped him to buy a new bike (the kind you petal) because Jeremy doesn’t wanna join a gym… we also got their old pull behind carrier… we call it a buggy or a carriage lol… Lore didn’t do too well in it on Sat… but she was tired (missed nap time) and it was hot- 85 that day… today Jeremy took her out for a little bit while I was at work and did a bit better… all the kids in the neighborhood thought it was cool… I will have to take a photo of it later… I think I have one of Lore in her new helmet…

In some other news.. I joined a Bible study with my MOPS group… not sure what I think of it yet… it is a short one like 5 weeks or something… the other one they are going to do is on a night I work… so I can’t do that one at all… and it was the one I was really looking forward too…

And tomorrow I am having Ehrlich coming out to the house because the wasps are getting worse and worse… and each year it gets worse… so they are coming out to do a free inspection… we think they are under the siding… and we are soooooo not going to look there lol…

But, I’m tired and need to get stabbed in the butt so I can go to bed… and oh ya… PA sucks… I can’t vote tomorrow… I’m not a demo or a rep… but registered as a Liberal so that means I can’t vote… talk about stupid…

 

humm…

Tonight was interesting… Hag girl walked off and never told anyone… no idea what happened… I was good… trust me… but I know she was on her cell for over 30+ mins and it didn’t sound like a good talk… and one of the sales guys said she walked off in tears… real nice… never told any of the manager she was leaving for the night etc… I just hope that nothing bad happened at home…

 

Great news

Well tomorrow afternoon I have an interview with Aquabilities… so pray for me at 4:30… and I might be able to work this job and the other one at the same time for a while… then cut more hours at the other job where Hag Girl is at… also thanks for the support with dealing with her… I’m not naturally good at keeping my big mouth shut… and btw… she wasn’t dressed right AGAIN… ugh!

But, right now I am going to go read and try to relax… I have to take Lore to the doc at 4… and switch with Jeremy there so I can go to work… I can’t tell if she isn’t feeling good because of allergies or teeth or an ear infection… so I rather be safe than sorry… anyways… I will post more… such as my new membership at Gold’s Gym… LOVE IT… million times better than icky LA Fitness… a new Italian market I found (across the street from Golds lol), etc…

Oh yeah… I grabbed a t-shirt to wear to workout that was still super tight in Jan… it fits really well now… won’t wear it without something over my arms because it kind of has cap sleaves and my upper arms look gross from all the loose skin… but that made me really happy!

 

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7m out…

@ Curves before surgery
Bust- 58
Wasit- 54
Abdomen-70
Hips- 67.5
Thighs- 35
Arms- 19.5

1 Month Out
Bust- 55
Wasit- 49
Abdomen-67
Hips- 66
Thighs- 30
Arms- 16.5

almost 3 months out
Bust- 52
Wasit- 47.5
Abdomen-63.5
Hips- 62
Thighs- 27
Arms- 16

4 months, 1 week, 5 days out
Bust- 51.5
Waist- 46
Abdomen- 61
Hips- 61
Thighs- 25.75
Arms- 15.75

5 months, 2 weeks, 3 days
Bust- 50
Waist- 45
Abs- 59
Hips- 59
Thighs- 25.75
Arms- 15.75

7m 6 days
Bust- 50
Waist- 44.75
Abs- 58
Hips- 58
Thighs-24.75
Arms- 14.75

Ok that makes this a total of 53.75 inches lost so far… 4.25 since the last measurements… but I know that I have lost a ton off of places that I can measure such fingers, feet, calfs, etc… and today I signed up with Gold’s Gym and worked out for about 45 mins… if my feet don’t hurt too bad tomorrow I might go after work… but that depends on Jeremy’s alone day with Lorelei… he is also on call too.. with off and on rain…

 

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SU Special from me only

I am offering a speical… right now I am in pending… and would like to try to hold on to my demoship a little longer… so here is the deal… order anything that you want and I will give you 15% off your total at the end… this includes anything that SU has to offer including new specials they have listed on their website… so if you want to stock up this is the time! Or if you are like me right now and time is tight for scrapbooking there are lots of storage pieces and don’t forget about personalized stamps which are awesome and you won’t have to order anymore address labels…