IT'S OVER!!!

Jenn and I returned from Houston safely.
We had a GREAT time. Too bad it's over!

There were 4 of us girls in all.

One of Jenn's friends "Q" came in from Dallas to hang out with us this weekend.

One thing that was consistent about our trip was............

WE GOT LOST!

Not once or twice.....several times.

FIRST DESTINATION: Lisa's house.

PASSENGERS: Jenn and Sheila

TRAVEL TIME: About 2 hrs longer than it should have taken.

We had no problems getting to Houston. In fact, we were on the right path so long that we actually passed our exit to Lisa's and ended up in Conroe. We had to turn around and find the right exit. She mentioned the "water park" but it was night time. We didn't see no damn "water park".

THAT RIGHT THERE....that little overdrive past our destination pretty much set the pattern for the rest of our trip.

SECOND DESTINATION: Convenient store

PASSENGERS: Jenn and Sheila

TRAVEL TIME: We should have just stayed home.

The next morning we wanted to pick up a few things from any near convenient store. We were in a sub-division with very big houses. We had to find our way out, down the road to any store, turn around and come back to the house.

We ventured out slowly. We rounded the block to...you know....make sure it was a block.

So after only making lefts, we decided we would be brave and make a right turn....out.

We did. Then as soon as we make that right, we come to a 4 way stop. We should remember how to get out of these houses, all we have to do is back-track.

Let's just say...we ended up taking ALL 3 of the remaining directions before we realized that the last one was the way we were supposed to be going.

It was like that the whole trip.

THERE'S A THIRD DESTINATION and "Q" was with us on that one. She was no help at all. We STILL got lost. Of course, after that she never wanted to ride with us again.

FOURTH DESTINATION: MD Anderson Hospital (Jenn's mom was in the hospital there and we went to see her).

PASSENGERS: Jenn and Sheila

TRAVEL TIME: What? You mean PLUS the 2 hours we were lost?

This trip was supposed to be easy because we were given a map. (Yes, we have mapquest and all that stuff on my phone but we were following the "easier way to get there" directions that were given to us by several individuals.

In the end. We ended up on the Sam Houson Tollway because we followed someone's advice to take Beltway 8.

All I can say is "I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED"

We spent about $12.50 on that damn thing.....trying to get OFF.

We were all over the place. 610 this...I10 that...59 what?

It was soo confusing.

We finally found it.

When we left.

We ended up on the Beltway.....again.

Jenn and I should not be allowed to roam the streets alone. Not even with each other.

I'm not going to go into much detail at all about the trip cause it's all kind of a blurr.

Here are some pics to "highlight" the trip.

Here's Jenn.

Here's Lisa.

Here's Me.
We were hanging out in the yard enjoying the morning.

Lisa was a little crappy because Jenn and I are early morning risers. We woke up at 6 wondering when Lisa's girls were going to get up for school so that we can get up and mill around the house too.

NO ONE WAS UP!

When everyone did get up and get ready we had to go and wake up Lisa. She thought we were crazy. Shit...we didn't come here to sleep.

This is Q.

This chick is COUNTRY.

I mean HEE HAW country.

She's crazy though.

Here we are heading out to hit up some little bars.

Notice I'm not driving.

We were putting gas. . .

Jenn wanted to stop the pump on 30.00 without going over.

Obviously, she did it.

We made it home without getting lost.

I guess we just needed to travel on EVERY street in Houston in order to know where we were.

Like all of my touristy pictures? Yeah, I know. Pretty boring pics. That's because these are the only pics I can show without incrimating myself. HA HA.

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I will definately get to eveyone's blog and comment as soon as I get a minute to settle down.

I will also be posting my current weight as an update here but I can't do it now because Dom called me from school. He isn't feeling well. I need to see if I can get him seen at the Drs if so...then I need re-arrange my patients so that I can take him.

ALRIGHT.....WHO THA F....?

PUT SOME FUCKED UP PIC ON MY BLOG?
I won't go into details because I'm a little pissed. I didn't think it was cute and I hope that shit wasn't there for a long time.
If any of you guys happened to see the pic...knock me on the head and tell me: Hey Sheila, check that shit out...get that shit off!!

I really hope Dom didn't see it. ughh.

Sorry guys! I'm Really sorry!

I changed my password so hopefully this won't happen again.

P.S. If any one did see it....just so you know, that sure as hell wasn't me!!

Here we go...

So, today is the last day I work before I take off for my road trip with Jenn. (actually, I'm taking off today)

BUT FIRST.....

BUSTED NEWS!!!

Jenn called me last night to tell me about how she TOTALLY got busted by her boss.

Here's the deal...

Jenn and I talk on the phone everyday almost all day (during working hours). I call her first thing in the morning to her work phone (which is still connected to her work) from my work cell (which is a cell). We talk about EVERYTHING under the sun. We don't hold anything back in our conversations.

Well....

Her boss calls her into the office yesterday and asks her if she likes her job or even wants her job. She's like, Oh yeah...sure....of course...love it...yada yada yada...

Turns out, her boss asks because they MONITOR ALL CALLS and he heard one of her conversations to one of her other friends about how she doesn't even like her job and she doesn't even want to be there................FUCK!!!

TURNS OUT!!! We are very sure he has heard EVERY ONE of our calls and we have been very blunt on numerous subjects. I'm embarrassed just thinking about what he may have heard.....geez.

In the end, he was super cool about it all and just told her to try not to mention some of the things we were talking about over the airways...duh. We're stupid.

IN RELATED NEWS.....

I got busted too.

I stopped by my friend Lisa's house yesterday just to hang out between patients. I had called her to make sure she was awake when I stopped by. She was, she was painting. She started admiring my phone (cause I got the new G1, baby!!!) ..........oh, anyway.....she was admiring it so I picked it up and slid it open to reveal the keyboard and I unlocked the screen.

Then she saw it...

She looked at me and said, You have me here under "LISA DRAMA"?

Uh,.....oops.

Well....yeah, cause she is SUPER dramatic all of the time and so I call her LISA DRAMA...but of course, never to her face.

Now she knows...then we called Jenn cause she was right there with me when I programmed LISA DRAMA into my phone and she knew all about it. The way I figured it...If I was going down...she was going down.

We called. Had a good laugh over it and went on about our day.

I'm sure Jenn's boss heard THAT conversation too.

NOW...back to the road trip.

Leaving today around 2, staying at Jenn's overnight and from there we are taking off to Houston on Thursday (probably around 5 or so cause Jenn and I both are early risers) and that's about it. We have or music all qued up and ready to go.

I'll try to post during my VACAY as much as I can, but we'll see how it goes!

BYE YA'LL!

Workin out. Part 2

HEY HONKEIE2....IT'S ON!!!

Alright.

Here's my progress since I started working out say....2 weeks ago.
This is my current weight: 175.4

Now, as I said in my last post that my starting weight was 185 lbs.

According to my scale...I have lost about this many pounds: 10.0

Whoo hoooo!

Okay..okay..so I'm far from having some stranger snag me off of the street and throw me on the runway to begin my reign in Tyra's old position...but still...it's a start.

So, I'm challenging HONKEIE2 to a little friendly competition.

A weight lost competition.

Something to help continue the motivation.

I haven't gotten together with him to discuss anything just yet but I will soon, maybe.

(Of course I don't think he knows it yet until I tell him to come over and read this post...AND since this IS a competition I don't think I will actually mention it to him. So if he takes his time coming over to read...I will go ahead and use the "Head Start Due to Opponent Procrastination*" card)

Here are some (suggested) rules:

1. You must post your weight at the end of each week on Sunday (if possible).

2. No excuses. (especially none about why you aren't losing weight or haven't been able to workout) Just get the shit done. Whatever it is.

3. You must pick one thing a week to give up for the whole week. This means sodas, candy, all sweets, anything that could possible ruin your diet. (Keep in mind we are going for 7 consecutive days. If you end up messing up then you must only count the # of consecutive days you were able to follow this rule).

EX: Say I choose to give up soda. I mustn't drink any for the whole week. If I end up drinking one on Thursday and we started this on Monday...then I was only able to not drink soda for 3 days and therefore should consider myself unfit to mother my own children. ...............or......uhhhh.... maybe not to that extreme but there should be some punishment involved.

4. No CHEATING! That means if you are going to say that for the whole week you aren't going to eat any junk food or sugar etc...then you MUST stick to it.

Uh...ok...I don't know where else to go from there. Kinks to be worked out later and punishments will be distributed....Suggestions are welcome!


Now...

In the last post I also mentioned that Jenn was coming and we were going to Mexico.

We went.

We got to the first bar (this is at 11 am) and we ended up letting some man pay for another person to sketch a caricature of Jenn, Myself and another girlie who went with us from my work. He offered us a deal we couldn't refuse. He said he would pay $20 and we paid $5 and we get to keep the picture.

HELL YEAH!

We did it!

Here's the pic:



Jenn is the top left, I'm on the right and my co-worker is on the bottom left.

Now, if this little poster was hanging outside and we were standing near it...I'm not sure we would be recognized.

Except maybe Jenn. It looks like her. She's got a big ass and she has big boobs. The nose is the same shape it's hilarious..we love it.

Me, I was made to look like Beyonce. I don't look anything like Beyonce in real life but obviously the artist knew how to play his cards right. Notice the not so subtle boob jobs we all got. Nice and perky. Thanks buddy.

My co-worker looks like Elizabeth Montgomery of Bewitched..in the picture he drew. Not in real life. The funny thing is she mentioned that she has gotten a caricature of herself before and they always drew her with big teeth (cause she has big teeth like a rabbit) and no boobs (cause she really doesn't have any). This guy gave her boobs and made her day!

Also...just to let you know...none of us were remotely dressed in anything showing off our mid-drifts (where the hell did our waists go?) nor were we using our breasts to hold up our chins at all that day.

We all had a good time.

Now it's time to slap on the combat boots and get my ass to work busting off these pounds.

I've got a competition to win.

* This card is used for times when your "opponent" isn't updating frequently and you get to continue on with the competition. That, by the way, is a new rule I just made up. We're allowed to make them up as we go cause I say so....see, it's that easy.

Workin out. Part 1

That's where I've been.

I know you guys have been worried about me during my short leave of absence due to the flood of emails I have received offering to pay the ransom for my safe return.
You guys are awesome!!

(Actually, I never received ANY emails from ANYONE offering to pay ANYTHING for me. No one cares.)

PUNKS!

Naw, I haven't been on the computer much because I've been working out and working and it takes a lot of my time.
I (like many others) have made "losing weight" or "getting back in shape" my New Year's resolution.

Foolish? Maybe.
Crazy? Definitely.
Is it testing my will power? Hell Yes.
Is it working? ...uuhhhh...we'll see....

Alright, I was pretty ashamed to say this but at the end of 2008 I weighed 185 lbs.
I'm 5' 7".
I can only blame myself.
Lounging became a lifestyle. I was just plain old lazy most of the time.

I'd come home from work (which was hardly work at all) "tired". I don't know if maybe it's all of the driving and getting in and out of my car all of the time or maybe the continuous interaction with everyone all day all of the time. Either way, I'm hungry and I'm sleepy when I get home. Okay, the sad part is that I could be done with work by 2 and I would be hungry and sleepy. I've started developing this pattern within myself. Eat. Sleep. Shit.
Of course there's the occasional Shower and Work thrown in there but still. My basic pattern consisted of the 3.

So....I decided it was time.
Besides, when I take pictures with my friends...ummm...I would like there to be room in the pic for them too.

So here's how I started (Trust me, this is a gradual process):

First, I had to get motivated. The "idea" was already in my head but I had to use logic in order to incorporate my exercise in with my work.

Yeah, it took a while because I'm not on my meds anymore (that's my excuse) but then I remember that I am a Physical Therapist Assistant.
Duh!
One of the ways I provide therapy to my patients is in the form of exercise. I started exercising more with my patients and taking longer walks with them and leaving the paperwork for the end of the day.

I would like to say that I've been walking on my very expensive Bowflex Treadclimber and using those Bowflex dumbbells along with that bench we have but that would just be LIES! All lies.

I bought about 48 opti-meal shakes (they're like slim-fast) in various flavors.
I figured since I'm on the road and I don't eat breakfast or lunch at all I may as well get some nutrients.
Plus, I like the shakes cause they're shakes.

I also started eating less when I did eat. I used to load up the plate and then go back for more sealing my fate of lapsing into a food coma fo sho.
Now, I'm all about portion sizing. I don't measure or anything I just eat the same amount I would give my kids.
When I go to the grocery store I look at the labels. Mainly just to give other shoppers in the isles the impression that I am actually concerned about what I put in my body because I really don't exactly know what I'm looking at.
Either way, it works.

I also made the mistake of mentioning to DOM about the "2000 calorie diet" that's on all of the food labels.
I was eating at the time.
He jumped up and ran to see what I had on my plate and started checking the fridge and pantry for my ingredients. He actually started trying to calculate how many calories I was eating right then and there.
Talk about someone keeping an eye on you while you diet, huh?

I stopped eating junk food. Just stuff from home. Cheaper. Plus, my lazy ass is too lazy to cook so I guess I don't eat..
Angel feeds the kids since he's home.
I drink only water allllll day. My work car is littered with empty bottles of water. I just take them into the office and fill them up again.

I also bought a scale.
I know the kiss of death when I see it.
It's actually been one of my best motivators. I have it programmed with my starting weight/goal weight and height (thank goodness the height isn't changing...yet) and it lets me know how much I've lost/gained and what my BMI is.
Those days that I get on and it tells me that I've gained weight is a shocker.

Anyway, Since I've been planning this trip to Houston, I've been more motivated.

Starting weight: 185
Goal weight: 135 (ish)

Sorry to cut this short....there's more to this story but Jenn is on her way in from Corpus so we can head to Mexico to get some bottles. (hmmm...how many calories are in liquor? ...gotta check that out)
I haven't even showered yet...ewww

Part 2 will be coming shortly......

HONESTLY...

You know...



I'm just going to have to stop letting Angel dress the kids...

2 Minutes

That's how long it takes Angel to fall asleep.

I've learned to use this knowledge to my advantage.

For example: If I'm not in the mood for sex...I just lay VERY still...for 2 minutes and "play possum". He gets bored...or forgets what he is doing and he's out like a hibernating bear.

Keep that in mind because it's going to be relevant in a moment.

We don't have central air or heat in my house (I know what you are thinking but remember ....older house...given to us…etc). Now, I know its cold, you know its cold...Angel? Not quite sure if he's aware. I had to remind him to get portable space heaters for the kid’s rooms and thank goodness he did. My room gets the coldest because of lack of insulation. I was freezing my ass off in bed. Lucky for me, Angel generates a lot of heat. One particular night my knees were freezing so I wiggled closer to Angel in hopes of thawing out. I accidentally touched him with my knee and he woke up. He started complaining about how cold I was and why was I touching him and why am I waking him up...etc. I explained that I was cold and needed to get closer to warm up but he didn't want me to. I was TOO COLD FOR HIM!

That's ok!

Whatever dude.

Go night-night.

I'll wait 2 minutes and you’ll be back in REM stage in no time.

Sure enough....2 minutes later…

I'm nice and toasty.