Author: Yajaira

I wish I could say that the title of this post means that I’ve been working out hardcore to get ready for the annual banquet, but it’s actually quite the opposite.

Albert Einstein once said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. That would explain how I attended the Krispy Kreme ribbon cutting this morning and had a donut.

Which, ok, having a donut wasn’t so bad…but then, while I was running around helping Gerry get ready for her meeting, I grabbed a giant cookie from a leftover Chick-fil-a tray and had that, too =\.

Then I rushed to pick up my Emmos from school, got home, and ate 3 small leftover pizza slices we made last night:

Small, but they were bread =\. MORE BREAD!

Got to work, drank a bottle of water (that’s another thing: I haven’t been drinking my 4 16oz. bottles like I’d been doing =\), had 1 of those Nature Valley dark chocolate/peanut butter crackers, or whatever it’s called. Do all the work things (it’s gonna get even more hectic, ahhh!). Head to Starbucks for Jorge ’cause he’s working late. Grab a drink for myself, a skinny caramel macchiato…and it’s gross. Head to the store to get a few things to put in a gift bag for my boss for Boss’ Day tomorrow (which, to all of our horror, we JUST FOUND OUT TODAY!!). I’m so tired I think, “Ain’t nobody got time for cooking today!” so I grab some frozen taquitos and some Rico’s cheese. One of my staple Fatty-McFatterson meals from back in the day. As I’m talking to the boys on the phone and shoving these taquitos in my mouth I can hear my inner-lost-in-the-rolls-skinny-person whispering from far away, “Doooon’t eeeeaaattt itttt!!” But I’ve already eaten 5 taquitos, licked the container of cheese till it was clean and followed it up with 5 generic Oreos and a bit of milk. Looking for what NOT to eat throughout the day? –Just re-read this post.

Ugh. I feel so disgusted with myself. It’s like I’m doing it to sabotage myself! And yes, I know I’m whining instead of getting off my ass and onto the treadmill. I’m spending some time with the girls before I have to put them to bed. And then I will start. Tonight. I’m starting T25, even though I ate like crap today. I’ve got The Biggest Loser on for inspiration. If they can do it, I can too, darnit!

I’m pleased to announce that I have resurrected my beloved “Fang” theme! This is one of my favorite layouts I’ve ever created and couldn’t wait to sit down and update it to suit my current content.

I started the day by making myself an epic omelet. This one consisted of crab, spinach, avocado and gouda cheese :).

I slacked around a while, sitting with Mom in the kitchen nook and then I started cleaning. Freddy ordered the Marquez fight, so we’d be having company. My love called during lunchtime and needed me to drop off a key, so I joined him and Marco for lunch at Palenque Chicken. I went grocery shopping since I was already over there, then to the bank and headed home. I cleaned some more and THEN…I sat at my now-favorite part of the house:

Jorge and I did some Autumn-cleaning last week and I have to give him most of the credit for our bedroom makeover. He’s a genius :).

I was surprised that I hadn’t completely forgotten how to move around my website and my old theme. I did however, shamefully, had to reinstall my good ol’ Paint Shop Pro…because I couldn’t for the life of my dinosaur brain figure out how to use this damn Windows 8!!! >_< But I remembered how to use PSP and voila!! Fang is reborn!!! I'm proud to mention I still have my pixel-drawing skillz buahaha. I made my tiny little social media icons there on the top right. Not too shabby, eh?? I guess I'll go outside and be social. I hope Sally comes over after all. We got to hang out last night for Michelle's birthday at Kohnami, a lot of our co-workers and my love and Sally made an appearance, too, so that was pretty nice :). I sang "Cowboy Take Me Away" during karaoke, and "Como La Flor" with Gerry. We had a great time :).

Alright, alright. Going off on a tangent again. Goodnight!

I took another Wednesday morning off from work to spend at the doctor’s office.

Last week was my poor Emily, who caught a stomach virus from someone at school. She puked Tuesday evening from 7pm till 1am. It was awful seeing her that way. By 1am she was dry heaving and freaking out ’cause she couldn’t catch a breath during the heaves :(. So I took the morning to take her to the doctor, get her prescriptions and get my inspection sticker on the BMW before heading to work. Then I had my floral design class my work signed me up for. All this time, Jorge was on his way to Denver for the CEDIA Expo and to take his Level 2 Certification exam. He’d be gone from Wednesday to Saturday =/.

Emily was better by the next evening, thank God. The girls and I spent Wednesday evening watching their shows and videos on YouTube.  They’d be picked up the next evening to spend the weekend with Mario, since it was his weekend. It was going to be a LONELY few days =/. At least Jorge and I got to Skype :).

And of course I spoke to the kiddos on the phone :).

Sally and I were supposed to hang out on Thursday, but I ended up with Emily’s virus, just not as bad as hers. So I went to sleep early.

On Friday, Sally and I caught up for lunch at Cheddar’s. Jorge took his exam and passed with flying colors! He was so nervous, but I knew he’d ace it. He’s the smartest person I know!

Sally, her kiddos and I were supposed to go jogging, but it became late so we took the kids to Barnes & Noble instead, then went for yogurt. And what an unhealthy yogurt I had =/.

Every time I decide that I’m going to start jogging again, I DON’T, and follow up my fail with something unhealthy lol.

While we were at Barnes, we saw, er, the person who essentially helped cause Jorge’s previous marriage to come crashing down. Well, he was part of it. Takes 2 to tango. I gave Sally a summary of it, but it’s always weird to revisit that part of history.

Anyway, I picked Jorge up at the airport the next evening :). It was great to have him back home. We went to IHOP to have dinner…and again I had an insanely unhealthy meal:

FML. But I figured since I was starting my workouts all over on Monday, I would take advantage.

I know. I’m never going to make any progress if I don’t get out of that mindset -_-.

We spent the rest of the evening and Sunday being absolutely lazy for ONCE. With the exception of grocery shopping.

Oops, did it again! We had The Voice and X Factor to catch up on…and we ate healthily throughout the day, so I made an exception ;). In my defense, I eat low-carb all day, so the sugar I do eat isn’t affecting me too badly. Still, I know I shouldn’t eat some of those things :(. But I’m happy I’ve kept the weight off that I lost back in April/May. I know I can do better though.

Anywhoo, I tried working on a blog entry then, but it’s a novel so I’ll have to continue on it later.

And now that brings us to this week and the non-stop things I have going on.

I rushed getting ready this morning and took the girls to the Book Fair, got them to class on time and brought Mom to her appointment.

Mom keeps stalling on her darn appointments and wasn’t even logging down her glucose readings since the last time she went to the doctor they told her she was doing great. That’s when I had her on the Keto diet. It must have gone to her head ’cause she just stopped logging. So I made an appointment for her and here we are. I just hope we get out of here before 11:30 so I can pick Emily up from school, drop her and Mom off and get ready for work.  I have another floral design class today, too. Plus I need to find time to get my hair trimmed (split end city) since I’m working the Wine Classic this year. It’s one of our biggest fundraisers. And I’m in charge of Sweet & Tasty’s dessert table. FML lol.

Today, though. Today is the day I do SOMETHING, either jogging outside or the treadmill. I need to tone up for November and that darn Annual Banquet =/. And I’m blogging about it to hold myself accountable. I do so well when I start and then I quit logging (Mother??) and my motivational train de-rails.

I went back to a blog entry back in July 2009, right before I started Tae Kwon Do and P90X. I wanted to find what it was that motivated me to start and not give up…and it was when Annie had straight out told me I stayed chunky after having Emily. That was my push. I want to find my progress photos from back then so I can motivate myself again. I just need to tone. But I just need to get off the sofa and START!!