The Best is Yet to Come

…see heaven flash a horrorshow
knock it nice and smooth step back and watch it flow

YEAH!!!
Never gonna stop me! Never gonna stop!
Never gonna stop me! Never gonna stop!

OK, now I just need to restart. Reevaluated the diet and workout, aiming for higher calories per day than I had in the past after receiving feedback from a few people whose opinion i value on the subject - and switching up the carb cycling to 1 day of higher carbs and 2 days low to see if it makes a difference. Should be interesting.

Modifying my workout to better hit my goals since my workout was based on a powerlifting cycle, I think it’s time for a change.

Should be interesting…………not sure how I managed to get these size 10’s on today with all the freaking catered food we’ve had for the last month, but thankfully, that is all over as of today. Yay!

I know a guy who’s tough but sweet
He’s so fine, he can’t be beat
He’s got everything that I desire
Sets the summer sun on fire

I want candy, I want candy

Actually, I’m craving that damn grape Laffy Taffy! I can live without the rest of the junk, but I have an addiction to it for some reason. And when did they come out with little Smarties that turn into bubble gum? My GF, sister and I all tried it and made the exact same odd expression when we chewed. Weird.

The kiddies had their trick-or-treat on Sunday up in Wisconsin and as usual, came back after an hour saying they were done. Mind you, they’re 10 and 12 and ALWAYS come back early. Now we’ve started making them hand it out when they come home - lets us off the hook.

So by now the girls know the drill - first thing they do when they get back is dump out their stash so Auntie (me, duh) or my sister can go through and take out all of the unsealed candy that they’re not allowed to have. It amazes me that so many people still hand out so much crap that any diligent parent would not give their children due to safety - granted, we turn around and give it to their father, so it’s kind of funny - but still. They had fun and that’s all that counts.

What is still cracking all of us up is that I took the girls to the annual Halloween open house at the hotel I used to work at for almost a decade and the 12 year old was dressed up as a Dementor from Harry Potter - which in actuality, really just looked like the Grim Reaper. So she joins one of the groups of people taking a tour and says sweetly to a little girl: "come here, I’ve got a secret"………then leans down and in her scariest voice says to the poor kid "GIMME YOUR SOUL!".  She’s off to the right in the pic below, I had my eyes closed and had done a crappy makeup job on the fly while driving up from Chicago and the little one is the one with the purple bat ears just showing at the bottom of the pic.

Anyway, back to more appropriate ramblings….I know, I know - I’ve been slacking on my blog - sadly, I’ve also been slacking with my diet and workouts. Damn sinuses are driving me nuts. Missed 3 days of work two weeks ago and I’m still not over this, but I think it’s finally nearing the end of its run (no pun intended).

Between my sluggish sick self and the catered lunches we’ve had for the last month because of vendor meetings I’ve pretty much just sucked. So, in an effort to avoid the holiday binging, I’m meeting up with a friend who’s a trainer to reevaluate my workouts and diet and get my happy ass back on track. This has really just been an overall crappy year for any progress with all the other crap I’ve had going on - I plan on salvaging what’s left of it.

Woohoo. I’m forcing myself to put up new progress pics every month starting with November 30th. This ought to be interesting……….

Ha! It’s working again.

As for me, I’ve got some updating to do as I’ve clearly been slacking on my blog.

the more I want you
somehow this feeling
just grows and grows
with every sigh, I,
become more mad about you
and so it goes…….

I’m a very happy girl lately, and it has a lot to do with Mr. Man being back in town and spending more time together. I’m such a sap, I know, but what can I say? I adore him madly.

Diet has been good, but not great. We’ve ordered a lot of catered lunches for meetings the last two weeks, but I’ve been making the healthier choices, so that’s good. Freezer is stocked with veggies, chicken, fish, shrimp and lean ground sirloin. Fridge is full of a lot of condiments, LOL……..along with not much else. Some V8 because I often don’t consume enough vegetables in the day. Cabinets have a lot of veggies as well, some healthy whole grain pastas and not much else. I find that if I keep the tempting evil foods out of the house, then it makes resisting them so much easier.

Workouts have been going well, still struggling with getting up early in the morning, but the change of season actually helps that for me. I much prefer getting up to go for a run in the crisp Fall air as opposed to summer heat.

Heading up to Cheeseland for the weekend, and while I’d planned on a quiet weekend with my nieces while my sister & her husband attend a class reunion, it has once again become full of activities - but they’re fun ones. Going to a baby shower and then the best haunted house around with a group of friends and their kids, then spending some time on my ex’s boat out on the lake on Sunday before coming back home and enjoying the fact that I don’t have to work on Monday.

Life is good.