Rain or snow?

It's nasty outside!

The past few days it's been so dark when I get up. I can't wait for daylight savings so that I can wake up and know that it's time to start my day!

I just watched the news and it's reported that we might get snow showers.

WTF??

I guess it is October though!

Must move more.

I keep saying every few weeks how I need to trim down. I'm finally down from our trip to Philly but I feel like my clothes just don't fit like they used to.

Not to mention, I've spent a lot of money on my wardrobe and so I can't afford to buy a new one!

Maybe we should get an elliptical machine so that I can workout from home.

It seems like the hardest part of working out is actually getting out of the house.

All work...

These past few weeks at work have been so busy. My boss has talked about bringing on another employee but I'm not sure that's the right answer with the economy being in shambles and noone knowing where all of this is going to go.

So far I've been able to keep up with everything and just put a few extra hours in here and there.

What kills me is when I'm on the road and don't have access to phone or email. Typically I check in and make calls throughout the day.

I just need more time in the day!

They worked for Shawna!

Maybe I should try diet pills too!

When Shawna resigned to stay home with Graem she was prescribed a few diet pills. To say the least they were what jumpstarted her weight loss and she was able to get down to an all time low.

The good thing was that after she had lost some of the weight it was much easier to lose more.

Let the diet begin!

Yesterday as we were driving home we decided that we should start our diet. It was nice because after having delicious food all week in Philly it was easy to have a light meal last night!

Of course, it's lunch time now and I'm STARVING!

Maybe I should just go to the treadmills at the local gym instead of McDonalds.

We don't have a thing!

I swear office supplies in our house are pretty scarce.

When Shawna was working she always used to bring nice pens home since she did some work from home. We had collected quite the number of pharmaceutical pens.

However, just the other day I realized that we didn't have *any* pens at all! So for the first time in about 10 years we had to go out and buy a few packs.

I can't wait til we get to go school shopping with the kids. FUN FUN FUN.

Flab.

Well, at least I've been able to get back to my 150 pound mark. I was exceeding my limits for a while there and I contributed it to extensive maternity leave and the fact that we were eating way too much and too often!

Of course, I might be interested in reading weight loss pill reviews if I want to start on a fat pill any time soon!

*gulp*

Our friend, L, mentioned the other day that she was down $30,000 for the year. Now that's a lot of money! Right now I have a pretty large amount of money in savings and I've been looking at ways to invest.

I've thought about futures trading but I'm not sure I want to take the risk right now.

At this point I have some ability to go risky and I know I should just take the plunge in order to diversify my portfolio.

Nice.

When we were in New York I tinkered around with all of my dad's cameras. He has the Leica, Canon, Nikon D90, Samsung, and Olympus digital SLRs.

It was a lot of fun but somewhat overwhelming because there were tons of settings and it reminded me how much I love my Canon Powershot point and shoot!

What can I say...

I pick Shawna's blackheads.

The reality is we all need someone to help us out and instead of them getting infected in her skin I pop them.

I've noticed that I have some blackheads on my nose and try to pick them but they aren't as fulfilling as hers and many times I don't get anything out.

I suppose at some point if they really bothered me I could start washing my face more or using cleanser.

Where's my money?

Years ago Shawna used to be an accountant. She had a decent job and was constantly looking at spreadsheets all day. Her best friend worked in collections and always said that the company would be better off with commercial collection agencies because they had so much outstanding and she could only do so much.

Another flipside of going through an outside agency is that the company that is owed is not seen as the bad guy and it's more of a routine process.

Dumb computer.

Our computer is a serious piece of crap.

It dies once every week and each week I think that we're going to have to take the plunge and buy a new one!

Of course, we could just do the quick fix and purchase more memory!

My dad mentioned when we were in Houston that it takes quite a bit of memory to run Windows Vista and we have about half of what's needed.

Duh. User error?

Behind the times.

We ended up taping the birth of little Emmy. Kim showed up at just the right time and got every minute of the action.

However, now that I think about it...I wish we had a new camcorder.

They have some great ones now that allow you to tape directly to a DVD. Our old school camcorder takes the cassettes and you have to buy something for your VCR in order to play from the cassette. Or you can just plug it into the television.

What a pain.

Get me out of here!

I must say that I'm loving the great weather we've had lately. We've been doing everything we can do to take advantage of the sun and heat!

However, I know it's not going to last forever and I should come up with a plan to get so sun the middle of the winter.

That's why I'm eyeing Orlando vacations. Not only do they have great fun for the whole family....but also perfect weather!

Just keeps going up...

I can't believe the cost of car insurance these days. It's really gotten out of control. In fact, ours keeps increasing each year and there's going to come a point where we can't afford to keep our cars on the road with the cost of insurance, the car itself, and GAS!

Heck, with life insurance, health insurance, car insurance we're spending around 25% of Margot's income!

Must have...

3 strollers.

Now I know this sounds excessive to the person without kids but we have learned that over time you must get the accessory that gets the job done!

We have the:

Travel stroller - Maclaren Volo
Carseat stroller for baby - Peg Perego Aria
Double stroller - Phil and Ted's with double

Each one has it's purpose ... of course at one point we were thinking of getting another stroller. Yikes. Maybe that would put us over our stroller consumption limit!

I'm still looking for the ...

best diet pills available.

When Shawna was dieting she did Xenical and Phenteramine. However, they had awful side effects.

I feel like I need a little bit of a boost and something that will help me suppress my appetite.

Of course, I could just do the logical thing and eat less and move more. I've talked about getting a gym membership for ages and just can't bring myself to pay the outrageous membership costs.

It's got to get better...

Lately, we've had a hard time trying to find the perfect credit card. We go back and forth constantly depending on what deals we can find.

Our favorite is 0 balance transfer. That allows us to put money in the bank in an interest bearing account and then collect some income from that while we pay nothing on our debt.

Of course, at some point it would be nice to have no debt....

A girl can dream, right?

So fat.

Well we're back from vacation and I didn't do too bad with the weight gain. However, I started out chunky and so a few pounds here and there has not been a good thing.

I think I might look into a elliptical to get the unwanted pounds off.

At one point I was thinking that I might get a membership to the gym but everytime I've done that I ended up going a few times and the membership goes to waste.

Having a home gym would give me no excuses to get my butt in gear!

Dead.

To say the least our laptop computer is not working. The other day I was able to get it to start up and access to the desktop but I still haven't been able to get it online.

I'm starting to think that I need to get some laptop memory and have more diagnostics run.

My other option is to buy a new laptop and not install Windows Vista!