Weight Loss

September 13th, 2009

I’m officially over a year post partum. I now weigh more then i did when i got out of the hospital after having Hailey.  It’s pretty embaressing to admit.

Last time i posted about my lack of motivation to clean, i got everything all cleaned up. I was way too lazy to take pics and post them though. Which is kind of sad considering it would have taken a whole 10-15 minutes of my time but oh well.

Point being i need to lose weight. My blood pressure is borderline to being high. I get out of breath way too easy, but most of all i feel really really gross.

WARNING! im super stretched marked and not all that pretty to look at. Hopefully this will change. I’m currantly weighing around 210 and i hope to make it down to 130 within 6 months. On thursday im starting a protein fast. My coworker did really well on it and has been able to keep the weight off for over a year now. I’ll be posting pictures once a month. I’m not proud of this first set but hopefully when i post next time i will feel slightly less embaressed.

 

 

Wish me luck 🙂

Dear Motivation,

January 30th, 2009

Come back please. I miss you. Well my apartment misses you! I’m doing pretty well procrastinating instead of cleaning. I’ve got about a thousand things i should be doing but computer games. message boards and typing up this blog are way more fun then cleaning.
I’ll just go ahead and post pictures of my mess. Maybe i’ll be embarressed enough to clean it up in a reasonable amount of time so that i can post new pictures.

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This is Haileys change table… she’s 5 months old today and i have yet to use it to change her on. It pretty much just gathers dust and clothes, and shoes and socks and random toiletries and probably a bunch of other random stuff. If you’re pregnant and tight on money… don’t bother with the change table, your bed will work just fine.

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The floor is actually not that bad, its been worse. She has too much clothes, i went over board. I buy everything i find “cute” i really have to stop doing that. I’ll take a picture of her closet and post it with my “clean” pictures once im done. Shes grown too tall for her baby tub. Her feet stick out, i had no idea where to put it so i decided the floor in her room was a good storage spot.

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Random stuff hidden under the crib. You probably can’t tell but theres a safe under there… with the keys in the lock!

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My bedroom. I have so much stuff in my drawers that they don’t close. I should probably go through that and throw away the socks with holes and bras that dont fit. I don’t like throwing things out. You just never know when you might need it.

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The living room… doesn’t look that bad in this picture but it really is. Under the table hidden by the exercauser theres a pile of baby clothes.

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I originally opened up the futon so that Hailey would have more space to play and move around, and because i found the floor to be too cold… but now im starting to think that i did it so that id have more space to dump stuff on.

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The desk. I’m not looking forward to going through all those papers. I kinda have piles going on… important, very important, and dont throw out ever. And then theres all my school stuff that i need to go through and organize. Those papers on the floor under the socks under the desk are actually really really important theyre my nursing liscense papers…oops!
and gotta love the random breast pad just laying there. its clean though, i promise.

My camera batteries died, so i’ll do my kitchen, laundry room, bathroom and storage room later.

Hopefully i’ll have at least one rooms “clean” pictures by the end of the day.

Meet the Bloggers; Jennifer

December 2nd, 2008

Blogging Mommy is… Jennifer

My brother & i

Her kiddo is… Hailey
Hailey 2 months

Her location is… Montreal, Quebec, Canada

How old are you now and how old is/are your munchkin(s)?
I turned 22 on August 9th, and my daughter was born on august 30th and that makes her 3 months old.

If you could describe your child in 3 words, what would they be?  happy, intelligent and beautiful.

What’s an average day like for you these days? I wake up between 8 and 10 depending on when hailey starts tossing around. (she sleeps in my bed) We play for a little while in bed until she starts getting grumpy cause shes hungry. Then she eats, we play, she falls asleep and thats pretty much repeated all day with a bunch of diaper changes until its bed time. I try to get her to bed around 8:30 but that just about always fails. Usually she starts getting tired whiney around 9 and if i dont manage to get her to fall asleep quickly enough then she’s up and whiney until whenever she gets exhausted enough which is usually between 11 and 1am. Sometimes she wakes up for a quick feed around 5am but thats been happening less often now.

If you had a day all to yourself (kid-free & lottery-financed), how would you spend it? I’d go shopping in the morning and id probably end up buying more stuff for my daughter then myself. (i seriously cannot enter a store that has toys/baby clothes without getting her something) In the afternoon id go get a massage and facial with my mom and sister. Id take my whole family out for supper at a super nice restaurant, and then id rent out a movie theater so we can watch a movie at the theater without having to listen to ppl talk and cell phones go off. After that i’d probably want to go get my daughter as quick as possible because i have a hard time leaving her for a few hours, i dont think i could handle a whole day! (though i guess that might change when she gets a bit older)

What would you say your parenting style is like?  So far, i think i’ve been pretty easy going. I go nuts though when random ppl touch her, i absolutly hate when a total stranger passes by and either touches her face or grabs her hands. (she just about is always sucking on her fingers) She’s been breast fed since she was a little over a day old. (i couldnt at the begining because of some meds i was on and i couldnt move my arms) She eats a bit of rice cereal every morning, i don’t necessarily believe that food should be put off until 6 months. She had just about all the signs that she was ready to eat at around 2 months old. (it gets pretty hard to breast feed her sometimes because she always wants to stop eating to chat & she doesn’t push the food out of her mouth with her tongue) She wears cloth diapers most of the time and i absolutly love them. The times she doesnt wear them is because i was too lazy/tired to wash them the previous day. I don’t believe in spankings in my opinion its too easy to get carried away, and also too easy to take it a step above just spanking. Hopefully she will be able to learn through positive reinforcement and time outs.

What do you feel you have enough of in life? What do you want more of? Less of? I definitly have enough love and support. I wish i could have a tiny bit more money and another baby someday. and sometimes i wish i had less responsibilities.

How “blended” is your family? Are you still with the dad(s) of your kid(s)? Who has whose last name in the family? I’m still with Haileys dad but he lives in the states and i live in canada so its pretty complicated. She has his last name.

What are some of your big pet peeves? People who drive like idiots and ppl who park on the sidewalk. seriously makes no sense to me that they think its okay for them to do that! oohh and ppl who are always late.

What are the most unique things about yourself? I seem to like complicated things. I put everyones feelings and needs before mine. and i have no more gallbladder!

And finally, what’s your writing/blogging history and style? Throughout most of highschool some friends and i had a blog. We’d make stories with pictures, write about our lives. Was lots of fun. I have a pretty bad writing style, i make a ton of run on sentances, use crappy punctuations, dont use capital letters, im probably a grammar freaks nightmare, sometimes i write stuff that makes no sense to anyone but me, but i get to blame all that on the fact that im french.