Hey Chickieeeee

Well nothing exciting happening today, yesterday was not fun. I was going to borrow my YDD's truck so I could to go Houston to finish the shopping I needed to do at Sam's. I went the day before, but I drive a very small Ford Focus, and we had 2 car seats so I could not get half the stuff I still needed.

Well she didn't really want to loan it to me, I don't blame her but still. She acts like I have never driven a truck before!! Ugh!

So the plan was, take grandspawn to the movies to see Turbo, then drop him back off and head to Sam's so I could finish up my shopping and then home to rest and relax. Didn't happen.

First off the movie starts at 12:15, my phone starts vibrating at 12:20. YDD calls to tell me she locked my keys in the car. How she did that is beyond me, especially since it was running and its not suppose to do that if you are not in the vehicle.
And she left her badge, and all her stuff in the car and she had to be at work at 1pm.

So I leave with a crying 5 year old in tow to go open the door of my car. I was soo pissed I just told her to take her damn truck. I promised GS I would take him back to see the movie that evening, but I had to go to Sams. I took out the car seats and everything that was in the trunk, and I was off by 1:30.
Houston/Pearland is a 45 minute drive from my house, and I had to do the shopping and make it back by 4:30, so I was on a deadline.

Even with me driving like a bat out of hell up there I would be cutting it close, but on top of all that the weather was crap. It was raining off and on everywhere I went so needless to say I did not make it back in time to go to the 4:30 movie, so we went to the 7pm one instead. By the time I got home last night at I was exhausted, I was in bed and asleep before the end of the news!

But on the plus side I got a lot of exercise in! All the fast walking and pushing a very heavy buggy!! I had been doing really good till I left Sams and needed to eat, I went to a BBQ place and got the regular 2 meat plate: sausage, ribs, coleslaw, and sweet potatoes, and I ate entirely too much of it. I was pretty miserable already, but I didn't think anything of it. Then when I got home I unloaded all the car and had to go potty, which I needed to drink some Metamucil,  and we all know how filling that is!! So I added that on top of what I had eaten, so I was getting really miserable, then I totally busted at the movies, I ate a whole movie box of whoppers.
So by the time I got home I was having one bad ass pain in my chest. Ugh I was miserable. I walked around and twisted and moved my upper body, raised my hands over my head, burped and passed gas enough to be a wind tunnel but no relief. I finally just made myself go to bed and hoped I would feel better when I woke up.

Now this morning I am going to take it easy on the foods!

For breakfast I have had 1/4 cup of cottage cheese and 1 regular Rockin Wellness shake and I am not going to eat again for at least 4 hours! lol I was in too big of a hurry yesterday and didnt listen to my body and I paid for it. Today I am going to take it easy and listen to what its telling me!

I am also going back to the movies today for me, I am going to go see The Lone Ranger!!
No popcorn, No candy. Just a bottle of water, me, a dark theater, and Johnny Depp in a loin cloth and war paint on..does it get any better??? I think not

Later!

Busy Busy Busy!!

Wow, where to begin!

It's been very busy this morning.  I started making the fig preserves.

I have the lids and seals going in hot water, and the jars in the dishwasher on sanitize, I have started the figs working on the stove.

everything workin on the stove

And the figs smell and taste awesome!! 

I had a tasty Rockin Wellness drink, just the plain one with ice. And of course YDD just walked in the house with freaking cheese sticks from Sonic...so I had 1. 

I am starving right now, but I am working on the preserves so I will get to that in a little while. I am feeling thinner, IDK, I avoid the scales at all cost though.

We went for a walk last night, not a good idea. I usually wear flip flops everywhere so I figured we were just going to walk around the block so I was not going to put on my tennis shoes. (around the block here is exactly 1 mile from my front door.) Well we were about halfway around the block when the bottom fell out, and we got drenched!! But let me remind you, I was wearing flip flops. We all know what happens when we wear flip flops and they are wet. You slip and slide EVERYWHERE! 

Still pretty proud though, 1 mile, 18 minutes in the pouring rain with flip flops! lol 

Today should be the last of the rain, me, my garden, my chickens, and ducks are liking it. I am not looking forward to the dry that's going to come back, or the heat. 

I wish it was October already!! At least it starts to cool down then! 

Ok I got to go stir the figs, be back on later with pictures of what the preserves look like finished!

Later!

Rain Rain Rain....

I had a great day today!

I went and met two friends for brunch and of course before I left I had my awesome Rockin Wellness shake, just the plain one. For lunch I had a BLT, and I just barely finished it!

I had to bump my darn calories to 1300, because 1200 was not cutting it.

I just had a 6 inch subway flatbread turkey breast with onions, tomato, spinach, and chipotle southwest sauce. No Cheese and only 231 calories!!! I still have like 571 calories left for dinner tonight!!

I'm excited about that, but I really need to get back down to 1000 calories. I think I might call the Dr. next week and ask if I can get a fill sooner.

Tomorrow I am going to be working on making Fig Preserves, I am going to make some sugar free, some regular sugar. The regular sugar ones I think I am going to do the Ginger Fig preserves... yummy!!!

This is the 8 quart bucket of figs that I am going to use to make the preserves. And I still have a ton more on the tree outside. 

I think I am going to go walk in a little while. It's been raining outside but it feels nice around 8pm and its still nice and sunny out at that time. 

Later!

Side Note and Abbreviations

If you are reading this and you see a lot of abbreviations and are like WTF is that? Here are some of the more common ones I use.

• DH - Dear Husband
• DD- Darling Daughter
• YDD- Youngest Darling Daughter
• ODD- Oldest Darling Daughter
• S1 & S2 - Spawn 1 and Spawn 2.. also known as listed above
• GM- Grand Monster (grandchild) 
• SOS - Also known as Son of Spawn
• FFY - Fend For Yourself (we have this about once a week, especially when we have plenty of leftovers)
• WTF - Seriously? I think most know what this means, if not its What The *Fork* I usually use the other word, but I'm being nice. 
• PIMA- Pain In My .... neither region
• IMO - In My Opinion
• JMHO - Just My Humble Opinion

the list will go on..lol when I think of more that I actually use.

Ok going to do something productive now.

Later.

Today was a good day, it's day uhhh 39 post surgery

Got up this morning after twisting and turning and having weird dreams (and the blanket was wrapped around me like a rope) and went to have lunch at Carino's with some ladies I have met in a local group from facebook.

I had a blast! One of the ladies has chickens like me, but she bypasses me on the amount, and another of the ladies, I think we were split at birth. She and I have the same sense of humor, the same likes, and the same loud mouth. You know we are going to be fast friends!

I come home, and YDD is cleaning the house, you cant beat that! And I didn't even ask her to!

Could it get any better?? Yes it can, its RAINING!! and we need the rain around here!

I had a Rockin Wellness shake this morning, plain; just ice, mix and almond milk, and it was very tasty.  I am now full of energy!
And for lunch I had the pecan crusted grilled salmon, which is strange because it had nothing on the salmon, nothing. The ''crusted'' pecans were beside it on the plate, and it tasted more like candied pecans, so I avoided them and ate some of the salad and all of the salmon.

I want to go outside and do something with all this energy but its raining, so it looks like I am going to Zumva in a few minutes and maybe go outside under the carport and work on the dining room table I need to sand down so I can stain.

I also did my sunflowers today, so they are soaking and I am going to go rewatch the video to make sure I am doing it right.

Yep I am doing them right, soak for 24 hours in a salt water bath, drain them tomorrow, let them dry then oven roast them and I have sunflower seeds!

I also took a picture of me today, I was feeling rather pretty. But I noticed I am getting ''old lady neck'' and I'm not liking that at all. Going to have to get me a facercise book and flex them muscles!

Oh and I have to put the weird mutant cucumber on here. It's just too odd not to. I have been calling it the vagina cucumber because, well, thats what it kinda looks like. I know, I know! X-rated vegetables is not something people want to really see but its not nasty, its just what it reminds me of. 

The mutant vagina cucumber

Let me know what you think it looks like! Anyways I am getting off here, tonight is ''FFY'' here at the old Urban Homestead so I am going to find me some soup and hide it so no one else sees it. lol

Later.

OMG... SWEAT!

I did it!! I just completed one whole song on the Zumba Rush Kinect. Yes it was a low intensity song but I FINISHED IT!

My ears are pounding, my heart is racing, my nose is running, and I think I even tinkled a little bit but I finished the song and got 4 stars! But I only burned 89 calories, but that's 89 calories less outta my body!

Now I have a headache so I am going to sit down for a little while but I am just so damn proud of myself. I am still going to walk this evening on my treadmill to burn some more calories, but I don't want to overdo it. Start small and work my way up. Thank God there was no one around to see me dancing other than the dogs..lol oh speaking of dogs, mine were watching me like I was an idiot. At least I'm not panting like a dog anymore  haha I'll have to get a picture next time.

OK I am going to go lay down now, I think my heart rate is finally going back to normal...my vision is not blurred anymore..

Later

I have a headache from staring at this darn computer screen!

I have been working on this blog, and I THINK I have it figured out, well kinda. I have a link so you can go check out my page on facebook, and I have figured out (thanks to Code It Pretty) how to put the Pin It hover button on my pictures. Now I just have to figure out how to get people to go follow one of my boards. lol

Food wise, bad, bad, bad today.

I had 3 mini sliders today for lunch, plus a half of a small avocado. I know this shows only 2, but this was dinner last night, I just had leftovers. I figured up the calories for my mini sliders and just for 2 its 561.. which is not bad on the whole, but when you throw 3 in there PLUS the avocado. Ugh. There goes those 1200 calories, I think I have like 200 left over for dinner so I am going to walk on my treadmill tonight and have some chicken breast with a salad!

Ugh I was just outside in the backyard making sure the animals (ducks and chicks) had plenty of water. It's 91 degrees outside with 100% humidity. It's freaking miserable. You come back inside you feel like you have just sweat out a gallon of water, and your heart is doing silly bumps and beats because you were in direct sun trying to get things done. At least the chicks and ducks have plenty of places to lay out of the sun.
The big ducks and my Sex Link Ladies like to lay under my herb garden bed. (I have to check there periodically for eggs) My gardens are 4x4 boxes that are about a foot off the ground. So plenty of shade and cool under there.
The Cochins I had to build a makeshift covering beside their pen with a tarp because they are not brave enough to venture over to the herb bed to get some shade. I think the bigger ladies intimidate them.
Then again I would be intimidated too, they are half the size of the Sex Links!

I feel so accomplished because I did all the little tweaks to my blog! I even have it linked to facebook.
I don't quite know how I feel about all my friends knowing about my surgery, but I guess its too late to worry now. I have had quite an outpouring of support so far, and it also takes care of the awkward questions of ''Hey you look different! Did you have plastic surgery?" (Yes, I have seriously been asked that. And I have only lost 20 pounds so far.)

Well the DH is wanting me to spend some quality time with him and off this computer so I am out!
I'll message back this evening with a dinner photo!

Later