Summer vacation week one

First week of vacation has been all over the place. Took Elizabeth and Tyler to Splash on Tuesday. Mayra was a no show. Then Mayra took Liz on Thursday with Jacqueline. Zack has been busy looking at army stuff. He can’t seem to break an 8 minute mile, which is a requirement. He’s passed everything else. Says this will stop the whole thing if he can’t do it. sigh. Taking Aslan to get meds for fireworks. He goes nuts. Don’t think Sheba will be a problem though unless she decides to copy Aslan.


House is not going to so well. I really like the one on Olive Branch. Probably my favorite. Now, it looks like we’ve lost it because the son got a hold of it and redid the whole stinking contract. So, we’re looking at another on Grovehill, right across the street from the one we liked so much in the beginning. It looks very well kept up, but a lot plainer. But we won’t know until we get inside. Backyard borders the tennis courts, which my daughter will love. Might make for a less private backyard though. Have to see if we are on a hill or something so they can’t look at our backyard. Imagine the dogs would be a real pain about it though.


We’ll see it tonight. Probably see Wall-Eee tomorrow. Have no idea how it is spelled. Should be fun. Zack is supposed to leave on Tuesday afternoon.

Graduation

Well, this is the last week before the school graduation. Lots of work to do. I went and paid for the tickets for the event. Our school rents a very nice facility called The Ritz Gardens. They cater the entire event, decorate, and provide a very nice room. I'm really looking forward to it, but there's so much work to be done, yet. I have to make all the certificates still and come up with our final numbers on honor roll, GPA etc.

But it sounds like it will go well. We have over 110 going to the event, so that's a pretty good crowd for our little school.

It's June

Well, I haven't written in a while. I had a series of birthdays and events and I cheated too much and gained back about 4 pounds. Now, I find myself back to at a 43-44 pound loss. I keep wavering in between, but haven't broken that barrier yet. I've hit the point where I'm just so tired of the HMR meals. I like the shakes and the protein bars and even the soup and breakfast. Those are all fine, but the meals themselves have become so repetitious it's hard for me to get them down. I only like one of them, the stew. The lasagna is ok, the rest really aren't things I care for very much. So, I started cheating a bit by having the lowest calorie Lean Cuisines for dinner. They are much better tasting, incredibly so, so that's my reward. Most of them are only just 40 more calories, at least the ones I've tried. But at least they aren't tomato based. My stomach just doesn't do well with all that tomato. Just too much acid for me.

So I've sinned by going out of the box. I just wish there was a bigger variety. I see the other companies that have so many choices you don't repeat anything in once month. I'd do better that way. After months on the diet I just say "ugh" when I pull another one out to eat. The next 2 weeks are very stressful for me because of getting ready for our school's graduation and my other job at the adult school is having an accreditation type review next week, adding more requirements for that week. Then it's over and maybe I can be better at all of this.

I still think HMR is a very effective diet, I just don't have the time to augment it with more variety to change the taste of the entrées.

Thanks for the comment Janet. Let me know how you are doing. Are you blogging about your HMR experience. I hope you are doing better than I with the meals.