Soooo close!

I weighed in yesterday at 200.6.  A loss of 2.2 pounds which is awesome.  Onederland is so close!!

This week for sure, this week for sure!!!  I just have to lose 0.8 to see my weight start with a one again!


I do however get to update this little guy because I have passed 25 pounds now so that's kind of fun. I'll take it!  I never thought it would be thrilling updating the badge every 5 pounds but it really is :) This week was pretty good food-wise right up until the end.  More on that in a bit.  Almost all of our classes at the gym were cancelled due to Spring Break this past week so the only one going was boot camp on Tuesday night which I DID GO TO!  Then on Saturday morning I went for a brisk 7 km walk with one of my boot camp girls (Lindsay :).  It finally felt like spring, then promptly snowed the next day.



Now I'm going to whine a little bit.  It's not really weight-loss related but it did make me jump head first into a giant bag of chips and container of dip last night.  I ATE THE WHOLE THING.

For the most part, the older I get, the more okay I am with being single.  People that know me in real life will scoff.  But it's true.  The older I get, I'm getting better at it.  It's not something I would EVER choose but hey, that's the way it is.  That and hearing annoying stories about friends husbands sometimes makes me glad I don't have one. :) Keep them coming ladies!

However, there are times when the pangs strike and strike hard.  Jealousy gets the better of me.  I feel sour, old, and bitter.  Those times are usually brought on by babies, travel, and financial calamity.  Babies is self-explanatory.  Married couples who are having trouble conceiving aren't the only ones having trouble conceiving.  Travel - my issue here is that it's so expensive to plan a trip as a single.  Everything is based on double occupancy and honestly, most of my friends didn't start going through the trouble of traveling till they found their person, then they were all about the vacations and trips.

This brings me to the last one, financial calamity.  The one striking pain right now.  By this I mean the unexpected things.  The unexpected $$ expensive $$ things.  While I LOVE the condo I bought last year, sometimes I do feel the weight and the pressure of being a single income and would so love to split the mortgage and bills sometimes.  The pressure that would alleviate would be wonderful.  When I'm really into worrying, I start thinking about money for retirement and where that's going to come from and hope like crazy that I won't be an old lady eating cat food.  I mean, what would my cat eat??  Or when something breaks down, it would be so nice to say "hey, can you deal with this one?"  I've had one thing after another this past year and most recently, which has prompted this whole whiny thing, is my transmission.  Yes, sigh, my car.  I have a 97 Honda Civic with very low kilometers on it and right now, it's been at the garage since Thursday and my mechanic (I love him) is looking for a used transmission for me because my choice is scrapyard or transmission for around $1300 or $1500.  I can't afford a car payment of any kind at the moment so my choice is really transmission or no car at all.  No, I won't rob a bank!

Not my car but exactly my car.

No car wouldn't be the worst thing in the world however, for me, I would feel the loss of independence greatly.  I hate asking for rides or always needing to be picked up.  I like to go where I want to go and leave when I want to leave.  My car means freedom to me.  I worked hard for it and I distinctly remember the day I got to pick it up and it was so exciting.  I have loved this car for nearly 10 years and fingers crossed, with a transmission, I could love it for another couple years.  So for now, I'm hoping Frank (mechanic) calls soon saying he's got the perfect transmission for me.  I'm looking at where I can tighten up my budget further and keep an eye on the job postings at work.  Seriously, there's about three hens I would love to push into retirement with my foot.  One literally SLEEPS at her desk and the other surfs the net and talks to her retired friends all day.  I cannot believe those two make more money than I do for a job I can do better.  Hopefully, my car will live long enough for me to get into a higher paygrade.  :)  ENTER THE POTATO CHIPS.  All of this money stuff that's been plaguing me since Thursday finally cracked me last night and I walked to the convenience store on the corner and bought a bag of chips, container of dip, and a lottery ticket.  I'm so weak.  Not really, but in that moment I was.  I ate it all and then crawled into bed, cried a little and fell asleep with an upset stomach.  The one silver lining is that I haven't eaten chips & dip in so long (New Year's Eve) that my stomach actually didn't like it anymore.  That's gotta say something for all my healthy eating!!  :)

Better go start taste-testing cat food.  KIDDING!!!  I'm going to make a tuna melt, shower, get my pj's on and settle in for The Good Wife.  So happy it's a new episode tonight. :)

Can't believe I've got 99 followers that I know of.  That's crazy.  Crazy awesome but crazy all the same :)