May 4th, 2009

Started my day off late thanks to crappy sleep. I hate this heat! Had planned on getting a bowl of cereal but opted to just grab a glass of Slim Fast instead and clean up the kitchen.

Not sure what we'll do today. John's off of work. Lol, no surprise there. I'm thinking I'm going to go in the garage and start bagging up some paper and breaking down the boxes. That idea doesn't really appeal to me at all but it needs to be done and I'll feel better once there's some sort of organization going on in there.

We have decided to throw a birthday party for Chance. We'll just do a small thing here at the house. I know he has been expecting a big party and he STILL talks about his birthday party last year, so I felt awful thinking he wouldn't get a party this year since we really don't know anyone here. But when we went to the hail and farewell, one of John's co workers started talking to Chance and asking him gift he wanted him to bring to his party. Well shoot....lol. Have to have one now! But once he said that I thought that maybe we could just invite some people in John's battalion. I'm going to specify on the invitations that gifts are not necessary at all because that's not at all why I want to do a party for him. I think 5 years is a big milestone for kids and I want him to have his day. So the other week, we had him pick our his invitations and he picked Star Wars. Lol, how this kid ended up a Star Wars fan is beyond me. I think I have the Star Wars Lego video games to blame for that. So yeah....we're going to give this party a try and see if anyone will show up. Probably just pick up some ready made stuff from Costco since they have some mmmm mmmmm good looking stuff there. I guess it will be a good way to once again meet some of the wives in the group but I decided yesterday that I am giving up on making friends here. If it happens, it happens and that's awesome but I'm not going to go out of my way. Hopefully in the fall, I'll be in school (really need to get on the ball with that if I want to make that happen). So that will be something to keep me occupied.

As I posted before, Chance is in karate and he is loving it. He has classes 3 days a week and once he gets his yellow belt-he can go 5x a week if he wants. He came home from his class on Saturday and showed me what he has to do if a stranger grabs him. It was too cute. I was checking John's email to read about the spirit week they're having this week where they can wear silly socks, crazy hair etc, and there was another email in there from them about another program they're starting on May 9th. They're going to be doing a special family class where if you have a family member already enrolled, you can come with them on Saturdays and train for free. All you have to do is buy a t shirt and pants. I saw that and got so excited. I told John I definitely wanted to do that. I was disappointed when I saw they didn't offer a family class and that's another reason I didn't join. So that will be something else for me to do one day of the week.

Okay I had no intention of posting so much but we know how that goes. Chance is telling me it's time for a choc shake so I guess i'm gonna go make one for him. Lol, he's getting all into the shakes and smoothies like John and I. For real though, the Magic Bullet is the BEST. By far the best investment we have made in some time. That thing gets used sometimes three or four times a day.

I'll be updating my food log throughout the day.

Breakfast-
Slim Fast shake

Snack/lunch-
combined the two since we got caught up in the garage
5.5 oz glass of V8 to choke down the GSE, leftover 6 inch sub from Subway

Dinner-
No appetite thanks to feeling like a pile of crap, but attempted to eat a little bit of ham. It tasted weird and gross so after a few bites, I tossed it.

May try to eat some yogurt and berries again tonight as a snack but I feel really really yucky. Think I will start another post about that.

Bedtime snack-
Broke down and got a snack. Gotta just keep swimming through this yuck.
So for a snack, organic french vanilla yogurt with frozen berries, flax meal, and scoop of all bran.