Tonight I tried a new Weight Watchers recipe and I wasn't excited about it...I felt it needed more flavor! Mark said it tasted really good. I made Orange Beef with Broccoli...it uses broccoli slaw. I think next time I will use real broccoli and more orange juice (fresh squeezed!). I squeezed the oranges and zested the orange! I felt like Martha Stewart - LOL!

I have another new recipe I want to make but I am a little unsure so I think we will be having stir fry for dinner tomorrow night. I am hoping I will be able to do some beading tomorrow night.

I was so excited that I was able to help Wendy, Jen, Judy and Tori cut fabric for the next three months of block of the month club at Frank's Sewing Center. I was so glad I got a chance to do some "quilting" related crafting. I have not had a lot of time to quilt...I have a lot of other things that have been taking up my time.

I did follow up with my insurance company today and I am working on setting up my sleep apena test. I am hoping to set it up for next weekend...this weekend I have other plans with my family! I also need to go to have my cholesterol level tested and other blood work as well. Tonight on Biggest Loser they talked about sleep apnea and how weight loss decreases how much you snore, etc. The doctor also explained that blood pressure increases when you have sleep apnea so there is hope that my blood pressure will go down.

Allergies and all that other stuff

Well I had to go to the allergist and guess what...we found a medication the insurance company will cover...only problem no decongestant for me. Why you may ask ... well my blood pressure has sky rocketed. It could have something to do it the caffeine I drank and the yelling match i had with HR and how nervous I was, ohh did I mention I left work late to go to the doctor's office. Anyways, it was up there and I came up with several reasons as you can tell. Tuesday I went to start immunotherapy ... weekly shots ... I asked them to check my blood pressure and my upper number went up one number and my bottom number fell eleven numbers. I have been soo worried about this. The allergist also thinks I am Vitamin D deficient as I am extremely pale. I am a red head with a pale complexion but he has seen me before and he was really shocked with how pale I am. Not good...nor is the high blood pressure. After I had my shot I got pretty sick to my stomach. This happened when i was younger and I went through allergy shots. I can't believe I have to go through them again but hopefully I will feel better soon.

Some changes I have been making is that I am doing my nails and trying to take better care of myself. I need to lose some weight ... okay a lot of weight and I need to get serious about this now...how can I do this...I am such a non-commiter on this and I have been successful on WW before. HELP! I know if I lose weight my blood pressure will go down...If you have any ideas on any of this please post a comment...Thanks for your help and support my friends.

Happy New Year and All that Jazz!!!

Wow it's the New Year....where did the last one go? I think I blinked and it was Christmas. I also looked at so many of my friends blogs and could not believe how much they got done in one month...I am a lazy quilter! I am also having a pity party for myself today as I have a cold.

I was fine last night and woke up with a full blown cold...I was going to go to Weight Watcher (one of my promises to myself is this year I will eat better!) WW is not a diet - I know it works I lost 30 lbs. My problem is I gained all 30 back when I went off of WW because I love food. I like to think I have a relationship with food - crazy but true. I am going to try not to be an emotional eater. Okay so I got up and went into the ladies room...Emma the crazy dog went up on the dresser next to my bed and took my roll of Vitamin C tablets and took off. I was in the process of washing my hands so I took off after her. By the time I got downstairs well she had the packaging ripped apart and one Vitamin C tablet on the floor ready for hoovering! So I have to stick my hand in her mouth to remove said hoovered tablet as I don't want her eating it....well out comes the tablet and the rest of the roll that are still in her mouth. I wash my hands AGAIN and now I have to give her, her morning pill. Okay I think to myself this is doable. Now I give her her pill which is the size of a quarter and I have to push it to the back of her throat so she must swallow it! Okay AGAIN I wash my hands. Now I go get dressed and come downstairs with my pillow - I think I slept for 5 hours total on and off. I have a head cold and my brain is killing me...my sinus is sore and my ears well my ears hurt as does my throat. My lunch was some Chicken and Wild Rice Soup...soothing yes, filling not so much!

Since then I have gone on some websites and read my e-mail. Tracy from Sewthankful has a Blog called Let's get sewing (http://www.sewthankful.com/blog/) and her latest post is titled My New Motto and Challenge: Be Great in 2008! What a great idea! It is to be great at whatever you want.

Let's see what else...ohh yeah Emma is fine the little bit of Vitamin C tablet she ate did nothing to her...she is fine in fact when our mail carrier came she felt right as rain...she was ready to bark and carry on as if she would kill him the whole time wagging her little stump of a tail. What can I say Miss Emma was going to protect me from the postal carrier! I should probably sleep some more or I might watch Harry Potter movies. I tried to read but just couldn't concentrate. Also when I was typing a response on Jen's blog http://cre8tivequilter.blogspot.com/ I was having a hard time typing Plastic Shoe Boxes instead I wrote shoe box plastic is what I kept my scraps in! Okay I know when I should stop and I am about there! I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years!

Not Much Going On

Well Happy Sweetest Day!

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I went to Weight Watchers and we will see what happens. I need to work on my motivation. I have been trying to get ready for the big challenges and the long journey I will be making with weight loss but I have been down on myself because it is going to be a long journey. It's depressing to think about how much I have to lose.

My x-rays results of my left foot came in and I have not one but two bone spurs all be it one is tiny per the doctor. Size does not matter though...it is causing a lot of pain. Now she is sending me to the podiatrist. I will probably have to have x-rays taken of my right foot as I have been having pain in both. The doctor only ordered the x-rays on my left foot because she figured it hurt worse so we could see the problems and then she would send me to the podiatrist if it was spurs. Well now I need to find a doctor and hopefully one who is close to home. My doctor is about 1/2 hour away from our house. Not bad but there are doctors closer. I really miss my old doctor...she moved on to working in a hospital so she was no longer taking patients obviously.

I haven't worked on any of the quilt tops I made. I have been thinking about my quilt room and I am hoping my husband and I can work in there sometime this weekend or next weekend. With Mark working on Saturdays that leaves us Sundays and that's not a lot of time. I know tomorrow part of the day he is going to spend with his brother working out in our garage...I will be watching the kids. I was going to clean the house while Eric (Mark's brother) was here but now I will be watching the kids in the morning.

I just bought the book The Secret...it was suggested by the leaders of my WW group. They suggested it because I have been down for a while about my weight and they think it will help me form a more positive attitude about it (weight loss). Has anyone read it and do they have any suggestions? Also I am trying to figure out some rewards for weight loss...so far I have come up with a manicure, a pedicure, a massage, a book, a dvd, a cd, okay I need help from there. Any ideas.

Sorry this is off topic but just needed to aske some questions and to vent a little. Well I am going to try putting my feet up and see if that helps with the pain...yikes I didn't know this would get so bad.

Not Much Quilting Going On

Well I had to take all of my stuff upstairs and put it in the quilting room. I was spread out on our first floor and was working on blocks down here. Well Mark wants to tear out the carpeting tomorrow so I took everything upstairs last night.

I was at my Mom's birthday party today at my brother's house. I made a homemade carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. I think everyone likes the frosting the best. Terry, my sister-in-law made Chicken Enchiladas...YUM!

I was going to go to Weight Watchers this morning but instead I slept in. I really need to get back on track....does anyone have any tips...I love fast food and ice cream...both do me in every time. Last time I was on Weight Watchers I lost 30 lbs. I gained it all back so I really need to buckle down. I know I can do it I just can't convince myself to get started. I keep saying to myself I will start tomorrow. I also get depressed thinking about how much I have to lose...there is not a picture of me on my website because I don't like how I look. Okay enough of my feeling sorry for myself when I created my own mess.

I looked at a couple of my projects tonight and I hope to get some started tomorrow. I also have to do laundry. I really do not like cleaning or laundry...it just cuts into my quilting time. I can't believe how many projects I have started. I didn't count and am afraid to. I have them hidden all over the quilt room. Some are in bags...some are piled together, some are in a tin...it is mind boggling how all these started tops multiply like rabbits. Where do they come from and when did I have the time to start all of them. Tomorrow I am hoping to work on picking out some more of the fabrics for my egg money quilt. I just feel like my days slide by. I have been so tired and my planters faciatis is just horrible lately.

I want to start working on the furniture for my quilt room but again I just haven't had time. Ohh well I'll just add that to my to do list which is getting longer by the minute. I also have to work on a mess in my kitchen tomorrow. Ohh how the day goes so quickly when you are having fun. Any ideas on how to get all this done esp all the projects that are started?