The Garage….

Our garage is scary. And what’s scarier is that you can only close it from inside the house so often we don’t know if its closed or open. It is so full of garbage and crap that you cannot even get to the middle of it to get the stroller or the kids bikes. Today is the day we clean it up. Now that its light outside for longer periods of time, we should be able to get it all organized and cleaned out today. I will load the van, and Sean will take all the garbage to a drop off center. I can’t wait. I mean, I know I said I was a naturally messy person, but that doesn’t mean I am one of those people that drowns in dirt and lives in a complete dump. When it starts to get bad, I usually have a nice girl come in to help me get caught up and do the big stuff. Then I yell at Sean and the kids to try and keep the place clean. And I try to pick up after myself a little. Then it starts to get bad again. Then after I work overtime, I hire the girl again.

I am thinking that I may have to hire landscapers for my front yard. But I don’t want to pay for it. Its just that I really know so little about plants and shrubs. No, I will persever on my own. If I just plant one shrub a day then soon they will all be planted.

Well I’ve been trying to follow weight watchers for 4 days now. I stayed within the 24points for 2 days, and for 2 days I used the remainder of the points I had. (Well those two days I simply stopped counting and pigged out at my Mom’s but that’s pretty much the ww freebies that I used.) Now I need to stick with the 24 points a day till Wed. night. And then the week starts all over. Until I know I’m losing, I don’t think I’ll even bother weighing myself.

I’m also putting off exercising until I get a handle of nutrition.

My goals today:

1. Stick to weight watchers points.

2. Eat slowly.

Birthday and Passover.

Today as I logged on I found my first comment. Thank you!

I’m still trying to get the hang of using this site. It was my daughter’s birthday on Thursday. She is now 5. On Friday we celebrated the birthday at my Mom’s and then she wanted us to come over for Passover on Saturday. At first I protested but then felt guilty that I was skipping out on the traditional dinner and depriving my kids of the traditional celebration and a feeling of their traditional roots. Anyway of course I went. And of course I ate too much. Somehow I just forgot that I was on weight watchers. I just simply forgot the whole night that I was supposed to be watching my weight.

I am a complete idiot when it comes to repeating my mistakes. I know that I can’t stick to weight watchers yet, I keep trying it over and over again. So I know that it doesn’t work for me but I keep doing the same thing over and over hoping that something will change.

Today, Cinderella is coming for Ar’s b-day party. She is very excited. I don’t know if more than 3 girls will come but I don’t care. The less work there’s for me to do. I have a cold today and feeling quite lousy.

Yesterday I was on a mission to make my house get some curb appeal. I looked so terrible before. I tried to diguise it with rocks but that just made it look even worse. So I bought some edge bricks and dug out a small trench to put the bricks in. Then I mixed up the ground with some soil and now I have to plant the shrubs. I got a very good workout!

So little did I know that the hole for the shrubs has to be 3 times as deep and as wide as the container holding the shrubs. That I don’t think I can do. Since Sean is usually so busy, I think I will hire someone to help me with that. Sean is normally too busy either with the kids or with work. I usually find that if I can’t do something myself, its just easier to hire someone.