Keep on trucking

Ok, first things first. Here is the weekly weight watchers update. This week I lost 1.4 pounds putting me at 8.9 pounds total. This means it should be one week till I have 10 pounds lost. Now that's exciting.




In other news I have started to learn how to build a website. My first one is looking good although it's just a sample site from a book I'm using. Who knows maybe I will move on to bigger things afterwords.

I do believe the Yellowstone trip this summer will actually be happening. I have the whole trip loosely planned out and the first few days in detail. What I have done will be coming soon for you viewing pleasure.


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Super Weigh In

Ok so here is the promised weigh in.




As you can see I'm down 2 pounds from last week which is pretty amazing seeing as how it is super bowl week. Although honestly I was 100% better during the Superbowl than I have been in the past. I've lost 7.5 pounds total in 4 weeks so I'm right on the 2 pounds a week pace. This was my first weigh in under 290 which was also exciting. Rexi has lost a little over 6 pounds, so together we are pushing 15 pounds. The best part is I feel good.

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Matching Set

     Well I've been slacking lately. We were out of school last Tuesday through Friday. I normally blog right before bed and with us having been out of school I was staying up later than I normally would and just wasn't making it around to blogging when I was getting ready for bed. The good news we were back at school today and tomorrow. The bad news it's looking like we may miss Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday again because of another 7-12" of snow. A day or two out of school can be nice for some R&R but were getting to the point where it's cutting to much learning time out. We are way over on hours so are kids don't have to make days up but the teachers do have to make the days up so we will have to see how long will we be out this time.

      Michelle was in town this weekend and it was good to see her other than the fact that she drove her truck on our grass and now we have a huge tire mark. Well while my dad was here he was helping us put in an electrical outlet so that we didn't have an extension cord running across our kitchen. Well while he was here we decided to just go ahead and buy the matching microwave that goes with the oven so the kitchen would be pretty much done. Here is what it looks like.

It looks pretty good. Were excited for all the work that my dad did for us. Were also excited that our kitchen is looking good. We hosted a small super bowl shindig last night. It was a good time. We both used lots of points but we had saved our points for it. We weigh in tonight so look for another post with the results of that.

In other news I was thinking about making a travel itinerary website. If there is one thing i'm pretty good at it is planning vacations. Want to see NY in 3 days? I can do that. Want to take a cross country camping trip? I can do that also. I'm not sure if there is any need for something like this but it's something I enjoy doing so I think i'm going to give it a shot. The first thing I'm going to do is plan a several week cross country trip from Oklahoma up to Yellowstone and back through the badlands/Mt. Rushmore. Hope everyone is doing well. Stay warm with the weather coming up.

Oven Extravaganza

Ok so our oven was installed yesterday and we learned some things.

1. Our old unit was what they call a combo unit. This means the microwave plugged into the back of the oven and their is no outlet in the space. This means we have an extension cord running until we get an outlet in.

2. The people before us built a little shelf to fit with the old oven so now we have to do some carpentry ourselves to fix it.

3. We Learned how to broil. Who knew you had to leave the oven door open. Know wonder the only other time we have tried it things did not turn out well.

Without further adieu here are the pictures.

First a picture of the oven.



Second a picture of the first thing we cooked in it. Orange Hoison Pork with coconut rice and snap peas. The food was awesome. It came from the weight watchers magazine.



So now we just need someone who can put an electric outlet in. Dad I'm looking at you here.

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Weighing In

So as I promised yesterday here is an update on my weigh in day. When the dust finally settled this is what it looked like.



I ended up at 291.0. This puts me at a loss of 5.1 pounds in 2 weeks. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow when we get our new oven. This will expand our variety of foods and I might start blogging about that. I will post pics of the oven tomorrow.

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Preview

Ok, since the last time I've posted things have been pretty busy. I completed all of my work for Observing and Analyzing Teaching one of the two Research for Better Teaching courses I am taking. Now I just have to get my masters work turned in. On Thursday we had a snow day and that allowed me to finish reading book 6 of the Wheel of Time series.




Here is a little art from the book. If you are unfamiliar with the series I suggest you give it a chance especially if you like fantasy at all. As you can see




You will need a good chunk of time to dedicate to it. In total there are over 4 million words and 11,000 pages. I am about 150 pages into book 7.

Weekends are so short when we have Saturday school but I feel like the kids are really enjoying it this year. The extra work plus the fun makes it really beneficial.

Tonight we had our second week of curling and we got slaughtered 11-0. It was absolutely horrible. No one on our team could make a shot and the team we were playing was good but they weren't that good.

Oh also before curling tonight we decided to go to The Pita Pit to eat dinner. We get there only to find out that they are closed. So when I get home I get on the internet and look at there twitter page. It turns out they have been closed for maintenance since early in November. Now I'm no expert but what kind of maintenance takes 3 months to complete? Sounds like a health inspector issue to me.

Finally a preview of tomorrows blog. I did a sneak peak today and my weight is down from last week. Check in tomorrow to find out how much.

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New kicks

Ok so happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Today was a huge day for me. We were off school made several exciting purchases and finished week 1 of our weight watchers. So let's start with the biggest news.

Today we purchased a new oven. The oven in our house is an original classic oldie that ran about 50 degrees off the wrong temp. After about 3 months of living in the house we were baking heard a popping noise which was the bottom heating coil going out. Well eating healthy is hard when you can't bake so we ordered a new oven today. We got the frigidaire gallery which matches our dishwasher and our fridge. Here is a pic.






As you can see it's pretty snazzy. Yes, I just said snazzy. It will be here in 1-2 weeks. The space we have is 27 inches and most now a days are 30 inches so they didn't have any in stock.

We bought. A scale today because we figured that the wii was not the best way to weigh. Turns out that was good thinking as the wii apparently makes you 5 lbs lighter. With that adjustment taken into consideration here are my week 1 results.







Now the goal weight you see here is 5%. My long term goal is in the 220 to 230 range. This past week I averaged 54 points a day when I am allowed 64 plus 54 bonus per week. I did pretty good other than a 70 point dinner from BWW on Friday.

Finally, working towards this goal Rexi and I picked up some new kicks and some sensors and were now set up for some iPod + Nike goodness.








We took the dogs today so we were a little slower than usual but we still managed two miles in 32:04 for an average of 16:02 a mile. I burned about 430 calories which is a good start.

Comment if you like it!

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