For something to wear to the wedding that is. There is no dress code but I would like to look nicer than just jeans and tshirt which is my usual uniform around here. I tried on some dresses I bought at a yard sale but they are a bit too fancy (really need to take them to the resale shop!), not my color and OMG my hips on down...look like they belong to someone else.
I do have a denim print skirt which would do ok. I wish I could find my solid denim one, I'd add some applique to it to dress it up. I don't have a top to go with the printed skirt. I didn't realize how hard it would be to find something that goes with it. I am a bit of a hippie, like the peasant/boho stuff but it just ain't cute on me, LOL.
Not yet anyway :).
Ok, onto better things. I lost 2.6# this past week. Good. I don't look down almost 11#. Another week and I'll measure. I found out yesterday that WW gives out a charm for doing a 5K! So I let her know I did the Chilly Chippewa. It is a nice charm. I put mine on a chain to wear. I am pretty proud of it. I wonder if a person only gets one or one for every 5K? I may find out next Tues. as I am pretty sure, barring bad weather, I'll be doing the Shamrock Shuffle this Saturday. It is an untimed fun walk/run along the river which I bet is pretty. So that is my plan for now.
Then since I'll be in the city I may go try clothes on. Just to see.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Das Bierhaus
We arrived a little early so took a quick tour of the Mabel Tainter Theater and then over to the food co-op where I got a pint of organic milk (grew up on fresh from the cow milk so this is an experiment to see if I still like it), some falafel mix and a dried shredded looking pea soup in the bulk section. I love pea soup so we'll see how this is. Good health food stores are so few around us. I mean this one is 1.5 hours away but it is a nice one and if I am ever in Eau Claire I wouldn't hesitate to make the extra miles to go to this place. That is one thing I love about college towns!
Anyway, so we made it to the restaurant and it was so worth it! It is just a little place but the food is so good! They even had live accordian music playing polkas. I tried the three sausage plate with red cabbage, saurkraut and spaetzel. It started out with beercheese soup. Very very good and I have plenty for supper tomorrow! I ate about half.
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| Me and my platter |
The guys (our youngest son came along too) had the ham loaf with an egg on it, red cabbage and I am not sure what else. Oh, mashed potatoes. Here is my hubby diving into his plate. It always kills me when he says he's never had this or that german food. I mean, he's 100%, what in hell did his mother feed him beside grape jelly sandwiches and tomato soup casseroles? Could it be he's never had red cabbage before??? He claims not.
What surprises me is he sausages were not the least fatty nor salty like our food is. Not overly sweet either. My penpal made me tiny sugar cookies one Christmas and they were so good but not super sickning sweet like our stuff is! What is wrong with our food? Even that ham loaf my guys had was not salty!
Time too look into that a bit more.
Clementines and Dress Dilemma
I couldn't resist the sale on them again. And these are twice as sweet as the last box! OMG, so yummy!!! I must thank my co-worker Roxie for turning me onto these! I never had one before and gosh, why not?
Today is the day! Das Bier Haus! To say I am excited is an understatement! I hauled out some older jeans I haven't worn in a good year (fancier type, says makes one look thinner...yah, whatever) and my zebra print top I got on clearance at, of all places, Farm and Fleet. I have never worn it. I wish I had a bright colored necklace to go with it but alas, I never was a girly girl so am lacking any sort of sophistication.
My brother replied to my email about a dress code for his wedding. He says there isn't any so my husband doesn't need to pull out his best like he did for our Dad's funeral. Backstory on that. I went home with my sister a day early so hubby was on his own to come up for the day. My mom said don't dress up (it was a memorial service as he had died 4 months earlier) so I told hubby to just be neat and clean. He said he'd even trim his beard.
Well, what showed up made me mortified! Stained jeans, face still a foot long with a beard and to top it off, a HOLEY shirt! I just couldn't believe it. I poked my finger through the hole on his belly and said "geez, couldn't do any better than this?" It still upsets me to think about it. It's like he fell of the turnip truck at the cemetary entrance, rothflmfao!
Anyway, the point is this. I think I am going to try and find a dress or a skirt and top. I am so doggone hard to fit as I have long arms and legs, wide shoulders. But I would like to look nicer than just jeans or even a pant suit which I am not a fan of.
My choices for places to go besides the obvious like Walmart, Kmart, Shopko, Penneys, Kohls where they don't think fat people want nice clothes, I also have the Fashion Bug plus and a Lane Bryant. Where would YOU go? I need to make the trip(s) count as I am an hour drive from any city with these stores. And if I found a couple things would you guys be willing to help me choose which one if I have trouble? I'd post pix and you can help me. Would be sorta' fun since I don't have any girlfriends really who have the time for this sort of thing and I don't really trust the sales people to give me an honest opinion. My biggest dilemma is my belly. It seems to show in everything :(.
Oh, and BTW, scrubbing bathroom does give you activity points! Yay!
Today is the day! Das Bier Haus! To say I am excited is an understatement! I hauled out some older jeans I haven't worn in a good year (fancier type, says makes one look thinner...yah, whatever) and my zebra print top I got on clearance at, of all places, Farm and Fleet. I have never worn it. I wish I had a bright colored necklace to go with it but alas, I never was a girly girl so am lacking any sort of sophistication.
My brother replied to my email about a dress code for his wedding. He says there isn't any so my husband doesn't need to pull out his best like he did for our Dad's funeral. Backstory on that. I went home with my sister a day early so hubby was on his own to come up for the day. My mom said don't dress up (it was a memorial service as he had died 4 months earlier) so I told hubby to just be neat and clean. He said he'd even trim his beard.
Well, what showed up made me mortified! Stained jeans, face still a foot long with a beard and to top it off, a HOLEY shirt! I just couldn't believe it. I poked my finger through the hole on his belly and said "geez, couldn't do any better than this?" It still upsets me to think about it. It's like he fell of the turnip truck at the cemetary entrance, rothflmfao!
Anyway, the point is this. I think I am going to try and find a dress or a skirt and top. I am so doggone hard to fit as I have long arms and legs, wide shoulders. But I would like to look nicer than just jeans or even a pant suit which I am not a fan of.
My choices for places to go besides the obvious like Walmart, Kmart, Shopko, Penneys, Kohls where they don't think fat people want nice clothes, I also have the Fashion Bug plus and a Lane Bryant. Where would YOU go? I need to make the trip(s) count as I am an hour drive from any city with these stores. And if I found a couple things would you guys be willing to help me choose which one if I have trouble? I'd post pix and you can help me. Would be sorta' fun since I don't have any girlfriends really who have the time for this sort of thing and I don't really trust the sales people to give me an honest opinion. My biggest dilemma is my belly. It seems to show in everything :(.
Oh, and BTW, scrubbing bathroom does give you activity points! Yay!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Today
I spent an hour scrubbing grout. That has to count for something. We have iron in our water and if not tended to on a regular basis this is the result. I bought a new daily shower spray and a grout sealer so once it is clean hopefully I can spare myself this drudgery somewhat.
I got my first ITC newsletter. Awesome!
I am making the taco type things that came with the monthly card. I don't know if I will like them or not. I am not a spicy food person, too many stomach aches from it and the packaged taco seasonings. This one has my own spices so hopefully it'll be ok. If not the dogs and cats can have it. Husband still has beef stew in the fridge. I doubt he'll finish that either. Two meals and the self-proclaimed "garbage hound" is done.
I am saving all my weekly remaining points so I don't have to think about it too much tomorrow. YAY!
I got my first ITC newsletter. Awesome!
I am making the taco type things that came with the monthly card. I don't know if I will like them or not. I am not a spicy food person, too many stomach aches from it and the packaged taco seasonings. This one has my own spices so hopefully it'll be ok. If not the dogs and cats can have it. Husband still has beef stew in the fridge. I doubt he'll finish that either. Two meals and the self-proclaimed "garbage hound" is done.
I am saving all my weekly remaining points so I don't have to think about it too much tomorrow. YAY!
My Whimsical Hearts
You MUST check this woman out if you are on WW! She makes the most fantastic WW book covers you have ever seen. I ordered the double set with kitties and they are impeccable. I love the idea of the clear pocket to put the monthly card into so I can get rid of the paperclip!
And now I can leave my book out without feeling anyone is snooping because what man would pick up a cutsy kitty book?
And now I can leave my book out without feeling anyone is snooping because what man would pick up a cutsy kitty book?
Das Bier Haus
I have always wanted to go to Das Bier Haus and so when I got my German Club newsletter (I am not German but hubby is and I have a penpal in Germany whom I love like a sister) and they said there is an outing to it with food and entertainment I thought oh yay!
So I did the unthinkable. I asked hubby if he wanted to go. This was three or four weeks ago. Yah he says.
So today I said I need to call and let them know, do you want to go? Well, I get "What is it?", "Where is it?", "Don't they have anything closer?", (it is a 1.5 hour drive), "How much will it be?" I was about ready to say forget it. I mean, I can go to my friend's house 2 hours away as they are having an essential oil party and not put up with this 101 questions. This, for a man who lives to eat. Really, I am sorry I even got excited about it and conveyed that to him. I really almost would rather go alone as he looks like some wildman pulled out of the woods (he finally gets his annual hair cut next Monday...thank God before my brother gets married!) and so I find him embarrassing on top of it all. I don't know.
I told him this is why I don't include him in things. He is just NO FUN. All work, all newspaper, scrounging for food 24/7. I want to have fun! I told my co-worker who is fun (took his family on a sleigh ride, took them tubing, was going to take flowers to his elderly neighbor in a nursing home for her birthday, is planning backpacking trips through the UP. And he's older than us! I told him I have no one to do these things with besides Mr. Lumponthelog Homebody. I need a sugar daddy fun backpacking outdoor have fun can think for himself kind of guy!). OMG he is so frustrating! So I do these things on my own. When I went to Superior last weekend he's like "I've never been to Superior." Well guess what, sitting in a half empty mall during a model horse show isn't going to be any fun for you either. Plus, I WANT TO HAVE FUN!
He is such a freaking anchor around my neck...
So is it wrong to just go do stuff? I asked him, he said yah, then comes time I get the tenth degree. JUST answer YES or NO. If you don't want to go, fine.
UGH!
So I did the unthinkable. I asked hubby if he wanted to go. This was three or four weeks ago. Yah he says.
So today I said I need to call and let them know, do you want to go? Well, I get "What is it?", "Where is it?", "Don't they have anything closer?", (it is a 1.5 hour drive), "How much will it be?" I was about ready to say forget it. I mean, I can go to my friend's house 2 hours away as they are having an essential oil party and not put up with this 101 questions. This, for a man who lives to eat. Really, I am sorry I even got excited about it and conveyed that to him. I really almost would rather go alone as he looks like some wildman pulled out of the woods (he finally gets his annual hair cut next Monday...thank God before my brother gets married!) and so I find him embarrassing on top of it all. I don't know.
I told him this is why I don't include him in things. He is just NO FUN. All work, all newspaper, scrounging for food 24/7. I want to have fun! I told my co-worker who is fun (took his family on a sleigh ride, took them tubing, was going to take flowers to his elderly neighbor in a nursing home for her birthday, is planning backpacking trips through the UP. And he's older than us! I told him I have no one to do these things with besides Mr. Lumponthelog Homebody. I need a sugar daddy fun backpacking outdoor have fun can think for himself kind of guy!). OMG he is so frustrating! So I do these things on my own. When I went to Superior last weekend he's like "I've never been to Superior." Well guess what, sitting in a half empty mall during a model horse show isn't going to be any fun for you either. Plus, I WANT TO HAVE FUN!
He is such a freaking anchor around my neck...
So is it wrong to just go do stuff? I asked him, he said yah, then comes time I get the tenth degree. JUST answer YES or NO. If you don't want to go, fine.
UGH!
Introducing Ganeshini!
Ok, you really don't need an introduction to her because she is me! LOL. I have been thinking on the lumbering elephant theme so I decided to Google what elephant would be in Afghan or Turkish or ?. First thing that popped up was Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed God of the Hindu's etc. So I looked to see if there is a female version and you guessed it, it is Ganeshini (or Vinayaki which I like too). So I thought there it is, my secret bellydance name! If a elephant headed man or woman can be so strong, forgiving, etc. so I can (of myself...of others).
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I had been making an anklet with Indian bells on it and had found an elephant charm to add to it a couple weeks ago. So it will be official, in my own mind anyway ;).
Shhhh, don't tell anyone ;).
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