Not Cancuun
It’s Spring Break. Monday I hung around the house all day, intentionally, but it was a bad idea because by early evning I was grouchy with cabin fever and turned into Devil Mom. Tuesday we had a lot of running around to do. Justin got his expansion appliance removed and full rack of braces on his top teeth. Then, we got an oil change for the car and went to base to replace Cameron’s missing ID Card. Then, we went to Dick’s and bought Justin some soccer gear and went to P.F. Changs for lunch. Coming back to town, we picked up a couple of new movies and hit Wal-Mart to pick up my Rx along with breakfasts and snacks for the hotel room. Because tomorrow… we leave for DC!
There is so much to do that I’m not sure how much we’ll be able to accomplish. I do have an agenda scheduled just to focus our attentions, but I am going to stay flexible and nonstressed about the order of events. I found a great book a while ago about visiting DC with kids and it really helped me line things up. Unfortunately, it doesn’t offer any suggestions for after 5, but hopefully we will be so wore out that there won’t be the need for entertainment beyond dinner and tv. There is an ESPN Sports Zone right across from our hotel, so we will hit that at least, and hopefully only, once.
Today was the day for errands in town. I had an appointment with the lawyer about Jason adopting the boys. I don’t feel like recounting the details here because I just did that in an e-mail to Jason. I think I am definately doing better with this “blogger thang,” but I did contemplate last night that I don’t feel like recounting here what I just wrote to Jason in an e-mail, so I guess there will be some gaps in info while he is out to sea.
After the lawyer appointment, I went to a Relay for Life meeting. That sounds like such the social thing to do, right? Getting out there, meeting people, making friends? The only flaw in that logic is that my Relay team is high school students and the only people I talked to at the meeting were high school students. I’ll save that analysis for another day and concentrate on this instead… as I was sitting there just listening to discussion, from no where I get hit with that feeling of inferiority because I’m not “put together” like other women. I don’t wear make-up. My hair never looks fixed, not even after a $185 perm. It wasn’t even a weight issue. It was a feeling scummy issue.
Between Starbucks, Easter Candy 1/2 price, P.F. Changs, and take-out cheesecake (to eat while I watched “Biggest Loser”) I spent $75 on food Tuesday- mostly on myself. I surfed around Medifast’s website last night and picked out what I would place for my first order. At $293 for 28 days worth of food, I cannot consider the price as a downfall. Another good thing is that in reading over notes from people who have used the program I learned that you are outright instructed NOT to exercise in the early stages. I guess because the drastic calorie cut does not lend the extra energy to burn. Although I know I will eventually exercise, it’s nice to hear that plan’s not banked on those behaviors that if people were doing them in the first place, they wouldn’t need the program!
