Company!

We had a couple of T's siblings over for dinner tonight. Super fun! I forgot how much I like having people over and giving them food. I made awesome from scratch brownies!

Yahoo! Working out!

Week 4 of working out at least twice a week! So hurray for me!

Want

Spironolactone

My doctor started me on Spironolactone to get my hormones in the right balance. There is one "side effect" that I am loving!

Twilight!

Saw New Moon last night and did some star stocking today and found these photos from a Vanity Fair photo shoot and fell in love with them>

Swimming Lessons

went to swimming lessons with Mary and Tyler - Tyler confused some Asian kid with another, opps!

Want

I love this shirt from Anthropology. Check out the awesome pleats! Not sure that I would be able to justify to $78 price tag.

PCC and PCOS

First the good news - discovered PCC today. It is amazing. How is this the first time that I have been there?
Now the bad news - For every month since May (when my IUD was removed) I have been convinced that I am pregnant because my cycle is super long and different every time, it started out at a normal 28 days, then 35, 43, and most recently 49. Nearly 50! So needless to say I have gone through probably 20+ pregnancy tests with not a single positive. So I finally went my PCP because I work for a endocrinologist I thought that I might have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) for several reasons that I won't go into. So my PCP tested my hormones and mailed me the results saying that it was all normal - except I looked at the numbers and knew that it wasn't, so I showed them to Dr. R (the dr. I work for) and she said that it looked like PCOS to her. So needless to say I have an appointment next week with my OBGYN to take a second look and it might be harder for me to get knocked-up than I thought.

I'll keep you posted.

House Hunters

I've been watching a lot of hgTV's House Hunters lately. People are oddly picky, annoying, and want a ton of closet space.

detoxification

I was concerned about heavy metals in my body - apparently the symptoms for having to much of those describes me. So I have been kicking around the idea of a detox for a week or so and finally bought a kit and started yesterday. To start the morning I swallowed 4 "UltraCaps" of "FiberFusion" - no kidding does that not sound dangerous- and I was supposed to drink like 64 oz of water through out the day (I may have made it to 32). And then before I went to bed, another 4 "FiberFusion" missiles, 1 "Super Milk Thistle," and (not joking) 3 (THREE!) "Whole Body Cleanse Laxative Formula." I then went to bed expecting disaster or at least a hurried trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night, but no, besides the pee trip at 2am because of the 12oz of water that I chugged right before bed, nothing. And as of yet today - still not much movement, some movement, but not what I was wanting. I did get up and take 4"FF"s this morning and I will take the cocktail of 8 pills tonight, maybe I should be doing better on their diet tips which include no highly processed foods, avoiding foods with refined flour, sugar, saturated fats, and artificial sweeteners, no caffeine or alcohol, limiting beef, pork, cold cuts, sausage, bacon, hotdogs, shellfish, soy products, peanuts, refined oils, margarine or shortening, oh, and a minimum amount of dairy and wheat. I know that this still leaves many foods to eat, like leaves, but, come on - dairy? soy products? BACON?
Any-who. I'll keep you posted - I was down 5lbs this morning, even without pooping. So that's good.

The small things

I ate breakfast this morning and took the dog out - I think I am getting better sleep because of our light blocking curtains.

For Autumn

Since I am pretty sure that you are the only one that comes here, I'll give you an update. I am down 20-25 pounds since November (my heaviest), not where I want to be yet, but I am okay with my body now and I feel better. I am thinking about banning wheat from my diet - my body doesn't handle it well. I am also going to try working out more soon - it is always going to happen soon.
I have been getting things in order, slowly and room by room. I am in love with how my bedroom is turning out and I am also happy with the bathroom, I started with the smallest room and am working up. While I am very willing to get rid of stuff, but the laziness that is keeping me from taking it down to the car is overwhelming, so our storage room is stuffed full of clothing to get rid of.
Things are going well, I'll give specifics later - maybe pictures or something.

Why am I doing this?

My lovely husband wants a baby and I do to, but I am a mess. My house is rarely presentable. I watch way to much TV. I spend to much money on stuff that is unnecessary. I rarely get up in time to shower in the morning. I hate having to stop for gas and wait until I absolutely have to. I am not fit to become a mother, but I love my husband, so I have consented to stop using preventative methods some time this summer ( I am trying not to tell him when that will be, some things should still be a surprise). So I have a few (very few) months to pull things together and give my life a little structure before someone comes in and totally turns me up on my head. I have decided to start this by working out again and getting as healthy as I can before baby. My body is going to become the place that I am willing to keep my child in. I am hoping that writing this will keep me on track.

we'll see how this goes

I am not good at follow through, but I am trying to get better. Sometimes my solution is just not to start anything new or volunteer for any self motivated project. That rarely works because I love learning new things, starting new projects, buying fabrics that will be just perfect for this or that, and being inspired to create the things that I can never afford to buy. I love the first few days of a diet, but I as I said - bad follow through. So there is a pretty good chance that I will be very bad at blogging, especially considering that I have always hated jounaling - Why am I doing this? Oh well... here goes.