my happy birthday! Yaaaay! I didn't go for cake or anything tonight, just a NY strip steak, grilled asparagus and my new best friend: cauliflower mash... or as my b.f.e. calls it: "notatoes." Dinner was great.
My daughter presented me with a very, very thoughtful gift this afternoon. Recently, I'd gone through storage and started to purge a whole bunch of things...designating some things for consignment, some for yard sale, some for donation....things like that. She saw that I was donating a heap of you-only-wear-them-once prom and wedding party dresses and asked if she could have them. I said she could if she made good use of them (only because I'd intended to donate them to a prom outreach that gives dresses to girls in need) and she said she would.
Well, I'm not sure where the other dresses are...but, she recreated the one I wore as a bridesmaid in my oldest sister's wedding for a porcelain doll. She and her grandmother made the pattern and sewed it together so now I have a little version of the dress I wore on the doll. I was taken by her creativity and initiative and thoughtfulness - really taken. I'm stunned in the nicest way. I put the doll on my dresser so I can admire her work and the care she put into making it.
I make kind of a big deal about things I love, so she's rolling her eyes at me as the night wears on and threatening to take the dress and the doll back if I don't stop gushing. I can't help it though... who thinks of that?! At high school age?!
So, yeah, I had a lovely weekend and a couple of great days off with unbelievable surprise and tasty dinner. I'd say this is a very, very good start to a new year.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Friday, September 16, 2011
Still a loser....
Down three this week (which feels more reasonable to me) and still doing well with the meal plan. I could add more veggies to the day and very much intend to do so from here on except for Saturday. I'm having a birthday soon and I've decided to go ahead and have an ice cream on Saturday. They make a "sinless" sugar and fat free version that I'll sample before deciding whether to buy that, but there will be mix-ins. Just saying!
I realize the ice cream will have to be a meal (probably lunch) and it may do things to me I haven't experienced since eliminating sugar; however, I'm going to have an ice cream instead of making/having a birthday cake that will sit around the house and be within reach for days on end.
I plan to quietly celebrate this new birthday by having dinner with family - no friends - at my house and maybe play a game of cards or break into one of the board games in the hall closet. I won't have a cake (and I'll ask for them to not bring or make cake, too) and we won't be doing any toasts with wine or knocking back delicious Blue Moon wheat beer. I'm still deciding whether to follow the trend of meatloaf cupcakes like my coworkers made for our office manager or if we should do something else. Some of my family members will find what I'm doing strange and the concept hard to grasp...so cupcakes like those would be overkill. They're cute though!!
At the moment, I feel challenged because we will be going out to eat a whole lot this weekend...I hope to do well (stay away from carbs sans ice cream) and stick with my plans. I'm not sure how much time I will have to write in Mostly Beautiful...but will try to update.
In case I don't get to catch my thoughts til Monday, have a great weekend. :)
I realize the ice cream will have to be a meal (probably lunch) and it may do things to me I haven't experienced since eliminating sugar; however, I'm going to have an ice cream instead of making/having a birthday cake that will sit around the house and be within reach for days on end.
I plan to quietly celebrate this new birthday by having dinner with family - no friends - at my house and maybe play a game of cards or break into one of the board games in the hall closet. I won't have a cake (and I'll ask for them to not bring or make cake, too) and we won't be doing any toasts with wine or knocking back delicious Blue Moon wheat beer. I'm still deciding whether to follow the trend of meatloaf cupcakes like my coworkers made for our office manager or if we should do something else. Some of my family members will find what I'm doing strange and the concept hard to grasp...so cupcakes like those would be overkill. They're cute though!!
At the moment, I feel challenged because we will be going out to eat a whole lot this weekend...I hope to do well (stay away from carbs sans ice cream) and stick with my plans. I'm not sure how much time I will have to write in Mostly Beautiful...but will try to update.
In case I don't get to catch my thoughts til Monday, have a great weekend. :)
Friday, July 29, 2011
Mom's Happy Birthday
"I am in love. Smurfs are back. Yay"
That's the text I received from my mom the other day.
Today is mom's 65th. We live pretty far away from each other, so I'm unable to pick her up to take her to see The Smurfs at her local theater. I asked my cousin Stacy if she would mind being me for a day. With my cousin's agreement, I purchased a gift certificate through Fandango which I was able to e-mail to her direct (with my personalized message) from their site. My mom's a stitch in the movie theater. She's one of those people who gasps out loud or tells the characters not to go any further or informs the leading lady that her love interest is "a fucking asshole." Yup, right out loud in the black of the room at the story's climax. I don't think she'll need to tell Smurfette to look out for anyone, but she will no doubt find something to say.
That's the text I received from my mom the other day.
Today is mom's 65th. We live pretty far away from each other, so I'm unable to pick her up to take her to see The Smurfs at her local theater. I asked my cousin Stacy if she would mind being me for a day. With my cousin's agreement, I purchased a gift certificate through Fandango which I was able to e-mail to her direct (with my personalized message) from their site. My mom's a stitch in the movie theater. She's one of those people who gasps out loud or tells the characters not to go any further or informs the leading lady that her love interest is "a fucking asshole." Yup, right out loud in the black of the room at the story's climax. I don't think she'll need to tell Smurfette to look out for anyone, but she will no doubt find something to say.
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