I woke up today and weighed 142.1 lb. I started tracking my food again. I just completely lost it for about two weeks. I ate everything in sight, including doughnuts, cookies, cakes, chocolate bunnies, Cadbury Creme Eggs, homemade ice cream, leftover wedding cake.
You name it.
It was amazing.
And then I started to feel blah. My tummy hurt. My energy was gone. I decided I needed a break from the gym too. Ya’ll, one bad decision almost always leads to another. So on Monday night I started tracking again. I did amazing, heaping piles of fresh fruit and veggies on my plate. But on Tuesday night? My eyes hit a Dove Chocolate, solid Easter bunny that my mom had sent me. DH was being polite since he ate the rest of the candy, and he had designated this one as mine.
I started at the ears and worked my way down his face. I hacked off his neck and was working around his shoulders when a thought came to me: Didn’t I already indulge in enough crap over the past few weeks? Was this bunny worth it? (The back of my head said yes… and I hated to leave something half unfinished!). So I enjoyed what I had already had, and forced DH to finish the rest. He tells me he didn’t mind eating the rest.
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they wake up one day and say, “Damn. I’m getting OLD.” Things change.
I woke up sometime in the past few weeks and realized that I could no longer use the same Extra Strength Clearasil face wash. If I used it once, my face looked lackluster. Twice? My face felt face-lift tight. Three times and my face would flake into a million pieces. Even after the first or second time, a few days later my face would scale up and flake. And this happens with the Clean and Clear stuff. With regular bar soap, too.
Putting makeup over this was a nightmare. I’d be flaky before I even got out of my makeup chair. I’d look in the mirror and try to scrub off a layer of my face. Or cake on moisturizer to make it work better.
The only thing that appears to work for me right now is the Mary Kay Timewise Normal-to-Dry Cleanser. I just happen to be out of it right now. And I’m pairing that with a Biore face moisturizer right after. At night I put on a Yes to Carrots intense moisturizer (I don’t think this does much..but I still have some left and don’t want to waste it. It was expensive!).
I don’t drink as much water as I should. I don’t use any products with SPF in it. I don’t over-exfoliate. I try to eat a healthy diet (minus the aforesaid chocolate rabbit head). I’m just getting older and sensing that my skin is changing.
I’m having a moral dilemma with book buying. I just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (no longer reserving judgement. I’d give it a solid B+). I went through that in three days. So when I finished it, it was a natural thing to go on to Amazon and order the second. But since I’d finish that by Monday, I also added the third book to my cart. I was $20 in for what? Two books that I’d be done with next week?
I had already gone to the local used book shop. They can’t seem to keep The Hunger Games or The Girl with series in stock. They have none. Ok. Local library was next option! But they have AT LEAST a 3-month wait for them. Drat. So, pay the price if I want to read it seems the best solution unless I can get my panties out of a bunch and just WAIT.
I could pay for the Kindle version. Not only would this reduce books (Because who wants to BUY more books when they get rid of 150 of them?), but it would be green! No more clutter! No more waste! I just think that digital copies of books should be cheaper than physical copies. And they aren’t. On Amazon the books are often more expensive digital! Ooof. Anyone want to send me some books to read? I literally have none…
I’ve been married for 228 days. Nope. I don’t keep a running tally; I just calculated it really quick. Time flies.
And I am ridiculously happy to be married to the man that I am. He has dinner done by the time I get home. He helps with the house work. He understands my insane desire to go shopping at my favorite resale shop. He teases and taunts me about my book-devouring habits. He’ll give his honest opinion about whatever. He loves the curly hair. The random wacky glasses. The curly eyebrows. The fact that I mistook lip plumper for lip gloss and complained that my lips were literally on fire.
Yep. There are some things that I’m super happy about. And this ring on my finger is a reminder of him, more than anything. I think he did pretty good with that ol’ rock 
I think I might keep it. And him.
Cutie cutie in your specs! I love the Man-Man-esque vibe you’re rocking today (AND these posts!)
For reals. I reached for a pair of plain brown work pants and a plain blue shirt this morning. Was going to just throw those on and go to work. And then I thought, “But it’s not CUTE”. So then I teetered on being late to my train, decided to chance it, and came up with this outfit instead. WHICH, btw, is super comfortable AND matches my white glasses that I wasn’t sure about
NO WAY dude!!! I paid 18$ for the Hunger Games Trilogy on Kindle app! maybe it went back up since the movie. But I’d say that’s a good deal vs $12 a book, or more for hardback. I’m sad if it went up. But usually, I find that e-books are cheaper. Or even audiobooks for that matter. Sometimes they ARE stupid expensive though! My favorite thing about kindle/ibooks/nook is that I can have it NOW! I still like real books, too though, ha! PS, I love, love those glasses!
So each Hunger Games book is $9.99 for the Kindle. But the books are $9.50 in paperback (I never buy hardback if I can help it!). Most of the books I want to read are expensive for the Kindle….but I CAN check out the digital versions at my library, so maybe I should look into that?
And I think I like reading real books more, but the whole mentality of the kindle and digital books wins.
And thanks!
Amazon is definitely screwing you then cause the trilogy is 15$ on mine and 5-8$ individually. Digital Library sounds amazing!!!! i DOUBT cheyenne has anything like that, but I could be totally wrong. I’m just judging, ha!
I like that I can have like 8-9 books or whatever one ONE device like for traveling or whatever and not have to LUG 8-9 books. And that whole moving thing, too
On Amazon today, the Trilogy bundle is $30 for Kindle. And each is $9.99. Are you looking at something I’m not?
I have 11 pages worth of books right now. I need to find some safe way to take them off my kindle. It’s a pain to sort through that many pages when I’m really only reading one or two things! But my mom also just gave me the 50 Shades of Grey series
Mwuahaha.
I find that hardback books are cheaper digitally, but trade paperbacks (anywhere from $6.99-$12.99) are usually the same price. I tend to buy new releases on my nook because I know I want to read them and it will keep me from spending $24.99 on a book that takes up too much space on my cluttered shelves. And you can check out books digitally from the library, but be prepared to wait as well. Ebooks are very expensive for libraries so they don’t order as many. It’s worth checking out though because they wait time isn’t usually as long.
On to skin…I’ve done some changing around on skin products in the last year. I still have to use an acne facewash because I break out once a month or some (damn hormones!), but I can only use it once a day. I usually use a makeup wipe and some toner the other time I wash that day. I have too moisturizers – one for day, and one for night. I use the store brand of Neutrogena’s oil free moisturizer with SPF 15 for the day, and Olay’s night cream. Yes, it smells like an old lady, but it’s super hydrating and I’ve yet to have any breakout problems from it, probably because I don’t put it on my nose or forehead. I also use Mary Kay’s eye cream twice a day. I exfoliate 2x a month-ish, just with that St. Ives stuff, and if if nothing goes right I ALWAYS use the moisturizer with SPF because my family has a terrible history of skin cancer and I don’t want to be like my mom and grandfather who have craters in their faces from having spots removed. Ew.