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Dec. 26th, 2011 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
battlepantiesTime to use this thing for what it's here for! Babbling! But before that, I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas!
Christmas has been interesting, to say the least. I have what I'm 90% sure is a sinus infection and it's been really bad since about Wednesday last week. With it comes the worst headache I've ever experienced, it's all pinching up in front and I have just been miserable and blowing my nose about every three seconds.
On Christmas Eve we always go to my Grandparents for gift exchange, except it hasn't really been a complete gift exchange for the last few years because no one can afford it. So it's really just Grandma and Grandpa's presents which is a nutcracker for the adults every year. In the past it had been a nutcracker, an ornament and a ten dollar gift card to somewhere, but they couldn't afford that much this year for 40+ people, which is totally understandable.
That was really nice and my parents and my uncles and aunt all surprised Grandma and Grandpa with a new tv. Their old one wasn't really that old, but had stopped showing green about six months ago. On top of it Grandpa's eyesight is going bad and it's really too small of a tv for him to see things in great detail.
In the past I would go to my parents and spend the night and we'd have Christmas with just the four of us, but this year we didn't. This is in large part because me and mom have been fighting for the past month-- or more like avoiding each other like the plague. And since no one is exchanging gifts this year because mom has surgery on her foot tomorrow so any extra money went towards that rather than presents and me and Jake be po'. So instead me and Jake went home, watched the Santa Clause and I then struggled to get to sleep till after 6am.
Yesterday was dinner at my aunts. I was seriously overwhelmed once everyone started showing up (we live all of five minutes from her house so we were the first one's to show up) and I really just wanted to go hide in one of her guest bedrooms and not come out till dinner. That was until my cousin Lacey showed up with her husband and kids. Her youngest is two and took claims on me which I was totally okay with. We looked at the tree together and I would ask her what something was, mostly getting the answer of "I don know" even when she did know. Lexi would not have being put down half the time so at one point I went up to Lace like "Well, I found my buddy for the evening. I'm just gonna hang out with her." And she's like "Seriously Amanda, she's all yours. She seems to have chosen you." B) and since you know I hate kids and all I was totally upset by that pft.
Later her middle three-year old kept following me around, getting down on the floor and play-kicking me 'cause I'd tickle him every time he did it. Lacey had an "Oh shit why didn't I think of this before" moment and even like three seconds of accidentally bonking his head on the hardwood floor she asked me if I would ever mind watching her kids when her and her husband went out. Me? Mind watching her kids? Never. I could use the extra money right now and her kids are fantastic. It was cute and I felt really good when she was all like "My kids like you, you like kids and I know I can trust you in my house alone with them and my dogs. You don't mind my dogs, do you? I can't believe I didn't think of this before!"
It was funny when I was leaving too my aunt started to lecture me on how if I ever babysit for anyone else to make sure they're giving me 9-10 and hour. Pft, I wouldn't go for anything lower, I'm a teacher. Lace I'm okay with $40 a night, especially because she said it's usually later at night so Lex will be asleep already and I get the options of either putting the boys to bed myself or them doing it before I get there. So really I'm mostly house-sitting sleeping children. $40 to do it for my cousin? No prob.
So even though I'm sick I've decided to use this week off of work to jumpstart a 'diet' or whatever you wanna call it. At least eating better! We were given SO many delicious left-overs this weekend too! My goal is to use this week to cut out pop, eat more fruits and veggies and watch my portioning. Portioning is my biggest weakness because I love going for seconds like the fatty I am, but I can do this!
I can't sit around and be unhappy with my weight anymore. I don't think I look terrible ALL the time and I know I'm decently muscular for my weight, but I know I'm well over-weight and I want to be healthy. And I want to have a nice tummy! >:3 I won't count on it, but if I could loose weight and keep my cup size and flatten out my tummy I would be the happiest ever with my body. Even if I did keep the big booty... I'm generally pretty okay with the big booty, ha ha!
Christmas has been interesting, to say the least. I have what I'm 90% sure is a sinus infection and it's been really bad since about Wednesday last week. With it comes the worst headache I've ever experienced, it's all pinching up in front and I have just been miserable and blowing my nose about every three seconds.
On Christmas Eve we always go to my Grandparents for gift exchange, except it hasn't really been a complete gift exchange for the last few years because no one can afford it. So it's really just Grandma and Grandpa's presents which is a nutcracker for the adults every year. In the past it had been a nutcracker, an ornament and a ten dollar gift card to somewhere, but they couldn't afford that much this year for 40+ people, which is totally understandable.
That was really nice and my parents and my uncles and aunt all surprised Grandma and Grandpa with a new tv. Their old one wasn't really that old, but had stopped showing green about six months ago. On top of it Grandpa's eyesight is going bad and it's really too small of a tv for him to see things in great detail.
In the past I would go to my parents and spend the night and we'd have Christmas with just the four of us, but this year we didn't. This is in large part because me and mom have been fighting for the past month-- or more like avoiding each other like the plague. And since no one is exchanging gifts this year because mom has surgery on her foot tomorrow so any extra money went towards that rather than presents and me and Jake be po'. So instead me and Jake went home, watched the Santa Clause and I then struggled to get to sleep till after 6am.
Yesterday was dinner at my aunts. I was seriously overwhelmed once everyone started showing up (we live all of five minutes from her house so we were the first one's to show up) and I really just wanted to go hide in one of her guest bedrooms and not come out till dinner. That was until my cousin Lacey showed up with her husband and kids. Her youngest is two and took claims on me which I was totally okay with. We looked at the tree together and I would ask her what something was, mostly getting the answer of "I don know" even when she did know. Lexi would not have being put down half the time so at one point I went up to Lace like "Well, I found my buddy for the evening. I'm just gonna hang out with her." And she's like "Seriously Amanda, she's all yours. She seems to have chosen you." B) and since you know I hate kids and all I was totally upset by that pft.
Later her middle three-year old kept following me around, getting down on the floor and play-kicking me 'cause I'd tickle him every time he did it. Lacey had an "Oh shit why didn't I think of this before" moment and even like three seconds of accidentally bonking his head on the hardwood floor she asked me if I would ever mind watching her kids when her and her husband went out. Me? Mind watching her kids? Never. I could use the extra money right now and her kids are fantastic. It was cute and I felt really good when she was all like "My kids like you, you like kids and I know I can trust you in my house alone with them and my dogs. You don't mind my dogs, do you? I can't believe I didn't think of this before!"
It was funny when I was leaving too my aunt started to lecture me on how if I ever babysit for anyone else to make sure they're giving me 9-10 and hour. Pft, I wouldn't go for anything lower, I'm a teacher. Lace I'm okay with $40 a night, especially because she said it's usually later at night so Lex will be asleep already and I get the options of either putting the boys to bed myself or them doing it before I get there. So really I'm mostly house-sitting sleeping children. $40 to do it for my cousin? No prob.
So even though I'm sick I've decided to use this week off of work to jumpstart a 'diet' or whatever you wanna call it. At least eating better! We were given SO many delicious left-overs this weekend too! My goal is to use this week to cut out pop, eat more fruits and veggies and watch my portioning. Portioning is my biggest weakness because I love going for seconds like the fatty I am, but I can do this!
I can't sit around and be unhappy with my weight anymore. I don't think I look terrible ALL the time and I know I'm decently muscular for my weight, but I know I'm well over-weight and I want to be healthy. And I want to have a nice tummy! >:3 I won't count on it, but if I could loose weight and keep my cup size and flatten out my tummy I would be the happiest ever with my body. Even if I did keep the big booty... I'm generally pretty okay with the big booty, ha ha!
