Iwan's Weightloss Journal

This day cannot get any better! I got a job offer, I walked to work in the rain and am still wet and I stepped on the scale, in damp jeans mind you, and I'm down 4 lbs! I'm half a pound away from my halloween challenge goal weight! I'm not changing my ticker though, not till friday. I'm going to say there is a good possibility that its due to the fact that for the last three days I've been freezing my arse off constantly. I'm in for a whole winter of cold though so I'm just dealing with it by accepting that winter is cold and cold burns calories.
About the job, I'm editing my resume. I do still have to apply per policy. So when they hire me I'll resign from my job. The director understands that my contract provides for a 1 month notice of vacating my job. Oh, and I'm getting a new car, a truck to be exact...lol. Good day, good day. I havn't had a day this good in a long time. even with the rain.
 
CONGRATS!!! wow, that's wonderful, you totally rocked with the weight loss! keep going and the results can only get better!
 
Woohoo! What a super day! (lol - put 'supper day'.. I missed my snack today.) Congrats on the weight, the job and the truck. A always wanted a truck but my father said it would be too much power for me. :rolleyes:
 
Thanks everyone!
The truck is some kind of small size GMC (yah, not a detail girl when it comes to cars, my dad will "look" at it later). My friend Eddy bought it a couple months ago and brought it out here only to decide to quit his job and go back to Georgia. So I'm buying the truck off of him for below blue book value. Its only two wheel drive, but really snow sticks around about as long as it takes for it to blow from the south and bring rain. So if I can't drive it for a few days because of a blizzard...I'll just walk. I will be working two blocks from my house if all goes as planned, even in a snow storm it wont kill me.
and if it sucks really bad I'll just sell it. Not too hard around here where its an island so cars are not readily available.
 
Sounds like you got a pretty good deal on the truck - yay! And woohoo on the no commuting with the new job. I'd love to find something like that so I'm not wasting an extra hour of my life just tring to get to and from work... ok.. if I didn't work at home.. :D
 
Well, honestly my job now is only about three blocks from my house, give or take a few steps. but, in the opposite direction...the direction closer to the coffee shop (so far the only con I've managed to find to changing my career and taking a huge cut in pay). Maybe I'll save the money I'm not earning in not buying coffee. but probably not.
 
Today is my son's birthday. I made him french toast for breakfast and put candles on it and took it back to his bedroom singing happy birthday. He slept through it. kid sleeps like a log.
I don't get off till 8 tonight so I won't be able to cook him a birthday dinner or anything. I feel bad. He gets no birthday party. But he gets a trip to anchorage tomorrow...thats a pretty expensive birthday present. oh, and I got him Over the Hedge.
So, another day. We will see later how it goes. All I know is that it will go. whether its good or bad has yet to be determined.
I think last night we nearly drowned in our sleep. It rained like crazy all day and the lake was on the rise. I can see some light glinting off of it and if I'm right the lake is in my yard. It happens a couple times a year. I only own lakeside property 3 or 4 days out of 365 days a year.
 
Happy Birthday to the munchkin!! 5? Too bad he slept through his cake..lol. And a birthday can still be special even if it's not celebrated on the exact day of birth. Don't feel guilty for that!

Have a great day Iwan and enjoy the lakeside property while it lasts.. lol.
 
Okay, so today may end up being a cheat day. I'm already up to about 1000 calories. I blame the syrup on the french toast. And the chocolate cake someone ordered for my son at lunch and I ate half of.
Had a very strange lunch...twilight zoneish. Theres this guy that is very married and has three children. Anyways, he always has lunch with us for some reason, I don't know his connection to our "click" but its there. He was playing footsie with me under the table today at lunch. At first I thought it was unintentional and I moved my feet, but he did it again. So I moved my feet again. And then he did it again. I was like...whoa...rat bastard. Leave my feet alone. So, I'm wearing heels today so I jabbed him good in the top of the foot with my heel and he stopped. but then some musical chairs where played while we squeezed more people into the table and he ended up sitting next to me and he kept putting his arm around me and touching my leg. Very uncomfortable situation. I was so glad when lunch was over. I know his wife. Should I tell his wife? I'm not attracted to him at all, especially since he's a cheating bastard! what kind of a desperate idiot does he take me for? Hellooooo?
 
If it were me.. I would make it awkward for him. Next time he does it say very loudly in front of the group - so what does your wife think about you hanging on me like this.. I'll have to ask her. *evil grin*

If that doesn't work.. then I would ask the wife what she thinks. :D
 
Well guys I am just copying and pasting this for everyone. Trying to keep up and not having a lot of time. So I'll make it short and sweet. Hope you are having a wonderful day!!
 
Iwan naloseit said:
So, another day. We will see later how it goes. All I know is that it will go. whether its good or bad has yet to be determined.
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ok this was too profound not to quote...........this is our lives realization here Iwanna............it goes by no matter what, so will it be good or bad??? Keep up your good work and congrats on the new job, downsides and all, its gotta be better over all right? and sanity has its rewards:D !!!! have a good one!!! STAR
 
I'm profound. Your a gracious lady Star...lol.

So I'm doing laundry and packing right now and trying to clean up after a spur of the moment birthday party. Our flight leaves at 4pm, don't know if I'll have any computer access while I'm gone. I'm going to trytrytry not to go off my diet. Of course, if the weather keeps getting worse we arn't going anywhere and I'll have a weeks vacation at home. it is getting crappy out. I was actually hopeing for this because I really don't want my son to have to see his dad, he doens't want to see him and frankly after the last visitation in anchorage my son doens't want anything to do with his dad. He doesn't even want to talk to him on the phone.
Comon weather...get crappy!
Of course, if we don't go to anchorage I won't get to go shopping but that doesn't bother me as much as the way my kid acts when I tell him he's staying the night at his dads house.
Like I mentioned we had a inpromtu party for him last night with cake...bad...and he got some really cool gifts. most of the kiddos that stopped by could only stay for a half hour or so because it was a school night and it was late, but one little girl had an ear infection and wasn't going to school the next day so they played till 11pm. I had to resort to inviting the horrible tot time mommy squad with their kids that my son plays with every day at the gym for 2 hours. I don't take him, the sitter does because I really don't like those women. They were fine last night though. Probably because they talk smack about me behind my back and they don't know me. Now they've seen the inside of my house and now they probably realize that I'm not what they expected.
I don't like those women because they are so gossipy and mean spirited. And they've said some pretty foul things when I've been around so I can only imagine what they say when I'm not there. All this time they've thought we are like ghetto garbage because I bought a cheap house in a bad part of town. But what they didn't know till tonight is I bought a cheap house in a bad part of town, gutted it and spent the better part of 2 hundred grand remodeling it. who's the ghetto queens now. I'm glad, actually, that I had the chance to rub my hard work in their snotty reconstructed faces. They are probably sitting at tot time right now wondering what I do for security to keep my neighbors from stealing everything while I'm at work.
Okay, so I had one feel good moment. Its not often I get a chance to show people that I'm not what they say I am.
bad calorie day yesterday. If I'm estimating right on the cake I had about 1768 cals last night. Way over my limit. calorie cycling...I keep telling myself that lie...calorie cycling. Its the only thing that let me sleep last night instead of doing tae bo.
My son's eating birthday cake for breakfast.
 
I am hoping for really bad weather for you! Hope the new job works out geart and don't worry about cake, just do better today!:D
 
Hope it gets cruddy!! :D But if not have a super safe trip!!

And isn't it fun to blow away other people's preconceived expectations. :D:D:D
 
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