Up and Down

This has been such an up and down day...I just have to vent. I don't think my body can take too many of these days.

It started out with a hair coupon I have. Well, the darn thing expired on Friday. (Mary won it for me earlier in December, so I have not had it very long) I really wanted to get a new style before vacation and was really looking forward to that. SO I called, and explained everything, and they didn't care...it was expired and they would NOT honor it. SO no new do for me. :(

Then we had the Urso weekly weigh in. We are doing the biggest loser in our family. Well, Jude and I had a great week. He lost over a pound and I lost nearly 4 pounds. Pretty exciting...so we reported and waited for the other couple's percentages. This was a good thing!!

Needed to go to the library to return 2 books due today, although they are saying that one of them didn't get renewed like the other so it is oh, say 3 weeks past due. BUT the library doesn't open till 1 today. Grrrrrrr. I wanted to do that while I didn't have 2 little helpers.

So I come home to work on laundry...bound and determined to get it done today. You know that getting ready for vacation thing. I hate laundry, so this was a down moment.

Then the standings come in for the biggest loser, and Jude's twin brother single handedly beat Jude and I together by .03 percent. We actually lost more pounds than him I believe, but we go by percentages. So there goes my excitement for losing so much weight this week. We are doing couples, so you average each spouses percentage together to get the couples percentage. His wife was at 0 percent again this week, so that is how he single handedly beat us. I am super proud of him, just bummed. (and Jill did give us a reward for the week as well because we were so close, but it just isn't the same...I am a very competitive person, so this was rough)

Then our friends call, and we join them at a playground for a bit. A nice reprieve from laundry!! Girls had fun, it was chilly, but the fresh air felt good.

Then I "check" in on my aunt's shenanigans and she is still going crazy, so this gets me all worked up. Oh, I just wish I had an easy answer for this situation. It involves my young cousins, so let me tell you, I get worked up!! Not good!

Then I make supper, and Sarah refuses to eat it. (it was a hamburger and tater tot casserole-2 things she normally will eat) So she was given that and jello. She chose to not eat any of it...so she went hungry...no crackers, no snacks and NO MILK!! I hate doing that, but she has to learn to eat. Mary ate it, and actually enjoyed it. Sarah has me in a sour mood even more. Especially because she chooses to throw a few tantrums. I HATE tantrums.

All calms down, I continue my laundry, finish folding it all (except what is in the washer and dryer) and decided to look through a bin of my old clothes. YEAH...stuff that didn't fit me this past summer now fits, and some of it is big on me. 2 sizes down from what I was wearing....this is VERY exciting. For the first time in a very long time I enjoyed trying on clothes...now I have to clean out my closet and get rid of the BIG stuff to make room for the stuff that fits. YEAH!! Can you tell I am super excited about this? I have lost around 20 pounds, but have a LOT more to go.

Then to top off the night, the girls want me to read them a story...no problem. Well, the problem is they were told to go upstairs and get ready for bed, I would be right up to read. Instead, Sarah decides to throw another tantrum at the top of the stairs because she wanted me to read on the couch. So she refuses to go potty (which is a bedtime MUST at our house), and chooses not to put on her jammies, and fake cries in her bed. I hate fake crying almost as much as I hate tantrums. So I give her one more chance to go potty and get ready (with me up there). She won't budge, so she lost the story for the night. I read it to Mary. I hate doing that, but didn't have a choice...the child won't listen. I finally get her to go potty and get dressed, it wasn't pretty, but we got it done. And she continues to throw a fit because she wanted to see her new book. I hate using books as punishment, but she loved it so much, it was about all the leverage I had.

So, I am here venting and praying that she wakes up on a better side of the bed in the morning. I have too much to get done in the next couple of days to go through another day like today. Besides, I don't think my blood pressure can handle it either. Even though it is only 9:22, I think I am signing off and going to bed. I'm exhausted too. And i have a feeling that a hungry little tummy will be in my room at some point tonight.

Oh, and if you didn't pick up on it during this post...yes, indeed I did forget to go to the library after 1pm today, so now I have 1 book that is supposedly 4 weeks late and 1 book is now a day late since it was due today. What is my problem??

Thanks for letting me vent.