Archive for November, 2009

Now that October is over, I thought I’d post an update on my forty-by-forty challenge.  It’s good news:  I lost another 10 pounds during the month, bringing me down to 237.8.  This puts me 11 pounds away from my goal, and I have 41 days to get there.

Well, actually, that’s only part of the story.  I hit the 10 pound mark on the 28th, but when I weighed in this morning, November 1st, I weighed in at 242.0 pounds.  Part of the problem is that I went on a business trip this week, and I ate more than I have been recently (and exercised less).  But even including that, I still ate less than it would take to maintain my current weight.  So it seems to be just the normal fluctuation that occurs from day to day.  You can see in the chart below that this kind of fluctuation hasn’t been all that unusual during the last few months, so I’m not worried.

I guess I’ll just have to hope that I’m on one of the down fluctuations when we reach December 11th!  :)

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Halloween-2009

It’s been a while since we posted any scrapbook pages, and Halloween seemed like a good time to change that.

We all had a lot of fun on Halloween.  Since it was on Saturday this year, I went with Sandi and the girls to the Halloween celebration at our local Marsh grocery store, where the girls got bags full of stuff in a very short time (and Cece attracted lots of attention with her Barbie-in-a-box costume once again).

Carissa spent the evening with her friend Maddy, and Sadie and I headed out to trick-or-treat while Sandi and Cece stayed home to pass out candy.  Cece wanted to stay home so that she could show off her complete costume — the box is really hard to carry around, and doesn’t lend itself to walking through the whole neighborhood.

Sadie decided it was too cold to continue trick-or-treating just after we left our court, though, so I took her back home and convinced Cece to go out just as a princess instead.

By the way, Carissa came up with the idea for her jellyfish costume.  Her had is made from a sombrero.  She says she is now well-prepared for the next time they have a “funny hat day” at school.

The scrapbook page is made from a quickpage I found here.

Carissa posted a note on her door explaining her “cleaning service” fees!

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I wonder if that will work if I put one up too?

Then again, her laundry service that includes “sorting, changing, etc.” is only five bucks… Maybe it is worth paying her to do it before she comes to her senses and raises her rates!

Anyone else want to hire her out?:)