I realize I haven t done a real updated minus cats for over a month now. I feel like sometimes I don t have a thing to say and it s quite sad.
*Last month my mom I got Suddenly Slender Wraps because we wanted to see what it was like.
According to their measurements (they measure you before after), I lost 17 inches overall. Unlike other wraps, they made sure you were hydrated and you had to exercise! Being wrapped like a mummy (in ace bandages) and having to exercise was an interesting experience!
I m not sure if I kept off the inches but since the wrap, I ve lost 5 more pounds when I had been stuck at the same weight since Dec.
*I ve lost 20 lbs since last June. Mostly in the neck waist.
Unfortunately none of it has been in the upper thigh so while my waist hips are have been really ready for smaller sizes in pants, my thighs are not! It s a little frustrating. I ve had the hardest time finding non-leather belts to help keep my pants up.
Why must almost all belts be made out of leather?
*Birthday: My KS Crystal, my mom, I went to a Japanese Restaurant that I ve wanted to try for years now. It s always closed whenever I can go.
This time it was open! The food was so good and I can t wait to go back. They also had a lot of Veggie-friendly food.
Afterwards, we went to the Mall (which I hadn t been to in years) so I could go to American Eagle to spend my birthday discount and try on clothes to buy online (I had a 40% off for online). Crystal I also went to Starbucks for Iced Tea and yummy lemon cream cheese muffins. I m glad I got to catch up with my KS because we rarely see each other.
*Kittens Feral Cats: I still feel horrible about losing that kitten. After burying him, I went to check on the rest of that litter to find another (new) kitten with the black cat! At first I thought it was the one we caught falling off the roof but that one is still with Laura s (Laura is the sister of my mom s cat, Remington.
Named Laura after the Laura in Remington Steele) kittens. So I have no idea where the black kitty was hiding that one. I really need to give that black cat a name she s the only one I haven t named.
I can t seem to fit any names to her. Rocky (named Rocky because he has hit my mom like he was a boxer) has become even more of a guard cat. Bogart (after Remington Steele s favourite actor) hasn t been around as much.
I miss him because he was my greeter he would play with me through the window. I did find out about a Feral Cat program to get them fixed. Yay!
*I had a dream that my mom I came home from shopping and my dad was alive. While dreams like that make me sad, at the same time I love them because it s almost like you got a visit from that person you love miss and it s like they aren t ever truly gone.
*My coworker made us Macaroni Cheese with American Cheese.
I think the Canadians call it Rubber Cheese. Maybe I m a minority but I can t stand American Cheese! Now I m going to have to go buy some Cheddar Cheese so I can make some good Macaroni Cheese.
*Festival of Books: I can t wait to go again next year!
*Friday Nights Lights: I love this show. LOVE it.
The news today that it has been renewed with 22 episodes seriously makes my day! When called and gave me the news, I was trying not to jump up and down in front of all our rig students! Now I want to go home and put on my FNL shirt.
*Weather: While everyone else is complaining about the weather, I m loving it. Bring on the heat!
I m currently reading Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Sometimes I read a book really slowly because I want to draw out that experience of the first reading. I m finding way too many parts to write in my journal. I thought I d share this one because I relate to it so much even if I don t particularly like the character.
There was at times even a curious hesitancy in her speech, which came near being a stammer, or suggested the measured care with which people speak who have been cured of stammering. It made her often appear as if she did not know her own mind: at which people sometimes took heart; when, if they had only known the truth, they would have known that the speech hesitated solely because the Senora knew her mind so exactly that she was finding it hard to make her words convey it as she desired, or in a way to best attain her ends.
I find myself even being like that online.
I write but I feel like I m hesitant in the words because I know what I mean, feel, believe but most of the time not in a way that others actually understand. Too often when I m trying to discuss something with someone (esp online) they tend to think I m arguing with them. I ve also found I ve started stuttering the past couple of years.
I wish sometimes that it was easier to have someone see what you are having problems conveying.
I m wearing my Roswell S1 cast crew jacket at work today. Every single time I wear this jacket, I have flashbacks to playing soccer in high school.
The high school I went to had a lot of money so everything for our uniforms (except cleats) were provided. Since we played during the winter, we were given jackets. The jackets were all one size, they were always too big too long.
But I loved those jackets. I was always comfy warm. This Roswell jacket is made of similar material in the outside inside and also is way too big long.
The only thing I don t like about this jacket is the hood is attached to the jacket stuffs into the collar so it looks a little bulky.
They are talking about on the Kindred Spirits Listserv. So cruel.
I ve been craving Tim Hortons Café Mocha and English Toffee Cappuccino. All summer I craved an Iced Cappuccino from there. Is it sad that I crave things from Canada year round?
2008 is way too long to wait to go back.
I added a section to my with series books I m collecting. So far I just have the list of things I m missing.
But I ll get the LMM stuff up soon.
I feel like I m going stir crazy with wanting to just travel. I keep having to remind myself that I m going to the coast this weekend so I don t have to wait too long for a trip.
My mom always wants me to plan out the route (not to mention I love doing that!) so we are taking 46 doing all the James Dean stuff. I m a mean daughter.
Even more mean because of there is Gem Mineral show in Cayucos this weekend! It s fun watching my mom have childhood flashbacks (her dad was a rockhound they were always at these shows)! I can t help wanting to go they have great deals on beads!
I m also excited to go back to one of my favourite used bookstores in Cambria. 
I finally started watching the BBC Jane Eyre. I ve never read the book. I was going to this weekend but I can t find my copy.
I know I own it. I even know what it looks like. I ve only watched Episode 1 so far I m loving it.
Only problem is I m wanting to go to England even more now! Anyone want to take a trip there? Seriously.
Jessica, a girl I was friends with in high school for awhile after high school who now works for my mom, got married today. David, the guy she married, was in most of my classes in high school and I had a crush on him on off during high school. It was a pretty ceremony.
Saw all these people I used to be friends with in high school and some I knew from the Late Night Bible Studies (Crystal, Corey in the Wedding Party yes I m sending you an email!). Didn t get to talk to any of them because we didn t stay for the reception.
It felt a little strange seeing Jessica David get married because I ve never seen them together. Even more strange because I knew them both in high school separately and barely know them as the people they are now. So separating the people they were THEN with the people they are NOW was confusing.
Oh well.
Afterwards we headed to town to the antique show. I was wearing my new Skillet shirt I have to say my hair, make-up, clothing looked great on me for once!
So all that whining yesterday no confidence was totally switched today. I love that sometimes all it takes is for me to write something out for it to go away for at least a day. Plus I weighed myself and lost two pounds.
Then when I went to my mom s, I weighed myself there I have to say I like what her scale said better. Wish I knew which one was right!
The Cosmopolitan Cat by Beulah Roth: I picked up this book because the title caught me.
It s a memoir manual of intercontinental living with a sophisticated Siamese, Louis XIV. I started flipping through there are pictures of this cat with various celebs like James Dean, Picasso, Cary Grant. There are also pictures of the cat traveling in Europe.
It s also signed by the author. There is a whole chapter about James Dean which tells how he loved to come to the Roth house to see this cat eventually got his own cat because of it.
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