On zip-loc bags and happy endings

I’m on the cusp of 10 lbs. lost although I don’t feel it at all. Anyway, the biggest hurdle I have to overcome when it comes to eating better is my own laziness. I settle for takeout because I’m lazy. If I do cook, I cook quick-prep high-calorie meals because I’m lazy. I eat large portions because I’m lazy and don’t want to measure.

So I decided this week to make sure I keep my portions in check. After we got back from Wegmans yesterday I spent a few hours in the kitchen getting the cabinets organized and portioning out my food. I bought a fresh pineapple and sliced it up. I cut up the romaine and radishes from the Collingswood Farmer’s Market along with tomatoes, onions and cucumbers into a big salad so I can just take portions of it as I go. Instead of the pricey and package-heavy Steamfresh vegetables I’m buying two bags of frozen veggies and portioning it out myself. I wrote the calorie info on each bag. I made 4 more servings of sugar-free jello. Cut up strawberries (also from the Farmer’s Market) for shortcake. And also bagged out single servings of grape tomatoes (not pictured.)

And I haven’t had a Mountain Dew in over a month. I miss it deeply. Here’s to another successful diet week! (tips her class of Diet Green Tea)

Love this link!: Freeze Ground Meat in Small Portions with a Chopstick

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I’m off today because this morning I’m heading to the Hall of Justice(!!) to file the quit claim deed on the house. That’s basically a legal form saying that I’m signing away my claim to the property. Like the rest of the formalities, we didn’t use a lawyer and filled out documents ourselves. It’s made things so much nicer. Honestly, if you’re getting divorced and 1) don’t want to kill each other and 2) don’t have children I STRONGLY recommend the do-it-yourself route.

Once that’s filed I’ll be getting a little sum of money from BvP. (I asked for it to be given to me as stacks of $1 bills in a briefcase. I think it’ll end up being a check. But wouldn’t a briefcase of cash be hot?) Some of it will pay off bills. Most of it will go into my savings account and be used toward a little place of my own someday. He’ll be remaining in the house. I think this was the best choice for us, as the only offer we received was $40,000 below the asking price.

I’m leaving him just about everything in it, because I have no room and really no desire to own the communal stuff again. The few things I’ll be taking are sentimental items like boxes of books, my silver flatware set, and my Christmas dishes. Maybe a Disney print or two. Where to put it all? I have NO idea. I’ll probably have to purchase storage. Yay.

Funny enough, there is no sadness over this all. It’s the end of an almost 2-year funeral for my marriage. I’m more upset over the fact that whenever I’m off from work and NOT sick, the weather forecast says it’s going to rain. Sure, it’s sunny out NOW, but we’ll see what happens once I step off of the train after it’s all over.

If it rains I guess I’ll have to sit home and work on my beading and/or programming. If not, I’ll meander down Haddon Avenue and shop. What a hardship.

Enjoy your Monday!

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Stupid beading tricks: Ollie’s Epic Bracelet and Mom’s Commission

I’m still working the bead thing. I still find it a lot of fun and a nice way to relax. This past weekend I created a cha cha bracelet from a bunch of pink beads that I picked up. It’s an easy monotonous project. Put some beads on a headpin, create a wrapped loop and attach the dangly to a link on a chain. I bought my chain from Michaels - silver plate. This bracelet is for me so I cheaped out on the materials.) Each link gets at least one dangly, as such…

When it’s done, you have a fun jingly bracelet with a lot of movement. Ollie watched me make the whole thing, so I’m naming this one “Ollie’s epic bracelet.”

This weekend before I got sick(er) Mom showed me a pendant and bead set she bought. They’re white with brown matrix. (Matrix is the term for a color swirled through a gemstone. Think of the black lines you see in some turquoise jewelry. Or fudge ripple ice cream. Or the frosting atop a toaster strudel. Forgive me, I’m very hungry.) We stopped in JoAnn fabric and I picked up some brown stone chips to go with. She’s swamped at work, so I did the necklace for her. I put the pendant on a headpin with two bead caps. The clasp is magnetic.

Presenting: “Mom’s Commission”

I had enough beads left over to make earrings, too!

And that’s all. I still need to fix my two “epic fail” bracelets from before. I tried to do a Tree of Life pendant but it ended up looking like a beady steel wool pad. I’d LOVE to do an illusion necklace next.

Mmm…toaster strudel. You know…I think I’ll have a nice cup of fat-free yogurt instead! (rolls eyes, sighs pitifully and slinks away to her miserable, sad, junk-food-free kitchen.)

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The Vicks didn’t work

Like a good little soldier, I coated my soles with Vicks and put on a pair of (WM’s) socks last night before bed.

Today, I feel the same I did yesterday. Except I gained THREE pounds. So obviously the Vicks reversed my metabolism.

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On that note, I’m becoming more convinced that MSN has some sort of software on my computer that tracks my moods and neuroses and comes up with gems like this for me first thing in the morning:

The hell? No matter where you fall on the big scale, that’s just not a nice headline.

I didn’t screenshot last night’s link, “Why divorced people lose friends.” MSN’s slowly resembling the worst of the worst women’s magazine covers.

My suggestions for future MSN stories:
“Why you’re more of a loser than you think”
“143 people who are more successful than you”
“Study proves: Mommy really does drink because you cry”

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Off to drop the car off for an oil change (Don’t tell anyone, but I think I escaped April without a car-payment sized car repair) and then heading to work. Something cool’s happening this afternoon. I’ll tell you about it tonight.

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Vegetables for the lazy!

So I’m on this “not-a-diet” wherein I’m not counting Weight Watcher points nor am I counting calories. I’m eating apples and 80cal snacks (ok, maybe I’m counting SOME calories) instead of Doritos and 3 Musketeer bars. I’m eating half of my usual gigantic dinner portions. And trying to move for 20 minutes a day straight. I’m not even weighing myself.

But you’ll be happy to know that I am still as lazy as ever.

Case in point…I need more vegetables in my life. But if I buy them fresh, they go bad. And canned veggies taste blah. And the huge frozen bags get freezer burned before we can eat all of it. And if I try to steam them myself, I end up with a screaming smoke alarm and a burned pot.

Which is why I’m in love with Birds Eye steamfresh veggies. They’re single portions of vegetables frozen in wee little plastic bags. You put one bag in the microwave for 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 minutes and you have perfectly steamed tasty veggies.

I found them at Wegmans. You can get sweet corn, sweet peas, or baby Brussels sprouts. Which I will never get because Brussels sprouts are just evil.

Man, that sounded like a commercial, didn’t it. But I’m not affiliated with Birds Eye. Or Wegmans. Or farms. So there.

By the way, this is day 14 without Mountain Dew.

Back to work with me!

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