Still winter in Utah

I awoke to winter whiteness.  = (

Chester and I headed down to the bog.  It was bright not only from the snow that was PILED on the ground, and decorating the trees, but I also woke up very late for me.  Down at the bog the "lady" cattails had snow piled up on the top of their stalks, looking much like the Royals at yesterday's wedding. 

Chester decided that we needed to explore the middle of the bog.  It was cold enough I figured I wouldn't get my feet wet or sink in the mud, so down the middle we went.  One should never mock the females of the cattail line.  For one, they tower over me, and since the wedding was over they suddenly felt the need to shed themselves of their lovely white chapeau's.

By the time I got out of the bog I looked like I'd been in a major snow storm.

True Confessions

I'm just putting it out there now. 
I cheated.
My husband is aware, and in fact was with me when it happened.
Yep.  I ate cooked spinach. 

I started a new diet.  It is a Doctor supervised kind of thing. My attempts at Weight Watchers was an epic fail. AGAIN.  I know where I go wrong with them, I've tried them twice.  There is something with me and beating a dead horse or something, I never seem to learn after the FIRST time.  I KNOW if I eat bread what it will do to me, but hey WW says I need to eat it and I willingly fall into the trap.


My husband smiles and says, "The body weighs what it wants to weigh."
I love you. NO.  My body is going to weigh what I want it to weigh, damn it!!!

There is actually some truth to what Doug says, something about set point and when you've been at a certain weight for a while the body likes it and will fight to keep it.  You can reset it, you just have to commit to getting the weight off and keeping it off.  In time the body will reset.

I guess normal people go on a 'detox' phase of the diet for three days.  Gets them past sugar cravings etc and they are then on to the actual diet.  However, I have proven once again, that I am not normal.

The Doctor looked at me and said, "You are packing a lot more water than people normally do. If you can do it I want you to stay on the detox diet for two weeks."

At the time it was like, "Sure Doc, meat and raw green veggies.  This is not tough for me."  I LOVE veggies and I love meat. However, I have to tell you that there are only so many GREEN veggies out there (peas are excluded) and while I love meat, you can only eat so much chicken.  It has been a bit of a struggle.  Worth it as I've already lost 8 pounds, but a struggle none the less.

Last night Doug and I went out to dinner.  Carefully plotting where I could eat we decided on Golden Coral. They have a salad bar and meat.  What joy is mine. ;)))

I started with  a nice salad and while they didn't have olive oil and vinegar they did have a fat free Italian and that's acceptable.  Then I went back for the meat.  Found chicken and some sort of beastie that was unbreaded but I wanted something besides meat on my plate and there was no way in hell it was going to be salad.
That's when I saw it.  Spinach... it tempted me with it's dark green goodness, beckoning unto me to just try a little, just a little bit, I won't tell if you don't.   On the plate it went.  I got back to the table smiled at my husband and said, "You don't see this."  He dutifully replied, "See what?"

And that's when I cheated.

Copy Cat

One of the blogs I follow showed a gal in a T-shirt with a clever saying that exemplified the community. I went in search of T-shirts that express my personality and these are the three best.

I wish I could say that I've never said this line or something similar, but alas...

Ah, the arachnid community.  We still have a truce. Right?

And this for my adorable brainiac husband.