Thankful Thursday

It's been an odd, busy week, and I had to think long and hard to come up with more than a couple of things to be thankful for. So without further delay, today I am thankful for...

1. The season finale of Grey's Anatomy. I am so happy it's today! Ron is out of town on business and I have my DVR set to record it so I can settle in with a glass of wine and watch it from start to finish without interruption after Cole goes to bed tonight. I cannot wait, I have a feeling it's going to be GOOD!

2. So You Think You Can Dance. It starts tonight! It's my summer TV viewing guilty pleasure. I love that loud, crazy Mary Murphy!

3. Friends. Or at least the true ones. It's been an awkward friend week and I have found out the hard way that some people I considered to be friends really aren't that. It's disappointing and a bit hurtful but I'm glad to know it now so that I don't invest any more time into that friendship. Even though it means that I have fewer friends than I thought, that is okay. I would rather devote my time and energy to the ones who I know are real!

4. Family. Especially Ron, Cole and my Mom. They are always there for me and love me. Not for any special reason and not because I can do things for them, just because I'm me and that is good enough for them!

5. Allergy shot maintenance. After a year of weekly and then bi-weekly shots, Cole is finally to the point of once a month shots and he is so happy about that. I know that other kids have conditions that are much worse than Cole's allergies and they endure more than 2 shots in each arm once a week, but for Cole the shots just aren't fun. He doesn't look forward to the actual shots or the swelling, irritation, and tenderness at the injection sites that he has for 24 hours afterwards, but he's dealt with it like a champ and I'm happy for him that he only has to do it once a month now.

So there you have it. What do you have to be thankful for this week? Even if you don't blog it, think about it. It might make you stop and remember just how good your life really is! :-)

Has anyone seen my mojo???

Because I've lost it and I can't seem to find it!

I don't know what is wrong with me, but I can't seem to find the motivation to work out these days. My mojo is gone and I can't make myself care! I know it's summer, the time of tank tops and shorts, and I should be excited to work out some aggression Turbo Jamming knowing that I'm building muscle and burning fat. I should look forward to hopping on the treadmill and running 3 or 4 miles knowing that my legs are getting stronger and leaner. But I'm not! So my arms are jiggly? Who cares? My normally very firm stomach is getting soft? I can live with that because nobody sees it anyway except Ron and he doesn't care. He loves me no matter what my body looks like.

I wish I knew what my deal was. Last night I knew that I needed to get on the treadmill and run. I tried to will myself off of the sofa to do it, but instead I parked on the sofa with angel food cake and strawberries and watched Dancing with the Stars. You would thinking watching those dancers with the fabulous figures would have provided me with the motivation I needed to get up and run. But nope! I was content to lounge. What is wrong with me? I've pushed too hard before and gotten into exercise induced funks and usually taking a few days off is just what I've needed to help me re-focus and get back at it. This time it's been a several weeks thing and no amount of down time has helped.

Not only am I slacking on the exercise, but my eating has been horrendous! I normally follow Weight Watchers religiously. It's an easy program for me, a lifestyle that has always been very simple for me to maintain. I knew that I could follow it 6 days a week and have one eat fest cheat day and it would keep me at my ideal weight. I journaled every bite of food that went into my mouth and could see when I was getting careless with food and seeing it would help me get right back on track. But right now I'm just caring more about the food than about how I look and I hate it!

So any ideas what is wrong with me? I'm not depressed. Work is going okay, no stress there. I have a great life at home with my 2 guys, no stress there. Maybe I'm too content? I don't know, I just do know that I don't want to get heavy ever again. I've worked too hard to lose the weight that I gained when I was pregnant with Cole (which was a lot!). So if you have any ideas to help me get my booty back in gear, feel free to leave suggestions! And in the meantime, please keep your eyes open for my mojo and if you see it, please send it home!!

Musings on Grey's Anatony

Sorry fellow Grey's girls, the last couple of episodes have left me sort of cold so I haven't had much to say about them. However after a couple of glasses of wine and a day to ponder the last episode I have managed to put together some thoughts...

1. Love George & Baby Tuck! That is the cutest baby ever. Is it wrong that I think I might want George to be with Bailey so he could be Miranda's baby daddy?? George has been kind of out there the last season or so, and I think baby Tuck might be just the character saver that good old George needed!

2. So Ava's crazy, eh? I could have told you that! While I was hoping for something that would wipe her off the face of the earth, like I don't know...cancer, I guess I can deal with crazy. As long as it gets her locked up in a psych ward and off of my screen, I'm good. Looks like this story is going to push Alex back toward Izzie too.

3. Um, Rose? He's just not that into you! If he didn't call after the sex, it wasn't that great! And I think you should probably be alarmed that he's making doe eyes at the cute female surgeon standing next to him. You know the one he's in LOVE with...

4. Callie and Hahn kissing was kind of yuck, but made a little hot by Mark watching. Is that wrong? Love, love me some McSteamy. Give that man his own storyline next season.

5. And did anybody else just know that Andre was coming? I knew he was real and going to show up after she was dead. But it still made me cry...

6. Christina was just a straight up beeyotch. Didn't like her at all!

That's about it for me. I think the show has lost a little of the momentum it gained from the first couple of episodes back, but I'm holding out hope for a good season finale next week. What about you? Impressed or no?

Thankful Thursday

It's time for this week's edition of Thankful Thursday. Thanks, as always, to Tib for the graphic and the idea! This week I am thankful for...

1. The Dallas Stars. Believe in Black baby! Yes they are down 3-1 to the Red Wings in the Western Conference Finals. Yes they will probably lose the series. But they gutted out a win last night and gave us at least one more game to watch. Sweep this! Take that broom and shove it Wings, our Stars have more fight than that!

2. Bare Escentuals Faux Tan. After much experimenting with both great and disastrous results I have finally found the self-tanner for me. This stuff rocks! It looks like chocolate pudding so you can see exactly where you are applying it, which helps avoid nasty little streaks and as a bonus you get an immediate hint of color. The color is very natural and it lasts forever between applications. Now I can pull the shorts & capris out without scaring the neighborhood children. Two thumbs up!

3. Body Shops. Particularly the one we use. My car is fixed from the little mishap with the fence. It looks as good as new and because Ron knows the owner of the shop pretty well he cut us a deal and fixed it for only $200. Yea for having connections!

4. Working from Home. I love that I have the ability to do it when I need to, and I plan to do it tomorrow. :)

What about you? Are you thankful for anything today???

My Favorite Monday

I just looked at the date of my last post and boy have I been a delinquent blogger! Not that I have many faithful readers but I did make a promise to myself when I started this thing that I would try to keep it up. Life has been busy lately, but I am going to attempt to get back into the blogging groove, starting with...My Favorite Monday!

Today's topic, courtesy of Tib is my favorite sports team. Anyone who knows me well will be able to answer this question in about one millisecond. My favorite sports team is...The Dallas Cowboys!

I have been a fan for as long as I can remember. Heck I even met my husband at a game! We still attend as many games as we can and we are raising our own like Cowboys junkie. Last summer's vacation was planned around Cowboys training camp! We are hard core! You can ask our friends and neighbors who know not to call us or come visit during games. Phone calls go unanswered and guests get ignored unless it's halftime. Not that we don't love our friends, we just know we can see them any time, but there are only 16 football games a season to be enjoyed. :)

"I'll bet you are wishing you had taken the stairs right about now..."

Heeeee! I love me some McSteamy!

Another fun episode of Grey's last night. The elevator scene with Derek and his women was PRICELESS. Mark's comment made me roll! I just love Eric Dane. Yes, Mark is a cad, but the way Eric plays him gives him such a likeability factor in spite of being a dirty man whore!

I'm still not sure how I feel about the whole Callie/Hahn thing. Definitely not questioning that Hahn is in to Callie "that way" because she sure seems to want her, but I'm not sure I want the writers to go there with Callie. I'm fine with Hahn being a lesbian, I'm just thinking Callie isn't the girl for her. Maybe Christina??? The story is providing some great lines though. "I am a huge fan of penis!" and "...we screw boys like whores on tequila" being just a couple. Classic!

Loved seeing Addison and I liked how the writers used her as the vessel for getting the audience caught up on everything that happened at Seattle Grace during the writer's strike. And she looked fierce rocking her Christian Louboutin's!

Brain tumor guy was creepy! However I do like the way they are using the clinical trial storyline to slowly bring Derek and Meredith back toward one another. Yes, I'm a Meredith/Derek shipper and I refuse to apologize for it. I do not want them thrown back together though, so I like the approach the writers seem to be taking toward an eventual reconciliation. They need to learn to respect each other as individuals before they will be able to be a healthy couple.

Still love Alex and hate Ava/Rebecca. I'm SO glad that she isn't really pregnant because I don't want Alex to be stuck with her. She and Rose can go the way of Season 2 bomb squad guy any time now and that will be fine with me! Maybe Ava/Rebecca will end up having some horrible disease making her think she is pregnant and she will die in Alex's arms and Izzie can swoop in and carry his weeping form out of the room in her arms while he's wearing a pretty pink prom dress....whoops wrong season! But admit it, that would be pretty funny!

And way to finally find your backbone, Christina! I loved her blackmailing Callie.

What do you think fellow Grey's watchers? Is our show regaining some of it's original greatness, or am I crazy??

Thankful Thursday

It's time for Thankful Thursday, with the idea and graphic courtesy of the lovely Tiburon. Maybe referring to her as lovely will get me extra entries the next time she gives something away on her blog! Kidding!! ;) Today I am thankful for...

1. A clear biopsy. I got my cervical biopsy results back on Tuesday and it was negative. I'm so relieved and glad to have this behind me. I will have a repeat pap in another 6 months, but that is the only follow-up necessary.

2. HD DVR. Thursday night presents a big TV watching adventure in our home. Not that we are TV addicts by any stretch, it just seems that most of the shows that Ron and I like are on Thursdays. For him its The Office, My Name is Earl, and CSI. For me, Grey's Anatomy, and for the entire family, Survivor. As you can imagine this presents some interesting challenges since these shows are on at the same time, but with the addition of the HD DVR to our house, we have worked out a viewing/recording schedule with a little TV shuffle that allows us to be able to see all of our favorite shows in high definition!

3. Vacations. Sometimes I need one, and sometimes I need others around me to take one so that I can have some quiet time to get things done. Either way, I'm just glad to have them.

4. Haircut day. The growing out experiment is officially coming to an end on Saturday. It's been almost a year and I have decided that longer hair is just not for me. So at 8:30 on Saturday morning I'm going back to my short, sassy cut and I can't wait. The new cut and fresh color will make me feel like myself again. No more stranger in the mirror.

So what are you thankful for today?