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I'm up late because I slept too late this morning.  It felt good, but I hope I sleep well tonight.  I'm only staying up to log on here.

No much news to report here.  Weight is holding fairly steady.  I just came off a 2 or 3 week slow gaining period (not real gains, so I wasn't worried) and had a tiny loss this week (not a real loss either) - so it's all good there.

I haven't exactly been feeling well lately.  I think I've been in a protein bar rut for too long.  I also think I'm going to cut down on the frozen yogurt & supplement milk for a while to get my fluids back around 100 oz per day for a while.  I'm also giving up sugar free bubble gum.  I'm not giving it up ALL TOGETHER - but I am cutting back from the approximately 4 packs a day I chew.  (Yes, I chew that much SF gum per day - I spit it out when it loses its flavor and I am a chain chewer the way some people are chain smokers.)  So I quit that earlier today.  I haven't been having trouble with it (laxative trouble, etc).  But the other day, I bloated up like I was pregnant and had HORRIBLE gas and watery bowel movements for hours.  I do NOT want that to happen again.  So I cutting back to only chewing SF gum only every once in a while (the way a normal person would).  I don't even HAVE any right now, so I may quit all together.  Who knows.

My son had a birthday party to go to last night and my daughter had company last night.  My son came home this afternoon, then he & I went to see Knowing (that Nicolas Cage movie).  It was different than I thought it would be, but it was okay.  My daughter had company last night that also stayed tonight. 

Hubby got his bonus this week.  We paid off our credit card bill which has not been paid off in 7 or 8 years.  We also had enough left over to pay off a couple of thousand on a dept store credit bill we owe.  Now I think we can knock the rest of that one off in < than 6 months - which is great.  That has really taken a load off and we've been looking forward to that.  Hubby goes on vacation this week.  We set it up that way because the kids are on spring break this week and I am NOT off work.  Although... I may take a day off.  I'm not sure yet.  I'll have to see if I have time. 

Work has been okay.  It's been frustrating.  I've had a couple of weeks where I feel like I'm spinning my wheels in place TRYING to move and getting NOWHERE.  But I've been working some pretty stagnant stuff lately, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised. 

It's been sprinkling rain for the last few days, save one.  I hate it.  I'm ready for it to be NICE for a WHILE.  I don't want to see one more rain drop or even any dew for at least a month - maybe more.  I'm sick of it. 

Twilight was released today.  So you know what I bought today?  That's right.  Twilight on DVD.  It's not as good as the book... but what movie is ever really as good as the book.  I love the Twilight series!  I know?!?!?  What am I, like 12 years old?!?!?!?  I love the City of Bones/Ashes/Glass series too!  I have City of Glass on pre-order from Amazon that should be on it's way to me this week!  I also loved Evermore (Alyson Noel) and can't wait for the sequel to that coming out in 07/09!  So juvenile... I know.  But I've been into "young reader" books lately (since I read the Twilight saga).  They are easy reads and much more relaxing than murder mysteries or romance novels.  I'm spoiler to Johanna Lindsey and Julie Garwood for romance novels.  And they write slower than I read.  So I have to have SOMETHING to fill in the blanks. 

Oh well... I guess I'll go see if I can respond to a couple of posts on the board so everyone knows I'm still alive.  Smooches!!!

Well, it finally FELT like spring today.  I could have even worn shorts... well maybe I could have worn shorts.... okay probably not... maybe I could have worn shorts 1/2 the day... the other half, not so much.  In any event, today was okay.

I slept until 10, which was really 11 thanks to spring forward.  So that's not so good.

BUT, hubby, son & I went to Wal-Mart to get a bunch of odd & end necessities that they needed (new underwear, undershirts, razor replacement multi-packs) and I got the gum I like that Kroger doesn't carry (Mentos SF gum) that I had a coupon for.  So that was good.

My husband's grandmother called & made him feel like crap for not calling more.  (She only gripes when they are on the phone together, so he has gotten to where he hates the sound of her voice even.)  So that was not so good.

But then later in the day, I suggested that he put a limit on it - even set a timer in front of himself when he called her - then think to himself (while she was griping), "I only have to listen to this for 3.5 more minutes and I can make an excuse to hang up.)  If he did THAT, maybe he would call her (because she has had to call the last few times because he avoids calling her like the plague now).  I also suggested that he change the subject by asking about other people whenever she starts griping.  So I sat with him while he called her today and he did those things.  He ended up talking to her for THIRTY MINUTES (much longer than the 5 - 10 minute minimum requirement I had suggested).  He even said that he really didn't even want to get off the phone with her after 30 minutes - she let HIM go!  So that was good.

I got a load of laundry done today.  So that was good.

I didn't get it done until I was about to get into the shower and realized I had nothing to dry off with and had to use my sweater to dry off with while the load was washing.  So that was not so good.

I am maintaining at 125.6 as of yesterday.  So that is good.

My body seems to be changing shape a little and I feel bigger around the middle.  So that is not so good.

The new system is online at my job and hopefully things will smooth out soon.  So that is good.

My husband's boss is coming back soon - so he'll just be a co-manager again instead of an acting store manager.  So that is not so good.

I got our tax refunds in.  So that is good.

My son/daughter need new summer clothes and my son needs new track shoes.  So that is not so good.

I'm going to look at revamping my diet, because I seem to be in a bit of a rut lately.  So that is good.

I've chewed so much sugar free gum today that I can't trust myself to fart.  So that is not so good.