Thanks for your ongoing encouragement guys!
It is So helpful to me to log on and read all of your encouraging words!
Friday -
Breakfast - 1 chocolate glazed donut, 1 chocolate chip muffin, and 1 iced latte
Lunch - country buffet - 3 fried green tomatos, mashed potatos, corn, black eyed peas, macaroni & cheese, salad
Dinner - mozzerella stuffed chicken breast w/ cream sauce on top, baked potato, lima beans Not too bad, but not too good either
No exercise
Saturday -
We got up early for once and were going to go to IHOP for breakfast. We drove around some and did a tiny bit of shopping first. Then Dh got paged for work and we ended up not getting a chance to go eat until 12:00. So we decided to go for lunch instead.
Lunch - Steak n Shake - Frisco burger, fries, chili YUM, I don't know if it was because I was so hungry or what but it was SO good!
Dinner - shrimp alfredo over whole wheat spaghetti. We bought a jar of light alfredo to use for this meal. The whole wheat pasta ended up being pretty tasty as well.
We walked for 40 minutes and did 2 miles exactly. We discussed our workouts and the fact that we need to intensify them most days, because we have limited time and Dh feels that he is wasting time if he isn't burning more calories. I agree w/ that for the most part. The funny thing is it is usually him that doesn't want to run or be more intense.
We really enjoy exercising outside also, but I am afraid that when it Really starts to get hot we won't stick w/ it.
Today -
Lunch - salad, tuna/pasta salad, mixed vegetables. They also had turkey that was from a neighbor. When I cut into my piece it had feathers inside where they had shot the turkey.
I almost lost my lunch then and there. I just pushed it aside and went meatless for lunch. I am VERY funny about my meat and there was No Way I was going to "just eat around it" as my dad said to do!
Dinner - Chili w/ cheese and cornbread in it.
For exercise today we walked 1.25 miles in 27 minutes. Then mom and I got out the bikes and were going to ride. Dh took one though so mom didn't end up riding. I rode around the lake twice and was Completely out of breath and Pooped!
There are some fairly small hills that seem Really big when you go up them on a bike, especially since I had not quite figured out the gear system. Then I rode the bike up to our property and back, which isn't far but it is up and down a pretty good hill. That may have been about 10 minutes of riding, but it wore me out more than an hour of walking! That probably means I should do that more often! Also, when I was riding around the lake I had to stop because the canadian geese that spend the spring in our lake had all of their babies in the path and they kept hissing at me! I had to go back the other way to keep them from attacking me.
They were so cute though! There are 7 of them.
We met w/ the builder for our house yesterday. He said that they will be getting started most likely next week. I think they have finally tied up all the loose ends now. I hope so anyway. I can wait to see some progress!
Oh, yeah, while I was at training last week, the hotel room I was staying in had BEDBUGS!!!
I kept finding more and more bites on me, but I never saw any bugs in or around the bed. I didn't believe that it was bedbugs at first, but I couldn't figure out where the bites were coming from. Also it didn't seem that I would wake up itching or notice more bites immediately, they would itch mid morning or after lunch. Well, finally Friday morning while I was getting ready to check out I saw 2 on the bed! I was so upset. I told the front desk and the guy actually had the nerve to ask me "are you sure it isn't psychosomatic?" !!
I said NO I have bites all over my arms and back and I showed him a few. They said they would take care of it, but I doubt it. I still itch really bad all over and I'm super paranoid. I left my suitcase outside and am washing everything immediately as I bring it into the house. I also took my contour pillow w/ me, so I washed it and that didn't work out the best. I think it will be ok, but it broke down some of the foam. Oh well, I will be a lot more vigilant about where I stay in the future!
I was ready to go out walking and about to put my shoes on when it started to rain. I sat at my computer and about 15 minutes later it stopped. I decided to try again. Once I got my shoes on, it started to rain again. 
Then I come home for a week and then go back to Athens for another week. I know that there will be at least one more week after that, but I don't have any details for it yet. Whew, as much as I enjoy the fitness equipment I will be glad to be done with all of this traveling! 
I can't wait. 
) I only ate 1/2 the shrimp
I left a note that said, "Dear Mommy, I have run away! I will not come home! Do not come looking for me! Mishu" 
So when she came home she called me and said "did you come over here?" "no" "you promise" "yep" (ok, told a little lie there 
) "where is my cat?" "what cat?" 
"You have my cat!" At this point I can here my dad in the background antagonizing her, "Why would she take your cat?" I said "maybe she ran away?" "No the door is closed" At that point I started to laugh and she said " Give me my cat back!" So she will come and get her when we exercise. I don't think she found the note 
After that I was pretty winded though. I did one more lap and tried to jog some on it, but only did maybe 15 seconds. That was my final lap because then Dh came home. I stretched really good during and afterwards. My right calf is a little sore, but it will be ok. We were a little slow today so my time was 70 minutes for 3.5 miles walking mostly.
I have been washing clothes and goofing off mostly. I may go over to have dinner w/ Dh and his friends since he is cooking, but at this point I think I would rather stay here and just chill. 
But I went to the gym and was able to buy a 2 day pass for $15, so I did that. 
(we ran out of the good stuff); spaghetti
How did I get so much fat! 
