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191.5 this AM.  I must admit, I'm a bit disappointed by that, but I am not totally surprised.  I was SO hungry yesterday all day.  Don't you love freakin' PMS?  Pain in my ASS!  At least I tried to eat healthy stuff.  I was SO hungry after dinner (which was a HUGE spinach salad with chicken).  I kept putting it off thinking it would go away but it got worse and worse until my stomach started cramping.  I was craving all kinds of bad stuff like chips and dip and sweets.  So, I ate some pretzels and fresh cheese and grapes.  Even if I didn't lose this AM, at least I maintained with that.  I was like that ALL day yesterday.  I just felt starved.  It's the main reason why PMS drives me nuts -- I bloat and feel like a ravenous BEAR!  I was bloated up a couple of days ago, but I think that may have been salt.  I think my soup was saltier than I thought.  It didn't TASTE salty, but apparently it was or I wouldn't have been so swollen.  But other than that one day, my numbers have remained the same.  I hope to break 190 not this Sunday, but the Sunday after.  I am thinking that this week with the start of my cycle coming I will go up and stay there until it is over.  Then hopefully it will go back down plus a bit more.  At the end of the month, I'd really like to see a 4lb. loss, but I don't know if I will.  I will try to be happy with 3!  But I am going to shoot for 4!  I just wish I had lost more this week.  I probably ate too much candy and salt!  LOL

I have somewhat of a cold today.  My head isn't stuffy, but my throat feels... clogged?  I don't know how to explain it.  I'm not even really coughing or anything, it's just like my vocal chords are irritated and my voice sounds raspy.  Dealing with the kids has been FUN.  Not that they've been all that bad, just that my voice sounds strange and I think my oldest thinks it's funny.  LOL  He hasn't been mean about it, but he looks at me weird when I try to talk to him.  Younger just seems to feel sad for his sick ol' Momma.  I don't really feel sick....  I did SO much work yesterday!  I didn't do dusting (can you tell I HATE it by the fact I keep putting it off?), but I didn't finish sorting and purging toys downstairs, picked up, more laundry, more dishes, and etc.   I also got the upstairs floors done.  All that is left to do today is to dust upstairs and then dust and vacuum downstairs!  :D :D :D  I was SO productive!  And if the weather cooperates today, I am going to do some work outside, cold or not.  I need to finish caulking the front door and then all the stuff on the back.  If the weather is nice tomorrow, I will probably spend the day painting the back of the house.  I don't think I will finish all the paint on this house, but at least the siding is up and all the windows.  If I can get the caulk up and then a good coat of paint on the back and maybe a few repairs to the concrete, I will be REALLY happy with that.  One coat of paint isn't optimal, but better than nada.  I guess I will have to wait to finish all the paint in Spring.  I am hoping that we will make some more friends by then and maybe be able to trade out babysitting so I can get it done.  Especially since the good majority of the inside of the house should be done by Christmas.  In case you missed it, we decided to cop out and hire someone to finish up the work in some rooms.  Things that we just aren't that great at like finishing drywall and hanging the doors.  Plus some woodwork.  I think dude will be here 2 weeks, but I could be wrong.  We hope to keep it to 2.  Every room should be done but the paint on the cabinets in the kitchen plus details and the downstairs bathroom.  We know what we want done in the kitchen, it's just not a good time of year to do it.  All of them need to be disassembled, cleaned, and sprayed.  That needs to be done in good weather.  Not to mention, there are too many holidays and things to not have my kitchen!  LOL

So, that will be it.  OH, and the garage!  But we've been working on that bit by bit already.  It just needs the ceiling tiles (no other ceiling will work), fresh paint, and some other tweaks.  We will get to that soon.  That is where we hope to have our workout room.  We already have a storage area there and laundry.  I just hope to make some tweaks to make it more comfortable.  That way I have a designated workout area.  That's one reason I don't like to workout downstairs... my treadmill is shoved in a corner of the guestroom.  Along with a ton of other stuff.  Not to mention the garage is where the weight bench and other stuff is.  So, it will be nice to have a little workout area.  But if something were to happen, we COULD still use it as a garage.  Which is also good in case we ever decide to sell... which we probably will.  I still wish we could buy a steel garage or add a garage.  But right now we are looking into a steel carport.  Just something to protect our cars in storms and keep snow off when we do get snow.  Hopefully we can do that if nothing else.  I'd love to do a built on one, but the cost won't work.  So, we will see.  Right now, I'd just be happy to have the garage so I could have a nice place to workout instead of a corner!  LOL

Crap.  I've lost my train of thought now!  I hate that.  I got distracted like a squirrel and can't seem to get back on track.  BLEH.  OH WELL!  Guess I should be getting off of here for now anyways.  I need to get some food in me and get to work on a few other things while it warms up for us to do outside work.  UGH.  Oldest has a b-day party RIGHT when I need to be outside working.  I'm not sure how we're going to swing this now.  Grrrr!!!