Well, HELLO!

I love getting my hair cut.  When you get a good cut, it just makes your whole world seem brighter!  And the girl who cuts my hair is the shiznit people.  I mean it.  I think I have a girl crush!  She's like, 20yrs. old, cute as a button, sweet as sugar, and well, AWESOME.  Hair must be her calling because she's just dang good.  My hair is FAB.  And the funny thing is, it was just a trim!  But she 'cut in' my layers and shaped it back up.  Even told me how good my hair was looking.  I told her I was going back dark and she was like really?  This red is so great on you!  I asked her even if it was cheap Revlon 49?  She said ABSOLUTELY.  I love her.  I don't think I can go anywhere else ever again!  You know, I need to check and see if she is willing to take my number so that if anything ever happens and she leaves that salon that she can call me and I'll follow her to the new place.  Yes, I am SERIOUS!!!!

So, I am feeling SEX-AY!  My hair is all bouncy and swingy AND... the scale said 195.0 this AM!  AND... Tom is still here!  I am hoping this is a good sign.  :)  Although, my weight may be up tomorrow... I've run around like crazy today between errands and being back home and all that jazz.  Then the hubby told me he'd REALLY like sushi for dinner.  Hard to argue with that since I love the stuff, too!  I can't imagine the cals are horribly bad, but the sodium... OY.  I even use reduced sodium soy sauce many times, but still get bloaty.  Maybe I'll just keep chugging water until dinner and then have some mashed frozen bananas for dessert.  Oh so yummy and oh so full of potassium to fight bloat!  :D

They came today to do our roof.... but we still haven't gotten things straightened out with our insurance company.  I am about two seconds from being totally irritated.  They said they would overnight our THIRD check.  The first wasn't valid, the second never showed, and this will be the 3rd.  I could scream.  SERIOUSLY.  And this isn't some shoddy company... this is ALLSTATE!  I am SO ready to change companies at this point.  Farm Bureau is lookin' darn tootin' good.  Their reviews since all of these storms has gone UP!!!  They must take good care of their people for reviews to go UP!  Back to the roof.  Anyways, turns out our roof was worse than they thought, but luckily had held up really well.  The felt underlayment was still good so they went over it with MORE felt to make it even thicker.  Then they put on the new shingles.  I was shocked when I saw it... I thought we were getting plain ol' shingles.  Nope.  These are those 3-D shingles!  Changes the whole look of our house!  It's nuts!  The guy doing our gutters and stuff is also the painter and he asked who had done all the other work.  We said we did and he was like WOW -- you guys have done a GREAT job.  Now, this guy is a professional and does this for a living.  BLEW MY MIND!  WOOT!  I mean, we felt we had done a good job, but it was fantastic to hear it from someone who does this for a living.  He said he was concerned about our cinder-block foundation in the back... it wasn't properly sealed.  We said we knew and planned on stripping it, cleaning and re-applying the 'concrete' overlay, sealing, and then painting.  He thinks we should stucco, but we will see.  The back yard still needs a lot of work, so we will have to come back to that.... because we're going to be digging out so close to the house that we want to wait to do that until then.  As far as paint, he said they would come back tomorrow to go over how much the gables and soffits would be plus the back of the house.  They said insurance may cover paint even if the siding wasn't previously there since there more than likely would've been paint damage had there been paint.  So, we will see.  I don't want to push it or lie to the insurance company.  But if they submit it and the insurance accepts, then we'll do it.  But I'm not willing to be dishonest.  I'd rather just pay the extra cost out of pocket.  Or do it myself.  LOL  I think we'll end up doing it ourselves.  We'll see.

I guess I don't really have much else to talk about... I feel like lately I've become a bit boring and my posts aren't interesting.  But I really am just going day to day doing the same ol' things.  I'm trying to stick to the 1600 cals per day doing the 4 square thing and it's been working pretty well for me.  My Sundays are more relaxed, but that is about it.  I don't really feel like I'm struggling all that much and I haven't had any truly emotional stuff going on.  So, I guess this is all for now.  Until tomorrow!