Blurb, Weight, Cleaning, and Snow

Quite the group huh! Well, prompted by Rebecca's post on FB about dong her blog book, I decided to look into it *thanks Rebecca, it sucked me in for 3hrs last night*. I am in love with Blurb. I think that it is pretty simple to use and I am excited to use it to make books...I plan on doing my blogs and pictures from all of our vacations :-) YAY!! So, if you guys see any Groupons or coupon codes for Blurb coming up, help a girl out!

When reading through my blog (and not really even reading it but just skimming and looking at titles as I copied and pasted...they put each post on a new page so I got my 356 page book down to 160 pages), I realized that I wrote about a lot of really random things in 2008 and A LOT of travel. I don't feel like I post about travel as much anymore. It certainly isn't because I travel less, I think that I have just gotten a little better at going with the flow. I probably also post in one sentence status updates rather than a full blown story on my blog. Hmmm. I also learned that I need more pictures in my blog. Out of the 300 posts I had in 2008, there were only 64 pictures and there were often posts with a few pictures per post. I am not really sure what I will take pictures of because I surely don't need a year of pictures of my cats but I will try to figure something out.

Weight - last week was my first full week on WW, actually doing everything you are supposed to do and I am happy to report that I lost 4lbs. I know that is a lot for one week but I don't think that it will be that way every week. I am hoping for about 1lb a week...with that I should be ready for spring (remember spring is later here in OH). I didn't feel hungry at all last week and I cooked dinner every night other than Friday (pizza night) and the nights we had leftovers. I don't think that C even noticed that the meals were healthier because they weren't a drastic change from my norm...I just took smaller portions and always had some veggies. It worked. This coming weekend I am going to Phoenix for the half marathon and I wish that I didn't have to go out of town so close to starting the program but I think that I can do ok. I think my goal will be to maintain on the road and to lose while at home. It doesn't mean that I won't try to lose on the road, it is just harder to do that.

Cleaning - I have decided to try to get this email and google reader business under control! I am unsubscribing to all the newsletters that I get from places that I shop online with if they don't offer coupon codes or if it somewhere I only shop at occasionally. It seems to have helped cut down on the email! I am also unsubscribing on Google Reader to all the blogs that I thought I would read but don't. I subscribed to a bunch of coupon ones but I really only use 2...gonna get rid of the rest..those people post multiple times a day and it overwhelms me to have it clogging up my reader and to read the same deal worded 5 different ways.

Snow - I can't help but laugh at how much my life has changed with just my second winter in Ohio. I logged onto FB this am and every single post (and I am serious, it was EVERY one) from my Atlanta peeps was about the snow...about 1/3 of them had pictures. The funny part to me is 1. I would have been right there with you guys 2 years ago and 2. The pictures look like my yard has looked since Dec 1st, minus the one day it got up to 58 and I rode to the grocery store with my window down (seriously) and the 3 days until it snowed again. I even went out in the 15 degree!!! weather on Saturday WHILE it was snowing to do my grocery shopping. I got an email last night that our home office was closed today because of snow. I am not saying any of this to make fun of you guys...I am the first to defend the south...though my yard looks like yours do, my roads are clear as can be...and C has to shovel the driveway regularly when it snows because otherwise we will never leave our house. They put down beet juice, and brine, and salt and when you drive around here this time of year, every other pickup truck has a plow on the front and a salt spitter in the back (they do side jobs for private companies and stuff). It just makes me giggle a little bit to have lived in both places and to see the difference. Then again, it hits 90 here and people act as though they can't possible lift a finger, and humidity of 10% and they are dying...it is all relative. I think that a little bit of me is laughing at myself. Last year I couldn't wait for the first snowfall and I thought it was so awesome but now it is almost like rain...it happens so often that it is just another weather thing :-) (still pretty and I would much rather have it than rain). We are predicted to get 3-5 inches tonight and with that kind of snow it takes them a while to clear the roads so we will probably be in the same condition tomorrow that you guys are today and the fact that it won't get above 20 until March means it won't melt either...we just have to wait for the plow.