the amazing adventures of jen14221

friday kid photo

     

In which Will adds a fourth and fifth food to the repertoire of food that he will eat:  fish sticks and garlic bread.  Whoo-hoo!  We'll be trying sushi and sloppy joes next week.

As an aside, I used to buy these little fish nuggets at Wegman's in the organic (I think) frozen section - they were made by Dr. Somebody and shaped like little fishies.  Now I can't find them.  Anyone out there know what I am talking about?

ten years ago today....

...I drove from my parent's home in Williamsville, NY to my apartment in Brighton, MA.  It was a Friday.  My grandfather had passed away a few days prior and I had gone home for the funeral.  Once I got back to my apartment, I checked in with my friends, and debated going out for the night.  I was kind of tired from the drive, sort of depressed about my grandpa, and thought that maybe I should stay in for the night.  But my friend Lauren said I should just suck it up and come meet everyone at this bar in Copley Square where Ernst & Young was throwing a going-away party for one of the partners.  This was the late 90's, remember, and companies had big bucks to just hold an open-bar event for several hours where people like me, who did not work at E&Y, could just walk in and start ordering mixed drinks two at a time, no questions asked.  I got drunk, pretty damn fast, and started chatting with all the E&Y peeps.

Anyway, that's where I met Lauren's co-worker - Peter Lopes.

wednesday weigh-in

I'm up this week, about a half-pound.

 

We're going to Florida in a little more than two weeks; I'd like to get under 195 by then - that would be nice.

Also, by my calculations, I have 132 days left to lose 33.5 pounds in order to meet my goal of 165 by June 9th, which will be exactly one year to the day of my gastric bypass.

Must. Stop. Drinking. Red. Wine.

the monday seven

1. My son has an underlying skin infection that is secondary to his raging eczema.  The prescription we were given was not filled at Wegman's on Friday because it cost three hundred and twenty seven dollars.  For a three-week supply.  I am currently waiting for the dermatologist to get back to me so we can discuss alternatives, get samples from her office, or call the insurance company with great big heaving sobs and plead for them to cover the meds.
2. I have low-level clouds of depression hanging over my head.  Could it be SADD?
3. I got a speeding ticket yesterday.  Fuck.
4. I'm in Philadelphia without an extra pair of contacts and may need to drive home on Thursday wearing my glasses.  Which will probably result not in another speeding ticket, but me ending up dead in a ditch.
5. Toothache.
6. I bought a pair of new shoes last week that fit, but walked home to my hotel from the hospital today (stupid) and now have weeping blisters on my heels.  Lovely.
7. There's more, but not for public consumption.

i've heard she does not sleep very much

  

Meredith and Kiyora

friday kid photo

 

Peter, Will and I, and much of the entire neighborhood gang drove to the snowtubing place about 45 minutes away last Sunday.  It was pretty fun, and much better than I can imagine skiing would be with a 5 year-old.

We did run into a small bit of trouble when I decided to become annoyed Jen and bawl out some kids who were generally acting like mini-douchebags - pushing, shoving, and cutting into the lift line.  They were a gang of like twelve 11 year-olds, and there is nothing worse than a dozen asshole adolescents, acting like asshole adolescents, while one of their moms looks on and is all "chill out lady, kids will be kids".  Yeah, kids will be kids, but if they stomp over me and MY kid, I'm bringing your kid down.  Bitch.

Anyway, Will had fun.  He had, as he told me, "so much fun fun fun fun fun fun'.

wednesday weigh-in

I'm down 57 pounds.

And my favorite Kate Spade flats are now at least a half size too big.  My feet shrunk.

 

tuesday niece picture

I'm driving to Philadelphia next week for the specific purpose of making a pitstop in NYC to get my hands on this baby.

 

big news!

No longer obese!  Just very overweight!

 

I know, I only weigh myself on Wednesdays but I was feeling particularly fat this morning after several champagne cocktails and mini pizza bites last night, and I just on whim decided to check out the damage.  And I know, 198 is still pretty fucking enormous.  But compared to this...at 255?  It's downright tiny.

And then I made a delicious brioche bread pudding with orange chocolate and heavy cream, and ate some, and then I weighed myself again.  And I am back to obese.  Sigh.

And, here's some before and after.  So far.

friday kid photo

School was cancelled today AGAIN and I was home with Will all day.  We had the water softener installed in the basement, which annoyed Will as he was unable to play his stupid PlayStation while the plumber was banging and drilling and doing water softener installation duties. 

   

And then FINALLY the water softener installation was done and Will could back to business.  Which was playing PlayStation and ignoring me for much of the rest of the day at home.  Because, did I mention?  School was cancelled AGAIN.