Long Weekend Update!

I should stop using the “Weekend Update” titles huh? Because it seems that all I post about are weekend updates now hehe. The Smartest Loser stuff is keeping me pretty busy, which is a good thing. I have less time to think about food, and I have to make sure to go to bed at a decent hour because I can’t afford to be unecessary tired, with all the exercising we’re doing!

So we had a 3 day weekend.. Well I did. Steph worked on Monday. He has Memorial day off. This past weekend was unofficially declared The Grossest Weekend Ever. This is your formal warning. The stuff below ain’t for sissies.

Friday Night we had our group workout at Centennial park, which you can read about on that blog. We stopped at the new Sobeys on Wheeler blvd. for a handful of things on our way home, but came out with a 72$ cart. Shit. When will we learn. Came home, and I decided that I had to re-arrange the living room furniture right then and there, and give the room a purpose. I brought the hutch that was in the dining room in there, I brought the book shelving unit from the computer room, rearranged some stuff, took out some stuff, and presto magicko, voila, a reading room with one big red reading chair. That’s it hehe. I feel sad about being back at square 1, furniture wise, but the reasons why we had to do it are well worth it.

Saturday morning I slept in, got up, inhaled my half cup of cottage cheese and threw on some jeans and a t-shirt and was out the door in 25 minutes. We went to see The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian. I really liked it. Although… [Last Warning. grossness starts now.] There was a family with 2 quadraplegic kids in wheelchairs sitting right in front of us (We were in the second row, at Trinity.) The oldest daughter looked like she was between 18-25… hard to tell. She wasn’t able to communicate, but she seemed to enjoy the movie and was eating popcorn like it was going out of style. At around 3/4 of the movie, she starts barfing up in the air like a fountain. Eew. Poor them. But ew. That definitely took care of my popcorn craving.

Saturday night, I was the last to use the bathroom and Steph and the dog were already in bed. When I came out of the bathroom, I discovered with horror that Loki had had big, bad, bad, green diahrrea all over the light grey carpet. We think he ate some bits of green peppers off the floor. Fuck. Steph tried to clean that up the best he could, but it was still pretty damn gross. The next morning, we woke up to a carpet AND.. bed.. [told you it was THE grossest weekend ever] covered in green diahrrea. I had a fit, declared the carpet dead, and refused to sleep once more in the same room as that carpet. Washed all the bedding [Thank goodness for mattress covers]. And went to Home Depot to get laminate flooring, not even knowing yet how I’d pay for it. Slapped it on my credit card for now and well… 3-4 days ago we were laughing about the fact that the traditional 5 year wedding gift is WOOD! hah. Ironic isn’t it ? Good Bye, New York City. Hellooo, cheap ass fake floors. Happy Anniversary Honey! (It’s only in a month, but this couldn’t wait.)

So we spent all of Sunday and Monday with my brother’s help, trying to put together that piece of shit fake wood floor. It looks like absolute crap because we had no idea what we were doing. So I had to resort to begging Tim (Sophie’s handsome & handy husband, the flooring guy) for a quote, and hope to goodness that I can afford to have those fixed. I already paid 555$ for the floors so I hope they can look decent. We had decided that Loki would sleep in his Kennel from now on, but Steph convinced me to try the diapers, since the floor more than likely has to be taken appart and redone anyway and we’ll have to buy additional boxes of wood anyway. So far, so good. Excellent in fact. For the past 2 nights, Loki has had the doggy diaper on at night, and did absolutely nothing in it! That is nothing short of a miracle. I think he knows what it’s for. I think he knows, from the first time he tried it and soaked it, how it defeats his marking purposes. So he’s pretty pissed at us, but I Think it’s going to change our lives. News news! Doggy Diaper changes lives!

So that’s about it… tonight is our Last Chance Workout and weekly weigh-in at the gym… Wish me luck!