Living & Loving Life!

The past couple of weeks has been good, I feel well rested and ready to tackle the rest of the year! Crazy that we are just about in the last quarter of 2011! Where exactly did the time go? Who knows, all I do know is that I've been living & loving life!

This past weekend a couple friends and I took our one and only trip this summer to Galveston beach. Naturally I'm still finding sand all over the place but we had a great time! Weather was perfect and the kids couldn't get enough of that dirty water :-)



Julianni 9/17/11



Enjoying some sand!


Mimi 9/17/11

After the nice long day at the beach, we ate a "snack"...took showers and then headed out for a graduation party/fish fry.

Okay so we really didn't eat a "snack" and when we arrived at the fish fry I had absolutely NO BUSINESS eating again but hell...you only live once on this earth right?! The food was crazy good of course...this is TX and the strawberry daiquiri's were even better!



My friend and I on our way to the party

Basically this post is about how I'm choosing to enjoy my life! This has been a great year for me and I intend to finish it with a bang! Thanks for continuing to kick it with me on my lifestyle transformation!

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Thirty days of ME...Day 17

Day Seventeen- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why

If I had the choice to switch lives with anyone for one day it would be Oprah! She gives so much of herself to everyone, if I had that kind of financial freedom I'd do the same thing. I'm curious to know what goes on in her downtime, outside of all the glitz & glamour of being a celebrity? I'd be cool with an opportunity to meet her, I wouldn't even have to switch lives for a day!

Yes, I know he loves me!!

So I said I wouldn’t tell anyone but this is too funny not to share! My honey has a job that keeps him tied to a boat for seven days straight while he’s at work. He’s been making strides at eating healthier and working out to lose a few pounds but his options at work are somewhat limited. Anyhoo, I always ask him what he’s ate and what he plans to eat for the remainder of the day. One day a week ago I asked him and he told me he was getting ready to get his walk on, but he was going to eat two hot dogs after he finished. He knows I think hot dogs are pretty disgusting but I’m fair when it comes to the trade off. I told him if he wanted to eat those two hot dogs, then he must walk a mile for each one lol! Oh and that white bread he planned to wrap around them, that was going to cost him another quarter mile! It’s not my fault the grocery order got messed up and they only had white bread, no wheat! The other option would be wrapping his cajun turkey lunch meat in lettuce and adding mustard! He chose the two and a quarter miles, insisting his “all male” coworkers would laugh a little too hard if they caught him eating his lunch meat wrapped in lettuce lol! He cussed and fussed but he did it!

I’m not in any way form or fashion trying to insult his manhood, I just want him to be healthy. A little fire has been lit under his butt by my own progress AND my baby Mimi called him “chunky” the other day! She told him he needs to do Turbo Fire and Spinning with mommy J. We plan to be partners and teammates for life so that means we have to work together to keep each other on track. He thinks I’m a bit fanatic when it comes to eating healthy but he’s from New Orleans..his love for food was instilled at birth. If I didn’t care, all of the sausage, cheese grits, hot dogs, BBQ Cheetos..etc. wouldn’t make me flynch. He knows I love him and need him hanging out with me when we get old and our kids are living their own lives. I know he loves me because he’s making a conscious effort to change his eating habits and exercise more. This makes me happy!