The Crazee Chick's View of Life

5 days! That's how many times I've exercised in the last week! Woo hooo!!! Still lookin' like this: But aiming for this:

Good bye Alfred Sung. Good bye Oscar de la Renta. Helloooooo Juicy! I took all your suggestions to heart nose and found the winner to be: Viva La Juicy! Other ones I really liked: Midnight by DKNY Coco by Chanel Ange ou Demon by Givenchy Hot Couture by Givenchy. Very Irresistible by Givenchy (I LIKE his stuff!) Ones that I liked but didn't like me: Heat by Beyonce. Smelled great on the card but WAAAAY too sweet on my body! So thank you all, for your suggestions. Some of them I wasn't able to find but will 'sniff' out in the future to add to my collection! Right now...I smell GOOOOOOD!

Sniff, sniff, my baby has finished grade 7!  Where did the time go?   I look at this lovely young lady and think about the baby she once was (shy and scared) and think about the woman she is going to one day become (strong, beautiful, talented, responsible, trustworthy).  I think she's got the entire world at her feet! I love you Mo!

Ugh. Climbing back on the DIET (that's DIE with a T) band wagon tomorrow. Why do I feel like my best friend just died? Ugh. Guess I'd better pull this out of the cupboard again... So I can make batches and batches of this: It looks yummy enough though, doesn't it? Why, then, do I feel so depressed? Does food really mean that much to me? Would I rather eat junk food and have a fat butt and greasy skin or would I rather eat healthily, lose 15 or so pounds and have clear skin? Oh, my cyber friends, you know me too well... "Bring on the fries and gravy," I say, "Let the rabbits and cows eat all the green stuff...and then...let's eat the cows! " That's the difference between BEING a vegetarian and EATING a vegetarian! But alas, tomorrow I embark on diet 959, 000 where I will endeavor to lose the same 20 lbs that have plagued me since my early days.  (Okay, maybe in the early days it was only 10 but now it's closer to 25!...

Before I became a Mommy I was a working girl. And when I was a working girl, I was a GOOD smelling working girl. I had my favorites--Tresor, Poison, Giorgio, Ysatis, Tuscany per Donna, Eternity by Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis and Alfred Sung. I had so many perfumes--and I loved them all! Then I became a Mommy and I did away with all my perfumed-ness. Why? I guess I didn't want my baby to have to breathe all that while s/he was trying to nurse. Perfumed flavored milk? Yucky! And...I never went out so why did I need to smell pretty? Wasn't smelling like breast milk, puke and baby poop enough of a sensory overload? Now I'm two things: Mommy and Working Girl. But I'm not a breastfeeding Mommy so you know what that means... BRING ON THE PERFUME!! The other day I went to the store and I was bowled over by the choices! Givenchy has a million scents now, JLo has like three kinds, and then there's that Ed Hardy guy with the fabulous name-- Christian Audidgi...

Fail. Big Time. Remember when I said I'd fallen off the diet wagon last week? Remember how I had full intentions of getting right back on the next day? Yeah, that so didn't happen. In fact, I kinda sorta binged and within a week gained back all the weight I'd lost (which, in all fairness, wasn't really THAT much--only like 3.5 lbs). Look at me down playing my gluttony! Seriously, what is wrong with me? Why am I so bad at: a. a diet b. an exercise program c. anything that is hard, depriving or intense Why am I so good at: a. reading in a hot bathtub for hours on end b. sleeping c. eating chocolate, carbohydrates and fatty foods Hmmm...why am I being so tough on myself? God gave us many talents and told us to develop them and then He'd give us more. So, dear Lord, I have developed my eating, relaxing and sleeping habits, may I now have new ones? I'd like vacationing, sunbathing, and of course, the most difficult one, sitting in a chair re...

I still have to tell you all about our first trip to Disney but I haven't had time to yet! I promise that I will...soon. Until then, here's a picture of us in front of 'the castle!'  Oh how I want to go back!!!

Was at the ball park with Zee today and I learned some new things. Apparently you are not supposed to yell, "Nice hit, HONEY!" when your son is at bat. "That was a sweet hit, dude!" is much better. When chucking a ball at your son, don't aim it at his head...a ball on the ear is painful! Give your boy a high five when he runs over to you after an inning...a hug is just uncool. These are the things I learned , but what I know is that: 1. my son loves being called honey, and 2. he loves getting hugs from his momma--and I hope those things never change!

Fell off the wagon. Crash! That hurt! It's been seven days of nothing but fruit, veggies and brown rice (and a nice little soy strawberry frap at Sbux) and this morning the thought of blueberries and an orange for breakfast was not pleasing to my palate. So I fell off the wagon. Hey! Don't judge me...on the seventh day even God rested from His labours so this morning, on my seventh day, I didn't feel too guilty about resting from mine. The prize for seven days of hard work? A delicious sesame seed bagel dripping in butter and sunflower seed butter (Sunbutter). I took one bite of it and told Hubby to take a back seat because I now had a new lover. BREAD! One bite of it had me in the throes of passion like I've never known (okay, not really but you get the idea right?) In keeping with my theological theme today, may I just say that it was HEAVENLY? I'm sure I heard angels singing.....