Whew. My house is almost back to pre-Christmas status. Almost. Still have to take down the outside stuff, but at least the inside has signs of normalcy again! It’s been a fairly uneventful weekend, even with the New Years holiday.

On New Year’s Eve we did a little shopping for a new camera bag. In case you didn’t know, last week we bought a new Nikon p90 with the Christmas money we got (YAY!) and since it was much bigger than our old Kodak a new bag was definitely in order. After that we ate dinner at the Waffle House and was home well before all the drunks were unleashed on the roads because none of us have a death wish.

Friday, I met up with Lynne at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office to weigh-in for a new challenge I’ve entered! It’s the Fitness Challenge put on by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office each year and runs for 12 weeks. There are individual prizes and team prizes; our team is called “Extreme Makeover – Booty Edition” and consists of me, Lynne, her mother, her aunt, and a co-worker of hers. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this and it really has me motivated to continue with my weight loss efforts. I weighed in at 231.4 (note – I weighed a few pounds lighter on my scale at home). We’ll see how it plays out in 12 weeks!

From there we went to McDonalds where we basically talked about the challenge and gave each other ideas for healthy snacks and stuff. Don’t worry, I just had the grilled chicken wrap with no cheese or sauce, a parfait, and a bottled water. ;-)

After that I headed home because we were to be at mom’s house at 3:00 for some good luck black eyed peas! and boy they were YUMMY! That night we watched the movie “Up” and OMG nobody warned me that I would need tissues within the first five minutes! Holy cow was it sad, or what?! Good movie, just not what I was expecting at all.

Yesterday I woke up completely motivated to take all our Christmas decor down, but spent most of the day on the computer and the Wii. Yeah, totally unproductive. I did finally start taking the tree down around 5:00. Seeing all the ornaments reminded me that I wanted to go to Hallmark to see if they had any of their character ornaments on sale so that’s where we went. Me and Marisa went to the mall and to the standalone Hallmark to see what they had on clearance…boy did we make out! I love character ornaments, and Hallmark’s are the best. They’re just too damned expensive for me to buy BEFORE Christmas so every year I go after and get the leftovers. :-) Came home and finished taking the tree down.

Well, Darren just got home for dinner, so I’m gonna cut this short and then hopefully finish getting my house in order before work tomorrow. Oh and maybe we’ll watch Inglorious Basterds tonight!

Until tomorrow…

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