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Woot Woot! We have the internet again...for some that is a nice convenience...for me, a lifeline!
It has been an interesting week and few days. Jeremy and I have moved to Shakopee, my commute is 15 minutes shorter and I have christened the new, bigger kitchen with the first home-cooked meal.
I have also realized just how stressed I let myself get in situations. Moving day was made significantly easier with all of the wonderful help we had, but yet I still couldn't shake my feeling of things being out of my control and then I shut down a bit. I find that I cannot stand this aspect of my personality. If I can't run things at my pace and in my way (which is usually sloowwww) then I feel inadequate and can't quite get things together emotionally. It's weird and yet ANOTHER aspect of my life that I need to "work" on. THEN, Sunday, the people were gone and the apartment was slowly becoming a home (MUCHO thanks to Jeremy) I became sad. I cried in fact. I love being surrounded by friends and family, but at the same time I get overwhelmed...I would prefer to be surrounded by friends and family and be able to live in the moment and truly enjoy it for what it is, which is, good, good times. Nope, I have to future trip and worry about things that I have no control over and predict how everything is going to play out. Usually the situation never turns out the way I have figured it would ( that's a good thing because I tend toward the negative) and all the worrying was for naught.
So silly and completely unnecessary! So now I am trying to remember to take deep breaths, count to 10 and remember that if I live in the future I won't enjoy the present. Corny enough for ya? mmm corn...
Now I have had all of that on my mind and it feels good to get it out though it was a bit rambly. On a positive note, Jeremy and I have been doing really well with counting our points and remembering portion control (half-hearted yay for measuring cups). I made a WW-inspired Chicken Parmigiana (see recipe link below) last night and it was reasonably low in points and delicious. Granted Jeremy told me that he thought he might choke on the chicken. Why, you ask, was he worried about choking on the chicken? I was also wondering so ask him I did and his response ... "the chicken is really chewy, as in dry"... ummmmm...0kay... turns out I should have just left his first comment alone!
There were homemade brownies at work that I also managed to avoid. Avoided, even with all of my coworkers raving about how delicious they were and going back for seconds. That was tough, but now I feel proud that I was able to maintain my will-power for, count 'em, 8 hours! Aww yeah BABY! It probably helps that I walked past a reflective surface and got a good glimpse of my butt in scrubs: WIDE AND FLAT complete with saddle-baaaaags! That will put anyone off brownies for a few hours.
Now to get through the weekend while hanging on for dear life to that dang WW wagon...ugh
Thanks for reading! And Sarah, thanks for the smoothie recipes, complete with morbid names!


Delicious recipe for Chicken Parmigiana from WW recipes - made a couple of tweaks such as fresh tomatoes and onions to the sauce and using italian seasoned panko bread crumbs...I also bake the coated chicken in the oven and then add the sauce and cheese and bake a little longer...eliminates the need for any oil for the skillet. Also I just use two chicken breasts and cut the measurements accordingly.
http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/prt/recipe.aspx?Type=1&RecipeID=68311