just thinking with my fingers

Started reading a new book called 4 hour body, it's amazing, conversational, the writer is truly charismatic, and I am going to try his techniques!

Trying to decide how to make Valentines for my team this year, thinking that I am going to get my embroidery machine up and running with hearts and happy vdays :)

Day 2 week one of eating only one meal a day, and I'm feeling great :) Going to try my GNC lean shake today and see if it's as bad as the reviews say, I'm hoping it's tastier than reviews tell me! since I have 5 containers ( All given to me for free!:D) I really like Slimfast, but I really do not like the price! I'm hopeful that mind over matter will work and I will be able to love it, because I need to love it, you know? and if I don't then I will print out a crap ton of coupons for slimfast and go shopping :) Not a huge deal!

I'm sleepy though, not a lack of energy sleepy, but that " I worked hard and could use a good nights sleep" sleepy, so I think I'll hit the sack.

This year I'm trying to blog more often, because I think it's a wonderful way to get my thoughts down and not forget them. Helps me sort through things, and hopefully, it will improve my writing. <3

~ Sarah

darn plans, never working out as intended lol

So I PLANNED to go to sleep as soon as I got home, but stayed up instead.

Ahh well luckily today at work is a slow day, an office party that gives us 2 hours and 25 minutes off of the queue, time that I can use to sllllllllllleeeeeeeeeppppppppp while my co workers watch the goonies :)

Hoppe everyone else has a blessed day! I'm going into day two of one meal a day and two meal replacement shakes ready and honestly not hungry :)

Just catching up

So lately I"ve been doing ahigh protein low calorie, low carb diet ( Life style change) And it seems to be working.

I went a week with no sweets, but broke down over the weekend, I need to make sure my family does NOT bring sweets into the house, it kills me, I have no control when it comes to chocolate.

Did my months worth of cooking, and am going to put it all into individual containers sometime this week. Right now I'm Exhausted, went to bed a bit later than intended so today I plan to go to sleep as soon as I get home.

Started replacing one meal a day with a meal replacement shake, by the end of the week I will only eat lunch, the other two meals will be shakes, on top of my protein powder intake.
I bought some of those slimfasts, but to be honest I'm not a huge fan, and a friend gave me FIVE cannisters of the GNC lean meal replacement shake powder, so I'll start using that soon. :)

Drinking lots of water still and making sure I get my 70-105 grams of protein a day. I'm doing well with that, My fitness pal helps a lot

to say that today has been tough would be an understatement, I'm exhausted, and not hungry, but feeling a bit off. hopefully that will get better as this new diet progresses :)

I got my engagement ring fixed this weekend

And I am so very happy to have my gorgeous ring back on my hand where it belongs!

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It's the time again! Cooking like crazy tonight!

So it's that time again, and I"m cooking like crazy to get our months worth of dunners cooked cooled, portioned and in the freezer! It's been a good weekend, very busy, but good. Got to spend time with Malachai, and that was nice.

Anyone else ready for a vacation? lol! I know I know the holidays are barely over! but seriously, a vacation sounds mighty good right about now. After my surgery, after I get to my goal weight, I plan to take a real vacation, til then I'll just teach myself how to eat properly, and how to live the life I want to live. :D

I know lots and lots of people make goals, and give themselves prizes for reaching those goals, I honestly work better if there's a carrot dangling in front of me :) So right now, my carrot is a vacation! ( long term) Next payday ( isn't is crazy how fast your paycheck dwindles?) I'm going to get a heart rate monitor, because I feel like I need one in the gym, to make sure I'm kicking it up to that next level! I'm still on 1200 calories a day, ( I succeed most days in keeping it there) but my weight loss has slown down and I THINK it's because my work outs in the gym aren't as powerful as they were when I started, because my body has gotten used to it.

Anyways, on the stove now is a huge ( I mean huge) pot of tomato sauce, from scratch, with 6 mushrooms, a head of garlic, italian herbs and spices ( Dried, I'm too lazy to garden) and cracked pepper. It also has the meatless ground in it to go ahead and start the full flavored sauce process, i usually let my sauce simmer for 15 minutes at a time, then I stir it up and give it a taste, see how I like it. :)

oh! This week I start my meal replacement shakes, starting with one meal a day, which for me I"m not sure what that will be yet, we have to see, but by the end of the week we will move up to breakfast and dinner b eing replaced, the only meal I need to eat is lunch at work :).

ok back to cooking <3

Don't you just love making beautiful things?

Here is my very first Practice Piece on my Embroidery machine!

So if you read through my last post, you know that my machine sews like a DREAM! Well Guess what? It embroiders like a dream too <3 Have to make sure to put the bobbin in correctly, but luckily, the bobbin case comes off easily with the removal of only two screws, allowing you to fix the really really bad big huge mess inside it with ease... >.>. Also in case you are wondering, this is 4 separate patterns, I could have just put the "And" symbol in with the E and the S but I'm not sure I could have made it small and the other two big. :) So the Heart is one pattern, the ES is another, the "And" is another and the Cherub is another :)

Anywho, after I figured it out, it worked amazing! You can probably see on the lower left hand side of the heart the fabric is ripped, that's because I had to cut it off of my feed dogs... yep I embroidered the fabric TO the machine! And that's after I read the instructions for a week, watched tutorials on line, and popped inthe disc, JUST to make sure I wouldn't mess up. :P All I can really say is that it was my first time, I'm still very very happy with my sucess, and I think that I will be embroidering many many things in the future! Starting this weekend with TOWELS FOR MY HOUSE YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight after I make them myself... :D

That's right I am going to make my own towels, and then Embroider them! ( You just need a coupon for Joanns, go grab your favorite color of Terry cloth, and a Serger , and you are good to go!)

So yes, I am going to make towels, see how I like it, and if I like it enough then we will never buy towels again, not for wedding gifts, OR for us :D Because no joke, I love big soft fluffy towels, it's just hard to find them in my size :P.

Anywhoodles, I"m off to possibly doze on the couch, took a half day today.

Hope everyone has an incredible night day whatever it is for you <3.

scrappy purse and card holder insert

So I busted out my new sewing machine, and my scraps ( known in my world as a *stash* one day I will show you me full stash its almost frightening how many scraps I have LOL) and I got busy today! The scrappy bug just hit me, and I made a new purse ( still needs to be lined, and have straps added, but I wanted to share the pretty colors)

I just saw the scraps, and in my head I saw what they could be and I sat down and did it :).

In the course of using the new machine I got to absolutely Squeeeeeeee over the amazing features undid not even know the machine had! Like when I was nearly done with the bag, the machine beeped and let me know my bobbing thread was running low!!! How amazing is that? One of my least favorite things , is not realizing my bobbing is empty LOL.

And the automatic needle threaded is amazing!!!!! And the automatic thread cutter leaves so much less wasted thread! I love this machine, no joke. It area like a DREAM my older model brother sewing machine was loud, and tempermental ( but well loved, I adored that machine and was sad to give it away). This machine hardly makes any noise, when you turn it on the needles move into place with a loud clink, but that's in the manual as normal, so far that is the only loud part on the machine. I cannot reccommend this baby enough!

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Ps : In case you are wondering, these are 4 fabrics, the three super bright ones were all puchased at the same time from Joanns, I used them in a gorgeous little quilt I made for my friend Crystal. :) The lighter one with flowers was just in a box of free fabric I found on Craigslist :D

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