Okay, so we got a note in our room telling us the Magical Express shuttle that would get us to the airport in time for our flight was leaving at 5:15, and in order to be on it, we had to be at the pick up location at 5 AM.  There is not much help…

Saturday, February 10th, and our last day here.  We leave EARLY tomorrow morning.  This has thrown a monkey wrench into our plans, but we’ll work through it.  The plan for today is to go to Islands of Adventure for the first half of the day, then leave to go to Universal Studios to spend the…

Even when they are 15 years old. I have a daughter that age, who has a crush on a boy.  We’ve been there, ladies.  You so desperately want the boy you like to like you back, there is almost physical pain involved in not knowing if he likes you or he doesn’t like you. But…

While I technically have lost more weight than Jim, he has lost his the old fashioned way.  He made a very deliberate decision last July, just before my gastric bypass surgery, that he wanted to lose weight as well.  Weighing in at about 325 pounds, he didn’t feel he was a good candidate for the…

I am not a big fan of pudding.  My favorite way to eat it was always the Jello Pudding Pops – frozen and delicious.  I’m just not so much interested in blobby stuff – Jello, pudding, tapioca, mousse, you get the picture.  So why did I buy the Instone High Protein pudding?   Well, because…

For a man who did not choose to be Governor of the state of NJ, Richard Codey certainly has the mantle thrust upon him often enough!   You’ll remember a couple of years back when our then Governor Jim McGreevy decided to leave office, Dick Codey took over, as we have no lieutenant Governor in…

Granuaile will be 2 on Monday, and we are celebrating her birthday with a party tomorrow.  I tend to go way overboard with food and stuff for parties, but Jim has decided to keep a closer watch on this party than on some others we’ve had.  I ordered a couple of trays from Wegman’s, so…

So, I see a trainer now three days a week. Actually, I see two trainers. Yesterday, when I went for my appointment with Steve, he mentioned that I had not had any testing done to see my progress from when I joined the gym back in July. Well, to be honest, I haven’t gone much…

Well, I went to see Dr. Nusbaum yesterday for a belated 6 month check up.  The good news is all of my labs came back just fine, with all of my vitamin levels where they should be and nothing showing deficient.  According to his scale, I am down 126 pounds – although according to mine,…

With Daddy in Milwaukee and the kids home from school, what’s a mom to do?   Torture them, of course!!   And so I did – with a trip to the Easter Bunny.  In theory, of course, the Easter Bunny is a wonderful, benign childhood fairy of sorts, who travels the world on Easter Eve,…