There's always room for...

So on this diet I can eat as much sugar free Jell-O as I want. No carbs, baby! Now I get to have fun with trying to find fruit flavors to mix together. Good folks at Jell-O, forgive me for this, but a lot of the red colored ones taste the same to me. I can't tell the difference between strawberry, cherry, raspberry, black cherry, mixed fruit, etc. Last night's Jell-O was a refreshing mix of lemon and lime. That was tasty! I'm wondering if cherry and lime would remind me of a delicious cherry-limeaide at Sonic. I'd like to think that strawberry and lemon would be as delightful as a strawberry lemonade which happens to be one of my favorite drinks, especially when there's real bits of strawberry floating in the glass.

It'd be nice if they made some of the fun, non-sugar free flavors (strawberry daquiri, pina colada, margarita) but for now this is sufficient. Wow, I bet some of those alcoholic flavors would make GREAT Jell-O shots. Hmmmmm...

Apparently when I diet I lose my personality too...

I've lost over 7 lbs. in a week which is pretty good. I wasn't even trying that hard which helps me to realize just how poor my diet was. This week I'm actually trying to stick to the exact specifications of the diet so hopefully it'll be a good week. Unfortunately I've been cranky and moody because of the lack of sugar and comfort foods. I hate that my mood is so tied to what I eat but I guess I really am an emotional eater. I need to be proud of myself instead of feeling like I'm being punished. The other sucky thing is that my female condition is tied directly to the carbs that are ingested into my body. So when I drastically cut carbs, my monthly annoyance, which had been gone for 5 days, returned with a vengeance.

Anyway I haven't had much to blog about. Campus delivery guy apparently hates me now. We had gotten to the point where we almost had what one would call a full conversation and now we're back to:
Him: "Hey."
Me: "Hey."

Not sure what changed but c'est la vie. He was intriguing to me and now he's not.

Well enough about me. I'm still sending out good thoughts and prayers to Ann, Jeremiah and especially Lil J. Best wishes you guys!

Happy Birthday Mom!

From your daughter, a DVD and your favorite candy. From your mother, a nice dinner out. From your husband of over 40 years...a Swiss Army knife that's not even Swiss Army. Oh and a set of Thomas Kinkade postcards with a CD of weird Christian songs. Ok, so he wanted you to make his lunch and iron his shirt for work. And to top things off on your special day, he makes you watch some weird show about solitary confinement on the Military Channel. Woo! He loves you, he really does.

Help me with something

I placed an order on Barnes & Noble.com for two books. They're used so they were shipping from two different places. The total for both books including shipping was $20.77. I checked my bank statement and I have a charge for the $20.77 and also a charge for $12.39. I call B&N to ask about it and the impatient customer service guy, George, tried to say it was a hold my bank does because I used my debit card. Is this typical? I asked him to explain it a second time and he got testy with me. Well I'm going to keep checking my statement because I don't trust that the second charge is going to just magically disapper. Oh and the a*holes at B&N charge $3.99 to ship each book. It still ended up being cheaper (at least I thought it was) than getting it from textbooks.com which offered free shipping but it's a pain in the neck.

Self-Pity Party

I was feeling sorry for myself last night (female-type issues). But I snapped myself out of it because there are starving children in the world and I'm really, very blessed. I just don't understand why my body behaves the way it does. I went from pleading with it to having a very stern talk with it. I'm an only child, it's ok if we talk to ourselves once in a while.

So I've been dog-sitting all week and since I love to bake I thought I'd leave some cupcakes behind for my cousin and her family. Her birthday was the 4th, her husband Eric's birthday is the 9th and their son Cade's birthday is the 11th. I made a cute and colorful sign too. Don't tell them but I'm bringing my mom some cupcakes because her birthday is this Tuesday. February, June and October are the big birthday months on mom's side of the family. There are 5 of us in Feb., at least 4 in June and I think another 3 in October. Then the rest of the family covers the other 9 months. It's a good thing I don't keep in touch with most of those aunts, uncles and cousins or I'd be beating myself up over forgetting to send a card every month.

I hate being a whiner...

But I'm not a good time manager. I typically put things off until the very end. I know this is a problem but I'm 33 years old and I don't know that it's going to really change. I do get stuff done but it's usually right at the deadline.

So currently I'm in the process of writing a 15 page paper and studying for an exam. Both are Wednesday night. I've got some parts of the paper done and really I'm not too worried about it. There are elements of it where I'm confused but I'll try and get some answers out of the professor tonight. I am, however, concerned about the exam. I didn't do well on the last one so I really had full intentions of studying well for this one. The difference between the two exams is that we had a lot of class time spent on the concepts for the first exam. As far as the second exam, we will have had 1 class dedicated to the concepts. Actually he'll get caught up discussing our papers and we'll maybe have half a class to go over the content of 4 chapters. I understand that summer classes are faster and that grad students are supposed to almost be self-taught but this feels wrong. Oh and the exams are made up of 15 (or so) essay questions. If it were multiple choice I'd have this in the bag but it's not. Oh and the real bitch of it is that he's nitpicky. He takes off points for leaving out one word in your explanation. You could explain it straight from the book but if you're missing that one word he deems vital then you're screwed.

His evaluation is not going to be pretty.

On the brighter side of things, I'm dog-sitting for my cousin's dogs this week. Lucy and Oliver are very sweet, very well-behaved dogs so I'm looking forward to being in my own place for a few days.