Mmmmm pickles!!! Guess who actually pickled cucumbers? People you might think of would be your great aunt Bessie, your grandparents and someone other than me. Well, if you jokingly said, "Kush, *giggle giggle* Kush pickled cucs. LOL!!!!!!" You should sit down for this, but you would actually be right! I know what you are thinking, "WTF???" It's amazing the things you try when your spouse wants to try a new hobby, especially a spouse who loves creating delectable nom noms. ^_^ The delectable nom noms, known by common folk as pickles, shall be ready in another 2.5 weeks. *sigh* Too long if you ask me.
All in all it was a pretty interesting process and I look forward to pickling more cucs and other vegetables. Rend eventually wants to can meat. I'm nervous to try that endeavor because pressure cookers can be pretty dangerous. Exploding hot water would be a teeny weensy frightening. >_> However, my brother has had canned meat and he said it is sooooo good!
So my bestie is getting married in October. ^_^ I am super excited for her! Her future hubby is a really great guy AND he is a nerd. He plays video games and magic, so that is enough nerd cred for me. I don't like him just because he is a nerd, but it does make conversation a lot easier.
I am putting on the first shower for her this weekend. This shower will be family, my mom and me. I plan on cutting up veggies, getting some deli meat, cheese and buns so everyone can make their own sandwich. Simple and yummy. I'm also going to make the famous orange salad my fam loves and a delicious ramen noodle salad. A co-worker makes and it is always a hit. I'm excited to eat it. I probably shouldn't, but I can put the recipe in the tracker on Weight Watchers and figure out my points. See? I can still have delicious things while being on my diet, I just have to measure it out and track my points.
Ooo, such a good transition! I may have to use this optimistic transition to tell you that I have lost 35,4 lbs! Oh yeah! I was so proud of myself. I lost 3.4 lbs in one week. I wish I could do that every week, but it isn't healthy. . . Blah blah blah. I admit, I do want to lose the weight in a healthy manner. Not to mention the fact of loose skin when you lose it too quickly. Sadly I will still have that issue when I lose more, but I hope that it won't be as bad as it could have been.
It's the end of the night for me, so I am going to finish my packing and go to bed. *yawn* I've been so tired lately. I'm looking forward to tomorrow because it is Friday. I'm not looking forward to the long trip up north, but such is life.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
Why Hello Blog. It's Been A While.
It's been so long since I have actually written anything in this spot. Not that it matters really. I never had many followers to begin with, but now I have zero. Unless you count my husband Rend. Then it would be one! Good enough for me though. I write for me and no one else. ^_^
So many things have happened over these many years. Good and bad have happened. My last entry was in April 2010 and you would have thought I would have been excited to write all about wedding prep and getting married. The honeymoon. Moving and so many other wonderful things. However, my dad died in June of 2010 and I kind of lost the blogging bug. It was difficult to deal with him dying one year before I was to be married. I felt like I had lost so many important things a bride gets to experience on her wedding day. LOL. I'm crying even now and it has been four years since his death. However, this meant my dad couldn't walk me down the isle, no father and daughter dance and all the family pictures I would loved to have had him in.
There are so many things I could say about my dad, how he loved to talk and what a work-a-holic he was. However, I don't think I have the wherewithal to even try. I don't even have the words to write about him. It's a shame really because he honestly deserves beautiful words to be written about him. I can honestly say that I do miss him very much.
This is life and no matter what is thrown at you, you take it and move on. It may be painful, but over time you heal and move on to something new. Lets not forget that some pain takes a hell of a lot longer to heal than others. Sadly death happens to be one of those pains. I don't think I will ever truly heal from my dad's death, but I believe it will lessen.
GOOD NEWS! I have been married for 3 years! Rend is a wonderful husband! I love him so much and I know we will be married for many more years! He is so supportive in everything I do and he shows his love in so many ways. I don't know how he does it, but when I am feeling down he literally can make me laugh by singing, or dancing. He is not afraid to act silly (like a fool, if you will) to cheer me up. If I am depressed he says, "Is some one's giggler broken?" I quickly turn my head to hide my smile, but he knows exactly what he did, he lightened my mood. I will always be thankful for finding such a wonderful man, who actually found me first. :P Thank you interwebs for helping me find a hubby! Seriously, I thought I was going to be an eternal bachelorette!
So for many years I have been struggling with my weight and once I got my new job I gained more weight! O_O I joined weight watchers at the end of January and I have lost 32 POUNDS!!! Someday I shall give my weight I started at, but I am not that confident yet. I know no one reads this, but the Internet is a big place and you never know who will stumble across your blog.
Sorry for the messy entry. I feel like it was not written well AT ALL! I know I'm not the best writer, but this one in particular is not good. It's fine though. I hope the blogging bug bites again and hopefully I will write some more for therapeutic reasons. I always did have fun doing this blog. It seems like I always have story ideas that I never get down, so hopefully this will motivate me to do more than journal entries.
So many things have happened over these many years. Good and bad have happened. My last entry was in April 2010 and you would have thought I would have been excited to write all about wedding prep and getting married. The honeymoon. Moving and so many other wonderful things. However, my dad died in June of 2010 and I kind of lost the blogging bug. It was difficult to deal with him dying one year before I was to be married. I felt like I had lost so many important things a bride gets to experience on her wedding day. LOL. I'm crying even now and it has been four years since his death. However, this meant my dad couldn't walk me down the isle, no father and daughter dance and all the family pictures I would loved to have had him in.
There are so many things I could say about my dad, how he loved to talk and what a work-a-holic he was. However, I don't think I have the wherewithal to even try. I don't even have the words to write about him. It's a shame really because he honestly deserves beautiful words to be written about him. I can honestly say that I do miss him very much.
This is life and no matter what is thrown at you, you take it and move on. It may be painful, but over time you heal and move on to something new. Lets not forget that some pain takes a hell of a lot longer to heal than others. Sadly death happens to be one of those pains. I don't think I will ever truly heal from my dad's death, but I believe it will lessen.
GOOD NEWS! I have been married for 3 years! Rend is a wonderful husband! I love him so much and I know we will be married for many more years! He is so supportive in everything I do and he shows his love in so many ways. I don't know how he does it, but when I am feeling down he literally can make me laugh by singing, or dancing. He is not afraid to act silly (like a fool, if you will) to cheer me up. If I am depressed he says, "Is some one's giggler broken?" I quickly turn my head to hide my smile, but he knows exactly what he did, he lightened my mood. I will always be thankful for finding such a wonderful man, who actually found me first. :P Thank you interwebs for helping me find a hubby! Seriously, I thought I was going to be an eternal bachelorette!
So for many years I have been struggling with my weight and once I got my new job I gained more weight! O_O I joined weight watchers at the end of January and I have lost 32 POUNDS!!! Someday I shall give my weight I started at, but I am not that confident yet. I know no one reads this, but the Internet is a big place and you never know who will stumble across your blog.
Sorry for the messy entry. I feel like it was not written well AT ALL! I know I'm not the best writer, but this one in particular is not good. It's fine though. I hope the blogging bug bites again and hopefully I will write some more for therapeutic reasons. I always did have fun doing this blog. It seems like I always have story ideas that I never get down, so hopefully this will motivate me to do more than journal entries.
