Desperately Seeking Gina

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…Random things I’m {Loving} right now

I’ve been craving hot dogs since the moment I stopped eating meat. I literally had to quickly JOG away from the corn dog stand at Summer Celebration back in June. Now, though….I’ve found a substitute. And it’s even better than regular meat {can you really call them meat?} corn dogs…..I present to you, my new favorite dinner….

**TaDa**

Does it seem like I only have food on the brain these days? I really don’t….I’m just so excited to slather these things in some plain yellow mustard and pretend that I can eat anything I want at anytime 🙂

Here’s something else I’m loving at the moment. I go through so many hair dryers cuz my hair is so thick and I’m insistent the it be blown dry and ironed flat nearly every day. So….my dryer went out while Thom was here….and he was sweet enough to pick one up for me. Here’s the thing about Thom and shopping though. He actually thinks about the purchase before he buys. He compares and contrasts, reads labels, looks for deals. So the opposite of how I normally am. So when he brought this dryer home I was confident that it was the best for the money. And it is. I love this dryer. Dries in record time and I swear it dries my hair flat. I hardly have to iron when I’m done. {Love that} Vidal Sassoon 1875 Professional Styler:

I’m off to work for the night. Happy Naked Wednesday!
g
Tasty Tuesday:
{am:2 leggo waffles w/ rasp jam, 1 banana, 2 lattes–10 pts}
{lunch: weightwatchers frozen Rice & Beans, 1 100-calorie pack cookies–7 pts}
{snack: weightwatchers snack cake–2pts}
{dinner: 2 veggie corn dogs, salad w/ 2 tbsp. dressing–10 pts}
{snack: 10 quaker rice snacksters-2 points}
{31 pts}

…Sleepless in Muskegon

Another sleepless night. I hate working til 10. And last night I didn’t get home until 10:45, and couldn’t fall asleep right away so I snacked instead 🙁 and read Everyday with Rachel Ray. I awoke at 4 ready to go. Couldn’t get back to sleep. My mind started working and worrying. I was thinking about moving…or packing to move rather. I have WAY more stuff now than I did when I moved to Muskegon. Well…pretty much all of it is new except for my bed and a few dishes. So I was thinking about packing tissue, boxes, storage, moving vans. Also, the library and books about staying organized. Thought about a job in a new town….people with thick Southern accents….about maybe having to do a job I really dislike 🙁
So up I got. Started the dishwasher, made some coffee. Had breakfast and read my blogs. And now I’m ready for a nappy. *sigh* guess I’d better hit the shower instead.

Hope you have a great Tuesday 🙂
g

monday’s menu
{am: cheerios & milk, banana}
{lunch: 2 veggie rigatonis(?)}
{snack: M&Ms from the machine @work, 20oz Diet Dr. Pepper}
{snack: ww snack cake, 20 Quake rice snack thing-a-majiggies}
Yeppers. No dinner 🙁

…Weekend ReCap

It felt really, really good to be at Mom’s & Dad’s for the weekend. It was a Tyler weekend, and I’ve missed the little dude so much this summer. We spent the entire weekend cuddling, playing cards, and just hanging out together. He’s such a good kid. And….he’s even found the delight in sleeping in. Seriously, this kid used to get up around 6 am every weekend. It was totally adorable when he’d crawl into bed with me, but, man! 6am? on a Saturday? Now, though, he sleeps in til at least 10! Yay 🙂 This weekend he woke up and wanted to play Scrabble in bed. So we did. And it was fun 🙂

Saturday night Mom and I and one of her camper/friends watched Wildhogs at her camper. It was SO hilarious. Seriously funny.

Sunday found Tyler and I playing lots of games:

I drove home around 5 and then called up Uncle Mike for a movie date. We went to see No Reservations. Kind of boring….and too long. Then he took me out for dinner! Carinos where I suddenly forgot I was trying to eat better. Bread, Mozz sticks, Minestrone, and Roasted Veggie Rigatoni! Yum-O Thanks Uncle Mike 🙂 had a nice time catching up!

So…needless to say, I didn’t do very well on the WW points this weekend. Not good at all, actually. Too emberrassed to even type all that I ate. But I’ll do better this week!

…Even Grandma is guilty today

Dear thieving bas***ds,

Thanks for at least being thoughtful enough to not smash in a main window….the cost to replace a smaller window will be minimal for this already strapped-for-cash gal. And thank you for not taking my hard- cover copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I’ve been trying to reread it for months. I am also grateful you left the quarter on the backseat floor because it will now have to be saved for repairing the window you broke.

I am, however, very irate about a couple things. Firstly, you have made me feel very hateful things about people….and it’s a feeling I don’t enjoy. I have no idea who to blame…what you look like, or why you would choose my car when there were so many other nicer cars in the parking lot. I hate that you made me question “why me? and not them?” I shouldn’t have wished a break-in on any other non-deserving person, and I didn’t like those thoughts. I glared at everyone today, even the innocent-enough looking grandma-type who was trying to get into my building without an electronic key card. She was probably there visiting her grandkids and just got the entrances mixed up. Certainly, she did not deserve the daggers I shot her as she pulled and pulled on the door and then slipped in after I’d left the building. Secondly, you didn’t even have the decency to check the cd player for the cd that might have been in there. And there was one in there. I am quite certain that you, being the type of person who smashes in car windows and steals cd players, and I do not share the same taste in music. I, being an always broke yet very hardworking girl, went without 2 meals to buy that Maroon 5 cd. I went for 2 months not listening to radio stations and news broadcasts in order to play that cd over and over and over again. I am bitter. And now Maroon 5-less.

If I had been there when you so thoughtlessly and viciously cracked my dash to get to the cd player, I would have let you know that the cd/stereo was a Christmas present from my parents. I also would have let you know that I spilled a Mickey D’s Sprite on it last summer and now the Number 1 button sticks and flips to track 7 instead of 1.
So…I hope whomever you sold it to comes back to find you when they find the track changer switches to 7, a song I’m sure they’re gonna absolutely hate. Sometimes bad things happen to good people…but please remember that even
worse things happen to BAD PEOPLE.

So NOT sincerely yours,

gina

My very first memory of what I wanted to be was wanting to be a bookshop owner. I remember sitting at the picnic table at the campground drawing out “my shop” and lining the walls with my own books. I loved books when I was younger. I had a whole slew a friends in those books. And I got to take them on vacation with me every year. good times. I think I also wanted to be a writer. I spent a lot of time writing short stories and poetry. In high school I was determined to be an actress. {lol} I ended up going to MSU as a history major, wanting to be a museum curator….or a history teacher {but I also took a theater production class there, too}.

These days I just feel the need to do something fun…something creative, although I consider myself neither fun nor creative. But I guess that’s my biggest problem; not believing in myself enough and for a girl whose self-esteem isn’t really that low, I think that’s surprising. I do tend to compare myself to other people too much.

Anyway…I’m off from work 3 days since I worked all last weekend. I’m still on as management for the next couple of weeks which is what made me so upset yesterday. I just want my office back 🙁 I’m really tired of dealing with cheap people and cleaning yucky toilets because it’s just too disgusting to ask anyone else to do it. Y U C K.

Yesterday was a better food day…..I didn’t feel starved 🙂 I did buy the fish oil tablets, but forgot to take them 🙂 I’ll take one as soon as this post is put to bed. Hang in there with your points, Liz….that’s the good thing about having another day…you can make better decisions and get back on track. That S’more recipe sounds so good….I’ll try it out at the campground this weekend. That’s where I’m headed. To mom’s to spend time with the fam and Tyler.

Hope you all have a great weekend!
g

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