A New Woman!

We'll get back to that.  First... I got home just last night from my regularly scheduled trip to Woodinville.  I always have a blast when I'm there.  I get visit my children, granddaughter and friends.  I get to go shopping!  And I get to hang out with the cool people I work with.  We are constantly emailing about something or another but it's just not the same as being able to flop down in their office chair, invited or not :)

For some reason I was unable to connect to the internet at my sister in law's house.  I was never quite there at the same time as Cory, the resident computer guru was so I never got to ask him why and my limited knowledge of anything related to the computer just didn't cut it.  All that to say... no time to blog.  This morning upon weighing in I was delighted to see 152.8 on the fatometer and 95 for a glucose reading!  Yay!  And I have no idea how that is possible since I took the kids out to Mexican for Bobby's 20th birthday on Wednesday night.  Bobby is 20!  I can hardly believe my baby is 20.  No more teens!  Now just as they are all moving out of the teen decade and are all in their 20's, some (cough cough... Adam) will soon enter into the 30 decade!  How old do you think that makes me feel???  Ok... reel it back in.  On Thursday I met my friend Dee for lunch at the Maltby Cafe.  Home of the largest cinnamon rolls I have ever seen.  I did not have one!  The only good choice I made at each of those fine establishments was to split a meal.  Darn good thing too cause just look at the home made chips from Maltby Cafe...

This is the most horrible picture imaginable - but I deserve to have it posted for eating those!  What was I thinking???  I was thinking... MAN these are AWESOME!  :)  Very fortunately at the end of that day I got a haircut so I no longer look quite so horrible!

I guess perhaps the slight loss of weight is due to making "over all" better choices than - well the poster child for how to have a heart attack shown above.  On Monday night before I left home I grilled some tuna steaks and make some quinoa with caramelized veggies.  It's the first time I made or ate quinoa.  I've seen it quite a few times lately on my food shows.  Once on Ellie Krieger and one recently from Giada De Laurentis.  I may even have seen Rachel Ray cook some up.  I was intrigued!  It looked like something that I might like since I love all grains and pastas.  It is actually a seed.  Here... check it out on Wikipedia....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa  It's all the rage now.  And I liked it!  It's a little like couscous ( I just had a seriously senior moment!  I could not think of the name couscous so I had to Google "tiny pasta" to find it.  Wow!!!)  Anyway!...  all that to say, the left over tuna and quinoa were used the next day to make a killer tuna salad!  I had enough to pack in my lunch box and had it on the road for a snack and for lunch the next day.   Here the tuna salad was served along side some whole wheat spaghetti noodles tossed with freshly made (by me) pesto and sprinkled with ... yeah you guessed it... bacon :)  Better half a slice crumbled than three slices woofed in two bites right?  RIGHT????  :)















Definitely a better choice than... the chips!  Another positive choice is this delightful breakfast I had this morning of plain low fat yogurt with home canned peaches (very little sugar added) and sprinkled with a few soy nuts and pumpkin kernels. I sweeten it up with a little sugar free coconut syrup.

Now that I'm back home I can pack in earnest for our cruise which is coming up next Saturday!  Yay!!!!  And that brings me to the tiny story I intended to tell in the first place.  Sorry.  I know what a hardship it is to follow my thought processes.  Can you imagine actually being me?  :)  It's a wild ride for sure!  In preparation for the cruise I made an appointment for a little pampering and grooming.  I was accompanied by my best friend and partner in crime, Brenda for moral support.  Actually she just wanted a facial she wasn't really thinking about me :)  We have been clients of our local (formerly local for me) nail salon, T D Nails in Mill Creek for years!  Since I moved to Chewelah I don't get back very often.  I am always scolded when I come in for being gone so long.   They are super busy usually and when I asked for the "waxing" portion of the visit to be done first so I could relax later after being tortured they agreed but... sometimes things don't work out just right so I had a pedicure first, then was escorted into the dreaded "waxing room".  My sweet friend Brenda who is actually just a little bit wicked was in the next room receiving her facial.  I know she did not achieve the deepest state of relaxation because she was waiting with joy in her heart to hear me screeeeeam!  She was disappointed though.  I took it like a soldier.  Well... a female soldier anyway.  Next was my French manicure.  They were practicing a new process with something they call shellac and so it took much longer than normal.  They said it was because they always have to start all over on me :)  Finally after three hours I was finished and they were satisfied with the work they had done.  They told me, "Thank you for coming, you look like a NEW WOMAN!  Don't wait so long before coming back!  I felt like a new woman. After all I had a fabulous mani/pedi and ... perfectly arched brows.  It wasn't until I got back to Lorie's house and looked at my reflection in the mirror that I realized how absurd it was to spend that much money to be LIED  to!!!  :)  Oh well... Who doesn't love to hear... "you look fabulous"!  Even if you really never quite believe it.

Ciao baby!