Heather’s Blog

Yep today is the one year mark of when I stopped drinking soda’s. Sometimes it does get a little hard when mixing drinks and you miss your favorite Rum and Coke, but I have learned to appreciate juices such as Cranberry / Pineapple juice with Vodka.

So I wonder if I should make it a mission to give up something else?

Alcoholic Drinks? HECK NO!
Coffee? Definitially NO!
Sex? Not in this life!
Smoking? Did that along time ago

So what should it be?

For about the past week I have been on the biggest salad binge ever. Every day sometimes a few times a day you will find me with a bowl of salad in hand…today for breakfast I didn’t want bacon and eggs I opened my fridge and wanted to throw a salad together. Not sure really why, but I’m loving my salads lol…maybe it’s time to tell my self to get back on my diet. Angela told me “well at least it’s salad your eating all the time” which is a good point, I could be eating ice cream all day haha… I know we have all had our days when we have wanted to do that. My salads are not boring either (at least I don’t think so) and I can think of alot more things that I have failed to add lately.

My salads this week include:
Red leaf, green leaf and romaine lettuce, spinach, chicken breast pieces, tomatos, carrots, mushrooms, red onions, cucumbers, broccoli, cheddar cheese, croutons and depending on my mood several different types of dressings…

I have failed to get the following for my salads will make sure to get them next trip to the store:
purple cabbage, olives, corn, peas, and beets

ohh and i know i can think of so much more but my brain is exhausted

I need to get back into my diet. I’ve gained some of my weight back that I’ve lost, and that ain’t cool. Although I still don’t eat certain foods such as Sodas and french fries (actually every blue moon i have some fries, like today). It’s things like I’ve been taking Brandon to get frozen yogurt way to much. Now I really need to show restraint and that will be harder now because, having a child in the house = snacks in the house. But like yesterday I went to breakfast with Angela and had this big ole omelette I shouldn’t have eaten it all, in fact i shouldn’t have ordered that. So I think on Monday I will start my diet again, I MUST BE STRONG.

Now let’s not get this confused with giving up caffeine. I still have my coffee, ohh i’m not sure if I could ever give up that. I just love it way to much.

Anyhow I have now gone 6 months without soda as of today. Should I ruin it and go have a big ice cold Coke? HECK NO! I will go chug down my bottle of water before I do that. I will drink about a gallon of water on a good day. If I go out to eat, I usually order iced tea. My Sister gave me a hard time the other night cause she had some wine and added some Sierra Mist to it. She asked me to try it and I declined, besides I like my wine just as it is.

People ask me why, well the answer is… it’s just plain bad for ya.

Well that last 24 hours have been exhausting but fun

Last night Angela, her Mom Patty (hope you spell it that way, if not i’m sorry hun) and I had a few of Oprah’s Favorite Lemon Drop Martini’s YUMMI!!! had Feta Cheese dip with crackers, a vegetable cream cheese dip over celery and then Pizza. Ohh Yea I think I forgot to mention yesterday morning I announced that it was going to be my cheat day. So I went all out. And enjoyed every minute of it. The day actually started with some “Wings N Things” Hot Chicken Strips :). Anyhow so last night we snacked out along with Martini’s and Movies. First Movie was “Last Holiday” and the other was, hmm darn it I can’t remember. Actually I never completely made it through the second one.

Patty enjoying her Lemon Drop Martini (Yes we know it’s not in a Martini Glass)

I guess we didn’t drink too much if Angela is feeling this great the next morning (today)

So after us girls had a couple cups of coffee, talked sh*t to each other lol which is our normal routine and glanced at old photo’s I decided I better get back home, to let Lucy out, start some laundry, and clean up a little. A few hours later Angela comes over for us to take Lucy to the beach.

Lucy doing her usual thang

Angela looking as cute as she wants to be

Our wet and covered with sand and everything else dog Lucy

While waiting for the sun to set. I take a quick shot of a surfer as he runs past us.
A Classic California Photo

And the beautiful Sunset

After that we take Lucy home and we start to get hungry. First we were going to go to this Organic Vegetarian place, but then Angela says “I want meat” so we go to Hamburger Mary’s / Kickers

Angela trying to tackle her Two Tons of Fun Hamburger now keep in mind she had already cut this in half. So this is just part of it. Look at those onions just flopping out the side. Good thing we didn’t order the appetizer she was looking at

Since I didn’t get a picture of my dinner I will just put the description

ORIENTAL CHICKEN SALAD
Romaine lettuce, char-broiled chicken, mandarin oranges, crispy noodles, almonds, green onions, with oriental dressing.

It was very yummy.

After that we watched the guys dance (since we were now in the bar area which is called Kickers a gay country western bar)

And off we went to go home. I’m so freaking exhausted. What do I have in store for me tomorrow? Ohh yea Funeral for my Aunt is not tomorrow its on Tuesday or Wednesday.