Check in: 1 week later

Here I am again. One week into "battle of the bulge 2013".

It went well! Really, quite well. We are a collective 14 pounds lighter and $336 less in debt. I'm going to chalk it up as a win.

Downsides:

The dishwasher started leaking all over... looks like we need a new one.

or a bigger sink... (cause i have a little baby sink... two bowls and BAM it looks like its overflowing. seriously.)

I really miss eating popcorn.
And cookies.


And having a car...

Upsides:

Liam is well on his way to being potty trained.
I checked off about a billion things from my list like:
Getting darrell enrolled in next quarter
Selling our car
selling the tires that we bought a month ago for said car
calling and having fridge repair guy (which now he needs to come back cause the fridge is doing the same thing again)
submitted all paperwork to loan underwriter (it took like 15 minutes, what is my problem?)
finished my kindle cover
almost finished the embroidery for my christmas quilt
took down and put away half the christmas lights outside
finished installing the outlets in our kitchen from re-doing the kitchen backsplash

And lots more, but I can't really think of them right now


I get really excited when I look like 9 months down the road and we'll have a big bulk of our debt out of the way. Like really? I can't wait to not have a stupid car payment. That will really be fantastic.

I wonder if the weather on the upward swing (excpet for the "snow" storm we're supposed to get tomorrow) for the next 10 days will help ease my cabin fever. Its just been so darn cold that I can't got anywhere with the babe. I live fairly close to plenty of things. The library is like a mile away. It takes maybe a half an hour to walk there, but there has been either snow everywhere of your nose hairs start freezing when you walk outside its so cold. There is also a dollar store a mile and a half away and if I'm feeling really ambitious I can walk to the shopping center about 3 miles away. That might be less fun than I think since I don't really want to spend money. Though, since walking will be my only form of transportation for awhile that will probably aid in my weight loss goals. Hmmm guess its not so bad.

Oh and since we've been confined together, it has been confirmed that Liam like husband much more than he likes me.

Yesterday he sat himself down in the hall (in the dark, in front of the garage door) and when I asked him what he was doing he just looked at me, patted the ground and said "daddy." And he stayed there for like 20 minutes.

sheesh.

Want to know what "Battle of the Bulge 2013" is? Read here: We're going on a diet