Week Ten

This has been an interesting week. I had my new double oven installed and it looks great. I say looks because I haven't really used it yet except to make mac and cheese. However, right after that I got a letter from the town saying I had to paint my house and repair my porch railing. This was upsetting enough, although I knew it needed to be done at some point, but they only gave me until May 13th. That is less than two months! How do they expect that to happen? If I was having somone else do it, it would probably take that long to get quotes, much the less have it scheduled. Top it off with the fact that I am going out of town to visit my daughter and grandson for a few days starting this Friday, then April 13 my son, Dustin, and his girlfriend are coming up for a visit for over a week, and I have to go to Washington DC for the first week of May for job training. There is no time for house painting! Especially since me and my son, Brandon, are going to have to do it ourselves. I wonder how my Dustin and Michelle are at scraping? Just kidding, sort of. I'm going to have to ask for an extension and hope they are reasonable.

On to the diet and exercise front. I weigh 221.2 today. Barely over a pound loss. I was really hoping for more. I worked out three days at the gym. One day I burned 448 calories. I also did 4 miles with the Leslie Sansone video on Thursday. It must have been the mac and cheese. It was low fat made with whole wheat pasta, skim milk, cottage cheese, and reduced fat Cheddar. Still Brandon didn't want to eat low fat so I ended up eating it all over several meals. Need to get less pasta and more protein. Good thing I am making a turkey meatloaf today.