here's another day

That's a quote from Night Must Fall, the play I'm in. I say that line when I'm talking about the possibility of a murderer in our midst....

Rehearsal was kind of grueling last night. Kevin and I worked out some blocking that we are happy with before everybody else got there. Then we ran through the whole thing....to varying degrees of success. Tonight it's Act 1 again.

I had carrots with chive cream cheese afterward and two glasses of wine. Maybe not the best choice but still within the range I needed to be in.

Today another egg white omelet - no cheese, yogurt and and apple for lunch. I put a chicken in to cook with carrots and onions in the dark this morning. I'll make asparagus and a salad to go with. DD#1 was asked to make rice for those who wish to indulge.

Here we go

I managed to get to the grocery store between rehearsals and church and softball and visiting a friend in the hospital....whew! I have a meal plan, I have the right groceries....I should be good to go. I'm going to set small goals - Pastor Ed used the elephant eating analogy in his sermon yesterday but changed it to be a pie-eating contest since is sounded more attractive. Since I'm looking to lose weight I think I'll stick with the elephant! First bite is going to be a blanket "loose as much as possible before opening night". Might or might not be easy since we are going to be rehearsing like crazy between now and then. For today I am planning to skip any official dinner since Kevin and I are getting together early so we have time to work without interruption.

I started my day off okay with an egg white omelet. It had mushrooms, tomatoes, diced ham and a little cheese. I brought in Special K, almond milk, yogurt, a couple of strawberries, a small apple, 3 clementines, and a bag of "baby" carrots. I'm going to eat some of those items between now and leaving the office. I'll stop home just long enough to pick up the coatrack which should be arriving from amazon.com sometime today. The executive board decided to just buy one for LETCO since we seem to need one for almost every show. I'm going to try to drink lots of water today and will attempt to walk as far as possible to a ladies room so I get in some exercise without actually having to go to the gym or outside...it's cold!

a new twist

This started out as a blog about my horses, Gabe and Tate. It is still going to have a lot of horse in it but I've decided to make a focus change. After reading a friend's blog I've decided to try using this as an accountability blog for what I hope will be a successful time of weight loss. I desperately want and need to lose 45 pounds. I've lost the first five of those over and over and over. I'm tired of failing at weight loss! As a rule I do a good job at whatever I take on, but for some reason that's not happened in the weight loss arena for some time now.

Soooooo, this is going to be my forum - even if nobody follows it. I'm going to sort of, kind of, follow weightwatchers - the old one though, not the new. Basically lots of veggies, a few fruits, lean protein and a few whole grains. I don't want to eliminate any particular food group entirely. I don't want to have to eat totally different from everyone else in the house either. I just want sensible weight loss. No, in all honesty I was to lose all 45 pounds by tomorrow morning! Since that obviously can't happen, I'm going to begin on Monday with the right foods in the house and try to do a good job of this. I'll try to blog a bit everyday - kind of a food journal and tracking system.

Wish me luck!

And then there were two!!!

This is Tate. Until Saturday his name was Tater but I think he's much to handsome to be named for a food item! He is now residing in my back yard just across two strands of electric fence from Gabe. K2 can now claim Gabey Baby for all her own. Tate is mine :)

Dr. Sharon came to see him yesterday and pronounced him a good buy - clean legs, nice white teeth, good feet, and she was most impressed with his manners. He stood very quietly for the most part and he's still pretty 'new' to the environment. She gave him his shots and picked 3 of his feet. He wanted to give her the 4th but just couldn't. He is probably a bit stiff on his right rear and doesn't want to put all his weight on it. I'll keep working on that and will warm him up first next time. He's had a long stretch of inactivity and then he rode in a trailer for more than an hour on Saturday. The doc wants him to gain about 70 pounds of muscle so hopefully we will start out with an easy ride today after work.

Remember the favored china horse in my very first post on this blog...chestnut with white markings.....Tate has gone him one better...no white markings on his face and that's unusual. Welcome home Tate!!!

We are getting there!

We spent most of last weekend in the steamy hot weather working on the fence. The posts are in, the gates are up. DH has been working all week on the run-in and it's just about finished. Softball will take up most of this weekend which is being kicked off with another horse show. I actually survived the last one and will try the walk/trot/canter division tonight :) Gabe will be happier about that, I think. He was less than thrilled to have to keep it down to a trot last time.

Here's a picture of K2 with Gabe - he's really her horse..... I'm still looking for a friend for him once he comes home.

I'm taking a big step today....I'm going to a games horse show and I'm actually going to participate! Hopefully I won't totally embarrass myself or Gabe~~~~ I worked a couple of extra hours yesterday so I could leave early today. Gabe needs a bath and Katie's Sequoia does too.

I'm kind of apprehensive but Katie(x2), Jamie, and Jenny all keep telling me I'll do fine. According to Katie #1 if I can steer I'll be okay. And I can steer, so..... I thought Libby would be taking the plunge too but she's going to the movies with friends! Never count on teenage daughters! Oh well, it's just Gabe and I. Good thing he's done this before!

This is Gabe! Isn't he cute? He's been taking up all of my time since that first post :) It's not his fault though - I just can't seem to stay away from him. But why would I want to? He's so much fun to play with.