new do

Well, I got my body wave. It's actually kind of loose curls at the moment. Hopefully my director will not have a heart attack when I walk into rehearsal tonight. I will be working out what I'll do for Night Must Fall over the weekend. Monday is a holiday so I'll have some extra time to play with it. Late yesterday evening I fluffed it up. Wow~probably won't do that again! My head was about twice as wide as normal.

I ate right yesterday but had rather too much chardonnay so I'm going to try to stick with water and iced tea for the rest of the week. Nothing like blowing a bunch of your 'extra' points that way.

Rehearsal at 6pm tonight so I told everyone to fend for themselves. I may reconsider and ask dh to take out the ziploc of smoked turkey vegetable soup that is in the freezer. The dds may eat it or may not but I'll have a bowl and I'm sure dh will. Egg white omelet for breakfast - bacon instead of ham. Special K for lunch, I think. Maybe an apple along the way.

a bold step

I'm getting a body wave this afternoon - taking two hours off to make it happen, even. I can't remember the last time I had any variety of what used to be known as a 'permanent wave'. My hair is longer than it's been in a while (because I wanted some flexibility for Night Must Fall) and I've had to use an assortment of curling implements for a couple of weeks now. I hate them! Been rolling up my hair - well, the top and front anyway - and then going outside to feed Tate and Gabe, etc. I don't actually care so much about the neighbors but won't go to the street to get the newspaper that way. No matter how long I leave the stupid things in, my hair is flat and lanky again by noon or so. Sheesh! I've kind of enjoyed the length but not the extra work, so hopefully a body wave is the answer. We shall see....

Rehearsal last night was just Act 1 - and mostly scene 1. Our esteemed director called me out on my feet and I had a short hissy fit. Not normally the way I roll but I was sooooo frustrated at the fact that we are still changing blocking just over a week out. How the heck are we supposed to remember lines, new blocking, and feet all at the same time. Maybe those seasoned stage types find that easy but I decidedly do not. If I could just take my script and go home I'd very seriously consider it at this point.

I did manage to stay focused on dietary things though. Had a mostly veggies plus some chicken dinner last night, as planned. Spent an hour or so out with the boys scooping, so a little exercise. Special K for breakfast this morning and I'm planning yogurt and fruit for lunch. After the hair thing I'll do a chicken and brown rice WW recipe using the leftover chicken.

No rehearsal tonight...just studying lines, studying lines, studying lines.....

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.