a Picture a Day - Day Eight

[spacemonkeyluvn]

I lied. Dinner tonight was mini lasagna and basil salad (basil, olive oil, salt, pepper, tomato, mozzarella). Recipe for the mini lasagna - http://canyoustayfordinner.com/2010/11/04/petite-lasagnas/ (Now one of my all time favorite food blogs ♥♥♥)







Mom's back home. She's a lot more mobile than I thought she'd be, so that's good. She's able to walk with just her cane so far. We have a walker for my grandma that she was going to use, but as long as she takes her time, a cane seems to work just fine.

I am so tired though. I didn't go to sleep until around 2am and then I woke up a couple times. Once because I heard my grandma talking to herself. I went into her room and she was out of bed and had folded all of her blankets like she was getting ready to leave. Then the rat decided to drop his bowl of food down his cage which scared the crap out of me. And then my mom's alarm went off around 5:30am because that's when she gets up for work. I finally fell back asleep, but had to get up to make grandma breakfast. Mom finally got dropped off around 1pm. Seeing that she was alright did a lot to ease my mind. My head's been killing me all day though and I could probably go to sleep right now. Except I'm worried mom might need something and there's an all new White Collar on tonight <3

*YAWN* We'll see if I can last that long tonight. Tomorrow (or sometime this week) I want to return something to Old Navy and get some good candy hearts from Target. I got Brach's forgetting that they are not the same as Sweethearts. Not bad, but barely any flavor at all. I also have a couple of other recipes to make this week including cupcakes for Valentine's Day. Any excuse to eat sweets! So maybe expect more food!shots this week ;D

Comments

[shampoo.livejournal.com]

ahh two hours ago i was supposed to be asleep but i stayed up reading through that blog you linked. her posts about her weight loss and journey with it were so touching. a lot of times i read things or watch things that ~temporarily move me and motivate me, but the things she said feel so much more permanent in a way. i really like how she said she didn't regret the 20 years of overeating, and that she wasn't ready yet. i think a big part of why it's so hard for me to stick to getting healthy and in shape is the idea that not being able to eat the way i want to will be a lifelong thing and i don't want that! i come from a family that eats what they want, when they want, especially when i think about my indian relatives, and i don't really want to "give up" food. and she's right in saying that food as an addiction isn't like a drug addiction, but it's hard not to imagine getting healthy and losing weight as a struggle where you do have to quit food cold turkey. or at least good food LMFAO.

anyway my point is thank you for linking that! she changed my perspective on food and losing weight a lot. i feel like i have proper sight of my goal now; losing weight isn't something i should do to fit into a certain size or something i should see as a catch-all for problems in life. because i think i (and like EVERYONE ELSE who struggles with weight) has that point in time where they're stuck thinking "when i get thin i'll be happy and i'll like myself and everything in life will be easier because it just is when you're skinny". ANYWAY SHUTTING UP NOW LMFAO i should write all this on my own journal lmfao :|

[spacemonkeyluvn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry I kept you from sleep but I'm so glad that you got so much out of her blog. Somebody linked to one of her recipes and I went to check it out. I had no idea what was in store for me there. I still haven't quite gotten to where I want to me mentally, but reading her blog has helped me so much in coming to terms and understanding what I want out of life. I love that she hasn't stopped eating what she loves, but that she makes a lot from scratch and she has learned to really be in tune with her own body and its needs. It's true, I think (or I've thought) that if I can just lose the weight all will be right with the world. But I've also known about me that if I have to give up everything I love (because I do love food) then I'll never really be able to commit. I want to be healthy and enjoy food at the same time. And a lot of what other people write about losing weight seems to involve so much sacrifice or depriving yourself. I totally agree with you about what she has to say being much more permanent as a way of thinking and living.

Since reading her blog, I've bookmarked almost every recipe she has and I've been cooking a lot more. I don't have a job right now anyway so I have no excuse. Plenty of time! I'm really starting to enjoy cooking and eating what I've made. For a long time, and still even now a little bit, there's this thought that something tastes better if someone else has made it. I've pretty much gotten sick of fast food, but up until recently I'd still want it more out of habit than anything else.

Anyway, I'm just glad that her story has helped you in any way because it's definitely helped me. I still have a way to go, but I feel like it really is a more reachable goal now. I might have also developed a slight girl!crush on her, but that's really neither here nor there ;)

[wonda-woman69.livejournal.com]

Mom's back home. She's a lot more mobile than I thought she'd be, so that's good.

Glad to hear everything's great with your mom. :D I hope your head feels better soon. Peter/Neal White Collar should help ease the pain. ;)

Mini-lasagna! *is now hungry*

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

Baby lasagnas! Those are cute.

Yay for your mom doing so well.