Hellooooooooooooo snow.

Well unless you've been under a rock, you've heard about our little snow storm.  30"+!

It snowed in the backyard too!

Can't see the cars, just a little of my truck.  No where to go 'cause there's no way to get out-yikes.  AND there's another snow storm coming tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.  I just keep thinking about Haiti and my post-traumatic-living-in-Wyoming flashbacks are put into correct perspective. 

To amuse myself all weekend I spent an embarrassment of hours on Facebook downloading photos from high school.  I'm definitely addicted; there are so many cool things you can do on there.  After downloading the photos it allowed me to add captions to the photos AND click on the photos to add the name of the person in the photo, more than one, as many as you like, so that when you scroll over the photo it shows the names of the people in them.  I'm sure y'all already knew this but I needed the weekend to figure it out.  It was a labor of love but it was fun and I'm getting great comments and feedback after only just finishing this morning.  Above is one of the photos I posted.  It's me at the podium my senior year.  Looking back at this photo I realize why public speaking was luckily not at the top of my list of career passions.   It looks like even I'm drifting off.  It took me a few minutes but I finally realized that I was saying the prayer before the event.  IN SCHOOL.  Heaven forbid (puns always intended) but it was Texas.  I'll use this podium to say that prayer is still allowed in the schools and public in Texas.  They say one before football games and other sporting events including rodeos and, as a Texan, that tops the list of reasons why I am so proud to be from Texas.  Next on the list, at least this week, is the lack of snow...

Checking In/ Update Part Deux

Okay, so I finished my two weeks of starving my cleaning diet.  The timing was a little poor because at the end I was changing meds (weening off one to NONE then onto a new one right away).  I did loose 10 pounds.  I know what you're thinking, water weight, a big sneeze, but it was the phychology of it, just getting that jump start and I do feel better.  Turns out the new meds are killing my appetite.  Anyway, the new meds put me on a complete roller coaster ride nearing breakdown.  By breakdown I mean crying when a woman can't find the toilet paper in Target.  It was bad.  In the meantime, hubby was so worried that he called in the big guns.  He surprised me by making a plane ticket for my middle son, Justin, to come for a visit this weekend.  Can you just imagine how long that crying jag lasted?

In the meantime I moved my shop space once again at The Pink Cabbage.  I think I've found my home there.  Lots of light and a surprising amount of space-so much more than I had realized before I moved in-BONUS!

Thanks for stopping in and having a look.  If I EVER figure out how this new format on here works I'll get more posts going more often.  You can also check out my Facebook page under Stephanie George where I just declared openly this morning:  Hi, my name is Stephanie and I'm a Facebook addict.  My reasoning is that it's like a jigsaw puzzle of your past and present and I think it's fun and cool.  Check it out.

Checking in/Update

Yesterday was one week on my liquids-only diet.  I can't believe that it's been a week without any solid food.  I feel sooooo much better.  Who knows if it's the things I'm doing or not doing but probably both. Cold turkey on Coke, I know that has to make me feel better; I don't have the roller coaster of sugar highs and crash all day long.  The green tea capsules keep me energized if not jittery when I don't take it at the exact right time.  

Okay, so here's what I'm doing:  I'm taking green tea supplements, drinking Metabolic Restart, and on a cleansing supplemental therapy.  The first day I lost a couple of pounds just from the cleansing therapy-swoosh-sorry, TMI.  They say the first 10 pounds are the hardest and that's because if you are making all these sacrifices and you don't see any change you give up.  At least that's what I do.

So, I've lost five pounds.  Ten years ago it would have been 15 pounds.  But I am feeling better in my jeans-the ones I have refused to go up a size in.  They were getting so uncomfortable but I know by watching Hoarders that these things get overwhelming easily so I had come to a crossroads.  I need a deadline or crossroads to motivate you and I was at the end.  This is not to be skinny, this is to shed the 30 pounds I gained in the last six months supposedly from one of the meds I was on.  Of course I didn't loose the weight when I went off the meds.  Next is the gym.  It's been on my to-do list for awhile and still is.  

And I've been creating.  This is a yippie for me because I'd kinda lost the desire along with all else before those rascally holidays but it's back!  Just like most who create, I was worried that it was gone-silly me.

Stay tuned.  I'm moving into a new spot at The Pink Cabbage and I'll have lots of pics from that.  Have a blessed day.

Procastination be gone!

Since I've been draggin' my fat ass around since before the holidays in a funk and having to use every bit of little energy to do laundry or cook a meal, I think I'm finally on the mend. I'm on day 4 of my two week liquid/cleansing diet and already am feeling better and perkier already...and in my normal jeans are not cutting into my waist...as much. So with these new bits of energy I'm finally getting around to many little details that I've put off for too long. Here's a fun one. I got this trunk coffee table from Jody at The Cabbage but the legs were a little small so I figured I'd put on wheels to raise it a little more. Then there were these four croquet balls at the shop and one day my little pea brain put them together. Those balls have been sitting on the kitchen counter for a couple of weeks until yesterday when I was feeling perky enough to go to Lowe's for double ended screws, dig out the drill and bits and voila! Now it's really got that "Doojie" funky look about it and it's the perfect height. Now I'm ready to give pep talks if anyone needs one, let me know.

Purging

In the vein of loosing things, as in weight, I saw my first episode Hoarders today and yikes it scared me. I was never a hoarder until I became an artist and hoarding is part of being a collage artist. You see and buy something knowing you will have a use for it at some point in the future. Pretty soon you can't park in the garage and you have a work room that you can't walk into. This TV show scared me straight. I cleaned all the bathrooms and went through all the drawers and cabinets in them today. Got a pretty big bag of garbage, lots of past expiration meds and creams, etc. All that stuff that just gets piled up over time. It seems like I clean them out often but it must be a dream. The rhino is just proof that "I'm back" as in quirky Stephanie is back in the house. Yes I'm purging but this is one thing that I had to have from my fave store, Anthropologie, since it was a reasonable price and quite a statement. The boys hate it. It's paper mache' and covered with book pages-love it! Today started D-day-diet day. I've gained an undisclosed amount of weight in the last six months that has made me uncomfortable in clothes (well it IS winter). I'm trying to bannish the sweatpants. What is this coincidence of low-rise jeans and my muffin top? How rude. So I'm going on a liquid diet for two weeks. I've got it all worked out. Heathy protein drink, cleansing pills, green tea pills, and the usual vitamins and meds. I need this-cookie dough is not good coming out of a blender. I know my limitations. And for the first time in my life I'm joining the gym. My doctor gave my number to the lady at the gym so hiding is out of the question now, wish me luck.