Weight Watchers Sin

In keeping with my religious theme I want to talk about my overwhelming guilt. (I am catholic, what are you gunna do? or as some of you know from last night a sort of Catholic) I woke up this morning feeling horribly guilty. Let me start off by saying I weighed in at exactly one pound away from my goal weight! Yeah me. So to celebrate, I went to the Austin Blogger Happy Hour.

Well in chatting and loosing myself in all the great girls that were there I lost all control of my mouth. I ordered a frozen margarita, queso, and flour tortillas. Things I have not eaten in MONTHS. I ate them all. It was wonderful and delicious and totally sinful. I feel so guilty about this today. Ugh I know I need to just get over it but I don't know why I thought celebrating my weight loss should equal consuming massive amounts of calories and fat. But in my own little world last night this was a wonderful idea.

I am going to just blame it on my sister. She had her baby yesterday! A baby boy, no name yet. He was just over 5 pounds and seems to be pretty healthy. My sister is doing really well and I can't wait to go see them both this weekend for Halloween. And again my guilt come back over me because I did not go see her in Houston last night, instead I drank and told wildly inappropriate stories about WF. What is wrong with me? Seriously?

Ladies, I had a wonderful time with you last night! I am excited about the next HH. BUT the next time I think I will order my usual MGD 64 and snack on a veggie plate. Maybe I will be a more well behaved Yankee :)

Weight Watchers Prayer

This morning I weighed in at one pound under my goal weight. Please god let today be the day when I finally weight in at my goal weight! I think I might give my left arm to have those 5 extra maintenance points a day. I wrote to you all about my goal to loose 5 pounds in 5 weeks. As of now I am down about 2. I am working hard to feel fabulous!

In the interest of loosing weight I wanted to share one of my favorite weight loss tricks. Fiber One chocolate chip granola bars. They are only 2 points on WW and worth 100. They fill me up for hours and they always make me drink so much water. I have one every afternoon around 3 when I get my usual sweet craving. They hold me over and I feel are a great trick for everyone like me who crave something sweet!

Ugh. I want this so bad! Maybe if I hit my goal this week I can even stop by the blogger happy hour for a little rita celebration! :) Wish me luck ladies.

UPDATE: Dear woman who keeps offering me halloween candy. I hate you. Love, Christine

Weekend Recap

This past weekend was the first weekend I had at home in literally months. It was so nice. I forget how much I love our cute apartment and just hanging out at home sometimes.

Friday I got home from work and began a ridiculous project. I switched over both of our closets from summer to winter clothing. Then ironed and folded the winter stuff and vacuum sealed the summer stuff. I have to say though our closets needed the refresher and they do look amazing.

Friday night we began with Movie Night. We watched the new Ice Age movie. Very cute and nice and short. We had our most favorite meal from Pei Wei, honey seared chicken (mine is veggie) and crab wantons. It was perfect of course. We did have a downer on the night. We tried a new wine, and BOOO it was gross. So we missed out on our usual Friday night drunk that both of us love so much. Sigh.

Saturday we started off the morning with whole wheat pancakes and conversations about vows. I never thought I wanted to write my own vows until very recently. I am thinking it would be nice to write something together. Jason and Amelia did that together and it was so pretty. We are thinking about saying that in addition to our normal vows. In addition we worked on our guest list and realized we have almost 100 people invited to this wedding. NOT OK. I am sorry to say that we can not invite more than 80 and that is pushing it. We are having a small wedding for many reasons and the main one being we are paying for it ourselves and cant afford to have our second cousins there. Even if we do like them. So next weekend we will be working on cutting that list down. We also went over the budget. I have to say this is the most stressful part for me. I knew weddings cost a lot but I also thought I could be thrifty and pull off a cute wedding for cheap. But man money is spent quickly and I am just stressing out. We had to talk about cutting our rehearsal dinner way back and also maybe delaying a honeymoon. All things that bum us both out. :( But it could be much worse so we will not dwell.

In the afternoon we went super ghetto thrifty and broke into the Riata to wash my car for free. I used to live there and knew that they had these great car washing stations. I had all the stuff to wash my car inside and out, I am very much like Monica from friends in that way. So we got that taken care of and I was super excited. I literally could not believe how dirty my poor car was. Saturday night fiance worked. I took the puppy for a walk and then cought up on my shows on DVR.

Sunday we got up and I made french toast WW style. We then went to Crate and Barrel to register. Let me tell you it was awesome! The people there are so nice and I just love all their stuff. We had a checklist I got from Real Simple that really helped us stay on task. Even with that it took us almost three hours! After all is said and done I am very happy with it. We even registered for some furniture to hopefully be able to buy with the completion program they have! Some of the highlights from the registry:

(Amazing martini glasses that are totally impractical, but we love them) 

 (I have wanted one of these for so long)

(This throw goes perfectly in our living room)

(And this mixing bowls are just too cute!)

Sunday night we got sonic blasts, I know not WW friendly at all, and watched part of the new Transformers movie. We will hopefully be watching the rest tonight.

All in all this was a great weekend. I am so happy we got so much done!

Friday Night Movie Night

In attempt to continue "dating" while in conjunction save money WF and I started movie nights about a year ago. It is a fun way for he and I to share some time together that is totally stress free. We never do anything but rent a movie, get and snarf down Pei Wei and drink too much wine on the sofa in our PJ's together. It is something that sounds so simple but it has become a ritual for us. We love it. I look forward to it every weekend. Obviously if something comes up that is more important we miss movie night, but we are both always bummed about it. The last few weeks we have had a lot going on and have not gotten to do it.

Tonight we are having a real movie night. WF gets home from work around 9. I bust out the wine and Pei Wei for him by 9:10 and by 9:15 we are on the sofa in our PJ's enjoying snuggles from our puppy and the wonderful heaven that are Pei Wei crab wantons. I am so excited for tonight!

The rest of the weekend we are going to catch up on our wedding planning stuff. I will have an update for you all on Monday! Hope you guys have a good weekend!

Job Frustraition (Not Mine)

So I don't think it is much of a secret that my wonderful fiance is a really great guy. He really is a good person and I am not just saying that. He recently graduated with his master's in international diplomacy, speaks like 3 languages fluently and a bunch others conversationally. He is super smart and if people would just give him a freaking shot I know in my heart of hearts he will do such great things! But no, he is getting anything. No interviews, not even emails back. NOTHING.

He tries so hard and this has been going on for a year now. He took an internship at a really prestigious firm her in Austin last year and the loved him. Told him he was for sure going to get hired there and if not there they would help find him a job. Well then the economy tanked and it was every man for himself. He was then flown up to DC for an interview with the number 1 polling firm in the world. Got to the final two and then they decided to go on a hiring freeze! So in the mean time he took a retail job managing to help pay the bills. Well that place SUCKS too. He is now driving to frigging Bastrop from north Austin and is killing himself to do right by us.

Then there was a glimmer of hope. A job was opening in a local association. I knew he would be perfect for him and I knew all the right people to get a leg up on the competition. He has the background and the drive. I just needed to get him a foot in the door. And I thought I had. My wonderful co-worker, put in a good name for him. The hiring manager said he was really interested. All was going so well. And then today only 4 days after the job "officially" opened, I find out they hired some chick. WTF?!? Really like 4 days later and its done. And why then Mr. Hiring manager would you not say something to my coworker about the fact that you already hired someone? Come on! The false hope is killing me but most of all having to tell my wonderful brilliant man that our one glimmer of hope was snuffed out before he even had a chance is just about going to kill me. I am so sad right now, and I just don't know what the hell to do.

Stupid economy.

Officiant Idol

So we are currently auditioning for the roll of interviewing people to do our wedding. Our first meeting in next week and I am super excited about this. It is the first vendor I am picking that I actually don't already have picked out before hand. I am a little worried about this one too as I am kind of in a religious funk and am not totally sure how I want the ceremony to go. I feel like the chaplains may judge fiance and I for not going to church in years. Its not that we are not religious or spiritual we just have not been able to agree on how to get back into a church. I am Roman Catholic and he is non-denominational Christian. The two things although similar are very different. Plus, I mad the choice a long time ago to leave Catholicism and try out different religions. I just have a hard time in that church as I always feel like I am being told what to do when I go.

Anyway we are meeting with 3 potential people. One did our friends wedding last weekend and I LOVED it. I did not even know he was doing it and had contacted him before their wedding. So it was kind of fun to see him in action. The second is a chaplain who was recommended on "The Knot" message boards. I am super nervous about this guy because he has sent us a 35 page letter telling us all of the guidelines we should follow. Very intimidating. The third person is the chaplain who married our friend Kelly. We know he does a great job and he is a bit more on the "traditional" side. This makes me feel more comfortable, but I cont think it makes fiance feel too awesome.

As the great "Cher" said in Clueless, if we dont "mesh well together" then we will just keep looking! In the mean time we are going to register this weekend and work on the gues list. I think we are in good shape and are in line with where we should be in our timeline. If we have any fault its that we are too busy to schedual time to do things together. But as many brides have told me, its probably a good thing he does not know every detail. :)

5 Weeks 5 Pounds

So Fiance and I have our engagement pictures in 5 weeks. Actually a little more like 4 but 5 in 5 just sounds better. I want to look really healthy and happy in those pictures. I have been working hard to loose weight but I have totally stalled out. I need to get my butt in gear, literally. I will be so mad at myself if I don't look the best I can in these pictures. I am going to start myself on a work out routine and I am going to try my hardest to hit my goal weight and a bit more before Nov. 22nd. WW hard core with a combination of working out and just saying no to snacking. If I have to I will go to a WW meeting every day from now until then darnit.

We have not yet chosen out location for the shoot yet. But I am hoping rustic, elegant and maybe a little South Congress in there. Something like a combination of these pictures:

(South Congress Ave. Austin TX)

(Mandola's Winery, Dripping Springs)

(Texas Hill County)

I really want our pictures to reflect who we are together. I really want us to look super hot in these pictures as well. I need lots of support and I need lots of reminders of why I will be working so hard to loose 5 pounds in 5 weeks. Thanks guys!