I’ve lost track of the amount of snow that we’ve gotten hit with this winter. We got snow again yesterday and are expecting more tomorrow night and Monday.

That hasn’t kept me from going out walking, though. At least a couple of times anyway. In fact, I just got back. I only took a couple of pictures with my cell phone today, but took a bunch on my walk after the last big snow storm and thought I would share those with you. They’re in the slideshow below.

On my second edition of Multimedia Wednesday (only three months after the first…), I have a few things to share with you.

Movies

I finally broke down and joined Netflix a couple of months ago.  I am SO glad that I did.  I freaking love it.  I feel like a kid in a candy store (or well, me in a candy store ) -- especially that my queues now have over 500 movies in them and I’ve lost track of the number that I’ve actually watched.  Their best feature is the ability to stream quite a few of their movies online.  I bought one of their associated Roku boxes about a month ago (I think) and absolutely love it, too.  It lets me stream their movies over the internet through my TV.  This fall, I will also be able to stream them through my Wii box, so I will have access to it on two TVs in my house, plus my computer.  Then there are the movies they actually mail me.  There just isn’t enough time in the day to watch everything.  (Oh, and I’m not associated with Netflix in any way -- this is just my own personal opinion.)

My most recent movie that I received through the mail was “Moon.”  I’ve had it in my queue for quite a while, but an old friend recently recommended it.  I moved it up in my queue and through perfect timing, I received it two days later.  You can click here to read about it on IMDB, but it is about a guy who is in his last two weeks of a three year contract of working on the moon….by himself.  He starts to hear and see strange things.  There are a couple of spooky moments towards the beginning, but you can see where the movie is obviously going at about the 30 minute mark.  Even with the predictability, it is still thoroughly enjoyable in my opinion.  There is one moment (when he makes a phone call) that tore at my heart.

I just went to YouTube to track down the trailer for you and after watching it (for the first time), have realized that you can pretty much figure out what’s going on just from it.  But I still like it. 

PS.

Earlier, I posted about the author and shame expert, Brené Brown’s new book that is coming out in April. Here’s another link in case you missed it:

I was perusing more of her website, when I noticed these pretty little badges over at the left side of her page:

So I clicked on the “I Choose Authenticity” badge to find out more. Please click on it above to see what I read.

On this site, I’ve decided that “I Choose Authenticity.” It’s hard to bare your soul on the page (er, screen) for others to read and possibly judge.

I’ve posted quite a few times (understatement) about how much I admire the author and shame expert, Brené Brown.  You can check out her site here.  She is an amazing woman who never fails to reach right in and squeeze your heart with her words.  I’ve even been lucky enough to have her comment on here a couple of times!  Obviously, that meant a lot!

I think she’s had a couple of books out, but this is the one that I have read that is now one of my favorite books.

I’ve been notified by a couple of people about getting error messages on my site last night and today. I’ve fixed one thing I could think of that might have been doing it and everything looks okay on my end, but please let me know if you experience any more! Thanks, guys!

Excuse my language, but holy crap!

So I posted yesterday about how I only did a half-assed job this week of staying on my Weight Watchers plan, right?

Today, Tuesday, was my weigh-in day.

I lost 4.9 pounds!!!!  Cue the happy dance music:

And not only that, this is the second day in a row that I’ve been completely on plan.  I actually woke up a couple of hours before I had to, and felt like I was starving to death.  My stomach was actually growling.  Instead of grabbing a snack, I forced myself to go back to sleep.  I consider that a victory!

Hi all!  Happy Monday!  Okay, I should rephrase that to:  “I’m happy Monday is almost over!”

I hope you all had a great weekend!  Mine was fairly good.  I didn’t do anything overly spectacular, but sometimes that’s exactly what you need.

I only did a half-assed job of staying on plan, unfortunately, but I guess that is better than failing completely, right?  And half-assed is more of an attempt than I’ve made in a while.  Today, however, I am doing really well, and woke up with renewed vigor and determination – mostly thanks to you all.  I’m actually falling short on my points for today.  *GASP*

A couple of interesting things happened on Saturday (at least they were interesting to me).  First, my mom and I went clothes shopping.  And I’ll tell you that clothes shopping now isn’t nearly as much fun as it was a year ago.  It’s pretty depressing, in fact.  I did find one cute top and a pair of pants, but that pretty much felt like I was scraping the barrel.  We’ll see if I still like the top when I go to put it on tomorrow!  But when I was in the dressing room at Lane Bryant, I couldn’t help but overhear the conversation going on in the room next to me.  The people in the next state would probably have had to try to not hear them.  Apparently it was this woman whose mother and a sales clerk were helping her try on tops and bras.  On a sidenote, those of you who feel comfortable in letting others into the dressing room with you (even your mothers) have my utmost awe and admiration.  For me, not gonna happen – ever.

Hi everyone!  Just a quick post tonight as I’m on break at work. I know!  Two posts in one week! Can you believe it?!

First, a sincere thank you to everyone who sent such wonderful comments and messages.  It was a much warmer welcome back than I could ever have imagined or hoped for.  You all are wonderful and I probably would have given up long ago if it hadn’t been for you!  Many of you had me in tears (the good kind).   I’ll admit I was a bit nervous about posting again.

We’ve already established that in the weight loss blogging world, no news is bad news. So it should come as no complete surprise that that is the case in my world.

I’ve gained. A lot. In the past year, I’ve gained just over half of my weight back; most of it since last May. Of course I’m not happy about this (other than the previously mentioned absence of my patulous eustachian tube issues) and am feeling pretty crummy about myself. I’m sure that also comes as no surprise. I don’t know what the hell my problem is.

Hi all!

I know I haven’t posted in a while.  I think I unofficially decided to take a break from the cyber world for a while.  I was just getting really burned out.  There’s also been a lot going on in my life lately.

My car is having a VERY Merry Christmas of its own.  A couple of weeks ago, I paid almost $400 to have the motor assembly in my driver’s side window repaired.  The following Saturday, I paid about $94 to have the serpentine belt replaced.

This past Saturday, we went out to enjoy the Christmas lights and do some shopping when we realized that my headlights are no longer working.  Coincidence?  I wonder.  But how the heck would I prove anything?  We initially thought that maybe it is just the fuse, so we hunted all over town to find one that will fit.  We finally find it, and you guessed it.  No luck.  Still not working.  I make an appointment and take it back in to the shop today.  He calls me back, and you know it’s a bad sign when you ask how he is and his response is “better than you.”  It appears that I now have a bad “dimmer switch” (which apparently houses the cruise control, turn signal handle, hazard light switch, etc.) and it needs to be replaced.  To a tune of more than $700.  ACK!  I don’t know how the heck I’m gonna pay for it.  Keep your fingers crossed that we even get a tiny little bonus this year at work!  Anything can help right now.  But, especially since I work evenings, headlights are a must.  It should be ready to be picked up tomorrow.