A month in pictures and a new determination

I’ve taken a few pictures over the past couple of months that I wanted to share with you.

First, I took this pic at Wal-Mart.  I love white tigers.  I collect them.  I think they’re beautiful.  I want a kid so that I can put this on it.    And I’m not normally into the whole dressing your kid up like animals when it’s not halloween thing.  I thought about buying it and sticking it on a stuffed animal or something, but restrained myself.  And yes, it has a tail!

My mom and I went to the botanical gardens a couple of weekends ago and all of the beautiful flowers were gone already.  All except for this one persevering rose.  The last rose of the year (I’m assuming):

While the day the rose photo was taken was sunny yet cool, winter is rapidly setting in here.  It rained all weekend and is supposed to rain all week.  Today was dreary, wet, cold (39 degrees at 4pm) and they’re talking a possibility of snow tonight.  I like winter, but am not ready for it.  Too bad fall can’t hang around a bit longer.

I was watching something the other day and saw a beautiful wedding set up.  If I ever got married (though I’m currently happily single), I could see me going for something like this – these are screenshots:

My mom’s birthday is tomorrow, but since our schedules are so off, we went out to eat yesterday.  She, of course, wanted to get Mexican (the woman would have a taco for breakfast without thinking about it).  I did pretty good.  Well, better than I have been.  I passed over the gooey cheesy goodness that I would normally choose and went with a grilled chicken skillet.  All that was in it was grilled chicken, onions, and peppers.  It was good, but a bit bland.

But then we went on to partake of this heavenly gooey goodness (sopapillas and honey):

We did share the plate!  But I, of course, had to crack up when I read Garfield yesterday:

I’m not going to feel guilty about it, though.

In fact, I woke up with a new determination and a new resolve today.  I will do this thing.  In fact, I left out the processed junk for my work meal/snacks and brought whole wheat couscous mixed with peas and white hominy (yum), an apple, a banana, and an orange.

Something Carlos said the other day stuck in my head.  He said:

I am over thinking this WL shit. . . . I just seem to be all wrapped up in the big picture shit and forgetting to just do it.

I think this is seriously my problem.  I need to shut out all of my other problems, worries, etc. and just do it.  In fact, when I was at my peak on WW, that was my attitude.  I didn’t think about it.  I just did it.  In fact, I couldn’t understand why others had so much trouble staying on plan.  “You just do it!”  So tomorrow, I’m going to just do it.  I don’t care how badly I feel or think I just HAVE to have something else to eat or I’ll explode into a panic ball.  I’m just going to stick to my points.  I’ll let you know how it goes.

Thanks for hanging in there with me.