working on becoming a lean, mean, cleaning machine...

[collwen]

Well, 2 out of 3 aren't bad. I don't actually want to become mean.

This all happened yesterday/last night.

I hit the gym yesterday and spent a while there. 45 minutes on a bike, and a long session on the strength training circuit. It has been a while since I did a circuit and I felt really good afterwards. Especially after I sat in the whirlpool and steam room.

Just before going to the gym I went to Home Depot to see if they had silver polish. They didn't, but I picked up some clothes to do the polishing with (and some other cleaning supplies). After working out, I went to the store to pick up things for dinner and found silver polish and some more cleaning supplies.

I got home and put stuff away, then set to cleaning one full setting of the silver I have from Mom. For things that had not been out of their case in years (I don't even remember using them when I was a kid), they're not too bad, but still in need of cleaning. We're planning on taking a set with us to a couple of stores to see what we pattern can find to compliment them in serving utensils. I also need to take a picture of the dishes we got from Allen Wagner's to take with us as well to find a dish pattern that matches/goes with them to get serving dishes that work with them.

Yes, we actually plan on registering for some stuff. It feels kind of weird to tell people the things we want... then again we don't need any more blenders.

Just before cooking dinner I finally unpacked some boxes and got some pots and pans that we had gotten from Allen's house. They're in line to get washed- dirty dishes first, then incorporate newer things (and I'm just waiting for the dishwasher to get cleared out). After dinner (shrimp with peanut sauce over vegetables), box debris and garbage went out (today is a garbage day). I even got the broken toilet seat that we replaced out to the curb too.

With a wedding coming up, I've got to get through stuff and clean up, and get help from him to do it too.

Comments

[stefka.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the registering. We did so only under duress (it felt weird to us, too). We wound up with relatively little for which we had registered, but some exceptionally cool things. We did wind up with two Kitchen-Aid stand mixers, but were able to trade one in for the accessory package, which costs about the same as the mixer but is sooooo worth it.

But, yeah. Registering is weird. But there's a huge variety of places you can do it, these days.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

We took a look at a couple of places last night. More on that is in the sunmoon_wed jounral (as soon as I'm done with the post).

[(Anonymous)]

Good job!

I'm the one who posted a couple weeks ago about joining WW because I saw how well you did with it.

As of the beginning of January I'm down almost 40 pounds (I just lose quickly)! I start at almost 270 and am now down to 230. Although I hadn't been exercising, now I do almost everything! Spinning, elliptical, arc trainer, strength training, etc.

So thanks once again.

[collwen.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. And Great job!

Just a word of advice- don't get discouraged when the weight loss slows or you hit a plateau (being about 3/4 months in, you're probably due for one). I lost the first 30 fairly quickly and the rest has been a slow trip. But your milage may vary in that too.

Keep it up! :)

[sagefemme11.livejournal.com]

Hey there,

Just felt like figuring you out a little bit. so I nosed around your journal. You are quite the insightful, loving, playful woman! And I LOVE your weight observations. I lost 60 pounds through sheer torturous will power three years ago and managed to gain back 20 this last winter, so back to the repugnant exercise/food restriction gringing stone I go.

May I add you? I'd love to read your stuff in a less cloak-and-dagger manner.

Windi

[collwen.livejournal.com]

Go Ahead... and with the friends in common it's even easier. :)