Jodi’s Blog

It hasn’t been that hard to actually stay under 1000 calories *but* the indigestion is a killer!  Whilst sitting here watching Transformers with Rod I decided to have a English Toffee Cappuccino and Chocolate Dipped Candy Cane…well I don’t know which it was but the  pain soon after was horrific!   I’m losing on average of a pound a day…(half kilo apx) I hope it drops off soon! I’m excited about playing Tennis again this Summer.  It will also help my riding to be thinner not to mention my horses back…poor bastards

It’s gotta be a killer to carry lard arses.  I want to buy myself a new Circle Y Yuma Western Saddle as a reward for losing weight…they call it a ‘light weight’ saddle at 28lb’s!!!!!!! This is why I favor synthetic western saddles which weigh about 14-16lb … the leather type are soooooooo heavy!!!!  I like the comfort factor of western saddles over English saddles which I always use to ride in however I bought this Suede/Synthetic western saddle last year and its awesome!  So given how heavy these saddles are I can at least drop some pounds to compensate …

Tomorrow is Monday…arrrrrrrrgh another week starts…and another month!! I can’t believe January is over already… I’m thinking of adding another day for Josh at PlayGroup next month. This will give me extra time during the week. I have so much to catch up on. 

Again we have been so busy this past month…I never seem to get much me time…Rod doesn’t seem to be home much either these days….He is always off somewhere.    

I’m tired I guess….the good news is that I have lost over 14lb in less than a month. I hope it keeps up. I want to be borderline Kate Moss by the Spring/Summer months to play tennis and ride. The health/sports club in Richland has childcare and with Josh in playgroup I will be able to swing maybe playing tennis once or twice a week. I also want to join the gym but I’m going to wait to see which house we buy…we may have room for a home gym. There are some fillies in Idaho I’m busting to go and look at soon. I’m very anxious to get riding again this year. 

We have friends who own a salon here in Kennewick and are having a Botox night next month….I’m tempted to go and get it…but I’m scared of Botox! It sounds nasty…

Josh is on antibiotics for his cough….he has been hacking up badly lately … it never rains it pours here…. but in comparison to some people we are lucky.  It has been raining here a lot lately too…more than usual. Houdini has been doing good and n00b seems to be doing fine…

I have also given up drinking for now as well… The extra calories are a killer but I wanted to give up for Lent anyway…

I’m not a apple fan at all but I WANT this…

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I hope 2010 is an awesome year… last year was ok but it could’ve been better… I have so many goals for this year… I posted them on Facebook but I’m going to post them here as well…I wish and hope we like that house at Badger…I have my hopes up too high I think… I wonder if we should hold out for more land but we can buy more land and maybe build in a few years I guess…I also have found this horse I’m busting to look at …

WishList & Goals for 2010!

1. Actually *have* date nights with Rod for the first time in over 2 years…& of course spoil Josh rotten…jk
2. Buy a new house with land for my horses
3. Of course everyone says they want to lose weight…
4. I want a SUV…of course I have to decide which one I want…I have been trying decide this for 3 years now…
5. Sponsor 12 operations for Kids in Operation Smile Program…
6. Go to Mass more!
7. Spend 2 weeks in Italy during the summer
8. Go back to California for a week
9. Go to Vegas ……..again….maybe more than once…..or twice…
10. Adopt two more Japanese Chins!
11. Cook once or twice a week for the Catholic Cooking for the Homeless/Poor/Foodbank program (if they have it here I don’t know if they do!) … I could make them my ziti and watch the poor people just get fatter and fatter like my Italian relatives….( *.* )
12. Make 4 Rosaries a month for the Our Lady’s Rosary drive this year and buy 200 to donate…last year I ended up buying 170 to donate and I made…a whopping *** 2 *** so yeah such a stellar bad effort! So I hope to top that this year…
13. Start Playing tennis again….again.
14. Ride in the Endurance Ride for Charity in Summer 2010…which means I have to buy a new younger horse VERY soon and start riding…SOON.
15. Finish Reading Gone with the Wind… hard when you have ADD…
16. Start teaching Joshua to ride
17. Have 2 facials and 4 Pedicures/Manicures a month …yeah I’m serious!
18. Get my lips injected again…w00t!
19. Adopt one of the aging horses who need a forever home from a rescue in Bend OR.
20. Have a spray tanning party…not sure where tho….they look like fun!
21. Go to more wineries … more smelling less drinking….
22. Spend more time with friends
23. Say the Rosary *every* day without forgetting for a year…

Happy New Year!

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Things have been crazy hectic around here!  Josh has been into everything and driving everyone insane…Gotta luv him though he is gorgeous! 

Houdini is doing good as well and n00b seems to be fine after his little spazzy attack a couple of weeks ago…  My cough is slowly going and I’m slowly getting over this bug….it hasn’t snowed for a few days now and the roads are totally clear so I can drive my car again….I’m still going to get a SUV though in the new year… I totally have my hopes up about the house out at Badger….!!!  … I just hope we don’t walk through it and hate it… it’s almost identical to the one I  liked but ended up selling but this one is bigger and has a pool….it’s also near another 29 acres and another 4 across the road…so fingers crossed!

I feel bad I couldn’t get to Mass tonight but with my cough and this bug I didn’t want to go and infect everyone there … gross.  We went to Rod’s Grandma’s house for a Christmas Eve dinner and drinks… it was nice to see everyone…

At the moment I have been reading back and forth between 3 books…. I started out with Bury my heart at Wounded Knee months ago and kept stopping and starting…then I started Life of Pi which I have stopped now and I just started ‘Gone with the wind…’

So when I get bored with one I go to another but right now I’m stuck on Gone With The Wind… I can’t get into Life of Pi …it’s a strange book….I will keep reading it though but it just hasn’t grabbed me totally… Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is pretty sad but I will stick with that one as I’m greatly interested in Native American history and culture.  There is a movie as well based on the book … I should try and get it….

I guess tonight I will finish off another chapter of Gone With The Wind…. and do Christmas baking in the morning….

Josh has a bug again……Last night he woke up and vomited a couple of times and then went back to sleep…he has been sick all day poor kid…I feel like crap as well … I hope I don’t get sick… I don’t have *time* to be sick…

Today is a Holy Day of obligation for Catholics…I probably won’t get to Mass tonight as Rod isn’t well and I have to grocery shop…there are other reasons too not just that…I have to go to confession before I go take the Sacraments again…it’s been awhile… Today I have been thinking about the life of Our Lady and what she went through. Having to watch her son be tortured and then die…I can’t imagine the pain she went through. I’m trying a lot harder to be a better Catholic. Today I also have been thinking about how being a better Catholic can also mean for me being a better wife and mother. I love my son and husband more than anything but there are things I need to work on…my hatred of housework for one…I can’t imagine Our Lady bitching about having to do the floor again because someone made a mess…while reflecting on Our Lady’s life as well as my own and how blessed I really am…to have a great husband and gorgeous healthy happy son.  My husband often say’s that he doesn’t like the guilt that I feel because of Catholicism. I don’t think that I feel guilty because I don’t make enough effort, ok I do a bit but I think really its because I feel sad I don’t do enough because I love Roman Catholicism and what being Roman Catholic means to  me.   I feel comfort and love when I am making the efforts I should be…even these last couple of weeks I do feel more comfort, peace and hope just doing the Rosary and praying more.  I have no doubts that there is a God and we were created, of course I do know we have evolved to a certain degree…plants etc etc but I see God and His Son in everything… My own Child and his personality…how could that have just happened by chance, even if it was over millions of years?  I don’t buy it… I see how beautiful animals are… flowers…Roses etc … I don’t want to sound like some harpie born againer because I’m far from that but I do see God in everything.  I’m also grateful for Our Lady and the gift she gave us in her Son, Jesus. 

Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum.
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.
Sancta Maria, Mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc,
et in hora mortis nostrae.
Amen.

+JMJ

It has been so hectic the last few days… with Josh, Thanksgiving, the dog… etc  Housework is driving me mental…Josh is into everything!  Houdini is doing good and I do hope that we like the place at Badger once we see it because I really want to move.  I also hope of course to have the horses on the same property or at the very least near by.  I would also like to adopt another chin…I have two on my list that are soooooooooo adorable… but I have to wait to move so I hope its soon .. It would be awesome if I could talk Rod into letting me have both!! I have put the pics here on this post…one is in Texas and the other is in Kansas I think….I guess if I did get them I would have to go pick them up… ? Not sure.

This is chubby Panda…                                           This is JJ …..

We have Christmas parties coming up and I have no idea what I’m going to get Josh for Christmas….I haven’t even thought about it.  It has been so stressful around here.  I’m also hoping we can go to Vegas in late Jan for a week because I really need it!

I have the worst canker sore right now its driving me mental…   another thing… I don’t want to even get on the scales right now… I must have done some major damage over the last few days. Last night I went out with a friend … that must have been major calorie damage… margarita’s… dynamite shrimp and ribs… yeah really healthy… I’m not supposed to eat meat on Fridays being Catholic but shit of course I forgot that again….so much for being a better Catholic. The conversation we had last night wasn’t exactly fit for human ears either… jk!

On the topic of horses there is this gorgeous older horse up for adoption in Oregon. He is old and might not see out another 2 years but he was left to starve and die in Oregon and I hope we move so I can adopt him!!! He’s an Arabian and so lovely its so sad.

I have to get off petfinder.com seriously.

Josh is back in the kitchen into everything……I need a cape cod (aka cranberry juice and vodka) SERIOUSLY.