Sat 6/27

Friday was a good day for working on myself. Saturday was a not so good day.

It actually was a fine day I just fell face first into two of my most current obsessions. They are both out of the house now though so I will not be listening to the siren call of their yumminess. They have turned into a trigger food for me so I need to not buy them at this point. They are both fine on their own but I have issues with portion control when it comes to them. UTZ cheeseballs and TruFru chocolate covered strawberries. 

I didn't do any movement yesterday either. I probably will not do any today. I did however have my liquid yesterday and should have it today too. I found a way to keep up with myself for this that is working. You all probably remember how crazy I am about liquid intake when it comes to tracking it. (I consider anything sugar free to be water. If you do not that is fine as we all have our own opinions) We have a fridge that is only a year old but two of the shelves have broken and I do not have the funds to replace them. A 3rd shelf is cracked I noticed which is annoying. I just do not understand how they can be made so flimsy. Anyway, due to this breakage fridge space is limited. I have been drinking my SF sweet tea lately but just do not have room for a huge pitcher.

Last weekend I picked up 4 quarts of Miso soup from a Japanese place near us. I really like Miso and had been wanting it lately. That meant I ended up with 4 soup containers. I washed them and was planning on just keeping like Tupperware but then an idea hit me. Fairs use those kind of containers for lemonade and people drink out of them. I filled two of them with water to chill and was planning on dumping in a cup the next day and adding water packets. Then I had the bright idea to use them for brewing my tea. They teabags are meant for 32 oz so that works out perfectly. I take one out and dump the tea into my cup and then refill with water and add a new teabag. I have a rotation going as in the brewed one moves left and the new brewing one goes on the right. If I needed to I could stack them but they fit on one of the remaining shelves fine. Lots of exciting things around here I tell you! Not.

 I have my pre-op appoint set for tomorrow afternoon to do bloodwork for my upcoming surgery in July. I am just trying to plan and maybe figure out how to get some stuff situated before this. I am trying to cook things that are in the house as we are b r o k e. The surgery is another $96 a month on CareCredit on top of our alright tight bills. 

We have about 800 in the bank after all of July's bills are paid to cover groceries and gas and anything extra. His first check will not hit until 8/15 and that will have to cover the mortgage so it isn't late as the 16th is our late date. I have no idea how we will cover the amost1k in bills that is due before the 15th. That isn't even counting my car payment as I will roll that into the end of the loan like I do every summer. In addition to our car tags being due and I see my water bill credit will only last through July so new bill due August. Plus I will have to pay for my class in August which will be about $350. So much to deal with- ugh! 

Oh well  I am glad I typed this out as I now have a potential plan. It isn't a great one but it is what may  need to happen. I need to not touch the money in the bank and use it for the August bills. I will instead start putting groceries and what not on a paid off credit card. Better to play catchup on a credit card than to pay late fees to various billers. 

I cannot believe it is 5pm on Sunday night. It does not feel like a Sunday since no work tomorrow. 

I should go inventory what I have in the freezer. I pulled out ground beef earlier and saw a pork roast I forgot about so I am sure there is more in there I do not remember.  I know what is in the pantry pretty much from the last clean out. We have not been out to eat in several weeks and will not be going out for quite a while since we do not have the funds as I said. We last went out Father's Day and I knew it was a bad idea but I wanted the yummy food too. Usually we would go out for my birthday July 14th but I won't even feel bad skipping it and my brother's a week later on 21st since I will be recovering from my 7/7 surgery.

Whoa! I just updated my ticker using yesterday's number. I have actually lost 2.2 lbs. from my ticker "start" weight on 6/8 which was the number I updated it to when I blogged 6/8.  Of course I started trying to make better choices 6/19 so I should use a number from that time frame but I need that loss for my mental health. Once I start losing more I will tweak the start number maybe.  Weight loss is all about mind games sometimes.