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Ready to see her…

Jul 31st, 2010
by RealFitMama.
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HEY!! I bailed on posting again last night. I was in the mood to just veg on the couch with Jason and that’s exactly what we did. :)

I didn’t get in ANY kind of exercise yesterday (other than being on my feet running this way and that at work) but that’s ok. I made up for it this morning…sort of.

Jason was speaking at a meeting last night so Regan and I had time to hang out together while he was gone. We watched the rain fall down…

Then we watched Monsters Inc. which Regan LOVED! Can’t you tell…?

Then Jason was home and we had a late breakfast dinner. ;)

Regan was super happy her Daddy was home!

After some family time together (last night that Regan’s an only child) we put the Monkey Girl to bed and got down to business, but we had a little mishap on the way to couch time…

YEP! When Jason opened the top drawer to get the movie out the ENTIRE thing just dropped and snapped and broke and all the movies crashed to the floor. I guess we need a new armoire?? :eek: We got the mess cleaned up and it was time for pie – homemade apple pie that is.

And Brad Pitt!! :razz:

(photo source)

I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this movie before. It was FANTASTIC and SAD and BEAUTIFUL and HEARTBREAKING and…Gabe just couldn’t take it. :lol;

This morning Regan and Gabe had their very own play date on the floor of our bedroom. I think it went over well.

Then we got up, got dressed and headed out for Saturday morning breakfast as we have done every Saturday morning for…ever?? I had my usual as always.

And a cup of hazelnut coffee (times 2)!

I’m kind of a creature of habit I think. :oops:

Gotta go take a shower and head out to my nephew’s birthday party. He turns 3 today and the ENTIRE family is turning out for the celebration. Plus…LINSEY COMES HOME TODAY!!!!! :razz: We miss her so much and can’t wait for her to be home.

HAPPY SATURDAY!

Don’t forget – today is the last day to enter the Good OnYa Bar giveaway so hurry up and enter already!

Now – a song I used to blast in my 1995 Cutlass when I was in high school! :lol: Enjoy…

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Dark and Gloomy

Jul 30th, 2010
by RealFitMama.
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Afternoon…I’m home and blogging much earlier than I had planned. Apparently the weather God’s feel like I shouldn’t be outside doing any exercise because right as we were closing up the deli (which was bumpin today!) the clouds rolled in, the sky opened up and…DARK and GLOOMY is what we’ve got. The thunder is rumbling, the lightening is crashing (well – there’s lightening) and we’re under a severe weather advisory through the evening. It’s been pouring and then stopping and pouring and then stopping for the past couple of hours.

I finally gave up and just said screw it. I’m in for the night! :evil:

I could really use a good cardio session alone with my iPod because things are starting to stress me just a little.

The deli is doing well, but not as well as we need it to be. That is making things tight financially and when money is tight – tension starts building. I keep telling myself that it takes time to get a business up and running and doing well, but I feel like a lot of the customers that used to come when it was under the previous owners stopped coming the last few months they were open because they stopped caring. They stopped cleaning very well and the place was DISGUSTING when we took over.

We’ve been doing a ton of marketing and advertising and trying to get people back in to see how awesome it is now, but that will take time and word of mouth. I just have to stop, breathe and have faith.

Like I always tell Linsey…patience is a virtue. ;)

I snacked on yet another larabar.

This one was way better than the last. Did you read about my peanut butter and jelly larabar incident yesterday?? Today’s new flavor, Cinnamon Roll, passed with flying colors!

Once the deli was done for the day I made myself a little lunch. I started with this…

And half way through eating the potato soup I decided I wanted a small veggie sandwich to go with it. So that is precisely what I made for myself.

I started to eat a chocolate chip cookie, but after a couple of bites I just wasn’t in the mood. I wrapped it up and brought it home for Regan to have as dessert after dinner.

I think we are definitely just hanging out at home tonight. I have to finish cleaning Linsey’s room because I started it this past weekend and haven’t fully finished. I don’t want her to come home and see it all in shambles!!

We may have breakfast for dinner and pop in another movie to relax. Tomorrow’s gonna be a busy day. My nephew, Diego, turns 3 and his party is in the afternoon. I STILL NEED TO GET HIM A PRESENT!!! :oops:

Don’t forget to enter the Good OnYa Bar giveaway!! You only have 2 days left…

What awesome plans do you have for the weekend??

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. ~ Gilbert k. Chesterton

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So nice I had it twice!

Jul 30th, 2010
by RealFitMama.
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This morning has just flown by. Regan has been bouncing off the walls (I’m pretty sure she feels just fine now) and has wanted to eat everything in the kitchen for breakfast. And by “eat” I mean – take one bite of and decide that’s NOT what she wanted. I stopped her after she wasted cheerios, a yogurt and a banana. Now she has her own personal breakfast buffet…

In the end she finished the banana.

I on the other hand knew exactly what I wanted to eat as soon as I got into bed last night!

It was so nice I had it twice…in a row!

Of course – what I’m dreaming of this morning isn’t a possibility. :(

(photo source)

Maybe I can hurry and make it before work… ;)

Indecision may or may not be my problem. ~ Jimmy Buffet

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Special Delivery!

Jul 29th, 2010
by RealFitMama.
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Hey Mr Postman… ;)

He brought us some good stuff today! It’s like Christmas in July (from Jason’s Aunt anyway)…

NEVER had anything from Crate and Barrel!

A new pot?? I’m waiting to open it until we get moved next month. It’ll be like a house warming present…no?

    

Same goes for this 8 piece Cuisinart set!!! :razz:

Then, while straightening up the house this showed up…

Jason said he didn’t feel like cooking or cleaning up after cooking so he surprised us with dinner from Chipotle. He got my favorite too…

VEGGIE TACOS!! I could only eat two of the three though. Super filling with all those veggies and guacamole. :)

After dinner I did do dishes while Jason gave Regan a bath and then we settled in for the night to watch an old favorite.

When I told Regan we were going to watch The Wizard of Oz she proclaimed (with full on seriousness) I wanna see the lizard! :lol: How cute is she??

And check out that shirt!!! That’s my girl…it was a hand-me-down from Linsey, but it works perfectly as a nightgown for the Monkey Girl. :)

Linsey Update 
She called us tonight! She had a great time at camp and made some friends too. We talked for about 15 minutes, but towards the end of the conversation she started getting upset that she still has two more days before coming home. :( I think more than anything she’s over tired because about ten minutes after we hung up I texted my aunt to check on her and she told me the kids had already gone to bed. :) I guess camping really wears the kids out!

G’Night…

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations.  When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.  ~ George Carlin

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Let Down

Jul 29th, 2010
by RealFitMama.
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Afternoon RealFitMama readers!!

This has been the oddest day. Normally Thursday’s (BBQ day) are slammin at the deli, but not today. For some reason we were just kinda slow. Business was still decent, but nothing to write home (or in the blog) about. So I won’t.

I will tell you though – a good friend of ours (Jeff) came by the deli yesterday to take photos of the restaurant, sandwiches and us hard at work. He wrote the nicest blog post about it that you can read here. It was awesome to read!!

Regan hung out with my mom all day. I was a little nervous about leaving her while she wasn’t feeling well because this is how she looked when I was heading out the door.

 Pretty pitiful and sick looking – no? Well, now I’m home and she is napping away in her bed. My mom told me she was wild, rowdy, happy and energetic all day long. Fever?? Hopefully not anymore… ;)

Breakfast today was super yummy! I ignored oats for something else entirely…my homemade banana bread!

I topped it with a tbsp of peanut butter which made it even more amazing and then had a kiwi and a plum. Talk about yummy and filling!! :)

I have to tell you that I bought a sh*t ton of larabars at Whole Foods last week. (You can get them in my OpenSky Shop at 20% off until Saturday by entering the code July20pct at checkout) I bought quite a few flavors I had been dying to try for quite some time, but the peanut butter and jelly one was the kind I have been DYING to try.

 

When I found it I was ecstatic!! I got so excited when snack time rolled around today that I ripped into that bad boy like a teenage boy ripping into his girlfriend’s prom dress in a hotel room! One bite and I was…..BUMMED! It was no where near as good as I had been expecting. :( I threw it away in frustration and ate a chocolate chip cookie instead. :oops:

This was in no way as healthy for me as my original snack, but it tasted a zillion times better and if I’m going to eat something it damn well better taste good!

We had a fun day visiting with our customers who have become our friends. We joked and laughed and talked about topics in the news. It was nice. I think one of our customers that we have gotten to know might even come hang out with us tomorrow night with his wife. Maybe we’re making new friends because of this new business venture. :)

Lunch was small but good. I made a really small caesar salad and a slice of pumpernickel rye toasted with mozzarella on top.

I need to get some dishes and laundry done before Regan wakes up from her nap. Jason is doing a table sit at Regan’s school for the Family Organization Board that we are both on. I was supposed to be the one doing it, but we both decided that with Regan being sick she was going to want me. So he volunteered to take my shift.

Awwwwwww…isn’t he sweet!!! :)

Don’t forget about my awesome Good OnYa Bar giveaway!! Linsey will pick the winner Saturday night. ;)

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.  ~ Chinese Proverb

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