OMG, IPods Rule! Who knew?

It feels like it's been DAYS since I sat down to really post and I've had no time to go around and read my favorite blogs, so I am dedicating some time today for getting caught up.

I do have some NSV (non-scale victories) to share along with my updates from the weekend! I also have some pics of the weekend posted below.

Jeff's sister, Judy and her husband Dr Bob (yes, he really is a doctor, he doesn't just play one on TV) were up visiting from Georgia. We only get to see them once or twice a year so this was great!!

We went out to dinner Sunday night with Judy, Dr Bob, Jeff's other sister Susan and her husband, Joe, and Jeff's mom. I ate some things that I normally wouldn't eat, such as a salad with Caesar dressing, but I am happy to report that did not go crazy. I had scallops that came with mashed potatoes and spinach. I am sure this had real butter in it -- but I planned on eating something like that and kept my calories so low all day that even if I consumed 1000 calories at dinner, I'd be ok.

Luckily, this restaurant isn't one to put baskets of bread and butter on the table -- that was always a weakness of mine. I was grateful that I didn't have to sit there fighting temptation over bread all night. I did not drink -- and that was hard! But I KNEW that if I drank I'd end up throwing caution to the wind and eating everything in site, so I held firm to that.

DH ordered a piece of cheesecake with raspberry sauce for dessert. I am proud to say that I ate a few bites of his instead of ordering my own, and I was satisfied with that.

One really funny thing that happened centered around this young man and his date who were sitting a table away from us. He was SO hairy on the head and face that he looked like those Neanderthal guys on the Geico commercials. I was sitting between Jeff and his sister Susan and we kept laughing.

Luckily, I wasn't drinking or I would have walked over and asked him if he was going to order the roast duck with the mango salsa like the caveman in the commercial. LOL (Don't worry, we aren't mean-spirited people, so the young man never knew how entertained we were by his personal style. LOL)

After dinner we went to hang out at mom's house for awhile. I brought one of the skirts with me that I bought back in March, at the beginning of the pow wow season. I was thinking that I could now fit one or two people in this skirt with me and I was right. Check this out!

Judy and I could both fit in it. This skirt used to be so tight on me that the waistband left a big indentation all the way around my body. I'm hoping that by Christmas I'll be able to squeeze another person in there. LOL! If you look at the arm that I have around Judy you can see the delt development I have started there.. Wooo-hoo, yeah baby! That's what I'm talkin' about!

Jeff's sister Susan and her husband Joe. Too bad the Geico Caveman isn't in the background. LOL.

Jeff's sister Judy and her husband Bob, affectionately known as "Dr Bob." (He is a pediatric radiologist.)

On other fronts, we were in Trader Joe's on Saturday and found these "Teeny Tiny Potatoes." Being Irish, I couldn't resist a potato that is this darn cute. Andrew was coming for dinner so I bought a bag. I haven't had white potatoes in MONTHS-- I've been limiting myself to a baked sweet potato once or twice a week.

Anyway, I roasted these with fresh rosemary, onions, garlic, a sprinkle of sea salt and a splash or two of olive oil.

The house smelled wonderful while this was cooking. There was a time when DH and I would have hosed this whole pan ourselves along with half a pound of meat each! But we shared with Andrew during dinner and STILL had a serving leftover. These were good and I would definitely make them again.

While Andrew was over, he went with Jeff to Best Buy and contributed towards the purchase of an IPod as he had missed Jeff's Birthday last month. We have never owned an Ipod. That's right, NEVER! This is a 16GB Ipod Nano.

It has been years since we walked or exercised and I haven't even been able to find any old walkmans or diskmans around the house. So I have been doing my walks "au natural." I borrowed Jeff's Ipod for my walk yesterday and it was so freakin' AMAZING that somehow I have to come up with a quick $200 and get my own!

I LOVE music and have about 600 CDs (yeah, no shit), so I've been loading our favorites onto the computer so we can listen to them on the Ipod (soon to be plural). I'm sitting here plotting ways to raise the money for my own Ipod --I'll come up with something as I'm motivated! LOL

I realize that we are mega years behind everyone else on this. If I had realized how great Ipods are I would have figured out a way to get one a long time ago.

Anyway, I need to get my exercise done and get on with my day!

Do something good for you today!