Signing My Life Away

OK, I really hadn't planned for this to be a daily blog, but I had progress on the house thing today. Since the one of the main purposes of this blog was to document my house journey, I figured I would update.

Brax and I got all of the loan paperwork in the mail today, and now we're really excited. The interest rate is lower than we anticipated and it looks as though our payments will be about $160 cheaper than what we had budgeted for. We have to do some paper-signing later this week, but it looks as though we could be breaking ground withing a month. I'll have to post some pictures of the lot when I get some taken for documentation. We're on our way!

It's Friday!

And thank goodness for that. It has been a long, busy, stressful week for both Brax and I. Pray for his cousin Junior, who is in the hospital with MRSA. We don't know how he got it, but he had surgery Wednesday night and the doctor took a 5" x 2" place out of his thigh that is 2" deep! He's in some pain and can't work for 2 weeks, but seems to be in pretty good spirits. His mom (Brax's aunt) has been up there 24/7 since the surgery and she had some minor surgery on her kidney a couple of weeks ago and isn't back to 100% yet either. Not a good week for the Webb family.

I took this afternoon off to run some errands and do some house stuff. Our loan officer is almost finished with our application for the construction loan, so I dropped off some documentation to her before leaving Rocky Mount. I then went to the tire place to get 2 new tires on my car, and had lunch at a new place in Wilson - Sweet Maria's Bistro. I had a chicken club sandwich and AWESOME homemade potato chips. Although, the sandwich and chips used up just about all of my daily points, so I used that as an excuse to get a milkshake from Chic-fil-a on my way home and now I'm just nibbling mindlessly.

I also decided to go out in search of Wii Fit. I need to get back into my workout routine, and what better way to do it than something that's fun, right? Alas, there is not a copy of Wii Fit to be found in Wilson. I looked online, even, and every place is sold out. I refuse to pay more than retail price for it, so I'll just have to keep searching Wal-Mart and the like until I find it.

Have a great weekend y'all!

Long Time, No Post

I know, I know, this is supposed to be my accountability blog. It's just been one hell of a week, so I haven't had time to get online much, much less blog.

Anyhow, I lost 0.6 lbs this week at WW, bringing my grand total to 79.8 lbs. gone since last January!!! I want that 80 lb. star so badly I can taste it - victory will be mine next week.

I haven't been exercising at all, due to us being so busy with the house and related things, so I don't even have a goal for this week. I'll post one Sunday for the upcoming week, though. Speaking of the house thing, it is rolling right along. We have gotten all of our documentation to our mortgage lady and hope to start within the next month. I can't wait - Brax and I have been working on this for so long that I can believe it's finally becoming a reality. I'm getting excited!!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend off. Brax and I, along with Hank and my mom, are at White Lake for the weekend. (Yes, we have internet at the lake - we're high-tech rednecks). Anyhow, it's cold and raining, so there's not much to do right now but just sit and stare at each other.

I did get a walk in this morning (finally) and it felt so wonderful to actually walk. I walked 37 minutes and actually did a little bit of jogging as well. It started sprinkling on me about the time I got to the camper so I had my timing down well.

So, my week's activity to date - 37/150 minutes for the week. Unless I decided to spend all day tomorrow working out, it doesn't look like I'll hit my goal. But, I'm back in the habit of exercising, and that is what matters, right?

Exercise Rant

Ugh! You know, I hate getting out of my routine. Before this gum graft and taking 3 weeks off of exercising, NOTHING would have stopped me from getting at least a 20 minute workout in. Yesterday, my excuse for not working out was that Tony stopped by and we went out to eat with him. I still had time after we got home to do a quick WATP DVD or even hop on the exercise bike. Did I do it? NO!

Today, I was all excited about doing a couple or three miles of walking outside after work. About 4:30, the bottom fell out, it was thundering and lightning and hailing. There goes my plan to walk outside. I do have a new WATP DVD I haven't tried, as well as the exercise bike that is now gathering dust, but I certainly haven't made any move to use either of them right now.

Tomorrow, there is no excuse. I will work out. I might not get to my 150 minutes, but I'm certainly not going to slack off on it, either.

Therefore, my week's goal is as follows: 0/150 minutes of exercise.

Why I'm Here

So, aside from a brief Livejournal escapade and some random drunken blogs on Myspace, I've never done a daily blog. I decided I wanted to do one to document my Weight Watchers journey and goals (although I'm over a year into the process) and also document my house saga.

I began Weight Watchers in January 2007 at a weight of ____. (You actually thought I was going to tell you what I weight - HA! I haven't told ANYONE what I weight when I began). Anyhow, I've lost about 75 lbs. since. I haven't been as committed as I should have in recent months - my first excuse was Julia's wedding and related festivities, and the second was the gum graft surgery I had a couple of weeks ago. Now that I'm over both of those, I'm going to be doing a weekly goal for myself and posting here for accountability. This weeks goal is 150 minutes of activity - I've been unable to exercise since I had the gum graft and haven't exercised hard-core since Julia's wedding, so I'm easing myself back into it.

Brax and I started our house saga in April 2007. We began by looking at modular home to put on some land my parents gave to us. We moved to deciding to custom build a home, and after over a year of meeting with the contractor, glitches and arguments over tiny stuff, we are ready to take everything to the bank to sign our lives away. So many people have asked about the status of our house that I figure I can update every more quickly with blog posts.

OK, so here goes. I'll be updating my blog at least a couple times a week for my WW accountability as well as updates on the house process.