I like winter ... but seriously!

To quote Bing Crosby's song SNOW from the motion picture White Christmas:

Snow
It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow
Snow
I want to wash my hands, my face and hair with snow
Snow
I long to clear a path and lift a spade of snow
Snow
Oh, to see a great big man entirely made of snow
Where it's snowing
All winter through
That's where I want to be
Snowball throwing
That's what I'll do
How I'm longing to ski
Through the snow-oh-oh-oh-oh
Those glist'ning houses that seem to be built of snow
Snow
Oh, to see a mountain covered with a quilt of snow
What is Christmas with no snow
No white Christmas with no snow
Snow
I'll soon be there with snow
I'll wash my hair with snow
And with a spade of snow
I'll build a man that's made of snow
I'd love to stay up with you but I recommend a little shuteye
Go to sleep
And dream
Of snow

Most years you will hear me tell people I love winter and I love snow. Winter is my second favorite season. I love the cold air, the snow falling on the ground, wearing my favorite sweatshirt, wearing boots and all the yummy foods that I am inspired to make during the winter. I love watching snow fall. I love playing in the snow. I love winter. Now with that being said. I'm so over winter this year.

Why? Well one reason is it is almost March and I think of warmer weather in March and April.  We got a great tease with the 60 degree weather last weekend. But mostly because of the snow and ice. Unlike when I was a young girl, I don't get to stay home from work when it snows. I don't get a 2 hour delay. I don't work for the county or the govie so off to work I go. My company is based out of Boston, Mass - they laugh at us down here. I can't really telework because come on have you tried to work with a 2 year old who is home from daycare who wants to sit in your lap and bang on your computer and then wants you to play or wants to have a meltdown about the dog eating her cracker.

Also I get so annoyed with my fellow drivers. Don't get me wrong I am all about caution when driving in less than perfect conditions but seriously, if you are that afraid to drive just stay home. You are worse than the speed demons who think just because they have a 4x4 that they can drive like crazy people. How about a happy medium? I'd rather follow that semi down the road than you morons. Oh and the salt trucks. Thank you to the men and women who drive them along with the plows - but seriously can you not try and destroy my windshield. I replaced that last year and don't want to do it again this year.

Winter I'm sorry but I'm breaking up with you. Please allow spring to move in and cause allergies to go bucknutty. I'm through with you say December comes back around. I'll probably have forgiven you by then and welcome you with open arms again. Oh and can you send a note to summer and ask her to leave the 98% humidity in another state this year. Thanks so much.

DIY 2014 Update

OK so I have an update on my bathroom remodel. I've found the tile that looks like hardwood and I'm in love with it (pecan is the color). I've narrowed down the wall colors to 2 shades and I think I may have chosen between the two. So to my friends out there who have done this type of thing:

Do I take the baseboards off before I start tiling? I know I'll have to remove the tack strip at the door where the carpet meets the linoleum. Also I am pretty sure I need to remove the wood strip between the linoleum and the baseboards. But do I/Should I remove the baseboards before tiling?
- If I do anyone have a nailer that can help me put them back up?
- If I do, should I just invest in new baseboards?
- Can I get them precut at the box store? I'm terrible at math so the measure twice cut once would be more like measure 50 cut 10 probably.

Ugh I have a feeling this is going to be a bigger pain in the butt than my husband wants to experience.

2014 Winter Olympics

I'm so excited that the Olympics are almost here! I'm such a junkie for the opening and closing ceremonies. I love to watch the games. I don't watch every sport but I do try and catch certain things like Ice Skating and Hockey. But I'm certainly interested in learning more about Curling and watching the Women's ski jumping! I might tune in to see Shaun White compete too.

I bet it has to be exciting to be an Olympic athlete. Tops in your sport that you can make the team to represent your country. How exciting is that. Even if you don't win a medal you are an amazing athlete in my books. Heck I'm a couch potato so you all amaze me.

I have to admit I get all teary-eyed by P&G Olympic mom commercials. You know the ones where it starts out that moms all over the world are waking their tiny kids up to take them to practice. They are there to cheer on the kids and they develop. They are there to put ice on the bumps and bruises. They are there at the qualifying meets as the kids get older and then they are there at the Olympics when the child competes and finishes, then rushes over to hug mom. OMG that makes me cry every time.

You know like these commercials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-20Qe4M8Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57e4t-fhXDs

Best of luck to all the Olympic athletes as we start this great international competition. Here's to the families as well.

 

Just in case you didn't know:  The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field, known as the "Olympic rings". The symbol was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games. According to Coubertin, the ring colours with the white background stand for those colors that appeared on all the national flags that competed in the Olympic games at that time. Upon its initial introduction, Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1912 edition of Olympique: 

"...the six colors [including the flag’s white background] thus combined reproduce the colors of all the nations, with no exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tri- colors of France, England and America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, the yellow and red of Spain next to the novelties of Brazil or Australia, with old Japan and new China. Here is truly an international symbol."

- Wikipedia.org 

This sucks

Dieting sucks . . . "big toes" a friend of mine would say.

I hate dieting but apparently I can't control myself around food so I have to so something to lose weight. I've tried so many different plans including Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Scarsdale (dating myself on that one) and Atkins (OMG that screwed up my system so bad that I began menstruating out of cycle). The only thing that has ever worked for me was counting calories. UGH.

I hate having to think about how many calories this is or that is. I also hate counting calories because I'm always hungry. BUT it works for me . . . slowly it works for me. Last time I did this dieting thing faithfully I lost 20 lbs. I even kept it off for a while, but then bad habits rolled in and I had a baby so I'm back up to being way way over weight.

I've struggled with my weight since puberty and it is not a fight I look forward to having to help Smiley with. I hope she gets the better weight genes than my Irish/German/American Indian genes that don't help. When I was little you would have never guessed I would be "a big girl". I had knob knees, skinny arms and legs, no belly fat. I ran around all the time and was full of energy.

Damn you puberty!

So please bear with me as I begin fighting with my weight again. I'm not mad at you, I'm just hungry.