NOT ME Monday- Naughty Knots

NOT being a holiday Monday, Motown is NOT covered in Canadian Flags, and the stores down main street are NOT all quiet! A whopping two shops are NOT open: the LDS bookstore and the grocery store/gardening centre. And, the local minor soccer league is NOT having a full day of make-up games from our snowed-out games earlier this season. So, I'm NOT off to soccer with the three littlest kids from 1 until 6:30!!!


In true NOT-ME fashion, this is my conversation earlier. Getting Mimi ready for her soccer games today:


Mimi: OUCH!! My hairs has lots of knots!
Me: yes it does! (giggles) You could have been less NAUGHTY and brushed it this morning, Meems.
Mimi: I don't like knots.
Me: No. They hurt. They are not very fun, are they?
Mimi: NO! Knots is KNOT fun!

Not Me Monday- Tuesday edition!

This weekend, NOT being Easter and all, was NOT a barrel full of monkeys. And by 'barrel', I mean household. Because all 7 of our kids are here this holiday, PLUS an additional (nephew) with Autism. Let me tell ya, it has NOT been one crazy set of days!

We did NOT take all the kids out to Waterton yesterday. We did NOT take our chances with the Autistic child and did NOT not give him his medication for the day. Lucky for us, he was NOT great. We did NOT take a hotdog picnic, where we ate salad and fresh fruit and hotdogs over the fire. (Okay, wait, for reals, we did NOT put fruit or salad on the fire. ew.)
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We did NOT have the most perfect weather. We did not skip rocks, where my three kids exclaimed that Daddy Chris can skip rocks 100 TIMES!!! Will did NOT make sure to skip them 101, just to be on the safe side!
The kids did NOT find a few patches of snow, where a snowmen/snowbear did NOT erect. They did NOT also find a dead fish. ew. Notice said fish in the bottom of this picture.
We did NOT climb rocks, we did NOT see deer and elk, and we did NOT have fun. We then did NOT trek over to the golf course where we did NOT stealthily walk around the brush finding stray golf balls. Lemme assure you, we did NOT come home with nearly 150 balls, and Mimi is not the best ball-finder in the family. (which, I'm sure, is NOT because she's shorter and closer to the ground to see them! Unlike me, who is NOT mostly blind. That would have NOTHING to do with it at all!)

We did NOT reward the kids with hard ice-cream cones. That did NOT cost us over 25 dollars...because, seriously, I would NEVER spend that kind of cash on ice-cream! :)

And, in reno news: Will has NOT lovingly hooked up a make-shift sink in the middle of the 'kitchen' where I can now use the dishwasher. YAY!! My lazy butt My awesome self does NOT love that. He is also NOT amazingly finishing mudding the drywall, which makes us NOT that much closer to the next step of having cupboards up! eeeeeeee!!

Not Me Monday- X-Weighted blog posts

Although it's NOT Monday, and I totally should NOT be doing a NOT ME post, I don't know if I have the energy to do so.

I think, for a few times in the next six months, I'll NOT be 'posting' blogs that I have already posted on the X-weighted site. They do NOT have this 'blog' section, so seeing as blogging ONCE a day seems tough enough for me, I am in NO WAY blogging twice a day! :)

This weekend Will and I did NOT have another AWESOME weekend alone. We dropped of the 4 kids, then went to a movie with Sin and Vegan (Sherlock Holmes). It was a good enough movie.

Saturday, I did NOT wake up much too early, and Will and I went to a rehearsal for the community play that we are part of. I'm playing a very small role as a nun in The Sound Of Music, with a few little dancing or speaking parts here and there. Will is a German Soldier and a ballroom dancer.

Then, we did NOT spend the day going out for lunch, playing my new guitar at home, reading our book, watching movies, and just being us.

I also do NOT have difficulty walking down stairs, after the fitness assessment we did on Saturday night. I do NOT have to start running again. I am totally NOT unenthusiastic about the treadmill and me spending that much time together for the next 4 months until it's nicer outside. But I am NOT excited about getting back into a better shape than 'round'.


(X-Weighted's BLOG, posted on the Website)

Ha. Starting this challenge brings me back to the first time I stood on the scale with Paul... my fat hung out over the pants that had a busted button and I was feeling soooo yucky and sad.

So, doing the fitness assessment again this weekend, and starting yet ANOTHER 6 month weightloss regime is a bit surreal.

But this time?

I have clothes that fit me. And mostly, I am happy. This time, I don't have 50 or more pounds to lose. But I do have a few post-wedding pounds that have crept up these past 4 months and a few that stayed on with the stress of divorce. I'm not okay with being that yo-yo girl, so National Challenge or not, I knew it was time to get a move on and start losing this weight.

It's still the same as it was when I was on the show- weightloss isn't a secret. It's diet and exercise. That's pretty easy, right? No pills, no starving. Just simply living the way we already know we SHOULD be living.

UNFORTUNATELY, in marrying Mr. Wonderful, I also married Mr. Metabolism. Will can eat whatever he wants, and whenever he wants. Oh. And, he's also Mr. Sweettooth. Curses to him! :) He's going to be my biggest supporter (not because he thinks I need to lose weight, but because he knows how important it is to ME to be fit and healthy), but I also know he will be the first to unintentionally sabotage my efforts with his "let's stop for burgers' or 'let's make some nachos and cuddle' attitude. And I'm so newlywed, and he's so cute when he suggests it, that how can I say No?! ;)

Not Me Monday- Things

This past weekend, I did NOT have all the kids for the first time in a few MONTHS (it seems). We did NOT all fit at my kitchen table, obviously NOT an inspired purchase a few years back. I'd like to think I did NOT know I'd need a large table someday.

We did NOT decorate Christmas cookies, we did NOT set up a 'kids tree' and it does NOT look ridiculous with only lights and three candycanes on it. LOL. Whatever. I did decide to take the girls shopping, where I did NOT spend more money than I EVER have at Value Village. True story. Like, I do NOT hate shopping there to begin with, so to have spent ANY money, I am so NOT surprised.
Sarah (Will's not-so-nice Ex) has NOT started to read the blog again, although she said she'd stop. Let's NOT all act surprised all at once. I do NOT roll my eyes everytime my trackers show me.

I did NOT sing in church during Relief Society on Sunday with my two sisters, where the music director for our ward liked it so much that she did NOT ask us to sing in Sacrament Meeting. The same song. ??? yah. It was a bit wierd, but hey, whatever. We did NOT then sing AGAIN. I do NOT love love love singing with my sisters, whether it's with one or all 6. Then again, if Nelly sings I do NOT have no idea. But the others, for sure.

I did NOT then have Will make the yummy dinner he makes on Sundays. And we did all stuff ourselves silly until we had a nap, and then until we had to take the other kids back to Tawny's house. After, Will and I did NOT watch my mother's kick-butt cantata (music concert) which was so amazing. I am NOT totally impressed, even if she does amazing every year.

For the first time in my life, I was NOT hired to 'cater' for a work party. Well, that is exaggerating a bit. I was hired to cook some stuffed mushrooms for a work lunch meeting tomorrow, which is totally flattering. And totally NOT overrated. I'd take credit for it, but frankly, The Pampered Chef does NOT have SUPER awesome recipes.



I am NOT ready for Christmas as of tomorrow. YAY. :) Will and I are off to Calgary so he can see a dentist and so I can NOT shop and spend NOT enough money in stores that I do NOT love. *contented moan-- REAL SHOPPING * :) bliss. Oh, and I get to see two of my GV girls, Kare and Sin. I do NOT miss them so.

Not Me Monday- Not Fair!

HAHAH.

So, I am NOT the biggest slacker EVER on the whole "I'm gonna keep up with the blog lately" vow from last week. Nope, NOT ME! I would also NOT like to say that I have NOT been preoccupied getting busy over my cold, working and doing regular stuff. I do NOT look forward to having some other excuse for not blogging.

It was NOT crappy to realize that I have lived in this Mo-Town for nearly 3 months now, and I do NOT have NOTHING to really show for it. I mean, my house is still NOT the same it was the day I moved in (other than that 1/2 wall), my social life is just NOT the most pathetic ever, and I am NOT getting fatter by the minisecond!

Oh wait. I did NOT get older. Not Lame.

ANYWHOOZLE, I do NOT have no excuse. This raising-a-teenage-daughter thing is so NOT all craptastic! I have NOT freaked out more than once when she didn't come home one day after school, only to find out she was NOT at her friend's house. Oh, and I will NOT mention that her friend is a HE. And I would NEVER mention that this HE is also older than her and in high school. NOPE, that would just NOT be soo cool, hey?! I will also NOT mention that after discussing it with her father and I that night, she did NOT proceed to do THE EXACT SAME THING the next day. Nope. She would NEVER be that much of a pain fun! I am not sure that children are meant to be dang cute when they're young, because USUALLY parents can remember that cuteness at moments like this. I, as you all know, did NOT totally skip that cute-childhood stage with Will's kids, and am NOT totally thinking I got a crappy deal out of it! ;S It's like I have to now NOT love them in spite of not having that to fall back on! Who's bleepitybleep idea was this teenage thing anyways?! ;) And I only have 14 more years of it to go. Whoooo.

Oh, and I do NOT like that she's failing some subjects in school because she's been too lazy to bring her homework home. No, that part is my FAVOURITE. I really enjoyed going to her school to be THAT Mom and finding all this out. Next week is NOT report cards, and Will and I have NOT been grounding her until her homework is up to date. I do NOT stress about this, because I love her, but also because I know that her mother will NOT be seeing said report card, and will NOT totally think I'm a deadbeat stepmother if I send home a report card with an F on it... especially since Em is an honours student. (when she does her homework)

I think I could NOT write a novel about the pains of raising a teenager even just from my OWN teenage experiences. That being said, I think my mother is totally NOT laughing her face off at this post! I do NOT think I was SOOOO due some seriously bad teenage antics based on the teenager I was. I do NOT think that Karma sucks too! ;) I am NOT so NOT cut out for this.