Doing this post, I realized that I have never seen some of the "classic" christmas movies... Something that I will (eventually) remedy. but for now, here are some of my favorites...
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
The Santa Clause
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Mickey's Christmas Carol
The Holiday
Scrooged
Gremlins
What are your favorite christmas movie, I am making a list (and checking... not really).
I missed a few days, it has been busy and time has flown, plus I have a new OBSESSION that has taken me away from the blog...
As I mentioned in my 100 Things I Love post, I love Christmas Music. I could listen to it all year long. I don't, but I could!! While I love all Christmas Music, I do have my favorites. This is the list of those favorites. I have included links to some YouTube videos of the songs sung by some of my favorite artists... (you will also learn that I am SLIGHTLY fixated on Pentatonix)
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What Child Is This
Silent Night
Mary, Did You Know?
The Little Drummer Boy
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
O Holy Night
Carol Of The Bells
My Favorite Things
God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas
That's Christmas To Me
Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (this has no words, yet Pentatonix does a video, go figure!!!)
What are some of your favorite Christmas/Holiday Songs?
Anybody who knows me knows that I currently live in Las Vegas because I lived in Northern Nevada for 8 years and had enough of the snow. I couldn't stand living in it anymore. Even now, when I think about moving back there, my knuckles turn white and a family of butterflies invade my tummy. But, if I don't have to live in it... I love it...
What do I mean by that. If I don't have to actually function (go to work, drive, etc). It is amazing. I love to snuggle on the couch in the middle of a snow storm with the fireplace burning and a cup of coffee and just watch the snow. It gets so quiet and peaceful.
However, driving or having to function, nope, no way...
Maybe later, when I don't actually have to leave my house 😉
This is something new. I have wanted an Erin Condren Life Planner for a couple of years, but they were always to expensive (I can not spend $65 dollars on a PLANNER, for goodness sake…). BUT… for black Friday, when everything was 30% off… sure, I can do that…
So I built my planner and added some extras, then I started looking at Instagram. I have become addicted to this hobby (lifestyle). I started a new Instagram Account JUST FOR PLANNER STUFF. I followed like 100 planner pages on Instagram in 2 days… I have 24 items in my Etsy cart. I want to go to the store and look at all the stickers…
I will be adding some planner topics to the blog. I will be showing off my spreads and also showing some other planners that I am following…
Follow along and indulge in my addiction with me, won’t you!
Thunderstorms⛈
🛏Getting into bed at night
When my mom comes to visit
Snow (but not driving in it!)❆
Nights out with my hubby
🍝Any Italian food
Fire in a fireplace🔥
My car!!
Bleeding Heart flowers
The smell and sound of rain
Overnight Oats
🐶Puppies
Bread and butter The color purple (the actual color, not the book; although that was good too)
Getting a magazine in the mail
Owls
Banana Bread
Soft Green grass
Quiet
The Walking Dead
Facebook
Weekends and days off
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
Seeing Plays and Musicals
Laughing until I cry and my belly is sore!!
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
"The Seeker"
New Orleans Pentatonix (music group)
Candles and candlelight🕯
Carrot Cake
"Harry Potter"
Air conditioning
Russos subs (restaurant in South Florida)
🎶Music
Books 📚
Reading those books
Chocolate
Cute Animal Videos
Halloween
Baskin Robbins Pralines and Cream ice cream
Massages
Going out for breakfast
Computers🖳
Mashed Potatoes The color green (and I mean ANY green; well, maybe not fluorescent)
Bookstores
Sushi🍣
Napa Valley
Maxi skirts
NCIS (the original)
"Pitch Perfect"
🎄Christmas
Christmas Music
Laying in bed listening to the thunderstorm from #1
Elephants🐘
Ranunculus Flowers
Writing
Mac and cheese
Disney
Instagram
Cheesecake
💅Nail polish
The Phantom of the Opera
Vietnamese food
The sound of the waves on the shore
Pizza🍕
Red Hair
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
Getting ANY mail (as long as its not a bill)
Purses
Lists
Eeyore
Being a Supervisor
Caramel
Stationary (but who sends letters anymore?)
Libraries
Brownies
Magick
Chick fil a
Really good chocolate ice cream
🌚Moonlight
Naps
Hot tubs
The sound of a babbling brook
Hugs
Pinterest
🍓Strawberries
Coffee with cream
Coffee Mugs to drink that coffee out of 😊
Jimmy Johns subs
Emojis (obviously!!!!😍)
Wicked
Nora Roberts aka JD Robb
Eating pretty much any food!
All the dogs I have had and known
My friends
My family
My husband
ME (my life, my body, my soul, my dreams and thoughts)
A reminder from my friend Jamie!! She shared this on Facebook and it was a great reminder.
I decided to start a series of posts about my favorite Low Carb websites or blogs. I remember several years ago, when I was first diagnosed with diabetes and PCOS, I looked for websites with low carb recipes. I found this one. It looked totally different but the food looked so good. The first two recipes I made were the Philly Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers and the Beef Stroganoff Burgers. They were so good. I have tried several of these recipes and am going to try others soon. Please check out this site if you are interested in Low Carb amazing dishes!!!
So, I have been out of touch… for a while… a long while.
But I am back, from outer space… No, that’s not right.
I am back from Florida. Last week I went to Florida because my cousin was getting married. For WEEKS before that, I was trying to eat right, I really was… but it just was not happening. Nutrisystem for breakfast and lunch, but then pizza, hamburger and fried chicken for dinner…
No More!!!
Starting Monday, 4/18/2016, hubby and I have made a pact. We will be eating right, joining the gym again and this time, we plan to stick to it! We Have To!
Okay, enough excuses and promises… lets talk about Florida.
I grew up in South Florida, and moved to Nevada about 12 years ago after going through 3 hurricanes in a month. We went back a couple of months after moving for my cousin’s daughter’s birthday. My hubby and I went back in 2010 for my best friend’s father’s memorial. (Hubby got pneumonia while there) So now, 6 years later, I went back to Florida for my cousin’s wedding.
It was beautiful. The weather was perfect, cool and breezy, not too hot. There were a few raindrops to be seen, but not a lot. We stayed at a cute little hotel on the water, Jupiter Waterfront Inn, for a couple of nights.
Jupiter Waterfront Inn
The wedding was at a beautiful venue, Old Fish House in Jupiter, Florida. The wedding was beautiful. The ceremony was perfect and we were visited by two bright orange butterflies in the middle of the vows (the spirits of my grandparents, I believe).
Visited all my old haunts, the condo I grew up in, my aunt and uncle’s house from later. We saw my grandparents’ mobile home and my best friend’s house (she no longer lives in Florida, moved away a couple of years ago). My high school has changed a lot. My favorite restaurant, Russo's Sub Shop, has not. Still so good.
Russo's Sub from http://russossubs.com/home/photos
All in all, it was a great trip… did I mention I don’t fly well… I haven't been on an airplane in 6 years, I do not like it, I would rather drive. When I visit my mom, I drive 8 hours instead of flying for 1 hour... I know, I know...Stupid, right?!? I actually made my mom come get me for this trip, she came to Vegas a day early so that we could fly together to Florida. She is the flying expert with all the traveling and visiting she does. Every time the plane did any kind of, well, anything, I looked ay my mom so she could tell me it was okay. I know, I'm a baby... 5 days in Florida, spent some time with my family, my cousins all have children who are growing way too fast. I miss them and really need to make more of an effort to keep in touch. They are really the only family I have as I am an only child and don't really have any other connection. So, here I am, home again and really need to get back to me and my health. We are going back to Nutrisystem, hardcore, starting Monday. I will keep you updated and will start the food posts again, it seemed to help me and gave others some ideas about what to do with the food. Stick around for a while to see our transformation with Nutrisystem...
Its almost Halloween!!! I know that children LOVE to go trick or treating... I am not that thrilled with it, only because my dogs go NUTS... however, I do like candy (surprise!)...
TV shows : What I watch now and my favorite TV shows, ever!!!!!!!!
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So, the Fall TV season has started and it is back to trying to decide what new shows I want to watch and how to organize my time to watch all the shows that i want to watch. So this is going to be a list of the shows that I watch NOW, but I will also be talking about some of my favorite shows (some really popular, some really obscure) in the past.
I want to fill in the days with something other than just the daily weight loss log. So I decided to go back to other types of posts also. I loved the A to Z posts so I figured I would start there.
I love names, the creativity that comes in giving someone their names. I really think that your name forms part of who you are. Have you ever looked at someone and thought that their name really fits them. Or thought “what would that person be like with a different name?” Would another name fit you? Have you ever thought what your name would be if you could have chosen a name for yourself… There are some cultures that allow for someone to choose their own name, what would you choose?
Having said that there are those names that annoy the H%#* out of me. Especially when it is a common name but with such a really weird spelling that you have to stare at the name to see what it really says. That will be another blog post in the future J So here is a list of my favorite girl names (Boys names coming soon).
Hi there, can you tell that I get a little obsessed when I find something I like...
This is another A to Z post like the last couple I did. I found this one at The Bikini Experiment by Lauren. This one is the A to Z of me! So follow along and find out a little (more) about me.
Age: 37
Biggest Fear: Spiders!!! Flying!!! Not being in control!!!!
Today's list is about the cars I have owned and a few that I want!
My first car was a Nissan 200SX - my mom bought her for me at Christmas when I was 16. One of my presents was a small box with a set of keys in it, I had no idea what it was all about until I went outside. I didn't even see the car at first because I was so excited (also the fact that it was up on the side of the house on the grass, where no car should have ever been probably helped). It belonged to a friend of hers and I loved it so much.
Like Thursday's post, I am loving the A to Z lists. Another of the topics listed was the A to Z of travel and it is from MYATOZCHALLENGE.COM. I thought it was a fun post idea, so here we go!
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Age you started traveling: I don't really remember when I started traveling, I know that when I was little we used to travel to see family. I did not really start traveling for pleasure until recently Best beer you’ve had and where: I am not a big beer drinker so I don't really know what the best would be. Cuisine (favorite): I love Italian food, Mexican food and Japanese food, especially sushi! I could probably survive for a really long time if I only had any of these types of cuisine. Destinations–favorite/least favorite, and why?: I think my favorite destination would have been DisneyLand/Napa Valley. I traveled there with my hubby and we had so much fun just being with each other. I think my least favorite destination was New Orleans. I think that this is a destination that is so overrated. We were there during the French Quarter festival and it smelled of vomit and pee!
Adventurous when it comes to trying unusual food? - Not really, I usually only have certain things, although, I am getting better. I would not eat sushi for years and now I am obsessed with it. I have even tries the "eww" stuff from the past like eel!
Breakfast – what does your typical breakfast consist of? - Since I am on Nutrisystem, my breakfast is usually either a sausage and egg sandwich with some cheese or a pastry item (muffin, biscotti bites, etc) and either milk or yogurt. Comfort food – what do you reach for when you need cheering up? - Carbs!! Mac and Cheese, mashed potatoes, bread, spaghetti.
Describe a dessert to die for - I love chocolate cake, a nice, rich, moist cake with lots of frosting!
So I have decided that I am going to do a new series on Mondays. It will help me to post consistently and it will be fun. I am going to do posts of Lists! Whether it be Top 5 (or 10), Favorites/Least Favorites or other types of lists, that is what I will focus on for Mondays at Plus Size to Downsized. So, let’s get started!
Since I started this blog to be a weight loss journal, let’s start with a fitting topic:
My Favorite Exercises
1. Walking outside – I can’t stand the treadmill, but I live in Las Vegas so, unless I want to get up at 3am, I have to use the treadmill. My local gym has an indoor walking track so I may check that out.
My favorite color fluctuates at times. Between green and purple. Sometimes purple is my favorite. Sometimes green... I am not sure which one I like better.
But then, at times, I like blue. And sometimes, I like red or pink.
I don't necessarily have a FAVORITE color. I have colors that I like better than others. I have colors that I prefer. But sometimes, I really like green...or purple...
I'm kinda indecisive that way!
Tomorrow is the last day of the Blog Challenge, it has been amazing and I love forcing myself to write for you guys to read. I hope I can keep it up!
My last challenge post will discuss what I would do if I won the lottery, stay tuned!
My favorite season is FALL. When it is getting cooler after the heat of summer. When people start focusing more on family and home. Oh, did I mention, my birthday is in the fall!!! Which also leads to my favorite holiday (also in the fall), HALLOWEEN. I love that there is one day of the year that you can choose to be something else. You can be a witch, or a fairy or a barmaid, wench or anything else that you choose. And your excuse is its a costume. I also love the meaning behind Halloween. When the veil is thinnest and you can be close to loved ones that have left us.
I have always loved the fall for holidays. Living in Nevada, even more so. I love the fact that every two weeks I have time off work!!! You see, I don't work on my birthday. I have always taken it off. So in the middle of October, I have time off for my birthday. Then at the end of October, it is Nevada Day (the last Friday of October). Then in the middle of November, Veteran's Day...Then Thanksgiving and the family day after. Then I have to go a little longer to get to Christmas and New Years. Sometimes I take a day off in the middle between thanksgiving and Christmas, just to have a day off every 2 weeks.
Fall is the best, followed by Spring, then Summer and Winter are tied... I hate heat and extreme cold!
