Yes we will soon be entering the last month of 2007. I am still hoping to enter 2008 at less than 200 pounds. I last weighed in at 207 pounds. December of course is one of the months where it is so easy to be overfed. With parties and treats at work etc. I am just hoping that my committment to exercise ovet the past two months will help carry me through in December.
I have been busy but still keeping up with tae bo each day. On Saturday I will change tapes.
The weekend of the 17th and 18th I went Christmas Shopping in Cedarburg with my siblings. A weekend a way shopping with no kids has been a tradition with the four of us for many years. We use to go the first weekend in November because Mark and I use to work at Lands' End and we needed to get our shopping done early because once Peak started at Lands' End it was difficult to find time to shop. I got some things but not everything I needed. Bella and I had gone out a weekend or so ago and got wrapping paper, tape, ribbon bows and tags so we are ready to wrap.
Our Thanksgiving was ok. We went to Scott's mom's house for dinner with the Belvedere Meyers and Heuers. The Pakers won! It was ok but I can feel just general irritation with Scott's mom and her husband Carl creeping in just as it did last year. I hate that feeling.
I did go out shopping to Wal-Mart and the World Market on Friday but not until after lunch. I got the PJs I needed for Scott's nieces and Scotts Birthday and Christmas presents bought. We got our chocolate advent calendars,our ginger snap cookies and some electric reindeer wine. Bella even bought her cousins and grandma something.
On Saturday I worked on cleaning the basement and Scott brough the tree up. Sunday we took Bella to get her picture taken with Santa and we went to the tree lighting ceremony.
The week at work has been spent getting caught up on the contracts data base as I have not really worked on that for months as I was working on the policy database.
I found a Panattone recipe that I plan on trying this weekend. I am also looking for a book about panattone called "Tony's Bread" and a book on St Nicholas. I have not found a St. nicholas statute that I could afford so I have an idea about making one.
This weekend we will probably decorate the tree, go to the festival of lites, light our advent candles, go to The Christmas traditions event at Tinker Swiss Cottage and maybe get some wrapping done and get the Christmas Cards taken care of. We will be busy.
Have a great day.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
ADOPTION DAY & PROJECT ROLL OUT
Four years ago today we went to court in the Ukraine and were declared the parents of Isabella. I remember the day was cold and cloudy and after court we met the Massmans who also adopted their daughter from the same orphanage. We then went to Boyarka for some paper work and then to Isabella's birth city, Bila Tserkva to get a new birth certificate naming Scott and I as her parents. It was a long day, an emotional day and sometimes boring as we spent a great deal of time in the car. We did not see Isabella on Adoption day. Our court date was on a Friday so we did not think we would get to pick her up from the orphanage until Monday. We were wrong as we picked up Isabella from the baby house on the 15th-Gotcha Day! It is hard to believe that 4 years have passes and our 15 month old is now a 5 year old in Kindergarten. We are so blessed to have her. With out the miracle of Adoption I do not know what my life would be like today. Thankfully everyday I can say I am the mom to the most precious girl in the world. My friend J's baby boy is almost exactly the age Bella was when we took her from the orphange. I hope she realizes what a priviledge it has been to have her child since birth and all the milestones that entails. I do not have that with Bella, While this makes me sad, I feel that being her mom the last 4 years has been invaluable and I would not trade it for anything. I hope to load some picture to our adoption site tonight. Our adoption site is WWW.caringbridge.org/il/meyerukraineadopt.
In other news the policy project I started in May has reached its firs milestone in that it went live yesterday on the Intranet at the Health System and it seems to be working well. This was a HUGE project. It involved a lot of reading, typing, comparing documents and hounding people for current signed policies in both paper form and microsoft word. I ended up with a database with 1200+ policies. I know there are still policies out there to track down and load but this was a huge undertaking and I am glad phase one is done and also proud that it turned out so well. When they assigned me this project I was given a July 31st deadline but I told them it would take me to atleast November and It did.
I am still exercising everyday. I weighed in at 208 pounds this morning. I am sure shooting for my goal of less than 200 pounds by the end of the year. I will be going shopping with my siblings this weekend and I am really looking forward to that.
As part of the roll out for this policy project we had three training sessions on Monday at which I had to demonstrate the site. Which meant I had to stand in front of an auditorium audience with my backside to them. I am sure they were all thinking that I have like the widest butt in the county! I am hoping this will keep me motivated.
Have a great day!
In other news the policy project I started in May has reached its firs milestone in that it went live yesterday on the Intranet at the Health System and it seems to be working well. This was a HUGE project. It involved a lot of reading, typing, comparing documents and hounding people for current signed policies in both paper form and microsoft word. I ended up with a database with 1200+ policies. I know there are still policies out there to track down and load but this was a huge undertaking and I am glad phase one is done and also proud that it turned out so well. When they assigned me this project I was given a July 31st deadline but I told them it would take me to atleast November and It did.
I am still exercising everyday. I weighed in at 208 pounds this morning. I am sure shooting for my goal of less than 200 pounds by the end of the year. I will be going shopping with my siblings this weekend and I am really looking forward to that.
As part of the roll out for this policy project we had three training sessions on Monday at which I had to demonstrate the site. Which meant I had to stand in front of an auditorium audience with my backside to them. I am sure they were all thinking that I have like the widest butt in the county! I am hoping this will keep me motivated.
Have a great day!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
IS IT THURSDAY ALREADY?
Last Friday I was off work so Scott could go to a respiratory conference. I had a dentist appointment in the morning. I raked part of the yard. Got Bella on the school bus then went to the scrapbook store and out to lunch by myself. I had a nice salad at Applebees without fighting with my 5 year old to eat or sit still or stop talking. It was nice. I got Bella off the school bus and finished raking the yard and the laundry.
On Saturday I went to an all day scrap booking event at an area church. I got a lot of pages done. My friend J went too. Scott and Bella went to see the Bee movie. I did not hear too much about the movie more about the fact that Bella had to go to the bathroom twice.
On Sunday I did my housework and then we took Bella to lunch at Qdoba-the service was bad and the food was cold. I complained on their web site and they are sending us a voucher. I think the guy working was new, he sure was slow. After lunch we went to the train show at the museum. The packers win!
Monday there was no school so Bella spent the afternoon at grandmas. Tuesday was swimming. Last night I watched the CMA awards and tonight I am going to the Christmas open house at Village Green with my friend T. No real plans for the weekend except the usual housework, make a Christmas shopping list and make arrangements to have photos taken for our Christmas Card.
4 years ago today our Bella turned 15 months old in the Boyarka baby house and some strangers came visiting everyday. We are quickly approaching "Adoption" day on November 14th, "Gotcha day" on the 15th and "Citizenship" day on November 21st. November is National Adoption month and the month that Scott and I began our journey as parents. It is hard to believe it has been 4 years already. I cannot imagine our life without our Ukrainian Princess. The other day I found a Ukrainian St. Nicholas cookie cutter and Bella came home from school with the book "The Mitten" which is a Ukrainian fold tale. Her big question these days is "What did I do as a baby?" And I tell her she did all the same things all babies do-eat,sleep, pee in their diaper, play, cry etc. Then she will say "No, What didn't I like when I was a baby?" Then I tell her she did not like the bathtub or riding in the car or ice cream. She already knows all these things, but she asks anyway.
Exercise is still a go for me. I am on the new Tae bo tape and liking it-no push ups at the end of it. I gave my walk fitness tapes to someone in my office to use, she said I was inspiring her to exercise-never expected that but go me! I have not weighted myself this week as the great illusionist is visiting. One its gone I will get on the scale again.
Work is crazy busy as we have training sessions on Monday for the data base roll out on Tuesday. I am still loading policies today.
Have a great rest of the week.
On Saturday I went to an all day scrap booking event at an area church. I got a lot of pages done. My friend J went too. Scott and Bella went to see the Bee movie. I did not hear too much about the movie more about the fact that Bella had to go to the bathroom twice.
On Sunday I did my housework and then we took Bella to lunch at Qdoba-the service was bad and the food was cold. I complained on their web site and they are sending us a voucher. I think the guy working was new, he sure was slow. After lunch we went to the train show at the museum. The packers win!
Monday there was no school so Bella spent the afternoon at grandmas. Tuesday was swimming. Last night I watched the CMA awards and tonight I am going to the Christmas open house at Village Green with my friend T. No real plans for the weekend except the usual housework, make a Christmas shopping list and make arrangements to have photos taken for our Christmas Card.
4 years ago today our Bella turned 15 months old in the Boyarka baby house and some strangers came visiting everyday. We are quickly approaching "Adoption" day on November 14th, "Gotcha day" on the 15th and "Citizenship" day on November 21st. November is National Adoption month and the month that Scott and I began our journey as parents. It is hard to believe it has been 4 years already. I cannot imagine our life without our Ukrainian Princess. The other day I found a Ukrainian St. Nicholas cookie cutter and Bella came home from school with the book "The Mitten" which is a Ukrainian fold tale. Her big question these days is "What did I do as a baby?" And I tell her she did all the same things all babies do-eat,sleep, pee in their diaper, play, cry etc. Then she will say "No, What didn't I like when I was a baby?" Then I tell her she did not like the bathtub or riding in the car or ice cream. She already knows all these things, but she asks anyway.
Exercise is still a go for me. I am on the new Tae bo tape and liking it-no push ups at the end of it. I gave my walk fitness tapes to someone in my office to use, she said I was inspiring her to exercise-never expected that but go me! I have not weighted myself this week as the great illusionist is visiting. One its gone I will get on the scale again.
Work is crazy busy as we have training sessions on Monday for the data base roll out on Tuesday. I am still loading policies today.
Have a great rest of the week.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
32 DAYS WITH BILLY AND COUNTING
On October first I vowed to do my Billy Blanks Tae Bo workout everyday for the month of October. I did great! Except yesterday I overslept and was only able to do 30 min of the tape. My reward for exercising everyday in October was a new pair of exercise shoes however since I missed part of my workout yesterday I guess that will have to be my reward for November. I did get up this morning to work out and I switched tapes.
I like Tae Bo. Prior to adopting our precious Isabella, Scott and I both went regularly to a kick boxing class. It is good to work out frustrations. I like the workout but it is hard. After doing it for a month I have the following Comments: 1.) Whenever Billy looks at the camera and says "are you ready" I always say "no". 2.)I am not sure about those shinny work out pants her wears. 3.) Billy is a rotten cue-er (sp?)-if you say one more set that means one more set not 3 more. 4.) Billy's daughter Shelly is front and center and does a lot of the counting of reps-she is very skinny, blond and white, She is actually Billy's step daughter. 5.) some of the folks exercising on this tape are annoying and the guy in the wheel chair is just distracting. 6.) I hate the 25 sit ups at the end but like how Billy says "look at you, not that long ago you couldn't even get off the couch". 7. I have poor balance. 8.) According to Billy you never have to go to the floor to get great abs. 9.) I can only lift my knee so high before it bumps into that big roll of fat I have around my middle. 10.) I don't do jumping jacks because none of the bras I have are industrial strength enough to keep the ladies from bouncing all over the place.
After I have been doing the new tape for awhile I will let you know how that is going.
As for weight I only lost about 3 pounds in October which probably means I am still "over fed". I try to do well, but when I am stressed I really turn to food.
TRICK OR TREATING AND THE GREAT PET TOUR
Last night after supper the three of us put on our costumes and one jack-0-lantern, one Cat-in-the-hat and one very cute mermaid went down our street and up the other side trick-or-treating. Last year Bella got a few things in her bag and was ready to go home and see what she had, this year she was out to get candy! We have a lot of elderly people on our block, many of them wanted to know if we lived on the street we are like yes, down at the end-we have lived here about 18 months. A lot of people on our street have cats and/or dogs and every house we went to once the Halloween formality was over Bella would say "can I see your dog" or "can I pet your cat" She got quite a bag of stuff considering we didn't go that far. I will try and post photos soon. We lit our jack-o-lanterns when we got home and Bella and Scott spent the rest of the evening handing out candy. We did not really have that many trick-or-treaters however as I only had 36 little bags of M & M and we still had some left over. Incidentaly Bella had a dentist appointment yesterday morning and she got a good report.
PROJECT ROLL-OUT
For months now I have been working on a project to create a database of all policies for the Health System where I work. Yesterday morning we had a roll-out meeting and demonstration that did not go so well. I think people liked the site and the search function but they were not happy about some of the missing content-not my fault-these people had a lot of input at the meeting but no cooperation as I was building the site. They think we need more training opportunities for staff. So we have changed the roll out date and scheduled 3 training sessions, however the quality person responded that she felt we needed like 15 sessions and on all shifts. Thankfully, my boss the VP of Legal responded by saying that Legal could not do that much training. We have been on this project for far too long already.
That's all for now. Have a great day!
I like Tae Bo. Prior to adopting our precious Isabella, Scott and I both went regularly to a kick boxing class. It is good to work out frustrations. I like the workout but it is hard. After doing it for a month I have the following Comments: 1.) Whenever Billy looks at the camera and says "are you ready" I always say "no". 2.)I am not sure about those shinny work out pants her wears. 3.) Billy is a rotten cue-er (sp?)-if you say one more set that means one more set not 3 more. 4.) Billy's daughter Shelly is front and center and does a lot of the counting of reps-she is very skinny, blond and white, She is actually Billy's step daughter. 5.) some of the folks exercising on this tape are annoying and the guy in the wheel chair is just distracting. 6.) I hate the 25 sit ups at the end but like how Billy says "look at you, not that long ago you couldn't even get off the couch". 7. I have poor balance. 8.) According to Billy you never have to go to the floor to get great abs. 9.) I can only lift my knee so high before it bumps into that big roll of fat I have around my middle. 10.) I don't do jumping jacks because none of the bras I have are industrial strength enough to keep the ladies from bouncing all over the place.
After I have been doing the new tape for awhile I will let you know how that is going.
As for weight I only lost about 3 pounds in October which probably means I am still "over fed". I try to do well, but when I am stressed I really turn to food.
TRICK OR TREATING AND THE GREAT PET TOUR
Last night after supper the three of us put on our costumes and one jack-0-lantern, one Cat-in-the-hat and one very cute mermaid went down our street and up the other side trick-or-treating. Last year Bella got a few things in her bag and was ready to go home and see what she had, this year she was out to get candy! We have a lot of elderly people on our block, many of them wanted to know if we lived on the street we are like yes, down at the end-we have lived here about 18 months. A lot of people on our street have cats and/or dogs and every house we went to once the Halloween formality was over Bella would say "can I see your dog" or "can I pet your cat" She got quite a bag of stuff considering we didn't go that far. I will try and post photos soon. We lit our jack-o-lanterns when we got home and Bella and Scott spent the rest of the evening handing out candy. We did not really have that many trick-or-treaters however as I only had 36 little bags of M & M and we still had some left over. Incidentaly Bella had a dentist appointment yesterday morning and she got a good report.
PROJECT ROLL-OUT
For months now I have been working on a project to create a database of all policies for the Health System where I work. Yesterday morning we had a roll-out meeting and demonstration that did not go so well. I think people liked the site and the search function but they were not happy about some of the missing content-not my fault-these people had a lot of input at the meeting but no cooperation as I was building the site. They think we need more training opportunities for staff. So we have changed the roll out date and scheduled 3 training sessions, however the quality person responded that she felt we needed like 15 sessions and on all shifts. Thankfully, my boss the VP of Legal responded by saying that Legal could not do that much training. We have been on this project for far too long already.
That's all for now. Have a great day!
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