How Bacon and I are spending our Spring Break

Well, I'm halfway through my three-week-long Spring Break, and as of today, I really have nothing to show for my time off. I had visions of scrapbooking, vidding, and sorting through all the junk in our apartment to give to Goodwill, and all I've done is watched t.v. and played Legend of Zelda, the Windwaker (thanks to Amy and Jamey who got me hooked when I went to Alabama last week). Bacon has been loving having me home - as soon as Scott gets up in the morning, Bacon moves from his spot at the foot of the bed right up to Scott's pillow and snuggles in for another two or three hours with me. At 9 or 10 we get up, have a nice long walk, then come in for a bowl of Count Chocula and an hour browsing online. Actually, while I'm browsing, Bacon takes his position at the window, watching for squirrels or people walking their dogs and as soon as he sees something, he loses control and starts barking like he's on crack. Here he is in his lookout pose (which has become his primary stance in the past 2 weeks)

Right now, as I write this, he's freaking out because there's a squirrel on the fence across the way and Bacon is convinced that the squirrel is teasing him. He keeps running toward me and pawing me, then running back to the window and howling, then hopping from the futon to the armchair and then running into the kitchen to get some water because his throat is so sore from barking, then resuming his post, all the while wagging his tail and panting happily as if this is the most fun any creature could possible have on a Wednesday morning. In some ways, I believe that he thinks he is protecting me from that squirrel, but it's more than that - he's engaging in his own little game that he's created simply because I lifted the blinds one day to let some natural sunlight in. He's so proud of himself too - man, I love my mittle mountain lion!

Well, time to actually try to get something done around here - there's a whole corner in our bedroom that's been collecting junk for the past two years - I avow to sort through it all, throw most of it away, and donate to Goodwill anything that is remotely usable.

Bragging on my Baby!

I'm so excited for Scott - he's done something that many of us only dream of doing - he lost a ton of weight. And he did it by exercising and cutting back on the Krispy Kremes, rather than doing a crazy crash diet. Plus, he's been able to maintain the weight loss (though, I have to admit, every now and then I get nervous that he'll lose more weight and then weigh less than me). So, in honor of his great accomplishment, I thought I'd post some before and after pictures so everyone can see how great he looks.

Before After

Doesn't he look great? Yay, Baby!

Yay, I remembered my old password!

It's been so long since I last blogged, primarily because I forgot my password, so I couldn't get to my dashboard, so I couldn't post. Other reasons also include how ridiculously busy I've been this semester. I found out the day before the Spring Semester started that GCSU needed me to teach a class, so I had less than 24 hours to put together a syllabus that didn't include any reading for the first three weeks (since the bookstore needed time to order my books). Needless to say, I was expecting to take this semester off, so the fact that I have to drive to Milledgeville twice a week after teaching at Montessori all day has turned me into a silly, sleepy ball of chaos - I feel like I'm constantly running from one place to another without sitting down to breathe.

On top of that, I've been trying to exercise more, and yippity skippity doo, as of yesterday, I have officially lost the ten pounds I gained after I got married! (it took about 6 months to gain, 2 1/2 years to maintain, and 6 months to lose).

Here is a picture of me from New Year's, when I had lost about 7 pounds, so imagine me 3 pounds lighter! (I know it's hard to imagine - if that hot girl to the left lost 3 more pounds, she'd disappear!)





I wanted to post a couple other pictures from New Year's Eve because we had so much fun! So here they are! (Hey, better late than never!)

Here are Willie and me after the midnight toast - and as you can see, we were quite toasty! (and why is his hand on my stomach?) After this picture was taken, Willie proceeded to profess his undying love for everyone at the party, then he tackled Ross on the balcony and threw up a little bit.

Bacon hid under the table for most of the night - I'm sure it's intimidating to be a small fuzzy creature among large, drunk, less fuzzy people who want to pick you up all night. And poor thing, he could barely see what was going on because his face fur was so overgrown! At least he got a lot of Totinos Pizza rolls that night! (which could be why he stayed so close to the table)

Well, I wanted to add some more pictures, but the computer is freaking out, so I better post before I lose any of this! I am seriously going to try to blog a lot over the break, especially because I'm not writing everyday with my middle schoolers (you know, since we're all out of school for three weeks).