Another Chance to Get it Right!

In 2010, I guarantee I'M BRINGING SEXY BACK! I failed to deliver (to myself) on my SEXY BACK promise in 2009. Rest assured my fellow bloggers...GAME ON!

First and foremost, I want to thank all of you for making my first year of blogging inspirational, motivational, and exciting:

My New Blog Buddies: Thanks for allowing my blog the opportunity to entertain and motivate you as we both struggle through our weight loss endeavor. Many times last year I wanted to surrender to the food devil and just give up, but your blogs encouraged me to persevere.

Me So Hongry First-Timers:WELCOME! Sit back, strap on your seat belt and get ready for a roller coaster ride. Experience my ups and downs with me and I hope you plan to return time and time again.

My Supportive Lurkers:You know who you are. Those of you I inspired to venture to Goodwill or try new food products, show me some love when stopping by my blog.

Well without further adieu I present my 2009 weight loss adventure in pictures:

December 2008: Already 2 months into my stint with Weight Watchers

January 2009:Celebrating a friends academic achievement

March 2009: Britney Spears concert...check out the hoochies-in-training behind me. Lol.

March 2009: Spring Break at the spa with my Mom...what a treat!

April 2009: 2nd of 2 birthday celebrations in 1 night

May 2009: Chilling at the No Doubt concert with my son

June 2009: Celebrating a friends birthday and my FIRST Summer OFF!

July 2009: GAME ON! As per request of a fellow blogger I proved my dedication with my sweat!

August 2009: Waiting to perform at the Michael Jackson Karaoke Party

October 2009: 3 generations of fabulousness celebrating my Grandma's 94th birthday

October 2009: My 1st grown up Halloween complete with costume and everything

November 2009: Thanksgiving break at the Aquarium

December 2009: Yuletide by the fireside

December 31, 2009: New Years Eve

January 2008/December 2009: Wearing the same shirt...45 pounds lighter.

As you can see my hard work paid off , and a long road ahead looms before me. I must work even HARDER to continue to lose and keep the weight off. I refuse to go back to this:

ALRIGHT Y'ALL, 2010 GIVES US ANOTHER CHANGE TO GET IT RIGHT! LET'S DO THIS!

Christmas Calamity

I decided to blog to keep my mind off food. Well folks, this Christmas provided joy as well as a few mishaps and hi-jinks:

For starters I waited until the last minute to mosey on over to Wal-Mart to buy groceries for my Christmas dinner. WHY on earth did I do that? While scurrying around the store, I was asked by Wal-Mart personnel to take my purchases to the front for checkout. If I worked at Wal-Mart, I would detest people like me that wait until the last minute AND shop after the store's POSTED closing hours. On behalf of all inconsiderate shoppers, I apologize to all retail personnel I ever kept from leaving at the end of their scheduled shift. My bad.

After waiting in the horrendous check out lines at Wal-Mart, I returned home and sat down to wrap my boy's gifts. Well, as I started gathering my purchases and wrapping supplies I soon discovered...NO WRAPPING PAPER! I forgot I used the paper my mom gave me to wrap gifts for our Pre-Christmas celebration at her house the day before. Check out my montage of Christmas at MiMi's.

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During the midst of the wrapping paper fiasco, my "friend" arrived and he generously agreed to run me to Walgreen's and back. But before we left, he felt compelled to discover the source of my vacuum's earlier malfunction. I confessed that the vacuum sounded like a rocket about to liftoff. Like all men (who THINK they can fix EVERYTHING), he dilly-dallyed for about 15 minutes, and concluded the vacuum SUCKummbed due to natural causes...RIP DD (short for Dirt Devil).

So...after the long Wal-Mart lines, the wrapping paper adventure AND dealing with my vacuum's untimely demise, I decided to make US some cocktails...BIG MISTAKE! I poured myself 1 shot of Hypnotic and my little "happy hour" turned into something more like happy minutes. The Hypnotic hypnotized me right to sleep.

I originally planned for us to enjoy cocktails, snacks and a movie. You know the saying about the best laid plans. Instead of enjoying the movie and snacks, I woke up apologizing for drooling on my friend while sleeping (Lol). Needless to say he called it a night, and my presents still sat unwrapped. Long story short, I woke up the next morning, wrapped the kid's gifts and placed them under the tree.

Lessons learned:

• No last minute grocery shopping
• Keep extra gift wrap on hand
• Wrap gifts before cocktail hour

Call Me Psychic!

I called it! My SYTYCD predictions rang true! So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye... Asuka and Jonathon. Not surprised...at all!

So last nights result show recap according to MochaTrina:

• Thoroughly enjoyed the sassy and sultry opening number. I found another song to add to my workout play list...Pitbull's "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)."



• Cat Deely deserves a fashion citation as well for donning that " come on shake ya body baby do the conga frock." She looked like a long lost member from Gloria Estefan's Miami Sound Machine.
  
  
• Nigel stated the dancers dancing for their life appeared desperate, and I agree. The solos seemed rushed, crowded and jam packed with tricks and no dancing. Send them all home!



• Guest dancers, The Rage Crew, performed one energetic number. During the number one of the crew members chunks one of the smaller boys across the stage, while another member waits to catch him. In my opinion those boys posses oodles and oodles of talent.

Well, I don't know about you, but I am pleased with last night's results. America got it RIGHT! From this point I plan to pick up the phone to vote for Ade and Melissa. So far, those two are my favs. Until next week...

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~Dave Barry

My future SYTYCD contestants:

My son, who refers to himself as BB Snake Eyes showing his stuff in a battle:

My other son who calls himself BB Miscellaneous: