My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[whitelop]

The infomercial makes it seem like its a cheesy video, but its so not! Its serious. That guy who leads the things, Alejando is the real deal! And he's so peppy and he MAKES you want to work out! LOL Plus the workouts are super intense and it really targets the areas its supposed to. Like after doing it, I can really feel the burn in my butt and hips and thighs, its great!

So last night, as a last shebang before my cleanse, we went to Longhorn. OMG I ate so much, which isn't good. But I got a sirloin with the creamy mushroom sauce on it, a sweet potato with the butter and brown sugar, a salad and we got the spinach dip for an appetizer. It was SO good! And I drank like 8 glasses for sweet tea! So that was a pretty good "bad for you" dinner.
So we're sitting there talking and laughing, there was this guy who worked there with a headset in, so he says into the headset "I'd pay to ride that ride". I laughed SO hard. That is possibly the BEST thing you could ever say into a headset! haha. It was so funny, I think he was talking about a group of young pretty girls that walked in.
My son stayed with my dad, so thats why we were able to have a nice dinner. It was really good, we laughed and ate SO much food. OMG. It was a good night!

Denise, to answer your question about the fridge. I didn't even get a new cord for it. My hub kept bugging me about getting a new fridge and finally I just gave in. I was sick of hearing him talk about it and talk junk to me for being so attached to a "stupid ugly old fridge". So I said screw it and took it to the dump. I feel really guilty about it though. Plus I really hate this new fridge.

Off to the grocery store!

 

[lyndym]

Nooo, rest in peace, green fridge! I remember you saying many posts ago about how your whole kitchen is coordinated and the fridge was a big part of that. New things are great, but your old fridge sounded awesome.

I love work out videos! I do a lot of Jillian Michaels. Some people rag on her, but I like her. I'm currently doing her Ripped in 30 DVD. Four workouts for four weeks = ripped bod in 30 days! I've been kind of dragging it out past 30 days though.. Not because it's too hard, but sometimes I miss a few days in a row. I don't necessarily want to be "ripped," just in shape. I also have another DVD of hers that's Killer Buns and Thighs, your butt lift one just reminded me! I should do that one next. Also, YES, plank is a B of a position!! You have a whole video devoted to it? I'd probably just end up lying on the floor.

I'm pretty sure Luke's stepmom's dad helped with the construction of the Biltmore Hotel. I saw her mention something like that on her Facebook the other day. That is a great workout incentive! Glad you and Lisa are also getting into working out. I've been really good about it in general, but now that things are piling on in full force, I've been slipping a bit. You guys will keep me in check!

 

[whitelop]

So some mornings I wonder why my kid has to wake up SO early. Like sometimes I want to sleep in until like 9. I don't think that 9 is an unreasonable hour. Its like in the middle of the morning, not to late and not too early. I just like 9. But no, its 7 in my house or earlier. I actually don't get up until 7, even if AJ is awake. I refuse to play into that! LOL But on nights when I stay up to late watching a movie, those are the mornings where I'm like JUST SLEEP UNTIL 9 CHILD! And those are really the mornings that he gets up at 6:15.
I watched Whats Eating Gilbert Grape last night, it was longer than I thought and it was really good. It was so sad though, but happy sad I guess.

DAY 1 of my cleanse! It is a fruit day. So all day there is fruit and water and black coffee or black tea. I woke up SO hungry, like my stomach was growling. haha. So I ate an apple and that doesn't help, it makes you more hungry. But I can eat all the fruit I want today.

We went to a produce stand yesterday and spent $50! haha. It was so good, we got all kinds of stuff. I cut all the melon up yesterday and all of it is really good. All my animals are going to get really fat from all the fruit. Ellie got a bite of banana this morning from my son, the chickens will get the rinds from the watermelon and they'll enjoy that and they're getting all kinds of ends of cucumbers and strawberry tops. They're going to be happy with mama!
Speaking of the strawberries, OMG I got the best strawberries yesterday! They're from a local farm who is known for strawberries, they actually have the strawberry festival next weekend. But these things are $5 a quart and SO worth it. They're sweet and firm and just make you want to eat the whole quart at a time. hahaha.

Lyndy, I love the Biltmore House. I've been there several times, I've been in spring to see the huge tulip gardens and the rose gardens and the greenhouse and the aviary in the front of the house. Its so amazing. Then around Christmas time is the BEST time to go, talk about Christmas trees and breath takingly beautiful Christmas decorations?! They have at least 1 Christmas tree in each room, some rooms have upwards of 5. The dining room tree is like 30 feet tall, its so big that they can fit an actual bike on it as a decoration! Its amazing.
The Hotel has been there for like 10 years I guess, its really nice! I've never stayed in it because its really expensive, but my hub told me that we could stay there for the weekend and walk around the house. He never wanted to go because he doesn't "feel the need to see a huge house", so he'll go for me when I get the 6 pack I've always wanted!(but you have to say the last part like a little kid) hahaha.
Lisa, I think that you would love the Biltmore house, if you ever come to NC go there. It will call you there, sometimes I hear it. Seriously, its amazing.

Okay just one more thing and I'll let you guys stop reading! Ellie, poor little Ellie. She has been in her cage for 2 whole days. I just haven't felt like sitting in there with her we moved the fridge and I had to clean and all of it. You know, sometimes you just get busy and can't let them out. Plus is rained ALL day Saturday and Sunday, no joke. 2 solid days of raining, it was ridiculous. Now its not raining but its very overcast and I still can't put her out. I'm tempted to bring the pen inside and put it in the kitchen because now theres more room because we have to put the new fridge in a new spot. So if I put her in the pen, at least she would be contained and couldn't eat anything.
But I wanted to tell you guys, that she is a total pellet monster. She will sit and eat all her pellets at once and she'll grunt at me! She's so crazy. I can't wait to have her spayed, I really hope it helps to curb her chewing. My husband is baffled by her, because she's so little but so destructive. He was like "Foo at like 3 cell phone chargers, but she didn't mess with anything else. Why is Ellie so bad? She's like half Foo's size but she 10 more bad!" hahah. I don't know why Elvira is a bad girl, but she totally is. She's too smart and I swear sometimes she's bored.
And now I'm done, you guys will have like 3 hours left in your days now, after reading all of that! hahahaha.

Happy Monday!

 

[whitelop]

So on pinterest, I've seen a lot of outdoor showers. I really love outdoor showers. Like at our beach house in Florida, we had a shower stall that was outside, like you parked the cars under the house because it was on stilts, there was a little changing room right next to the car park and then on the outside of the house there was a shower, with walls around it. It was so nice to take a shower outside! Is that weird? I really want to make an outside shower in my yard, I think that would be great!
Does anyone else know what I'm talking about? Do you like to shower outside? That seems like a weird question, but like not in the middle of people or whatever, but just outside in an enclosed shower stall, but still outside with no top. haha. Its freeing! I guess it makes me think about the beach. haha. Weird.

 

[JBun]

That's just what you need! I do know what you are talking about. I remember them at some of the beaches that I went to when I was younger. Could you imagine your neighbors though, 'honey, she's showering outside now', hahaha. It would be nice though, for getting the mud and stuff off before going inside.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Ellie is such a naughty little girl but so adorable at the same time...it´s hard to get too mad at her. I think the little ones are the worst some times.

My friend has an outdoor shower next to her pool and we have them down at our pool and I love showering at the beach, it's just so refreshing. Never seen a real shower though like a cubicle shower....that would raise some eyebrows.

 

[whitelop]

I just kind of want an outside shower, haha. It would probably make more sense if we had a pool or actually got into our pond, but you know...sometimes things don't have to make sense! LOL

So my cleanse is going well, but I'm SO hungry. And because I'm eating a lot of watermelon and fruit is mostly water and I've had like a gallon of water today, I've been peeing every 5 minutes. hahah. Seriously. I think maybe I should drink some tea or something, but that will still make me have to pee. I did cheat a little bit though! I HAD to eat some cheese, I needed some protein to make my body think its was actually eating something, so I ate a string cheese with low-fat skim mozzarella.
I can't wait for tomorrow, veggie day! I don't want anymore fruit! haha.
This has made me realize that I don't really like fruit that much, I mean I do; but not really. I would much rather have veggies, and I can cook them tomorrow, thank god! haha.

I'm going to go spend some time with my poor neglected rabbit.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

I want an outdoor shower. With hot water. So that when CERTAIN PEOPLE go mudding that they can come home shower with their clothes on, take their clothes off and ill wash them the next day, instead of....come home, run inside with muddy clothes OR take off muddy clothes outside and then the next day mud is caked on and some clothes get ruined from it. I think it's a great idea!

 

[PaGal]

An outdoor shower sounds perfect. I wouldn't want to use one in the winter but the rest of the year would be nice...well except at night because then I would have to have a light to see and of course that would attract the bugs and I'd rather not shower with all the bugs we get here and some of them are almost as big as me. I guess the top of the shower could be covered with a screen.

Put one in at the back of your house then you wouldn't worry your neighbors more about your craziness.

Ellie's just a tiny ball of ragin' hormones!

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

We have an outdoor solar shower. I guess its if you don't have power. You fill it with water and put it in the sun and there is a solar panel that heats up the water. And you can hang it anywhere you want. Once the power here went out for a few days, so we used it and it worked pretty well. The sun heated it up and the water was nice and warm! Its a good thing to have if the power goes out, I understand that the kind of outdoor shower I'm talking about is not the kind you all are talking about . And I think that it would be cool to have a real outdoor shower, it would be pretty useful. There is a town about an hour and a half away from us, and there is a park with a fountain and near the fountain there is an outdoor shower and there is a sign that says something like, "please use shower before entering fountain", weird . And I don't even know why they tell you to shower in it, because there is no shower curtain or anything, its just out in the open, so if you took a shower in it everyone who walked by would see you.

I'm glad you are doing well with your cleanse.

 

[whitelop]

Hahhaah Lisa, we sleep until like 9:30 and thats sleeping in, like if we don't have him on a Sunday or something. When I get up at 9:30, I feel either refreshed because I got enough sleep or my back hurts because I got too much sleep. My body makes no sense to me. haha.
I found the cleanse on pinterest, I can't find the link of the website. I guess I didn't bookmark it. I'll look though and see if I can find it.
Today is a veggie day and I'm so excited about it. I just don't like fruit.

Elise, that solar shower sounds pretty cool, it would be great if the power went out! Our power never goes out, because our house is too stubborn to actually lose power. One time, the whole road lost power for days and we were one of 4 houses that still had electricity. haha.

Yep, I love outdoor showers, I don't know if I actually have a reason for one or not. But I want one. haha.

 

[whitelop]

So Ellie...what to say about her. OMG she's crazy! So yesterday, I let her out of her cage and instead of wanting to spend time with me, she wanted to get behind the washer and dryer and try to eat things. So I blocked her off but she kept trying to get back there. She was making me insane and I didn't want her to eat any other cords or anything. So I put her outside. It was still a little damp out there from the two days or rain but she liked it.
So outside, she dug this massive hole. Its the size of her, its deep and just a huge hole. haha. She came in and she was filthy! Her legs were muddy, her face was muddy, she was leaving little muddy footprints everywhere. I'll get a picture of her hole, its pretty big. haha.

Anyway, so I put her in her cage and then I went to my friends house. I went to walmart to grab a few things on my way home. I got her some cilantro and put some in her cage. As she was sitting in her litter box eating the cilantro, I was opening her pellet tin and she was grunting at me and any time my hands moved near her cage, she would box me! SHE TRIED TO BOX ME! She would flatten her ears back so tight and grunt and then box. It was ridiculous.

So this morning I go in the kitchen and shes in her litter box, facing away from me, giving me the cold shoulder. She is such a hormonal brat! I can't wait to have her spayed. I just can't wait!

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

I know what you mean, Ash trys to go behind the couch and chew things. Wow, Ash digs holes too, but you couldn't really call them holes. He just digs a tiny bit and the ground is scraped away and then he sits in it. But Ellie dug a huge hole, she reminds me of a dog. We used to have a dog and he dug holes in the ground and he would be all muddy afterwards. She reminds my of a dog my mom had, that dog dug a hole like four feet deep in the ground and he would lay there out of the sun. I bet Ellie would do something like that, only she would burrow much deeper and she would be gone haha. Can't wait to see the picture.

Yes, the solar shower is pretty cool! Wow, you were 1 out of 4 houses that didn't loose power. That's crazy! We always lose power when everyone else does . But you don't want the power to go out in winter, that has happened to us and we had to huddle under blankets for a few days. It was freezing!

Yes, I agree with Lisa, there is just something refreshing about being in a outdoor shower. Maybe I'll get one someday.

 

[JBun]

Oh my Gosh! ELLIE!!! She's cracking me up Libby will box my hand too. I'll press her head down when she does it, and do you think that stops her. No. I just keep doing it though, and she just keeps boxing me. As long as she doesn't start nipping I don't mind too much. But yeah, these hormonal teenagers are driving me nuts too. Toby and Riley's spraying wars finally did it for those two. They go in for their neuters today. I just couldn't stand sticking my hand into their pee spots, at night when I can't see them, anymore. I'll probably bond them later, too, since they seem to get along with each other pretty well. I'm just hoping with Toby's OCD grooming, he doesn't end up grooming Rileys fur off, haha.

You should have taken a picture of Ellie's muddy mess. That would have been funny to see

 

[lyndym]

Did you take a picture of her after she got all muddy?? Hahaha. Can't wait to see how big the hole is! I've always wanted to take my buns into an area with dirt and see what they'd do.

I think Chris said something about the little ones being the trouble makers. That was Dora for sure. Sometimes Ellie's spunk reminds me of her. Also, I feel like the name Elvira totally fits a feisty personality! Maybe she has no choice and is just living up to her name, hahaha.

Glad the cleanse is going well. I've seen similar ideas floating around, probably on Pinterest like you said. I've thought about doing it before. I don't have a ton of excess weight, but sometimes I get into stress eating mode for like a week and just feel gross after. Like right now.. definitely had french fries and a beer for dinner at like 11PM last night after the phone-in-the-drain fiasco.. As the cleanse goes on though, I think it includes meat? I could probably just substitute something with tofu, though. I don't have time to make tofu right now, though, hahaha.

 

[whitelop]

It pretty over cast today, so I'm going to put Ellie back outside. She seems to like it out there, she gets to "be a rabbit".
I didn't get any pictures of her all muddy, because she wouldn't stand still or let me take a picture. But I'm sure she'll get more muddy out there today! haha.
My rooster is crowing, maybe I can get a video of him! My phone is compatible with my computer so the videos actually work! haha.

Lyndy, I do have some extra weight to lose, but its not all about the weight loss. I'm trying to train myself to not eat the crap food! And hopefully by the end of the cleanse my body won't want junk food. But jeez, its so hard to fight those french fries and pudding. haha. I just love fast food, seriously. Like Saturday we got some mcdonalds and I got one of those new mcwrap things, other than it being a HUGE wrap, they're pretty good. BUT the fries were fresh and hot and salty and perfect...omg...thats my downfall. haha. And coke, I love coke! No more of that though. I'm trying to be healthier for my son and for myself. Hopefully by like day 4 or whenever, I'll lose the want to eat junk food! Or I can figure out how to substitute healthy to make "healthy-junk food".
And for the meat, you could probably substitute with tofu. I used to eat a lot of tofu that my mom friend use to make for me. She would make "beef" and broccoli but it was tofu and tasted just like beef with the brown sauce. And she would steam these huge hunks of rice in banana leaves or palm fronds or something, they had tofu on the inside. I would eat like one block a week, it was just sticky rice and tofu. I would just cut a slice and eat it. She would also make me these soy sauce hot sauce with hot stuff in it, omg best sh*t ever. haha. She was Vietnamese and really helped me when I was a vegetarian.

Alright, I feel a little energized from my potato, so I'm going to get some stuff done! haha. OHH I just got some mint leaves and I really love them, I just eat them plain and they're so good. Ellie doesn't really like them.

 

[whitelop]

Oh my Gosh! ELLIE!!! She's cracking me up Libby will box my hand too. I'll press her head down when she does it, and do you think that stops her. No. I just keep doing it though, and she just keeps boxing me. As long as she doesn't start nipping I don't mind too much. But yeah, these hormonal teenagers are driving me nuts too. Toby and Riley's spraying wars finally did it for those two. They go in for their neuters today. I just couldn't stand sticking my hand into their pee spots, at night when I can't see them, anymore. I'll probably bond them later, too, since they seem to get along with each other pretty well. I'm just hoping with Toby's OCD grooming, he doesn't end up grooming Rileys fur off, haha.

You should have taken a picture of Ellie's muddy mess. That would have been funny to see

Good luck with the boys neuters today! I'm sure they'll do fine! And no more spraying!
I bet you could bond them, I wonder if they know they're siblings? Do they forget that? I wonder about my chickens, like do they know they're all brothers and sisters and the big one is their mama? I don't think so. I don't even think the hen recognizes them as hers anymore. haha. Animals are weird.

 

[lyndym]

I love junk food too! Not eating meat seriously cuts down on fast food options though, which is a plus. As for home snacking, I just try and not buy snack foods. Then I don't snack. Sometimes this really frustrates me and I sit around going to myself, "WHYYY did I not buy something salty and crunchy??" I try and just substitute veggies with hummus, which generally works, but sometimes just doesn't cut it. Anyway, it's totally easier for me if I get into a routine with it. Just three days or so in a row of working out every morning and keeping the same good eating habits make me not need to snack or be lazy and not work out. After I spend a weekend with Luke, I'm ruined for about a week because we'll stay in and watch a movie with snacks and wine, we'll go out to happy hour, we'll sleep in and I won't work out.. hahaha.

I forgot about your outside shower post.. It makes me think of vacation beach houses! And once I read this book about this Japanese-American girl who went to stay with a family friend to help with her sons or something, and they had an outdoor bath tub. Like a Japanese bath, where you wash outside of the tub kind of like a sponge bath and rinse yourself, then get into the tub to soak. So I guess it was basically a hot tub, hahaha.

 

[whitelop]

I know what you're talking about with the Japanese baths, I guess it would be a hot tub. haha.
I don't know if I would ever want a hot tub, I think they're probably a pain in the *** to take care of.
Like this is what I want for an outdoor shower, something like this.

I would shower in that thing every evening in the summer time. haha. What's wrong with me?!

 

[whitelop]

Well, I just experienced the most conflicting emotions. I'm watching Law&Order: SVU and of course there is a pedophile on here, BUT he's super handsome and french. So this is my conversation with myself "I hate you because you're a pedophile but you're so handsome and so french and handsome, but still a pedophile but the most handsome pedophile I've ever seen..." WTF?! I know its a show, but still. hahaha.