Updates

As if you didn't already know, the answers to the game below is:

Picture 1: Max/Alex
Picture 2: Alex/Max
Picture 3: Max/Alex

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We've been without a second car for a couple of weeks now and we don't even miss it.  Two years of hemming and hawing and worrying that it would practically ruin our lives if we only had one car, and it turns out it's no big deal.  Kind of like when we turned off our cable.  It literally took us a whole year to make the decision that we didn't need to pay $100 a month for television, then once it was gone we barely noticed.

We'll get John a car eventually, but we have some financial goals we want to meet first.  One of those being purchasing John's future car with cold hard cash.  So, it'll be a while before we're a two car family again.

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PHM/September challenge update.

I've lost 1 pound so far this week.  This is good because I've been having a hard time getting the scale to move again.  But, I'm really going to have to step it up if I'm going to loose another 9 pounds this month! 

That said, I'm not sure why I'm not completely wasting away.  When I do the math, I should be toothpick by now.  They say breastfeeding can burn up to 500 calories per day, I'm going to the gym and according to what the elliptical tells me, I'm working off another 350.  That's 850 calories a day, not to mention the calories I burn just by existing.  I guess I need to eat even less, but I gotta tell ya, breastfeeding makes me hungry.  It did with Alex too. 

I think I'll try eating all day long.  Instead of eating meals, maybe I'll just have a healthy snack or mini-meal every couple of hours.  That way I won't feel hungry, and maybe I'll be able to lower my caloric intake even more.

Ugh.  I hate dieting.

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This isn't really an update, but the baby has been making the cutest little purring sound lately.  He sounds like a Mogwai.  I think I'll rename him Gizmo and stop feeding him after midnight for fear he'll morph into a gremlin.