No Mama, Sank You.

The Coop Man has some manners! I love it! This is how most of our conversations go these days.

Me: Cooper, would you like (X)
C: Yesh
Me: What do you say?
C: Peeeese (with a tilt of the head. Seriously)
Me: Ok, here you go.
C: Sank you
Me: You're welcome
C: No Mama, Sank you
Me: Oh ok, thank you
C: You velcome (yes, with a V)

He is just too much. I love how much he is talking these days and how FUNNY he is. I can never be in a bad mood when I'm around that little boy. He really is amazing. I just love him <3

Are you smarter than a smart phone?

Um that's a big fat negative. BIG FAT ONE.

My mom gave me her HTC Incredible yesterday and I've become obsessed with it. Apps are my drug apparently. So far, my personal favs are Words with Friends (start a game with me, I'm obsessed, julesagill is my screen name), The Jango.com app,  that I'm currently listening to, The Toy Story Coloring app, for Cooper, obviously....lets see, what else. OH!!! The Weight Watchers barcode scanner! Shut up! How have I been without this app for THREE months on weight watchers? It's freaking amazing. Scan your barcode and it will tell you a serving size and points for it. Genius, weight watchers, simply genius!

Anyways, to sum it up, I'm obsessed. I'm not sure what took me so long to get in on this smart phone nonsense (oh wait, yes, I'm poor lol) but I'm a fan, definitely a fan. What are you favorite apps that you dont think I can live without???

Well, hello smaller Julie!

I've been on this "healthier lifestyle" since January 1st of this year. I call it that because I hate the word diet. For the first few months of the year, I counted calories and did well on that. But then a few friends got me to jump on the Weight Watcher ban wagon, and I fell in love with it!

I also started working out a lot, doing such things as zumba and spin circuit classes at the YMCA. Those classes are amazing. Side note: the p90x class at the Y sucks unless you are a freaking body builder, I wont ever do that class again, ever.

Today I hit my 20 lb mark, that I've been creeping around for the last couple weeks and it's been driving me crazy! And today, I finally did it! I couldn't believe it! I still feel like I have a long ways to go, although, others have been arguing with me on that, but clearly, I'm right, because I always am, duh ;)

Since hurting my foot, I haven't been to the gym because I haven't been able to wear any real shoes, just flip flops. So I'm hoping that this week I will be able to get back there and start on some of my classes again, or just hit the gym. Because I miss it. Ha, never in my life did I ever think I would say "I miss the gym, I miss working out" Look at me go! :)

So thanks to Weight Watchers, I'm down 13.6 lbs in 3 months and 20.2 lbs down since the beginning of January. BIG HAPPY FACED GIRL RIGHT HERE!!!!

This is an 11 month side by side, not exactly sure what I weighed in the before picture, but I know it was a lot more than I am now! Thanks for following me on my journey and hopefully I can reach my goal weight soon! 

Walmart hates me.

First off, this isn't going to be a blog about my couponing adventures, I just have a very boring life this past week, with my hurt food and all, so this is probably the highlight of the whole week ;)

I went to good old Walmart tonight with my good friend, Nikki Paling, a stack  of coupons and a very detailed list. Of course, they didn't have everything I needed, this is me we're talking about, and my luck is non existent. At the checkout stand, I hand the cashier my stack of usable coupons and she lets out a big *sigh*. Sorry lady, just tryin' to save some money, sheesh. The lady a couple people behind me in line, says to her friends "Oh my gosh, she has all those (insert bad word here) coupons. Again, sorry lady, just tryin' to save some money. I hear more than a handful of sighs from the cashier and I just have to laugh, it's not THAT big of a deal, just scan the damn things! Anywhoo, here is my haul tonight.

2 bottles Hunt's Ketchup
2 bottles soy sauce
2 bottles sweet & sour sauce
2 bottles Nivea body wash
Finese Shampoo & Conditioner
Finese Moose
Finese Hair spray
John Frieda Shampoo & Conditioner
John Frieda Root lifer spray
3 packs Bic Soliel Razors
4 packs Wilkinson Razors
3 packs Rayovac batteries
2 packs Carefree panty liners

Total out of Pocket: $26.27
Total Savings: $49.29

Savin' those bucks!

I'm new to this couponing craze and I'm obsessed with it! Here is what we got tonight at Rite Aid.

 

4 Boxes Special K Cereal

2 Men's Speed Stick deodorant

2 Woman's Speed Stick deodrant

1 case of water

4 pkgs Carefree panty liners

1 box Tampax Pearl Tampons

1 gallon milk

6 candy bars

2 pkgs Schick Quatro Woman's Razors

4 packs Stride Gum

Total Out of Pocket: $22.36 

Total Savings: $62.04

+Up Rewards for future purchases: $4.50

Mother's Day 2011. Oh the Joy.

Quite an eventful Mother's Day in the Gill house. Before heading out to the beach, to have brunch at QBR with my Colin, Coop, my Mommy & Stepdad, I made a quick trip to Rite Aid to get the Mother's day card I forgot the night before. Walking to the checkout stand, in my cute dress and super cute nude heels, I bit it. Hard. Fell to both knees, twisted my foot and scuffed up my amazingly cute heels. Thankfully no one saw me, but a few heard. A worker comes out of his hole and asks if I'm ok, about 1253 times. I buy my cards, limp out to the car, and see I have instant bruises on both knees and a golf ball size lump on the top of my left foot. Awesome.


We head to QBR and I can barely walk. Bring on the buffet. I looked like a fool. I didn't look like I hurt my foot, I looked like that girl you see walking in tall heels that has never worn heels in her life. Classy. As brunch went on, my foot got bigger and bigger and by the time we got home and I took off my heels, my foot was ginormous. I iced and elevated it on and off throughout the day. By the time Colin's mom got here for dinner, I was over the pain and ready to go to the ER, but being me, of course I needed to eat first. Duh.

Que the ER. We get there, first ones, and of course, all of the Harbor followed. A random guy who thought he was a dr, diagnosed my FOOT injury as a high ankle sprain. Thanks dude, I think I'll wait for the actual Dr to tell me what's up. Another random couple, had their DOG up there, clearly not a service dog, clearly not sanitary. Did I mention how much I love our hospital?

Xrays done. Nothing broken, but a sprain, so I have this GIANT splint up to my brain that I have to wear for 5 days. Fabulous.

That was my glamorous Mother's Day. Hope you all have better stories than that! Here are some pics from my day :D