Dippin' Dots

There is a single Dippin' Dots store in Omaha, maybe the only one in Nebraska.  Not sure were Lil N' heard about Dippin' Dots, but we made our way there yesterday.  She was one ecstatic camper, munching away on her cotton candy flavored ice cream. 

Then Lil maN' proceeded to drop a hellacious dump... lovely, with no spare diapers.  Needless to say we didn't stay at the the mall long.

Anyways, the girl finally got the Dippin' Dots and I'd say she was every bit as satisfied as she thought she'd be.

One Hit Wonders

"She's one in a million girl, she's a beauty!!"

The Tubes... interestingly enough I thought this was Warrant, for probably 10 years, until I was corrected on the issue.

Either way I've always loved this song.

It just happens to be on right now.

Hindsight, Use It

And when you don't learn from your mistakes, you are doomed to repeat them.

SORE!

Started working out on Monday, and I've done so every day since.  Today I am feeling it really bad.  I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, I think that has something to do with it heh heh.

I'm going to be pushing very hard to get down to 178 in the next month and a half, I might try and run the marathon in Omaha if I do.  At the very least I want to be at like 190 by the time we do our PT test at the beginning of September. 

As I look back at this blog over the last 10 years since I started it, I'd say I've probably got a dozen different posts about losing weight, some successful, some not, let's hope this time it is :D

Here It Comes

Looks like we are about to get a pounding!

And even as I load this up, there is torrential rain coming down.  I can only hope this gets to Omaha so the lawn there can get a little moisture.

And, in related news:

When you are driving along, one of the things that can scare you so bad you nearly jerk the wheel and wreck your car is when your child starts screaming like crazy from the back seat unexpectedly, at the top of her lungs...

"Oh!!! OHHHHHH!!!! DADDY DADDY DADDY!!!"

And I'm trying to catch my bearings, and figure out just exactly what is going on?

"LOOK, LOOK DADDY, there's a RAINBOW!!"

And sure enough... 

Your children seeing their first rainbow is actually pretty memorable.  Plus you get to listen to some very funny comments for the few minutes following the sighting...

"I don't think that is a full rainbow, I see red, and blue, and yellow, and green, but there are a lot of colors that I don't see"

"You can't sit on a rainbow, I don't know if you can feel it or not"

"If you drive under the rainbow your car will be full of the colors, but you have to be careful!!!"

I wish I remembered more of them, they were both being hilarious with their discussion.

Relief...

Or at least, a bit of it. 

Paying for an empty house is not fun, especially when you can't really move in anywhere until you get the house sold. 

It has been on the market for about a month and a half, which isn't bad, but I'm hard pressed because I need to get my children into school, and right now I don't have a place to live in the town I work in.  So, that being said, the call yesterday to say that we have a tentative buyer is great news.  With a little bad news unfortunately.  But, this bad news I was expecting, when you sell a house that you've bought/refinanced in the last 5 years you are more than likely going to take a hit every time, and I refinanced 3 years ago.

So once all is said and done, I'm probably going to be paying about 4K out of pocket.  When you are paying 1500 a month though, that means in about 3 months you can equalize the loss.  I'm looking at a 60K house near where I work, it isn't much but it's a place to get started again, and it is right by a park and tennis courts and baseball field too, so that would be fantastic for the kids.

I just hope the house sells, after that it's balls to the wall to move on, and my kids and I can be a family again.