Man, today was awesome. It turns out I only lost 2 pounds from the juice diet. Then again I had eaten two meals before I was able to weight (we don't own a scale) so it was probably more than that before I ate. I don't care though, because I'm proud of myself that I even had the willpower to finish it out. That's a big deal. Those 2 pounds made a difference too because it made me go down 1 point in the number of Weight Watchers Points I'm allowed each day! Plus my appetite is completely turned around. It is awesome. Yesterday all I had was a yogurt (which took me an hour to eat because I just kept taking a bite every now and again), Healthy Choice Mesquite BBQ Chicken meal (which seriously is the best), and some penne pasta with meat sauce. Oh, and I was hungry when I first got home, but instead of grabbing chips or cookies I ate baby carrots. Yay! Let's see how long this lasts. I hope I can stick to it. I actually had 5 points left over at the end of the day to bank. Then yesterday at lunch I went out on my walk around the courthouse (probably around 1/2 a mile) and when I came back in I was waiting at the elevators (I work on the 4th floor) and I thought "If I keep telling myself I'm not ready to do the stairs, then I'll never do them" so I went over and walked up the 4 flights! I was so out of breath, but I did it! And I'll do it again today too, if it stops raining. It made me feel so proud of myself!

Well, it's official. I'm getting married. I made all the plans yesterday. I'm kind of annoyed. I was supposed to have a $250 credit from the NY trip that got cancelled but the only way I could use it was to call into the American Airlines phone reservations, which charges you $10 per ticket. Fine, whatever. So I call and from the get-go they're telling me they charge $130 to use the credit. What the fuck? So now my credit is more than split in half. But every dollar counts. So we go through all this and they tell me it's going to be $263 per ticket, which saves around $70 per ticket. Cool. I got up this morning and I got the confirmation emails and it says it charged $332 per ticket to my card which is exactly the price it was online! No mention of the credit at all. PLUS I got charged the two $10 fees for phone reservation. Jesus Christ, that's $20 more than I would have been charged if I had just said "Fuck the credit" and done it all online. I checked my credit card details, but the charges haven't gone through yet. I'm hoping maybe it just says that because the credit is issued seperately. I swear if they screwed me out of that credit, I'm calling back and bitching. That's fucked up. Oh well, I'm not going to let it get me down. I'm psyched and if they did that, then I'll just fight, but I'm not going to get uptight about it. I also got the hotel reservations. We're going to be staying at the Luxor which is the hotel on the Strip that looks like the pyramid. And we'll be staying in the pyramid! I'm so excited. The rooms look so cool. Because the building is a triangle the walls and windows are slanted in. It looks so cool. And it's all Egyptian themed. It's not like I am an Egyptian buff or anything, but the building is cool and it was the cheapest hotel there that got 4/5 stars on all Trip Advisor. And we've decided we're going to get married at The Little White Chapel which is where Bruce & Demi, Britney Spears, Michael Jordan, and Frank Sinatra got married. Me and Frank baby! And yes, we're doing the ceremony on 4/20. I called yesterday and they said not to worry about a reservation. Even if we showed up on Valentines day, they'd fit us in. Cool. It's only $55 for the ceremony and $55 for the license. That's my kind of wedding prices. Plus they offer civil service instead of a religious service! :) I'm so glad I don't have to have some boring wedding that people feel forced to go to just to see what we did with the bloated amount we spent on it all. As long as it's on 4/20 I'm happy. For less than $1k we get to go to Vegas, stay in a pyramid, get married, plus visit the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon. We're leaving on a Tuesday and flying back on Friday, which means we'll still have the weekend to relax at home. I'm really psyched. Oh, and we've got to go to Circus Circus and if I see a chimpanzee I'm going to ask the guy "Let's get down to brass tacks...how much for the ape?"

Well, I'm up at 6am again. I think it's because I'm exercizing again, which gives me all this extra energy. That's great. It gives me an extra hour in the morning to check email and post in my journal. Adam's mom is visiting again today. She has another job interview. I'm cool with her being here. I hope she gets the job because it doesn't sound very strenuous (it's an observation position) and that's what she needs. Adam and I talked about it and we think the problem before was that she had been living in this house a year. She went to SC for a month and during that time we moved in. Then it didn't work out in SC so she came back and "stayed with us". But it was in her house. It still felt like her house to us and her and a lot of times it would creep up on us all and it was more like we were staying with her rather than she with us. But now she's been in Durham for 6 months or so and while she's gone, we've rearranged the house, added a few things, painted the walls, and really settled in. So it feels like OUR house now and when she comes in, she acts like she's visiting us, not like we're staying with her. As long as we can keep it that way, I think everything will be ok.

Well, I guess it's about time to get ready for work. I got new CDs yesterday (Billy Joel Greatest Hits and Devil's Rejects soundtrack) so I know today at work will go by fast because it always does when I'm listening to new CDs.

Current Mood: excited
Current Music: "Piano Man" by Billy Joel