Laundering and Weighing In

How did Stef spend her Monday evening?

ALL of these loads are mine -- all EIGHT -- drying and drying and drying. (I realize I am bit off the rocker, taking pictures of my loads of laundry on my cell phone...) But, I can still hear the whirring of the machines, the clacking of the buttons on the metal, the "beeeep" when the cycle is over. I can't wait to get a house, not for the yard and the space (although that is a DEFINITE plus), but for the laundry room, with a beautiful washer and dryer I can call my own. We asked our landlord about installing a washer and dryer hook-up but apparently his maintenance man is in Singapore or Bangladesh for a week or two... or three or forever. We haven't heard anything from him since. Until then, you can find me at the local laundromat, listening to that whirring... 

On a positive note, it is nice to accomplish EIGHT enormous loads of laundry within a 2- to 3-hour time span. If I had done this with one washer and one dryer, I would have been tied up ALL day... So that's my positive "spin" on things.

So here is a photo of Manny and Anna I took of them sleeping on the couch last night.

I thought it was the cutest picture until Manny saw it and said, "I look like a bloated whale! Maybe you can crop that?"

I couldn't resist my witty comeback. "Maybe you could eat less and move more?"

"Oh snap!" he says, but laughs and laughs. Now that I am eating healthier I think he is too. Seriously, besides breakfast, I start with a salad for every meal, and he has been having them too. I've been cooking a lot lately, and am really getting into it. I really don't know who to thank for this recent infusion of cooking and cleaning mania. Maybe seeing how my both my mom and mom-in-law juggled it gave me good example? I hope it lasts! 

So I don't know if you recall a recent entry where I spoke of being on the threshold of a huge weight goal? Well, ever since that entry, the scale has remained on that ONE pound above goal. "Your body is stabilizing," Manny tells me. Stabilizing my a$$ is what I want to say!! So I was super-extra-fradgelisticexpealidioushishly careful today!!! (And pretty much STARVING in the late-night hours!) But let's hope this "stabilizing" bit goes out the window and off of my scale for tomorrow morning's weigh in!