Kat-Alert

Monday, Monday.. so good to me Gooooooooooooood Mooooooooooooooooorning. couple of things this week. Saturday is my big EVENT day. I have rented a whole building, with fantastic parking, I have two confirmed appointments. I am sure I will get more this week. right? cross your fingers with me. I plan to go out today and contact 10 daycares in a 5 mile radius and 10 tomorrow. offering them my services and inviting them to see me in action on Saturday. I have 100 invitations post cards for Saturdays event that I will pass out this week. (I already passed out 133 invitations in October, so I just have to keep going! big changes in our house this weekend. moved my office into the spare bedroom, with a nice tv to show my images. moved the boys out of the nursery and into the master suite, we are in the large bedroom not the suite, and moved the weight / work out room into the nursery. changed out the tv's, my husband upgraded to a 50" plasma so that I can show slide shows downstairs. I got his 33" flat screen (not a flat screen tv, but a flat screen old tube thingamabob, my 27" went to dd#2 and her 20" went to dd#1 and HER 13" will go to ds(offspring #4) trickle down economics alive and well in our house. ;) so today I have some more cleaning to do, and then PICTURES!!! this is fantastic that it is DONE, my parents are coming for a couple of months in January, so getting it all done NOW is a good thing! I have to hem the new curtains in the downstairs 'batcave' and make some for the upstairs "nest' the story about the 'batcave' and 'nest' my husband is a nocturnal electronics junkie. sitting in a darkened room, hunched over a keyboard with a 19" monitor or slouched down on a black leather couch with the remote and a kickass surround sound is idea of BLISS. FINE. he has a computer that is dedicated to recording HD shows, he has another computer that is dedicated to his CD collection. (that is just insane) and he is able to make custom DVD's of the kids pbs shows and whatnot. FINE. he is happy. whatever. heehee so I decided that I really need to get my own remote. I discovered that my stereo can be a receiver, kewl. I have SURROUND sound. I inherited his IPaq (music station) and can put MY MUSIC on it, I inherited his fake oak entertainment center and he got my crabby tv stand since his tv wont fit in the center. my ginormous speakers just barely fit in the center (these are so 1984 but way kewl! Sony speakers) I have my own replay, I have my own dvd and I have my own svideo vcr. I am in tall cotton. I commadiered dd#2 bedroom after she moved out, and now it has my computer, a second entertainment center for scanner, files, office stuff, and my dvd collection, snicker giggle okay, I am turning into a electronic junkie as well. but I am totally happy with stuff that we bought in 1998, I do not need the latest and greatest. but now I can truly appreciate how nice it is to organize my 'nest' and then shut the door and not worry about the kids touchy touchy. now they never touch my stuff so much as they bring their stuff in and scatter, like legos, frustrates the dickens out of me when they have guns, legos, and army men on the floor in rooms other than the toy room. hopefully we are at a happy place right now. ;) okay, breakfast is calling me. (I have been up for 2 hours, already have the upstairs SPOTLESS, and the downstairs just needs the floors vaccumed and the counters finished washed) whoo hoo!!! as for my diet, down 1 pound. yippee.. I am 21 lbs from my goal, and 31 lbs from my husbands goal for me. which is a whole nother ISSUE.

Your husband's goal for you?????? WTF? I must know!

when I started on this journey, the surgeon asked me what my goal weight was. I said 150. I am a little over 5ft 7in tall, and when I graduated from highschool and was 17 years old, I was 150 and that was a healthy weight. I think I have large bones and figure that 150 is reasonable. my surgeon wrote it down, and that was that. now that I have lost 104 lbs since that day, both of them, unbeknownst to each other, think that I have done so well, I should be able to get to 140. which I very well might be able to, however, I do not see the need for PRESSURE and STRESS. I go back and look at my highschool photos and I really do not think that I was fat. even after high school after the twins birth, I do not think that I was fat. 1983 - http://www.geocities.com/wretchedheathen/homecomingkmh.jpg (before twins) 1984 - http://www.geocities.com/wretchedheathen/mikekat1984.jpg (before twins) 1986 - http://www.geocities.com/wretchedheathen/momkat.jpg (me on right, after twins) 1987 - http://www.geocities.com/wretchedheathen/1987katsm.jpg (just starting to get fat) but while the charts and the profiles say that my height should be 140, at 42, I think that I should be cut some slack.

Wow girl I like those pictures thanks for sharing........

My goodness, Kat! You sound like you're running around like a mad-woman!!! Although, isn't it nice that you have the energy to do all that now? Wow! I sure wish you could photograph my children ... they are both red-heads and I have a heck of a time finding anyone that can get the lighting right and a background color that doesn't wash them out. OK, I need to know what is up with your husband's goal weight for you!!! Deanna

I love redheads... my secret to redheads: go outside late afternoon. and lots of natural green foliage is best. http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventthumbs?event=0BXN004N is a family with two girl redheads. and http://www.photoreflect.com/scripts/prsm.dll?eventthumbs?event=0BXN004J01 is a girl with lots of georgeous red hair so lots of green, lots of shade, about 4-5 pm, late afternoon light is best, morning light has too much blue in it and makes the red hair and face do weird crap, afternoon light is more red, and thus no conflict of hues. yes, he and I had a talk about MY goals. while he may want to see me at 140, he needs to appreciate how hard it was to get to 171, and that my body will find it's own natural comfort zone. *sigh*

Oh cool! Thank you for the advice on the afternoon lighting! Awesome! I couldn't see the pictures because it said there was an incomplete address or something. Your body will find its own natural comfort zone ... and now matter what it is, you should be proud of yourself! You've come a long way! Deanna

you have to copy the whole url (click and drag)(right click and copy) and paste in the url spot of your browser, OH clips the link at ? mark

Kat, those are gorgeous photographs! The coloring and lighting is absolutely perfect! Man, I wish I could have you photograph my kids!!!! You are awesome! Deanna

Hey there Kat - Thanks for the info on photography for redheads. I'm trying eharmony, and I can't seem to get a decent photo taken to put up there. I'll take your advice! Thanks, Heather