by Dissolution » Sat Dec 24, 2011 9:42 am
nicoles Chex mix is a somewhat traditional mixture of Rice Chex, Corn Chex, Wheat Chex (these are all breakfast cereals), peanuts, mixed nuts, pretzels, butter, Worcestershire sauce and season salt. The butter and seasoning are poured into the mixture of cereals and it's mixed up and then briefly baked. Makes for a very salty buttery snack.
scooterpie Thanks for stopping by. I'm sure my journal reads like it's been much harder to stay the course than I feel that it has actually been. This WOE really is the right choice, is very satisfying, and makes you healthier and feel wonderful, with an added bonus of losing weight. I have no doubt if I was single or had a supportive spouse, that this WOE would be much less complicated.
Katydid I had noticed for the past decade or so that heavy meat meals (chili, sloppy joe, hamburger helper) were not pleasant for the next day in the bathroom, I can only imagine how bad it would have been if I had binged on one of those dishes.
The good news, down to within less than a pound of my pre-binge weight. The bad news is yesterday sucked SO much more than I expected.
*** Long Story Warning, Not Eating Related ***
Two and a half years ago #3 son was asked by the wife to help with some spring cleaning. He had a temper tantrum (He was 22) and used the threat he always used as a child, "I'll go live with my Dad." Well he said that and I reached into my pocket pulled out $100 and said, "I'll pay for the gas." Anyways his biological dad is an ass, and he hated life down there. He asked if he could come home and I told him yes.
While he was with his dad, 1000 miles away, his car broke down. His dad has a history of buying cars every two years, and pretty much getting screwed every time. #3 returned with a brand new car. Well over the course of the next couple of years he struggled to make the car payments ($350 for 7 years) and fell behind a few times here or there. I think his dad helped him out a few of those times, he had co-signed of course.
Anyways the car got repo'ed. The car seemed to be the focal point of the repressed anger #3 has towards his father. So honestly I had no interest in helping them catch up the payments, and #3 didn't want the car, re doesn't make that much money and resented how much he was having to spend on the car.
So we went out Thursday night and bought a car from a private owner. The two problems being the car was a 5-speed, and #3 has never driven a stick, and there were no plates on the car. So we took the title and keys, the owner gave us 24 hours to get it off his property. We went to our state's DMV yesterday and they told us we needed a "cleared" title or a letter from the bank saying the car had been payed off (it's a one owner '95 model). The wife hadn't gone in and suggested we stop at a different branch of the DMV, same story there.
So we either travel to the adjoining state and go to their DMV, or we go to a credit union in the state next to the adjoining one. Faxing is not an option, the document they want from the bank has to be notarized. So we go to the DMV, it's closed until Tuesday. We return to the car, decide to take it. I drive it over to a unbusy neighborhood and teach #3 to drive a stick. We send him home.
While the wife and I are shopping at our first location we get a call from the state police, They've stopped #3, they are impounding the car, and the state trooper is holding #3 on the side of the road 40 minutes away, can we come get him. We leave our shopping cart (That we had spent 40 minutes fighting crowds to fill) and leave to go get #3. We get another call telling us the trooper had dropped him off at a gas station. $150 for the towing and $15 a day storage. The trooper told #3 to leave the title in the car, so we have to pay the towing company money to go get the title (there's some kind of access fee) so we can get it tagged, which we have to do before we can get the car out of storage.
So at this point, #3 has to go to work in a few hours (using my car), the wife doesn't have a car (long story), and we've done "zero" Christmas shopping. So we call #2 and ask him if he can come meet us and take us shopping, he agrees of course.
So the weekend after Thanksgiving we had the trip to the funeral, I had expected us to cancel the trip to NYC, but the wife insisted. My mother and #2 were supposed to have gone, but cancelled after the expenses of going to the funeral. We helped #3 to get a beater (old cheap car). So our budget is pretty much in the tank. I had agreed to allow one of the bills to slip for a month in order to finance Christmas this year.
The first place we went was a "stocking stuffer" kind of store. Normally I go to a $1 store and spend about $75 and everybody has fun opening stocking stuffers. I figured with all the added expenses this month, we needed to pull off Christmas for about $600. a very low figure for us. We're checking out at the first store and a business acquaintance gets in line behind us and starts talking to us. The guy finished ringing and the bill is a little over $300, I looked at the wife she said "How could it be so much?" I said, "Because that's how much stuff you put into the basket." She didn't have a response, and honestly if my friend had not been standing there I might have walked out, but I didn't I paid the guy and said to her, "Well you're grounded from stocking stuffer shopping from now on."
Anyways she's rightful pissed off at me, I did embarrass her front of one of our business acquaintances, but she does not seem to understand my anger at her for "accidentally" blowing half our Christmas budget on the "stocking stuffers". I have apologized, she has not. She's still mad. She slept on the couch.
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