This morning was like most other mornings in my house. I finished getting dressed, I gathered up my gym clothes and shoes and went to put them in my gym bag. That’s when I saw it. My new bag from World Market that doubles as my gym bag and a grocery bag had yellow stuff all over it. As I leaned over closer I knew immediately what had happened.

My dog had peed all over my gym bag. The gym bag that was laying on top of my ottoman. The gym bag that was laying on top of my black sweater on top of the ottoman. The black sweater I had planned on wearing today.

Profanities followed.

The issues with the dogs in my house has been ongoing for quite some time now. I’m a very selfish woman who wants to go back to having no dog. Or possibly just one dog. The three we have now are just too much for us to handle. My husband disagrees. Awhile back I made some serious threats which prompted him to purchase a shock collar for our most annoying dog. And while the shock collar definitely kept him from barking, it was short lived. For one, the batteries run down way too quickly. And my husband kept turning it off or taking it off when he was inside. Which defeats the purpose if you ask me. Because he would just go right back to his old ways. (for the record this is the dog who peed on my stuff this morning) And before we knew it, Poot had figured out how to slip that collar off of his skinny little neck and chew it to death. There’s $100 we’ll never see again.

So now he’s collar free and back to being a total a$$hole. You might think I’m kidding when I call him that, but I’m not. If ever a dog was a total jerk, it’s this one.

So I’m back to having three loud barking dogs who can’t get along. This goes just great with my next door neighbor who also has three dogs who love to bark. I’m sure the rest of our neighbors just love us.

So while I would love this post to be about the new truck we just bought for my husband and how badly he needed it and how happy it makes him, it’s not.

Instead this post it me bitching once again about the three little things in my life that make it impossible for me to be happy in my own home. And the one subject that me and my husband just cannot agree on.

Life is hard ya’ll.

I left my Weight Watchers meeting today upset. I gained a pound this past week. After going to the gym 5 times for at least an hour each time, I gained weight. Whatever. I guess I am not good at calculating points when I eat out. So I’ve got to come up with better meals to cook at home. So here’s my healthy version of lasagna.

• Whole wheat oven ready lasagna noodles
• 99% fat free ground turkey
• Ground turkey sausage
• Organic pasta sauce
• Fat free mozzarella cheese
• Low fat cottage cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• Eggs
• Minced garlic

This makes 6-8 servings depending on the size of your servings. So that’s 8 or 11 points per serving. Much better than any lasagna I would have made before.

Cook both of the turkey meats together with the minced garlic until fully cooked, then drain. Then add the jar of sauce and simmer for a few minutes. I prefer the oven ready noodles, but if you can’t find them just get the other kind and cook according to the directions.

Then take the eggs, parmesan, and cottage cheese and blend them all together well. This will make your cheese layer. Do one layer of meat sauce and then one layer of cheese. With each layer I sprinkle on some FF mozzarella before placing the noodles back on. The top layer was meat sauce with more cheese sprinkled. The fat free cheese is not great. I’m not going to lie to you. I baked on 350 for about 30 minutes.

For the most part it tasted pretty good. Especially considering it was all made with low fat or fat free items.

A picture of the lasagna can be found here. Since I still cannot figure out how to fix the problem with the new Wordpress. Why won’t it let me upload photos? I’ve even installed 2.5.1 and it still won’t. And the forums just confuse me more. Stupid stupid stupid.

Today my sister and I will be spending time with our wonderful mother. We will give her presents and take her to lunch and have a great time. And how lucky are we that we are able to do this?

I can’t stop thinking about the cyclone over in Myanmar that has killed so many people. The death toll is almost to 30,000 now. How many mothers were killed? Worse yet, how many mothers lost their children? It’s something that breaks my heart to think about. Some are saying that this is worse than the tsunami that struck a few years ago. They say the death toll could rise to over 100,000 if they don’t get more aid and get food and clean water and medicine to those in need.

World Vision has been in Myanmar for 40 years now helping bring them clean water, food, shelter, medical supplies. They continue to do so in this time of need.

If any of you feel it on your hearts to donate to this relief, please visit the World Vision website. You don’t have to sponsor a child. You can just give a one time amount to help out this country in this desperate time of need.

Do it for all the mothers out there.

Do you ever get annoyed by the fact that something you love to do your significant other doesn’t? I do.

Just last night I was asking my husband to read this post by Pioneer Woman. And it took him forever. I sat there watching him read it and I think I got a gray hair in the process. I wanted to just take over and read it for him.

Confession #1: My husband hates to read.

Confession #2: I hate that about him.

Reading was such a huge part of my youth. And it still is something I very much enjoy doing. I don’t read as often or as quickly as I used to, but I’m always toting around a book. And once I’m done with it I move right on to a new book. I love getting lost in a good book. And every single time I finish a good book it makes me want to sit down and write a good book. Then I remember that I haven’t got the skillz fer riting cuz I’m not a gud spellor and my grammur leeves much to be dezired. Or something.

So I can’t write. I’ll continue to read and love it. But then the one person I love “more than my heart can hold” (shut up, it’s our thing) doesn’t enjoy this wonderful pastime of mine. It saddens me. Sure he loves to go to Barnes & Noble and/or Borders, but it’s just to look at picture books, magazines, or music.

It’s too bad. I would love to have someone under the same roof that I could share and discuss books with.

*sigh*

I still love him though.

I feel like I have nothing to blog about lately. Well, nothing besides dieting and Weight Watchers and working out at the gym.

I can’t even believe I just typed that. Who am I?

I’m the girl who was at the gym from 5:15 last night until 7:40. I’m the girl who did an entire pilates class right after doing 45 minutes of cardio. I’m also the girl who can sit and eat 2 sausage rolls and 2 donuts without even blinking an eye. (which I haven’t done in 5 weeks thank you very much)

I’m so tired today I don’t even know that I’m making any sense. I just want to go back to bed. Why won’t anyone here let me go back to bed? It’s dark and rainy out and I did not get enough good sleep last night thanks to a certain snoring someone. (you know who you are)

I’m seriously considering making myself throw up in the general vicinity of a co-worker today just so I can feign illness and go home and back to bed.

I’m sorry this post was so lame. Maybe I’ll come up with someone better later on.

A conversation last night between me and my husband.

him: do you still blog?

me: yes.

him: ok, I just never see you blog anymore. you’re always playing scrabble.

me: that’s because I do most of blogging during the day when you’re not around.

him: ok that’s good. because I just bought you that $25 blogging book. so I wanted to make sure you were still blogging.

The book he’s referring to is CSS for Dummies. Silly boy thinks that he bought me a book to help me out with my blogging.

Well I guess he’s part right.

(sidenote: just because it says it’s for Dummies doesn’t mean it’s any easier to comprehend)

I was very sad to read this article today on Yahoo about the cyclone in Myanmar. One of my sponsored children Htet lives in Myanmar. Right now they are still trying to assess all the damage and death tolls. I sure hope this little boy wasn’t hurt or killed in this terrible disaster.

We should all take time to pray for everyone affected by this terrible tragedy.

I have completed 4 full weeks on the Weight Watchers plan. I have also been to the gym 11 times in the last 14 days. And what do I have to show for it?

This week’s weight loss: 5.6 lbs

Total weight loss so far: 15.4 lbs

So yeah… I think I’ve finally found a plan I can live with… and stick with.

I’m feeling it today for sure. Each time I laugh or cough… ouch.

I’m planning on making a 9am trip to the gym tomorrow. I will finally have the time to try out the tanning beds, and the sauna. And I will also be using the massage chair again. All of this, of course, after my workout. We’re trying to decide if we want to do Paula Abdul’s dance aerobic dvd or Fat Burning Yoga.

What would you all chose?

Yesterday I did 140 crunches at the gym. Now before you go praising me, I must say that I used the big purple bouncy ball for help.

The problem is, I feel nothing today. Shouldn’t I feel something? My friend and I were commenting on how it doesn’t seem right that we aren’t sore. I mean it’s not that we want to walk around limping and whining, but we also want to know that it’s working. No pain no gain right?