old pics of myself

so old pics of myself.  these are the ones i have scanned into my computer already.

my pregnant mom in the background (had to be 1981), me in a death trap and my older brother bobby

baby jaime, santa (you knew that one) and my older brother.  1981? maybe i was born in 1980

 

 

sweet fro at the ball pit

toddler jaime

aww look at mini me.  check out my stuffed animals and my sweet shirt (and necklace). i look to be about 4 here.

little jaime

in the 1980's at some point.  i grew up with 3 brothers, see how ungirly i was?  i think im playing with transformers.

on a horse at my mom's friends house, i had to be younger than 7 here.  (my parents split when i was 7 and we lost contact with this family that had the horse farm)

missing tooth

5th grade (1991) doing the ropes course.  someone took this pic of me and the gym teacher and then sent it to me years later.  how weird.

fro (again) probably middleschool ish?

middleschool photo

ignore the grossness on this photo.  but this is me in high school (?) yep that curl is natural.

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is me with my neices-my guess this is early 2000's.  i look to be at my heaviest here.

2003-pic taken by my cousin before we went out clubbing (which i hate, im not a clubbing type of chick).

cruise 2005, sexy pic ( i straightened my hair here-i dont do it often cause it takes forever)

2005 cruise

2005 at my old roomies bridal shower, i was growing my hair out for my friends wedding (see me in the purple dress below for that wedding pic)

wolverine jaime (glow sticks) at roomie's wedding.  (there is another awesome pic from this night but there are other people in it, and this is a blog about me, not them and i was so drunk this night-i hardly ever drink).  2005

messing around at a friends wedding, this is 2006, i was a bridesmaid

 

2007-the same week i started weight watchers-at a company holiday party

2007 after a few months on weight watchers.

2007-those pants are a size 11,  OMG.  new outfit. pic taken

my b day april 7, 2007 i purchased a car!!! (i still have that car)

2007 june-ish.  look i graduated college (took 7 long years part time). look how long my hair is here  this would be the weekend where i gave up on weight watchers and started gaining back 30+ pounds

im recreating the muscle pic with flowers (from my friends wedding where i was a bridesmaid) i think that started out cause those flowers in the wedding were heavy.

2007 shortly after graduation, before

after

a few hours later at a party

me and my husband summer of 2007.  i think i look so skinny here, (and yes i am all boob, one day i will get a reduction). this is before we were married (we got married in 2010).

december of 2007 at my husbands cousins wedding (it was in NY and we live in PA so we had a hotel room).

2008 company holiday party, my husband and me

2009 september ish, at the rene fair (that i hated it) but the funny part about this photo is that i dont think it is me.  the reason is that i had braces for 1.5 years (at 25) and my teeth look wrong to me.

2009, at a wine tasting event, my step son took this pic.  he would have been 9 at the time.  that is my husband and me

2010, i gained a lot of weight when i got laid off (end of 2009).  this was at my old roomies sons b day party

2010 with my friends newborn baby

this pic wont go where i want it to go.  this is 2002, the first pic taken on my new digital camera!!!!

 

on honeymoon 2010

disney world 2012 (making friends with fake animals)

this should be before the disney world pic-my cousin wedding june 2011

this one wont let me post it either, 2010 at my bridal shower

besides what the date says it is actually 10/02/2010 (maybe even the 3rd?) after a long day.  taken at a bar after the wedding

my wedding day oct 2, 2010

i paid a lot of money for that dress, i should show it off

Finally Friday

i guess fridays are my weigh in days.  i was 208.8 this morning.  last week i was right around there too, but remember i took my cheat day Wednesday.  So i am not too worried about it.
i did great with my eating yesterday, nothing was overly tempting.
I did a workout with Dance Central 3, by the way i am so not coordinated but i think its fun.  plus i use the fitness settings, which supposively counts calories for me.  here is my screen shot:

I like how it says i burned 47 calories in 21 minutes.  it really estimates super low.  i play on beginner, cause im not a dancing person, but im getting better, im almost learning a few songs.  i should try it on the highest setting (expert? i dont even know) and see how i do. 

there is my watch time.  i guess it doesnt count the time in between songs? 220 cals in 27 minutes.

and since my goal is 500, after dinner i went to the gym and walked the treadmill.

i so did not want to be there.  i figure any workout is better than no workout. 

sorry this one is blurry,  but that shows the time date i exercised (i never switched the time from the time change).  the little graphs are my past workouts.

that is a polar FT 7 by the way.  ive had them where they had more detail, but eventually the watch doesnt work right.  this is probably my 4th over the years.  the best part about them is that the chest strap transmits to the machine you are on at the gym.  (ok so sometimes it transmits to the other machines near me too which i think is annoying).

other news: i spoke to the step son yesterday, i said happy birthday and he said thank you. he apparently was upset cause people were killing him in halo 4?  he is definatley my husbands son, a big time gamer.  when he was much younger he would ask me to play video games, so i would say ok, but dont ask for my help (im only good at mario brothers 3, or the sims).  if he got too upset i made him stop playing.  there was a game a few years ago, i think it was called epic mickey? (i got it for half price at toys r us on black friday back then).  and he was getting so angry at it, telling me the game was cheating.  LOL. 

he is being dropped off tonight so we can head out early tomorrow morning to drive 2 hours to balitmore.  I wonder if he would like cake or ice cream, he is a super thin kid (i was a chubby kid).

Pool: this is what my bro just sent me in a text

that was the shallow end of my pool. (which reminds me, i grew up in this house, so when i was a kid we always had my cousins and aunts over during the summer days.  one day my male cousins were fighting, their mom said thats it separate sides of the pool. and the older cousin says i call the top half.  ahh smart butt kids for you.  i am pretty sure that my aunt was angry at that comment). 

any time i do anything to the house my dad visits me in my dreams/nightmares.  so we will see what he says tonight.  he is usually mad at me for something (when i threw away his insulin after he passed he came to me in my dream and yelled at me staying he needs that to live, and i was like but you are dead.  when i donated his clothes he told me that they costs a lot of money and i said but others can use them.  sometimes my dream self doesnt know he is dead-he passed in may of 2005)

so lets hope he isnt angry about this little home improvement.  i am sure my dad woud have understood that i didnt have $50,000 to put into fixing the pool.  heck that is more than a make a year.

i barely have the money it costs to get rid of the pool.

happy thursday and happy b day to my step son

Today marks the big 13 b day of my step son.  he was a super chatty four year old when me and his dad started dating.  he was going through a rhyming phase, so he was attempting to rhyme something with Jaime.  not possible little dude.  so he made up a saying that jaime is a baby and she cries for pies.   after hearing this endlessly for a few hours i told him its not nice to make fun of adult.
but now he is 13. 
i would post pics on here of him but i think not.  you get pics of me or my pets.  :)  I think his mom might be upset with me if i post his pic.



Kreacher cuddles (i call them EXTREME cuddles cause that is how kreacher does everything)


so i had a rough night last night. pretty much i had purchased cadburry milk chocolate eggs (the ones that are like big m&ms).  i had planned on taking the night off from the gym.  my husband ordered pizza, which i left alone (yay for that). but i ate my planned dinner and then chocolates in the freezer (that is where i keep my chocolates) were calling my name.  so every time i went out to the kitchen i grabbed a few, a serving size is 12 for 210 calories.  the bag was opened tuesday night and maybe 3 were eaten?  so i finished the bag off. 
NOOOO. that was almost 6 servings of chocolate.
then i ate cheese curls (only had one serving of those left), then i ate the rest of my ben and jerry's ice cream. 
then i declared that i will be counting calories on friday to make up for this (fridays are my cheat days, i dont count or worry about any food on fridays).
the problem was i was doing so well that day too.  not sure what set it off.  possibly that the construction at my house is delayed by another day due to equipment rentals not being available?  and now they want to work on saturday too.  fine whatever, i wont be home saturday cause we are going to the aquarium in baltimore.  i just want my house to start getting back to normal.
I am trying to include more pics with my posts- so here you go, a look at my food journal. 



yes i have horrible handwriting, so not girly at all. and this is written for me only.  you can even see how i accounted for one serving of the chocolate, then it just stops.

 i should probably write myself a note about a cheat day, but i never look back at these things.  unless im trying to figure out cals for something i dont normally eat. 
my calorie goals for each day are 1550-1600.   looks like tuesday was 1700, im fine with that.  works for me.

i also had a rough morning this morning.  since the construction is going on the fence has a gaping hole in it.  this is where my puppy goes outside (by puppy i mean she is my baby-not an actually puppy, she is 6.5 years old?  we actually got her on my step sons 8th b day, but she was already 1.5 years old when we rescued her).  i usually gather up my foods for the day while she is doing her business (cause you know you have to pee 8 times). 
so i went to let her in and there was no puppy on the porch. no puppy near the pool, no puppy off to the side, no puppy outside of the fence. 
i found her 20 mins later in the neighbors yard barking at their Germain Shepard (!) and foaming at the mouth.  he was inside (thankfully, my dog doesnt know she is a dog, she thinks she is a giant cat or a human).  this neighbors house is across the street, which i live on a relatively quiet street but she could have gotten run over.
also when i finally saw her across the street (i was getting ready to go inside and text my boss that i was going to be late and i was going to text rob to come home to help me find her) i had left the front door open.  which mean my little kreacher dude got outside. it took about 5 minutes to find him (he is such an inside cat, i found him with his tail all puffed and wanting to run back inside to his cozy home). 
all of this made me 23 minutes late to work.  my boss did text me back saying good luck (i just said i couldnt find my dog that i was going to be late).  he has a dog of his own, so im sure he has dealt with her antics.


a pic from our disney trip 2012-we woke up at 6:15am, this is proof that i was awake and ready to get moving (i am not a morning person): i want to say that was the day we went to universal studios.  this is me in case you cannot tell.

 tonight the goal is to stick with counting calories and either get to the gym and workout OR do a workout at home.  if i do a workout at home ill take a pic of the screen (no camera phones allowed at the gym, which i should ask if it is ok if i just take a pic of my machine, they are worried about peoples privacy). 

Boring day

yesterday was a very boring run of the mill day.  I love those types of days but it makes for boring blog entries.  lets see, i worked from 8 until 4.  I came home with a slight headache and ran out of advil at work (i only had one left).  so i stopped at Rite Aid on my way home and got milk and paper plates (i needed the milk for my dinner).  i laid down for about 40 minutes (with the dog) but she was up and down (OH NO HOW DARE ANOTHER DOG WALK PAST HER HOUSE).  it doesnt help that Henry (pics below) is the ultimate dog alerting alarm



Kira the dog showing off her winter coat



Henry, the cockatiel

 so i made dinner and ate, then around 8pm my husband asked if it was going to the gym.  originally i was going to skip it, but i decided to not be lazy and get a move on. 



Heart rate monitor info for yesterday

my goal right now is just to burn 500 cals each session.  
while i was on the treadmill i could see into the aerobics room, a zumba class was going on (i used to go to zumba all of the time but got annoyed with the lack of personal space, the tuesday night teacher is a bit of a drill Sargent too.  last time i check zumba was supposed to be fun) it was funny to see the people attempting the dance.  i was trying not to stare but i was like OMG I probably looked like that when i was doing it. 

most days when i am at the gym i see a guy i went to high school with.  I kind of melted into the background in high school-i graduated with approximately 400 other students back in 1999-i was just trying to get by without being bullied or teased. anyway this guy i think his name is Chris.  he was a chubby kid (no judgement here, i was chubby as a kid and now as an adult) but he has thinned out, i guess that happens when you are 32.  i never say hi to people cause they usually will call me by one of my friends names or ask me how my (druggie) brother is doing.  I think i overheard him say he is a lawyer a few months ago.  wow. 

today is wednesday, another boring day.  the pool demo is not happening today due to wet ground but tomorrow they are planning on doing a 10 hour day. nuts. 
here is a progression pic


this was what it looked like  when i was emptying the pool and kira makes an appearance



pool patio removed along with the skimmer-after 1 day of demo work

this pool project has me a bit on edge.  my well cap is in the side yard right where their big machines are running.  so far with only one day of work going on i have huges divots in my yard.  i just hope they will fix all of this when they leave.  this entire project is only supposed to take about a week (of actual work, it needs to stop raining/snowing).  i had no lawn to being the entire project thanks to hurricane sandy taking down a giant willow tree in my yard.

see the tree? this was taken back in november.  if you look to the upper left hand corner you can see the fence and you can see a white plastic thing with a green cap, that is my well cap. 

this is what my yard currently looks like.  the well cap is behind the pile of concrete that is under my old pool cover. 

i guess ill spend less time mowing the lawn this summer?  (probably more time watering it)

Today is free rita's italian ice day.  (first day of spring).  I probably won't go, it is kind of cold here (high today of 46 degrees and a low of 34 degrees.  anything in the 30's is too cold for me and id rather not get hives.  (on a funny note my friend wants to try snow boarding, so she asked our other friends, myself and my husband if we would love to go, my husband says YES, and me and another friend with a thyroid condition say, no it sounds painful).  plus a water ice (i guess they are called italian ice, blame me coming from philly for calling it water ice-pronounced wod-er) is fairly cheap.  my husband loves mistos but i try to stay away since they are like 500 calories for a medium serving.(dont quote me on that, check their website if you want to see how many calories they have).

please let me know if you would like to see anything special in my blog, im open to changing it up a bit.