Let the Weight Loss Begin

For a while now I have been needing to get into an exercise routine. I have been exercising, but not very regularly. I was having a hard time finding something that I felt confident enough doing that I would stick with it. I was doing a dance workout video and it was pretty fun, but I suck at dancing so much that I was having a hard time with the routines.

This week I found an exercise video that I totally love. It is a mix between yoga and pilates. My ab muscles are so sore from doing it yesterday (It hurt to roll over in bed this morning), but it is a very good sore.

I'm so excited to get into better shape and have more energy from being better to my body. My goal is to go down one or two sizes by the end of summer. Wish me luck!

My Equivalent to Windex (Almost)

If you have ever seen the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding you will remember that the dad uses windex for everything. Have an arthritic elbow, soak it in some windex. Nasty pimple, put windex on it. Anyway, I have found a product I love almost as much as he loves Windex.

I LOVE Soft Scrub. While I don't reccomend using it to solve every problem, it is an amazing cleaner. We have been living with my dad for the last six months and it was pretty gross when we moved in (I don't think he ever cleans anything). Needless to say we have been really been cleaning up the place since we moved in. Months ago Soft Scrub helped me get our shower sparkling. Today I used it on the kitchen sink and it removed what I thought were permanent scratches. I clean it regularly and no other cleaner has even come close to removing the scratches. It is amazing!

I wish I had taken before and after pictures. The sink doesn't look brand new or anything, but at least it is bright white and clean. I might just use it as my all purpose cleaner.

Stupid Neighbor!

One of our neighbors lives on the corner and his property backs up to the side of our house. I don't know what it is with this guy, but he is addicted to watering his back yard. He always waters way too long and since our property is lower than his water floods into the side of our yard.

This didn't used to be such a problem, but somehow the drainage on the side of our house has gotten messed up and so the water turns the side of our house into a pond. It has been flooding our garage regularly for the last few weeks. I am constantly having to go over there and ask him to turn off his water because my garage is once again flood.

And what's his response to this? It's not, "I'm sorry. I'll go turn it off and stop watering so frickin' much," like any decent human being would respond. Instead, he always claims he has only been watering for 10-15 minutes. I'm sorry, but if I turned on a hose by the side of my house and let in run directly into my garage it wouldn't get that flooded after 10-15 minutes. Some of the water should actually absorb into his stupid lawn if he needed to water.

What makes it worse is that we want to fix the drainage, but we can't because he waters so much that the ground never has a chance to dry enough for us to dig down and fix the drainage pipe. I am so freaking annoyed by this whole situation. I'm seriously considering reporting him for wasting water. I haven't done it yet because I'm not the kind of person that tells on people. I generally believe that you can go to the person and work it out. However, I have tried that and it doesn't seem to get through this guy's thick skull. Next time I think I'll just turn off his water main instead of knocking on his door for 10 minutes (while my garage floods more and more) trying to talk to him.