It was my grandmother’s 75th birthday on Tuesday so my brother, my husband, and myself all took a trip up to her city so that we could go to the place that she likes to eat called Cheap Charlies. She likes it because they give half off on your birthday dinner, but I do not know why that mattered so much to her since my dad was paying for dinner.

My dad is moving to Alabama on Saturday so my grandma wanted everyone to be together before he left, and since she is old there was no real argument to be made. The only thing that sucked was her city is 45 minutes away!

I had some chicken fajitas at Cheap Charlies and they were pretty good. I probably would not have driven 45 minutes to eat there!

I gave both my grandma and my dad 8×10 pictures of all of us in frames so that he would have one to take with him and she could have one for herself.

All in all it turned out pretty good. I hope that she had a happy birthday!

I am addicted to slushies at Sonic! I started talking about the first Sonic opening in my area a couple of weeks ago, and I love it. I like going during happy hour because you can get these slushies for half off between 2-4 pm every day.

I like the real fruit strawberry slushies and the apple juice slushies the best. Coming in a close third would be the regular cherry slushies. I like getting the really big route 44 size which is a 44 ounce drink.

I recommend finding a Sonic just to try their slushies if that is your kind of thing!

I got some steak burgers in the mail today from the Omaha Steak Company because my husband found a really good deal on them. The burgers came in a real nice big styrofoam container that had a huge block of dry ice in it.

My husband and I are going to take it over to his mom’s house and I am going to bring a drink with the dry ice in it to freak out his little sister. I’m gonna tell her that it is witche’s brew or something along those lines. She will think it is really neat.

I remember playing with this stuff in science class, and I looked up to make sure that it was ok to drink something with dry ice in it, and it is totally fine just do not suck in the vapors for too long because they will eat your oxygen and you will pass out!!

I am not sure what we are going to hand out here at my house for Halloween this year. The last couple of years I made some really cute Halloween bags to give to the Trick or Treaters that had a little jar of play dough, a sucker, and some fun size snickers and things like that, but I only had a few kids stop by so I had a bunch of leftover stuff. I am thinking about just going to Sams Club to get a whole box of regular size candy bars to give to the kids for actually going out in the cold to do some good old fashioned trick or treating. It would end up costing me about the same as the bags did and kids love it when you give them a full size candy bar!

I stayed up really late last night/this morning. I was up until almost 7:00 a.m. I was really stoked because I figured I could make it to the newly opened Sonic in the morning before the place got rushed, but as I watched the morning news I realized that this was not going to happen. The news showed that they were ready for a morning rush, but then I figured that if it was on the news everyone that had forgotten about it would have remembered and went there.

I waited until the evening to go up there to take a look at it, and it was so packed that the road leading to it was full as well. We decided that it was not a good time to check it out then either. I guess that it did not really help that it was about 6:00 p.m. which is a lot of people’s dinner time.

I am going to make one more attempt tonight probably here in a half hour or so to get some Sonic. I have been seeing the commercials for this place for a couple of years now and I thought that it was unfair that we did not have one anywhere near here. Apparently everyone else is excited about it too!

I have been using an appetite suppressant to help me not feel hungry all the time. I am living proof that suppressing your appetite can really help. Instead of feeling like I need to eat all of the time I feel like food is gross sometimes so I do not even want to eat a lot. I like feeling full when I only eat a little bit of food.

It is crazy that Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. I look forward to both holidays a lot because I get to spend a lot of time with my family. I really look forward to a nice slice of sweet potato pie. For some reason I do not ever really eat sweet potato pie any other time of the year and so it stays special to me.

I have thought a lot about getting gastric bypass surgery done. I would love to eat just a little bit of food and feel like I just ate an entire Thanksgiving dinner. The only problem is my mom would freak out because her mom died on the operating table while getting gastric bypass surgery done. We have talked about it before and we talked about how over the years they have gotten a lot better at the surgery and it is not nearly invasive on your body. I told her that I would like to get the Lap Band that I keep seeing commercials for because it is totally reversible and the surgery is minor.

Hadar Spivak, MD is a doctor that actually specializes in gastric bypass located in Texas. I have looked at his site a few times to think about getting this procedure done. I know that Texas is far away, but after doing all the research on his site I would want him to do my surgery. You can see the site for yourself at www.Lap-Surgery.net. Dr. Spivak looks like he would be a wonderful doctor and I would be well taken care of. I showed my mom the site and she said she would be more comfortable with me getting this procedure done if it was by him because he is very knowledgeable in the field, and that is what he specializes in.

I’m unsure if I mentioned the fact that my doctor actually gave me a prescription for diet pills. She gave me Adipex 37.5 mg tablets. I am supposed to take one tablet a day and I opted to take half in the afternoon and half in the evening because that is when I seem to get the most hungry.

I started taking these pills on Monday and it is now Saturday and I have lost a few pounds, but I always figure that is water weight that I am losing first. I have been eating really light and getting things done around the house so that I am moving around more.

The pills make me feel like I do not want to eat a lot and that is really great. If I do get hungry I try to eat about 1/4 of what I used to eat. I will eat chocolate about once a week, but just a little because if I cut myself completely off I usually become a rebel and end up eating too much. I know that it sounds silly being a rebel against myself, but I swear it happens!

I am not going to give specifics on my weight numbers but from Monday until now I have gone down about 10 pounds. I feel better already, but I am pretty sure that is all in my head because I am psyched to lose weight.

I will keep you posted on what happens over the next three months while I am taking these pills to help me lose weight. Keep tuning in

Have you ever noticed that when you actually have a bad sinus headache that makes your eyes pound that there is no medicine that works better than something along the lines of Tylenol sinus? I have taken a lot of things to alleviate my headache, but the sinus medications seem to work the best in this situation. I hate this time of year just because of sinus problems.