bvi captains log blog

And it is amazing how quickly his workshop is taking shape. It looks like a Bazza room that is for sure. I am not sure how I will get him to go back to the boat after making his own workshop...


On the bonus side the garage was cleaned out of all the work shop bits, so there is more room in it!


And what did we do for our family day out yesterday? Kevin's idea, we went to the San Diego zoo. Bazza thought it was an opportunity to have snacks and slurpees...


There were a lot of kids there. Go figure on a Sunday afternoon hey?


There were also animals there. Again, go figure...


Kevin had a look on his face that said, nope, I am not getting to close to that wild cat!


I think in this picture they are looking at each other and both thinking "my god, it is a face that only a mother could love!"


The flamingo's were cute, and messy eaters too! They sounded like high speed battery drills almost...


This guy is sleeping...


and this one is a baby...


Then we went to Elephant and Castle for lunch, made Kevin take the obligatory picture in front of Star of India..... and went home again jiggity jig...


Today I went to get my hair colored and cut...I look like a scarecrow (a fat one)


But she did a nice job, and it is bouncy and has no gray again!


Now, I am supposed to be answering lots of emails, but I just want to have a nap so I am not sure what is going to win out here but I think I have a pretty good idea!

This is where I am at with taking this weight off. At the end of the first month when I redid all the blood work, my blood sugar had come back into normal range, my blood pressure had dropped from 135-145 over whatever to 110 over 70, where I sat most of my life, my cholesterol had come down 30 points, and I halved my Nexium dose. The health proof is really in the pudding there for lifestyle changes.

I know better then to starve myself, and truthfully, I love food so much that if I did I would never keep it up over my life, so I have 1600 calories a day, and I use them however I see fit. If I exercise I get extra calories to use. Even with NOT using the salt shaker except for on potatoes, eggs, rice and popcorn, I still have a hard time staying under the 2500 mg of sodium a day, especially when we eat out up here. I seem to have no problem staying under on my cholesterol and my fat.

Usually by the end of the day I have calories left, but they are made up of carb and cholesterol calories, so hard to find food items that ONLY contain those components at night that I actually want to eat.

Some things are just not worth using the calories on. On the other hand, no matter how good it is for you, some things are just not worth eating. You might as well take and put bland glue in your mouth. Some of the things I have found for me, are like Healthy Choice Soup. Bazza and I tried some yesterday, Clam Chowder, and it looks like the real soup, but with 45% less sodium (so you know it still has quite a bit in it...) and low in fat etc. We did not know it was possible to put clams, potatoes, cream, celery, carrots and spices together in a soup and have it be that bland. The total blandness is much worse then the individual items ever would be if you made it at home. Just goes to show how much flavor processing food takes out. I could not tell if I had a potato or a clam in my mouth.

My main stays for breakfast tend to be Lite string cheese, mandarins cups, and a low calorie bread peanut butter sandwich.
I have not broken myself of the habit of eating the majority of my calories at dinner time yet.

Biggest lifesavers for me, jello fat free pudding, sugar free popsicles, 100 calorie popcorn, and god damn it why in the world can they not make a sugar free full throttle!!!

I have tried sugar free amp energy drink a couple times, but the carbonation does not last long...

Exercise. Thank god for water is all I can say. SCUBA diving on the yacht and swimming in the pool here. I don't believe you will ever see me on a treadmill, in a spin class, or running. I had to giggle a couple days ago when I went to Sports Authority looking for masks and a snorkel for the pool at the house and I have, oh, about 50 sets on the boat!

Water, always been a water girl. If I am not in it, I am drinking it. Have no problem getting in my 64 oz or so a day of water...Just don't spare the ice!

Other then that, some of you may notice that page styles on this website are going back and forth between the old design and the new one...It is a long process to change them all over and then edit as well, so it is getting there.

Bazza ordered a new mill, lathe and table saw for his workshop. No, I don't know what they are for. But HE is excited...

By the way talking about Water, and further to the entry I posted a couple of days ago on water, my friend Bob put up this blog entry on his boat bits as well on water.

I went to take a picture of the fridge this morning, to show that i can stuff the fridge at home just as good as the one on the boat and when editing I was reminded of something from when I was growing up.

Of course, the Sears Xmas Wish books would be thumbed over all winter. Imaging all the things I could possibly get. I think I can still remember specific items from when I was 7-8 in them. I guess TV was not quite as exciting back then. One of my favorite things to look at were the fridges and freezers that had all this good looking food in them. I used to imagine that OUR fridge looked like that (it didn't, although there was food in it, it certainly did not have everything the pictures did!). I would go over the items in the fridge over and over again. So, no wonder I love food, I have apparently loved it since I was that age anyways! I can remember crushing up my nickel bags of barbecue chips into tiny little pieces as they seemed to last longer that way, and to even trying to save the last "thing" in a package and putting it in my bedside drawer, so I would always have treats...in the night when I was hungry!
Anyways, my 8 year old self would be pleased to know that eventually she obtained fridges that were full like the catalogs from back then!


Bazza is just happy that he is in the land of fresh danishes for breakfast, and looking even more forward to the land of Tim Hortons and Boston Creams in a couple weeks!


We have three people going three different directions, with one car and one RV. Well, you know my patience with that...I went out to rent a car for a week or two and came home having bought a car three hours later. I thought I would get yelled at, but he just shook his head. I justified it quite well I thought! It is not quite a red sports model!!!!


The workshop is coming along quite nicely, I may never see him again!


We had a whole bunch of potted plants (well not technically WE but the old owners left them) outside which surprisingly, were still alive after we had been away for 4 months without water! They just may survive us if they can go that long....

Via: Term Life Insurance

Poor Bazza....Keeps on thinking moose are mythical creatures. Everyone sees them in Canada besides him...My parents found this baby on the side of the road sitting in travel, and fortuitously had their camera out saying "wouldn't it be neat if a moose came though about now" and it did! So they promptly emailed it to my husband and his only comment was that it was fiberglass, he could see the join lines!


Our daughter in law caught our comment about not getting many baby pictures and sent some of a cute baby girl~


She fell down and scraped up her face, but glad to know that she is a girl after my own heart and is back up and on the laptop again!!!


I do have to say the second shift on pulling stupid wires through conduits managed to do it.. Apparently they put a whole bunch of goop down one side and then VACUMNED it through to the other to make it easier! I was so traumatized by my earlier experience that Bazza took me out for an ice cream! (only 150 calories, people! Go McDonalds)




I had some crazy girlfriends who were on the yacht last year who came in for a wedding (on Monday in Temecula??) from Houston and Virginia. We met up for lunch. First I better remind you what they looked like on the boat..... Debbie and Sherri...


And Karen...(my luck it is their sister Sharon, I always seem to mix these two up!)


Sheri told me that she was going to show me that she could look dressed up. Sorry Sherri, I prefer the boat look! We went to the Vineyard Rose at South Coastal Vineyards. It was very good! BTW Dierks Bentley is playing there August 14th!


We were all happy with our food, A happy look on Sherry...


Seafood Ceviche....


Debbie....


Karen who apparently took pictures of every dish on the boat when they were on had a look that said, yeah hurry up, I am trying to take my own pictures (and she changed her hair color since the boat!)


I thought I might get a half decent picture of me to put up, but no such luck...The old lady transition glasses really are not a cool look now are they! BUT my caesar salad and shrimp was marvelous...


We had a nice visit....... I heard a RUMOR that some guests came back from charter and made a yearly calendar of SIMEON. Turn the page every month, and voila there is a new picture. Just a rumor maybe, but I peed myself laughing. Now that would go to Simeon's head!


And what was bazza doing while I was away lunching with the girls? Well, what else do you think Bazza was doing by digging holes!


I invited him, but for some reason he opted to stay home and dig his way to China maybe...Weird Man!

Remember we have done maintenance and are now on vacation for 3 months??? I think my husband is nuts.
He is turning a greenhouse into a workshop. A proper workshop. Sigh. Outside our garage I spied piles of dirt and cement. Always a bad bad sign...


But yeah, apparently he now has a floor. Yippee....


I cleaned the sun room, did laundry, had a nice long swim and then a shower, put on my pajamas and was in bed relaxing watching TV. He comes in and asks for help for awhile. I Pout, stamp my feet, find shoes, press record on the DVR and off I go. Whining all the way.
He tells me that he is going to attempt the impossible. He needs heavy electrical wire from the garage to by the pool. I am going to PUSH three wires through the conduit and he will pull on the other end...
Not only will I push three wires but I will do this while putting a ton of GLOOP on the wires coating them thoroughly. He said I could not have too much gloop. Which meant in about 5 seconds, I was covered with it, and I had so much running down my elbows I could not push any wires...He though maybe we should switch end...


You see, we had to push and pull this wire ALL THE WAY along here to the pool pump at the back of the house!!


On the other end I had to pull up on a mallet and put my hip into it...When he told me to start pulling, I am afraid to say, I had already been pulling!


He told me to go back, he would wait for Kevin.

Thank you very much. I thoroughly LOATHE projects, maintenance, dirt, building things. I just would rather buy new things