March 11, 2012: Sunday On Call

Medifast Status: Day 313, Down ~76.5lbs (23.5lbs to go)

Today is the first day with the Grice family in town all day.  They arrived yesterday.  The girls were pretty tired this morning after their late night out last night.

This is my “on call” weekend with the office and, like most on call Sundays, I had to work all day.  Dominica and Francesca went out shopping leaving me babysitting at the house.  It was quiet afternoon with the kids, mostly.

This evening we just went out and got take out from McDonald’s.  At least that is what I got for Dominica and Liesl.  I skipped eating today as I often try to do the day before my weigh in at Medifast.

March 10, 2012: The Grices Arrive

Medifast Status: Day 312, Down ~76.5lbs (23.5lbs to go)

Francesca and the kids are driving up from Houston today.  So this morning I did a bit of work and, when we were able, we did some cleaning.  The house was not in too bad of shape when they arrived in the early afternoon.

This evening, for dinner, Francesca, Emily and I went out and picked up dinner from Restaurant Latino #2.  So Francesca got to witness firsthand how difficult it is to order food there for me.  It was quite a challenge to get them to understand what we wanted and we decided that there was nothing that a lot of the kids would eat.  So while we were waiting for the food there we drove over to McDonald’s and picked up some food there as well.

We came back and Emily and I went inside and waited for the food to be ready while Francesca sat in the car and played some video games on her phone.  She is currently addicted to a game called Temple Runner or something like that.

We got back to the house and discovered that my meal was missing.  We were not charged for it, they were just unable to understand what we were trying to order.  Frustrating though.

So later on Emily and I ran out to McDonald’s and I ate dinner there and she got some fries.  At least I managed to get some of the McDonald’s Fish McBites out of the deal.  I really love those.  I should not have them though.  Very dangerous.

This evening Dominica and Francesca got dressed up and headed out to Addison for a night on the town.  They went to Pete’s Dueling Piano Bar while I stayed home watching the kids.

Liesl passed out on the play room couch tonight.  Playing with her cousins all day really wore her out.

March 9, 2012: Still Behind

Medifast Status: Day 311, Down ~76.5lbs (23.5lbs to go)

Still way behind on SGL.  No news today.  Work and home.  I’m working from my FourSquare feed to remember where I have been and the answer appears to be, nowhere.

We did some cleaning tonight, I know, because Francesca and the kids are coming up from Houston tomorrow and will be staying for the week.

March 7, 2012: Restaurant Latinos #2

Medifast Status: Day 309, Down ~76.5lbs (23.5lbs to go)

Tonight, after work, Dominica sent me over to Restaurant Latinos #2 to pick up dinner.  That proved to be more difficult than we would have hoped.  No one in the restaurant when I went there spoke English, at all.  That was a little bit challenging.  I did my best to point and explain.  They make the common restaurant mistake of cranking the music way, way up so that even if I spoke the best Spanish in the world they would not be able to hear me.  That we are communicating in Spanish is really inconsequential given that I could hear nothing additional in English with the signal to noise ratio that they have going on in there.

I finally got our dinners and it was, more or less, what I had intended to order.  Dominica got the same smoked fish that she had last time (with the head and everything) and really liked and I decided to try the fried fish instead.  The fried fish proved to be very good and is not battered so that it is fried is really not much of a health concern.  It was a pretty healthy fish and quite tasty.  I will get that again there.

We ate dinner and watched some television.  Quiet evening.