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Medifast Status: Day 249, Down ~72lbs

Today we did some strategizing about what is going to get painted in the house.  We (mostly Dominica) are going to be painting a large amount of the house.  The bar, the living room, the hallway, our bedroom and parts of the girls’ rooms.  It is a major project.  That on top of some serious floor cleaning that we are planning to be doing soon.

Today was mostly a relaxing day at home.  This is my last “free” day before the freeze ends.  Technically the freeze ends this evening but no one jumps on doing work tonight but there will be work tomorrow morning.  So today is my day to just do nothing.

For dinner tonight we decided to try getting take out from Brookhaven.  We weren’t sure if our One discount would apply to food that we picked up so we cautiously gave it a try to see what would happen.  Our discount does apply so we will be doing this a lot more often since I can pick up food on the way home or just run out and grab it quickly which is handy since getting the girls ready can be more work that we can handle on a given evening.

Medifast Status: Day 248, Down ~72lbs

I stayed home as today is the last work day of the freeze.  No requests all day.  Nothing at all.  I do have worked lined up for Sunday morning, however, as the freeze lifts tomorrow afternoon so, as always happens, someone begs me to work on Sunday so that they can get a jump on their projects.

This evening, at eight thirty, I went out to go to ballroom dancing lessons at the Hotel Intercontinental where our friend Chris is teaching the intro lessons.  I got out there but the lessons were canceled for tonight just as I arrived so I picked him up and we went up to Sullivan’s off of Trinity Mills where all of the dancers go after the lessons are over.  We were there too early so just hung out in the lobby for a bit.  The bar there is live band and twenty one and over only.

There was a good crows and we listened the band Chinatown play.  They were very good and I have them on my Facebook page now.  They played a good mix of music and I think that Dominica would really like it so I am going to try to get her to come out when they return here in mid-February.  Chris danced a bit, being a dancer.  I danced just a little but I am a little like a flailing walrus so am looking more for lessons than to really go out dancing although actually dancing would help with getting a few hours of exercise in so I plan to try that as well.

Sullivan’s is incredible handy for us as it is right down the street from our house.  I had no idea how close it was or that it even existed.  Nice place.

I got home not too late and we were off to bed pretty quickly.

Medifast Status: Day 247, Down ~72lbs

We called around to the regional Costcos and they told us that the Rug Doctor is not stocked so we will need to order it online.  So Dominica placed the order for our Rug Doctor today and hopefully we will have it next week.  We got the Pro X3 which is MSRP’d at $799.  The Costco price is $349.  Quite a deal.  Even a refurbished Pro (not X3) is $425.  This was the best deal that we could find on any Rug Doctor by far.  We are very excited.  We love having clean floors.

It is a quiet day.  I’ve been working on getting the new server racked in Toronto without any success yet.  A lot of my projects are currently waiting for that to get completed.  I am very hopeful that that will be done this weekend so that I can get to work.

I am terribly behind, yet again, on SGL.  I am doing my best to get caught up.  I am writing this on the seventeenth but I have had notes sitting on my desk at the office for two weeks with what happened each day so that I could provide accurate updates.

This week is the last week of the freeze so I am trying hard to spend time at home with the kids.

Medifast Status: Day 246, Down ~72lbs

I went in to the office this morning.  Nothing unusual to report there.  We were going to go with Jenn to Costco today to see about getting a Rug Doctor but decided that there was reason enough for us to join ourselves that we decided that we would just go on our own and join at the Costco three and a half miles from our house.

I left work a little before noon to run up to the house and pick up Dominica and the girls.  We drove out to West Plano and hit the Costco there.  We decided to try out the upper level membership as we are hoping to use Costco pretty heavily now that we have joined.  Their prices really are quite good.

The Costco did not have the Rug Doctor, or any Rug Doctor, that we had wanted so we will likely have to order that online.  We did some shopping while we were there and got some clothes, food and coffee.  Costco has the Donut Shop coffee that we drink with the Keurig at roughly half of the price that we pay at Walmart for the same coffee so that is awesome.  That alone will easily pay for our membership!  We just have to be diligent about buying our coffee there and not letting it run out.

I decided to just stay home after going shopping.  There is plenty to do at home and no reason to be in the office whatsoever.  There is nothing going on there at all.  I love the freeze.

Medifast Status: Day 245, Down ~72lbs

I got to sleep in just a little this morning because I wanted to go to the Denton County tax office and get the Mazda transferred from New York to Texas.  The office opens at nine, I believe, so I did not have to get up all that early to get in there.

The line was not too bad at the tax office when they opened this morning although the parking lot was completely full.  It took me about two hours to get everything done that I needed to do including getting my insurance switched from New York to Texas officially.  So now the Mazda is officially Texan.  Now that we have that done our next task is to get Dominica and my driver’s licenses switched from New York to Texas.  That requires more paperwork than I have at hand so I need Dominica to dig that up so that we can deal with that.  That is for another day and is done at the DMV rather than at the county tax office.

I finished reading “High Five” this morning and started reading “That’s Not In My American History Book” while I was waiting to get all of the paperwork done for the car.

I went home and ended up just staying there until after lunch since it was so late by the time that I was done getting the car taken care of.  Then I went in to the office this afternoon.