Sheep Guarding Llama

Medifast Status: Day 24, Down ~17.5lbs

Still playing catchup on SGL.  I’m three weeks behind so many days are blurring together unless there was something significant happening.  Today was so boring that even my FourSquare stream was empty.

I was at the office today and rushed home for my two hour phone call from six to eight and then another call after eight.  It was a busy night.  Very little free time to relax.

Medifast Status: Day 23, Down ~17.5lbs

Pretty much a completely uneventful day.  I’m sure that there was something of interest at the time but as I am working hard at playing catchup with the site after falling weeks behind I am unable to remember anything that happened this day.  My calendar is blank.

At least I am finally catching up a little.

Medifast Status: Day 22, Down ~17.5lbs

I was back in to the office this morning.  So much for my three day weekend.  But the great thing about a three day weekend it is followed almost automatically with a four day work week.  So just three more days to go after today!

Last night we had some really serious storm that snuck up on us here in the DFW.  I’m amazed by how quickly storms just appear out of nowhere, hit and vanish.  Midwestern weather is really interesting.

After work I was supposed to be going to my golf lesson but seeing how bad the projected thunderstorm was going to be I decided that it would likely be smartest if I called my golf instructor to find out if we were really going to make an attempt or not.  The answer turned out to be “not”.  So rather than having to leave work to go to gold I was able to run up to the house and get Dominica and the girls to go out to dinner at the club.  We had been planning on dinner at the club but didn’t think that we were going to be able to do that because of how long it takes for my golf lesson.

We had a nice dinner in La Cima’s Lakeside.  Dominica and I are doing the splitting meals thing now so that we have to go to the club twice per month instead of just once but it gets us out a bit more and causes us to take even more advantage of the club that we use to.  I like that we are getting a better value and Dominica seems to be happy to go out to eat more now – which is amazing since we have two little girls, and not just one, to take with us now.

Hopefully our new approach to La Cima will work well with my diet and make it easier for us to leverage the club while sticking to the rigorous weight loss program.  We will see.

We had an adventurous night with a major storm, including tornadoes, moving in on us while we were having dinner.  It was rather exciting.  We had the iPad and the iPhone so we were watching the weather reports and we got to see some amazing stuff from up in the tower.

At one point we were told to prepare to have to run to the middle of the building for safety.  There were really tornadoes that hit Irving and Arlington.  So while we didn’t see any funnels ourselves, we were right in the midst of the excitement.  It was very cool.

We ended up having to stay rather late at dinner because of the storms.  It was not safe to drive home until after the storm had passed.

There was some major hail in this storm and while we were at La Cima we heard that a friend of ours who was working there had had grapefruit-sized hail punch through her roof, take out her windows and seriously damage her car!  And she lived very close to the club.

We got home, probably around ten thirty, and from an initial inspection that house seemed to be in good shape.  Dominica was really glad that I had insisted on taking the new Acadia to the club and not using valet parking so that we would be protected in the parking garage since we have no protection at home.  Our new car would have likely been destroyed.  We don’t really care about the Mazda anymore.  She was pretty impressed that I had thought ahead enough to have planned for a way to protect the Acadia under these conditions.

Medifast Status: Day 21, Down ~17 lbs

After the crazy amount of work that got done last night I took today as a pseudo-comp day and spent the day at home with the family.  I still had to work rather a bit but we got a good amount of time to spend together as well.  It was very nice to basically get a surprise three day weekend.  That doesn’t happen very often.

I got to sleep in some, casually deal with stuff at work and managed to play a lot of Fable I today.  I have pretty much wrapped up everything in the original Fable game now – that is the quests and stuff that existed only prior to The Lost Chapters being released.  Unlike a lot of more modern games where downloadable content is mixed into the game making it bigger right from the beginning, The Lost Chapters is mostly a multi-hour tack on at the end of Fable.  So once you complete Fable itself, then you go on to play The Lost Chapters like an extension, rather than an expansion, of the original game.

Liesl was especially happy that I was home all day today.  We got a lot of time together.

Medifast Status: Day 20, Down ~16 lbs

After getting the XBOX 360 hooked up and working last night today turned into a pretty much all Fable day.  It was really nice that we were able to spend the day relaxing and playing it.  Dominica has been enjoying getting to watch it rather than watching television.

Fable is great as a television replacement because it is so story driven.  We’ve been really liking the change of pace this weekend.  It has been so long since we were able to do something interactive as a family.

This afternoon we went to Norma’s, the new diner that we discovered recently, for a late lunch as a family.  It is one of the few restaurants where I have found something that I can eat.  There isn’t much that I can eat and I am sure that it is not as healthy as it could be but at least it is another food option which is important at this point as the Medifast really leaves me wishing for more food variety.  Dominica loves eating at Norma’s, it is definitely her type of place.  My biggest problem there is that the restaurant is so busy and loud that we really don’t get to spend time as a family.  We can see each other but we might as well be eating in front of the television for how little we get to communicate.

This evening turned into a work disaster and I ended up spending the entire evening and on into the night on a major conference call dealing with datacenter issues.  That was no fun at all and really cut into the family time.

I ended up working for so long that I will be taking tomorrow off and will be home all day.  I’ll still be working but only for escalation support so it will be a nice day with the family.