Much calmer now

So I was able to push back our plans a couple of days, and now I'm much calmer. Frances has, of course, since downgraded and might possibly be not as much as a threat, but I figure that it's better safe than sorry. Oh, and of course, there's another tropical storm brewing out there - Ivan - who could pose a threat while we're down there, but there's nothing I can do about that so I've decided to stop obsessivly watching the weather channel and checking weather sites and just stop worrying. What will be, will be.

So here's the new itinerary:

Thursday (9/9) - Leave bright and early for Disney! Get there, check in, spend the afternoon at the Magic Kingdom and then have dinner at Epcot and watch the fireworks show there - IllumiNations.

Friday (9/10) - Go to Animal Kingdom during the day and then go to the Spirit of Aloha dinner show at the Polynesian resort that night.

Saturday (9/11) - Free day... probably go to Downtown Disney and shop or check out DisneyQuest... perhaps go to the Grand Floridian Spa for some spa treatments... then we'll have dinner at Fulton's Crab House in Downtown Disney and then see the 9pm show of Cirque du Soleil.

Sunday (9/12) - Whole day at Epcot. Dinner will probably be in Japan... :)

Monday (9/13) - Whole day at Disney/MGM Studios. We'll have dinner at the Hollywood Brown Derby and then see Fantasmic, their nightime show with fireworks and water effects.

Tuesday (9/14) - Whole day at the Magic Kingdom. Dinner will be at Tony's Town Square restaraunt, which is supposed to be modeled after the Italian restaruant in Lady and the Tramp. This is the only night that they'll have the Spectromagic nightime parade during our trip, so we'll watch that parade and then the fireworks show - Wishes.

Wednesday (9/15) - Another free day... and our last full day at "The World". We can check out a park that we wanted to see again, or rent a boat or go horseback riding or something. That night, we'll have dinner at the California Grill at the Contemporary Resort. I wasn't able to get as good a time as I had for our original reservation, but we still should be able to see Wishes from there...

Thursday (9/16) - Departure day. :( But, our flight isn't until 6pm, so we still have a lot of time to do stuff during the day. So we'll be doing a behind the scenes tour at the Magic Kingdom called "Keys to the Kingdom". That'll be from around 9 until 2. If we can't get a late check out, we'll check out of the hotel before the tour and just store our luggage there until we get picked up there by the town car. If we can get a later checkout, we'll be able to sleep a little later that morning and then come back to the room and pack out after the tour. We'll arrive back in Albany around 10:15 that night.

So I feel a lot better now that the plans are pushed back. And I think that this new schedule is a lot more relaxing than the original schedule, so everything worked out fine. Oh, and since we're going Thursday to Thursday, I took the Friday off after we return, so I only have to work this Tuesday and Wednesday this week (Monday is a holiday), and then I don't have to be back to work for 11 days! And the weekend after we get back is IrishFest, so that'll be fun too!

So yeah. I feel SO much better now!! Only 5 days to go! :)

HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN... ;)

So last week's weigh-in was very encouraging. I'd gained the week before... 3 lbs over 2 weeks... and then at last week's weigh in I lost... with a vengence! ;) I lost 3.2 lbs in a week. I guess my body was like, "What's this? This fat does not belong here!

So yeah. I was happy... :)

And then, last week they started a new plan at Weight Watchers. They now have 2 options in their "Turn Around" plan... You can continue to do the Flex Points thing (where you get a daily points target and you count and keep track of points for all the food you eat and then you have 35 flex points a week so that you can "splurge" if you need to), or you can do their new Core Foods plan. With that plan, you can eat all the food you need to to be satisfied off of their core foods list, which is pretty big! It pretty much includes all whole, unprocessed foods. So you can eat lean cuts of meat, veggies, fruits, beans, and unprocessed grains. If you want to eat a food that's not on the list, that's ok, you just have to count the points for that and you've got a limit of 35 points a week. It's all very exciting. ;)

I decided to give the new plan a shot this week and so far I love it! I think that I'll have another "losing" week when I weigh in tonight, which is fabulous, because usually when I lose big one week, I won't really lose much at all the next week. And this week I didn't even exercise all that much... So I'm thinking that this new plan, combined with exercise would give really awesome results!

So yeah. It looks like I should definitely make my goal of being right around 150 by Disney (which is next week already!!!). I'm really happy. I can't wait for weigh-in tonight to see how well I did. Then, I think I'm going to try and get to a meeting to weigh in on Sunday so that I'll have a September weight before I go to Disney and pig out and gain... ;)

Big bundle of nerves...

So I'm alternately so excited that I can't sit still and so nervous that I can't think...

A week from today I should be in Epcot. I say "should be" because right now everything seems uncertain because of Hurricane Frances. We're supposed to be arriving in Orlando at about 12:30pm on Monday. But if there's a hurricane travelling up the East Coast of the US about that time, who knows what will happen. I'll be really disappointed if we don't make it in on Monday, especially because we have Preferred Seating (like a reservation) set up for the California Grill at the Contemporary Resort for 7:20 that evening so that we can have dinner and watch the fireworks show at the Magic Kingdom (Wishes).

I just want to get there. :( I'm so worried. I mean, if we just get there, I'll be fine. I don't even care if we get delayed a lot that day... as long as we can make our PS at the CA Grill... ;) I really hope we don't have to lose a day of our vacation. :( We're supposed to leave Albany for Charlotte, NC at 7:10am on Monday and arrive there at about 9:15am... then we're supposed to leave Charlotte for Orlando at 11am and arrive in Orlando at 12:27pm. So if there's a hurricane blasting up the coast, I'm thinking our travel plans will be fucked. I hope not... :(

I guess there's no point in worrying about it now. I mean, there's nothing that I can do. And forecasts this far ahead are never right. So I should just calm down. Easy to say... hard to do.

Also, Beck is on a cruise to the Bahamas right now. I bet the cruise isn't actually going anywhere near the Bahamas. They've probably been diverted to other islands. I mean, I'm sure they won't go near any bad weather. She's safe and having a great time, I'm sure. She'll probably have problems getting back from FL though... I think they come back to port on Thursday, then she'll be there Friday and is supposed to return home on Saturday... but if the storm is hitting then, she'll probably be stuck there. But I'm sure she'll be fine, so I shouldn't worry about her either.

I keep obsessively checking all the weather sites I can find online...

Sigh. I hate when things are beyond my control.