My rice cake addiction has taken a turn for the worse!

Apparently when you eat waaaayyyyy too much fiber in the form of a rice cake it does not allow your body to absorb any of the nutrients from the other food that you are eating and your body starts to shut down. NOT FUN at all....so, not only am I not sleeping more than 3 - 4 hours a night (and barely more than 1/2 hour at a single stretch), my body also decided it was done with the rice cake thing. I actually went the whole day yesterday not eating a single rice cake! I also could not raise my head from the pillow but that is beside the point!

I was actually eating very well even with the rice cakes! My body really needed something though as my son was eating a tv dinner consisting of chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes and after I took 2 bites my body was in heaven. Unfortunately it was to late for my husband to run to the store so I settled for healthy salisbury steak soup. Not really the same and I suffered for it the next day. What did I have for dinner last night? Two, count 'em, two Whoppers with cheese and large fries. I haven't eaten anything like that in over a month and it was great! I felt so much better for a bit.

I am going to try very hard to stop eating the rice cakes...I will miss them and have two full packages and one half of another. Sigh...

I have a decision to make. I am training for the 5 Mile run in Westport on the 8th of August. Someone I used to work with at the CU texted me on Thursday to see if I could perform her wedding. I asked her the date afraid that she was going to say the 15th which is when we are planning to go to Silverwood in Idaho but she didn't...she said the 8th. I told her that the run starts at 10:30 and I know it will take me a few hours, maybe less, and she told me it is at 4:00. I asked her where and she told me a place in Aberdeen. I didn't respond back yet as I had to give this some thought. I am training for this run that I am looking so much forward to...it inspired me to start taking care of myself (OK, not with rice cakes but with the running) and I was hoping to meet some people and just hang out and do things that runners do after a race. I have no idea what that is, just that I am going to be there. My son and husband are going to be there cheering me on. Sigh...I probably could be done and home in time to shower change and head back into town but what if I am not? I would feel terrible and I would never be so gauche to ask her to move her wedding to a later time. Wedding venues don't like change and neither do brides.

When we last discussed her wedding over 8 months ago a relative was going to do it...would it be selfish of me to say no? What if I am done in plenty of time and had said no...I would feel terrible! I definitely have some thinking to do!

Land of the Lost

My husband, son and I went to see Land of the Lost. I had read a couple of reviews that were not very good. It was neither good nor bad, it was just...feh... I am a Will Ferrell fan and thought he did a good job as he always does. I did not like the character of Chaka and was amazed that in this day and age movie makers still think we need this groping chauvinistic character and that it is entertaining. It's not...it's ridiculous and insulting...and it takes a lot to insult me...

My husband was annoyed at some woman that was laughing loudly throughout the movie. He claims she was not laughing at anything funny but I think it is because she kept waking him up.

I have decided to make my "The Secret" plan is to get paid, and well, for my writing. What this means to me? I need to start writing some more on this blog! We went grocery shopping yesterday and outside of the store they were having a book sale. The first book I laid eyes on was how to get paid for Magazine writing. Now that's a sign! It is dated 1993 but I can still take away some great tips, right? I also found the Hillary Clinton book, I love her, and a Leslie Sansom book on walking for my husband.

My husband is intending on participating in the 5 Mile run with my son and me but he is about 255 so he needs to start slow and only walk at first. If he keeps it up consistently, he could become a runner. Now to keep my son on board...

I am doing a wedding in Westport on July 4th and she wants a more traditional type of ceremony but still short so I need to work on that today and also creating the medication card for my mother-in-law.

I wrote such a huge amount on my other blog, seekermommyrunning, that I have burned myself out for now. I shall be back with more....=O)

Searching for SeekerMommy on Google

Oh my goodness! I decided to do a search for my name, SeekerMommy, which I have been using since around 2000 and someone is using it but with a space between Seeker and Mommy. Don't search for it. Apparently this person is into ummm, errrr, ummm, sexual stuff....sigh....and ick! There is also another person using SeekerMom but seems to be a bit more innocent as I only found links in Catholic sites.

Golly Gee Wilickers! I am not going to change my name but I certainly hope that when people are doing a search know that it is not me on those sites!! Prospective employers search social networking sites these days. My question to the one using my name is....do you really want to be defined as that????

I am also an Officiant so I am also known as Celebrations by Shauna which when I did a search just now shows nothing. I wish it would have linked to my WeddingWire vendor page! I need to get onto the site and figure out how to send a quote to the prospective brides and grooms who ask for more info for me. I, so far, have done one wedding from there. Great couple and alot of fun!

My son is my wedding photographer and he is very good at it. We don't charge for that as it is a hobby for him. He uses a Sony camera which is fabulous but it is pink so he didn't want to use it at first!!

I have done 11 weddings. My start happened when my brother was getting married. I had watched some show on how to do weddings on the cheap and this one person went onto the Universal Life Church website and became ordained. I offered to do it and they said yes. It was wonderful and I was so honored to do it!

I take great pride doing the ceremonies. I create a ceremony book which I tailor to the wedding colors and perform the ceremony from there and then give it to the bride and groom after the ceremony. I generally use the 4 x 6 photo albums as they come in great colors but have been recently finding full page albums which reduces that pages that I have to use in the book giving them more pages to put photos.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans and vampire books

Wow! Great movie!! I know I liked it more than the second one and maybe more than the first one? The acting was great, the sets were awesome and it was a darn good story.

I'm have been a bit of a vampire/werewolf fiend reading almost everything I can get my hands on. Although I do have to admit, the stories are drying up or maybe I am getting bored. I know that I could NOT get through the Anita Blake series. I loved the first 3 books and went out and bought the entire series. I am stuck in the book where some Victorian vampire from England is messing with her mind while she is in the back seat of an SUV. I tried, I really really did, to get through that sequence but I just couldn't do it. The author started getting a bit too freaky. I bought all of her other series, of the Fey, and could not get through book one. L.A. Banks' vampire series had me until Book 3 and I own the entire series of that. I am an avid reader but there are just some books that I just cannot get through...Yeesh! I should sell the series on EBay or Amazon. Someone let me know if you want them!

The JD Robb series is fab! Never have been bored with that. I also like anything Nora Roberts has done when it comes to otherworldly stuff. Nora's new book, Vision in White, is terrific. Although it has nothing to do with otherworldly affairs. It's the story of four women who work together and to plan the best weddings for brides, and find love in the process, that will be a 4-part series. I'm an Officiant and was thinking of branching out into wedding planning by studying a few courses when my job no longer wanted me so that went out the window. Nepotism is alive and well at that job! Oh well, at least I got unemployment off of them!

I used to be an avid writer but lost my way in my 20's...stupid, stupid girl. Now all these years later I am deciding to pick it back up. Hmmm....maybe I will read, one day, someone raving (or not) about my book series! =O)