I Said No.

I did. I told him no. No. No. No. But nooooooo. 

He voted yes.

You see, back at Victoria, over the summer, when we were unemployed, we watched all the seasons of Prison Break. It's all we did...I don't remember if it was one week or two but we watched it from the moment we woke up until the wee hours of night. We just kept clickin' "Watch next episode". So when he approached me a few weeks ago with "Let's watch the Friday Night Lights series!!" I said no. I told him I didn't want to dedicate my life to another TV series and once I started, I wouldn't be able to stop until I finished. He asked a few more times over the past weeks and finally just pushed play on the Netflixs. That was it. I was done for. In the beginning we watched together. We cuddled and commented and pushed "next episode". It counted towards quality time. But then he'd leave for work; did I wait for him to come home to watch the next one? Nope. He'd text me at midnight and ask what episode I was on. So here I sit, one week later, with four seasons under my belt while he is still somewhere in the middle of season two. We can't even talk about it cause I don't want to give anything away. There is one more season but it's not on Netflix so that's the end of it for me until it joins the club. Not only did I completely waste my life this week but I started acting like the characters, thought about them when not watching and wanted to get home to watch more while I was out. 

I know. Feel free to judge me. 

This weekend Peter was out in the desert with my dad, my uncle, his dad and his brothers riding quads. What did I do? Watched. Watched. Ate a little (I seriously cut down on my calorie intake do to my lack of activity), invited mom over and we watched. Slept, woke up and watched 'til the end.

So what's it about? It's about a small town in Texas that loves their high school football team more than anything. The main characters are the coach and his wife. It's football + high school life + family. 

What I liked about it:

-Coach and his wife have an awesome marriage with passion, conflict + resolution, open dialogue, support for one another and their dreams, and good values. So often marriage is portrayed as a bad thing on TV and in movies. Their marriage was awesome and in no way a downer.

-good plot

What I did not like:

-the teen drinking and sex. While this was terrible there were a few pluses that came from it

     -two girls got pregnant (showed the consequences)

     -one of the girls chose abortion and then the whole town was upset she didn't keep it or give it up for adoption

     -showed emotional heartache tied with sex out of wedlock

     -with the drinking, they always showed a designated driver or the person getting a ride home and leaving his car behind. So the characters only made one stupid decision instead of two.

Maybe next time, Peter will listen to me when I say, "No! I'll get sucked in!"

xo, p&l

Health Update:

I'm down 17 pounds in 6 weeks. That is almost all due to food change. I've worked out maybe 6 times. I want to work out more to improve overall health but just so you know what's made the biggest impact: food. My body is free of gluten, dairy, egg, artificial sweetener/flavors/coloring/anything, most processed food, high fructose corn syrup and anything more that is like the above.

I do not feel in anyway deprived, yesterday I had 3 squares of (delicious) dark chocolate in the afternoon and then decided I wanted a little more in the evening. Immediately after having just two squares, I got a headache. My body talks to me. I see direct results of how the food I choose affects my body. I'm just one big personal science experiment. I'm only half way there but hey, I'm half way there!! Oh, by the way...even with 5 chocolate squares, a head ache and all day parked on the couch...I lost weight. :)