I hate doing blogs with no pictures, but I figured that a blog without pictures is better then no blog at all.

I thought I would give you an update on what we are up to. My last blog was about my baby fish. Unfortunately none of them survived. The last one died a couple of days ago. Its ok though, we were told it was a long shot that any of them would survive. I keep having amonia problems in my tank, which were stable before the babies, but the addition of the babies made it spike and they (as well as goldie) died because of it. At least I still have Burtis my beta, he was in an isolated tank so he wasn't effected by the amonia (besides, betas are like really tough fish and have this crazy will to live and are really tough.) So, once I can get the water levels fixed in the big tank Burtis will go back to being the king of the tank.

Sean started his new job last week. He is the Chemical Coordinator for the Organic Lab program at Texas A&M. Its great!! Besides the increase in his pay check, he already loves it and is really happy with it. Right now he's crazy busy since school starts next week. He also has been working last week and this week to finish his summer grad student job so for last week and this week he has been at the new job from 8-5 then the other job from 5-7. Its been crazy!!! But he's a trooper and is making it through.

I am still working my same job at the insurance place. THings have been rocky in the past but they have made some changes and things are starting to get better so thats great!!! There are suppose to be more changes coming in Sept so hopefully that happens!

Let's see, well Sean and I just started a new diet, its the Michael Thurmonds 6 week body makeover diet. Sean's grad professor is on this diet with her husband and she's lost 40 pounds and the husband lost 60 pounds (in about 6 months) so we are hopeful. The biggest thing with the diet is portion control and eating the right foods. For instance, we eat 6 meals a day. There's choices for it but because of our body types it limits things. Here's an average day for me and Sean:
______________Rachelle______________Sean____________
Breakfast: 2 eggs whites_________4 egg whites
__________1/2 cup oatmeal________1 cup potatos
__________1/2 cup fruit__________1/2 cup fruit

Snack_____2 oz chicken___________4 oz chicken
__________1/2 cup potatoes_______1 cup potatoes

Lunch_____Salad
__________2 oz chicken___________4 oz chicken
__________1/2 cup rice___________1 cup rice
__________1 cup peas_____________1 cup peas

Snack_____2 oz chicken___________4 oz chicken
__________1/2 cup potatoes_______1 cup potatoes

Dinner____2 oz chicken___________4 oz chicken
__________1/2 cup carb___________1 c carb
__________1-2 serv veggies_______1-2 serv veggies

Snack_____1/2 cup fruit__________1/2 cup fruit

The chicken option can be substituted for lots of different types of fish or turkey. Right now we're eating alot of chicken since I don't like fish. For dinner we can sometimes have red meat, but our body type is supposed to limit red meat. So yeah, i'll let you know how it goes.

Ok, so this turned out to be a longer blog then I thought (i must have more time on my hands then I realized)