Belated Happy New Year to everyone! I cannot believe it’s already Jan 22. I am writing this from the TUNDRA of Upstate NY where today the high is 2 degrees and the low yesterday was -7.

The New Year started with a list of resolutions.

1. Rejoin Weight Watchers
2. Actually Follow the Weight Watchers plan
3. Exercise of some kind – any basic movement from just walking from the bed to the bath would be considered a BIG win.
4. Try and get my Fit Bit to tell me I walked over 25 steps a day.
5. Remember to charge the Fit Bit
6. Get my Design and Event planning website finished.
7. Relapse and Refer to Resolution 1, 2 & 3.

I conveniently moved the start date to January 2nd -I mean seriously who starts this shit on the 1st when everyone is still out of the office and I can squeeze another day of bread in.

Weight Watchers is truly the best form of “lifestyle change” for me. But let’s stop for a moment and look at that combination of words. “Lifestyle change” is really not what I want – I am pretty happy with my lifestyle and if not for the increase of weight I happen to LOVE the trash I put in my mouth.
What I really want is to wake up tomorrow with a loaf of bread in my mouth and have lost 50 pounds. But seeing how that is not going to happen I started the WW (their new cool name – insert eye roll here) plan.

I took everything I love to eat and I looked up the number of points. I get 23 points per day which seems like a lot until you realize a bagel is 13 points and Gouda is 6 points for 1oz. 1oz of gouda is basically licking the cheese. Nothing more. So far so good and I have decided not to weigh myself until the end of the month. I was doing the “after peeing” each morning weigh in and that was a total shit show.

Thank God for my husband who cooks because it’s hard to eat solo and we all know I know NOTHING about cooking. But we have found that Salmon (zero points) and frozen veggies (also zero points) leaves room for a Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich (6 points) before bed.

My main distraction is the new WW commercials with Oprah on a bike. I want to kick Oprah off the bike every time I watch it. Because I know Oprah has an army of chefs who make her food that is all within HER points and she doesn’t have to eat Salmon every night and if you think I believe she is on that bike everyday – I have a no calorie white baguette to sell you.

In addition she brought on Kate Hudson (post baby) as a WW ambassador – now we all know that Kate doesn’t need WW. I am pretty sure she gain maybe 5 lbs during her pregnancy and has already lost it by simply burping. That bitch session I will leave for another time.

I joined our local gym with a personal trainer. While I am not a Rockefeller – if I didn’t make the investment in a trainer I would not have gone. Example – my trainer has been out of town for a week and I looked at my Fitbit yesterday and it said 39 steps. 39 steps???? Was I in a coma and someone was rubbing my feet?????

In other news, our two new puppies Jack & Jilly Bean are going to bring me to my knees. I swear on my life I am destroying the planet single handedly with the amount of “wee wee pads” these kids use. Never seen anything like it. They are 12 lbs combined yet they poop and pee at least their body weight each day. My OCD is out of control. Why at 47 did I ever think two little nugget puppies were a good idea????? STOP SHITING!

I am ending the first month of the year with a promise I made myself…My love of decor/design and event planning truly is what makes me happy. I have decorated all our homes, homes of friends, planned more events than I can count. It is where I get my joy in this shitshow life of mine. I have toyed with the idea of a side hustle biz and I even bought the domain sammartindesign.com over a year ago. So this weekend I went though every image folder I have, work event folders, invitations I have designed and voila! SamMartinDesign.com went live last night.
I had always said that I could never decorate for other people… unless they loved MY style.
Not exactly the best tag line for a decorating business….
Sam Martin Design – we think your style sucks.

I always thought that if someone wanted me to incorporate their red leather couch I was outta there..

Here’s a quick story. I had a friend who made and sold jewelry. I went to her store and saw the most awful red heart surrounded in different color gem stones. It was gaudy and garish and who in their right mind would ever buy it. I even said to my friend “this thing is going to be here forever – it’s hideous”. Moments later a woman walked in and almost died from her LOVE of this monstrosity???!!! My friend said – if you only design for your own taste – you will go out of business. She was right – I need to see someone’s taste as their own but it also allows me to show them another direction they might not have considered. So I am giving it a try – red leather sofa and all!

The year is off to a less than average shit-show but the year is still young.

Until next time!