Joelyn's Chinese New Year Birthday Celebration!

So Joelyn's birthday was earlier this month & since she was headed for Hong Kong a couple weeks later & since it was also Chinese new year I decided to do an Oriental themed dinner for her. I love Joelyn cuz she lets me throw fabulous dinner parties for her! This turned out to be one of my favorites that I ever put on.

I created a fabulous menu of delicious Chinese food that I made all by myself!

Chinese noodles


Egg rolls & crab rangoon (super delicious & look how great they look. very professional)


And Orange Chicken which I had never made in my life but not to be all whatever..I totally rocked it!!


I decided that we should use little take out boxes instead of plates & it looked really great on the table & I think everyone enjoyed it. Also for Chinese New Year you're supposed to give your guests "lucky money" in red envelopes so I made these cute little envelopes on my Cricut & got fake money from the dollar store & set them at each place setting as a little party favor. So cute!



the table


looks like a Chinese Restaurant!




And of course we had fabulous guests! It's how we roll!

Nellie, Dain & Kaylin



Chalise & Matty


TJ & Joelyn


seriously one of my favorite dinner parties ever. Happy Birthday Joelyn!

Vent..........

Ok I need to vent for a minute....So you know i'm doing Biggest Loser with my crew right? well I'm also doing one at my office as well & the contest at my office is about to drive me to drink. I am in last place as of today. How is that possible?! This will sound like a dumb excuse but seriously something is wrong with the scale here at work. I'm for real. my group biggest Loser is a week ahead of my office one & according to my group contest I am down almost 10 pounds. great right!? Would you like to guess how many pounds I'm down according to my office one? 2.2!!! that's it. 2.2 pounds. while the other peeps in the contest including this fat girl who eats cup o noodles everyday for lunch & pigs out on food every weekend is beating me. what the hell is happenign at my office?! we've got 9 weeks left but sitll come on. I don't get what's happening wiht me & that scale. I'm eating right & cutting calories & I'm working out almsot everyday & showing results on the scale at home but I come here & get deflated every single week. UGH!!!! These lazy fatties at my office can't beat me! vent over.....

Biggest Loser Day 21

Well this week started out great. My running is getting easier & my legs aren't feeling so old & decrepit & the Icy Hot smell is starting to leave my apartment. I'm not quite sure what my problem was but when I came home from work Friday afternoon I was STARVING! Seriously starving. And I meant to eat. I stopped by Kiwi Loco to treat myself to some frozen yogurt. Delicious. But that little treat didn't satisfy me whatsoever. Next I ate the leftover curry chicken & rice I had taken for my lunch & then to top that off i had a bagel & cream cheese. Ok it was one of those bagel thin things so not as bad as a full on bagel. Good grief Melissa. Later Friday night I went to Joelyn's to play and she continued to feed me. Spaghetti (which honestly was more tomatoes than actual soaghetti so that's not too bad)& some veggies, an english muffin with butter, a pudding cup (sugar free) and a little bitty York peppermint pattie. Stop eating Melissa! Saturday started out better & I ate sensibly all day. Then me & Chalise decided to try this new frozen yogurt place Orange Leaf. These frozen yogurt places are going to be my downfall. This place is even better than Kiwi Loco! That night we went to Cafe Rio for dinner. Joelyn & I were sensible & split a burrito & I had rationed out my calories so I could eat said burrito. Then for some stupid reason we decided we just had to have more frozen yogurt. Seriously someone needs to come slap my face. Oh the guilt & the calories. I did not ration for this. Saints be praised the next day was fast Sunday. Melissa you need to have Fast Monday through Friday to make up for this! Them of course it's Super Bowl Sunday. We tried to keep it healthy by doing kabobs on the grill. Sure meat & veggies how bad could that be?! Not that bad until the chips & salsa came out along with cheese dip. It was over for me. And having not eaten all day due to fasting I was starving again. We all just kept eating & eating & then Chalise had a great idea that we should make a cake & eat that too. oh my gosh! Luckily we decided to weigh in before all this pigging out. I didn't lose my 3 pounds like I wanted but I did lose 1 1/2 so I'll take it. This week needs to be better. Dear Melissa sort yourself out!