I'm still alive

It was brought to my attention today that it's been awhile since I posted. Yes, this is true.

This is my first week with no football, cheerleading, equiptment turn ins, board meetings and I finally can concentrate. One more season down. I'm excited, yet sad that it's over.

What's new here...hum, my search, my long, long search for some family members may just be coming to an end. Not quite there but I can see the light. If any of you want more info please let me know and I'll email you about it. Not ready to share for "public viewing" yet.

W.W. is a bust...it's so hard to stick to a weight loss program when your family doesn't really support you. Let's face it people, I don't have will power and that damn Halloween candy!

Bummer

Well, I'm beating myself up right now for what you might think is something dumb, but we had our weigh in last night and I was up .4# (Point 4) now, I know that is nothing but it bummed me out.

Happy & Grumpy or Money & Happy?

This is the millionth time I’ve felt this way in the last 6 months. I need excitement, I need drive, I need something and I don’t know what it is. Anyone guess what I am talking about? Let’s see….it’s starts with a J and ends with a B and there is an O in the middle. Yep you guessed it….a JOB. Yes, I should be grateful I have one at the given moment due to the “stability” of our lovely Michigan economy and no available work… however I am bored out of my mind. Not that there is not projects to work on, accounts to service or filing to be done, it’s just that I feel blasé about my situation. I’m sure most people would say…”just look for another job” only if it were that easy. Let me list the reasons why it’s not…..

-I make decent money where I am at.
-I have benefits through my employer for my entire family as Dan does not.
-I have a flexible enough schedule that if my kids were sick or I needed to leave for an emergency, I could.
-My husband doesn’t think there is anything wrong with my situation and doesn’t understand money isn’t everything.
-Dan’s favorite quote is “if I got paid what you do to basically do nothing, I wouldn’t complain”
-We don’t have the money for me to quit, pay for insurance and go back to school for anything.

It’s not that I have a grand plan or heck even at 33 years old know what I want to be when I grow up…I just know that I don’t want to be “paper pusher” for the next trillion years and it’s really starting to bum me out. Even though I have been at this current job for 6 years and a prior one for 5 years I basically did the same thing…was a paper pusher. I don’t need to win the lotto, I don’t need a money windfall…I will work and work hard for what I get but I’m at a loss as to what to do.

She's the greatest!

Ok..so not only does she have 5 kids to worry about, sports to run to, laundry to do, mouths to feed and studying her own homework but she was so kind to help me, ok not "help me"..... but set up my new layout for me in her "spare" time, it's the one, the only Becky!!!

Thanks Bec and it looks great!

Where oh where can my hubby Dan be?

So, let me tell you playing the single parent roll this week has not been very fun or should I say not been as fun since both kids have practice, homework, showers, etc and my laundry is growing by the moment.

Dan is a god-send he is unlike most husbands and actually helps with house work, kids, homework, dinners, laundry, bills etc. We actually do most of that stuff together and with him being up north this week I've been lost and running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

I sure appreciate all he does and he better never die while my kids are little because I'd kill him.

One more day..he'll be home tomorrow.

:-)

1.8 and counting

So it's Thursday again...weigh in day. Down another 1.8#...that would be a total of 9.6# since September 6th. Slow but sure.

Slow but sure

So..our weekly weight watchers meeting was last night...down 1.4#....which of course does not sound like much but the instructor said the slower you loose the more likey you are to keep it off so that makes a total of 7.8#....now I need to start exercising...week three was the movement discussion. She said start slow if you are not used to seriously working out...take the stairs, walk in place for 5 minutes, etc...so, we'll see how this goes.

:-)