My mother is as we speak, in Germay having a wonderful time. I want to write her a letter, but that would take forever to arrive, so I think I should call her instead. However, since I only have a Cell phone here in the States, it would cost me .99 a minute! Yikes! I know she has a calling card for Germany, as she does not like to use her friends home phone. Plus, it is rather cheap to use international phone cards over there. She can use them from a private home, a place of business or even a payphone. And yes, the still have payphones over there, because I was just there couple years ago. They are all in German, so luckily the phone cards have prompts for English.
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Category: Travel
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ewwwww, we all had just a terrible week. What is going on ? I know what I did was totally eat what I wanted to last week; kinda like the last blast of summer. Rather Stupid as I sit here w/my pants way to tight. But I am starting over today. This Tuesday Group does inspire and motivate me, so today is going to be Day One. Start Over. Begin Anew.
Here are my starting stats:
Age:45
Height: 5′8″
Weight: 154.8
Goal: 142
and here are the Group Results:
Chris – 2 GAIN
Tammy – 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog – 0 CHANGE
Grace – no report yet
Leigh – 3.5 GAIN
Clara – 4 LOSS
Dette – 2 GAIN
Julie – 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl – 0 CHANGE
Audrey – 2 LOSS
Christy – 2 GAIN
Tina – no report yet
Danielle – 0 CHANGE
Jessie – 0 CHANGE
This week’s total – 2.3 GAIN!
Category: Every Day Things
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Today it was very hard to get up and out of bed. School was just too stressfull for my son and of course it rubs off on me. But overall, he told me this morning that he likes his schedule and most all his teachers are pretty neat. He is just freakin’ over his Science teacher; shoulder length white hair, full white beard, very stuffy Harvard-type teacher. I guess he used to be a Principle at some other school, retired, then came back to public schools as a teacher. I did meet him, he seems nice, but I can see from an 8th graders view that he might be a tad over powering, heeheehee.
All in All, the school year is starting out okay. No more 4 day weekends, no more traveling for the year, and no more travel insurance, just plain ol’ work work work. I even work Labor Day !
Original Post: Aug25 8:53am
Category: Every Day Things
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Monday. School started today. and I have GOT to start getting back into the groove! I totally pigged out last week and ate whatever the fetch I wanted. Today I am paying for it. My back really hurts. It could be stress (over what I have no idea) but I think it is the extra weight I am dragging around. I just have no motivation, no BF, not dating, no reason really, to loose weight. Okay, other than health reasons that is.
And I want to be healthy ! I need to be healthy for ME and I need to do this for ME, no one else, just ME. but I have a really hard time doing things just for me. But this time I really dont have a choice. I am falling apart health-wise and I gotta get back on track.
Originally posted Aug24 7:24pm
Category: Every Day Things
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I love Chocolate, but it has to be the good stuff. Not all chocolates are good enough for me to eat and I will only buy top of the line chocolates. My mother is in Germany right now and I did request her to bring some chocolate home as well, but she will not be around ’till mid October. So in the meanwhile, I will probably order some GertrudeHawk chocolates on line. They also have Fudge, Caramel dipped Apples and even Suger Free Candies. Have you even had Chocolate cover Coffee beans…? out of this world I tell ya! It does get boring just eating the plain chocolate candy bars, so I do like to spice things up a bit and try new things. This time I just might try the Sea Salt Caramels in Dark Chocolate, yum !
Originally posted Aug24 6:42pm
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Okay, we get this very nice invitation to attend a Eagle Scout Court of Honor from one of my sons friends. This is thee highest rank a Scout can achieve. So put the invitation aside, and pull it out like 15 minutes before we are to leave. However, get this, there is no fetchin’ address on the invitation! All is says is Butler West Stake Center. OMG. Like where the heck is that!? I know it is a Mormon Church, but do you know how many Mormon churches are in Salt Lake City !? Every other corner, sheesh. So I start searching on line to find the dang thing, but can find no listing of Mormon Church address anywhere, I have been doing this for at least 30 minutes now and its too late to go. I thought about calling the kid, but I am sure he was at the church way before hand, so that is point is moot. Good Gosh, I really wanted to go too! I wanted to see what a Eagle Scout COH is all about, and . . . I wanted to see how the Mormons do one. Well now my kiddo has to explain to his friend in school tomorrow why we did not show up.
But it really ticks me off. They just expect everyone to be Mormon and know where each Stake is! Well they should be conciderate and put the damn address on the invitation if they want us Non-Mormons to come. Or – maybe they did that on purpose, so that we would Not show up – ya never know . . .
Category: Scouts
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I am slowly but surely coming out of my funk. I slept a good 8 hours last night; straight thru, no dreams, nothing. Sleep always cures just about everything for me. Plus, I am off work till Monday, which of course is wonderful!
My son and I went up to the Zoo to finish off his Bird Merit Badge for Scouts. The Lady that started it all moved to California in her many moving trucks, so we had some new young lady, and man was she young. Which was kinda good, cuz it took a whompin’ 5 minutes to complete the Badge which my son started in October of last year! But we both are glad thats over with. He will now get 4 MB’s on the next COH, woo hoo!
We both had a good time at the Zoo. I have a really hard time seeing the animals in their small cages, but they are improving our little Zoo constantly and the animals now have really nice living arrangements. This year the Zoo is featuring an Albino Crocodile. He is pretty dang cool.
Category: Family
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I am still in this terrible funk. Today is especially bad; I am really down, and just want to lay in bed, cry and feel sorry for myself. and, I know I am extremely exhausted as well.
However, I do believe I am making progress in figuring what is making me feel this way.
For one, my house is a dissaster, I am 10 lbs overweight and I have no money. Plus, I really dont know who I am anymore or what I want with my life. These things need to be rolled around in my head for a few days and once I can answer these questions, I will have a better attitude and be able to live again.
I also need to re-read my CoDependent books and get some outside exercise. Today is my short day at work, so I am already home. My son has promised to help me clean the house, he has also already taken care of the Turtle and Cat. We will take a walk to the grocery store in a bit as we need Baby Food for the Cat as she is out I can spare $5 bucks for that.
Tonight we were going to hit the Utah Symphony as I have free tickets, but I think it would be best if I just stayed home and went to bed early. Sleep always helps every problem I have.
SO-enough blabbin’, time to get outside so the sunshine can help cure me.
Category: CoDependant
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My Gosh am I droopy, depressed and tired today. I dont want to do anymore work, I can bearly keep my eyes open and I even had 3 cups of coffee today.
My dream for today (and tonight) is to sit on my couch, watch a re-run of the Sarah Connor Chronicles and eat Pizza. Why am I craving Pizza !?!?!?
I sure as heck better not have to go anywhere after we get home. No. Wait. The kiddo wants a haircut. Okay I can do that; which means watch someone else cut his hair while I sit on my butt!
Sometimes I just get into a funk like this. It needs to pass so that I can get on with my life. *sigh*
Category: CoDependant
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I have been thinking today. I wonder if my eating habits have something to do with my life problems. I tend to eat when I am stressed and if I think on it, I am stressed these days. Like some people my problems are money related. I want so bad to be debt free. It is like my eating; a rollercoaster of ups and downs.
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So I guess I can chalk up my terrible eating habits to my bad spending habits; kick them both in the butt and move on to September. New Month, New Season, New Attitude; things have Got to start getting better!
Category: Every Day Things
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