Eleni,

Glad to hear you are doing better. I worry about you all the time with your health. You are always there to help and support everyone in your life. You are a very special person to me. If there is anything I can do for you let me know.

Penny,

Hey Rubie is so cute. How are you doing girl. I did call wendy but haven't heard from her yet. I hope all is well and there wasn't any problems.

As for me I have had to do a lot of thinking and I need to change. My boss had a talk with me on tuesday. My job is sorta in jeperdy. He is being patient with me but he said he needs me back and that I am way too distracted and not doing what I need to do. That he hasn't ever seen me this way even in my worst time. It hit home and I am glad he talked to me about it. I came up with some solutions last night prayed a lot and today I feel much better. I am going to work on getting focused here at work. I was in the mode of just existing again I think and not living. Getting too caught up in the whirlwind of the kids instead of stopping and doing something about it.
I pulled megan out of daycare. My husband will be home for another 3 weeks on disability from his shoulder surgery so he is staying with her. I will only have to find someone to watch her for 1 1/2 weeks before she goes back to school which won't be a problem. I have been paying for her to go and she has been staying home. I don't make enough in my pay to pay for the daycare for both kids so it is a huge relief to get out of it finally. Didn't think I could.
I have set some goals for me personally and it is time to start living for me. Something that is very new to me and I am scared to death but I realized last night that I can turn that around and be excited to see who I really am in the end. So it is going to be an adventure. Still going up and down on the scale. I lost 3 lbs in my first week on plan. I didn't think that was bad. I am happy with that.

Not much else happening. I am going to try and make here more. Just have to. It is what I want and what I need.

I am at work so I have to go now. Have a great day and take care everyone.

Sherri

Hi Sherri,
I'm sort of a "new" person around here, so I hope you don't mind me responding to your post.

I could've written it myself. I've sort of been "just going" along in a lot of things. My budget has gotton out of control; I took a good hard look at it last night and talked to my husband--not a fun talk at all--but I have a plan and it will take a little doing but I know we can, and in just a few months we will be so much happier to have our spending under control. You know...whenever a person is out of control in any area in their life it just really makes for a miserable situation.

I've not be that enthused with my job recently and I've just been cruising. I've not had my boss talk to me, but I know that if I don't get some things together soon and get on the ball, that talk or a harsher reality might happen.

Thanks for sharing your plight with us. I hope good things will happen for you now that you have a plan together and your direction mapped out.

It's really nice that your boss was good enough to have a talk with you instead of letting things just go until it was something that couldn't be fixed.

Hope to see you around on the boards and if you don't mind sharing updates about your life plan that would be great; it will remind me to keep on track as well.

By the way..good job on the weight loss...It's all good from here on out!



Susie

Susie,

Thanks for the response. I am blessed that I have such a wonderful boss. He held my job for me while out on maternity leave. I just got back 3 weeks ago and was out since feb. He said I have leeway but he can't wait forever. He knows I won't be fully up to speed right away but I have to be a lot closer then I am right now. He said he has never seen me this lathargic.
I learned a lot last year about life and I learned that if we just go along as you say and we don't get involved and actually participate in life then we won't be happy no matter what we do. If we are not happy then it really does have an effect on the rest of the areas in our lives and it isn't fun at all. That could lead to the overspending as well. In my case me and my husband were both on disability at the same time (bad timing) and with me out so long it hurt us with the bills. They were caught up then bam I had to leave work early. Just glad I had a job to come back to. I have so much more to learn here and so far to go to expand the company and I want to be here to see that happen and to be a part of it.
Last night was a busy night for us both.
When we have our lives back in control then we will both be back on plan and succeeding again.

Sherri

Sherri and Susie.....

It sounds like both of you are going through a great transition.....

That is wonderful! Hang in there! God doesn't give you more than you can handle

Hello Just wanted to bring you up to date. Yesterday was not good but I am much better. I called doc when I got off work.Had to take high powered pill again. But as long as I don't take two in a row I should be ok. Once they get fluid under control then they will work on what is making heart malfunction. But I can breathe this morning and that is great. This is getting to be a pain in the ***. Time for work. Hang in there Sherri. This is a piece of cake compared to what you have already been thru.

Eleni,
I am soooooo sorry for you! That is horrible. I will keep you in my prayers and hope you start getting better soon!

You are too good of a person