Good Morning Everyone,
Krampus congratulations on size 4, that's awesome. What a nice way to celebrate your accomplishments and relationship with your mother. I hope you and she have fun time doing the pageant and good luck!
Kathy I hope you took your own suggestion and didn't read the email until this morning or mid morning. Icky stuff is the worst right before bed. You need your sleep! I hope you have a calm day so that you can focus on you.
ItsMyTurn That is the worst thing ever to hear and if you heard it, she heard it. I can't imagine the heartache, just being a person like myself who takes on others pain is bad, being a mother who lost a child...that is heartbreaking times eternity. And two sons lost in two weeks (different moms), I can't imagine morale is doing all that well lately. After reading your post, I plan to give my kitties an extra hug today too. Once they wake their butts up
Diana Good morning. Yeah what a year this was for me. I'm still shocked over giving my neighbor a ride to the mall and when did that happen? When I go for a walk I pass this laundromat (I love the smell of detergent) and I ache to go inside and ask if they have applications. Then I talk myself out of it. Why would they have applications? They probably aren't hiring. What do I know about doing laundry? That last one gets me every time. One day, I'm going to tell myself, well if I know I won't get hired anyway, why fret over not getting hired and just go in with well let's do it for fun (and maybe research for next book
) This turtle is still slow, but I'm moving, right?
Moondance As I read your questions, I kept saying "yep, it could be that." Afterwards, I realized I said that to every question. Must be good questions. I'm thinking, it could be one or all or none of those. I had a few of those issues myself. And seriously, I think I still have some. I thought I'd hate to fail yet again, if I didn't lose the weight, but then I thought, wouldn't it be failing if I didn't try. It's not easy that's for sure and a lot of shrinks will tell you to think about why you gained it in the first place (minus medical reasons). I think in order to lose weight, you have to be in a good place with yourself or you'll defeat yourself. But sometimes when we're overweight, we don't feel good about ourselves, so it's a viscous circle. I think too, it's one of those things, you just have to look at as one day at a time. And if today you didn't make it, then tomorrow you try harder, but don't focus so much on yesterday (it's in the past and we can't alter it at all). It isn't a cake walk that's for sure...mmm, cake. I did that to myself this time!
Katie Cool on the loss and needing to get smaller size pants. I've yet to tuck in my shirts, but I wear baby doll blouses now instead of big t's. The hips will come off believe me. My butt and thighs were my biggest problem. I had to buy bigger pants to get them over those areas then have the huge gap in the back at the waist. No my butt and hips are smaller than my fat belly. Ugh, I don't like that either
But I'm living proof, it does come off
If you can, walk a lot. I never thought walking would do anything, I am shock and amazed that it does. Oh and yay, for your tooth not hurting. DS just had a partial crown put on Tues, he didn't complain too much about the pain
Pluckypear I write and rewrite, edit and get it readied for publishing then it sits. In order to publish (not self-publish) publishers want you to be handled by an agent. That's a long process. Although, I write romance, my classes are different so I'd have to find an agent that handles all sorts of romance genres. But the huge thing of course, is that I would have to put myself out there into a world I'm far too afraid of at the moment. Luckily my stuff isn't dated material. I always tease that if I die, the kids could always do the process as children of...and maybe make a few bucks
DH gets darn right mad at me that I don't make the move. He's even offered/threatened to put it in self-publishing then send it off to publishing houses. LOL, it's mostly for me, but if I get brave enough, it can be for everyone. I don't doubt my work, mind you, I'm just afraid of people.
OK today's post was long. IT's 7am and I have yet to hear my kids move. Ooh while the Scott is away, the Kat will play (and forget her duties). I finished rewrites yesterday (for now). I can move on! It's about time. Well I'm off to start the day and bark at the kittens
Have a wonderful and healthy day!
