Day 5

Well, I made it to day 5. I have decided to start drinking more water. I read somewhere that you should drink half your weight in ounces in water each day. So if you weigh 160 pounds, you should drink 80 ounces of water. That's ten 8 oz glasses! That seems quite excessive. Since I am a diet coke drinker, I have decided for every one bottle of soda, I will drink 2 bottles of water. I start the day with the 2 bottles of water and then the soda. When I finish the soda, I have to drink 2 more bottles through out the day before getting another soda. The coke company has now dropped their sodas to 16 ounce bottles. They used to be 24 ounces. So I am drinking about 64 ounces of water during the day. Hopefully, drinking the water will help me overcome my soda addiction and in turn, I will lose more weight.

Day 4

Everything hurts. My shoulders hurt, my elbows hurt, my legs hurt, my feet hurt but I won't give up. I need to do this. Not for anyone else but for myself. I have been exercising 30 minutes at a time four times a day. I'm not sure if I am doing enough but some exercise is better than none. I can do this. The food part is actually the hardest. Yesterday, Robbie wanted some candy. Instead of saying no, I bought him some. Walgreens had a sale 3 for $2 otherwise they were .99 a piece if you didn't get all 3. So of course, I got one for Robbie, one for Ryker and then that left one. It was a Reese's peanut butter cup dark chocolate. Who could resist that, right? Well, I should have because I really didn't enjoy it. Today, I will do better.

Exercising

In the pass 9 years I have gained 35 pounds. I went from a size 5 to a size 10. Yes, I did have a child in that time frame but that was 3 years ago and it's time to get my rather fat ass back into shape. I know it's going to be hard. I am over 40 but I know I can do it. In 2003, I went from a size 14 to a size 5 by exercising on a gazelle and making healthier eating choices. I'm not so much concerned with what the scale says. They are numbers but do not define me. I'm hoping to lose inches. My legs are ginormous. I think I am going to measure myself at the end of each month. I don't think a week will show much progress and I will get discouraged. So for now, here are my numbers.

Waist: 36"
Thighs: 25"
Hips: 40"
Calves: 15 1/2"
Pant size: 10

Saturday Centus

I have decided to join Jenny Matlock on her 133 Saturday Centus. In case you do not know what this is, Jenny chooses a prompt and we write a post about it. This week's prompt is "The pain was excruciating" There is a limit of 104 words including the prompt. To read other's, click here

I lay on the table and hear the buzzing of the needle. It pricks at my back, stinging me. The pain was excruciating. I think why am I putting myself through this? It's my 3rd tattoo, I should be use to the pain. But this time, it is worse than before. I close my eyes and tune out all the sounds. My trance is interrupted by a voice. "All done" the artist says. I stand up and he gives me a mirror. I position it to see my work of art. It is beautiful.

fuzzy pic not fuzzy tattoo

Been A long Time

Wow my last post on here was in August. I wonder if I have any followers left or if anyone is reading this? A lot has been going on in my life. My two year old has been seeing a speech therapist and on the 20th, we will see if he qualifies for Headstart for next year. He turns 3 in December so he was too young to go this September. I'm thinking he will qualify. He copies a lot of what people say and can only say 3 word sentences. Today, however, he said his first 4 word sentence. "Step in dog shit?" Yes, I really need to watch what I say around him.

We moved to a bigger house last month. We are still settling in and still have boxes of crap to unpack. It's amazing how much you can accumulate in 3 1/2 years. Having inventory for Ebay doesn't help either. I've given a few things away and we threw out a bunch of stuff but it is still overwhelming. How the hell did we wind up with 8 t.v.s that don't work? I blame my husband. He's a hoarder. It's true. You will probably see us on Buried Alive next season. Until then, I'll try to keep up with this blog but I make no promises.

What Is This World Coming Too??

I live in a small town. It's pretty safe. Not a lot of bad things happen here. However, two months ago, two teenagers beat a man to death with a baseball bat while he was sleeping. They were intending to rob him. I did not know the victim, but one of the suspects is the nephew of a girl I went to school with. I'm not sure of the status of the case. It kind of died down in the media.

Then this morning around  3 a.m. I was woke up by a loud bang. I didn't know what it was, so I laid there for awhile. I was sleeping on the living room couch. My husband came in a few minutes later and asked if I was ok. He said did you hear the gunfire? He told me to check on the boys. They were fine. We listened to the police scanner and it was saying someones house and car was shot at. We went back to sleep. This morning I was getting the remote off the entertainment stand and thought to myself "Wow, I really need to dust". Then I thought, why is everything so dusty? I looked at the wall and there is a bullet hole in it. I was sleeping in that room! I went outside and found a cop and told her my wall has a bullet hole in it. She said she would send a cop over when they were done.

About an hour later, Ryker had set his bowl of cereal down on the floor. I walked over to put it away and saw something on the floor. I picked it up. It was the bullet!!! I flagged down another cop and said I found a bullet but had picked it up because I didn't know what it was. He came inside and got the bullet. 

Soon after, I looked out the window and there was the S.W.A.T. team on my block. I'm not sure what all was going on as it has been kept out of the news.

Checking in

Sorry if I have been neglecting this blog. I sometimes feel that no one wants to read about the minutia of my life. And since I have not been participating in Alphabe Thursday, (sorry Jenny) I have nothing to blog about. If you want something to read, check out my other blog, Treasures in Thrifting Land