Where oh where have I been?
So to recap! Dd had a great 15th birthday, our lovely fall weather is gone and replaced with temps in the high 80's making our fire danger high.
I have visions of this lasting right up to the first blizzard and then boom, its winter and we got no fall! I hope not, that's what happened last year and it stunk!
I have not been walking this week, I hurt my ankle and also pulled (I think) my achilles tendon. Really painful and so not what I needed. I think I need new shoes. Sometimes I wonder about using a treadmill, for some reason my feet seem to get beat up when I use them too often. But I love the workout they give me since I can do the hills. Today my plan is to do a WATP DVD and see how that goes before venturing back to the gym and treadmill.
Started back up Bible Study, teacing Sunday School and teaching Wednesday night 2nd grade girls at church. Keeps me busy but I really enjoy it.
My sister's life is still not settled and its not only stressing me out but stressing out Dan. We both feel this sense of doom that the condo she rents will sell and since she is not working she wont' have the ability to find an apartment that will rent to her. Which will make my finished basement seem like her perfect solution (from her viewpoint). She needs to find a job but refuses to look for anything outside a teaching job in the one district she wants to work in. I get her dream but her reality is somthing she is not getting. I just keep praying which makes me feel better since in the end, God is in control of this situation. But still wonder what we'll do if the situation of "she has no place to go" comes up. Again.
I was up .7 last week and so mad at myself! It was my old foil: WEEKENDS. So last weekend I tried much harder, still had a splurge lunch with some pizza and a few beers and appetizers Friday night but it was two meals vs. three days of eathing like the weekend before. I weigh Friday, my hope is to lose my 1.5 goal plus the .7 I gained the week before. Not so sure since I haven't been able to work out since last Friday.
So one of the reasons I have been off here is that I spent a few days updated my facebook photos. I have recently been "friended" by a few cousins, one of whom I haven't seen since I was 13 (thereby making her completely unaware of my life, my family and she didnt' know my mom had passed) and a two others I see maybe once every 5 years. They were clamoring for pictures so while I was feeling the pain of this messed up ankle and a sinus thing, I went through all our computers and got it updated. And in the process noticed how overweight I am and how long its been. One picture in particular rang home and the sad thing was, I was 15-20 pounds lighter than I am now. So this got me to thinking of a goal. To lose weight (obviously) but to also at some point put an album on facebook that I will name "my journey". I had Dan take a "before" picture of me and someday I hope to see that picture followed by ones of myself at each ten pound milestone until Oila! I am at goal. I just keep visualizing how neat it would be to have that on my Wall and to be proud to post fat pictures next to the one that shows me at my goal.
I need to catch up with journals but it may be later tonight or tomorrow, today is a busy day and I gotta go walk away those pounds before I leave for the day and night!
Thanks for sticking with me, now that my fb is up to date, maybe I"ll have better luck at keeping my journal up to date too!