This week has been crazy busy as usual. I only have another week of school though. After that, things will quiet down a lot. Elijah's soccer will be coming to an end soon and so will Alpha. Then we will be stuck with nothing to do! Yeah, right! I am really bored with work this week. Just not wanting to do the work that I have - at all.
I am busy making a list of ways to get organized at home. My house is in such disarray that Elijah even said "mom, we need to get our house organized" the other night. It's terrible. I always say "this is ridiculous, we need to get organized" and then we never do. I guess because I expect it all to be done at once and it's a slow going process. I see the shows where they bring in a professional to help you organize your stuff... I would be mortified to have a professional see my "stuff".. even though I know it's not nearly as bad as some of the stuff I have seen on TV. I just know that life would be easier if I were more organized. I am angry right now because I can't find Elijah's order form for his field day t-shirts. I would know right where that was if I were organized.
Riverfest is nearly here.. It's unbelievable.
Prayers for today: Health and safety for my kiddos, staff meeting to go quickly, motivation to get a tiny bit closer to organized..
Busy Busy
Guess I will be Walking again!
I stayed up doing homework until 11:35 last night so I was not ready to get up this morning. YUCK. My plans always sound really good, but sometimes don't come to fruition. Oh well. The walk will do me good if the rain can hold off. If not, I might go to the gym after work today. On a good note, I did get one whole chapter done in my psychology book, mastered the vocab (there weren't many this time) and did very well on the practice tests.. Now I only have four more chapters to go! I also got my annotated bibliography done on my paper. that took much longer than I anticipated. I need to get started writing that because the rough draft is due next week and this is a six pager.
At the beginning of the semester we did a personality profile. We got the results back yesterday. I hate stuff like that. It's meant to be helpful, but always leaves me second guessing choices and decisions.
prayers for today: health and safety for my kids, motivation to work, no rain so I can walk this evening
I need my own ipod
I think I might take Eli's ipod shuffle over for a while. I grabbed Britt's ipod after we had dinner and headed over to the park. He has an audiobook on there "Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University". I started listening to the first session which is about 45 minutes long and started walking around the track. It really makes the time go by faster! Before I knew it I had walked for 30 minutes! I am going to the gym in the morning.
I have made the decision not to take any classes this summer. The schedule is just too much. During the summer you have to go to class nearly every day and the class periods are longer. I just can't devote that much time right now. I really want to focus on enjoying my family this summer and hopefully getting some things done around the house. Britt and I really want to get a nice entertainment center so I think we are going to start saving up for that. Now I have to go work on my final paper.. yee haw!
good intentions
I guess from now on if I am going to depend on assistance from others for me to carry out my plans, I should make my plans well known. Britt didn't realize that I intended to go to the gym this morning. I almost NEVER wake up until he wakes me up. He sets the alarm and he wakes up.. then he gets me up. Well, he didn't know I wanted to go this morning so true to form, I slept through the alarm he set for himself to get up and go to the gym. He didn't wake me up until he was ready to walk out the door. I am thinking that I should just set my alarm and start waking myself up anyway. It's pretty sad that I have grown so accustomed to him waking me up that I don't even hear his alarm anymore. I know I could go to the gym this evening but it will be packed so I think I will just walk the track across from the house when I get home and go to the gym in the morning. Who knows? Today for breakfast I had natural peanut butter on some Ezekial 4:9 bread. I sliced a big strawberry and put that on there too. It was pretty tasty. I have a healthy choice that I will eat for lunch. I need to be drinking much water too.
School is getting close to being over for me and the kids. Still no idea where I am going to put Elijah for the summer. I didn't sign him up in time for St. James and now it's full. YIPES!
Prayers for today: health and safety for my kids, motivation to walk after work, appetite control, and to be in a pleasant mood.
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love ya, Tomorrow...
In the morning it begins again. Our relationship with the gym, that is. I had to take a bit of time off because of my shoulder but now am ready to get back in to it after a weekend of total glutony. I made these little pinwheels for this cookout that we went to last night. Puffed pastry, prosciutto, pesto, and parmesan. They turned out soooo tasty, if I do say so! I found this recipe and it actually called for mustard instead of pesto - but I had some pesto on hand and since Britt isn't a fan of mustard, I thought this might be better. Boy, was I right! I hope everyone at the party liked them as much as we did!
I have decided after a brief conversation with my wise and very inspiring friend Susan, that I need to get myself in to a bed time routine and have a normal bedtime. I know this is important for Elijah so why wouldn't I think it would be important for me as well?
We have had a good weekend. I got a little sun at Eli's soccer game on Saturday but unfortunately it's just a farmers tan. I need a little color, I think.
Time to get Elijah settled so I can get ME settled!
prayers for tomorrow: health for my kids, appetite control, energy for the gym, and a pleasant day at work.
PEACE!
Being Fat Sucks!
I say all these things, but went to Larry's pizza last night and I swear I ate more than Britt did. Nice, huh? I haven't been to the gym in two weeks.. Riverfest is going to kill me if I can't take off at least 15 pounds before then.
It's About Time
Okay.., He's a sweet kid, but it was time for Sanjaya to go home a long time ago. It finally happened tonight.. I think Britt was ready to stop watching the show if he didn't go soon!
better days
My shoulder is better today, I think. I don't know. One minute it feels fine then the next minute I can't use my arm. It's irritating. I didn't go to work again today. I probably would have but Elijah had clinic appointment and PT today. I really don't like my job. I mean, I like what I do most of the time, but I don't like going to work. Does that make sense? I guess I need to just tough it out for at least another year.
Today is Britt's birthday. We went to PF Chang for lunch and I got him a cake from Silveks. Someone at the hospital asked me if I made him bake his own cake!!!! HA! (Anyone who has had anything Britt bakes understands the comment).
Going to Alpha tonight. We are really enjoying that class. I might miss it next week because of a meeting. Not sure yet.
Prayers for today: health for my kids, shoulder pain to go away, for Britt to have a good birthday, and for the cleaning fairies to come clean my house while i sleep. :)
OH! PS. I won tickets to a Mark Harris concert from the radio station today. :)
pain
I pulled a muscle in my left shoulder. It sucks. I don't know how I did it. It started hurting on Sunday afternoon. I went to the doctor today. She gave me some muscle relaxers and they knocked me out cold. I slept from 10:30 until about 3!!!! Crazy! I actually thought I might be having a heart attack at some point yesterday because my hand kept falling asleep. The doc said the inflamation was most likely pinching a nerve and causing the numbness. I should be better in a couple of days.
Other than that, all is well in the house of Talley. My sis came for a brief visit this weekend. It's always good to see her. We have our first get together with the people at Britt's new firm this weekend - which should be interesting.. but what do I wear??? ha!
Stretched....
prayers for today: health for my kids; to pass this test; to figure out what to cook for dinner; and to have a productive afternoon at work. :)
Peace!
Easter Adventure
As predicted, I am sore today. It's a good sore though. We went to Church this morning and our good friends Susan and Chasen came with us. We enjoyed the service - We like a more upbeat service and today was just that! I doubt there are many people who can say their pastor took his clothes off during their Easter Sunday service! Before you panic, he didn't strip down nekkid or anything.. he just took his suit off to reveal casual clothes underneath. It was quite humorous. Okay.. so after Church we went to shorty smalls where I ate WAY too much. We started to head home for a relaxing Sunday afternoon when we passed our neighborhood park. Britt said he thought someone was at the park on the ground trying to wave for help.. He slowed to see if we needed to go back, but we decided to go ahead and drive home and walk over to the park. There was a lady sitting on the ground next to a tree asking for help. She said she was waving at cars as they passed by, but everyone just waved back at her.. Well, she began to tell us how she ended up on the ground in the first place. At first she said she didn't know if she had a stroke or what, but she didn't have any feeling in her feet. Then she said she was driving down the road when the car in front of her through a suspicious bag out the window into the little creek that runs near the park. She was convinced it was drugs and called the police. They told her it was probably trash and not to worry about. She decided to go investigate herself and fell when she was trying to get down to the creek. She then told us that she was diabetic and that's why she didn't have feeling in her legs. We tried to get her to let us call an ambulance - and at that point she seemed to make a pretty quick recovery. She asked for help getting up and felt sure she could get to her car after that. I went down and retreived the mysterious bag which did indeed have nothing in it but trash. We walked her back to her car and came on home. I think it was a case of an overactive imagination. I felt bad for her, but then even felt worse about myself because I was suspicious from the beginning. What if she really had been having a stroke? I was leary of even helping her up because you never know who is going to try to sue you for something. That's a sad statement for the society we live in today - that I would think of that before helping someone. I am glad we went to help her though.
Happy Easter!
Workout #3
I went to the gym this morning. YAY!! I increased most of my weights on my circuit training workout so I am sure to feel it tomorrow. I know this sounds crazy, but I just didn't feel like I was as sore as I should have been yesterday after my Thursday workout. I am sure I will feel this tomorrow. They tell you that you should work with a weight that you start to struggle with around your 18th rep. I did that today probably more than my other two workouts. I was just afraid of hurting myself before because I haven't been working out at all. Anyway.. I feel like I am on the right track and set up for my three circuit training workouts per week. I will go again on Monday. Hopefully soon we will be able to incorporate two days of straight cardio in to the mix. Maybe by the time I am 40 I will be able to wear a bathing suit in public without too much shame!
Britt has decided that he is going to attempt to fix the cabinets himself so we can get the stove back in it's place. Maybe we can get that done this afternoon. Elijah has a soccer game today and then we will be hunting Easter eggs. My arms feel like overcooked spaghetti right now and I really want to just crawl in to bed!! YIPES!
Prayers for today: Health for my kids, continued motivation with my workouts, to get my kitchen in order, and rest!!!
Peace
yeah, Not so much...
The garage is FIXED!!! yay! We called the people at Overhead Door and they came out today to fix it. Whew! That's one thing marked off the list!
My friend Carole moved to Missouri this week. I will miss her terribly, but am so happy for her and her new job and apartment! A fresh start has to be nice sometimes. One time I moved to a new town for a job. I never really planted myself there though. I guess if you don't let go to what you had before, it's not really a fresh start, is it?
So I have tons of projects going on at my house right now that need finishing in a big bad way. I still have to paint the den, decorate the bar, replace the light fixture in the foyer, clean out the ivy bed (it's awful), get the stove cleaned up and in it's place (waiting on the handyman to fix the cabinets) and THEN I get to strip the wallpaper off the downstairs bathroom where the little dog (who we found a good home for) decided he would go ahead and start that project for me. Now, keep in mind, I was not fond of the Christmas plaid wallpaper in the downstairs bathroom at all. It was, however, in decent shape and way down the line on my list of redos in the house. Now it has been bumped up about 8 slots..
Prayers for today: health for my kids, to find a new Easter outfit, and to have the motivation to get some stuff done this weekend!
No Excuses This Time
We did it. Britt set his alarm and we got up and went to the gym at 6am this morning. My arms feel like jello right now, but I am glad we went. We got home and a few minutes after we got upstairs we heard a horrible noise coming from the garage. At first I thought the bikes had just fallen on my car. Britt went down to investigate and discovered that one of the springs on the garage door had broken. the garage door wouldn't open at all. He had to remove it from the opener, take part of the automatic opener off, then he, Hannah, and I had to manually push open the door and hold it there while we backed the cars out. YUCK. I don't know what it will take to fix that. I already have a stove sitting in the middle of my kitchen - I would say "what next" but I know that's just asking for it. Easter is coming though. Rebirth, starting anew, right?
Power Outages and Other Excuses..
So what was my excuse for not going to the gym? We stayed up too late and couldn't get up in the morning. And what was my excuse for not going this morning? The power went out, we didn't sleep well and we overslept this morning.. I am wondering what it will be tomorrow!!! UGH. Okay.. about the Easter outfit. At first, I was heartbroken. I bought this linen suit that I have had my eye on for a while. I really liked it. The suit was a pretty brown and I got a salmon colored top to go with it (hence the toe polish - he he he). I got home, tried on the pants - and they were TOO TIGHT! ARGH. I was so heartbroken. I thought, I am going to have to go buy a bigger size!!! NOOOOOO!!! That's like torture for the fat girl! To have to go UP a size when you already buy your clothes in the big girl section anyway!!! What the heck??? So I take my pants, go up to the store to exchange for the "Big As Texas" size.. I get my new pants, come home, try them on.. THEY FIT THE SAME AS THE SMALLER ONES!!!! What is this designer trying to pull!! I mean, they fit EXACTLY the same. Then I got mad. I was angry at first to think "great, I thought I found the perfect Easter outfit and now I have to start all over again"..but then I chose to look at it a different way. At least my butt isn't so big that I REALLY needed to go up another size, right??? Right???? ha ha ha. I can truly say that it was the way the pants were made and not because I skipped going to the gym. Not that it excuses me from going to the gym. I will just have to come up with other excuses for that.. :)
Prayers for today: health for my kiddos, motivation for better health for myself, a new Easter outfit, and a peaceful Easter weekend.
How Early?????
Tomorrow Britt and I are going to attempt the early morning trip to the gym. UGH. I detest getting up in the morning. I am glad that Britt and I are doing this together though. It gives us the chance to spend some time together. We don't get many opportunities for such anymore. My oven went out - again. Britt fixed it once but said it was on it's last legs and couldn't be fixed this time. My in-laws came to the rescue. They had a jenn-air stove out in the barn that someone gave them. They brought it down here for us and I'll be darned if it's not nicer than the one I had in here already.. What a blessing! It needs to be cleaned up and Britt is going to have to do some re-working on our cabinets to get the thing in here, but I am happy. I will be happy to have an oven that works and four whole burners to use!! And it's black and stainless - which is the direction I am trying to go in for the kitchen. It's such a hodge podge right now. White fridge, cream dishwasher, stainless microwave, and did have an almond stove but now a black and stainless one. :)
I have a paper due tomorrow that I haven't started. UGH. It's just the rough draft that's due tomorrow but still. I should have had it done by now. I am hoping to have time tomorrow evening to throw something together. I am enjoying being in school but it is challenging to find time to read and get my papers done.
I have class tomorrow, class at St. James on Wednesday, Elijah has soccer on Thursday - another busy week for the Talleys!
I got an email today from a cancer friend. She is one my dearest. her daughter is a leukemia relapse. She isn't doing well. They just found out she has Veno Occlusive Disease. It pisses me off. Chemo is so harsh - it's poison, really. We have to poison our kids to get them better, but sometimes the chemo causes additional life threatening diseases. Lindsey's liver isn't functioning. VOD is very often fatal. This sweet angel has fought cancer TWICE and now might lose her battle because of a chemo side effect. Infuriating. I can't put stuff like this on Elijah's website because other cancer families might read it and his site is for updates on him - not my rants.. so sorry pals who read this. I just needed to get it off my chest.
my prayers for today: Britt to be at Peace with his decision, health for my kids, to find polish for my toes that match my Easter shirt, and a good night's sleep.