3 Weeks and Counting

15 Days!!!!  Tick, Tick, Tick....

Ok, today was one of those days.... Again.

If I hear one more person ask me if I was named after the hurricane, I swear I am gonna  ask them if they used their brain that day.... I am wayyyy older than a 1 wk old storm... Hello!!!! McFly!!!!

I am soooo tired, but I can't sleep and this is why I am up blogging and staring at the computer screen vs the backs of my eyelids.

Can today be Friday?  oh, no... it's only gonna be Thursday.  I have to do something with my weight, and my health.... There is something going on and I am either treated like I am a wack-a-doo or they will just start cutting stuff out and put drugs into my body.  Sigh....  I need to do some research and see what is going to work for me personally and see what is going be the best for me to stick with.  I do NOT want to "D~I~E~T" per se, but live healthier, happier life... I think that I have to get in the habit of at least 10-40 mins on treadmill.  I want to also get an elliptical as I think it will be a lot easier on my crackity knees.

And on the Crackity knee note, I am going to try and go to bed and stay asleep past 2am tonight (morning).

Adieu

Total Slacker

Okay, okay, okay... I know... I am a total Slacker in the blogging department... But my girls have started blogging (you know who you are) and I can not, I repeat, NOT be the Lame Sauce in this equation!

So, I have rebooted and updated my bloggy, blog and I am not sure if I will update the family one (Strachan's Spot) or not...

On to bigger and better things!!!!

Tomorrow is All Hallows Eve....oooooooo.... (that there is my spooky voice)  The kids are totally stoked and the costumes are waiting to be donned.... we will see how much of the yummy stuff they haul in.  And I now notice I am so using too many of the dot, dot, dot, dot..... so....

    kisses to you all!!!!

So, hopefully I will get back here to post some pictures since I realize that the last one I have posted are from 2009.  2009!!!!  Whoa!

In the news, Hurricane Sandy (NOT Sandi as a lot of you have been trying to say).  Although I am a whirlwind of fun, I hope that I am not leaving a path of mayhem and destruction in my wake.  I am putting my thoughts and prayers out to all of the individuals that have been affected by this.  Working at UHC, I deal with a lot of people who live/work on the east coast and it gets hard hearing the struggles of the people there and how bad it has gotten.  My prayers to everyone.

Well, as I am going bonkers from lack of sleep and laundry is calling to me and my middle finger hurts (for no other reason than I have torn my nail to the quick) and I feel as if I am rambling.  I say adieu mes amis!!! 

Times are Changing

Well, times are changing for sure around here... I have applied for a new job. Sigh. Well, actually, I have applied for a few new jobs. We will see what happens... Not that I mind driving bus, but it was never my dream job. I started so that the kids were not raised in daycare and so they were with either myself for the hubby for the majority of their days til school. Then school started and the 5 yrs until V started kindergarten seemed to have flown by. I stuck with it since it worked with all our schedules.

Now it is 8 yrs later. Eight years!!! My, how times flies when your having fun, huh? Between the two of us, the hubby and I have decided it's time to get back to something I somewhat enjoy doing. There was a lot of strife going on this last school year. Issues I can not get into. And there was a lot of stress. I so needed the summer off, for sure. So, I have somethings in the works and we will see what pans out this next coming week.

Since today is the 14th, we have 17 days til school starts. Not a lot of time to make changes.

There are other changes going on within the family, but that is for another time.

M is starting 4th grade this year. WOW!!! 4th Grade!!! My little girl is growing up so fast and before I know it, she will be wanting the keys for the car and Tom is going to be having aneurysms about teaching her. Guess that may just fall to me.

V is starting 3rd grade and we will see how he handles it. I know that starting a new job just as school is starting isn't optimal, but it is what it is...

On to new things!

I have started taking better care of ME... I have started looking at what I love and what I like to do. Started eating better and eating to live, not living to eat as it seemed to be. I have lost a total of 16 lbs this summer which isn't a lot, but it's a bit more than 1 lb a week. Right where I want to be since this is something I want to keep off and not continue to yo-yo back and forth.

So, I will try and check online for a weight tracker to post on here along w/my Breaking Dawn Counter. I Can't Wait!!! Have I said that yet??? LOL!!! I love the books! They take me back to my H.S. love of books and just make me go to a happy place when reading them. I am so an enabler to anyone who shows even a minute amount of interest in maybe reading them. I am right there with my books saying, "Take mine! I will share!"

I will also try and get my photos updated. Finally found my cord for the battery charger for my camera. So the majority of my pix are on my cell. Have to get them off and onto a disk and onto here.

Well, Tom is snoring away on the chair watching something about 9-11 and it's so interesting that it is starting to put me to sleep. I know that if I try and turn it off, that he will wake up, poof! So, off to searching for my tracker and working on other things to get done.

Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!!!