I have so much to do ... with my writing, getting in shape (in all aspects of life, not just physical). But I gotta say the physical aspect seems to keep me from doing some of the others. I have been beating myself up quite often lately because of the shape I am in physically. I am at the heaviest I have ever been. I feel unhealthy, yet I continue to let more pounds creep on. I can't seem to stop myself from eating ... and can't get myself motivated to move (exercise.)
One of my friends has done a tremendous job of losing weight , and she looks phenomenal!! You would think I would be inspired by that, but it appears instead I'm simply finding the pounds she's losing.
My Mom has lost a lot of weight, too, and looks terrific! In fact, she looks healthier than she has in years. But, she lost weight from being sick and in the hospital for 26 days in January, and as she has recovered. I would rather be heavy than go through what she did!!!!
Was doing great walking when I had someone to walk with, but she has been busy with family and travel. So, I haven't walked in a couple of weeks. Am I blaming her? Nope, but apparently I am using that fact as my excuse. I keep saying if I just had a treadmill I would use it every day ... and I believe that I would. But I don't have the $$ for a new one right now. GRRRRR!!!! Anybody have a treadmill that's only being used for a clothes rack or dust collector that needs to be moved out of your way? LOL!!!
Hoping to start up again this week with the walking, and regular devotions, and writing. I just need to get focused some how.
Hope you aren't stuck in a rut!!!
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Decluttering ...
Wow, am I ever a packrat!!! In some instances that's good, but when you are trying to clean out one room and organize another it can be a pain.
When Zach moved out a few months ago, Kristian took over his room in the basement, which left her room upstairs available for office space. So, I finally got in gear and cleaned it out. Mike painted it for me over the weekend, and I have it mostly set up now ... looks pretty good. Me setting that room up, allows him to use the smaller office that I had set up. But it required me cleaning that out, too. I had sooooooo much stuff ... binders with and without papers in them. Books, books and more books!!! Journals ... mostly prayer journals ... took me a number of hours to do the decluttering because I would stop and read the old journals, or look through the old photo albums and pictures and letters and cards and well, you get the picture.
The good news is ... I have thrown a lot of stuff out!! The bad news is ... I should probably be throwing out a lot more!!
So, I'll continue to declutter ... it will be a never-ending process!!!
Have you decluttered lately??
When Zach moved out a few months ago, Kristian took over his room in the basement, which left her room upstairs available for office space. So, I finally got in gear and cleaned it out. Mike painted it for me over the weekend, and I have it mostly set up now ... looks pretty good. Me setting that room up, allows him to use the smaller office that I had set up. But it required me cleaning that out, too. I had sooooooo much stuff ... binders with and without papers in them. Books, books and more books!!! Journals ... mostly prayer journals ... took me a number of hours to do the decluttering because I would stop and read the old journals, or look through the old photo albums and pictures and letters and cards and well, you get the picture.
The good news is ... I have thrown a lot of stuff out!! The bad news is ... I should probably be throwing out a lot more!!
So, I'll continue to declutter ... it will be a never-ending process!!!
Have you decluttered lately??
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
What's been going on?
We are on deadline for the magazine at work. It goes to press tomorrow! So, at work, life is hectic!
Megan came home Sunday so she was here for dinner last night ... which was wonderful. It's actually been a long time since I have seen her look genuinely happy with life, content with where she and Brian are in their journey with their education, careers, future plans, etc. She was smiling with a sparkle in her eyes. When she talked she was excited about life! And she looks healthier than she has in a while. City life in the north seems to agree with her! Mike and I are so very proud of her for the strides she is making to do what she wants! She is halfway through with her master's degree, and thinks she'll get to do some adjunct teaching this summer and next fall! Awesome!!!
Zachary had an interview with a recruiter for a company in Chicago. It's hard enough having one of the kids who has already moved on; so while I want him to be content and loving life, why does it have to be so far away? These crazy independent kids we've raised!! Again, he doesn't yet have a job in Chicago ... but who wouldn't love to have him around working for them?!! And, I don't think I'm biased at all!!! : )
Kristian is working at a Subway restaurant and seems to like it so far! Again ... a proud Mama!! She is starting early with her independence ... she told us last week, that as soon as she is done with high school (in two years) she'll be moving into her own place. Sniff! Sniff! More power to her if she can, though! I think the reality of rent, utilities, groceries, etc., might not be a bit of an eye-opener for her. We'll see ... of all the kids, she may be the most independent! Guess I'd say that was a blessing and a curse!!
As for Mike and I ... we celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on Sunday! Seems impossible that it has been that long already! We went out with good friends Saturday night who happen to share our anniversary, same date, same year! We had fun and hope to go out more often than on an annual basis!
Headaches ... this is the first night in two weeks that I haven't had a headache. Had me down last week so bad that I wasn't functioning very well. Even went to the doctor twice. They don't know what causes them. I take medication for chronic headaches, but this one was different and lasted longer than any others ever have. They doubled my medication ... started taking it Friday night and it seems to have helped. Have to go back in two weeks for follow-up!
That's it for now ... not too much, but thought I'd update anyway : )
Hope you are having a wonderful week!
Lisa
Megan came home Sunday so she was here for dinner last night ... which was wonderful. It's actually been a long time since I have seen her look genuinely happy with life, content with where she and Brian are in their journey with their education, careers, future plans, etc. She was smiling with a sparkle in her eyes. When she talked she was excited about life! And she looks healthier than she has in a while. City life in the north seems to agree with her! Mike and I are so very proud of her for the strides she is making to do what she wants! She is halfway through with her master's degree, and thinks she'll get to do some adjunct teaching this summer and next fall! Awesome!!!
Zachary had an interview with a recruiter for a company in Chicago. It's hard enough having one of the kids who has already moved on; so while I want him to be content and loving life, why does it have to be so far away? These crazy independent kids we've raised!! Again, he doesn't yet have a job in Chicago ... but who wouldn't love to have him around working for them?!! And, I don't think I'm biased at all!!! : )
Kristian is working at a Subway restaurant and seems to like it so far! Again ... a proud Mama!! She is starting early with her independence ... she told us last week, that as soon as she is done with high school (in two years) she'll be moving into her own place. Sniff! Sniff! More power to her if she can, though! I think the reality of rent, utilities, groceries, etc., might not be a bit of an eye-opener for her. We'll see ... of all the kids, she may be the most independent! Guess I'd say that was a blessing and a curse!!
As for Mike and I ... we celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary on Sunday! Seems impossible that it has been that long already! We went out with good friends Saturday night who happen to share our anniversary, same date, same year! We had fun and hope to go out more often than on an annual basis!
Headaches ... this is the first night in two weeks that I haven't had a headache. Had me down last week so bad that I wasn't functioning very well. Even went to the doctor twice. They don't know what causes them. I take medication for chronic headaches, but this one was different and lasted longer than any others ever have. They doubled my medication ... started taking it Friday night and it seems to have helped. Have to go back in two weeks for follow-up!
That's it for now ... not too much, but thought I'd update anyway : )
Hope you are having a wonderful week!
Lisa
Monday, June 9, 2008
Curve balls ...
... sometimes life throws them at you and you get hit right between the eyes! Why is that? A rhetorical question!! I don't have the answer either ... only the question of why some things in life happen ... why life has to be so hard sometimes?? I just don't get it!!!
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Senses awakened this weekend!
WOW! Friday night was one of those terrible, stormy nights here ... tornado touch downs, nearby; black clouds surrounding the sky with lightness underneath, then pitch blackness followed by daylight again; hail as big as tennis balls in neighboring areas ... it was only golf ball size and smaller here. I know that because I was outside watching the storm at some point. Zachary and his friend came over and were hanging out with us. The boys, including Mike, were watching the incredible light show from the lightening and then a torrential downpour. It was so many changes in such a short time span ... amazing. The other thing that is amazing is my calmness and that I actually went outside for a portion of it. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am extremely afraid of storms ... especially of lightening! Yet, Friday, I watched in wonder ... and used my nervous energy to clean the house!
Yesterday, I met a friend out at the Chatham bike trail. We walked around 12 miles, and it was amazing how much we noticed as we walked and talked. Branches were down, of course, from the night's storms. The water level was high, not only in the ditches, but also in the lake and creek we walk along on the way. We saw a racoon, rabbits (not unusual), a beautiful royal blue finch. It would appear every so often and fly a bit in front of us as if it was leading us somewhere. We would talk about stopping and turning around, and it would show up as if to say ... come on ladies ... you can go a little further, still. So, we went obediently. Kristin said she felt in some ways that God was sending us messages to coax us along ... to give us a little nudge.
At one point in the waters along the banks were downed branches full of all sizes of turtles! Some branches had 5 or 6, some had 10 to 14 ... and it seemed to be a families... the varied sizes was so cool, and simple number ... neither of us had seen that many in one spot.
The sun was beating down on us, yet God would send an amazing gentle breeze at times to cool us. And we could hear the rustle of the trees and critters in the tall grass and brush.
Smells abounded ... the sweet scent of honeysuckle, fragrance of lilac, aroma of wet cedar! I can't even remember all of them, but those were the most obvious! The gifts that God gives us daily are so very plentiful ... I need more walks so that I remember to look, listen and feel his goodness!!
I hope God awakens your senses this week, too!!!
Lisa
Yesterday, I met a friend out at the Chatham bike trail. We walked around 12 miles, and it was amazing how much we noticed as we walked and talked. Branches were down, of course, from the night's storms. The water level was high, not only in the ditches, but also in the lake and creek we walk along on the way. We saw a racoon, rabbits (not unusual), a beautiful royal blue finch. It would appear every so often and fly a bit in front of us as if it was leading us somewhere. We would talk about stopping and turning around, and it would show up as if to say ... come on ladies ... you can go a little further, still. So, we went obediently. Kristin said she felt in some ways that God was sending us messages to coax us along ... to give us a little nudge.
At one point in the waters along the banks were downed branches full of all sizes of turtles! Some branches had 5 or 6, some had 10 to 14 ... and it seemed to be a families... the varied sizes was so cool, and simple number ... neither of us had seen that many in one spot.
The sun was beating down on us, yet God would send an amazing gentle breeze at times to cool us. And we could hear the rustle of the trees and critters in the tall grass and brush.
Smells abounded ... the sweet scent of honeysuckle, fragrance of lilac, aroma of wet cedar! I can't even remember all of them, but those were the most obvious! The gifts that God gives us daily are so very plentiful ... I need more walks so that I remember to look, listen and feel his goodness!!
I hope God awakens your senses this week, too!!!
Lisa
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