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Renovations…

Written on June 12, 2009

I think it’s the change in seasons… or maybe because I’ve had this blog style around for a while… but I am “itching” for a new layout.

A new look. A new feel.

All for the new me.

So… that being said, you may see some strange/random posts here over the weekend. It’s just me building things up and re-doing things to make everything work for me!

By the way… I’ve been trying to build a new blog in WordPress… and while I think it would be a GREAT thing for me to “move” there (I even “bought” my domain for a year)… I don’t know that I am not techie enough to figure out how to make it all work for me. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. (Off to go cancel that subscription…)

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Sunshine…

Written on June 4, 2009

Don’t you think the sunshine just makes everything better? On Monday and Tuesday this week, I was stressed to the max with work and other things happening in life that I just hadn’t really felt that I was actually on top of anything. Well, I felt like I was drowning to be precise. Both of these days were gloomy… like it was ready to rain any minute. I love it when it is raining, but not really the gloomy-ness before or after.

But the last couple of days have been beautiful. Sun shining, birds chirping… and I am *finally* back on track with my plan to get back to my Weight Watcher’s goal. I have had my books along with me the last couple of days and plan on reading, studying, and just overall re-familiarizing myself with them so that I can undo the (10 pound) damage that I have done to myself in the last month.

So… my plan. I have come up with a “reward” for myself once I reach goal again… but in the meantime, I also had to come up with a “motivation”. So after A LOT of thinking over the past day about what I should do… I decided that I am going to match – dollar for dollar – everything I pay to Weight Watchers (member fees only) when I am above goal, and donate it to one of my favorite charities: Cran-Hill Ranch.

Cran-Hill Ranch is an awesome camp that is in mid-Michigan where kids can go to experience life away from what they are used to – and get to know God at the same time. Families can also go to enjoy some quiet/quality time camping (or staying in one of their cabins). There are a variety of activities for everyone being able to fish, canoe, ride horses, and even making tie-dye’d shirts! I am looking forward to going up there for a weekend in July and riding a horse for the first time! Yay!!!

Oh yeah… and the reward. Once I return back goal, I will “reward” myself with a manicure a month (redeemable when I get my bookmark “star”). I am looking forward to getting that done already. I miss them. But I think this is a great reward for myself. And my further reward is going to be a pedicure when I reach my 175 total pounds off!!! Right now it’s about 24 pounds away… so it’s not going to happen overnight.

Back to the sunshine… I know it won’t stay out forever… in fact this weekend sounds like it’s going to be somewhat gloomy out again, but it’s not going to derail me from my plan overall. I am going to track, track, track… blog, blog, blog… and elliptical, kickbox and run my way back into the good habits that had once been so familiar to me.

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Help…

Written on June 4, 2009

Wondering if you… my fellow blog friends… can give me any advice on creating a WordPress blog??? I love this Blogger stuff, but it has some limitations that I am not a huge fan of.

Let me know… I’m finding it a bit daunting right now…

Thanks…

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BAD girl…

Written on June 2, 2009

So you know when you are younger and you’ve done something bad… your parent’s might say “bad girl” (or if you are a guy reading this… “bad boy”… I hope your parent’s didn’t call you a girl!) Well… I am officially calling myself a BAD GIRL. And there are a few REALLY good reasons for this.

First… I have neglected the blog A LOT lately. To my faithful readers, I apologize. You come to visit, to see what is happening and over the past month things have gotten out of hand and crazy in my life. It happens to all of us. For a while I was trying to become a bit more disconnected from the computer. However, I need to get back into a regular pattern of blogging because I think it will help with the other things I’ve been bad about.

Hopefully, the blogging (as mentioned in part one) will also help me get back into my other writing, which has been neglected recently as well. As many of you know, I would like to be published someday (it’s on my 30 things “Life List”) and without continuing my practice, I’m afraid that it’s just not going to work out so well.

Second… I’ve fallen out of practice with Weight Watchers. It began the week of Tulip Time and while I have been keeping up with my workouts, I haven’t been so good with my food intake. I’m excited to get back to my regular Weight Watcher’s meeting tomorrow (I’ve missed you guys!) and get this ship back on course and get back to my goal weight. I’m a little up right now… nothing major, but I

I need to get my WW books back out and get it on with the healthy guidelines – especially posting them on my refrigerator. Not to mention to start cooking more fun stuff out of my good/healthy cookbooks. (I love and recommend the Hungry Girl cookbooks!)

Third… I’ve been neglectful of my personal time with God. This is really bad as I have grown in the past few months to really cherish this time and now know that when I don’t have it, I am truly missing out on something important to me. I am not only going to try to get back to my ½ hour to hour daily in the morning with reading the bible, but also try to get into another study with some people from my church. I think that would be so good and refreshing for me to continue to learn from God’s word.

Finally… I need to have some serious ME time. I need to read. I need more sleep. I need to figure out what I want to do about some life things. I need to sort out my budget again. I need to be creative and make cards. I need to spend time with friends. I need a second job. I guess I just need more time… but don’t we all?

So, now that I have written it all out… I can truly see how bad I have been. I let things get out of control (even though I took control of my life in other ways this past month) and now I need to take the reins and work as hard as what I did over the past 3 years with losing the weight. Then I need to take control of everything else and pursue more of these dreams I have.

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