Are you what you say you are????

I, for one, am who I say I am. I am consistent. I may have made mistakes before, lying and trying to cover them up (when I knew it was going to make for a big blowup… yes I’m talking about my long gone marriage). But the essence of who I am is the same. I don’t say things that I don’t mean, and I don’t do things purposely that I know I will be ashamed of in the future.

When you find out that people who have been close to you are liars, cheats and purposely do things that they know will hurt people… it awakens some not very nice feelings. Especially when that person tries to make everyone thing that they are great. It’s not up to me to disillusion the world. I’m sure that person will complete that task soon enough.

But for the time being… I must get some running time in to expend this pent up emotion. Ick.

Yesterday

Well, I’m glad it’s not today. It was a birthday celebration day at work… and I caved… It’s just one day though. I’m back on track today. Have my veggies cut up and ready to go. It will be okay. One day is not going to ruin everything.

I went through the kiddos clothes. Had to (finally) take out all of the 2t and smaller clothes. She has room in her dresser! 🙂 I still have a pile to go through. Plus, I’ll be updating her room this weekend. I got black out drapes to hang in her room. I’m hoping this will help her to sleep later on the weekends. (I need some ME time.) I’m going to rearrange her room this weekend, hang the drapes and spruce things up a bit. It should be fun.

This past weekend

at the Texas v. Rice game.

We had fun. 🙂

Success

I love my sister. Since I was about 14, we’ve had the best relationship that I could ask for. She’s thoughtful, fun and just an all around good person. I think she has insight into my mind. Right when I’m ready to make a change, she suggests exactly that thing. Her response to my astonishment… “I thought you might be ready.” Sometimes it’s great to have a soul mate.

Her baby is due in about 3 weeks. It’s so exciting! I’m going to stay with her for a while during the last week and probably for a little bit after she’s born. I can keep her house kept up, then cook and leave her food for during the day while she’s busy taking care of baby and resting up. Mom will be over a lot as well. She may not be able to get rid of us. 🙂

I have had a super wonderful, extremely successful weekend. I took veggies with me for my little road trip and did great. Over a two week period, I’m down about 10 pounds. I’m moving on to phase 2 of South Beach… I’m not being super strict (like I’m allowing one diet coke per day, and caffeinated coffee). But it’s working for me. 🙂 I’m going to start running again on Thursday.

Hmmm… confidence

Having confidence in yourself makes up for a multitude of issues. When I was younger, I was not the most confident person, but I’ve gained it with age. Any little insult by a jealous person could have me doubting myself for months. Luckily, I’m not that kid anymore.

Someone recently called me “pure evil”. Someone who knows other people that I know. Basically laid it out there for all to see. I just have to shake my head about it. She obviously doesn’t know the real me. Now, I must explain that we were put in a position to which there were already hard feelings. She had this dream illusion that we would be friends. I set boundaries and let her know that I wasn’t interested. She obviously didn’t consider things from my perspective. If she thinks I’m evil, that’s her problem. Luckily, I’ll probably never hear from her again.

Like they said on SNL… I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me!

Exciting Weekend

Football season begins! I am super excited. I love the fall… It is my favorite time of the year. The best (most exciting) part of the baseball season, football in general, cooler weather, plenty of rain :-), so many possibilities.

This weekend, I’m taking the kiddo to the Longhorn game in Houston. It won’t be the same as a home game, but it was my best possibility to take her. We’re going to have a blast. A great mommy daughter weekend out of town. We don’t get enough one on one time.

I hope that everyone has as good a weekend as I’m having!

Good week…

I’ve struggled this week… but not with food. That has been great (minus those three cookies… but I worked through that). Sliced squash and zuccini is my new go-to snack. It’s not loud and easily accessible during class or long car rides. Thank you farmers of America!

Work has been a beating. We go through cycles like that. I’m hanging in there. Trying to have a good attitude. I do have a new job opportunity/possibility. It’s looking very promising. I’m hoping that when it comes down to it, they’ll work with my school schedule since I have a Wednesday morning class. If that works out, it really will be awesome. It’s a pretty significant raise. It’ll probably be a couple of weeks until I hear more about it. But… there’s hope for improvement.

School is going to put a lot of pressure on me… but that’s okay. That’s just how it is when you’re trying to improve your life. The Wednesday class is going to take a lot of work. 🙂

I’m joining the gym at work again… lunchtime runs and will go to school early on Wednesdays to snag a good parking spot and get a workout in at the school gym. Gotta keep my downward trend in weight going.

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Janna – I’m taking 6 hours. I tried to take 12 last semester and just about crashed and died. 🙂