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Doesn’t it look peaceful??

Well life is going on. I think some big changes are coming in my personal life. Not going to go into detail at this time. But it might be a time of some things ending so more growth can take place.

I feel more ready for this than at any other time in my life. It will be hard, but something God impressed on me this morning in the shower that “I can do all things thru Christ who strengthens me”. I am holding on to this like a mantra.

I did do my workout, I have decides to put my health and fitness in the fore front and alot of my (??) spare time will go to that. I have enough to think about, what with mom and all.

So I want to remember to take care of me too.

Plus, be here for you all, I think that is all I need for now. Anything else can wait.

Oh and here is Joyce for the day, I think we need it:

November 19
[After all] the kingdom of God is not a matter of [getting the] food and drink [one likes], but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and [heart] peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. He who serves Christ in this way is acceptable and pleasing to God and is approved by men.
—Romans 14:17-18

Forget all the things you think you need, and just admit to God that you need Him. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all that you need will be added to your life (See Matthew 6:33).

God knows your needs even before you ask. Don’t become a seeker of promotion or position. Don’t spend your life seeking prosperity. Seek the One who prospers. Seek the One who heals. Seek the One who is the giver of every good and perfect gift.

Sure love you all, and I will be back at lunch!

Ok when I got to work today, I was mad as hell, and stressed out to the max. But I started talking to some of my buddies, and they got me laughing and calmed right down. One of them even sent me an awesome Ecard!

You all are so great, where else in the world would I find such caring people? I praise God everyday for Buddyslim, ’cause it let me to you all.

One thing I want to say, too. I owe some of you thank you cards. I have not forgotten just have not had time to sit long enough to do them, but I will, ok?

Well, Last nite was good at the grief support group, I think I will take the 6 week session in January.

But last nite at the airport was a disaster! Ted missed his flight, and I had had to leave early to take a friend to her flight so I missed his call letting me know. So I wandered around the airport looking for him for an hour before I finally called home and checked my messages! So now I don’t know when he is coming, I just hope it can wait till tomorrow, I have a full evening tonite.

Well my eating and my workouts have suffered, I did not workout this morning, got to bed after midnite. AND I indulged in some pumpkin pie at the group, and a ding dong at my friend’s house later! Yikes! I need to take control of that.

Doing better today, and I will workout tomorrow even if I have to get up at 3 am! LOL

Ok, need to run, you all have a great day, and I will be back at lunch!

I got thru the weekend!! AND I got my house all clean, yay for me!

Ted comes home tonite at 10:30 so I will be a sleepy kitty tomorrow.

Mom is about the same, they are treating her for her uncontrolled blood sugar and depression.

Please pray we get thru the financial stuff soon, mom’s complex and her car finance people are getting edgy.

Plus, I have a full week, not only with work and mom but I am helping a friend, she has to go out of town for a week, and needs someone to look in her mom, she is 83 and needs some help remembering stuff. so I will do that daily. I didn’t want to take this on, but Lynne helps me alot too.

Well did my workout this morning and 50 crunches too, have worked back up to Jillian level 2!

How are you all this morning?

All of you affected by the fires know you are in my prayers! Gotta run, but will back at lunch, love yas!

How are you all this morning? Boy did I sleep! I am taking some down time today. I need it after yesterday. Was crazy, but I got it all done.

Mom is all settled in the care center, will be there for a few weeks, and then we will need to get jher into assisted care of some sort.

I am trying to do good on my eating, it got a littlout of of hand yesterday. was stressed, and had a fight with some chocolate cookies, and they won

But ate healthy the rest of the day. Did you know that Long John Silver’s now carries grilled fish dinners? Tilapia and salmon! I had the tilapia, it was great, comes with rice pilaf, some steamed veggies and a small corn cob, and a breadstick! I had to laugh, the guy at the drive thru was trying to get me to order dessert, and I told him NO WAY! That was trying to be healthy, so he smiled and said good job, lol.

I usually avoid eating at that place because I thought it was all deep fried, but not any more! Yay!!

So I finished up the day on a healthy note. But was craving a binge so bad, but I made myself just go to bed. I am so glad, and this morning, had a good, healthy breakfast of  yogurt,  a banana, and a lite english muffin, very good. I am determined today.

Going to work on my house later. not enough to wear myself out, btu will attack the worst area, at leadt the bathrooms are clean, just my floor is awful.

Ok, enough jabber I need to do weigh in, good luck teams, Happy Sunday all!

Hey buddies. I won’t be on long tonite. I spent all day getting things done for mom. Got all the documents mailed to Social Security and dad’s pension plan so she can get her income.

They moved her to the care center dad was at for her to have  acute rehab, Ithink this is best. It was hard to be there where dad was, but I know she wil get good care there.

I am ok, just wiped out. I am sorry I didn’t get to be on here like I planned. I will be on tomorrow, though. I sure love you all. Have a good nite. Hugs, Kama

This was in my email, thought I would share:

If I was to ask you to name the most debilitating four-letter word in your vocabulary, which word would you choose? Of course, when one mentions the concept of a four-letter word, we typically think of those uncivilized curse words we tend to hear all too often. However, the four-letter word I am referring to today is not a swear word at all. It is, however, one of the most incapacitating, weakening, self-defeating and goal interrupting four-letter words in the English language. What is this devastating four-letter word I speak of? That word is can’t.

You see, once you convince yourself that you can’t do something, the game is pretty much over. And the sad reality is that, in most cases, you actually can but simply won’t for some reason. There is a mountain of difference between can’t and won’t, and there lies the reason that so many of your dreams lie broken and unrealized in your life. So today I want you to think honestly of a yet unrealized dream you have convinced yourself you can’t achieve. Then I want you to think about the honesty part of this equation. Does this dream remain unrealized because you can’t achieve it, or does it remain unrealized because you won’t pursue it? If I have been successful here today, I’m guessing that dream seems a bit more accessible now!

Well mom is still in the hospital, her blood sugar is high.

But the good news is they are working on getting her on a treatment plan that includes Ted being a care giver for her, and maybe she can come home that way. Not sure of it all yet.

I am so proud of Ted, too. He is in Seattle this weekend, being with some kids and friends who are at a special school for troubled kids. He has been helping the kids online, so they are really looking forward to meeting him. Will be so good for him.

I am happy to report, I am back down to 139 as of this morning. Now to get back to 135.

Did my workout too, I plan to do alot of that this weekend, and watch some “chick flicks” lol (while Ted is gone) and spend lots of time on here. Plus go visit mom some, and just have some down time for me.

How are you all today?

I need to go check my email, and I will be back at lunch. Hugs!!

Hi buddies. Well mom went into the hospital last nite. She is not doing well, had a fall, and a multitude of other things, including an abnormal ekg. I was with her in the ER till after midnite, didn’t get to sleep till about 2 am. Had to get up at 5:30, so no workout, am trying to behave on my eating, though.

Even though this is hard, it may be a good thing, mom admits now she needs help and can’t be living alone, so we will prob be placing her in a care facility and will have Hospice help.

Her drs are in on it now, I called them.

So this may be a blessing in disguise.

Hope you all are doing well.

Jane says to tell you all hi and she sends her love, she is having trouble posting right now.

Ok, have to run, be back at lunch, love you all!

Must be the time of year, and then I got this in my email box:

Today I want to take a brief trip back to yesterday. Now, don’t misunderstand me here because I don’t mean yesterday in a literal sense. The yesterday I’m referring to is more symbolic than literal, as I want you to venture back in your mind to your very early years in life. It is said that the average age for one’s earliest memory is typically between the ages of 3 and 5. As a point of interest, research has found that, in general, the initial memories of females are earlier and more vivid than those of males. Research also shows that there are some cultural differences as well, but for the most part, our earliest memories fall in the 3- to 5-year-old range. I want to focus on your favorite or most pleasant earliest memory. I realize that we all have bad and unpleasant memories as well, but today I don’t want to go there. I simply want you to wander back in time, in the comfort and safety of your own mind, and recall your most favorite early memory. It really doesn’t matter how old you were when this happened, so don’t worry if you fall below or above the 3- to 5-year-old range. I just want you to recall a wonderful experience from your youth and let it roll around in your head for a moment. Let’s just call this a pleasant, reflective trip down Memory Lane!

So what is your favorite memory??

Mine is a number of things… alot of Christmas at home, fishing with dad, alot of things, but I guess, I’m just feeling a little nostalgic how are you all today?

I’m doing good. Did anyone see BL last nite? Didn’t Ali look awesome??

I would be ashamed, if I was Vicky. THEY need to go home, and lose the attitude.

Anyways, I am doing better, still gettng over my cold.

Oh and things are better with mom, too. Talking to her dr right now too. seeing if he can recommend some direction for us.

Mom did apologize to us for her behavior last weekend, too.

So please still pray for us, alot still up in the air, but her dr is gonna have a home health nurse evaluate her situation. The dr feels she may have to have help. So we will see how that turns out.

Ok, break is over, need to get back to work, be back later! Hugs!

First of all thanks for the support over my vent about mom. I really appreciate that.

She did go to the dr, and he gave her some meds to help and I am gonna call him tomorrow to get his advice about her living situation. I really think she needs some assistance, and I am going to push for it.

Look for me on here alot this weekend, Ted will be out of town for 4 days, and I am gonna make up for lost time!

I need to run for now, but letting you all know I am back in full force., did 50 crunches last nite, and did Jillian level on this morning!

I have gained 6 pounds since all of this happened, but I am determined to get it back off, Love you all!

The weekend was awesome!! My two favorite breeds are: Maine Coon  and

some adorable little Abyssinian kittens!But the show was great, my friend’s cat won in the final competitions for all breeds, and the kitten I showed won finals in 3 out of 4 finals in the house pet division. I will prob go with her again on November 29.

The hotel was very nice, I was still sick so didn’t get to try the jacuzzi or weight room.

Dinner was good, and no, I didn’t stay op. at all, but I am back on it now, I didn’t get to work out this morning, my chest is still bothering me, but I am gonna try tomorrow.

Well, mom is starting to unravel, afraid I am at the end of my patience with her. I am afraid dementia/and or Alzhiemer’s may be setting in. So I called Hospice to see if they can help, I can’t do it all anymore, and it has started to interfere with work, my health, etc. I haven’t even had time to slow down and greive. I am going to do that this weekend, while Ted is gone, he is going to visit a friend in Washington, and I am looking forward to the time alone.

Poor Ted, has bent over backwards to help mom and she pretty much has verbally attacked him and gone against things she agreed on with us. Not going to go all into it here, but I feel she is acting out her anger over dad’s death and taking it out on Ted, so I have to distance myself from her. I will do the essentials, but that is it. I am going to call her dr tomorrow, to see if she can be placed some where. I just can’t do this anymore.

Anyways, enough of that, how is everyone? I sure missed you all. But it was nice to be away, too.

Hugs to you all!