Updates
Well, there are a few updates to go through that I've yet to post.
I have heard back from only one of the several applications I sent out thus far. All the others are still out there. I did manage to get find a number for one that I wanted to call. And I'll look into the others I have out as well. I am not sure what all I applied for now so I'll have to hope they sent me something in automated reply so I can follow up exactly lol.
I am still sick. My voice is thankfully better, but I have a lingering cough and sinus issues. I'll probably have this for a while, I almost always do. The girls are sick with something too probably the same thing I have, nasal issues and a cough. Kathleen was complaining about her ears hurting I hope that it doesn't require going to the doctor's office. Poor Kitten is having issues with her voice too.
Shea got the bugger too but he seems to be doing better. He went to the doctor and he got antibotics and a decongestant pill. Hopefully that'll fix him up nice and good lol.
Kathleen has school pictures on Sept 14th, she's suppose to wear fall attire, what the heck is fall attiire? I just hope I can pull something together for then. Right now most her clothes are spring/summerish. I'm sure I can make a dress fall by adding a shirt underneath, but I don't really have any fall type colors for her. Yellow maybe, but it's kinda dingy from two summers worth of kid dirt lol.
I'm having regular headaches again. I now know where most of them originate from, or at least I know what the left side headaches are from. I try not to take my migraine meds for them but alot of the time that's all that really works. Ice, heat, Flex All with a massage vibrator thing to push and poke at the injured areas. It helps as long as I keep doing it. Hot showers help. There is a lot that helps but there is nothing that can heal this, or make them go away completely. The best thing is the massage thing, but it's hard to do myself, and it's hard to tell Shea where it needs to be done to get the best benefit from. At least they aren't brain issues or anything like that. While they are annoying at least I have a cause for them in most cases. It's all the other times I am not always sure, but these ones on the left side when they reach down to my neck are all about scar tissue.
Feel like crap
Sammi was not feeling great a few days ago. She was drinking alot and now I know why, her throat her like h e double hockey sticks lol.
I spent the better part of the afternoon in bed sleeping to the best of my ability with three other people occupying the same room. That's the price you pay when you live in two rooms. I went to go read, but I didn't even open my book I just lay down and closed my eyes, not sure I actually slept thoroughly but I rested and feel better, not 100%, no where near it actually still extremely tired, and my throat hurts.
Not sure if Kathleen got it and gave it to us, or if it's something Sammi picked up. You never know with kids lol. Hopefully Shea and Kathleen don't get it.
I’m better, Shea’s not
Well I'm feeling much better today. I have a headache but that really is nothing to worry over as it's not making it impossible to work yet. But Shea has what I had yesterday on top of his eye still bothering him, tho I hope the latter is better.
One thing I'm beginning to realize is Kitten is not a morning person. It takes about ten miniutes to coax her out of bed and into the shower in the morning. Then it's a fight in the shower lol. It's good we don't always have a shower, tho she will continue to get up at 6:30a regardless, it's easier to get her moving for school with an hour wait instead of half an hour.
Sammi didn't throw a fit today when we left. She wanted to color, so I told her we'd color at school, but by the time we got home she'd already forgotten about it. She wanted Kitkat but she's understanding she'll be home later.
We are off to take Shea to the doctor, and I'll pick the kiddo up if he's still in there when we need to get her and we'll all come back to get Daddy.
Headaches
I know I mentioned it breifly in my last post but I spent most of yesterday in pain with a headache. Today is not much better, though today's headache is not incapacitating so that is good.
However I am not the only one complaining of a headache, so is Kathleen, after school today she came home and passed out in the bed for a few hours. She is acting a bit better but still complaining about having a headache. I feel for her but there isn't much I can do about a headache, if Tylenol didn't help any.
We are not exactly sure what it is, but it has to be something otherwise it wouldn't have progressed like it has through the family.
I just hope she'll be fine in the morning.
Day Two + Visitor
Day two of preschool is going pretty well - except for the fact that I don't feel good. My head and stomach aren't feeling too hot, not sure if it's the heat or something else. My allergies were a bit heavy last night so I don't know, and on top of that I didn't sleep well.
Kathleen didn't really want to go, but she seemed pretty happy once we got there and I got a preview of what it could be like. One of the little girls in Kathleen's class showed up at the same time and she didn't want to leave her dad. She cried and screamed but I asked Kathleen if she wanted to help her, so she went pretty easily. I am glad we don't have that, even Sammi doesn't do that when we leave. She did of course cry and she was very clinging, meaning I've just now gotten some un-cling time from the kiddo. She's wanted me to watch Phineas and Ferb with her and I did, now she's happily playing her art game again. She doesn't get to do this very often so she's having a good time.
Kathleen is going on a field trip today. They didn't get me the paperwork to let her go until this morning but I have no problem they are just going down the road to the old high school gym to play for an hour or so. I hope she has fun.
Last night after we got back from helping Shea's parents load some things into their truck from Aunt Johnette's house we had a visitor stop by. The door bell rang and I just figured it was Shea's folks, we or they had forgotten something. But it wasn't when I opened the door McL was standing there. I gave him a hug and invited him in and we went into the back of the house - where it's cooler.
We talked about the situation with him and his wife and son. We offered moral support and told him if he needed a place for Gabe we were willing to help while he was in the army until he could do it himself. He joined WoW but couldn't seem to get into things so I helped him buy his full subscription and hopefully we'll be able to help him out in his game time.
I am thankful that he has some good friends that stopped him from doing something he shouldn't. They are good friends and I'm glad they are supporting him. He has some good support and that's going to be key I think.
It was very good to see him and I hope we can spend more time with him before he goes back to Virgina to deal with his life and get back to work in the army. He got to spend time with the girls, Kathleen and him wrestled around for a while before we went looking for Mam and Pawpaw. He spent the night up there, we just don't have a place for him with only living in two rooms and he'd be more comfortable up there. Hopefully he'll come down later today. Maybe we can get him to stay to get the group together, we don't know yet. Hopefully tho.
Unmotivated
I am very unmotivated this week. I don't have the energy to do my work outs so I don't do them. This is going to be a bad week for it and next week isn't going to be any better either. This week is pre-preschool week and I'm attempting to set schedule with the girls, tho for Kitten 7am rolls around too early for her and she's not hungry so I'm not sure what I can do about that. The only good thing is she'll have a snack in preschool, but I fear she'll be hungry most of the morning. I have a new cereal which we will try tomorrow at 7am. We'll see how it goes.
I am a 7am alarm and an 11am alarm set now, I hope I remember to set them on Monday after I turn them off for the weekend lol. I don't think I'll forget but it's one of those lovely fears I have about this.
Next week will be a big adjustment with Sammi and that isn't going to go well, she doesn't do well with out her sister around - she's very clingy. So I doubt I'll get much done until she adjust fully.
I need to redo my portfolio for my freelancing but I can't find something that I've created that reflects my work and me at the same time. The creativity for personal projects isn't there right now. But I need a look I'm happy with so I can finish my brochure as I've got the last of the testimonials I was waiting on so I can finish that up.
I didn't lose any weight this week. Lack of exercise I'm sure is the key to that. This week hasn't started any better either.
My brother and his fiancee are getting married this weekend so that also causes some unmotivated as I'd rather be there but we can't. We knew we weren't going but it still kinda disappointing we couldn't go even if we had planned on it.
On an up-note, Shea's son is home from Iraq. He to the last of my knowledge was on his way down here with his mother. Hopefully we'll get to see him while he's down here. I won't have his son with him, he hasn't even seen him yet *frowns* but at least we'll get to see him and he'll get to see how big the girlies have gotten. Hopefully they won't send him out again.
EA Sports Active & Storms
EA Sports Active arrived today around 4. I immediately set it up and the girls liked it. Kathleen really enjoyed the Inline Skating exercises. I didn't my poor knees could only accommodate her once on that after I went through the 30 day challenge exercises. So she is currently playing on her own profile. She's got an inline skating custom work out and and baseball swing workout going now. She is really enjoying it.
I will be doing the 30 day challenge and the two work outs I set up. One was cardio dancing and the other is sports exercises, tho I will probably change the latter one out I didn't like some of the exercises. I might through in some cardio boxing. We'll see I'll test those tomorrow, my knees are wobbly right now so it's a good idea to stop now.
And on the storm front Bonnie is looking to kit us as a Tropical Storm. We will be watching it closely and if it gets Hurricane status we will evacuate, but for now I will settle for just cleaning up the yard so things don't go flying around. But we look to be on the eastern edge of it. How much of it we'll get is still yet to be known, but we could sustain a direct hit as we are in the projected path cone right now. I'll keep ya'll updated on that if you aren't updated by the weather channel.
Lost Weight
Well I lost 3 more pounds mostly because of the less soda in my diet. What soda I have had MOST of the time has been diet. I've found I can drink Coke Zero with out getting too irked at the taste. I can do Diet Dr. Pepper, but don't really like it as much as I like regular Dr. Pepper so when I have Dr. Pepper I tend to not have diet, unless it's a fountain soda cause I really don't like Dr. Pepper from the fountain anyway.
The reason why I'm pretty confident in saying that this is from the lack of soda is because this past week saw little exercise. And I don't forsee that changing. Not because I don't want to, tho that is part of it, but mostly because the batteries are dead in the wireless bar for the Wii. I have rechargeable in there now so that might help. But the girls decide that they want to play too after I'm done. Gets a bit annoying cause Kathleen can do the sports things by herself but she doesn't normally want to play that she wants to play the one that requires you to read. I think we will have to get Dora or Deigo for them so they don't have to read so much. At least I'd hope a toddler show would not require them to read.
I did order EA Sports Active for the Wii a few days ago. We had a Dell gift card that came with Shea's computer actually I think it was part of buying the printer. It was going to expire in August and since I doubt we'll be doing anything computer related for a while, I decided to see what we could get that would work for us. Since I really wanted this one to begin with we ordered it. It cost us $14.19 to pay for the remainder of the product and shipping and handling. So all in all it's a good purchase. If we like it I might get More Workouts too but we'll see what we've got here first and if it'll work and is fun. It needs to be fun in order to do it.
Far Away Family
I never thought I'd say this now, since I've not been to Colorado in many many many years (my god almost 20 years - holy!), but I think I miss some of the good times back then.
For years in high school I missed Colorado, but mostly because I wasn't with my friends, had to repeat classes I'd already taken and just wasn't real happy about the move. I don't regret the move now. I'm glad we moved, really glad we moved.
Now family is definitely in New York, yes in the town that I desperately wanted to get away from. It's really funny how life changes and how things you took for granted come back to haunt you later. While I don't miss the small town mentality per say, I do miss it in a way. But I do miss my family even those far far away whom I'm not likely to see much.
Colorado holds many good memories, and I've been reminded of some of them recently by finding a close cousin of mine on Facebook. We didn't see each other more than a couple times of year because they lived up in the mountains. But we probably had some of the most fun times ever every summer when we did go to visit. We did a lot of camping with them, but I remember most was the horses and playing out in the woods surrounding their house.
I was only really ever close to three sets of cousins - the ones I just mention whom I've found most of on Facebook recently, another set of boys who we spent a lot of time - several times a year we saw each other, and then one cousin who lived with us for summers during the day, and came home with me during middle school. Other than that we didn't see the rest of the family except during holidays and the like. But there are several on Facebook and I do like keeping up with them. But it's hard to picture some of them with kids and such because when I left Colorado they were very little and it's hard to get that out of your mind.
I miss my family, all of it. I'm glad I've got Shea and the girls with me and Shea's family around me, but nothing beats having your own family around. With Facebook comes the happy times and the sad times when I can't share in all the special events that I now get to see. But I wouldn't change it because now I can at least feel some of the happy times through pictures and words shared by my family.
Love and Miss ya'll.
Change in goals
I've changed my weight loss goals from 2 pounds a week to 1 pound a week. Mostly because the exercise may not come so easily it's difficult to get it in and 30 mins of ddr while okay kinda kills batteries on the wireless bar (stupid mice or dog ate the wired one's cords *sighs*). And I can only afford so many batteries. I do have rechargeable ones I'll put in today so that when Kathleen gets up we can play for a few. I'm going to assume I can get to do exercises 4 days our of the week when Shea's not here, it's difficult when he is here cause we've only got one TV at the moment. (Well only one TV hooked up to cable in a cool room. And I need the TV for DDR or even a DVD cause well it's too hot to work anywhere else in the house, I sweat more cooking some days then I do actually working out lol.)
Today I did a 10 minute session of Pilates and 10 minute session of cardio-dance mix. I'll do about 10 mins or more on the DDR with some faster songs later today. I tried some kick boxing bootcamp but eh, that won't work for me lol. I might start my Tai Chi DVD up too but we'll see how it goes with these things.
On the up note today was officially a weigh in day for me and I lost 4 pounds. That is mostly due to the dropping of soda from my drink of choice. I've been drinking a lot of Crystal Light. I've even managed a few glasses of straight water and some sugar-free sweet tea. I am going to attempt to keep Dr. Pepper out of my life, but it's my one true weakness, even Diet Dr. Pepper isn't the same. So I think I can splurge on it once and a while as long as it's not in the house. And I'm pretty picky about my Dr. Pepper. I don't like fountain soda, it never tastes right and I don't particularly like 2 litters either cause they go flat too quick. BUT, a 2 litter is cheaper than a 20oz so cost wise that's probably what willl end up happening lol. But eh, it's easy to limit to one cup a day if I have to, but I really don't intend to have it in the house.
Weight Loss
lbs: 7 / 39 (18%)