Back on plan

I finally found my motivation, and got back on the Weight Watchers plan on Monday morning. Did well on both days so far and am doing well today so far, not that its very far in to today. I'm choosing to celebrate the small victories that I accomplish. Just thinking, a couple of weeks ago, I went to Pancheros and actually followed the plan, a big step for me, I actually had to ask the person behind the counter for the nutritional information this seemed like a big step to me because it was the first time I went out to eat on the plan and it was interesting it seemed like I was 'coming out' to everyone I was proud of my self

Wow oh Wow

Wow oh wow, how my life has changed in the last 6 months.... I met and fell in love with my boyfriend, dropped out of school, moved in with him work full time and then some and trying to get a part time job at a local cafe. We have the landlord from hell. I also have work supervisor from down below, she is making me rewrite all of my doc from the month of January, and I have gotten the QA person in on this and his words were that Well, that dosent have to be identified every shift, but its not hurting anything, i dont think"


Also in big news...dad has talked to be about joining the buisness, which i guess ive always seen me doing, but i dont know, its a hard decision it would be a 24/7/365 position nights and weekends along with daytime stuff for meetings and stuff! This has always been something that I have seen my self doing and wanting, its also not a 5-10 year thing, it would be a lifetime thing

Summer

Well, Classes start in the morning. Summer has come and gone, and it went by so fast, its hard to believe! I actually managed to get away two times for vacations, the first being over the fourth for about 5 days, Wed. to Sun. Part of that was at the lake and the other part was in St. Louis, so I actually got away with both sides of the family, which was really good! Then in the begining of Aug. my dad's whole family went to MN for a week of fun in the sun. We had such a good time! One of the best stories comes from the middle of the week, when my grandpa rented a pontoon boat for an hour and took us all around the lake. We were comming around a point in the lake and there was a 'danger' bouy, and we all pointed it out to him, he insisted in going between the point and the bouy, well, we all warned him, and my cousin looked from grandpa to the bouy about three times then started saying "Ummm, I can see the bottom, it's really shallow here, maybe we should go out and around!!!??? Classical grandpa kept going and we beached the boat, and the motor died!! Luckly it started right back up and we were fine!!! It was so funny, and classic of him. We all about died laughing, my dad actually had tears running down his face, my grandma could have died of hummiliation, she HATES boats, but was trying to be a good sport!! So we make it back to the dock all safe and in one piece, and papa actually docks very well for him, we were all amazed, and he high tails it off the boat and leans off the back to pee, which was also very funny, because we all looked at him and were wondering what he was doing when it became ovbious what he was doing. My middle cousin almost let the cat out of the bag about our incident on the boat, but I managed to stop him, whew!! The trip was so much fun, I hope we can do it again!! The only bad part was when we all left, adn it was on my birthday, that was NOT fun!!

wow, Redux

Well, I can't believe it has been over two months! It's been crazy around here. I'm now working 2 places at the same company, taking a summer class, and, and, and. It seems like so much more, but I guess that's it for right now. as far as that goes

Floods- In a town close to my heart, they are preparing for floods that are compairable to the one in '93. This is not where I live, but I have family there, and lived once. The officials are now saying that it is not a matter of if, it's now a matter of when it will happen, so I've been contemplating on whether to go over and help with sandbagging, as they have been asking for help, but that's as far as I have gotten.

Crazy Weather-Not only has it been raning like crazy, but we've had some mightly scary weather, like big storms, up north there were 8 people killed in late May. We have had more than enough rain for the whole summer, and then some. Farmers have not gotten all the crops in, and it's going to be at LEAST 1-2 weeks before they can start getting back in. The crops that are already in, well, lets say it's not going to be a 'bin buster' this year, I don't think. There is worse that could be happening, I guess, so in some ways they are lucky

Summer- Just a month and a half before we leave for our big vacation up north and I need it! Like up north-another state and with my whole dad's side of the family. I'm so excited!! Well I guess that is it for right now, I should be able to updaye again soon, I hope it won't be months, I guess I've been busy with nothing.

Wow!

I can't believe that's it has been this long of a time. It's been crazy as usual- work, school, and more work! I love my job! It can be slightly frustrating at times, but that is a job, hell, I'd be worried if it wasn't!! I have to say eventhough I haven't been home a lot at the appartment, I'm getting frustrated with my roommates and how they expect me to ALWAYS do things for them and then if I need anything from them, they act like it's the end of the world. Tonight for example one of them came and asked if I knew where the iron was, I told her no, it should be by the dryer, so she found it, but then couldn't figure how to get it turned on. When she was done with it, she did unplug it, but was going to set it on a metal cart, which was fine, but she put the hot part twards the drywall wall, and I told her not to, because it was a fire hazard, because I'm kind of crazy like that. It probably would have been fine, but I'm crazy. I told them that we (they) need to wash the dishes better, because when I've been getting dishes out of the cabnet, I've been having to wash them before using them, because they are still dirty. UGH this frustrates me to no end!! Also it is weird that they can get up eairly or stay up as late as they want, and they can be loud, but when I get up early, or stay up, I'm always quiet to not disturb them, but I'm sure that if I was loud I would not hear the end of it! Is it crazy for me wanting to get up at the crack of dawn somemorning and be loud so that the wake up and possibly understand how frustrating it is to me. I also want to SLAM the door about a kijillion times, because they always let it slam, and it is so LOUD, if they are up later than me, it usually wakes me up. And if they leave before I'm awake, it wakes me up, and it just drives me nuts!!!!!!!! I don't want to say anything to them as I don't want to scare them away from me, but I feel like I need to because I'm going NUTS. This is not all they do, I drive them EVERYWHERE, and at the drop of a hat. Take last night, I got home from work at 9:45, and they wanted to go to Wal Mart sometime, like today while I was in class, I told them this would not work, and the only time to go would be right then, it was 10:20, and I realized that I had to go back to work and drop something off, and it had to be right then, so I told them if the are coming, that I was leaving then, because what I had to take back to work, should never leave work! It was a complete accident that I brought it home with me. It took me a half hour or so at work and they were mad that it took me so long, they needed to get back to study, they would be up till 3 or 4 in the morning, but they were the ones that needed to go. They got mad that I parked so far away from the door, but I coulden't park closer because of handicap parking! They got mad because I took the long way from work to the store!! Maybe it's me getting the wrong impressions from them, I NEED A VACATION!!!!! I'm starting to get stressed about all the papers that I have to write for school.... 2 in gov't, 2 in Human relations, about 3 more in Comp II and I'm not doing well in math class. I'm divoting all of Saturday to studdying, because Sun, I have to drive 85 miles each way to a class for work!!!!!!!! UGGHH!! They are still up and the door keeps slamming!!!!!!

Prayers go out to Dekalb

Well, I don't feel that I'm qualified to post much about this incident, but I do have oppinions about it. What have we as a society done or done wrong to the individuals that have done this kind of stuff, I realize that people may not know that the person is dangerous, but come on, there has to be SOME sort of indication that they are troubled and are in need of help. What can we do to help prevent this from happening more and more, because it sooms that is happening at an alarming rate, and this is the closest one to me by far, in December it was Omaha, and now in Dekalb, which is only about 3 hours from here, maybe that's why I'm so concerned with this one. When I first geard about it I had a major freak out session, because I saw Illinois University, and my cousin attends school in Illinois, but at another school, I knew this, but when I saw that, I did not take the .25 seconds it would have taken to put this together, I immediatly called my mom, and she reminded me that he's not in Dekalb, and it is the wrong school name, and while I've been somewhat able to calm down, at least about that, but for reason this shooting is hitting close to home or something, because I'm still worked up about it. I think we as a society need to figure out what and if we can do more to help prevent things like this from happening, and help the people that are so troubled that they carry something like this out. Like I said earlier, I don't think that a person can nessairly tell that another person is going to be this violent, but there has to be some sort of indication that the person needs help, a person just dosen't get up one morning, and decide to do something like this, at least I don't think so. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so! Please know that this rant is not meant to take away any of the seriousness of the situation, or to make any less of an ordeal out of it, I truly am praying for the people affected by this tradigy! 5 dead, and 16+ injured, and then the gunman killed himself, this is horrible, horrible, horrible.






Discaimer: Sorry for the bad spelling, the spell checker is not working and I can't figure it out (supprise, supprise!!)

Snow, Snow, and more snow!!

We have about 7 inches and are still getting snowing, we are to get 10+ inches most likely 15 or so. We are stuck in the building today, I'm already board, and it's not yet 8. It's going to be a LONG day, I did rent a few movies yesterday, I think 4, but 2 were free, and I have them all for 5 days, so I think I'll be watching movies and resting, I don't feel that well, I had the jibbies this morning, NOT fun!! We went to D-town Sunday, and on our way back we went 25mph, no faster the roads were horrible, it had started to snow. Then we went again Monday and it was so foggy, we got so lost in Milan, we finally made it back safely, thank god. The drivers side winsheild wiper quit working between here and BG, so I pulled off there and tried to get it working, but I couldn't, so I got to get that fixed, I should probably take it to Cole, but we'll see!! That's about all the exictement that is going on here. I might make cookies later, I need to try and go to church today, it is Ash Wednesday, and a Holy Day of Obligation