Mama Laughlin: Giveaway #7 Winner & Giveaway #8- The Silver Maple
First let me start by saying I simple love love love this blog. Plus side she gives away GIFTS!
She makes me want to try again in this weight loss battle. I know you should just jump in with both feet but I feel like if I start a weight loss battle before vaction. I'll lose and be disappointed fall back into a slump and so on.
Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY! Vacation starting in roughly eight hours! (Insert singing choir)
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Is it Monday?
So I'm usually in bed by 9 pm I lay there reading and or watching tv for about 30 min and I'm asleep by 9:30 or 10. Well not last night....I couldn't sleep. I was up until about midnight. Went to bed back up by 3am (had to pee) fell back asleep and up again by 4:45 now mind you by this time I could have went ahead and sucked it up and started my day. Let the dogs out....let them in....feed them....let them out again and then proceed to get myself ready. But no not me...I thought I'd just try to fall back asleep for a FIVE MORE MINUTES. Have you done this before?...you know when the next thing you know it's 7:45 and your late for work! UGH! How is it five more min. in the morning equals three hours but when your at work and you look at the clock it's 1:30 look again in which seems to have been thirty min but oh no....it's only 1:31! LOL
Anyway I jumped out of bed tried to make myself beautiful without jumping in the shower. Thank goodness you can't see me because the beautiful part didn't really turn out.
I let the dogs out. I feed them. I try to get ready while they are eating. I go to let them out again and they ESCAPE! REALLY was all I could think....of course a few bad words came to mind as well. So here I am with my hair done, makeup on, pj pants on and chasing down the block after my mutts! Yelling at them that I don't have time for this shit today! (Cuz you know I think they understand me) Finally they run back home and run in the house to hide from me because they know they are in trouble!
Then I get in the car of course I knew I needed gas last night but why stop when I have time?Nope now my gas light is flashing and now to make myself even later I have to stop in get gas!
I ended up being over two hours late for work! Lucky they love me. I've been here for far to many years so the little slip up this morning can be overlooked of course I'll probably be here until 8pm. :( Sad but true because I am the only one who works in my department. I have a love/hate relationship with this situation.
I've decided I am going to jump on this weight loss band wagon. I'm trying to not set myself up for failure though. I leave for VACATION (much much needed) this Saturday so I'm giving myself that week. I would like to add though that the friend I am visiting started working out about a year ago and unlike me she stuck with it. She is like a freaking workout robot now! SERIOUS! I'm sorta nervous because she wants to take me to some of her workout classes etc. If you don't ever hear from me again you will know that she killed me with the workouts. (just kidding)
Anyway as I lay there last night not being able to sleep I told myself I am going to post my weight on here. So on April 8th or 9th I will post a picture of my scale....NERVOUS! But hey that is why I decided to start this blog so I guess I better suck it up.
Here are my wonderful dogs that sent my out on a hunt this morning. Maybe they were trying to help me get in a morning workout?
Enjoy your Monday----I mean Tuesday ;)
So I'm usually in bed by 9 pm I lay there reading and or watching tv for about 30 min and I'm asleep by 9:30 or 10. Well not last night....I couldn't sleep. I was up until about midnight. Went to bed back up by 3am (had to pee) fell back asleep and up again by 4:45 now mind you by this time I could have went ahead and sucked it up and started my day. Let the dogs out....let them in....feed them....let them out again and then proceed to get myself ready. But no not me...I thought I'd just try to fall back asleep for a FIVE MORE MINUTES. Have you done this before?...you know when the next thing you know it's 7:45 and your late for work! UGH! How is it five more min. in the morning equals three hours but when your at work and you look at the clock it's 1:30 look again in which seems to have been thirty min but oh no....it's only 1:31! LOL
Anyway I jumped out of bed tried to make myself beautiful without jumping in the shower. Thank goodness you can't see me because the beautiful part didn't really turn out.
I let the dogs out. I feed them. I try to get ready while they are eating. I go to let them out again and they ESCAPE! REALLY was all I could think....of course a few bad words came to mind as well. So here I am with my hair done, makeup on, pj pants on and chasing down the block after my mutts! Yelling at them that I don't have time for this shit today! (Cuz you know I think they understand me) Finally they run back home and run in the house to hide from me because they know they are in trouble!
Then I get in the car of course I knew I needed gas last night but why stop when I have time?Nope now my gas light is flashing and now to make myself even later I have to stop in get gas!
I ended up being over two hours late for work! Lucky they love me. I've been here for far to many years so the little slip up this morning can be overlooked of course I'll probably be here until 8pm. :( Sad but true because I am the only one who works in my department. I have a love/hate relationship with this situation.
I've decided I am going to jump on this weight loss band wagon. I'm trying to not set myself up for failure though. I leave for VACATION (much much needed) this Saturday so I'm giving myself that week. I would like to add though that the friend I am visiting started working out about a year ago and unlike me she stuck with it. She is like a freaking workout robot now! SERIOUS! I'm sorta nervous because she wants to take me to some of her workout classes etc. If you don't ever hear from me again you will know that she killed me with the workouts. (just kidding)
Anyway as I lay there last night not being able to sleep I told myself I am going to post my weight on here. So on April 8th or 9th I will post a picture of my scale....NERVOUS! But hey that is why I decided to start this blog so I guess I better suck it up.
Enjoy your Monday----I mean Tuesday ;)
Monday, March 26, 2012
Getting started
My name is Joanne. I live in the midwest. I recently started reading some blogs. Most are about weight loss which I need to do alot of :) But food and I have a Love/Love relationship. I was always skinny growing up but as the years keep coming so does the weight. I drop it and then it comes back to find me with it's friends. I was really motivated last summer. Joined a running club, ran on my own as well. Went to the gym and worked out at least 4 times a week. I ran a two 5K's and a 3K. I felt better than ever and was dropping weight. Lost twenty-seven lbs in three months! Then vacation came and excersise and motivation went on vacation too. I've been trying to track down that sucker motivation but he is in hiding lol. I've started taking walks looking for him though and I think I have spotted him a few times. Here is to hoping I track him down soon.....but for now at least I'm not losing breath walking anymore.
The blogs I'm keeping up with are motivating. I look forward the their post everyday. Check them out Mamalaughlin --- She will crack you up! another good one is She keeps it real -- Priorfatgirl and one last one Finding Joy in the journey .
Maybe that is what inspired me to start this blog. I figure it is a way to get it all there and maybe just maybe I'll inspire someone the way I feel inspired by the blogs I read. If not...I guess I won't have many followers ;)
A little about me....maybe alot. I've been a mom my whole adult life. I had my son at the age of eighteen and my daughter at the age of twenty-two. I became a single mom when my daughter was only four months old. I've always worked and provided for my children even when no child support was coming in. At times I worked three jobs (not fun) but I never wanted my children to do without. I wanted them to have structure and happiness and I was bound and determined make that happen. One of the happiest days of my life.....when my son walked across the stage on graduation day. I felt like I did it! I proved the world wrong . A teenage mom can raise a successful child. Does that make sence? My daughter although sometimes a smart mouth she has it together. She is on National Honor Society, Key Club, Club Volleyball, Softball and taking classes to get her CNA and she is only a jr. in High School! I often think she spreads herself to thin but she presses on. She is an achiever where my son needed more of a kick in the butt.
I am worried about her senior year approaching. What do I do with myself then? Sure I've always worked but my main job was my children. Running from sporting event to school event. I think we lived in the car for years. Softball, Football, Tumbling,Dance,Wrestling, Volleyball, Baseball....you name it one of them have done it. I get sad instead of glad knowing soon my last little birdie will be leaving the nest. I have several friends who have just started having children and here mine are almost grown.
The last year has been a pure test of motherly love with my son. After graduation he went away to college and did a GREAT job. I was shocked and of course happy! About a month before the end of his first year he came to me in tears. He was going to be a father at nineteen years old. I was DEVESTATED! I had fought so hard for so many years to give him the best and I wanted so much more for him. I knew the struggle of parenthood I'd lived it. I cried and I hugged him and said we would get through it and everything was going to be alright. After all what could I say? I think I was in shock. I was going to be a GRANDMA at 38 years old WTF was all that could come to mind. LOL
Needless to say my grandson is here and I love him to death. I am still trying to think of a better name than grandma....I just think I'm to young for that.
Things are not all rosey in my world though. I'll keep you posted.
The blogs I'm keeping up with are motivating. I look forward the their post everyday. Check them out Mamalaughlin --- She will crack you up! another good one is She keeps it real -- Priorfatgirl and one last one Finding Joy in the journey .
Maybe that is what inspired me to start this blog. I figure it is a way to get it all there and maybe just maybe I'll inspire someone the way I feel inspired by the blogs I read. If not...I guess I won't have many followers ;)
A little about me....maybe alot. I've been a mom my whole adult life. I had my son at the age of eighteen and my daughter at the age of twenty-two. I became a single mom when my daughter was only four months old. I've always worked and provided for my children even when no child support was coming in. At times I worked three jobs (not fun) but I never wanted my children to do without. I wanted them to have structure and happiness and I was bound and determined make that happen. One of the happiest days of my life.....when my son walked across the stage on graduation day. I felt like I did it! I proved the world wrong . A teenage mom can raise a successful child. Does that make sence? My daughter although sometimes a smart mouth she has it together. She is on National Honor Society, Key Club, Club Volleyball, Softball and taking classes to get her CNA and she is only a jr. in High School! I often think she spreads herself to thin but she presses on. She is an achiever where my son needed more of a kick in the butt.
I am worried about her senior year approaching. What do I do with myself then? Sure I've always worked but my main job was my children. Running from sporting event to school event. I think we lived in the car for years. Softball, Football, Tumbling,Dance,Wrestling, Volleyball, Baseball....you name it one of them have done it. I get sad instead of glad knowing soon my last little birdie will be leaving the nest. I have several friends who have just started having children and here mine are almost grown.
The last year has been a pure test of motherly love with my son. After graduation he went away to college and did a GREAT job. I was shocked and of course happy! About a month before the end of his first year he came to me in tears. He was going to be a father at nineteen years old. I was DEVESTATED! I had fought so hard for so many years to give him the best and I wanted so much more for him. I knew the struggle of parenthood I'd lived it. I cried and I hugged him and said we would get through it and everything was going to be alright. After all what could I say? I think I was in shock. I was going to be a GRANDMA at 38 years old WTF was all that could come to mind. LOL
Needless to say my grandson is here and I love him to death. I am still trying to think of a better name than grandma....I just think I'm to young for that.
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