Rain and More Rain!

Rain and more rain. I shouldn't complain, we are not near as bad as Iowa and I am thankful for that. Today my mom and i went shopping an hour or so away and got stuck in a horrible storm on the way home. I have never driven in water that bad before. There is a good thing about living out here, we don't get the floods, storms, hail, or tornados most other places do. But I seriously was scared today.

On a good note, I did find 2 cute pairs of pants shopping. It sucks shopping anymore with the weight I've gained but I need work pants so I had to break down and buy pants. Hopefully I will be buying NEW smaller pants shortly down the road.

I can't belive it's almost the 4th of July. Time flies so fast anymore. I can remember being little and summer seemed to last forever!!! Now it no more starts and it's over again!

One week of Calorie Counting

And I've almost got it! lol. I started portion control big time and no major snacks between meals. It's amazing how much better I feel and how much energy I have again. I passed up Grasshopper Cake AND peanut butter pie this week. Now that's willpower! I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER PIE! But it was made with reduced everything and if I'm gonna splurge it's gonna be ona real good piece, not a reduced wanna be. lol.

I also started walking my road again. I am still very cautious since Yogi Bear lives around here now and let me tell you he's freaking huge! I can fit my foot in his paw print, no freaking joke! And the bastard ate all my pumpkin plants, squash and zucchini plants we had planted up on the hill. Didn't touch my real garden. Really pissed me off too, I was looking sooo forward to my pumpkins. :( Dustin told me I'd have pumpkins out my kazoo and I was so excited to give them away to little kids I know and stuff. Now I'll have to buy my pumpkins again in the fall. Such a bummer. Couldn't eat the peapods I don't want could he. Yogi and I are going to have words if he keeps this crap up! :)

Why I never found a job in IT?

Because deep down I hate it! Not just dislike it, I HATE IT! I am in the middle of implementing new software at work. We were supposed to go live January 1st. Well it's almost July 1st and we are looking at LATE FALL. Today I spent 2 hours in a live meeting with this company figuring out one small minor problem. Yup, I small stupid problem. This is going to be an extremely long process.

I went to the Dr. last week and had bloodwork done to see if there is a reason why I am SO tired. I haven't heard back yet, I'll wait until Thursday to call them and see what it says. There's got to be SOME reason. She wants me to try YOGA too. Well that should be interesting. I'm not flexible nor am I coordinated enough to do yoga. But if it relieves the everyday stress from work, I am all for it!!!!

This weekend I have off. I am so excited to have a weekend off, especially since everyone else gets a 3 day weekend over the 4th and I have to work that saturday. Bah humbug! I need a bankers job! Most days I like my job, but it's the things like the holiday weekends you never really get that is making me rethink my career path at this company. Every other Saturday and having to be there from 7:00 until 2:00 is not really something I want when I have kids. A one day weekend doesn't really cut it when you have a family.

The Three H's

Hazy, Hot, and Humid. Something we see late July early August around here and it's 90 degrees on the 8th of June. UNREAL!!!! 3 weeks ago today it was SNOWING. It's just crazy.

10 years ago I graduated high school this weekend. Wow, I feel old. lol. It's just weird to look back at the past 10 years in all that I've gone through, done, and accomplished. I guess I do have something to be proud of. My reunion is in July, and I don't think we'll be going. Just not something I am interested in attending.

I feel like crap lately for the past week. Tired all the time, headaches, crabby, it's like I have PMS 3 weeks early. If it doesn't go away this week I'm going to see about getting my iron checked and some other blood work. Something just doesn't feel right.

We didn't get the house up for sherriff sale. It went double what we wanted to pay for it, and frankly we are ok with that for now. We'll figure something out.

Mentally DRAINED!

It's only Monday and I am already drained mentally. I have several projects going on at work plus I am the ONLY one that knows the new computer system so it's my job to train everyone else plus get my regular work done. The software company will be here next week to fix any last minute problems and I have no time to work on everything. It just seems the more the days push on, the further behind I get. And I'm not a slow worker either. It just bugs me that I work with certain people that do nothing 8 hours a day and get paid for it, and then I bust my a$$ and get nowhere for it. It was soooo nice to have 2 days off this weekend and not have to worry about anything except my husband and my dog. I need more full weekends!!!!

On another note, we decided we are going to bid on a house up for sherriff sale. The open bidding is Thursday morning, so we should know by lunch time if we got it or not. We did go look at another house this weekend but it was just horrible. Structurally it's great but cosmetically it's going to take alot of money. And it reeks of cat pee! Now tell me, if I wanted top dollar for house in this county and in this economy, would I put a house up for sale that reeks of cat pee and stains everywhere. I opened the 3/4 bath door off the laundry area and about puked it stunk so bad. It was like they mopped up the cats messes but didn't clean out the mop or the bucket. BLECH!!!!! If the sherrif sale doesn't work out, we are still trailer bound for a little while longer. I'd love to build, but frankly in this economy, who the heck wants to chance it!!!

Day 3 back on weight watchers and I am STARVING!!!! I am only allowed 21 points a day and let me tell you, it's not easy. I am starving all the time! I need to find me some low point high fiber filling snacks.

What makes me smile today!

Someone's blog had this on it today and it inspired me.

1. the sun and 70 degree weather
2. my husband and my dog playing in the yard
3. fresh produce in my cereal
4. a good book
5. HGTV
6. The fact that my laundry is done and my house is clean on a sunday morning.
7. My flowers I planted this past week and that *I* planted them (i'm not the domesticated sort)
8. Watching my brother play with his girlfriends 2 year old. He will be a great father someday.
9. As of right now, both our families are drama free.
10. I life in a neighborhood where everyone beeps and waves when they drive by and an I can leave my keys in my car and not lock my house (this day and age, that's something to smile about!)