Benefiting From Others’ Misfortune....

Monday, November 12, 2012

Truth be told, I have not been doing very well with eating healthy, with not binging and maintaining my weight in a healthy way (I’m not too much over, but still……). I have fallen back into a lot of my old habits. I’ve let stress at work and my own laziness take over and dictate how I feel and react. I have wished repeatedly over the past year that I could just get a "BREAK" from everything. Have a vacation. Get away from my life…..

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!!!!!!

My 88 year old mother fell and broke her arm. She isn’t disabled enough to go to a nursing home, but they wouldn’t let her go back to her own apartment. So the options were for her to pay for a nursing home on her own or for someone to stay with her. So….here I am, getting up every two hours to help her to the bathroom (I am officially sleep deprived), cooking, cleaning and fetching things…. (Yes, I know you are thinking “what goes around comes around”. These are the things she did for me years ago)

Now, as for my benefiting from her misfortune…..This is an opportunity for me to break away from my bad habits and get back to Sparking a little more (at 11PM, 12 AM, 2AM, 4AM). I’m already eating better and have exercised every day (as much as I don’t really want to). It is sort of a vacation for me….. sort of. Not too much fun for my mom, though.

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When you are afraid of heights…..

Monday, September 24, 2012

The Grand Canyon may not be the best place to go on vacation….but it was on my Bucket List….and I’m glad I went. We stayed in some rustic accomodations..... LOL!!!


I saw some of my cousins super-glued to the side of a cliff…… (how on earth do they DO that!!)


And my trusty mule, Wickiup kept me from toppling over the edge of the rim…..He is a little afraid of heights and kept his eyes closed the whole time so he wouldn’t be nervous (this is what the wrangler told me, I don’t know because I didn’t look either…..) LOL!!!!


But it is a beautiful part of the country....if if it made me nervous to look over the edge...

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The worst part of eating healthy....

Monday, September 10, 2012

...having to do all the dishes.....I seem to produce an aweful lot of them when I'm eating healthy.

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Dog hunting interrupted my lawn mowing.....

Wednesday, September 05, 2012

well, not hunting really, but a dog was running lose and the owner was trying to catch it. I stopped my mower, and tried to call the dog. But I think he sensed I am not a dog person.

My neighbor came out, brought her dog to try to lure the runaway over, but no dice. The neighbor followed the runaway down the street. I could see people coming out of houses bringing their dogs. Gotta love a neighborhood that comes to help. Bulldogs were the winner. They helped entice the runaway to capture.

So, all my neighbors were outside now. Time to visit...not mow the lawn. Lots to talk about. It took a while for us to realize my neighbor's smoke detector was going off. When she came out to help with the dog, she thought she turned the stove off, but didn't. Little ironic that we had no trouble recognizing a silent dog in need...but ignored an alarm...... (no fire, smoke only...all is well)

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Not my best month…..

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

….The whole month of August. It started out ok, but deteriorated quickly. I binged a lot…and I didn’t want to admit it. Plus I didn’t feel well, still don’t. I see a specialist in a month.

Even though I didn’t keep up on message boards and blogs, I did manage to log in every day. And I really, really appreciate my SparkFriends checking up on me…. It made me feel better…..

So September can only improve….I’ll try to get back to being more involved……the one thing I am sad about…is that I will be on vacation for a week and won’t have internet access….so there goes my streak of signing in….Hard to believe, but today in my one year anniversary of trying to have a healthier lifestyle. It is a struggle, but it is worth it.

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