Lifestyle changes

So I have decided to make a lifestyle change. I am in so much constant pain, which I know will never go away, thank you EDS, that I thought I would try and shed some of this weight to see if I could tolerate the pain more. It is a drag being exhausted all day due to the pain. It is a drag to wake up in the morning and have a hard time getting out of bed because I can barely move. While I know that I will always have the pain and I am always going to have those days, I want to learn how to control it more and to help myself to be more active for my children's sake.

So I am going to stop drinking sodas all together (even though it is an occational thing now). I am going decrease the amount of butter I use. I am going to not use margarine, that stuff is like one ingredient away from being plastic. I am going to make healthier eating choices, I am going to choose fresh and frozen veggies over canned. I am going to choose to make my own flavored rices over rice a roni. I am gonna choose to make my own noodles over pasta roni. I want to pretty much go as fresh as possible. There are somethings that I obviously will have to buy, unless someone wants to by me a noodle maker.

So with that and using my Wii Fit 6 days a week hopefully I will start shedding those pounds.

I want to learn to make healthier chooses and I want my children to learn good eating habits.

It's been awhile

So it has been awhile since my last post. Between school and the baby it has been crazy these past ten months. I so cannot believe that my baby will be ten months old tomorrow. Where has the time gone, in just 2 months he will be a year old. I have started a second blog for those whom may be interested in viewing it and following it as well, you can view it at http://thehumorinchildrearing.blogspot.com/




So school is going pretty well I have a 3.2 GPA, yay. I am pretty happy with that. I just started my sophomore year 2 weeks ago and with it I have bumped up from 2 classes to 3, it has been a bit more difficult but still easy enough to handle within the allotted time frame of completing the week’s worth of assignments. I am currently taking HTML for Beginners, Personal Finance, and UNIX systems. So far the hardest class is Personal Finance, there is just so much involved and takes up a lot of time as you pretty much have to write a paper a week in the class. But it has been fulfilling and I have already learned so much from the class.



With school and the baby my writings have been placed on the back burner. I know that I should make time to just write but I am one of those people who believe that I am the one whom was a part of creating my children and carried them and I am the one responsible for them and take care of them. I do not pawn them off on someone just so I can go out and have a good time. I know I need to take time for myself but I really feel like if I were to leave my children with someone it is like pawning them off and pushing them to the side. I really need to realize that is not the truth. Now I do on occasion get my wonderful in-laws to watch them. We did get to go out last Friday and Jeff’s parents watched the kids and kept them overnight. It was the first time that I had been away from JJ overnight. We had a good time and it was not as traumatic as I thought it would be. I let myself have a good time without worrying about the kids, which with me is a very hard thing not to do, even when I know they are safe.



Well I best close this for now, the baby is crying. It is nap time and I really need to get on the Finance class work. It is due in by midnight tomorrow.



I wish all of you a blessed, fun filled weekend.

Michael Jackson 1958-2009

I am among those whom are very sadden over the lose of Michael Jackson. I remember as a young girl growing up listening to his music. I loved him and his music. Even though he had a troubled life and there were things that he did that I did not believe in. I thought that he was an adorable kid and a good looking man, before all the plastic surgery. His music was amazing and his video's some of the best. He was our generations Elvis. I for one was looking forward to his return to music. Another great gone to soon. He will be truely missed.

RIP KING OF POP MICHAEL JACKSON

1958 - 2009

Election Day

GO OUT AND MAKE YOURSELF HEARD AND VOTE!!!! IT IS OUR RIGHT TO GO OUT AND VOTE SO DO IT!!!!

I know that not everyone agrees on the candidate and people are very dedicated to there choice of candidate. I myself am 100% behind McCain and I hope that he can pull it off and be named the 44th president of the United States tonight.

I did look at Obama and was coincedering voting for him, however, I found that what he said was great but what went unsaid was not. For example he talks about raising taxes for the people who make over $200,000 a yr, while that sounds good but realisticly it will also make us lower and middle class people pay more in taxes, it has always worked that way. The lower taxes the rich pay, the lower we pay. The higher the rich pay, the higher we pay. Also he talks about raising taxes on the large buisness and lowering those on the small buisnesses. Well he does that and it is going to make us pay more for the things we need so we will be unable to shop at the small buisness shops. Think about the reality people. His short erm plan is great, but he has no long term plan and that is what we need is a long term plan. He wants to turn programs over to be government run (ex. Healthcare), well the government is not doing a great job with what it is controling now (ex. Social Security). So why would we want then to ruin even more programs???

McCain has an great long term plan and that to me is really improtant. He is also not trying to strip our right away, ex. the right to own guns. He has a great healthcare plan, education plan and plans to not raise taxes.

As far as history it has shown that democrats raise taxes in one form or another (typically going back to raising taxes for the rich, which therefore makes us pay more) and Republicans have lowered our taxes.

I just hope that when Americans go to the polls today they make the right choice.

McCAIN/PALIN 2008

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