um.

I am still at only 4 smilies. =(. I have not worked otu in weeks. But to my defense there are many reasons for this.

1. I have the state in my buisness ALOT so i have two case workers that meet with me weekly and then my Domestic Violence classes I take every week so there goes three of my nights I could workout.

2. I had issues with my  4 year olds dad. He really wore me out emotionally the last few weeks, and then ended up taking my daughter andhiding her fromme. So I had to go to court get an order and have her returned to my custody. Now i have all thre kids all the time and they are all an emotional wreck so I findit hard to give myself time when i think they all need me the most.

3. The day after court,  2 weeks ago, I got layed off my job but wa sallowed to stay atmy employer in a very large demoted position. Unfortunately I have to remain stable so i had to take it.

4. The minute I took my lovely pay cut and demoted status, my entire house got the flue and I missed all of last week of work, which lets say is not so good and im hoping i have a job on Monday.

5. I have been to broke to eat bad YAY! so the weight came off, butm uscle tone is um, lackng!

6. I realized I am still not happy with the weight, but not the weight itself more so the firmness and sleekness of my body . I miss running! =(

So.. I am alive. Busy and stressed and my spirit is breaking, but I am alive.

I did spend 40 dollars on myself, which was not good, but I signed back up at weight watchers to track my points. This is so important. It just is and I need the tracker to do it. And the weight tracker so.... yeah. I was selfish.

I miss you all so much, and now with so little time tomyself, even writting all this out is hard.I have had to stop 6 times to break up fights with the kids. UGH!

Single mommy hood sucks, but it really su cks when the fathers as A**Holes.

But, I believe we are all on a road, we are driving and just because we can not see the  next 2 miles ahead of us, does not mean it isnt there. I am on my road, and just because I dont understand why I must take a right turn, i have faith that my final destination is up ahead , comingup fast, and it is where I want to be . Otherwise I wouldnt be driving there right?

I wanty to check up on all of u. might take me the rest of my life!  But i will get it done.

does anyone know how i can do that google reader thing so that updates come in as you post? ANYONE? ANYONE AT ALL?

Cheers to all you fine gals!

TATA  for now

Hey Boopy

Nahhhhh I don't know how to do the google reader thing.. but when I went into my EP account administation today, next to your name, there was a red tag that said "new post" or somethign to that effect. I have not noticed that before. Not sure if it is counting that you had a new post TODAY, or a new post since I logged on or what the criteria is but none the less, it let me know to visit your site.

Sorry about the jobloss and pay cut and all. That's rough with everything costing so much more these days (or does it just feel like that?) But it is nice to know you have the important things around you still; health, home and your babies.

Keep looking forward on your "drive"

Selfish?

I hardly think you're being selfish by spending some money at WW...I mean, sure it could have gone somewhere else, but you also have to take care of yourself, too.  You have such a postivie outlook, keep the faith...things are gonna continue to work out, and lots of that has to do with how you keep that good outlook.

-Lindy

Not at all

You weren't being selfish at all by doing that for yourself. 

As far as the Google Reader thing.  Tracy (DeserveBetter) posted the instructions a while back.  Tomorrow when I get to work, I'll find it and send you the link.  We have dial up at home and it will take forever.  But I'll get it for you tomorrow, okay?

{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}

hi there

hey missy.  it's good to see a post from you.  i haven't been blogging everyday like i used to, but i still do check my google reader (yup!) for posts from you too.  i think that the link angela will give you will probably be more detailed, but at a high level, when you go to google reader, there is a link on the left that says " add subscription".  you want to click that and then type in the url of the blog you want to follow.  you can do this for all of our blogs that you read (ie., yours would be www.extrapounds.com/blog/extraordinary1).  good luck with everything you are dealing with on the home front!  you can deal with this, you have a great perspective, you are totally right: sometimes just because you don't know where you're going doesn't mean that you're not going somewhere good.  take each day one day at a time and try to focus on doing one thing at a time.  please take care!

Here it is...

Here's the link to Tracy's post with instructions for Google Reader.  I hope it helps.

Bday?

So I have this cool Birthday Cake icon that pops up when I check 'my account' and that little birthday cake icon pops up next to YOUR name. SO my first thought is that perhaps you have a b-i-r-t-h-d-a-y this month; my second thought was couldn't think think of a better icon than a cake?!?!? What's with this place?

Checking in

Just checking in....  Where you at?

MONEY well spent!!!

YOu've worked so hard, it's worth the price!! You stick with it, and sorry about all the struggles!!

Um, hello!

Checking in.... long time, no blog!

Hey you!

What's up?