I hate thinking up titles, let's call it Wednesdays Post, shall we?
So here it is, 2:30 Wednesday morning. My mom had a good birthday yesterday. I've told her that when she feels up to it, to call her stylist and make her an appointment so she can get her hair cut and colored, that was my gift to her. Plus, I got her some new gowns that she loves. 
She got gift cards and other presents from other family members as well.
I've done really well today as far as being OP. That's really good since I've been stressed out here lately because I feel like I'm being pulled in every direction. Taking my MIL & SIL all the places they have to go, now my mom is having some sort of medical problems and she also let her licenses expire. Taking care of my BIL's crap he has going on... I'm just really tired, plus I have a 14 year old son and a husband. I've not even had time to properly clean the house in the past week. I'll be trying to get that done tomorrow when I get back from taking my mom to the doctor. I did get the bathroom cleaned and organized today, so that's at least 1 room that's done. Hopefully I'll be able to clean the living room, and kitchen tomorrow and maybe even straighten up my bedroom a little bit. Thursday is always a busy day for me. I'm taking my MIL & SIL to Sams and then in the evening to visit a family member. That doesn't seem like much but it is a lot, believe me. I just get so tired of my MIL's other kids not doing anything for her and her daughter. If it wasn't for me they'd set over there and starve to death and never get to go anywhere.
I use to eat out of stress, now I don't. What's changed you ask? Well, I've changed my eating habits quite a lot over the last 16 months or so. So I try not to turn to food for "comfort" or "relief". Every now and then I'll catch myself lurking in the kitchen when I am dealing with stress or anger or whatever, but usually I snap back into the present and face reality. Reality is if I eat because I'm having problems, then I'm gonna be 236 or bigger if I start that habit back up again. Because I am like every other person on the planet. I have problems.. I know better than to eat for comfort , so I try really hard to stay "aware" about my feelings & mood- and such.
I'm just really grateful that I'm where I am at, I started this blog with 37 more pounds to lose to get to my goal. I've lost 22 of those 37 and I feel that I'll be losing the last 15.4 pounds within the next 2 months. My goal date is August of this year, but I'm really hoping to be at 120 pounds by June 1, 2007. That would be so awesome! We'll see. 
I'm really sad to see JD just up and leave EP. He was such a nice guy and he was doing so great! He'd already lost 50 pounds and was making great progress in his weight loss, but he just up and vanished. POOF! 
I feel really bad that he's not here to get support, but if he wasn't mentally ready to lose weight then he just wasn't ready. I think I kept myself fat for a long time because I was scared of the attention I might get from other people. Not just men, but everyone in general, I think I wanted to be invisible and when I was obese I was invisible, trust me. All I know is that I just wasn't happy being a size 20, 236 pounds and hiding in my house all of the time. So I finally stopped talking about it and took action. I use to talk all the time about losing weight. "I wish I could lose just 30 pounds" or "Man, I wish I could just stick to a diet for longer than 4 days!" or my favorite one of all time- "I'll start on Monday."
Then after making comments like that I'd pile more food on my already overflowing plate. I don't have a great story to tell you about how it "clicked" with me about weight loss-other than my MIL finding out she had diabetes and a whole list of other medical problems. I just thought to myself "I don't want to end up like this" "I don't want to lose my sight due to diabetes" - "I don't want to lose a limb because of diabetes" ( My MIL hasn't lost any limbs, but it's pretty common for diabetics to lose a limb and we know plenty of people who have lost a foot, part of their leg from the knee down, or the whole leg because of it.) But what I really didn't want to lose was my eyesight. I've seen how that's affected her life to the point of getting off my ass and losing the weight I had carried around with me for so long.
I don't want to depend on someone to take me to the store to get a gallon of milk, and then on top of that, getting to the store and not even being able to see the milk to choose my brand... No thank you. I'll just eat better foods, and less of them. Ok, that's it for now, I think I might have preached some in this post. I didn't mean to, it just kinda came out.
Two more things and then I'm off to fix hubbys lunch-
I want to thank every single one of you who left a comment on my blog the other day giving me the most wonderful compliments and for also sending prayers and good vibes for my Mom! I was so excited to see all of the positive words of encouragement from each and every single one of you! It really made me feel good about myself and it lifted my spirits about my Moms situation more than you'll ever know!!!!!! Also, as soon as my cousin sends me the pics she took on her camera I'll post more Easter pics. Thank you all so very much!! I told my Mom there are a lot of people praying for her, she was really touched.
She thought it was pretty cool for complete strangers to pray for her. I think it's pretty cool too!! 
And lastly, I'm worried about Alexia- she hasn't posted since Friday and that bothers me. Is it like her to go this long without posting? I haven't been on EP for very long, only a couple of months so I don't know if it's routine for her to do that or not. I just felt like it was out of the norm. Yes, I worry too much, even about people I don't "personally" know. I'm still worried about JD to be honest with ya. <SIGH> I worry too much! Ok, that's all from my neck of the woods. I'll posts a quick update later on today when I get back from taking my Mom to the doctor- maybe we'll know something. I just hope she's going to be ok.
Please use today to get closer to your goal, don't waste it like I did-- so many days, my wasted days added up to a little over 14 years.. I can never get those days back again.
Have a wonderful Wednesday! Keep on rockin' it!! 
~Tink~