oatmeal

Sitting here at work eating my oatmeal and reading funny stuff on computer. Doesn't get any better.... Although oatmeal is very good for you, it's sorta boring, sorta like my life....

Feliz Navidad

I always say every year, "I'm going to make Christmas simple and not buy so much." UMMM, yeah, right..... I always always SPEND too much and EAT too much! This year was no different. We had a mountain of presents! I really am going to simplify next year and not get so much stuff. Even my daughter agreed that the babies got too much. But what fun it was with my two cute grandbabies!!! They love coming over the "papa's house and grandma emmies." Now I'm back at work and it's reality time. Gotta get back on track with my life. Sometimes I feel like I haven't accomplished anything and that my goals are just fantasies. That they will never happen. But that is the devil talking. I have to remember that I can do and be anything I want! I just have to want it bad enough and be willing to work for it hard enough.

Today I'm at work and feeling a little of the after-holiday blues. Have a list a mile long to do, so better get to it. Dang, this blog is soooo boring....

Busy, Busy

I realized I haven't written anything in here since Dec. 5! Life gets so darn hectic. I thought once my kids started leaving, it would slow down, but it gets filled up with other stuff. I finished my class, (Analysis of Behavior). I got a B+ in the class and an A in the lab. Yeah! I was so glad to be done. Now I have to figure out which one I'm taking next semester. Slowly and steady wins the race, right? Now if only I could stick to that with my fitness and diet plan. UGH. It's the holidays and food is running me. I was sick, so I couldn't go to the gym for a couple weeks, and with my hubby gone, what do I do?? UM, EAT and eat and eat and eat. When you don't drink, smoke, or do drugs, your drug of choice is food. Just ask anyone who is a Mormon. Food is what we can do. So this week I'm hitting it hard again.
Christmas is in a week. I'm looking forward to having everyone home and enjoying some Christmas spirit together. Today I was lamenting to my daughter about my red car that I am missing. sighhh, it was a beauty. 2010 Chrysler 300, Inferno Red. It was my "mid-life Chrysler." When my husband got a job 200 miles away, we traded it in for a Jetta TDI because of the mileage. It made me so sad... Oh, the problems of a first-world person. So anyways, I was lamenting about missing my car, then I got a wake up call at church. Some people had gone to Cambodia on a mission and they were talking about how workers there make .13/hour and they are all really poor and don't have proper sanitation. Some of the schools there don't have bathrooms, so the kids have to go outside in the field. And I'm complaining about not having a fancy red car.... I am eating humble pie. Our problems are so insignificant compared to other people in the world. We are very spoiled.

INSOMNIA

I have always been a sleeper. Ask my hubby, I can take a nap like no other. Driving on a trip longer than an hour? Guaranteed I'm going to nap. Sleeping in on a Saturday?? I'm there! Sunday afternoon naps? HEAVEN! (although I can still do that, thank goodness!) I've always told him that my top three pleasures in the world are sleep, food and sex. (in that order!) But for some reason, I have lost the ability to sleep through the night. So many reasons, I guess, like hormones, and my bladder, oh, my bladder, it's the size of a freakin' lima bean!, and now I'm sleeping alone 4 nights a week, and I have to turn a fan on cause I hear noises in the house, and I'm anxious all the time, cause life is stressful, and can't turn my brain off, and worried about everything, and PLEASE, oh PLEASE, can I just SLEEP????!!!! The half an Ambien isn't working, so I'm now going to try maybe 3/4 of one or a whole one? By the end of the year, I'll be popping Ambien like I'm eating M&M's! I would give anything to sleep ALL. NIGHT. LONG. sighhhh

On a lighter note- I have my final in my class this week, and also need to turn in my 2 papers with my final. And trying to get my Christmas decorations up. Last weekend was great! The Sensations, my daughters drill team (BTW, I have been doing drill team for 10 years, that's what I get for having 3 girls!) I need a special award for that. Anywho, the Sensations took first place in their first competition last weekend. They are awesome, as usual! And my darling, perfect grandbaby, Drake, turns 1 tomorrow. We had his b-day party yesterday. He is walking!