Time for change

This is me five years ago. I am amazed at the difference in myself in those five years. I felt really good then. (Health wise) I still feel good about me, I just have alot of issues with feeling good. I am tired all the time and my joints ache alot. I wanted to blame it all on the running, but I ran then too. I went to the doc this past week to find out if there is something physically wrong with me. All the blood tests came back fine. I also have high cholesterol. She wants that down. We talked about some things.....diet, exercise...sleep. The only one I can say I am good at is the exercise. And the only exercise I really do is running. So I am going to see if I can change some things in my life and see if that makes me feel better. I don't want to be on meds for the high cholesterol so I want to get it down naturally. So I am going on a Linda make over. Today in about an hour I am going for my first weight wathcers meeting (thanks bridgett, your an inspriation!) I am also setting up a gym plan for myself. I do belong to one. I do pay the dues for it each and every month but I don't go! Last week I went three times to get myself started and this week.......well I fizzled out I guess. But that is going to change. I am on a mission now. I have made "goals" for myself and I have made rewards for hitting those goals. None of them have to do with food, they are all rewards like, nails done, massage, tanning. These are all things I really enjoy but never do for myself. I am also going to try to get at least 7 hours of sleep a night. I currently only get around 5-6. That just isn't enough (I wonder why I am tried??) Tomorrow morning I will be at the gym bright and early (right after my 7 hours of sleep!) and I will be on weight watchers. What better birthday present could I give to myself then an healthier, feeling better me????

ps. I found my camera, under a pile of clothes that should of been put away long ago but I just haven't wanted to pack away those summer clothes, so they sat there and today I packed them up and found my camera at the bottom!! I will get the tiffany medal necklace pic up for you soon!
Have a great day

Tiffinany

I was seriously so excited about finding this backgroud! My necklace (medal)from the marathon came in a little bag just like that one the girl is holding. And of course the little green box too! I would put a picture of it up there but you all know that at the moment I can't find my camera. I wish I could find it but I have a feeling it was stolen out of my truck. I can picute it sitting there, in the cup holder of the truck, after I took the pictures of Josh at the cross country meet and poof now I can't find it. Say a little prayer that that is not what happened to it please.

President Obama!!! What an awesome speech that was!

Off to go vote.

This is a picture of my son, Robbie and my grandson, Aiden. It was taken in March of this year, right before the lake thawed. Robbie is 20 and this is the first year that he can vote and he is VERY excited about it. He has been online each day reading about the canidates and what they stand for. He is also into finding out about all the proposals. Robbie called me at 11:00 last night to ask me if I knew anything about one of the canidates stance on being gay. He said that if this canidate were elected that all gays would be put into mental institues. I was trying to explain to him that I didn't think he was reading something right. That I didn't think that the canidate said those exact words and that he needed to find out a little bit more about it. Then he was asking me a bunch of questions about the proposals. One of them was about stem cell research. He wanted to know if babies were deliberatly aborted just so they could use the umbilical cord. No Rob I don't think they abort babies just to get the cord. So he tells me that he can't vote for that one cuz he doesn't believe in abortion. I don't think he got that one completely. But I told him to go find out more information. Then back we went to the mental institution thing. Don't worry Rob, Mom won't let them put you away for years. Well at least not for being gay, but maybe for driving me crazy!!!

Ah my twins............I miss them so much. It is funny to look at this picture because you can really see how much thinner than John, Josh has become. Josh has found out that running in college is not as easy as running in high school. Lots more miles and alot tougher work outs. But he LOVES it. The two of them always seem to be able to spend at least one day on the weekends together. I don't know of one single weekend since they have been gone that they have not seen each other for at least a little bit. But they hate each other. Um yeah right. I don't buy it, do you?
I am totally unable to sleep. I just got home from work a little bit ago. Everyone else is already in bed and I am up alone. I just poured myself a glass of wine (why yes it is sangria) and I am hoping that is going to relax me quickly so that I will be wanting to go to sleep soon. Mark will be up and gone before I get up that is for sure. I won't be seeing much of him for the next few weeks while I am on afternoons. That is sad. I guess we will have to make plans for the weekends. Well he better be making some plans for this weekend since Friday is my birthday and I will be working afternoons that day, so the weekend will be the days that we have to celebrate. I will be 45 this year and I am not liking that so much.
I also am not liking the way I eat either. As you all know I run. I train for and run marathons. You would think that I would be thin. But no not me. I have to eat eat eat. I like food. I like foods that are not good for me. Like fast food. I love fast food. All of it. I eat it way to much. I also love things like mashed potatos, pastas, anything with gravy on it. Yummy. But the weight I have managed to gain is not good. So I am going to make some changes. I am not going on a diet. I am just going to make some changes. I am also going to get on a scale. Did I just say that?? Yea I am going to get on a scale and I am going to hold myself accountable. Or maybe you all should hold me accountable since I am not so good at it myself. I need to set some goals for myself and stick to them so that I can lose this extra weight. The dr. is not going to be happy with me in Feb. if I go back in there for my yearly physical weighing more than I did when I went in this past Feb. She had already told me at that appt. that I needed to lose. So I have just a few months to lose some weight. So how are you all going to hold me accountable???
We had a storm here last night that was amazing. I have never in my life heard thunder like the thunder I heard last night. It woke me up. I also realized at that point that we had no power so we had to set our cell phones so that Mark would get up for work. Set the alarms on the cell phone that is. While Mark was getting ready for work the power came back on so it wasn't out that long. But I did get up and out of bed at that time (5:00am) so I should be very tired now. I have finished my glass of sangria so I think I will go lay down and see if sleep comes. Have a good one!

Just for the day!

I just came across this background this evening and I couldn't resist putting it up just for the night and for tomorrow!

Well it is Monday morning and I am glad of it! My weekend was busy, I am glad to have a little rest! I thought weekends were for resting? Not this past one that is for sure.
I felt somewhat better on Friday morning. I went into work and stayed the whole day. After work I went to get Jeremy and Aiden. Aiden's costume was "Diego" and he didn't want to wear it. It was crabby when we first picked him up. I told him he didn't have to wear it if he didn't want and that quieted him down while we drove over to the neighbor hood that we used to live in. (We do not get any trick or treaters here at our new house, the houses are to far apart and the kids don't come down this street) We met my daughter (manda) and her boyfriend, Zac. We met at my girlfriends house. When Aiden saw all the kids dressed up and going up to the houses he decided that he was going to put his costume on and go get some candy. He got ALOT of candy. He was quite happy after he got the hang of what was going on. I am having a major issue, I can't find my camera. This really bums me out. I know the last time I had it was last Saturday when I went out to Grand Rapids to watch Josh run his race. I took pictures of him there. I remember seeing it sitting in the cup holder of Big Blue but now it is no where to be found. So I was unable to take pictures of anything this weekend. My daughter took alot but I have to wait for her to put them online and then I can get them.
Saturday we had Aiden's birthday party. I was running around all morning getting things ready for that. Aiden had such a good time. His cake was awesome. It was (of course) a Diego cake. It tasted even better than it looked! We had sloppy joes, antipasta salad and bread sticks. Cake and ice cream and snackages also! Aiden got lots of nice gifts. He didn't want to open his presents though. He acted like he was scared. But just like with the trick or treating, once he realized what was going on he was opening them like a pro. My sister and my nephew stayed the night and Kathy and I sat in the hot tub for over an hour, just talking and having some wine. It was a very pleasant evening.
Sunday was the work day. We brought the camper home from the camp ground. We worked all day on getting it cleaned out and washed up. The camper is all empty and the outside is all clean. I still have some cleaning to do on the inside, which I will get done this week. We will be taking it to my brother in laws house as soon as it is done to store for the winter. He has a camper also and we camp with them all summer. He has alot of land and they (my husband and him) made a spot where the two campers can be put on for the winter. It is almost like a really wide driveway, a big cement slab! So hopefully I will be done with that soon so we can get it over there and covered before the snow flies!
I am working afternoons for the next few weeks. The afternoon supervisor is having surgery this week and I need to cover the shift. I don't mind. They are a great crew and fun to work with. The change in time makes it go by faster also. As long as I don't have to do it for to long.
I will try to get some pictures from Manda and get them on here for you all to see. Have a great day.