Hello My Blog-No Time No Write!

OK, I know your very beautiful on the front, and I still realize I'm missing an "S" in my last name, still can't figure out how to fix that. Oh Well!

I've just been so busy, and I'm not one to hang out on the computer. I might to into facebook in the evening real quick once or twice, but don't linger. I check emails, but to sit here night after night, it's overwhelming to me. I'm sorry. But I'm here now.

Two weeks ago tomorrow I started back at the gym. I had been lax for about 2 months--during Christmas/Thanksgiving, you know how that goes................

I had told myself that I was going to start weights. At my age (which will be 52 Tuesday) I need to get some strength. I walk on the treadmill, I do the elliptical, I ride the bike, but that's it. I've never really been structured here at this gym for that. I have done weights in my lifetime, and could tell a difference. Don's Gym when I lived at Brittany Point. I was buffed. Had a thick neck;~

So I'm enjoying my time at the gym again. It's not easy going. I hate to have that dreaded feeling, I'm trying to be uplifted, positive about it. As I was telling Kerry Thursday at the gym (during the tornado warning at 5 Points) this has GOT to be a lifetime thing. We have GOT to do this as long as we live. Right now, it's up and getting to work, getting off and getting to the gym. I don't want to let it run my life, hopefully the session on The True You, 2 DVD's I believe are going to talk about exercising too much, how to balance. But right now, I'm going mostly during the week, Wednesday though I made it to church, 2 weeks now. I've been lax on going on Wed nights, the devil has been stealing my joy. GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM! I loved Wed services, hopefully I'll be faithful.

As far as foods, this is what I've had to eat since Monday. I have kept a foodsheet, it's not neat, BUT I've kept it up.

I have these everyday:
BREAKFAST: Protein Bar
SNACK: Fruit (Most of the time apple)
LUNCH: Shake
MID-AFTERNOON: Protein Bar
DAIRY: Mostly 80 cal yogurt from Krogers (CARBmaster) They are so good! Love the texture.

SUPPER:
MONDAY: 3 oz chicken (crock pot-nothing but pepper), 1 boiled egg, 2 40-cal bread,2cups salad, lite dressing
TUESDAY: 2 oz chicken, 2 eggs, 2 sl 40-cal bread, salad, lite dressing
WEDNESDAY: 2 broiled tilapias-season with pepper only, sweet potato (too large I think), salad w/lite dressing, I did have sf choc pudding instead of yogurt this day. Craving chocolagte
THURSDAY: 2 turkey bacon, 2 eggs, 2 sl 40-cal bread (basically a bacon and egg sandwich)
FRIDAY: 4 oz tenderloin (had in crock pot all day-no seasoning-I added pepper on my plate), salad w/egg w/lite dressing (I DID HAVE A BAG OF POPCORN AT WORK-shouldn't have, but did, it's over with-DONE, let's move on)

EXERCISE:
Every morning at 4:30 treadmill, 40 minutes.
GYM: Monday, Tuesday, skip Wednesday, Thursday, skip Friday, will go today, God willing.

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Kerry and I are going on a cruise this year and we have booked 13 rooms so far with our church. We're excited. One of our stops on this cruise is in a picturesque peninsula of Labadee, Haiti.
We've been there before, it's beautiful, beaches, lounge chairs, grass hut type umbrellas around for shade to place your lounge chair, all kinds of water sports, food, beverages, it's so relaxing. When this earthquake happened over a week ago in Haiti, I thought about thought. I thought-oh no what's it gonig to be like at the time we go, are we going to be bombarded with Haitains wanting to braid our hair, do this do that, please give me money, that type thing. Pressure?!?!
Will they try to rob us--not that we have money, but you know what I mean. with Haitains leaving the country, will they trek their way there?!?! Will we have a good time while 100 miles away, their in shambles, 100's of thousands of deaths. What will it be like for us in 8 more months. I hope the ones going from our church will not be upset, be mad at me and Kerry for making them come here. Well I went online to the RoyalCarribean website and they had an article there. They have security there, there's a fence around the island. They have pledged $1M to the country, and everytime a ship comes to the island, they are dropping off a lot of food and supplies that they picked up from another port. And RC employs several hundred Haitains, so that's income, and also RC pays Haiti $6 for every cruiser that is on their ship that comes into this paradise island. So this is helping their economy. Some are saying "How can you sit there and say, "Waiter, bring me a drink' while I'm on a private beach...knowing tht 100 miles away, people are dying." I thought about that too (not the drinking part-remember church family going), then I thought we might be a shining light to someone that has been hurt during this. Just a thought. Anyway, we're excited about going. Kerry wants to zipline! Oh Lord---I hope my weights off by then---hope that cable holds me.