Sigh...what is going on?

He came in the room just as I finished

tidying up.  I looked at him and felt so

much emotion rush thru me!  Throwing

my arms around him, I gave him a big

hug and kiss.  "Are you playing with me?"

he asked.  "No", I said, shaking my head,

"I love you, Mr. P."

And that's when I woke up.  We broke up 5 months ago.  Why am I dreaming about him now?  What does it all mean?

HELLOOOOO 2012!

Goodbye 2011!  I'm so ready to move on to a new year and new plans.  But first, some of last year's accomplishments should be shared and celebrated!

~In April, Mini got a job at one of the 'Big-Box' stores!  She's done really well and is on management's radar.  November brought a promotion to a different position and a pay raise.  It also brought a new, 4 AM start time, which we are slowly adjusting to.

~Last January I set out to lose 30 pounds, thru a change in life-style habits.  Christmas Day I weighed in 33 pounds lighter and several sizes smaller than I was at the start of the year!  It's amazing and a huge accomplishment.  The reward is looking and feeling so much better.  Being able to wear cute and stylish clothes that fit.  No more 'fat-sucking garments' needed to be able to fit into a dress!  And I found a love of power-walking in the process!  Bonus after bonus!

Yesterday Mini and I found ourselves on a walk and ended up at a coffee shop nearby.  Just a casual and low-key start to the year.  We shared soup and a grilled 4-cheese sandwich that was so, so good!  And snapped a few pics to remember the day.  One of my plans for this year~to take more pictures.  To keep a better record of the year, both with photos and writing.

And my wish for the New Year?  That we all have a year filled with love, laughter and good health. 

Happy New Year!  

GOAL WEIGHT SURPASSED!!

I was so excited this morning to see I was

below my goal weight of 130!

The scale read: 129.8

So I've now got a new goal: 125!

fabulous photo taken Sept 18th by the talented photographer

Erica Miller

REVVING UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

The Annual Motorcycle Toy Run took place on the weekend.  There's nothing like the

rmmm,  rmmm of about 1500 bikes to rev things up on a Sunday morning! 

There were big bikes, smaller bikes, dirt bikes,

 3-wheeled bikes, bad-ass guys on bikes, clean cut guys on bikes, and,

 I was happy to see,

 lots of women driving bikes!

I took my new camera, the one I got with Airmiles, and am so

pleased with the photos~they are amazingly clear!

This is really the start of the festive season events, and one of my favorites!

I wish I was bad-ass enough to ride a bike!



BIGGEST LOSER UPDATE!!

After winning 'Biggest Loser' at work in April, I knew the winnings should go to something personal, that would remind me of my accomplishment often.  That eliminated clothing, anything breakable, or something that might get used up.  I thought about things I really loved, and after seeing a beautiful ring on a lady at a cooking class one night, decided on a turquoise ring.  She directed me to a local jewelry maker, and I placed the order the next day!  I picked it up a couple of weeks ago~isn't it spendid?  I've had so many compliments on it! 


As of now, my weight is holding at 23 pounds lost!  The rest seems to want to come off slowly.  That's OK tho.  It took 5 years to gain the 30 pounds and I'm persevering!  More about that journey at:
http://ishouldbedoingpushups.blogspot.com/

TIME FOR A MOVE?

Over the last couple of weeks I've been increasing fed up with Google and am contemplating moving to Wordpress.  I like that I can have a cute blog here~because I am all about cute and adorable~but maybe I could manage that there too, with a little help.  I am so tired of getting pages telling me my request is invalid and randomly being directed back to a sign-in page right in the middle of a task.  The clincher for me tho, was finding my computer switched to 'Google Chrome' out of the blue earlier this week.  I was shocked, as I didn't download it.  Suddenly my toolbar was gone along with my favorites button!  I was able to switch back, but it was a bit of a painful process, with all the 'invalid request' pages and the 'we were unable to sign you out' pages that kept appearing.  So what do you think?  Does anyone have any experience with other blogging sites?  Any advice or suggestions?

MOTHER'S DAY

The good Things~



A deer in the woods next to our complex.  The bright spot to my morning..

Insane cuteness down the road from the barn!

If you go to the fence, the donkeys will come over to you.

Adorable!

And of course, my lovely Mini!

The Bad Things~

'Nuff said..