I have finally weighed myself to see where I’m at so I know how much before I get there. 😛 This month I lost 6 pounds. Not that I’m not happy with that, just I lost so much in the first 4 or so that it’s hard to get used to my body starting to slow down. Now that I’ve lost more weight, I can do more in life. I walk more, do more around my home, which makes my husband much happier, and am more productive at work. On top of this it’s nice to not have to buy everything I purchase clothing wise at the specialty store. I still have to be careful of what I purchase since not everything in my size fits right or even looks good. So I’m slowly building another wardrobe since I finally donated all my clothing that didn’t fit properly. This purchasing of new clothing is so much fun, until I balance the checkbook. 😛 In which case it’s not so much fun anymore.
On the work side. Things are going well. I’m trusted with more responsibility and asked to contribute more. I’m left on my own now to figure things out and find that generally asking questions of someone doesn’t make me look dumb or like I didn’t pay attention in training, but it’s generally thought that the situation just hasn’t happened in just that way before. I am making friends and was a few months ago made employee of the quarter. That totally floored me! I was never so surprised as that!
For family. My honey is doing fine, still loves his job and is doing well. There is however more family drama. My BIL came to stay with my parents for a time pending some changes he and my sister were making since he got a job out here. Well he was here a week and decided he hated his new job and the managment lied to get him out here. So they decided NOT to sell their home and for him to stay out here until he was hired back home by someone. This was 4 months ago. Last week my BIL came to ask if he could live with us since my parents kicked him out. He told us his reasons for not wanting to stay there anymore anyway. And admittedly from his point of view they are/were vaild reasons. Some are too personal to go into here and others are just basically a different point of view of things. Suffice it to say, my parents are feeling very defensive and hurt as is my sister and her husband. I am inadvertantly stuck in the middle of this perception problem. My parents are sick my sisters marriage may not last and have expressed that my BIL really either needs to bite the bullet and take any job out there so they can be together, or just sell the house for what they can get out of it and rent out here for awhile until things are paid off enough they can afford a new home again. Which I can totally see. I really, really just want the parents and the sister and BIL to sit down and talk EVERYTHING out. My sister is holding on to some very hurt feelings concerning her treatment at the hands of my Dad (who is my step-dad) and totally reads how he comes across so very differently than I read how he comes across. (And if she’d get the courage to talk to my parents about how she and my BIL feel about the parents relationship and the problems it’s caused for them, maybe, just maybe they can come to an understanding and work things out.)
This week, this has been what I’ve been hoping and literally praying for. Please if you’re the praying or good Karma kind, send a little the way of my family…. Oh and if you’d like you can pray for me to stick to my guns about this weight loss thing and keep going until I’ve met my goal. This is one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life and I keep having to fight the urge to purchase something sugary daily.
Thanks in advance.
Life from my POV 