Happy New Year’s Eve! I’m so tired but that’s nothing new. 2010 is winding down and soon It will be 2011! I wanted to post my re-cap of this HORRIBLE year.

january 2010 -
1 year since I started my weight loss journey

february 2010 -
nothing stands out?
except that I still had energy =(

march 2010 -
our birthdays
shopping spree
energy starts to decline

april 2010 -
trip to georgia
traded our truck (BIG MISTAKE)
moved into current house (BIG MISTAKE)
energy = GONE

may 2010 -
got my FITBIT
walked a bazillion miles outside
appetite really screwed up
Katie’s 2nd birthday
traded car for blazer

june 2010 -
hubby got his current church calling
“attempted” to potty train Katie [we got so stressed out I eventually just quit]
things got worse overall

july 2010 -
gyno appointment showed low estrogen/progesterone so went on birth control pills (BIG MISTAKE)
Brad and I went through some VERY rough times
I got a pretty nasty sinus infection
appetite was CRAZY out of control
hubby takes ASVAP test for military and passes
7 year anni since we met

august 2010 -
haircut
got rid of the artifical sweetners and aspartame in my diet
car dealer screwed us over
church friend sold us our current car

september 2010 -
birth control starts to make everything worse for me
Brad and I go through MORE rough patches
cars transmission died

october 2010 -
new transmission for car
went OFFFFFF birth control
got my Paragard IUD back
SUPER stressful month

november 2010 -
..appetite was STILL out of control
still no energy since March
Thanksgiving with Brad’s Dads side of the family
started the Doctor run-around

december 2010 -
totally wasn’t in the Christmas spirit
more run-around with Doc & WON’T be going back to them
froze to death but finally got heat!
pipes busted but a church friend fixed them
5 year wedding anni
Katie got a decent Christmas <3
we got a white Christmas!!!
decided to go vegan
Holistic Doc helped point me to possible vitamin deficiency so I’m taking super B complex and B12 sublingual tablets
STILL NO ENERGY but sleep has gotten a little better

Hopeful that 2011 will be great. Oh, I hope so. 2009 kicked major BUTT but 2010 sucked major butt, hah. Let’s hope 2011 will rock the most! I just want to feel NORMAL instead of tired, foggy minded, unfocused and unmotivated. Do you know how much that sucks?!!!

Hopeful things for 2011:
– keep the vegan lifestyle (really diggin it!)
– get health straightened out and energy BACK ONCE AND FOR ALL!
– lose the weight I’ve gained and MAYBE get to my OFFICIAL ultimate goal of 130! [but gotta get my health straight before I can lose!]
– keep up with vitamins so I’m definetly not deficient in anything
– MOVE TO GEORGIA!
– get a job
– HAVE A NEW AWESOME YEAR!
– participate in more church events
– serve others and Heavenly Father more

Here’s to the new year and 2011!!!! Let’s all keep a positive outlook and try to be the best we can be! It’s gonna be a stormy New Year’s Eve here… I think I just heard some thunder! There’s a church party tonight but I just want to stay home, honestly. Just want to chill out and wait for midnight and a NEW YEAR!

Enjoy your night! BYE BYE BYE BYE 2010!

NEW YEARS EVE EVE!

Today was a repeat of yesterday pretty much. Except I did a workout on the Wii Active then a little bit of fast walking on the treadmill! Good stuff.

Everyone’s posting their New Years Resolutions and the only one I’m concerned about right now is getting my health back on track completely! I’ll get there slowly but surely. I think when we took the offer to move into our current house is when everything started to go downhill. It’s been around 9 months of POO.

Yeah, 2010… you have not been good for OR to me. 2011 WILL NOT be a bag of poo like most of 2010 was and I’m gonna make sure of it. 2010 started out REALLY GOOD then bang bang boom… good no more. I’m ready for an energetic, fun year! Bring it 2011… BRING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As much as it sucks to look over this POO of a year. I’m gonna post a recap tomorrow because I did it last year. Oh, how I wish I was feeling as good at the end of this year as I was at the end of 2009. I’ll get there.

Goodbye last Thursday of 2010!

This week is HALFway done! Also, It’s the LAST Wednesday of 2010, EVER! Byebye 2010 Wednesday. How has your day been?

I did the usual morning run around then got Katie set up to watch Finding Nemo while I fiddled online then decided to get on the exercise bike for 30 minutes. Aftewards, I ate a snack then got a nice, refreshing shower! I’m LOVING the new lotion I got Brad’s Grandma for Christmas. It smells delicious! I sat down at the computer afterwards to get started with my online work. A bit later I started my lunch and fed Katie a snack before her nap time. I put her down then ate my lunch and fixed my hair. More online work work work… got Katie up, fed her dinner and am fixing mine and Brad’s dinner now. Guess what I’m doing once dinner is put away for later? Yup, more online work until Katie’s bedtime.

A pretty decent day! 2 more days of 2010 and I say LET’S GO 2011!!!!!!!

I did not want to get out of bed this morning! In fact, Brad got out of bed before I did (which rarely happens on his days off!) and so I laid there for a bit longer before finally getting up and rushing around to fix mine and Katie’s breakfast at the same time. After a bit, I put on some slip-on shoes, my gloves and went to look at the left-over snow in our background plus soak up a little sun. It was nice! I actually formed a little snowball with the snow then kept rolling it up until I made a pretty big ball, hah. I haven’t played with snow in forever! My hands were getting too cold so I just went and sat on the backporch and did a few stretches before coming back in. Then my creative side kicked in so I brought out some paper, colored pencils, pencil, pen and used my creativity to draw a few things. That’s something I used to do pretty often and It always helped me to just relax my mind. Katie eventually went down for nap and then It was time to… EXERCISE! My legs were in fact a little sore from yesterdays workout, WOOT! I did a 33 minute workout on the Wii Active then fixed something to eat before taking a hot bath like I did yesterday.

Brad left for his church meeting around 5:40PM and I fixed Katie’s dinner, got her up, let her play, bathed her and put her to bed. I’m waiting on my love so we can eat and chill out before bed time! We LOOOOOVE baked apples for dessert – YUM! Oh oh!! We did watch Twilight: Eclipse last night and I really liked it! Might search for something to watch tonight too. It’s back to the normal grind tomorrow for Brad! He got 4 1/2 days off so he’s had it really GOOD!

Hope everyone has a great night! God loves you!!

IT FEELS GOOD TO SIT DOWN, WOOO.

After another sleep-in morning we all got up, ate, dressed and headed out to tackle the leftover snow!!! There was quite a bit still stuck to our car so Brad had to scrape it off. We ventued off to Wal-Mart to do our weekly grocery shopping and It was actually quite busy in there but not as bad as earlier this week. It’s been a week and a day since we switched to vegan and we both are doing well with it! We used to spend close to $150 each week on groceries but with switching vegan, we’re down to about $90-100! We also had to buy a few extras non-food essentials so yeah. OMG ALSO.. THEY HAVE SILK DARK CHOCOLATE ALMOND MILK! OH YES we did buy it!!! Once we got home and all the groceries in the kitchen, I started chopping, sorting and putting things away in the fridge. LOVE IT! Here’s all I’ve fixed up from this afternoon through this evening:
– cooked more brown rice
– baked a spaghetti squash
– cooked a whole lotta lentils!
– cooked some pinto beans

After I got done choppin and sortin things earlier, I fixed a dish full of random veggies to bake in the oven then took a bowl and put some brown rice, little spaghetti squash, lentils and some seasonings and heated those up while my veggies roasted. I could only eat half of it! The rest I’m gonna eat with my dinner tonight. After I ate, I decided to do some EXERCISE! It’s time to get back at it and gradually and hopefully build up to back where I used to be but I’m gonna have to ease into it. I did 20 minutes on the treadmill with a little sprinting intervals then did a Wii Active (more workouts) workout for 20 minutes then got a nice, hot bath! I was pretty hungry after my bath so I fixed a smoothie with the Dark Chocolate Almond milk, spinach, blueberries, lots of ice and choco protein powder. I got Katie up from her nap and let her eat her dinner while I got started with our OAT/bean/veggie burgers (I used the cooked pinto beans for those) and after they were DONE… I got to sit down as I mentioned at the first of the post! I’m downloading my online work and have been eating pumpkin/choco protein powder/powdered peanut butter mix since I still feel kindof hungry after all the running around, chopping, cooking and exercising!

Oooh and Twilight: Eclipse came in our Netflix today so hopefully we will be watching that tonight! I can’t wait to see it!!!!

We’re gonna have sweet potato and veggie beans for dinner plus I’ll have my leftover veggies from earlier with it then we need to study our scriptures together too. Hope everyone has had a good day! I’m interested to see how sore I will or will not be tomorrow from the exercise I did today – we’ll see!!!

Our Sunday:
– we didn’t get up till after 10:30AM!
– has snowed off/on all day and still have snow on the ground from yesterday
– I fed Katie breakfast while Brad cooked us pancakes
– we all watched Bounty Hunter on Netflix.. LOVED IT! Espically Gerald Butler hooooyeah!
– Katie went down for nap and we just hung out and surfed the web

The rest of the evening has been much of the same. Katie went to bed a bit ago and we just ate dinner and I’m about to fix dessert and put it in the oven.

It’s gonna be a REALLY cold night! That has been our day… another short and simple one but It was good to just relax.

This is what we woke up to this morning…..

The weather had mentioned we “might” get some snow and usually here in Alabama when they say we “might” get snow, we usually don’t or we just get a few flurries but to wake up to pure white that was sticking was a nice Christmas treat!

Katie had a good Christmas this year! Her favorite item I would say is the magnetic drawing erase board we got her. She got very upset when It was time to put it away tonight, hah. Once we helped her open all her gifts then I went into her bedroom and organized things and took her toy bucket in the living room (that was OVERFLOWING with toys and that wasn’t WITH Christmas pressies!) and I downsized it so that It wouldn’t be overflowing.

It’s already getting way colder outside and gonna keep droppin! We might get a little rain but will be getting more snow tomorrow and still bone chillin’ cold too ANDDD church has been cancelled so we get to sleep in!!! WOOT WOOT. For Christmas I got new washcloths, lotion, body spray, necklace+earrings, jacket, watch and I think that’s it? Brad got a handful of things too but I’m just blessed to have everything Heavenly Father has given me! I’m thankful for the birth of Jesus Christ and everything that came into play to allow me to be here at this moment in time.

From about April of this year onward has been mostly bad.. we’ve been through a lot as a couple and as a family. Truth be told – It’s pretty much been the worst year of my life. We didn’t even decorate any for Christmas.. that’s how unmotivated I’ve been and that’s totally NOT the usual me!! I’m READY FOR THE NEW YEAR!!!!!! I want 2011 to be as awesome as 2009 was but even BETTER than that! Already have quite a few goals and things lined up for this coming year and I can’t wait for it. I’m ready to get back to feeling like the TRUE me again but I know It’s gonna take time and taking care of myself.

We’ve got TWO more episodes of the latest season of Dexter to watch and It’s SO GOOD, aaaaaaah!!! I think we might watch both tonight, mwahah.

I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE
I decided to go ahead and clean house today so that I can just enjoy Christmas tomorrow – although I know I’ll be cleaning up tomorrow too from all the wrapping paper leftovers and all! Brad’s Grandparents were having their gathering and Brad had to work so I had said I wasn’t gonna go but Brad’s Grandpa said he would come get Katie and I then bring us back home when It was over so we went! It was nice! Katie got a huuuuuuge bag of goodies and has a little pile of presents from “Santa” here at our house to open in the morning!!!!

Hubby and I are gonna eat dinner, relax and watch Dexter! I’m thankful for Jesus Christ and everything He did for us so let us all remember that this Christmas!!!

Joy and peace and all! HO HO HO!

This morning I tried to call Brad’s Doctors office to see about getting an appointment but never got an answer. I got to pondering about what my online Doc had said to me about possible being deficient in B12. I had thought about If I am deficient how B12 shots would help me but he recommended supplemental treatment and said that was a better way to go versus the shots. I thought about it and researched some more and decided I would get Brad to pick up some B12 supplements to see If that would help me. It’s worth a shot I say! After I talked to Brad this morning on his first work break, I was eager to get the supplements and he was going after he got off work tonight to pick those up plus 2 other items… so! After I talked to him I decided I wanted to go and get the items so I could go ahead and get the supplements. I had to wait for Brad to call me on his lunch break so I could get our debit card PIN number, lol. I don’t use it that often and just didn’t remember it. He finally called at almost 3PM and I got the number. I called my church friend and in no time we were off! Of COURSE Wal-Mart was a madhouse on Christmas Eve Eve so I just went in, got my 3 items and had to wait in line for a little then I was out of there! I picked up these little gems…

These cherry lozengers are not bad! Go right under your tongue and dissolve in no time. We’ll see how I feel in a few days and I just wonder… is this the answer?! Something as SIMPLE as this? Wow.. If that’s the case then It will truly be a “Here’s Your Sign” moment that I should have looked into back in April of this year! If this is the case then YAAAAAAY! I have a feeling this is the key to getting me back to where I was at the beginning of this year and JUST IN TIME for a new year! As Spongbob says, “I’M READY, I’M READY!” Truly, I am.

I finished my online work and have just been hanging out then I bathed Katie and put her to bed! Waiting on my lovie to get home now. Oh oh oooooooh I cannot WAIT to watch more Dexter! We watched an episode last night and I automatically wanted to watch another episode but It was nearing bed time but hopefully another eppy will get watched tonight. Micheal C. Hall = yummy!

This shall be short and simple. It was a gloomy and chilly day! I actually got on the exercise bike this morning and just went at a steady pace for about 45 minutes then eventually got a nice, refreshing shower. The rest of the day? I’ve been doing my online woooooork!

Now? I’m chompin on some veggies for dinner and then dessert shall be powdered PB + choco protein powder + lil honey, lil oats and some pumpkin!

We didn’t get to watch Dexter last night but YOU BET we are real soon!

That’s all I got.