no news is good news :-)

So, right now nothing is really going on other than trying to get items up on ebay to get rid of. I am hoping that at least some of this stuff sells, as it includes the remains of the beads that I no longer want. I'm loving looking in my closet and seeing almost nothing on the stairs, and I'd like to keep it like that! Please, please beads, sell!!!!!!

short one

today's post is going to be a short one, as I am already late getting to bed, and today is going to suck for sleep... On the plus side, I got a decent amount done at work yesterday, and finally feel like I'm catching back up to where I want to be. Hopefully this will continue today! In the meantime, I'm expecting a day of maybe about 5.5 hours of sleep, so time to go conk out.

another week...

And I'm still both on my diet and also walking Of course, the real test of my willpower will occur on Friday wen I weigh myself again, but I'm going to try to stay positive as much as I can. I've gotten the 2 blisters on the bottom of my feet mostly healed, but I have a new one on my heel from my socks, so I just bought some "walking socks" which are built to not rub and with extra padding where it's needed. Hopefully those will do the trick for me. Right now still only able to do 1/2 hour, but today got back to what I consider to be my normal speed - 4 mph. With luck I'll be able to get to 4.5 r 5, but even if I don't, I'm happy with 4 if I can continue it over an hour. I'm getting closer; the shin splints went away early today, so that gives me hope. In the meantime, it's just a matter of keeping motivated until Friday. Wish me luck please on seeing that number on my scale change for the better!

ouch...

OK, so today I made a big mistake.... I wore the wrong shoes, and then I walked for an hour in them. I was expecting the shin splints to flare up - those typically take me about 2-3 weeks to work out of my system; and today they stopped hurting somewhere around minute 25 (though I'm doing a LOT of stretching now, let me tell you!). I was not however expecting the blisters on the balls of my feet. And, of course, the moleskin that I have is so old that it now longer sticks, so I'm stuck using band-aids. Tomorrow is going to suck!!!!!

weekly update

Well, this is just my weekly update, though it's mostly good news. A couple of days ago I became an aunt, which is nice. There's now a nephew to spoil for the first time ever :-) Of course, later on that same hubby got into an accident - he's fine, other driver's fine, but the car needs to have some work done which means we're down to one car for now. We were worried that based on the mileage the insurance would want to total the car instead of repairing it, but we looked up the kelly blue book and we're all good still. Other than that, we have an appointment set-up this weekend for someone to come look at the beading supplies that I no longer want to keep, and hopefully they will want to buy some. The rest that aren't wanted will be ebay'd, as I'm getting to the point of being tired of having them around. Plus, I have some other stuff to ebay as well; paring down on stuff again. I'm also talkign to a marketer for my photography business, and he's going to put together a proposal for me to get my business off the ground (cheers) since I've decided that I love photography but hate marketing and everything that goes along with me doing it!!! So, with luck, I will have a plan and help soon! Lastly, I've started exercising again; my foot is healed enough for me to walk. I started today, even in the rain, and stopped at 1/2 hour only because my mp3 player ran out of juice. My goal is to do 1-2 hours each day, which will eat into my free time, but will be worth it. I have a new way to motivate myself - every time I tell myself that I'm too tired, or it's too cold, I'll just look at the photographs taken of me at the offsite training. That will keep me moving better than anything else I could possibly say! And yes, I still hate having my photograph taken.

First a gorgeous sunset from Wednesday - both with my phone's camera, so not the best photos:



Then, my wonderful flowers from my hubby :-)