You Are the Son

You are confident and charming. You enjoy saving the day and being the hero. You are very active and tough. You play all sorts of games and love challenges of all kinds. At your best, you are courageous. You take risks, go on adventures, and explore the world. You are curious and open minded. You like to experiment and see how things work. At your worst, you are competitive and ruthless. You are a bully. You become frustrated and jealous if you are not winning in something.

What Family Role Do You Play?

Now that E’s started working again, he’s up at the ungodly hour of 4:30am.  Why?  He’s in the family room doing yoga and other best fat burning exercises he’s read about in his fitness magazines.  I admire his motivation and determination to incorporate exercise into his life.  I used to be like that, remember?  Whatever happened to her, I too wonder.  Baby steps, maybe?  I keep saying Erynne and I will walk to her school in the mornings but it just never seems to happen.  Like tomorrow, the little girl’s ready to go back to school but it’s raining last time I checked.

Baby steps.  Like cereals in the morning instead of just skipping breakfast altogether.

The One that Waits

Dominant in relationships. Someone loves them right now. Always wants the last word. Caring. Smart. Loud. Loyal. Easy to talk to. Everything you ever wanted. Easy to please. A pushover.  Loves to gamble and take chances. Needs to have the last say in everything.  They think they know everything and usually do.  Respectful to others but you will quickly lose their respect if you do something untrustworthy towards them and never regain respect.  They do not forgive and never forget. The one and only.

(Got this from Van through e-mail.  Not sure who the source is.. but I like it ).

Don’t you just love it when you get EXACTLY what you want in the end?

Sorry, what an entrance.  Yes, yes, I am alive and brimming with news.  But can I just tell you the lengths I had to go through today to work out my insurance so I could see a specific doctor?  Maaaan, we’re talking almost 8 hours here.  Insurance is a pain!  Or is it just that I’m picky and difficult?  Combination of both but ei, it’ll be worth it if I think what I think is true.  The stress will be worth it all!

If it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be…

Raincheck on the “brimming with news part” k? .

I think I’m in fighting form again although I still have traces of a cough.  Not to mention, a very dry, sore throat.  I wanted to hold back from taking any type of meds but I finally gave in yesterday to Sudafed’s multi-symptom tablets.  Time and again, that stuff always works wonders on me.  Makes me wonder why I even hold out on that stuff when my body shuts down.  Need.to.stop.doing.that.  No more stuffy nose, no more sneezing — just that dry throat.  I’m almost good to go.  To boot, I even headed out the door this afternoon because I was craving for a sandwich.  Weather’s been so nice on our end that I figured some hot sun might help my current state — and I was right.

Tomorrow’s the husband’s birthday.  Didn’t buy a cake or anything because the last time I did that for my cousin A’s birthday when she was here a few weeks ago, the cake almost went to waste (and I gained less than 2 lbs!).  I went ahead and bought a slice of carrot cake instead so we have something to blow for tomorrow.  Notice I said “we” — that usually means Erynne really.  Anytime it’s anyone’s birthday, she thinks it’s her right to blow.  But of course, I say.

More posts to come.  I am on a roll!

Just wishing.

Do you guys create titles before you blog your entry or do you type first and go back and put a title when you realize what the jist of your entry is?

How is everyone?  There are tags I’d like to answer–and I will get to them–so please don’t think I’ve ignored you.  I know it seems I’m pretty good at ignoring people but trust me, I am lurking and reading and hopping even when you think I’m not.  I’m a born tsismosa, what can I say?  Meeya reminded me about this a few days – there are comments that I haven’t even responded to from who knows when.  I really appreciate your visits (I’ve hit over 20,000–thank you!) and hope that you will continue to visit me in spite of me “slacking off” (hello Jane!).  I really enjoy all this blogging stuff and I really do want to share so much but I just get sooooooo bogged down when I think about what I want to blog and I get tired just thinking about it.  End result?  No blogging!  It’s amazing how many of you have the energy to keep more than one blog (one of you as much as 7 or 8 blogs!  Gaaaaaazz!) whereas I can’t even keep up with this one.  But surprise, surprise: I have another blog in the making.  I won’t share it just yet as there’s obviously nothing on it.  It’ll be my weight-loss blog of sorts.

Fall is officially upon us so I think my blog is due for a new makeover.  New energy.  I need change.

And speaking of change, boy, I can definitely feel the difference in life these days.  I don’t know anything about Wall Street and all that funky stuff that’s happening right now but all I hear on TV is how we need to start pinching our pennies.  Ain’t that the truth.  It so happened that I took a good hard look at our finances less than a month ago and faced the truth:  we were happily living beyond our means.  That’s all changed now (we’re on a roll!) and I can’t tell you how much savings can be had by changing a few habits here and there.  And I had the shock of my life at the grocery store this weekend when one lady had racked up close to $57 in groceries only for it to go down to a mere $16.54 because she had 3 or so coupons with her!  OH MY GOD.  My eyes were ready to pop out of my head.  I remember wanting to chase her down just so I could ask her what her magic was.  You can bet, since then, I’ve personally saved all newspaper clippings with all them grocery sales happening around the area.  If you know me, you’d be shocked out of your pants.  My family likes to refer to me as, “one day millionaire, next day broke.”  Heh!  How you like me now, I say.

And it’s great that we’re on a ‘financial plan’ (as I like to call it) as you do remember me talking about Ohio, right?  It’s still a part of our master plan but now, we’re actually doing something towards that goal (read: we’re being responsible a-dults).  We hope to be there in more or less than a year if everything goes as planned.

And how can I forget to share I’ve lost over 40 pounds at last!  40.6 pounds to be exact.  I was really hoping to hit 43 pounds but I realize now, what was I thinking?  That would be unhealthy weight-loss (because afterall, I already lost 4.6 pounds the week before in just one week).  A few more pounds to go (Jane and Aggie, we’re almost there!) and I’ll have a reason to possibly start scouting for baby bedding. Stay tuned!

Which reminds me, I have to finally make that doctor’s appointment not only for myself but for the family.  Erynne’s up for vaccinations next month and hubby needs to get a complete check-up.  I absolutely dread going to the doctor’s.  Who am I to talk?  I don’t even have a doctor.