Brad went back to work today and actually seemed OK today so that is good. I just want my babe to be able to get that weight off his shoulders. I just want to be able to help the people I love the best I can. Been a pretty average day.. got the rest of the laundry done and put into rooms. I’m working on the new layout for the site but I keep changing my mind!!! Ugh I’m getting aggrivated with myself, lol. It’s a summer based layout so I hope I can get it up before summer ends haha. I’m amazed at how fast today has went by really. It’s already almost 7pm?!!!

It’s supposed to rain the next few days, ugh!!! If it’s OK weather tomorrow maybe we’ll get to go out and do something like we usually do but If it’s raining then I’m not sure what we’ll do. It’s so fun to be able to chat with Brad while hes at work mwahaha. Last night we went to bed a little earlier than usual since Brad was exhausted but not long after we were asleep, the lights went off! I woke up a few random times and the lights were off and I don’t think they came back on until like 4-5AM. I think I was waking up because it was getting hotter and hotter without any air. No idea why the lights even went off? We weren’t having a storm or anything.. who knows! Annoying.

Today has been hard. Brad came home this morning after 11AM and I could tell he had been crying. I was thinking… oh no, please tell me he didn’t get fired. Nope, apparently he did something wrong at work and got a warning and then talking to his work coach led to bringing up the main stress in his life. Apparently a past event has been eating away at him since It happened and this was years ago. He broke down at work to his coach about it then his coach told him to go ahead and take a paid day off with the way he was feeling. I’ve felt pretty glum the whole day too because I can feel part of his burden. He’s gone right now to go talk to a guy from church about it and I hope that person can help him atleast a little bit. I tried to talk to him about it and he said I helped a little…

I just want him to be happy and I hope somehow, someway he can overcome this and not have it bringing him stress every day.

Ugh and it’s been raining allllll day. Boooo. Anyway, I’m gonna go fix my snack while Katie naps.

I really like my new cellphone! If I’m playing with Katie, I can randomly tweet on twitter or post on facebook and I’ve been randomly messaging Brad at work so it adds a bit of fun!!!

I sat down last night and fiddled with ANOTHER new layout, lol. I’m pretty sure I’m sticking with the one I’m messing with but I guess we’ll see. Last night Brad and I finally watched our Netflix movie Aeon Flux! Actually a pretty decent movie… very interesting. I slept sooo good last night! I got up this morning though and have felt like I don’t have my usual full energy. I’m thinking PMS has a play in on that. OH OH Katie is finally getting her 2 top teeth!

Side note to self: don’t drink the crystal light packets with fiber in them in the morning.. wound up with tummy ache and side pain while running, oweeee.

Mwahaha.

Today was wonderful! Church was excellent and so was Katie!

Brad returned his Blackberry Curve and got the LG VU CU920 and after much undecision, I finally made up my mind to get the same phone!!! We also got unlimited text & data added to our plan… FTW!!!

Yup, my day rocked. Now I’m gonna have a ROCKIN’ week too!

Brad upgraded his cellphone to a blackberry curve and so he had to get the data plan with it and well now he has me interested until we found out that I’d have to get another data plan which would be like $60 extra on our bill?!!! WTF. Uhhh, that is ridiculous. Not worth it really so we’re gonna see what we can research and find out. Maybe if it were $30 data plan for the both of us but $30 a piece?!

I’m very happy to say I got up and had my weigh-in and lost 2 pounds! I think next week I’m gonna focus a little more on the treadmill and let my thighs relax from the wrath of the Wii Active with squats, lunges and jumps. Eeesh! Brad lost as well!! He has gained some last weekend but he lost all that +1 so that is excellent!

I have a new theme I want to tweek into my own and put that up but It’ll probably take me forever haha. Well I had better go get Katies dinner ready and wait for Brad to call me on his work break!

Yeah.. I’m in that don’t want to post mood but I’ll make a short update so here ya go.

I did the easy marathon with the Wii Active today and man, my shins and knees really felt that one!!! I burned a little over 300 calories with that. We got our grocery shopping done and after we got home, Brad went back to upgrade his cellphone. I would have but Wal-Mart didn’t have any cellphones I liked. I fixed myself a snack while Brad was gone, ate and then once he got back we loaded up again with Katie to head out to the church parking lot shoot some hoops! Only played for like 20 minutes since Katie was beyond tired. Arrived home again then I took Katie straight up to bed and she is out.

My tummy kindof hurts… about to start some dinner and eventually watch One Tree Hill!

Today was pretty cool but pretty rushed all day long so that kindof gets me aggitated but it’s all okie! I got up this morning at 8AM, a little over an hour earlier than we usually get up. I got up earlier so I could get things done sooner (hopefully) because we had planned on going for a swim!!! Brad didn’t get up till uh.. I don’t know – I think it was close to 10AM. Got Katie up, fed her yadda yadda yaaa then eventually put her down for an earlier nap so she could get one in before we had to go and she did take one. Brad and I both got our exercise done then washed off, got things together then loaded up and headed out!

We had a very good, relaxing time out there. Katie was EXCELLENT! She didn’t whine, pout or cry the WHOLE time we were there!! AND she LOVED the water! I brought her 2 bath toys and she played with those the whole time she was in the water. I got to play in the sand and Brad and I took turns swimming and watching her. Then eventually we all got out, ate a snack then I laid on the beach towel and tried to soak up some good ole sun rays!!! It was PERFECT weather! The sun felt GOOD instead of blazing hot and there was a gentle breeze and scattered fluffy clouds. There was a tiny kitten that was on the beach area and Brad BADLY wanted to take it home. I kept saying NO. I’ve already got ENOUGH on my hands as it is. Kitty was very cute though… sorry but no! I got to sun bathe maybe almost an hour then we decided to go visit Brad’s Mom. I had a very nice time visiting with them!! Katie was excellent at their house too. We stayed for 2 hours then headed home and I was more than ready because I was starting to itch from sand crotch and was starving because I hadn’t eaten my snack. Got home, fed Katie, put all the stuff away, gave Katie a bath and put her to bed then Brad and I took a shower THEN I cooked my snack while also starting dinner and washing some dishes! Hows that for busy?? lol.

Eating dinner right now! ABOUT TO WATCH ONE. TREE. HILL!!!!!!!!! YEAH!

I’m pretty certain I know what I want to do with my life as far as a career goes. I want to help inspire people to change their lives. I would LOVE to become a fitness trainer and help put people on the right path to changing their health and to help them put exercise and fitness into their lives for good. I’ve already been helping quite a few people over the last few months online and I can already tell this is the area I want to be in because I know sometimes all it takes is someone reaching out to someone else to help them make that big change that could help them forever.

I feel SO accomplished on my exercise! I can now do a mile on the treadmill in under 16 minutes and I jogged without stopping for about 2 miles! It felt awesome, It felt great. Although the tops of my knees are a little sore but that doesn’t matter because I did it. I cannot say enough how much I love our Wii Active. It really makes sure you are doing the exercises correctly and are holding them the correct time limit. I espically love the sports on there! Since playing that, I now want to play tennis in real life! Speaking of exercise, I called Mom the other day and she said she went to a fitness center with a friend the other day and walked 8 laps around the track! I was like WOW, go Mom!! I wish I could have been there with her but I’m so glad shes getting out of the house and active! To be in her 70’s and to have went through all shes been through health wise I’m SO SO SO proud of her! The thing that brings a smile to my face is that she tells me she feels great.

We got some rain today and It’s still a little gloomy outside and seemed to cool off so I had to turn the air off because I was getting way too cold!

Sigh. Life is amazing. It really is. We just need to focus on the positive, good things in our lives and strive to be the best we can be in all areas of our lives. Another amazing thing? INCUBUS. I waaaant toooo seeee theeeem liiiiiiive SO BAD. Boyds voice and lyrics are heart melting material!!!!!

It’s another nice temp day and I haven’t had the central air on all day, just the fan!!! Yay! Well, Brad picked his new work schedule out today and that will begin sometime soon, early August I think. He’ll have similar hours but will get off 30 minutes earlier and instead of Thursday, Friday and Sunday off he’ll have off Sunday, Monday, Tuesday! He likes it so I’m really glad he got the one he wanted. I’m so glad he finally found a job he really loves.. well for the most part! Of course he doesn’t like putting up with idiots on the phones but overall, he loves it.

I was more than stoked to get back on the treadmill this morning and also get some Wii Active into it as well and I can say I feel very good!! I can’t explain how amazing it feels to be able to jog on the treadmill! I can now jog without stopping for almost a mile and a half. I thought I’d never be able to do that! I may eventually have to start putting in more sprints to make it more intense when this pace I’m at gets too easy. Also came to the conculsion that my weight gain from this weekend might have been either 1) muscle gain or 2) water weight because I did try to drink even MORE water last week. I’m starting to eat a little more fruit than my usual and I love it. Right now I eat strawberries, red seedless grapes and honeycots daily!

I’ve been working a little on a new layout but I keep changing my mind on colors! Ugh. I’ll figure it out lol.

PS – I cannot WAIIIT for September to get here for all my favorite TV shows to come back! YES!!!!!! ESPICALLY The Biggest Loser!