Happy Leap Day !!!

Last week I got everything done that I had mentioned in my last post. My Doc was happy with how things are going for me and she raised my thyroid meds just a tad because she changed the brand of the meds. I will try to go for an in-office visit later in the year. Wednesday evenings visit with my church friend to visit another lady from church was wonderful! They just got married in December and the message I talked to her about was great. You know what she said through tears? “You said exactly what I needed to hear” That made my whole month!! Next day was dental cleaning and everything was good! Told them one of my priority goals is braces SOON. Then I was super jealous when I talked to the receptionist at the office, who, just got her braces off!!! Her teeth look awesome! I told her I wanted that!

Saturday Brad and I took time to get our church talks ready since we had to talk in front of everyone on Sunday. Brad went ahead and got us tickets earlier in the week to go see…. DEADPOOOL! We saw it Saturday afternoon. It was awesome! Ryan Reynolds is epic. I want to see it again haha.

Our Sunday church talks went better than planned, really! I’m so proud of him, since I know he was nervous and wasn’t sure of how it would go.

Still tryin to find a job, a car for me, and trying to settle on which apartment complex we should move to.. and our lease is up at the end of March so we need to get going if we are going to, or else we’ll just stay here another year- but we both really do not want that! Send some good vibes our way! I know everything will be good.

So- asked my birth Mom about my Dad’s name a while back and she finally replied on messenger today. Said she remember his name but not his last. Hmm, well maybe I’ll find out someday. An exciting thing about today also was that I can finally fit into my smallest pair of jeans that I had first gotten into December of 2010 after I had lost weight- WOOOOOT.

I guess I took too much of something vitamin-wise yesterday and It made me feel pretty bad. Ugh.. I hate it. I felt rough last night and then had not-so-great dreams but after my nap today I felt better. I got my multivitamin in the mail that I used to take and I’m hoping that will help.

Waiting for my love to get home and then we’ll watch the latest Walking Dead a bit later! SO very thankful, grateful, and blessed for everything Heavenly Father has given me. Always.

Heyyaaa! Not much has been going on, really. Biggest highlight lately was that we went out Saturday and got some other new things! New socks for Brad and myself, new undies for me, 2 shirts and a pair of jogging pants for Katie, and a few other misc.

I’ve had quite the scrambled day! It started off that I was in such a rush to make sure I got Katie’s breakfast and stuff ready this morning that I forgot to take my thyroid meds. That threw me off for the whole day. I knew I felt sleepier than usual around 9AM, but just didn’t realize I hadn’t taken it, until after lunch. I took a nap, got up, ate lunch, then decided to take it early afternoon. A few days ago I found some nice apartment townhomes and I tried to call today and every time the line was busy so I’ll try again tomorrow. We want to go look at the 2 and 3 bedrooms that are avail to see what we think. They seem like nice little townhomes. We’ll see!

I’ve got a busy rest of the week, for sure. Tomorrow my Doc is calling in the morning to have a phone review and see how I’ve been doing and that’ll get me more refills for my thyroid meds. Wednesday evening I’m going out with one of the ladies from church to visit someone. Thursday morning I have my dental cleaning and then I have to get my talk prepared since Brad and I will be speaking Sunday morning at church – about love and service! I’m excited about it! Brad, on the other hand, not so much lol. He’ll do fine! We decided he’s going first, just to get it done.

We have storms moving into Georgia tonight! It’s been rainy since Saturday afternoon. UGH. On a random note: MY 30TH BIRTHDAY IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY.. EESH. I want to make my 30’s the best EVER. I went through so much in my 20’s and have spent the last six fighting to balance my health and re-claim it. I AM ON MY WAY.

You know what. I have finally–FINALLY found the missing piece of my health situation. When I had the vitamin and mineral test done in 2013? I think it was? I was shown what was low and I tried to supplement but they would always make me feel WORSE. ?????? It didn’t make sense, until I learned about glutathione. I had read about it before and had taken it here and there over the time my health has/had been compromised, but WOW IT IS IMPORTANT !!!!!!! !!! !!!!! They call it.. “The MOTHER of antioxidants” and it has tons of benefits and you NEED HEALTHY LEVELS OF THIS. I knew I had low b6, selenium, and a few others, including glutathione. I would supplement B6…. made me feel weird! Supplement selenium.. made me feel weird! ETCETC. I tried to do exercise.. made me feel worse! I know the other deficiencies (aside from glutathione) didn’t help me at all, BUT the first and foremost that I did not realize until recently is to work on really BOOSTING those glutathione levels, with the help of a special liquid supplement that is easily absorbed plus one that helps to recycle it and provide other support. The glutathione supplement and recycler are not cheap but wow, it is working already and I just started Saturday evening. In able to help everything else work in the way it should- glutathione needs to be up there in level! I truly believe that’s why my gut has never healed and why I’m not able to eat a lot of things without symptoms. I’m so happy that I’ve found this knowledge and now to just keep taking everything I need and HEAL. I have prayed and prayed and prayed to be led in the right direction. I feel this is the right one.

I’m so thankful, grateful, and blessed for everything Heavenly Father has given me- and I always will! <3 Sending you all lots of positive vibes for the rest of this week!!!

We were supposed to see about going Monday for haircuts, but my hairdresser said she was too emotional over her family member in the ICU so we rescheduled for Tuesday at 6:45pm.

Hmmm. Trying to remember what we did Monday? Brad has been wanting to buy a soundbar for the TV for like 2 years, so he finally bought one Monday and it’s really cool. We also went to Kroger for a few things, including chocolates and a late V-day card that I was going to give to Mom!

Brad went back to work Tuesday and me and Katie walked over yesterday afternoon to surprise Mom with the late V-day stuff! She loved it. Brad got off work yesterday and we got ready to go for our hair! Katie was up first and it looks super cute. Just a basic cut, but it was her first major cut in the back so my hairdresser saved it with a ponytail. Brad and Katie left to go check out Goodwill then head back home to wait till I was done.

Eesh It took a long time! We went over what I wanted to have done then she went ahead with part of the cut then put the color in to set. I got highlights on the top of my head then she left some of my natural brown there in various streaks and also added some red on the lower parts of both sides of my hair. After she put in the color I sat under the dryer for about… 20 minutes? She washed my hair then eventually put in the red to set, waxed my eyebrows, washed out the dye and then we went to dry/style! We got there at 7pm and didn’t get home till almost 11pm! I LOVE IT. My hairdresser ROCKS. But *choke* holy cow.. I didn’t set a max price for this since it was an early birthday present, but let’s just say HOLY SMOKES.. I’m never paying that much for hair color again! It was Katie’s cut, my eyebrows, cut/wash/style, plus the colors.

Today has been more of a relaxing day, but I did fold laundry, have another load drying, vacuumed the floors, and am getting ready to watch Fit to Fat to Fit! We’re also gonna watch the new episode of X-Files and Chicago Med – woohoo!

Happy LOVE DAY !!!!!!! One of my favorite holidays! <3 <3 <3 So, I overdid it on Thursday and ended up feeling not-so-great that evening and Friday. However! I did get my probiotic and liver supplement in the mail and just started taking them today and I know they will only help me that much more. Also, another thing that didn't help is that I forgot to take my thyroid pill Friday morning. Ugh.. it makes all the difference and completely throws me off. I got up after 8AM Saturday and then a bit later on I took a nice nap then got up and had lunch. I knew I had to leave to go out with a church friend at 3PM and we were supposed to go get haircuts/my hair coloring at 6:30PM. Brad also took a nap and was still asleep when I got up to get dressed to leave just before 3PM but he was getting up once I told him I was leaving. We were able to visit 2 people! One of them we hadn't seen in person since October, so that was awesome. We try to visit certain people every month, just to give them the monthly church message and to see how they are doing and if they need anything! When we were getting ready to leave the 2nd person that we went to see - I got a text from my hairdresser saying someone in her family was in the ICU and she wanted to do an earlier time, like 5:30 or 6pm but I sent a text back and said If she needed to reschedule then I didn't mind. We sent texts and she said maybe Monday, depending on what happens with the family member so hopefully tomorrow! So, my church friend and I were gonna see about visiting someone else but I decided it would be best to try to another time. When I came in the door... surprise! Brad and Katie had set up a valentine's day surprise! Bought me beautiful roses, wonderful cards, and a V-day balloon!! How very sweet of them! Brad also let Katie pick out a valentine's day pony that's pink and has hearts on it - and that's from us to her for V-day. Later after dinner we loaded up to go buy some new stuff!!! We got new... - Vacuum that's awesome!!! - Water filter for the sink hook up - Ink for our printer - Church clothes for Katie (and 2 other new shirts) - Brad bought various healthy foods for his work lunches Glad we got to buy some new items and clothes for Katie. We went to church today and had a good time, only thing is that I stay in the library for 2 hours and IT IS FREEZING IN THERE. I brought my blanket today, but still my nose was an ice block. Eesh! The temp is controlled in another room by other people so maybe we can get them to turn on the heat a little! Brad even let me go in the clerk's office and warm my hands a little hahah! Brad dropped us off at home and he had to go back to church to finish helping with his duties then he stopped by Whole Foods to buy more of my favorite protein bars! I laid down and took a lovely nap and have just been hanging out. Brad took a nap a bit later and he's still asleep now, LOL. I took out the trash and plan on folding a load of laundry soon, plus calling Mom to wish her a happy V-day! <3 We'll all be home tomorrow since Brad is off for tomorrow and Katie is off for "Winter Break" all week from school. I guess the major plan for tomorrow will be hair appointments, If my hairdresser will be able to get that done. Oh! Might go to the mall, since I want to get new Asics running shoes! Alright, sending all of you love today and every day! <3

Well hey! Sup! I currently just sat down my dinner and feel AWESOME. Listening to Breaking Benjamin too <3 I swear, they are tied as my favorite band, along with the epicness that is INCUBUS! Katie finally lost her wiggly upper left tooth (one beside the two top) yesterday and It had been loose for what seems like months! She said she was eating her sandwich at lunch yesterday and felt it fall into her mouth and she took it out! I'm surprised she didn't accidentally swallow it but yay! The nurse gave her the little tooth shaped holder. Also, Katie's class is doing a special presentation on Brazil tomorrow, so I told Brad about it while he was at work and he stopped by his specialty Brazilian shop and bought some goodies for the class tomorrow! Hah, he's awesome! I scheduled hair cuts for myself and Katie this Saturday!!! Also, getting my hair colored again, since my highlights are halfway gone. Time to get bright almost blonde again!!! Think I want a little red or pink tips too. YEEE. I want a tan too. This week has been good thus far and we got our taxes Wednesday, woohoo. I've got a list of things we need to buy and then we're still looking for an apartment or house to rent, plus some type of used car for me. I'm gonna make SURE this year rocks. OH, I also found a work from home health coach type job and thinking of applying.. I would make almost as much as Brad. I gotta try! Alright, time to finish dinner, study scriptures, and watch some shows before LOTRO <3 gaming time!!!

Today has been great !! Church was good this morning and I just worked on organizing everything for the 2 hours that I’m in the library. Brad mostly hung out with me in there too haha. I’m glad though! =) Katie met up with us at the end of church and wanted to mess around in the library more but we said it was time to go and she kept protesting… figures lol. Every other time she would be wishing we could go – if we had to stay after church.

We came home, ate lunch, and then we eventually went to take naps. Brad crashed on the bed in the bedroom and I napped on the couch, while Katie played. She was being really loud playing with her dominos so finally told her to stop with the noise. My little nap was awesome. Felt really good today and I’m loving it! I got up at 3pm and started to clean stuff in the kitchen, folded some laundry, washed dishes, and eventually went out to clean the inside of the car! I used our car vac to get up some dirt/etc in the floors and sprayed some good smelling spray and wiped down the dash with multi-surface pledge (have loved this stuff for years!)! I also cleaned out and organized the trunk. Brad was very, very happy with it! He came out to take a look and ended up throwing away some other things too. Now, we just need a warmer day so we can take it to be washed on the OUTSIDE, which it really, really, really, REALLY needs !!!

Ate dinner, put Katie’s clothes away that I washed/dryed, and plan to relax and .. can ya guess?? Play LOTRO!! It’s gonna be really cold this week.. brrr. Might even get some snow flurries Monday night or Tuesday. Wishing everyone a POSITIVE!!!!!!! week! =)

Hope everyone’s weekend is going well! Friday was a decent day and we got our usual food shopping done last night too. Found out today that we will probably get our taxes Wednesday, woooot. My Aunt wanted me to take her to the store today and I was really nervous about driving by myself for the first time. She called me around noon and said to just call her when I was ready to head over to get her. Well, I had to eat and get a few other things done. Brad had been working on Ancestry.com with his family tree, so I was interested in that as well.

Brad had wanted to go to a different store so we all decided to go and we would just take my Aunt where she wanted to go then drop her back off at home. However, when we all were just about to head out the door – she sent me a text and said she had found a ride. We loaded up and headed out to Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, and then this international store. Speaking of family trees- I also started on my family tree too! I asked Mom to write down everything she knows family name wise so that I could start to trace back so hopefully she will help me out there. Brad traced his Dad’s Mom’s family back into the 1700’s! And his line has Culpepper’s in there somewhere.

Alright, well time to get Katie’s bath ready then eventually play some LOTRO!!! <3

Oooh, so groundhog says early spring??? YES PLZ. I was so happy to have warmer temps this weekend and most of the week wasn’t bad but now here comes the cold again! Day before yesterday, I think? I was taking a nap and had a weird dream. I was talking to this woman in a dream and she had lots of fat on her arms and some type of skin condition and she showed me this book that she had made for me? Err something? I dunno, but anyway – I started crying and just bawling my eyes out. I just kept crying.. so hard that I started to not be able to breathe. I think it was actually happening to me in real life because it woke me up! Eeesh.

Hmm, so Katie’s been doing well in school! She will have a February “winter break” ??? I don’t understand. She’ll be off for a whole WEEK, starting the 15th. Speaking of around the 15th.. CAN’T WAIT FOR WALKING DEAD!

Well, it’s almost midnight and figured I’d post a quick entry before bath/bed. Have a rockin’ Friday! <3

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!! <3 <3 <3 Well, today was a little disappointing. Found out Planet Fitness actually isn't hiring. Boo... I talked to my Aunt's friend on the phone and he asked me about the office job and I told him It was just too far away. Then realized with Brad's doc appt fee and Netflix/Hulu Plus fee that we'd have to wait till Friday to pay rent, so I talked to the manager about it and she said It's fine as long as I give her the rent by Friday morning. Supposed to be in by the 3rd but thankfully she's letting us do this. Shew! Brad bought me the Airborne Dual Action tablets you put into water and let it dissolve. Hoping this helps me a bit, since it has selenium and an ingredient to help with the immune system. Brad's taking a nap, I'm about to finish dinner, and Katie's playing until her cartoon time.