For those of us down here in the civilized regions of the country, February is when we start seeing signs of spring. In just a week or three we will start to see daffodils, jonquils and their narcissus cousins blooming in our gardens. Sure we might get another freeze or two, but the narcissus will be unbothered and keep right on blooming. It’s the first sign that we have another chance to start over and get it right this year.
My plan for 2018 is to take better care of myself and my house. My newfound motivation to do so came from one of my Charleston friends. By the end of 2017 my mood was,… “I can’t take this anymore.” I was finally fed the fuck up with living in a filthy house and being fatter than two hogs. There is a place in the ghetto very near my house I call They Yellow Store. The Yellow Store makes most of its revenue selling cheap beer, cigarettes, phillies blunts and lottery tickets. The clientele is unwashed. When I go there to grab beer because I am too depressed, lazy, and poorly groomed to go to the grocery store like a civilized human, there is always a voice in my head that says, “Really? This is your peer group now? WTF are you doing with your life?” Then I go home and drink and write error ridden blogs about really bad television shows and answer my own question.
Last weekend’s open forum was about my desire and plan to do some spring cleaning and finally dig myself out of this hole. So I started purging. I still have a lot more to do, but I am spacing it out so that my garbage men don’t quit on me. 🙂 And yesterday I paid someone I know an ABSURD amount of money to come dig me out. Now most everything is in order and my mental state is vastly different. Now the challenge is to maintain the mindset for the entire year. I updated the mental up and downs of the process in comments of the last Open Forum. I’ve added Open Forum to the black bar in hopes that you guys will update your stories in the Open Forum as well rather than going off topic in other comments. If you don’t visit the comments of the Open Forum after it falls off the front page, you are missing lots of interesting discussions.
Each small task, every closet that I brutally pruned helped to push me to keep going. I now feel like it is okay to go to a movie today because I am not ignoring more pressing issues. So I am about to sign off and put on clothes that are not sweats or men’s pajamas and go catch a matinée and then grab a bite to eat in a restaurant that does not have a drive thru and does have a bar. I may even celebrate with a class of champagne in a flute as God intended.
And if I sound all Oprahlike, it’s because Supersoul Sunday is playing in the background. Sorry. I am also still in my jammies, so I’m not out the door yet and this spouting of my accomplishments may be a bit premature.
But let’s go take on the day! 2018 is whatever we make it.
Love your enthusiasm, Tamara. Go for it!
Enjoy your dinner and movie. Remember to save room for dessert, preferably cake. XXO.
Great attitude Tamara, you make me optimistic for a better 2018.
Enjoy your day.
Great attitude Tamara, you make me optimistic for a better 2018.
Enjoy your day.
Nothing better than going to the movies by yourself and being able to go have a meal saying “one please.”
I used to do that years ago and it is great.
I kind of need 2018 to settle some things that are causing ridiculous spinning out needlessly. I just truly have to learn patience, and that I cannot control everything. I’m going to work hard, and TT you are an inspiration. Thanks.
“One please” is awesome! At first I was afraid that people are looking at me and judging me for that, but then I grew up and there is nothing better 😀
The first time I went to the movies alone, I had a notebook and pen like I was reviewing it, lol. (I wasn’t, and I went to like a 5:20 show, so about 9 people were there.)
That is great news and amazing progress, TT! It must feel really good. Glad to hear you are treating yourself today.
Brilliant! The house is no longer leeching your happiness and self-love . The fortnightly cleaner is of the essence though. Visualise vases of fresh flowers gracing your uncluttered surfaces – the scent of Hyacinths pervading everywhere… Onwards, always. Well done.
Go Tamara!! Good for you!!
Since it is an open forum – real housewives are everywhere! Kyle fighting Kim on RHOBH was on the last episode of The GoodPlace 😀
Before that “prostitution whore” dinner from RHONJ was part of Orville’s episode…
Have you seen our beloved housewives in something else? 😀
Lisa Rinna was a gag on Will and Grace, too.
I lived in Atlanta for 18 years. As I got ready to move to Seattle a few years ago, I was astonished at HOW MUCH JUNK I had accumulated over the years.
I way overfilled my allotted City of Atlanta trash dumpsters and had Junk King haul away the rest. I moved from a 2500 sq ft house in Atlanta to a 650 sq ft apartment in Seattle, so I was forced to be ruthless in my treasure vs. trash decisions. It was exhausting but ended up being a very cathartic experience.
I’m doing the same thing, moving and cleaning house! It’s time to turn off the news and if the sky falls I’ll see it rather then fearing it’s inevitable onslaught. 2018 is already a year to remember! You go girl!
Enjoy your day, no matter if you get out, or if you choose to stay home
Enjoy your champagne in a flute just the way God intended!
What movie do you plan to see TT?
TT, you have inspired me to get off MY fat ass and attempt the same. I can’t stand it any longer, plus the thought of some else trying to dig thru my things is just too much to bear. One day, please spill the tea on the comfy bra you had found from …Walmart?
The bra I like is only sold at Walmart. I think it is a store brand. I have very specific requirements. It must be an underwire and it must not be padded. Walmart makes one with a lace cup that comes in black, white and a few neon colors. They are great and come in whatever ginormous size you may or may not need. The only problem is the material is thin so the underwire pops out fairly quickly. And for some reason it is impossible to push back in. I usually buy one in every color when I go, because they are cheap. and when I get down to wearing the neon green and pink ones, it’s time to restock. LOL. I still have a drawer full of other options even after purging the bra drawer recently, But I really only want to wear the Walmart ones.
I guess you can take the girl out of the Walmart, but….
I used ti have the underwire poking my tender underarm problem because that’s where the fabric would give – at the very top of the pocket holding the wire. I started reinforcing that part of the bra before it happened (I am no seamstress) and it helped 🙂
That’s exactly what I do before I start wearing them. I just hand stitch around where it usually pops out and now it doesn’t happen. TT I love those Wal-Mart bras. They are about $4.99 and are really comfy especially for those of us in DD land. The also come in a natural tan color now
Yup. Walmart bras here. I switch between a Hanes u111 (i memorized the style code. Think it is right). And the other is an underwire that is thin and unpadded.
I have done this also , if you do it before it starts it’s easier and I just used thick thread and went over kill on the ends ! Problem solved .
Just yesterday I posted a Facebook rant on the difficulty of finding unpadded bras. Thought I had a lifetime supply of nice bras until I lost 40 lbs last year & now need a new supply, but all I’ve seen in even ginormous sizes are padded for some unknown reason. I’m not huge, but do not need to impress the bald cat & the poodle, so prefer unpadded, & was asking FB friends for recommendations of sources for reasonably priced unpadded bras. Poodle & I had been to TJ Maxx & I’d only found ONE bra (in wrong size) in entire store that was unpadded. Belk’s had nothing to offer either, though the sales girl did assure me that the ongoing sale would get me two bras for only $60 instead of the usual $80. Finally snagged a pair of cotton black cotton unpadded for $13 in my rural Walmart store, but guess I need to cross the county line to get the neon goodies. I used to make my own lovely bras that looked store-bought & were very comfortable, but Hurricane Isabel took my patterns & scattered my supplies who-knows-where. Downsized after my husband died & no longer have a dedicated sewing room. It was fun, though, & not that difficult.
I’m going to come back to this!
Tonight came home to a 16 y/o daughter….
Holy cow. You are goals for me. Keep on doing what you’re doing tt.
Today is my birthday and the fact that you feel better is a gift to me ! You are a kindred spirit, and I am trying to dig myself out too.
Enjoy your flick and your champers 🙂
Have a great day. Happy birthday.?
Happy Birthday !!
Happy Birthday, Cat!
Thank you, TT and fellow Tea-Lovers <3
What did you see? What did you eat? What did you drink?
LOL. I’m big on details, especially where food and drinks are concerned.
Good for you TT. I am also in the process of purging stuff. I have too much stuff. Mom passed a few years ago and I put a lot of stuff of ours in the garage for her nicer stuff. Thought I would give it to my son but he has little interest.I guess I will donate more to the Habitat store and Goodwill. I want to sell and move to a condo with a small yard for the dog. It’s a huge undertaking but like you, it will make me feel so much better. Are you going to see I, Tonya? I hear it’s terrific, love, love Allison Janney.
Good for you Tamara! We moved 4 years ago and had to purge. It was awful and heart wrenching but I felt so much better. Every once in a while I will think about something we sold and be sad. It only lasts a second and then the great feeling of being free takes over.
I love the open forum. Thank you!
Have a great time tonight!
I was righting a long post and then noticed that my ads were not working so like a moron I refreshed the page to see if that would fix it. It did, but I lost the post.
So basically, I wanted to see I Tonya as soon as I got the gift cert but I was not as sane then as I am today and it was not longer showing in my theaters. Suddenly, I got sane and BAM It was back for two shows with tons of tickets left. YAY!
So I got up, MADE UP MY BED, folded my jammies and tucked them under my pillow and put on some brown dress pants and a camel cashmere turtleneck Threw on a super duper long strand of multi color freshwater pearls grabbed my brand new lesbo shoes and left the house just a tad late. About two miles away, I realized I left my wallet at home. I had the envelope with the printed out gift cert but I don’t like being without cash and ID so I turned around. I was starting to get frustrated but told myself it was about getting there and the promos are always long. When I get there, there is a long ass line and the movie has already started so I try the ticket machine. I get to the very end and the will not let me input my GC number and want me to slide a card, any card. I think about just sliding my Amex, but opt to get in line.
YOU HAVE TO PICK A SEAT FOR A MOVIE NOW WITHOUT SEEING WHO YOU ARE SITTING NEXT TO! This is utterly ridiculous. I do not want to walk into the movies in the dark and find myself sitting NEXT TO THE KILLER!!!! After the ticket machine fail, the long line. being late when I get anxiety about being late, I’d normally be breaking out in a sweat and fleeing. But the new sane me was like, just relax it’s no biggie. Skip the popcorn and the coke and you will be fine.
So I get to the movie and they are still playing ads!! I dash back out to wait in the popcorn like. DID YOU KNOW THAT A COKE AND POPCORN is like SIXTEEN DOLLARS? I just put it on my GC cause I am an expensive date.
I did not sit in my assigned seat at the movie. DID YOU KNOW THAT MOVIES SEATS ARE RECLINERS NOW? That was awesome. You can sit crosslegged in them even if you are fat!
The movie was great. Weird but great. There were not many people in there and the ones who were did not have a sense of humor. There were funny things in the movie that people didn’t laugh at. I did. The movie is shot in sort of an unusual way with Tonya, Jeff and a journalist or two narrating much of it. I loved it.
So back to the popcorn it was eight dollars for a normal sized bag or nine dollars for a bucket for a family of 8 so I mean, what did you think I was going to do? The first inch or so of the bucket was great, and then it was like the put good popcorn on the top and filled the bottom with burnt weird tasting stuff. Since the knozzle of urine colored grease was right outside the theater door I dashed off for more of that and some salt. Because how often do you get to eat urine colored grease. Then I plowed through another inch or two of popcorn and sucked down a six dollar cherry Mr. Pibb, which I refilled on my way ….
To sneak into The Shape of Water. It had been going for a few minutes maybe, or maybe not there was something about Shirley Temple happening on the screen. But all of those recliners take up a lot of room so this one was too crowded to sneak in without having to sit next to people and stuff so I left.
I opted to skip the she crab soup and champagne on the way home. At this point I’d been out of the house and away from Banjo for 3 1/2 hours and was getting that feeling us crazies get when it is time to head back into the barn.
Plus this way, I can have two outing on two days rather than two fun things on the same day.
I came hung and hung my fancy pants back up, shoved my bra in the bra drawer and slipped into my PJs where I am happily back in my nice clean house.
Now I am going to go recap something or another since I have the night off from RHOA.
I’ve had a very good day.
Sounds like a fun day! I didn’t love the Shape of Water. It was ok, but kind of a pedestrian love story all tarted up.
See Lady Bird if you can. You’ll laugh out loud completely inappropriately. Guarantee it.
Haven’t seen the gay pedo movie yet.
Three Billboards is a disaster. One of the best acted disasters in years, but that can’t overcome the plot.
The gay paedo movie was my first choice. It is shockingly not popular here in the land of hillbillies. I’m no sure it is even playing in Buckhead anymore. Hopefully EPIX or someone will air it.
I REALLY want to see Ladybird but it was not a choice at my theater either. I really didn’t feel that strongly about TSOW or I would have grabbed a set. If the Shirley Temple scene was part of the movie it looked worse than I had imagined. It’s just I had a gallon or two left of crappy popcorn. I probably will still have the cherry Mr. Pibb next time though. It’s kind of all you can drink for six bucks. lol. Didn’t I say I was going to eat healthy? I’m having a mango and Smartwater for dinner right now. Though I am now thinking a bout that She Crab soup. I just remembered that the restaurant is only open for dinner and a Sunday brunch that closes at 3.
The SOW is not terrible, honestly. And it’s a beautifully filmed movie. I just didn’t get it. Fish people. K.
It’s weird, although obviously I’ve not seen all of the nominated movies, I’m a little surprised that nothing jumps out at me as an obvious Oscar-worthy winner. I, Tonya seems too small as does Lady Bird.
Then again, I don’t really watch the Oscars and I’m pretty tired at this point of sanctimonious celebrities. So….
I, Tonya wasn’t good for me or my friend, think it was the screaming. Others did like it.
If you are fighting depression comedy’s worked for me. I did not laugh as much as others do or find scenes as funny as others did but it helped. I understood it was me not the movie. I kept seeing comedy’s until I found myself laughing. It took a quite a few weeks but isolating myself from the news and all negative’s helped.
Wishing you well.
You had me at camel cashmere turtleneck.
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I had to do something to recover from the brown dress pants. I can’t help it. I’m “a Fall.”
Same. Country casuals are my jam. Tweed and Barbour all your, dammit.
And corduroy. But in a very chic way, natch.
I don’t think a lot of people would really get I, Tonya. I had a lot of real world connections to the story beyond the whole filming location scenes. The mother daughter issues were especially poignant for me because my mom was Team Tonya all the way even though she had lots of tendencies in real life that Tonya’s mother had. There was a moment toward the end of the movie where I fell for something and when then very disappointed. There is really no resolution to the movie. No body lives happily ever after, they don’t all die in a fire, life just goes on.
I would have thought the gay paedo movie would have won some sort of Oscar.
I loved I, Tonya. Team Tonya.
I just found another showing of the Lady Bird at another AMC one showing a night and Wednesday is the last day.
I am not sure what my DVR schedule is like because it shit the bed and I had to reset it over night and it is STILL not fully populated. I have no idea what I recap until the day Lady C sends me the photos for the day. I know I have RHOBH on Tuesday, but what do I recap on Monday nights?
TeenMomOg(we can wait, lol)
Summer House and VDP Rules is on
Enjoy, lol.
That last sentence is what it’s all about. ??
Glad you made it out.I wish I had the balls to go to a movie bymyself. Alone in the dark with strangers creeps me out.I just wait patiently for the DVD.
The gas station in my town every summer with every $20 bucks in gas and $5 bucks in store gives a free movie ticket they last 2 months and it seems my teenager and her friends get the movies everyweekend in the summer.
Hope you can keep up with the house mine has been a lost cause for too long. When I pay her my oldest will help.
My house hasn’t been this clean in AT LEAST five years. If I can do it you can do it.
And the ONLY way to go to a movie is alone. The worst thing is going with someone who won’t shut up. I was not taking a survey of who was alone and who wasn’t so I doubt anyone even noticed me until the fat bitch walked in front of the screen twice in the middle of the move to get more butter. 🙂 You have to get rid of all of those fucks you have left to give, they are weighing you down.
I’m so glad you had a good day. Nothing reminds you of having a clean room like putting your PJ’s under the pillow instead of just tossing onto the bed. Keep up the momentum and remember you have about 5000 friends behind you
Smiling. So happy for you! You have shared your life with us all along. It is inspiring to read.
Gives me hope.
Cashmere and pearls always help!
❤️
Oh, Tamara, you make me so homesick for civilization (in my case, obviously England) when you write about daffodils and narcissus. I really miss all the spring flowers – hyacinth, snowdrops – but especially the daffodils and bluebells. Where I came from, there were daffodils everywhere in the spring – every roundabout, every roadway, every front garden – but I can’t for the life of me get them to grow properly in CA. The leaves come up, look nice and strong, but I don’t get flowers, except for one or two that look like they’ve been tortured to within an inch of their precious lives. I’ll have to google and see if there’s some kind of fertilizer which will help my sandy soil,
So glad you’ve made such a turnaround in your life – it’s takes a lot of determination to do that. I’m taking baby steps and even bought a book on organization and reducing clutter, which is sitting in a pile of clutter on my coffee table. Still, at least it’s there. I think the problem for a lot of us is thinking of the huge picture, instead of focusing on one tiny thing at a time. Tomorrow I’m going to clear off the top of the desk in my room. Every time I do an area, I come across at least one little treasure which I forgot I had, so it’s kind of like a mini-Christmas.
Thanks for these open forums – I think your readers will love always having one and it will definitely stop us from unloading our woes in the middle of a really juicy Real Housewives article.
Rose, I think all of the narcissus family needs at least a few weeks of cold to bloom. Mine bloom a lot better when we have an actual winter, like this year, than when we don’t.
I think you’re right. No real cold spells here, very rarely gets down to freezing, mostly in the low 40’s at night. Really miss those spring flowers, and the greenery, so envy you your change of seasons. I’m wondering if I never left England if I’d appreciate it as much? My brother thinks I’m nuts for always visiting when there’s a good chance of rain, but always humored me by lending me a pair of welly boots and trudging off with me all over the New Forest, when he lived in southern England. I was in heaven – it was all I could do when we were walking not to throw myself into a huge mud puddle along with the golden retrievers, but I satisfied myself by kind of sloshing around the edges. – deep edges That didn’t bother him, but he wasn’t really big on my fantasy of naked pagan rain dancing in his garden. He put a stop to that really quickly – offered to take me out for a good Indian curry if I agreed to put it out of my mind. Forever. Of course, that only applies when I’m over there. All bets are off when I’m home.
You could force your daffodil bulbs by putting them in the refrigerator for a few weeks, then plant them outside or put them in pots in front of a sunny window. Once they die down completely, leaves and all, you could put them back in the fridge and do it all again next year.
I worry that when I ever leave here where I have lived all my life I will miss the plants! I want to dig up all my lilacs, rose of sharons, azaleas and daffodils and take them with me! but I will also learn to appreciate the things I cannot grow here, geraniums year round, for example, (I saw wild geraniums when I was in CA, just growing in an empty lot! Too cold where I am), night blooming jasmine, crepe myrtle, birds of paradise, palm trees….
So get a big pot, stick the bulbs in, and grow all the spring flowers you want all over your house!
I sure miss green things, it is so bleak here now.
I love daffodils, because I am a narcissist.
Haha, get it?
I’m funny.
I don’t really. They’re like roadside weeds in this country.
Mark, you blaspheme! Daffodils as weeds? Bite your tongue, man! If you were as deprived of them as I am living on the central CA coast, you’d never let those words pass your lips. I understand though, when I was growing up in Hampshire I never appreciated all the primroses, violets, cowslips, bluebells snowdrops, lilies of the valley and all the beauty that surrounded me. Now that all I see is semi-desert, scruffy old oak trees, and dry old bushes, I yearn for what I had growing up. OK, to be fair, when we get a little rain the hills green up for a short while, but then it’s back to being an imitation of Africa. I half expect to see a giraffe coming up over some of the hills. I’ll forgive you though, because I love your snarky sense of humor, and yes, you are funny.
Awwww bless your cottons, ER. I’ll send you some roadside weed bulbs, dinnae worry… ?
Who sells She Crab soup? I’ve been reading and thinking I should follow the example set and start to purge. We have been away from Smyrna for a while but moving back in March. Knowing me, I will not have purged and will end up moving half full garbage cans.
I signed up for a language exchange email pal to teach me Gaelic, the most useless language in the world. The Irish don’t speak Gaelic. It was on my bucket list so hear goes.
South City Kitchen. It’s pretty damn good considering we are so far from the coast.
Ciamar a tha thu???
It’s even dead in Scotland, though they spent millions updating the road signs to include it. (Which they probably could have used to fill in the holes on the roads but I digress…)
Sgudal.
I believe that Gaelic is required in school. They can all speak Gaelic, they choose English I guess.
Love South City Kitchen
Where? Scotland? Trust me, no-one here can speak Gaelic. Not even a basal level is taught in schools anymore. Hence the waste of money having it plastered all over the place.
Apart from that one weird wizened old man in a country pub in Argyll that everyone is pretty sure is actually a 500 year old wizard.
Hey, Mark. Be careful. You’re talking about my mother there. “Wizened old man” indeed!
You will love The Shape of Water , I did. It made my day reading your post. You must do more day trips they will change your whole week ! xo Marc
Love, love South City Kitchen!! We had Christmas Eve dinner there. Never been before, it was fantastic. As She- crab is a real favorite I will have to go get some. Looks like Allison Janney will win the Oscar for playing Tonya”s Mother. I love her lack of vanity in her roles. She has won every award so far. The ID channel had a special on Tonya last night. It was sad. Janney is wonderful on Mom, one of my favorite shows on CBS.
I watched the Tonya special and she has not aged well.
Thank you so much for sharing TT! You are an inspiration! I personally need to get out of my pj’s too and dig out of the slough of despond! You have set out a very motivational vision for 2018! Yay! ???
Get it, Tamara!
You got up, got dressed and left your house! That’s a big deal in my book. I get how after 3 1/2 hours in public you’re ready to go home.
TT, I really loved your play-by-play, stream of consciousness postings. Something about reading them and other comments throughout the day really made me feel like we’re all in this together!
Today I filled a 30 gallon trash bag. I’ve officially taken the first step.
GOOD FOR YOU RADCHICK!!!!!! Shoot for bag a day!
Thank you TT & EnglishRose.
Good job, Radchick! I don’t think Tamara realized until fairly recently that she was providing such a valuable service with her website. We get the best of all worlds – the ability to praise the shows we love, rage about the things that piss us off, and the benefits of her incredible and pithy honesty, (ooh, love that word – haven’t used it in years), which enables us all to open up. I’m hoping to at least fill a 13-bag tomorrow – trying to get all the junk off the top of my desk.
I am getting read to watch This is Us, gathering tissues.
Watching now. Will put up a post as soon as I am finished. Let’s not talk about it here so as not to spoil it for those who can’t watch it this late!
TT I am so happy for you! I hope the year progresses exactly how you want it to! I’m moving this spring/summer and I’m never healthy until Lent. But you are giving me envy with your motivated ass.
I’ve read what I can…not everything! I just want to congratulate you on your amazing forward momentum! Worked today and I’m pooped, work again in the am.
I’m all about movies by myself. I discovered it in the mid 90’s and never looked back. I saw “Saving Private Ryan” by myself, looked around after Normandy Beach, half the theater was gone….I looked because I kept having to scoot my myself and my man legs back…yes, that’s a thing when you’re “above average” as a huge woman by some standard…
I don’t like to share with anyone my bucket of popcorn…so over the years…not often enough really…I spend the money and enjoy the experience myself!
PS…did you get the super recliner seats? They’re the bomb! Brought a blanket the last time!
Congratulations on all of your accomplishments this weekend. Thank you for sharing your struggles and being and inspiration to so many. You’ve really rocked it!
Brava, Tamara! That takes gumption and resolve to do all that, especially with your anxiety.
AND, thanks for inspiring me to clear my closet and drawers of clothes I don’t wear or that don’t fit me. I filled two big containers, and one big trash bag to donate.
Tidy rooms, tidy mind. Clear the clutter and clear your mind. It’s SO true.
Good for you TT!
2018 is going to be a great year indeed! My real estate year is on fire and I could not be happier!
I kinda also have some great news to share about my hubs. At the ripe age of 60 he decided to pursue a new career as an actor and a model. He’s had one part of Ballers but is currently shooting a ton of European commercials. I could not be more proud of him!
Still have not replaced my ugly white sofas.
Yay for great sales and a whole new career! So excited for you both, couldn’t happen to nicer people. I am still going to show up at his old job one day….lol.
Part of the motivation for going to the movies out in the stick was the Macy*s furniture outlet is out there. They had nothing even CLOSE to what I am looking for. I am basically trying to replace the exact couch I have as closely as possible which makes me close-minded. I saw a lot of white sofas. Some were WHITE CLOTH COUCHES. I thought to myself, who the hell buys those?
Now I know.
Yep, that’s me. White cloth!
Hubs is still at the restaurant and forgot to tell you that Ramona was in with Kathy Wakilie. The Wakilies have gotten to be close friends with Chef and his wife. Ramona was Ramona but Kathy is just as sweet as can be.
TT, so proud of you for getting out and about. You all have inspired me. I have a large brown grocery bag full of recycling. 4 bags of trash, old mail and other assorted crap. I am recovering from a fairly debilitating disease and a broken shoulder. Had gotten very complacent with others taking care of me. NO MORE! Fixed dinner last night by myself for two. Planning on doing some baking this weekend. Maybe cheesecake or some bread. Thanks again everybody. To everyone who has gotten out of their rut, good for you! Proud of you!
NICE WORK CATHY!
Baby steps will be ending this weekend as we look forward to getting REALLY SERIOUS for LENT. It’s only 43 days. We can all do it together. So start mentally preparing.
I’ve lost like three or four pounds so far with all this moving about. Sure you can’t tell, but it’s the needle moving in the right direction.
I really want to say how happy I am for everyone making huge changes or whatever to improve their lives, health,etc.
I just can’t get their yet, but do have a year to work on. Physically, I just am becoming more and more limited and it’s starting to really suck. I don’t want or need it to be “a thing”, but I also don’t want it to make it where I avoid saying how glad I am to those rocking it. This is hopefully getting across to everyone that I really am rooting and proud of you.