Month: June 2017

Thank you to so many of you for your thoughts and prayers for my cousin, Anna Lee. Anna Lee passed away today. I had planned to visit her at 2:00 in the afternoon with some of her friends, but we were too late. My mom told her on Sunday that it was okay to go if that was what she was wanting. I found out tonight that one of her friends had told her the same thing. Maybe hearing from loved ones that it was okay to go, made it easier for her to do so. Now she has no more pain, no more worries, no more fears. Now she has peace. Thank you again for your comments, text, phone calls and prayers. Julie

In February, my mom and I moved my mom’s cousin, Anna, into a nursing home. She has early signs of dementia, but is very alert, walks with a walker, and mostly knows what is going on. We had some difficult decisions to make as far as what to do with her apartment, her dog and her belongings, but we are her only relatives and they were decisions that simply needed to be made. Anna was not happy to be moving into the nursing home. Slowly, she began to adjust. She likes the staff and the food and seems to be making some friends. Recently her best friend (her next door neighbor from her apartment that she lived in right before moving into the nursing home) fell and hurt her leg and was now in the same nursing home receiving physical therapy. Bad for her friend but great that Anna could visit […]

If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, then you know that I really prefer to blog daily for accountability, but when I miss a few days of blogging, I have this OCD thing where I feel the need to catch up on at least what is going on in life every single day. It just completes my brain. I tried to do an update the other day, and I couldn’t seem to log on to my site via my computer, but I could on my phone? Blogging from the phone takes forever and if you read, you saw all of the typo’s. After a long chat with the tech guy and me feeling really really dumb, all I had to do was clear my cookies. It’s a miracle that I even know what that means. Anyhow, problem solved. Here goes an update with life, and a few pictures […]

While I’m on hold with the internet folks (who do not seem to understand that I am really dumb about tech stuff. They keep asking me questions via chat and I keep replying….”huh?”) I’ll tell you that I successfully completed the first official week of the StepBet! That was a lot of steps!  Some last minute steps were in pj’s. One day I was so busy running around that I only needed 300 steps to reach my goal so I did that pacing back and forth in the living room while sipping on a glass of wine. On Sunday night I was shy 8,000 steps and Mike came with me! He’s sore today. Okay, I need to focus on this dude named Jamshid. I know he thinks I’m an idiot. He just asked me if I even had an account. 🙄 “Love the life you live, live the life you […]

I can’t get on my website to blog and I could possibly die from blogging withdrawals!!! If I have to write a long post from my phone tonight Inwill, but this is killing me!! I have to tell you about the Step Bet! I have to tell you how I got another At Work Leader Job! I have fun Foods pics to share! Ugh. Be Backnsoon, I hope!

I am writing this post super quick and no time for proof reading, so I’m sure my thoughts all over the place and lots of errors. Sorry. Yesterday was just busy enough that there was no time for snacking and no time for three meals. Ha! I was even just busy enough that I completely forgot to walk to get my steps for my StepBet until after I had put my PJ’s on! I was supposed to meet a friend to walk yesterday afternoon, but it was super hot and I ended up having to go see my cousin at the nursing home. That took most of the afternoon. I had a WW training class last night until after 8:00, and by the time I got home I was ready to chill for the night. At 9:30 I remembered to look at my steps. It was a busy day, so […]

What a fun day! I started it out with coffee in bed, but what I should’ve started it out with was a walk. I walked in the late afternoon and it was H O T!! Coffee in bed always starts my day out happy, so I guess a hot walk in the afternoon is the price I pay for morning happiness. We worked a food truck lunch yesterday with five other trucks and we were crazy busy! I think we had 30-40 people in line the entire time and served almost 200 people in about a two and a half hour window. We always have fun working, but we were so busy I don’t’ think we ever did get in any chit chat. All work right after I took this picture!    When I came home from work I had a UPS delivery that included a pretty gold envelope. When […]

After I finished working my WW Meeting on Tuesday, there was a food truck in the parking lot of the building that I was in. I heard that they had good Taco’s, and since I work on a food truck, I decided to check it out, you know. Compare. It was weird being on the outside of the order window!   These were in small corn tortilla’s. I ordered one steak and two chicken. Not bad. Point friendly. Should have only ordered two though.   For dinner, the only meat I had on hand was ground beef. On Sunday at the baby shower there was a Taco Bar. I was in charge of Lettuce, Tomato, Cheese, Sour Cream, Chips, Salsa and Guac. There were going to be about 30 people at the shower. I have no idea how much food to buy for 30 people, so I was sure to […]

Like what’s with the Full Moon kinda week? There is  no  full moon. In the last few days we have discovered that we really did have bats in the attic. While cleaning up the bat crap, the shopvac broke, so Mike had to go buy a new one. The crew that was supposed to show up to do mudjacking last week finally showed up today but then the driveway cracked and broke while they were mudjacking it up. I came home from working today and pulled into the garage, then remembered immediately that we aren’t supposed to drive on the driveway for 48 hours, so I backed out real quick. Mike doesn’t know this and I think that’s best. I’ve dropped two large containers of blueberries that rolled all over the kitchen floor. I’m not gonna lie. I ate some. The kitchen sink drain has been leaking for the past two […]

It’s been a full weekend and a happy weekend. Sidenote: I did not track at all this weekend. I didn’t eat terrible, I just didn’t take the time that I needed to take to track. I tried to be mindful. I did eat some things that I likely would not have had had I known how many points I was eating. I feel good about getting in more steps this week and drinking lots of water. Okay….the weekend. Friday morning started off with a few girlfriends over to discuss our bathroom remodel and share ideas. I may have made them breakfast….. Sweet Potato Hash with Bacon, topped with Eggs and Berries on the side.   After making a few bathroom decisions, then pondering a few ideas, Mike and I were left to making some decisions on our own. I know that in a remodel it is important to consider the resale […]