Ever since our father passed away in March, I've been afraid of death. Not the actual act of dying but leaving this world with so many things left undone. I'm the world's greatest procrastinator so this can be a bad combination. My father called me on my 36th birthday to let me know he was going to the hospital for a couple

I keep reminding myself of this every second that

I'm ready to move to Mexico but I'm conflicted because I don't know if it's the right thing for us to do legally. I'm selfish for wanting to move because it means that I get to be a stay-at-home mom and be with my children on a daily basis. I want my husband to be able to visit his grandma and grandpa whenever he wants to,

I finally ate enough calories today to reach my daily target of 1700 but I'm not sure that I've got the right balance in there because 47g of fat makes my butt feel wide so I'm going to have to check it here, lol. I need to stop by Michael's or Joann's and pick up a fabric tape measurement so I can start taping myself to ge

Since I started exercising, I've religiously kept track of my activities, how many minutes, and how many calories burned. Whenever we'd go to the gym, I'd only use cardio equipment that gave me a calorie estimate, otherwise, I'd feel like I didn't have any way of measuring my accomplishments. On the treadmill at

I'm not sure that I'm eating properly and that may affect how effective this is for me in the long run. I was a lot more sedentary today as I watched the numbers slowly creep up and I burned about 400 more calories yesterday too. I need to figure out what is the happy medium with being obsessed with moving and watching the

My new friend and I are not to be parted which means that I slept while wearing it last night. As soon as I awoke this morning, I had to see how many calories I had burned in my sleep. I had never contemplated sleep as a calorie burning activity or perhaps I'd sleep the day away. I wouldn't have to worry about calories cons

UPS.com said that it had been out for delivery since 6:08am as I patiently waited at home. The big brown truck normally rolls up to my driveway in the afternoon hour bringing my latest treasure and dropping it off with enough time that I can generally unpack it and hide it before Jose gets home and sees the evidence of my s

Yikes, that really doesn't give me a lot of time to get everything done considering that I have to sleep somewhere in there too. The banana bread is sitting on the counter waiting to be finished. I realized I was short four eggs as I was mixing everything together.

It's late and I'm getting caught up on my recorded programs while I have a little peace and quiet in the house. Jose is sleeping quietly beside me for a change so I can actually hear the TV. While I was never an Army Wife, always the soldier myself, I found myself relating to Joan this episode. It revolved around Roland pre

I made it through the last ten hours of work before my vacation officially begins! We were pretty busy today so the call volume made the time fly by. I ended on a good note with a CRT of 363 so I won't be negatively impacting my team's stats in my absence. I also put in a request to change my schedule. I'll be working 9am-8

We got the girls up and dressed this morning so we could finish our shopping. I needed to get another bathing suit because the bikini I took to Miami isn't going to cut it for this trip. And since I'll be spending Mother's Day with my suegra (mother-in-law), I need to bring stuff for her and his grandma. Our f

About three months I started the process of attempting to combine our numerous bank accounts into one financial institution and thus eliminate any more room for Krystal's error and therefore overdraft fees because I paid one bill and the money was sitting in a different account, etc. I have banked with USAA for the last dec

But it's close enough and it's going to have to do. I decided to use part of the life insurance money to buy the girls the huge wooden playset from Costco. We had to construct it in the neighbor's backyard because we don't really have one. I bit the bullet and decided to pay someone to assemble it as well. The way I see

This week has been an epiphany for me. Here I have been living in this fabulous country of ours waiting for the dreaded moment when my beloved husband gets deported and my family ripped apart. Why wait? Why don't we do this on our terms? I was already planning on exploring the state of Veracruz while I was down in Mexico ne

I am trying out a new program and it didn't work at first. I got it installed on Jose's phone and it worked so I had to redo the whole process but it's working now, yippie. Now I just slide my finger across the keyboard and my words appear fast! Maybe I'll start posting more from my phone and staying up to dat

Wow, my body still doesn't feel like it belongs to me. I was moving extremely slow when I rolled out of bed this morning. The girls and I enjoyed a lazy morning puttering the house while José was at work. I chatted with cousin Rick and invited myself out to dinner and bringing the now famous carnitas. I hadn't even

I haven't been running on my lunch breaks this week. Instead I've been taking advantage of the fax machine at work and working my way through the pile of debt that my father left behind. It's not easy but it is structured so not impossible, just time-consuming. One of my pressing issues is replacing the lost title on hi

It has been really hard to keep up with my blog with so much that's been going on lately. I always have my phone with me though but I could never find a good Blogger app until now. On a random note I searched while at work on Tuesday and found Blogaway! Now you can expect to hear from me more frequently,  at least