Oh yeah, I forgot...

...I did weigh in on Saturday. It was nice to me, weighed in at 270. That puts me at 21 pounds gone since I began WW at the end of March, but down 27 since the day after Christmas when I began my journey to lose weight (again).

The Catch All

I ended up doing a 2 page layout but somehow only bought one piece of the green cardstock, so its a 2 pager but in different colors....I like how it came out regardless.

Journaling: What does my purse have to say about me? It says that I don't care much about trendy. I am picky and have a hard time when it's time to find a new one. The things in my purse would tell you that I enjoy reading and love my choco-mint gum. I wear contact lenses and suffer from dry eyes. I love lotion and lip stuff. The wallet & checkbook are obviously necessary for daily life. There is always a calculator and sanitizer for grocery shopping - I'm anal about stayng within the budget. I'm also terrible about throwing away receipts and pens that don't work. I have a note pad and points calculator on hand because I'm on Weight Watchers. Lastly there is an extra key to my work vehicle and my badge to verify that I am an employee at Hinds EOC. So, in reality other than my love for scrapbooking my purse does tell my story.

Purse Pictures...

The challenge at ASF this week is to dump out your purse & explain it's contents...but don't simply 'make a list' because we've done lists before. This time make a list with descriptions......why it's there, what it's used for, etc. Take pictures of your pile of STUFF after you've dumped it out & even take a picture of your purse. Maybe tell us where your purse came from & why you love it.....or what you DON'T like about it & why you NEED a new one. Be creative & have fun!! So I've taken the pictures, sent them to Walgreen's for printing and will pick them up and run to ASF for paper and hopefully by Sunday I'll be uploading a layout and not just pictures.

Feeling better....

...and I can prove it. I was creative! My nephew was born on the 4th of July and his bedroom is done in the Americana look with the deep navy, deep red and cream colors. I just had to make him a bulletin board to go over his desk for his birthday. I hope he loves, I know I do!!

Back to the land of the living....

...almost. For the first time in over a week I feel almost human. Although I still do not feel 100% I am very close to getting there. The doctor says I can return to work on Thursday and oddly as that may sound...I CAN'T WAIT. I love my furbabies and my house, but they don't talk back to me. Not that I've really felt up to talking, but I'm amazed at how boring sitting around the house with nothing to do or think about can make you. All rest and no work or play makes Robin a dull girl. I do not want to be a dull girl. I want out of this house and into the sunlight...okay so I know work is a dungeon and there will be no sunlight but there will be other people with lives and things going on around us. Anyways, I'm just saying, I'm glad that I am finally starting to feel better and soon my quarantine will be up.

Not much else to report...as I just said...I've done absolutely nothing for about 8 days now. I am eating again and paying attention to not let it be out of hand, hopefully come Saturday I will have a good weigh in after 2 weeks of not weighing in. I opted not to weigh in again this week so that I did not get another "sick " reading. So now, that I am eating, the scale will probably be accurate this coming Saturday, we shall see.

That's all for now, just wanted to check in for my faithful few and let you know I'm getting better and I appreciate your thoughts and prayers while I was recovering.

Under the weather...

..It's been a long week. I've been diagnosed with walking pneumonia...so if you read my blog, pray for quick recovery....Jesus is my HEALER!! By HIS stripes I AM HEALED!!!

Announcement..

There will be no weigh in tomorrow. If I have learned nothing else in this life long journey that I am on...it is that when I know I have blown it and am already struggling with being discouraged do not get on the scale. The scale can be a tool of the enemy if I allow it to be and I choose not to.

Instead - I choose to forgive myself and move forward not backwards. I'll weigh in next Saturday at the regularly scheduled time and I will have a postitive report. Some might not agree that this is a good strategy, but please know that I'm not ignoring the issue, I'm just not giving the devil place to tear me down by looking at numbers that will not encourage me. I need encouragement not discouragement and I have learned enough to know to avoid the negative, it will not help my cause.

Thank you all so much for being here to read and love and support me on the various trails this journey takes me down. I have read in many places in the past 2 days that the important thing is to never give up. The only way to not get to the finish line is to quit. I am not a quitter! My goals will be met but I apparently will be more like the tortoise than the hare. Slow and steady with a few little bumps along the way.