Well......I ended up blowing off the lawn last night.....I have other things on my mind & figure I got the bad part on Monday
Spoke w/ Cheri the other night....told her that I may have to cxnl out the Nov B2B (it effects her, as she's my roomie). I realized today that if I do cxnl out those cruises, I can cash in my vacation purchase days & get the $ back (that could then go towards Hawaii).I purchase 1 weeks worth of vacation time every year (40 hrs, $ gets taken out each paycheck)....if we use the time, then we get paid like it was a regular vacation day we were using and if we don't use the time, then we get that $ back. NO decisions being made yet, but I have to think about everything. Hawaii is definately my priority.
I had no service the whole Alaska cruise. But I realized after a few days, it actually was wonderful to be out of contact with the real world.
Eastern, 7 nights, stops at St. Thomas/St. Marten, Puerto Rico, and CC. I wasn't able to book this payday like I'd hoped, so maybe next payday on the 15th.
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But I still need to work at it all day tomorrow and Monday to get ready for the party, but I can do it at a slow pace and not worry about her freaking out at the huge messes everywhere. And this time, I'm getting rid of tons of stuff, so there will be no reason for the house to get in this condition again. Once it's totally clean, it will be easier to keep up, hopefully. The problem is that it's such a small house, it gets messy really fast. But on the other hand, since it's so small, it shouldn't take so long to clean. 
I've been trying to get it all done for a year now. At least I finally have the motivation, so little by little we're making progress. Tyler's bedroom is AWESOME because he's literally gotten rid of about half of his things, so he has very little items left in his room to organize. 
I will need his help gutting my room too.
I realize I don't need special outfits for that, but I honestly don't have anything that fits other than clothes I wear to work, and those aren't practical clothes for exercising. I plan on starting up my Jillian Michaels workout video again, and also want an exercise ball to do exercises with that too, and with walking, I'll have 3 different forms of exercise to alternate, so hopefully that will keep me from getting bored. I found tons of exercises online for the ball, so I'm hoping for motivation to keep it up. I have a friend on FaceBook who posts every evening about how much she hates exercise and forces herself to workout every night, no matter how much she hates it, and has lost 45 pounds so far. Seeing her success, and how she hates exercise as much as I do, has helped motivate me. I'm hoping tomorrow will be my first day on this new path. Even if I start out only being able to handle 10 minutes a day of whatever I choose for that day, that's a start and is way better than absolutely nothing (which I've been doing for years now). 
Oh, and I bought some clothes today for exercise/walking!
And now that Tyler is running, I want us to be able to do that together and get healthy together. He's gained so much weight from his meds (which is why the doctor keeps trying to get him off one of them), he gets called fat at school, and is feeling horrible about himself, and has started running, up to 2 miles a day. He still gains weight continually because of the med, but if he keeps up the running/walking habit, it will help him get the weight off once we're able to stop the med. Anyway, we both want to get healthy together.
Isn't it a shame kids can be so mean so young? It is good though that it has got him moving, and of course great that you will run too!!! Are there any 5K runs you will be able to aim for, like a Cancer support one? Children quite like doing something and getting money to give to others. Go Tyler and Holly!!!
I actually wasn't overweight as a child, but my mom thought I was and said some horribly nasty things to me about it my whole childhood (actually still does, but I AM of course overweight now), and kids all called me "bookworm" and "nerd" my whole childhood (including my step-siblings) because I always had a book with me and always had straight A grades my whole school years. And I was teased horribly about my nose (one boy started the whole high school calling me "big nosed witch" but replace the w with a b). So I can relate. And I'm not surprised you turned out strong and succesful because people in our shoes learn that strength from being tormented so much as children. 
