Lice free, 30 pounds lighter & dead ass broke

Okay, so I haven't been back to update. I've been working on some things for some of my girls from GBM.

For Veloute
For Quinn
For Darcey
For Kelly
For Em
For Markera
For Amy

Oh, I hope they don't mind me posting them. I have one for me too but I'm going to redo it I think. And I had done one for my IRL friend Shari, but I'm redoing it so I'll post it when it is done.

Anyway, those are very time consuming & I am not done yet, I have 4 more to do, but I am taking a break tonight. I have been staying up until 4 or so every night. Not tonight, I am blogging & going to bed.

Anyway, I think I have this lice thing beat. For nearly 2 weeks we had a routine. Every night they would wash their hair with Tea Tree Oil shampoo & conditioner. I made them use a different towel every night after their shower. Then I would spend about 20 or 30 minutes combing through their hair, picking out any nits or bugs I saw. I didn't let them wear their pjs or jackets more than once. And I dried their bedding every single night before bed. Also I dumped boiling water on their brushes & combs every night. I am still having them wash their hair with the shampoo & I am still combing their hair & picking through it. So far I have only found a nit or 2 on each of them. No bugs. I am really really hoping we beat those nasty little fuckers. We did rewash & recomb on Friday night too. Everything is still in bags & I think I'm going to leave them for another week or so. Besides my house is a mess, I should really clean it before I open all that shit up. So, I am really hoping I won't be back here in another week posting about more lice, uggghhhh.

In other news, great news, I have reached a milestone, I HAVE LOST 30 POUNDS!!!!!!! I am so freaking excited about that. I am really starting to feel it now. And I finally got my ass up & out the door to walk to get Briana today. I wore my MP3 player, listening to AC/DC, G'N'R & Bon Jovi (which I need to delete some of those songs, I found myself skipping them, LOL), I was amazed at how much that helped. I wore the weights Shari bought me for my birthday & I walked hard & fast. I felt the burn in my legs & I broke a sweat. I never realized how much music helped. I am really looking forward to tomorrow. I left a little early today, I plan on leaving even earlier tomorrow.

At the park right by her school they have a Health Fit trail (or something like that). The trail winds through the park & it has various Fit Stations with activities. Like bend & touch your toes. Or it will have bars for chin ups, and a post to squat against. Stuff like that. I didn't do any of it because I felt like a dork. But if I had been with someone, even the kids, I would have done those things, LOL. As a matter of fact, on the way back Briana & I walked a section of the trail & we did the step up thing. They have 3 posts of different heights. The first 2 weren't too high but the third one was really high, I couldn't get up on it, LOL. Maybe one day :P .

I am really going to try to keep up the walking. I really have no excuse. We have 2 parks within walking distance that have a nice trail with fit stations. One of the parks is on the intracoastal. It is a very nice park. Also, we live so close to the beach that I could walk down there, or drive down there within 5 minutes. Who wouldn't love to be able to walk on the beach of the Atlantic ocean pretty much whenever they want? And here I take advantage of it being so close. Even my friend Shari, who lives here is too far to just drive over & take a walk. When I can go there within 5 minutes. The only reason I wouldn't like to walk is because it is alot of work walking on the beach & it would take me a good 15 or 20 minutes to walk there. But I could walk down there, take a break & sit on the bench & watch the waves, walk down by the water & walk home. That I could do.

I have so much variety as for where I can walk & I don't take advantage of it. So, from now on, I am doing it. I know I can. A few years ago I started a routine of walking every night. I did it because we were going to Canada & I wanted to try to lose a few pounds before we went. I didn't weigh myself then. And I really wasn't eating healthy. I cut back on sweets but I still drank Coke. I did cut back. I also drank alot of water. But I wasn't losing weight then like I am now. I kept telling myself that I could still eat what I want as long as I exercised, HA, that was so not true :P .

I think about how much I could have been losing all this time if I had been doing some exercise & I kick myself, LOL. But that's okay. I am starting now. And I am on the right track. I failed yesterday with food but I made up for it today. I caved & bought chocolate. I bought 2 bags of Hershsy Kisses because they were buy one get one free. But, in the past I would have eaten & eaten the kisses. I busted those bags open as soon as I got in the car, LOL. I ate one Cherry Cordial & one Dark Chocolate (and dark chocolate is good for you :P ). Then after dinner I ate 2 more. I thought for someone who used to gorge on junk, that was pretty good. However, I also ate a Skinny Cow mint ice cream sandwich & earlier in the day I had a cup of coffee (with fat free creamer & splenda, but still) & a 100 calorie pack of cookies. That is alot of sweets for me in a day. I know better & I always do better but I was in a BAD mood yesterday & Kid didn't help matters, big surprise. So, I did better today. No chocolate, no 100 calorie packs of cookies, just 1 Skinny Cow ice cream sandwich.

So, now for the not so good news. And part of the reason I have been up & down emotionally. Kid is still not working, for obvious reasons, he still has a cast. Can't do anything about that. But we have no money, I don't even know how much is left in the bank & I don't want to check. I am actually going to the bank tomorrow to cash in some Savings Bonds that someone gave my girls quite a few years ago, like 5 years ago, I think. I have $400 total. It will be enough to pay the car insurance & get some groceries, the car insurance is something we cannot back up. Everything else is backed up. Kid has been home & he has been on my ass every motherfucking day about every thing. Today he wasn't so bad probably because I gave him some this afternoon. But he is unbelievably stressed out. He is telling me to call Terry for a loan. Like we could even pay it back. We are like 4 or 5 months behind on rent, luckily we have a great landlord but still. How are we going to pay all that back? He is still counting on some kind of lawsuit, which I am not. He says shit like we'll just move, get the fuck out of Florida. How are we going to do that? We can't even pay our bills, how can we afford the gas to drive ourselves out of here? Besides that, I am all for moving, but I am not leaving my stuff behind.

Ugggghhhhhhhhh. I really didn't want to drag all this up before I go to bed. Sigh..........

Whatever, I am done. I know this is so long, I just had a bit to catch up on. So, that is where I am.

Lice free, 30 pounds lighter & dead ass broke. Hey, that makes a better title for this blog, I'm going to use it :P .