life is good - and it's a long post!

karmaberry1 · Post by **karmaberry1** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 3:59 pm

hi kids - i'm right here. LOL

i did not have the best weekend so i pretty much laid low. i'm sure you guys more than understand! i just didn't want to talk about it and had nothing intesting to say.

work is work. i have been slammed this last month. i come up for air every once in a while then dive back in. i prefer it this way LOL nothing boring there!!!!

mama has returned from her yearly trip with the aunts. this time they were only gone 4 weeks. one year they were gone for about forever. they drove from here to alaska - put 12,000 miles on mama's car. i'd have jumped from the car after about 5,000 miles LOL x forever

we are having mid-september weather. saturday and sunday it rained so hard and so heavy. and it was a cold rain - no thunder or lightning. just rain rain and more rain.

man of music - how did your first day back at work go? i hope hope hope it was practically perfect!?!?!

karma

forever young 06 · Post by **forever young 06** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:04 am

karma
good to hear from you. Hey we all have our bad days thats life it is up then down.we are not to dwell on the bad only the good. I am listening to tape 2 of the program and they say if we can do you can do it too. I am trying to build on that

amazing how far your mother has traveled wow that is a lot of miles I admire her for getting out and going places I wondered what happened to her hadn t heard you say any thing about her you hang in there you have come along way and you can get thru anything hope the rest of your week is a good one

manofmusic · Post by **manofmusic** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:25 pm

Forever Young and Karma ! - I HATE it when I worry for nothing. For my vacation, on the outside, I was calm, cool and collected. On the inside...worry worry worry....Did I do this right before I went on vacation ? Did I do that right before I went on vacation ? worry worry worry. On Monday (yesterday), the day flew by so fast that I didn't even realize it was time to go home ! Today was the same way. Now I'm looking forward to the 3 day weekend coming up !!!!!!!!

......now if only I could turn back time and re-do my vacation again without the worries.....

Karma ! - Your mom DROVE to Alaska ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Well, we can see SHE doesn't suffer from panic attacks ! LOL That would be so neat. Imagine the pictures they did or could've taken on the way.

Hope everyone is having a GREAT day.

manofmusic · Post by **manofmusic** » Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:29 pm

Karma - You know that we all have bad times - especially at work, and we all just go with the flow. I've learned to shrug my shoulders and say "oh well"........that works MOST of the time ! LOL

karmaberry1 · Post by **karmaberry1** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:09 pm

i so love the "most of the time LOL" that hit home!!!!

guess what? i'm headed to the beach friday with friends. i'm so excited. that will be 3 times to the beach this summer - something i've never done before!!!!!!

again we're not headed to a resort area. it's a place where families stay - the nearest store is 10 miles away. i love that!!!! just houses and the beach. no crowds - just friends having fun.

mama is going to feed the boys so i have nothing to worry about there. she loves her "grand-dogs" and they love her right back.

i've worked like a field hand this past month. i want and need some time away from ringing phones and such - although things have slowed down by at least 75%.

i've got my clothes washed and folded. we won't be eating out or anything. we'll cook and eat in. again, i so prefer that. the dress of the week will be shorts, crop pants, tank tops - yes yes yes. we're even taking bikes for the bike trails.

can you tell i'm happy and excited? LOL

the boys gifted me with 2 dead rats - one yesterday - another today. while this may make some shudder in horror - for me it's a very good thing. the more dead rats means the less rat breeding going on around here! and no i don't feel a bit sorry for the rats. just the fact they're already running around predicts an early winter - blast it all!!!!!!

i'm off to start packing. and i'm as happy as if i had good sense!!!!!

karma

manofmusic · Post by **manofmusic** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:34 pm

Did you have fun at the beach ? Around here it's getting down to 60 degrees or less at night. Our beach days are coming to a close. Where did the year go ? I was always told that the older I get, the faster the days go. I must be 100 years old LOL zooooooooooooooommmmm went the year.

Not much to write about work. It's still there and I'm finally on track with the not caring about the garbage that goes on there. I go in, do my work and at 4:30 or so, I live my life.

I had a bit of a scare on Friday, I was driving home (in construction) and I started to get the beginning symptoms of a migraine (whick I get every other month or so) but I never actually get the headache - quite common evidentally. This time though, I lost partial vision in my right eye. It wouldn't have been so bad had I been home, but I was in the middle of construction and no where to pull over ! I could still kind of see out of the eye so I still had depth perception, but I didn't know what was going on. The full vision came back in about 20 minutes. I made an appointment with the eye doctor and my family doctor (I have to get my yearly check-up anyway).

I decided that I wanted to gut the bathroom and closet off my bedroom and re-do them. I just can't leave well enough alone I guess ! LOL I'm ripping the carpeting out of the bedroom and getting the hardwood floors redone. I made my to-do list for the colder months. Home Depot will need to get that red carpet out of storage ! LOL

How's things with you ?

karmaberry1 · Post by **karmaberry1** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 4:09 pm

i'm still at the beach. it's beautiful - sunny and breezy - hot!!!! have a great tan going. will be headed home thursday.

i can honestly say i miss mama and the boys so much!!!!! i wish they were here. mama so we could fuss and fight and start laughing and making up. and the boys to chase along the beach with!!!!!!

forever young 06 · Post by **forever young 06** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:56 pm

manofmusic,
my daughter gets the aura and the migraine. has for years. they scare her and you know it is scary and hers clears up in 20 minutes. I have had them too, what I did I lost my perfial I am not spelling this right its your sid vision it feels like a viel over your eyes. I think you will find the eye dr will tell you a silent migraine but it is always good to get it checked out.

I am trying to be more positive and watch my negative thinking. I got my program out and started listening to tape 2 and read my book again for lesson 2. I tend to not believe I am doing this to my self and how I can't stop my thoughts so I get caught up in them.

karma I can't believe you have been to the beach so many times. You are amazing. what a good way to spend the last days of summer I closed my pool down last night carried in the floats so sad have a great week all this is hump day

mjcreate · Post by **mjcreate** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:18 am

hi, karma and forever - gosh, i've been out of this loop for 4 wk.s now ! - it's so nice that you two have this special type pen pal thing going on here, but gosh, it'd be nice if myself and others could join in your conversation, too! - that would be great for you and me as well, and of course others - i'm on lesson 7, and it's so useful, as are all the lessons, but boy, i wonder if i'll actually recover ! ? - i have a public speaking phobia and it's gone on way toooooo long ! - but the program is wonderful for sure ! - have to go swim now, but much more to chat about later - toootle loo, mj

karmaberry1 · Post by **karmaberry1** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:56 am

oh please do join in on this post! it's such fun and so NOT private LOLOL

disclaimer! the following is NOT meant as bragging or anything tacky like that LOL it's just me wanting to share my fun at the beach with all.

i got home from the beach yesterday early afternoon. it was a wonderful week. the area was almost deserted - i loved that more than anything. it was like having my own private island - more fun than anything ever!!!!!

i never experienced any anxiety or panic during the week. i went biking with a friend who is an athlete and one morning wanted to go super far. i knew there was no way i could go that far and make it back LOL about midway i owned the fact that i was NOT an athlete LOL

so what did i do? i turned around and rode my bike ALONE back to the house! yes i did!!!!! and it was wonderful riding my bike ALONE and NOT being scared that i was in a strange place.

i focused on the trees and such on the way back - and my breathing - and realized i was FREE as a bird. oh what a wonderful feeling - the being alone and free - and HAPPY.

one morning early i took my camera and walked on the beach ALONE taking pictures of any and everything. the solitude was incredible. again i felt free. there was just me and the incredible beauty everywhere. there were a lot of waves and a nice breeze.

i was at st. george island, florida. it's a resort town with a few locally owned restaurants and shops - no national retail anything anywhere. no theme parks - no anything. can you even begin to imagine?

we were staying at some gated community. the homes were out of this world gorgeous! the house we were in was 3 stories with big screened in porches looking over the gulf. any time i was in the house i was on the 3rd floor front porch - higher than the trees!

fact - i have a TAN lol x forever

today i'm going for blood work. i've dropped 30+ pounds and super changed my eating and all. it's taken a long - very long - time to lose the weight. i gain weight around the middle - of course - blast it all. it's a given that now my friends AND family say i'm too skinny and need to eat. well to that i say i feel good - so there! LOL

i so do not want to be diabetic. last blood work showed a higher sugar something or other - the doctor was not happy. she talked about adding a different diabetic pill. i don't really remember. but bottom line? i'm not going to worry about it today. i wish say though that right now i'm hungry and can't eat until AFTER the blood work which is at 10:15. i'm taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with me to eat as soon as it's done LOL

i hope everyone is doing better than good!!!!

signing off from party central now!

karma