Organization!

The above pic is not my home,but I want it to be!

That is what I have been trying to do around my house lately. I have been slow at work and it has made me nervous. I work on commision,so when it's slow NO MONEY comes in. Plus my husband has taken on a new job with really early hours and also a job he is not that crazy about . So all in all the stress level is a bit high around here. To ease my stress I have been working on clutter,getting rid of it or getting it in order.

I have tackled my closet first and will be moving on to the spare rooms over the winter. I have a goal to repaint the laundry room this winter also in some really Bright colors! I want to feel cheer when I walk in that room . If thats possible.

I have been following the blog of Just A Girl http://j-a-girl.blogspot.com/. She is amazing ! So talented. Her house is to die for and her ideas are endless. She is my inspiration to get my house in order. Even her cupboards are organized!! So this is my winter goal,declutter and organize.

P 90 X update

For those of you who care....

It's been a couple weeks and I have done the workout 6 times,averaging 3 times a week. I still can not do the whole thing. I still get mildly nauseated about half way through..that meens I'm working really hard right? Anyway I am totally impressed with the quickness of this workout to produce results!

I feel tighter around the middle and my legs are already getting definition. I also feel like I have improved posture and just feel generaly stronger all the way around.

All this after only a couple weeks! Ok,I'm sold. I can't say I look forward to doing it,couse it is HARD,but I am liking the results enough to keep it up!

Finally something that works

Finally a product that gets the job done.

Does your hair ever look like this?

Well ok,my hair isn't quite that bad BUT it has always been wavy and frizzy. I have gone through countless products to tame it and control it all my life. My cupboards are jammed with a variety of products... Those of you with naturally straight hair do not know the suffering we frizz heads go through. Living in Michigan with its many wet high humidity days it's a constant battle.

I finally have found a product that I can say WORKS. John Frieda (a company that has always realized the pain us with frizzy hair experience.) Has come out with Weatherworks,Anti-frizz Style Sealent Creme. I love this product.It takes away the frizz and when I use it with my flat iron it leaves my hair with that silky smooth salon feel to it. It holds up nicely against the humid weather . I have been testing it all week with the rain we've been having. I even got caught in the rain yesterday and it did not frizz,got a bit wavy ,but no frizz.

Best part of all is that most of John Frieda products are made in the USA. not all ,but most. Which is a huge plus seeing as I will be buying lots of it and I am watching who I buy from more and more these days. Anyway,I had to share my new found fortune.Spred the word to all your frizzy haired friends so they don't discontinue this product.

Older woman ,younger man.Happy Anniversary!

Well it's been 13 years Oct 5th that Craig and I got married. The above pic is the 2 of us at his brother Jim's wedding a couple years ago. Most people just seeing us don't know there is a 16 year age difference between my husband and I. Yes he is the younger one,lol. I attribute it to his early baldness and greying and to my good genes, haha!

Whenever you go into a relationship with this type of age gap there is bound to be a certain amount of apprehension. You have to realize that 13 years ago my husband was in his late 20's and I was in my early 40's. That's a generation apart. He had never been married before,I not only had been but I also came with a 14 year old teenager! Talk about a possible train wreck.

First there was the many talks about ,are you SURE you never want children?? Me to him of course. How do you know that won't change for you in a few years? I was relentless about asking him that. His reassurance that he never did want them ,but would be happy helping me with my daughter didn't really ease my worries on this subject.

Next was the discussion about our differences. He likes 80's music,I grew up with the Beatles but love all music. He liked gaming (indoor sports) I like outdoor stuff and working out. He is a home body ,I like to travel and do stuff.

And his family and his friends and my family and my friends...would they accept me? him with me? would they accept him/us? I am happy to say for the most part the friends and family on both sides have accepted this relationship. Some of his friends are in the midst of raising their families,something we are now done with.But I still love seeing them have families and being around the little ones. I love "his "friends as they have become mine. I like getting to know their new additions to their families and hope they all know that we don't mind being around their kids just because we don't have any young ones.

After all our talking and all my brow beating him about how I will be reaching retirement way before him (kind of a bad joke now that it looks like no one will be able to retire) it all fell back to the basic ingredients of any relationship. Love,respect and adaptability. Respecting his passions and him respecting mine.

So here we are at year 13 and no regrets for either of us so far. It hasn't always been easy,we've had our trials and tribulations. But none of it had to do with age difference. It was mainly life and how it can slam you with stuff and how we choose to deal with it. I ask my self every year about now,"would I say those vows to him again today? Each year has been a resounding"YES!" How wonderful.

P90X Day one!

OK so I have been impressed with the results my daughter and her hubby have been getting with this workout and decided to give it a try. I am only going to stick with the first DVD ,which is mainly Core . So tonight was the first workout...OMG!!! It is kick ass to say it mildly. I started out all full of energy and 15 minutes in I was feeling slightly nauseated and had to slow down. I tried to pace myself after that but still had to pause on occasion to slow down and catch my breath. I couldn't do all the stuff exactly like they showed ,but I gave it my best. If this is even possible I started to get sore within 15 minutes of finishing the workout, LOL. I will be dieing in the morning..............
BUT I am determined to try to do this at least 3 times a week hopefully 4. So I'll let you know how it goes. Wish me luck ,I am old afterall ya know .:-)

This story really fired me up!

Did police Taser legless man?
Reports say a California police officer twice Tasered a man in a wheelchair. Get the details of the story.

I have not posted in a couple weeks,but seeing this story on the internet got me fired up enough to break my dry spell. Most of you that follow my blog know that I help take care of my x husband who is a double amputee.

Now I know that you could be verbally abusive even sitting in a wheelchair and you could do harm while sitting in a wheelchair if you had a gun or if you were to strike someone that was close enough to you. BUT if you were sitting in a chair with your two year old daughter on your lap and two rather tall policemen,fully armed were next to you its highly doubtful that you could harm them.
They proceeded to knock the man out of his chair,he claims this happened when they tasered him and the jolts knocked him around where he fell out. Also at some point his pants fell down and they proceeded to cuff his hands behind his back and let him sit that way on the street so all his neighbors could see. One of the neighbors took a video of this ,his pants down,nude from the waist down and hands cuffed.
I am beyond INCENSED about this. Reading this story and watching the video has made me so angry . I hope that these two officers are SEVERLY punished for these actions. Careing for a double amputee I do know this,you can run to get away and its pretty doubtful,correct that, IMPOSSIBLE that they could catch up to you. If you hit a person that is bound to a wheelchair they would not be able to reach you to strike you back if you moved away. So to TASER a person in a chair is inconcievable to me. And to cuff them behind thier back no less is also beyond reason.
I am saddened by this story. With all the real criminals out there ,this is what our policemen do?Are they trained to react this way? Did these policemen feel they had carried out thier duty that day to serve and protect? Disgusting.

Nikki

This is my Cat Nikki,she is 15 years old. Looks pretty good for her age eh? She used to be kinda heavy,and in the last year or so she dropped a bunch of weight and is now really pretty thin. You can see her bones and she is light as a feather when you pick her up. I was really concerned that she was dieing when she started losing the weight. I had to change foods about 5 times before I finally found one she was interested in eating.
When we found Nikki she was maybe 7 weeks old. It was a freezing November night and my daughter and I were meeting my friend Nicole at the gym to work out. She was up on top of a tire on Nicoles car. She saw us and started meowing really loud,I mean REALLY loud. She was so tiny and cute,we opened the door and she jumped right in our car. She was so cold and so hungry. Someone just dumped her in this big parking lot! Well she became a part of our family right away.
She had starvation syndrome from not eating. When she ate she would not stop eating till it was all gone ,and if you had something in your hand to eat she would try to climb up you to get at it. The vet said she would grow out of it as she became more secure in the fact that she was going to be fed.So becouse of this she kinda fattened up and eventually we had to put her on some diet food to slim her down a bit. Thats why it really freaked me out when she started losing so much weight last year. Now I know it;s becouse shes getting old I guess. She seems healthy and aside from sleeping alot she still gets around pretty good.
Shes a real character. She talks to you and nods her head at you when you walk into a room as if to say ,HI! . She used to be realy grumpy with anyone outside the family,but she seems to be mellowing in her old age . When my daughter lived here,she was her buddy. When she moved out I think Nikki felt a bit abandoned but she has since became my husband and my buddy
I can't bear the thought of her not being around and it bothers me that she is getting old. I want her around to sleep at my feet for many more years.