separation

I am going to attempt a separation between this blog and a more personal lifestyle blog.  This space has everything jumbled together.  I combined multiple blogs to create this one in the beginning, which is what happens I suppose when you've been blogging since 1997 and you lose the majority of your posts when ya forget to pay your hosting bill {reason - paid it yearly and then forgot the due date when I went on a long blog vacation}.

committed

Well, let me just jump right in...

I am on day 5 of 31 without soda and fast food. I feel lighter. Like a weight has been lifted. Not sure if I have actually lost weight due specifically to this because I am also tracking calories with the MyFitnessPal app on my handy dandy always by my side iPhone.

I enjoy chatting with / sharing photos with my IG (instagram app) girls. And this afternoon, a girl posted a photo of a half eaten glazed donut. OMG YUM. But I was able to rationally say that it looked tasty and didn't have that overwhelming desire/need to go find one for myself. Nor did/do I feel that I needed to make a point to get one or twelve when next I am in a town with donuts readily available. *This* is huge for me. Not over the course of my entire life but rather over the course of the last ten plus years.

I was a naturally thin girl virtually from my birth in the spring of 1973 until the early summer of 1999. I moved back in with my parents as an adult and mother of a young child. I suddenly ate when my parents ate. I ate because there was always food around and in some ways, my parents associated an abundance of food with wealth and eating as a group social activity. I didn't eat a crazy amount but I did eat and I went up two pants sizes in two months. And I didn't stop there.

Well, I have made the decision recently that I want to be thin again and eat whatever I want whenever I want. But to do that... I need to be aware of when, why, and how much I eat. I need to exercise and document my food intake. I need to be mindful of what I am doing and re-learn how to be.

A big reason might be that I am just over a year away from the big 4-0. A bigger reason might be that I want another child (or two or four). And I need to get to a smaller number on the scale to help facilitate that deep desire.

I have already noticed a change in my body. My jawline is tightening up again. I am eating smaller portions. And though I still like sweets, I can resist. But I am not sure how I am going to handle birthday cake, which is my biggest temptation and the absolute hardest for me to resist. There is something about cake and buttercream icing that I makes me all weak in the knees without an ounce of resistance in sight. Yep, birthdays are going to be the death of me and my desire to get smaller/healthier and pregnant.

Remembering that just because it looks good and tastes good doesn't mean that it is good for me is sometimes easier said than done.

Ok. Enough rambling about food.

I hope you are enjoying your Friday night.

Lots of sewing took place here today and tomorrow, I will ship my Martha items to New York.

learning to walk again

On the 14th, I sprained my left ankle and was so terribly frightened that I had received my very first broken bone.  Luckily, the x-rays showed that I had not in fact fractured my ankle as I had originally thought.  However, I had suffered a bad sprain and would need to stay on crutches indefinitely.  The nice ER doctor said that I would know best how far to push myself and when I would feel comfortable walking again without assistance.

Last night was the first time that I tried to put any pressure/weight on my left ankle.  Mostly, my heel hurt and was tingly, which was odd to me, but my husband said "the body is a strange and mysterious thing"... or something along those lines.  Anyway...

Today, I maneuvered pretty much all day without the assistance of crutches.  YAY!!!  My ankle is still swollen, though that's understandable given I haven't had my feet up at all today.  But it isn't *that* bad.  I have noticed that my right knee is now giving me trouble and the hubs said that was due to putting so much pressure/weight on it when I was on the crutches.  GREAT!  {sarcasm... if ya couldn't tell}

And how this all relates to the shop...  Well, I haven't sat at my sewing machine once since the incident.  Until today, I've spent most of my days lying on the couch, napping.  Running errands as needed but mostly, just resting.  With my foot propped up.  Yesterday evening, I completed a couple of Christmas presents and two items for the shop (one is listed and the other will be tonight).  Tomorrow, I hope to be back at the sewing machine.

I will not be closing the shop for Christmas.  We will be in and out of the house but no more than day trips on the agenda.  My etsy shop is accessible from my iPhone, which is usually within five feet of me, and all of my current inventory is in my new studio, less than twenty steps from our back deck.

I will put the shop on vacation status on December 29th at 12noon Texas time (Central time zone).  I will re-open the shop on January 2nd 2012.

Happy Tuesday!

a change of scenery

The past few days I've done a bit of spring cleaning in November. Friday was the living room. Today is my computer area in the bedroom. My vanity had stacks of random on it and I finally decided that I wanted to use this area more efficiently. It's amazing what one will do in crunch time and to procrastinate.

Hahaha...

I have a craft show in seven days and another one five days after that. But I "needed" to clean this area because I needed to print more labels. Getting current inventory ready for a show and adding new limited edition items to the mix.

~text tone~

Seems that my dear husband is in the same mind-set as I and messaged me about some additions/modifications he has in mind for my computer/paperwork side of business. Love it when we're on the same page.

Anyway... Happy Saturday Y'all!

two of my most recent favorites on etsy

A lazy fabulous Saturday spent with family and the computer. lol... Taking turns editing photos, koolaid dying my 15yo daughter's hair blue, listing amazing diaper bags on etsy, stealing kisses from my hubby, and updating the blog... I suppose I should get things together for supper.