Hello from down under....

Ok, bear with me here, I'm up at, oh let's see....5:58 in the morning, and I'm having a little pity party for myself. It was just one of those mornings where I couldn't sleep and figured I might as well get up as opposed to tossing and turning until the covers fall off the bed. : )

This not having a job thing is really starting to wear on me. The finances, or lack of them, aside...it's really NOT an ego boost that I haven't had more offers than I have. (and btw, I've had two and they might as well have been volunteer jobs with what they wanted to pay me) and don't get me wrong, I KNOW when you're not working, one can't be too picky, but I also can't drive 40 miles for $9 an hour...(I didn't even know people still made that little money). So anyway, THAT'S why I'm having my own little party this morning.

I got up this morning, made my coffee and jumped on the computer to the job boards and I guess I beat them up be/c nothing's been updated from yesterday. : ) (what is that saying...something about the early bird... :)))))

Ok, so get this (Caroline will appreciate this)..so we get Time Warner Cable the other day which has an awesome exercise on demand channel. In my head, I kept saying that since I'm home now, I can do that. (I'd been trying to walk, but the heat is a wee bit too much at the moment) so I flipped through all the different on demand exercise channels they have and found some great ones....so I watched them. Don't get too excited, I SAID "watched". I literally sat there watching some cardio hip hop show and was soooo enthralled with just watching, that I never got up and DID anything...(now come on, how SAD is THAT)...

So after getting over that huge failure, : ) , I had it in my head that I wanted to start eating better. I'm not a horrible eater (how many times have you heard THAT statement from a fluffy person) but I eat waaaaaaaaaay too many carbs. I don't eat meat alot, rarely actually, so I end up substituting that with rice, pasta, bread...ya know, the GOOOOOD stuff...I LOVE vegetables and fruit, I just tend to have those WITH the rice, pasta and bread... Wonder if there's a carb rehab? Anyway, back to my point....I went to the store the other day and saw a fitness magazine, so I grabbed it up. I mean, too be sure I could look like the chick on the cover. How hard could THAT be? So I get the magazine home and read through it and they, of course, have a lot of exercises in there for one to do to get rid of flabby arms, legs, butt, thigh, chin, pretty much any part of you that you need help on..so I'm reading these articles and trying to figure out how to DO the exercises with nothing but a little bitty picture and some mumbo jumbo words explaining them....and I lean over to my hubby and tell him that he's going to have to help me figure out the freakin steps to actually do them. Now HOW sad is that???? You'd think I would be an expert at any exercise from watching the on demand channel for hours.

And can I just give a shout out to my hubby. He is freakin awesome. He has stood by me throughout all of this and not once asked me to apply at Walmart. : ) I'm not sure what good I did to get this man, but God was sure looking out for me. Even through the times I want to ring his neck (and there are lots of those), I see what a great man he is in his heart. He's got the biggest heart of any man I've ever known. (just remind me of that the next time I DO want to ring his neck) : )

okay, enough for today...back to the job boards. Wish me luck...