The journey has begun! Here's to the new year!

My journey is to lose weight and become the person I want to be. I have never been a thin person. I have always been curvy. Even when I went through Basic Training, I only lost 10# after 9 weeks of torture. Exercise has never been fun for me. I prefer to workout with a group. In AIT I discovered that I can run, and I was actually pretty good at it. However, at 15 weeks of total training (BT and AIT) I returned to Minnesota during the winter to small town with no gyms nearby. That was the start.

Thanks to all...!

I am so thankful to my family and friends that helped me yesterday to paint the downstairs and help move my desk to the other corner. I have a bad case of tennis elbow so today I am so sore I shouldn't even be typing this. While the men were watching football and occupying Ella, the rest of us women were downstairs (all three of us) painting. With their help I was able to finish the one corner enough to move the desk to that corner. Overall, the downstairs is over half painted. So happy! Would be happier if I wasn't so sore after doing all that work.

Now everyone is napping and I am debating if I even want to venture out of the house to look for a nice winter jacket that will fit me better than the ones I have. My brother is watching Jeff Dunham on TV, great comedian.

Its one of those days where I want to do absolutely nothing, but at the same time there is a lot of things I want to do. I could be downstairs cleaning and moving more furniture or out braving the crowds on Black Friday. Did that last year. Left the house at noon and lines were still wrapped halfway around the stores to check out at 1pm. Oh well, there isn't really anything I want to go out to get. I could order things online, but there isn't really anything I need. Trying to figure out certain Christmas gifts. Easier said than done.

Oh well off to figure out the day. Wish me luck! Happy Black Friday to all!!! Hope your Turkey day was wonderful too!!!

Progress

I am making progress on getting the downstairs cleaned and organized and fit for living in. The downstairs was J's domain and her responsibility to keep it clean. Let's just say it was anything but clean. I am so thankful that we have a steam carpet cleaner. It makes me willing and able to walk on the floors without shoes. We plan to repaint the living area and the bathroom. They both need major touchups and we are going to go with a different paint scheme. The bathroom is also getting new flooring and new curtains for the shower and closet. It will look so different. We plan on getting rid of our 32 inch hulking heavy TV set and getting a flatscreen to put up on the wall. That will free up some floor space and look much better.