First of May :)

Oh my! It is May already. I haven’t done anything I set out to this year…yet. I have been so fatigued…and so unmotivated. It is frustrating. I am working on it though but I am moving at a snails pace. It sucks. I am hopeful though. I am not too depressed…I just gotta keep on keepin on and hope I’ll kick it into high gear soon. Ha.

Goals:

Walk a bunch each day…at least 10,000 steps but much more when I can.

Read lots…especially for school (composition theory) and some short stories.

Write every day–journal, blog at least.

I just get bogged down in the day to day. It has been all I can do to keep on on dishes and laundry, and to keep up with my nephews. I do the same things over and over again and it is making me feel stuck. I am stuck. I need to break out of it. Hopefully the nicer weather and plans for summer will help me. I have to, HAVE TO, start walking–my husband and I have a week long U.P. trip camping planned and I want to do some hiking. Plus we have a week-end on Mackinac Island coming up and I want to be able to walk the hills, climb the stairs, without feeling like I am going to have a heart attack 🙂 Then I need to get prepared to go back to school. I want to finish my master’s degree (in rhetoric and composition) and start a new one (in either counseling or social work)…or maybe even try to get into a doctorate program. I need school. NEED IT! So these things I need to do to help me break out of this funk I’ve been in. I have a lot to be thankful for–a great husband, my family, a nice house, my own personal library–but I have so much more I want to accomplish in life. Time to get on with it. I am hopeful.

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Truth of the Day

Why stepparenting is harder than parenting

by Jenna Korf

http://www.stepmomhelp.com/why-stepparenting-is-harder-than-parenting/#.VT_e2CFVikr

Great article. I needed this lady a few years back 🙂

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Gorgeous

My cousin Ellen Doughty-Hume and her horse Sir Oberon competing in the Kentucky Rolex. I can’t get over the shininess of her horse, lol. Awesome photo from United States Eventing Association, Inc. (USEA) Currently Ellen is in 17th place after dressage. She competes in cross-country on Saturday. I hope she does well 🙂

Ellen and her husband Alistair 🙂 I am both proud and envious. I wish I had her get up and go. She works so hard. She figured out what she wanted in life at a young age and went for it.

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True!

This made me laugh. Also made me think of my stepson’s mother, ha.

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I’m doing it!

A few years ago my husband bought us a treadmill so we can get in shape. I kept thinking if only I could have one where I can be on the computer–writing, doing homework, or even just surfing or playing The Sims–then it wouldn’t be so boring. I priced treadmill desks–super expensive.Needless to say I haven’t been getting on the treadmill all that much because it is just boring to me, even if I watch TV or listen to music. I did by a laptop cart a couple of years ago in hopes that would help me get on the treadmill with my laptop at least. I put my desktop on the darn thing and that’s been my desk since I had to give up my office because we have had a full house. I thought i could still write/play games even with the desktop next to the treadmill. I just haven’t done it.

Today, sick of being fat…sick of feeling achy and helpless, I turned my computer cart around and positioned it next to my treadmill. I am writing this post while I walk! I am waling slow, sure, but I am getting some steps in and I am not bored. Next i am going to try to play The Sims. I can probably pick up the pace while playing a game.

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