Happy Thoughts by JBetty

Ok...here are Happy Thoughts for April 18, 2011





Happy Thought 1: I have always envisioned having parties and fun get-togethers in the way-back yard at the house. The closest we had come was having our Auburn/Alabama game night on the big screen outside before Dad died. Saturday was just as great. Joseph and Tara's Sunday School class had an egg hunt and picnic at our house and it was a ton of fun. All of those little children running around "hunting" for eggs was heaven for me. They were all so happy and then they ate and then they ran around some more. The best part was that they had no toys (other than the eggs) and they had tons of fun. They were really interested in the bamboo as well. It was like old-timey fun...you had to think of it yourself and running for no reason was fun enough.

Happy Thought 2: Thursday is bunko night! I can't wait to see my married with children friends this week. As a semi-permanent sub I see them about once a month and it is a highlight. I missed last month because I was ini the middle of a self-centered pity party about my back. Luckily, I am much better and I can't wait to see my sweet friends who love me even though I don't have a husband or kids! I keep hoping one of them will think of a great husband for me.

Happy Thought 3: My life is not settled in many ways, but for the past week or so, I have a great hope that something great and wonderful and perfect is about to happen. I don't know what it is. I just know that my job is up in the air, my house needs to sell, I need to be a better person in so many ways...I am happy about the possibilities and I an excited to see how things are going to shake out.

Happy Thought 4: I thought a friend was upset with me, but after yesterday, I think everything is good between us.

Happy Thought 5: My family is going to be together next Saturday and I can't wait. I am so content when the boys are home with their wives and babies. It just makes me happy.




Happy Thought 6: My lemon tree is doing great so far and the apples are already forming on the apple tree and come to find out we have a bluberry tree that is producing fruit as well! How exciting!

Happy Thought 7: Jesus is alive!

Sandals

I wore sandals this weekend!!! HAHA!!! Take that cold grey weather... And I might do it again tomorrow! :-)

It is a New Year

Even though we are almost a full month into the New Year, I want to document my 3 main goals for the year.

1. Finish passing the CPA Exam.
2. Lose 100 pounds.
3. Get rid of 1/4 of debt.

I have already drug out the CPA stuff way too long, so I am not even going to schedule my test date until I am "ready". Instead of my past method of scheduling and then aiming to be ready by that date. Hopefully, the new method will prove to be more successful. I have not been doing a good job so far of studying, so I MUST buckle down.

Second, I need to lose weight. According to the BMI charts I need to lose 100 pounds. I will be thrilled with 40-50 lbs but I am hoping that I will just keep losing. So in order to accomplish this, I am going to CrossFit Montgomery and following a modified Paleo diet. Daily I eat between 1100 and 1300 calories. I am about to "graduate" from the CrossFit Introduction classes so I think the intensity will be bumped up starting next week once I am in the real classes. I am nervous but it will be good.

Finally, I am trying to get rid of 1/4 of my debt. It is interesting to me how people think that I have no financial responsibilities as a single person who lives with my mother. It is true that I do not have a mortgage or utility bills, but I do have debt from what we will call the disaster from my youth. :-) Also known as owning a business. But I am trying not to beat myself up more than once every few hours over this...so I just keep telling myself that I have a plan and it will be over in 4 years. One month down, 47 more to go! I am also trying to become a trunk keeper for Matilda Jane and/or Swanky Baby Vintage so that I can earn some extra pennies to pay it down faster. We shall see!

So that is the plan! This year is going to be good. Especially with Annie and Jack!

Annie Driving

I got to play with Anniston a bunch this weekend. At one point we needed to go to the grocery store and I was carrying her out to the car, but needed to get my purse out of my car. So, I sat her in the seat for a second and she stood up to drive. It was quite cute (of course).

Super Perky Post!

I made it! We made it! (Me and Mama that is) It is September and we are both still alive and my attitude toward life has definitely improved since earlier this week. So here is how it is:

Tuesday was a dark day in what I call "my life". But I got it all out and I feel so much better. I was determined that my life was going to be way better in September so I started making plans on Wednesday. First, I told everyone at work that we were all in a funk and needed to get out of it. So we are having a Labor Day/Get-Out-O-Yo-Funk Party at work. It is great. We have pimento cheese, corn dip, cheese biscuits, cow patties, and sausage biscuits. Really I don't think you can beat it. And we all stood around and chatted and laughed for about 20 minutes this morning. It was great.

Then I decided that I wanted to paint. So I called up Marilyn Bullard and told her I wanted to have a painting party. Mission accomplished. September 30th we are painting a funky witch. If anyone wants to come, let me know. It should be a lot of fun with a lot of good food too.

Mom and I got our toes done last night and they look good...I'm just saying.

And I am meeting my pal Allison tonight for supper and I found out some really exciting news from another pal but I don't know if it is a secret so I can't give specifics...but it is really great news. And then I am having a Matilda Jane party in a couple of weeks. Really September is going to be great...it already is. Thank goodness!

And feel free to notice my new "reminder" in my cube. I made it last week and it just so happens to be in the picture with all the party food.

YEA for better days!!! :-)

Starting Over...

So today is August 30th. In the very recent past, I have been totally bummed out and discouraged because I had awful poison ivy, some kind of physical reaction to the medication, some kind of anxiety-related reaction to the steroids, I touched a snake on my porch, I didn't get picked for the Priase Team at church, I had to take another stupid CPA test that I didn't study enough for, I found out I didn't pass one of the other stupid CPA tests that I didn't study enough for, Annie has to get tubes in her ears, our house is still not sold, the grass and stupid hedges just keep growing (along with the poison), limbs keep falling in the yard, I missed the beach with my friends, I missed the lake with some other friends, and my doctor quit. I AM TIRED OF IT ALL!!!! Really, feel free to stop all this at any time and just fix it. (I am saying this to God because I know He can and there is very little I seem to be able to do about any of it.) So, today I am going to complain and rant and cuss and take out every frustration and anxiety on this poor keyboard. I am going to explain just how BAD it is and then it is going to be over and I am going to start over...but not yet!

So the poison ivy sucks. It is "gone" but I now have dry red patches all over my legs. It is really nice looking. Thankfully they don't itch...but this post is not about thankfulness. It is about whining, pure and simple. So when it comes to poison ivy, I also am now afraid of everything in the yard that doesn't look exactly like a blade of grass. That is pretty bad since I have to keep our 3 acre yard semi-decent looking. I used to pray that God would encourage the snakes and things to run to the edges while I mowed, raked, whatever and then they could come back. Now I just want to be wrapped in saran-wrap on a mower with 22s so I will be way off the ground. I am scared dad-gum-it!

And what the heck is that stupid snake doing on my porch. Go make yourself at home in the back yard and leave me the heck alone. What have I done to deserve this???

Then I am not mad, but my feelings were totally hurt when I didn't make the cut for the praise team. Cut me some slack people. Don't tell me that my voice isn't suited to the style, when you have much older more formal voices already up there. And I dare say, my voice is not "formal". Plus, that was really a big deal to me and I really wanted to be a part of the praise team and ya'll totally messed it up. It was going to be fun and I was going to make new friends and we were going to get a long together really well and sing once a month. Dude, why? Could ya build a girls' self-esteem even a smidge?

I am sick of these stupid CPA tests. Somebody please remind me not to go back to school or do anything else that requires studying and tests for at least 10 years. I am too old for this and Sylvan learning centers suck. They are gross and the people that work there are really annoying when you are already stressed out about taking these ridiculously expensive tests. At the moment, I would really like to chuck it all but who can afford that?

And can somebody please buy our stupid house? Seriously!!!! Maybe a nice homeschooling couple with 5 or 6 children who don't watch tv. There is plenty of room for a garden and a goat and a couple of chickens too.

So now that you know everything is stupid and just how sick and tired I am of all of this....it is time to start over.

My only goal is to write something positive tomorrow.

Maybe September will be better...

Totally bummed out. I thought that my string of "bad luck" etc. would end and that this week would be way better. I was wrong. I think August is just not my month. I'm hoping September will be better. We shall see... :-(