A new way of eating

So, as I said just prior....we have to eat an entirely different way.
Bill has been the reciever of some 'WONDERFUL' news. He is diabetic, hypertensive, and has high cholesterol. We already knew about the high blood pressure, but the other two were just recently added within the last two weeks. Matter of fact, today we get to go and meet with a cardiologist. Yay...much fun! (humph)

So, we've been eating a lot of different things lately. More healthy crap, and less of it. We have a salad almost EVERY night of the week. I say almost, because some nights it's just too hard to open a bag of salad and dump it in the bowl. The kids were already sick of chicken; now they are going to be uber sick of it, because, well-Bill doesn't like fish.

Tonight we're going to have empanada's. (How ever it's flippin' spelt, or spelled, or wrote, or writed, or what have you.) I'm looking at the list thinking...I only need to buy 2 things. Then I start thinking about how I can't possibly go into Winn-Dixie with my pajama bottoms on. Of course then I think of my friend Mel who's in the ARMY and her pajama siteing at the airport. However, just because I live in Seffner, doesn't mean I have to look like I live in Seffner. So, I'll suck it up and go put on some real clothes. After all, I can't go to the cardiologist in my pajamas either. No one wants to see my Christmas jammies-which is sad, cause they are really cool. :-D

So, on my mission to eat healthier....also on a mission to be healthier.

Z, Apegirl and I are doing the couch-to-5k thing.
http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
the girls keep me honest about it. (I keep saying that. Like it's my mantra or something.) I've also decided that to keep me REAL honest about it, I want to run in the gasparilla 5k next year. The dates are not posted for next year yet-since the run hasn't happened this year yet and all (lol, figure that gives me 13 months to 'train' for it.)
http://www.tampabayrun.com/

anywho...this is not getting me going thru my coupons (which I have totally slacked on) or even making the rest of my grocery list. I have a lot to plan for. Next week we are going to Disney. We were going to stay at the Nick hotel, but apparently it just wasn't in the cards this year. For some reason when I went to finally reserve the rooms, the price almost doubled. So, we are going to stay at the celebration suites. It's only about 15 minutes to magic kingdom, and they have a free shuttle, which is REALLY ok with me...then I don't have to deal with parking and shuttle-trains and all that jazz. However, I hope that there is some kind of goodness that comes out of the free shuttle, like...scheduled trips. That would be a great thing. Don't want to be stuck there waiting, regretting the whole "Lets take the shuttle".

Alright, this time I'm for realz...I'm getting of the computer, getting dressed, and going to the grocery store... after I just flip back over to WOW and see what's going on. :o) Maybe.

o....m....g....

So, we are done wtih 2011 right?

I have to start cooking different. We are done just saying we're going to eat better. Now we have to.

I'm over the whole year and we're not even a full month in yet.

I'm too tired to deal with this blogging thing right now, that and my finger hurts...I'll explain that in the next post too.

argh.

Disney, Nick, Michigan

Why does it cost so much to do ANYTHING???

Well, ok, it doesn't cost that much to do anything but what we want to do it does.
We want/are going to the Nick Hotel in Feb. and are going to be going to Disney World while we stay there. So, that really isn't what I was thinking about money wise. I mean, yeah it's going to cost us an arm and a leg right? But, isn't that what income tax is for? Or maybe it isn't, I don't know what you all use yours for, and I'm not telling you what we use our entire lot of money for, but one of the things we use it for is a family vacation to Disney for a couple days.

Well, I want to go to Michigan this summer. But it's going to cost over $1600 just in traveling costs alone! HOLY CRAP PEOPLE.

That's a lot of over time. I better start adding up the hours now. Sheeesh.

Well, well, well

So, I'm debating starting a new blog when it dawns on me...I don't even do this one, why on Earth would I start an other one? Then an other thought hits me, this blog is "pattee life" why on Earth would I start an other blog about a member of my famil???? WTHeck??
Ho hum.

I guess tomorrow starts with organization. Brina needs a place she can go to so she can do her homework. Well, how can I be a good example, if my desk looks like the living room threw up? I just cleaned the thing off, yet here I am...covered in what? I don't know what half this crap is. :-(

I keep thinking about Brina. It's finally hit home to Bill that perhaps Brina is a "special needs" child. Her meds are NOT working any more. We may as well not even give them to her. We can always tell if she's having a good day or a bad day by the way her hair is. Lately, she's been having a lot of frizzy hair days. Her eyes have seemingly become more distant also. I don't like it. I want my child back. It's time to get off our butts and be parents. W.O.W can wait. It will be there, she won't. Dinner can be made together, she can help. Walking around the block with her...well, that may not be an option...it's a pretty big block, and I don't wanna go down 92...yeah, lets rethink that one. Point being, I need to seriously restructure my time and attention. Brina is in danger of failing the 4th grade, because she is slipping farther and farther into no man's land. She's gotten lazy in class, and is either not paying attention, or CAN'T pay attention.

I can't do this. I am not strong enough. However, I have to be. She is mine. She belongs to me, she is my responsibility; no one elses. It is my job to protect and guide her through life.

Now, I just have to find out what else is "wrong".

Special Needs

What exactly qualifies a child as "special needs"?

I've been thinking about this for a LONG time. I have always thought there was something wrong other than just ADHD with my darling daughter. However, there is no other testing that we have done. (yes, that is my fault) When all I have to go on is mother instinct-how do you define "special needs".

Roger

Roger died this past Tuesday.
I'm trying to share the link, but for some reason I can't. Every time I try to paste it, it won't put it there. Maybe I'll type it in?
http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Roger-Davis&lc=1543&pid=146138323&mid=4416545

I hope that link works. It was a lot of work to jump back and forth to type it out.

Anyway, the funeral was today, and it was beautiful. However, I am VERY glad it's over. So many emotions, and I'm just ahhhhh, blahhhhhh.

I now have one day to recoup and get back to work. I'm looking forward to going to work, but at the same time I'm not so sure I'm ready. So many things....

So much drama too. I just can't believe some of the things that people do, even during a time of mourning. I mean...really-but that is an other blog. I'm too tired to even remotely think about this on a deeper level.

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood...

So, it's really nice out today, well, this morning. I was walking the dog, and enjoying the sun (been raining here in FL like it's WA.) I can't help but notice how quiet it is, except for a mechanical thumping in the far away background. I did notice it before. In fact it was the other morning while I was walking dog before work. It has a "War of the Worlds" kinda sound. Like, Luke Skywalker's going to be flying thru and around the legs of whatever it is that's coming this way. Tom Cruise should be running this way with his children at any time. Yeah, that kinda sound. Very creepy. Creepier still that I can hear it in the day time.

This is where we start to sing R.E.M. right?