NC Trip

TRIP TO NC

There we are the five of us the day we brought Karlene to the airport to return home to MA.

We had an exciting week of trying new things and catching up with each other.

The new things included biking down a mountain in Damascus, VA, kayaking in NC and hiking along the Bridge Trail at Grandfather MT in Boone , NC. Also we visited the Billy Graham Library, where the picture of the group of us was taken.

A Trip to NC in 19 days

In 19 days, I will be leaving to meet up with 4 former roommates in NC in the mountains!!!
I am so looking forward to seeing these friends. We haven't seen each other in over 20+ years. Linda is opening her house for us girls and we will have a blast!!!

I have gained and lost over 100 lbs since last we met. I hope to share in the conversations and the fun of the experience and NOT sit back and watch others participating in conversation and exercising.

Will keep you posted on my trip and other things as it gets closer.

KathyJ

Dec 23rd

The days to Christmas are dwindling as I plan a trip home. It is a sad one this year as my aunt may not be here for the next one. To go home one last time and enjoy my family even though I have issues I am dealing with seems to be the right thing to do.

Temptations this year are tough. emotionally, i am dealing with a lot of temptations. i made a vegetarian chocolate bundt cake (no frosting) and couldn't stay away from it, so i froze it to enjoy at a later date, when "esting the whole thing at once" won't happen.

Emotions run deep and spray all over the place this time of year.

It is coping with it that helps and finding ways to defeat the emotions of this year.

It is the last year for my aunt, The first Christmas without my bro, tom and

my Mom wants to sit down and divdide out all her earthly possessions with my sister and I.

No wonder i would rather create a new and private christmas for myself rather than face the issues at hand with my family. But there are times when being with family no matter how difficult is the right things to do. so it is this year.

Rambling From the Heart-kathyj

My first blog, WOW!!!!

I want to share my journey to health. I have been at this for awhile and lost 90 lbs so far with 70 more to go. Right now I am in the middle of a plateau and this time of year is not helping!!!!!

Mostly it is the exercising and the treats which are getting me through my stress level increasing. However, stress especially financial is going down and this should enable me to do better.

Recent recipes I have tried include Vegetarian chocolate Bundt cake from Vegetarian Times and Pumpkin Black Bean chili from a Taste of Home Recipe card selection Both were YUMMO in Rachael Ray's words. Cooking healthy is something I really enjoy doing and have come up with several recipes that are all my own. Maybe i should do a cookbook, LOL

What caused my plateau in retrospect is some disappointments in life like office politics at work, not being able to do a marathon I had planned to do and utter frustration at how life messed up my schedule on how to get things done!!!! So am sorting through how do I get back on track with my life style of working nights? this is something i will explore in writing in this blog.

KathyJ