Hyper Speed and More :-)

Time seems to be moving at HYPER-SPEED these last few months.  Time is moving and I'm standing still.  Health, weight, fitness, career -- all are stagnant and stalled in a less-than-good spot.

It humbling.  And it's all by my own choosing.  Small chooses consistently add up and that includes the bad ones.

I'm not in the far reaches of doom and gloom -- but it's within my sight.

Health:  I'm eating junk.  Good tasting junk.  Homemade junk.  But still junk.
Weight:  See above ...
Fitness:  Now that my instructor has moved on, there is a fitness void.  I'm bored, unmotivated, unexcited.  I hit these slumps sometimes, but not very often.
Career:  I need to start my CE credits to renew my license.  I'm actually looking forward to doing it, but seem to be reluctant to make the time.  Stalled and unhappy about it.

Since I like a good cliche ... today is Monday.  Time to renew.  Best way to fix ALL of this is movement FORWARD.  I know what to do ... time to do it.  Where have I heard this before?!?! (Good lord, I'm a broken record.)

Now is not the time to wallow in my failures so here's some good stuff happening.  Time to turn that proverbial ball around.

Today is my youngest's 21st birthday.  We joke it took him forever to get to 21.  It's a relief and a worry all at the same time.  I'm relieved because he can't get an underage drinking violation (breath held for many years lol).  He can join us going out and not feel left-out.  But he needs to be careful.  No 21 shots, no drinking/driving, etc, etc, etc.  I gave him my birthday wishes and my birthday lecture this morning.  Love this kid!  (And happy 21 is on a Monday lol.)  Happy birthday my dear sweet boy.  (And now my youngest is 21 -- holy old ME!!)

Chip is settling in nicely and his little personality is brightening our day.  I can't even describe the feel-good moments when you watch a scared, neglected, sick dog realize he's safe.  The transformation is magical.  Even hubby is addicted to it.  We're still working on marking, but he's down to one a day.  Today will be his first day having time in the crate.  Fingers crossed.

I did a boat-load of cooking this week.  Guess what's back on sale -- honey crisp apples.  I made a big batch of apple sauce.  The pressure cooker did it's job with beef stew from NomNomPaleo.  Best I've had in a long time (cooked in less than an hour).  Mexican chicken for tacos also from the same site - it's tastes just okay - but can't beat 7 minutes cooking time.  Squash, HB eggs.  The pressure cooker rocks. Also did a ham and mac + cheese.  I sent a bunch of food home with the kids last night.

And BAKING!  I made the pumpkin iced cookies again.  Love them.  Not overly sweet and a cross between a cake and a cookie.  Took me a minute to realize you need to cook them completely (like a cake), not underbake (like a cookie).  Pumpkin Cookies

I also made Slush Cake from my grams cook book.  I think everyone has had this at one time or another.  I used lactate free milk so I could have a lot some.  Google gives you tons of recipes for it.

It took my back two days to feel well enough to workout.  Ugh.  I ran yesterday and it felt good.  Today is up for grabs (remember the unexcited-about-workingout thing?).  I'll do something.  Just don't know what the something is yet.  I downloaded a few new Christmas songs, so that might help.

Today is pretty laid back so I'll use that time to get moving on stuff.  Sign up for the CE credit classes (then I might actually start them), house chores (never-ending), make a to-do list for the week (I have some things hanging over my head that need to just get done) .... and I'm stuck home for the morning while my oven is self-cleaning.  Holiday prep is underway.  More on that tomorrow.

Time to make this ordinary Monday a big-deal MONDAY!  Is anyone else feeling like they are going crazy lately?  Today is take-control-of-the-crazies day (fingers crossed).  Later gators.