I find myself so wrapped up in the little here and there posts on facebook that I have all but forgotten my precious blog. My blog... where I get to project a little bit more of "me" than is possible on FB.
While our lives continue to be plagued with financial stress - actually more so than I ever thought I would ever be able to endure - I do have some happy-ish developments. Since I quit nursing my daughter, my body is finally releasing much of the weight that has been my heavy companion all these years. I have lost more than what I gained with the last pregnancy. I think the last time I was this weight was around 2004 ( between "Power Ranger" and "Tinker Bell"). I've dropped about 20 pounds in the past 2 months. I should be ecstatic... why would I call this "happy-ish" developments? Well, I have noticed a sudden recurrence of symptoms I had when we left our last house. It made me sick... VERY sick. I have recently found myself stuttering, losing muscle strength for a few seconds, headaches, extreme exhaustion, fatigue, confusion, disorientation, lack of desire to do anything etc... Our old house suffered from mold. I was having major neurological problems towards the end. It was during an extended vacation (11 + days) that I realized that my symptoms were lightening up (while away from home). About a month after moving to this "new" house I began to feel human once again. Why are my symptoms suddenly returning now? While laying on the sofa, holding my head and covering my ears in an attempt to calm the rising throbbing pain in my head the thought hit me.... I'm losing fat.... the same fat that has encased and protected me from the toxins that made me ill for all those years. The fat was now being used to give me energy but it was also releasing my greatest enemy.
I am more determined to push onward and lose the remainder of the weight. In 20 more pounds I would be at my goal - what I weighed at my wedding... the same I weighed in high school. Hopefully I can lose all the nasty toxins that are stored within the fat that remains. This is a side effect I was unaware to be on the look out for.
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4 out of my 5 kids are now in school. This is the last year that everyone will be in elementary school. Next year the twins move on to Jr. High. Time is just flying by faster and faster. I don't want to miss anything. I really enjoy these kids.
I need to count up just how much reading I did over the summer. It was quite an impressive amount.
5 out of the 6 books in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. 2,142 pages
Catching Fire and Mockingjay (hunger games series) 781 pages
Beyonders (Mull) 454 pages
Twilight series (4 books) 2,446 pages (read series in 2 1/2 weeks)
Candy Shop War (Mull) 409 pages
The Last Olympian (Riordan) 381 pages
These are all I can remember reading. There might have been others.
14 Books - 6,613 pages
All this from a girl who barely cracked open a book throughout all of high school and college. I guess I'm using reading as my escape from life. It never fails to crack me up... I went from cringing from the tiniest of books to purposefully seeking out those with the fattest spines so I have a lot to read. I picked the Inkheart series based on the InkDeath book - 683 pages.
