Are you psycho?

So what do you do when someone you loves becomes obssesive about something? Let me give you a little back story.

My mother (God love her) lives in an HOA community. They are not 100% full so there is a property management company making all of the decisions for the HOA along side the builders. My mother being the helpful person she is has really got involved with the community. Planning parties, walks, charities etc, but she also seems to get involved in any and ALL drama. My mother never does anything half way so when she's involved she will no every story, every detail, who said what and why they said it. She likes to believe she is not a gossip, but the women talks to everyone who will listen. I love her please don't get that wrong, but how do I tell her she goes over board? She is to the point in her community that many of the neighbors want nothing to do with her. I will admit some of those people don't want to have to deal with her because she has no problem enforcing the rules, but the other people just don't like her because she is drama.

Now things are getting bad. Her neighbor built a HUGE fireplace and put in a ton of landscaping so much landscaping that his house looks a little ridiculous. He just keeps adding and adding. The problem is that he has not got permission like he is required to from the HOA or the county commisioners and zoning boards. He put this huge fireplace only 3 feet from his fences and tress which is against county ordinance. They have come out and told him it was not right there has been a hearing and he was told he had to take it down. He won't do any of it. Well being the fact that he lives across from my parents house my mother feels she needs to get involved. Her reason was his craziness was bringing down everyone elses property value. Now shes is obssesed with "taking him down" Its freaks me out. She takes pictures of his house, eves drops on his conversations and is getting the housing community involved. Granted he is not a good person, but I'm affraid if she pushes this to much more he is going to do something bad. She has already over heard him saying he was going to have her taken care of. I'm not sure what that means, but it scary. All the while I'm sitting here wishing she would just drop it a little bit. Don't get so involved. It went from being something that was good for the neighbor hood to being something very personal to her. She talks about it all the time and I wonder what makes her this way? Am I going to be like this too? Will I then pass this on to my daughter.

Connecting with old friends

I love facebook. I have found people I used to go to elementary school with. Its insane. I was just kinda looking around tonight and happened to find my ex and the good side of his family. The ones I actually liked who actually liked me. I am now going to be having his niece come up for a few days and help her tour U of W. She wants to play softball there. The funny thing was I always thought she didn't like me low and behold I am and was always her favorite of all his girlfirends. It was so good to talk to them I haven't seen them in about 5 years or so.

My mother in law has been here and staying with us about a month now. She leaves in the morning early to go back home and I have to say I want her to stay. We have gotten close and I enjoy having her around. She lost her husband last august and seems to be a little lost without him. She has been a lot happier since she got here and I hate to see her get back in a funk. I can't imagine losing my husband espeically after being married 62 years. She is 80 they adopted my husband and his sister when they were babies. I couldn't have picked a better mother and grandmother or even a better mother in law. I'm a lucky girl.

Trip of a lifetime!

Hubby and I have been talking a lot lately about what buggy and I are going to do while he is gone. I can afford to stay here put buggy into a daycare and just work and be in Washington alone. We don't have any friends or at this point any family, so I would truely be alone. The other option is I could go back to Georgia and stay with my parents while he's gone. I don't have to pay any kind of rent and I don't have to work if I don't want to. I also have a friend who will be getting a new job at the same company I work for and said he would be more than happy to hire me part time if I wanted to work. This option just seems like it would be stupid not to do. So once hubby leaves buggy and I are taking a very long trip. We will start out by stopping in Boise. I grew up there and still have many friends that I haven't seen in years. We will probably only be there 1 or 2 days, then we will work our way down to Paul Idaho. The home of my grandparents. We will be there a minimum of a week, but if we feel like it we may stay 2. Then we will make our way down to Las Vegas. I lived there 6 years and my sister still lives there so I will stay with her and her family. Originally when I first hatched this plan I was going to stay there for a week, but as of yesterday I am up to 4 weeks lol. I have a ton of friends and my school is there. Lucky for me my sister loves me and wants me to stay a long time. Plus she has never met buggy. Last time I saw her was about 3 months prior to having buggy. Once we are done there we are going to take a small side trip to California to see some old church friends and to go to the happiest place on earth DISNEYLAND! It will be buggy's first time and I can't wait. I do wish hubby would be there for it,but I'm sure we'll have plenty of chances to go. Then we will finally make our way to Tennesse which is where hubby's family is. I plan to stay about a week to two weeks with them, so buggy knows her mimi and her aunt stephanie and uncle terry. Then we will be in Georgia for the duration. I'm not sure if I want to work or not. It would be great to because it would be extra money to save, but then it goes back to having to put buggy in daycare which I hate the thought of. Either way I am truely excited at the prospect of a long fun vacation.

My body hurts in places I didn't know I had muscles in.

I had my first session with my trainer today. He begins by telling me today will be an easy day. I want to make sure you come back the next time. I think telling me this was a mistake. By the end of the session I was sweating in places I didn't know you could sweat. My arms felt like jello and I could barely walk down the stairs. I do have to say I feel really good though. Yes I am sore and I feel weak, but my mood is really good and I feel like I am breathing better. Is that possible?

We did a lot of arms today which is good because I'd like to get them toned out as fast a possible. Once we are done he says " now comes the fun stuff." I can tell he's being sarcastic. He takes me over to were all the exercise balls are and grabs a small one. Sits it up against the wall and shows me exactly what he wants me to do. So like he showed me I put the ball against the wall and then against the small of my back and begin to squat. I do like 6 or 7 and as I am in the squatting position he says ok freeze. FREEZE are you kidding me! I'm in the sitting position, I am 80 lbs over weight and I already feel like I'm going to drop dead any second. But freeze is what I did until he told me I could begin squatting again. This went on over and over again for about 5 min. Man oh man was something so small so hard. All in all I think he's gonna be an awesome trainer. He is realistic and seems to know what he's doing. The best part came at the end. He says to me ok well we are done for today and we'll get you set up for next time. So I'm thinking at this point yes I can go home and relax until I go to work at 2. NOPE! He then proceeds to tell me " so once your done with our workouts I want you to get on a cardio machine and do 30 min, but your heart rates needs to stay between 155 and 160. CRAP! I don't know where I found the energy, but I did what he told me. I got on an eliptical and went for 30 min. Its took me 10 min just to hit 155 and every ounce of being in my body to stay there the other 20 min. I have a feeling I'm going to start seeing my weight drop off pretty quick. If not I'm good with it coming off slow as well :)

Let them eat QUICHE!

What does a busy mother of 1 feed her family for breakfast? To be honest in our household its everyone for themselves, except of course buggy. She usually gets a tasty breakfast of berries or some type of fruit, or sausage and toast. My problem is that doing for yourself means more grocery bills than if we just made one meal. The second problem I have is that my husband and I are both trying to lose weight and so what ever is made has to be healthy. So I'm sitting at the grocery store trying to come up with healthy ideas when the lite pops on! (DING) Quiche?! Its fast simple and for the most party healthy. My husband loves eggs so why not. So this morning I made a very lovely sausage, cheese, and spinach quiche. Its turned out pretty good and I figured this could be a good way to get us all around the breakfast table and eating healthy. Now I just need a few more ideas so put in the quiche so it doesn't get boring.