New dress at a really great price?  Check
New shoes at a silly price but that are super cute?  Check
Weight loss?  Meh
Hosiery?  Check
New earrings and hair accessories from Claires?  Check
Smooth legs?  Check
Exfoliated?  Check
French manicured acrylics and a brand spanking new pedicure?  Check

For some things there's MasterCard.  For everything else there's being a woman and spending about 4 hours.

Tags: funneh
Current Mood: excited

Xander bit a banana.
Like, actually took bites OFF the banana.

Cutest thing I've ever seen.

( Who comments the most on this journal? )

I think that at the time I created my username, I was fed up with all my internet alter-egos.  I was tired of trying to come across as something that I'm not.  And I am a chubby girl, who likes to munch, so I thought eatingcookies would be appropriate.

As I have tried losing weight (and actually succeeded, although I have gained most of it back with my pregnancy/being a busy, full-time working mommy), and while I was going through that process, the irony of the name kind of made me smile, as I wrote about how much water I drank each day, or how many calories the treadmill said I burned.

I am beginning that process again.  So hopefully the name will again inspire me, instead of infuriating me.

Tags: writer's block
Current Mood: mischievous

Saying that I've "switched" over to lightourpath.com for blogging isn't an exactly correct assessment.  There are still going to be entries here, of course.  But I've recently written 4 entries there, if you care.

Cheers!

Tags: announcements

So, tomorrow I am going to start another long (probably at least a year) process in which I will expect my hips to decrease, not widen.

Yes, the dreaded weight loss plan.
Nemesis to women everywhere (and increasingly, men as well).

First step:
Face off with Coca-Cola and his rowdy band of misfits, Dr. Pepper and Sierra Mist.  (Or maybe more appropriately, spend less face-time with them!)

Constant access to a pop-snack-convenience food machine at my work has been doing nothing for my waistline, and unfortunately, these machines also take debit/credit cards, leaving nothing to stop me from getting up and having as much of this overpriced crap as I feel like.

This has GOT.  TO.  STOP.

Gameplan:
The water attack.

Drinking a ton and a half of water is
a) going to keep me feeling fuller longer, along with actually being properly hydrated, which will lead to better EVERYTHING
b) cheap
c) obviously great for weight loss
d) not going to be super easy b/c the water at work is skank nasty.

Sooo...
a) Crystal lite packets?  or
b) Tea?  (could brew plenty and then ice it...)  (i could even bring my funny silly ice things in a plastic bag labeled with my name and leave them at work so i didn't have to contend with stinky work ice - that's a long story)
c) Just suck it up?

Yes, this was a big long entry about my first step being "cut out caloried drinks (besides milk or really healthy, once in awhile juice) and drink more water" - but I'm serious about it, and I want to stay serious.

Tags: announcements, food and eating, saving money, weight loss

I know it's all coming under control.  I know, most importantly, it's coming under God's control.

So why does it still feel NUTS?

I am feeling challenged by Rosie's challenge for herself - to take a little time each day to read from The Word, and to write a bit about it, even if it's just a tiny note.

This passage is one that I take to heart anyway, but, as is usually my downfall, I didn't even realize it was in 1 Corinthians.  And I'm not sure why I'm starting my self-led Bible exploratory there, but I asked God where he wanted me, and I feel like that's where I was led.

Anyway, I read the first chapter of 1 Corinthians (NASB), and this was the passage that jumped (verses 26 through 31):

²⁶For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; ²⁷but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong, ²⁸and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are, ²⁹so that no man may boast before God. ³⁰But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, ³¹so that, just as it is written, "LET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD."

This really resonates with me... I think I've always identified with verses 18, 19 and 25 (NIV):

¹⁸For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." ²⁵For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

I think what particularly struck me about verse 26 through 31 today was how it specifically pointed out that God chooses to use waht looks like NOTHING to other people.  People that look like nothing.  Situations where a human being could never ever pull good from if we tried and tried.

In fact, this phrase, "God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong," totally blows my mind.

Frequently I feel like no good could come from me and my life.  Certainly I don't have a model figure or face.  My marriage is fairly ordinary.  My finances could... admittedly be managed a heck of a lot better.  My eating habits are abysmal.  I'm snippy and cranky... at least every other day.  (At least.)

But, I could "brag" about wonderful amazing things that have happened in my life, and in the lives of those people who I have touched, just recently.  As I'm feeling like a failure of a wife in my own home, less than a perfect mother, a so-so friend.  And bragging wouldn't be accurate at all.

Because God decided to use me because I let him.
I guess that's all I could brag about - realizing that all my wisdom, all my great ideas, all my plans, were worthless if they were simply from my own strength.

I gave God my weakness and he made the strongest towers.

Tags: biblestudy, god

Well, I now am mother to a rolling, semi-scooting, very active little boy.
He is the love of my life.

My sister-in-law accepted Christ as her savior and she and I are closer than ever.  I love you Stacey.  I'm so glad we finally found one another!

I keep wishing I had the energy to write big long episodes on what's going on with me and my family, but the energy to accomplish this hasn't surfaced lately.  I think my new job field gets me on the computer enough that I don't always feel like doing it at home, too.

You should check out my facebook photos to see the updates on my life and to see my baby just continuing to grow and grow.

Happy Fourth Everyone.
Hope you appreciate your independence.

Tags: family, happy, updates, xander
Current Mood: satisfied

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So there.