Moving Tip!!

First of all, I want to say that if you are looking for boxes to move, go to Uhaul and they have a place where people drop off boxes they used and you can pick them up free!  I love this and will be checking back periodically for more boxes.  If you do this, make sure you pay it back and return your boxes to Uhaul also!!  It is great for our beautiful earth to recycle!

THESE ARE THE LAST DAYS.....

Well, am winding down from 24 years at my job.  State Farm insurance companies. It was a hard ride, good days & bad days.  It was hard trying to fit into the holes they  needed me to fit into. Sometimes I just couldn't do it. Other times I fit nicely.  SF is too big, they aren't the fun, family company anymore.  It is a good time to leave. They paid for my whole degree, trip to Texas and all my insurance designations.  They paid me to attend CPCU events and supported me when I attended volunteer activities.  That was the good part.  But they seemed to have lost individualism.  And now we are all machines, or maybe they all want us to be machines and that way don't have to deal with personality.

So my new adventure will begin in about 41 days. And I am excited.  And a bit frightened of the unknown.
Please see my posting of my poem I found amongst all my stuff above. I love this poem I wrote many years ago, That Ole' Church Hall. Not sure what inspired it, I don't attend a church like that!  I still can't believe I wrote it.  Going through my things and blowing off the dust and reminiscing is fun. I hope I can pass some of this stuff down to my posterity.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! (my two followers anyway! Joke!)

The Monavie Test

Well, so far I don't feel any different after drinking Monavie for six days now. I am not sure what I am supposed to feel, I guess... better?

My knees or legs don't feel better and I certainly don't feel "better".  I am going to keep drinking it though so I can say I truly tried it. I won't know how it affects my cholesterol because I would need a blood test for that. But I guess I can ask for one in December before I leave for New York.  Not likely though.  At least I am getting my Omega 3s instead of having to buy expensive Fish oils. 

I'm keeping up the exercise, and i do have to say I am getting thinner.  Haven't weighed myself in a while though. I have that "old lady love handles" thing going on.  It is hard to lose it there. On a Doctor Oz show there was this procedure where you put some machine on the fatty part of your belly and it does something to your fat cells, it basically kills them where they can never grow or expand, therefore you will never get fat there. Its good if you have an area no matter what you do, you can't get rid of the pooch!  He says in his show, however, that if the fat cells can't grow there (when you eat too much and put weight on) they will grow somewhere else, so beware the procedure is not a weight loss plan.  I'd still like to try it on my obliques in the back, right above my buttocks area, I seem to have a lot there!  I hear its very expensive though, of course.  Anyway, back to the old fashioned way, EXERCISE AND DIET!  BLAH!

Monavie Pulse Test

HI everyone.

I am going to test something and I want you to come along for the ride.  I have higher cholesterol than I am supposed to and I really don't want to take any medications. I have worked so hard to lose wieght and cut back on things that add to higher cholesterol.  As I get older this is a challenge.  I finally caved and started taking a statin called Simvastatin. I looked up the side effects and they are liver damage & muscle pain.  Well, I already have muscle pain from the Fibromyalgia~(I haven't not been officially diagnosed with this).  It runs in my family but I don't have it as bad as my other siblings, Thanks Goodness!!  I do know that as I stretch and exercise more, the muscle pain is diminished.  But liver damage?  Our liver is SOOOOO important to our body, why even take that risk?

Anyway, Pulse is supposed to control my Cholesterol and provide important fish oil for inflammation and Omega 3s I need. I have it from a trusted friend that it works!  He guarantees it, but I am always a skeptical.


Here is a picture of what the bottle looks like & let me know if you want to be kept "in the know" about my test.
I hope it works, it will solve a lot of issues I have as I age and my body doesn't work the same way it did 20 years ago. I know I'm pretty healthy but I still want to live to be 100!!!

If you'd like to try it too, let me know!

Lost more weight!

Okay, you might think that my world revolves around this, but it doesn't.  I spent a week in Albany, NY and still lost 2 1/2 pounds.   I was still being careful, even though one night we went out to FRIENDLYS and the lowest calorie dinner was 830!  So I ate that.  It wasn't even a salad, it was beef tips with mashed potatoes, gravy and vegetables.  It was really good. The cold weather in the latter part of my trip must have helped me lose the weight, ya think?
Well, they might get snow and Hal said its raining, so I guess I missed all the fun cause I'm home now in HOT PHOENIX!!  UGH!

The only shining moment is I lost 2 1/2 pounds and everyone in AZ missed me.  :)