Designing a Blog

I did not realize when I started this, I would have so many choices and I would make so many changes.  I have thought about - do I want a blog for my sports, one for family and one for cross stitch - etc, but I think I would like to try to put them all together, my weight loss journey and eating right with exercise, my favorite hobby cross stitch - or even other crafty things, my passion for sports - and my love of family.  So as of right now today - we are going to try to do this with different pages.  I may put my movies, books, tv etc on its own page also - we will see how it goes.

This was just a little post - going to meet my Daughter at the gym in a few, so will close for now.  More later

It's Friday

SK Silvery Moon - Retired - Artist Jessica Galbreth and  Heaven and Earth Designers This is the current weeks project

Fancy Dancing - Artist Teri Rosario, Designer - Heaven and Earth  After this is last weeks WIP

This is the day my cross stitch rotation will usually switch - so I have two pictures to post, my after of the last, and my before for the up and coming.
Please make a special note, Jessica Galbreth has retired this painting and the link I have provided to her website shows her  current, beautiful work.

I joined in the HAED's BB weekly SAL- which is those projects you have given up on.  The Silvery Moon was the first HAED chart I started, but I measured the fabric wrong and when I found out I may run out of room at the bottom to finish, I stopped working on it.  WELL ISN'T THAT JUST STUPID!!!!!  Seriously, I can finish her off at the very least the end of page 2 - I am almost there and see how much I want to go to page three.  It will be an awesome FINISH for me, even if it doesn't go the whole 3 pages - much better than sitting in a project box forever, unfinished - after all the hours I have already spent, she deserves to be displayed....

Don't you agree

Motivation and Desire

Help me, Help me.   I am so struggling right now.  Once again I have pulled out my Weight Watchers three month tracker - once again I have looked at all the pages of each week I have not tracked and started a new week with today .  A Tuesday no less.  Since I am a Lifetime Member, I have not weighed yet in Februray and I don't want to - because HOW COULD I DO THIS AGAIN.  How could I get at least 5 pounds over my healthy weight.  How could I be going back to all these old freaking habits.  Can you year what I am saying here.  Can you see my level of frustration, but even more my extreme disappointment in myself. 

WHY WHY WHY could I so easily lose my 50 pounds by tracking and moving more.  Why am I having such a hard time staying on track.  I have all the cookbooks, I have all the tools, I know this program.  My goodness until last November I was a leader - a motivator - and now I am drowning. 

What is with this behavior?  Why am I sabotaging myself.  Why are my pants tight around the middle again and my favorite pair of jeans a struggle to zip.

Do you know the answers, I have to find them somewhere. 

So today I am tracking all my feelings again - every fight I have with food, every time I eat something I really don't want to.  Which means to you all - there just may be a lot of posts to this blog every day, which means I am writing in a smaller font.

Feel free to comment with any suggestions or struggles.  Thanks so much.

And so I am quoting out of the page in my 3 month Weight Watchers trackr - Did you know?  Those who achieve their goals simply refuse to quit. 

Why don't I want to achieve my goal of MAINTAINING my healthy weight?  Why do I constantly be in this roller coaster state, up and down - what am I thinking

Rotation 2/17 - 2/23

Heaven and Earth Designs - Teri Rosario - Fancy Dancing

This is BEFORE.   This is one of the first chart I purchased and the first regular size chart I started back in 2010.  It is coming along nice and I think it is my favorite to stitch.

Happy Birthday Heather

Heather did wait until shortly after midnight so she could have her own birthday, and not her brothers.  Can you believe she is 24?  Attending SU - she will be a person who will change many children's lives.  She is compassionate, but no nonsense - too big a heart.  Happy Birthday Heather - hope you made a special memory.

YES MSG is back.  And tonight it is my favorite announcer Walt Frazier - with the best suits and the best rhymes.  So hope we can beat the Nets, never underestimate your opponent.  Melo is back - and there is so much junked being said about this whole thing.  Hope they do well.  You know I am always going to be all about Carmelo - grandson is Jalen Carmelo, and he brought the NCAA Basketball Championship to Syracuse.  At Chadwicks in Eastwood with Jude and Tom.  My two most favorite people, too bad Tom's weakness  took over and he went over to the dark side one to many times.   Sorry kids but there was a lot of love going on there.  Taking nothing away from all his team members. Basketball sort of is our passion in this family.  Well we do like football too, but that is over for the year - and Baseball has not quite started yet. Excellent Lin to Anthony for two....

Presidents day today - Loved this article - It was very interesting. 

Parenting Does it ever get any easier

PJ (Henry Zachery IV) is 37 today.  That is not easy to handle - my first born has turned 37.  It is so hard to explain what it was like to become MOM - being married to a US Marine stationed in North Carolina who had never given up his ex girlfriend. Having a kid with parents of two different races, a child who would always be thought of as an Africian American, even though I was so Scottish and contributed 50% of his DNA and 95% of his care and upbringing.  We survived it all.  If you have ever read the Twilight Saga by then you know about "imprinting" and that is what it was, in a Mother Child way when I first set eyes on my first born.  Happy Birthday to an amazing man, a wonderful son, and the person who changed the road I walked and my life's journey.

Theresa - yesterday pictures with Jazarah and Huntley - it was an adventure.  I so hope she can figure this whole thing out, relationships are hard and she has no role model, as I never could stay married more than 5 years, and never learned how to resolve conflict.  My life is sort of like Elizabeth Weber's on General Hospital.     Well the relationships and the kids, not the painting or the nurse part.

Knicks win again - SU beats Rutgers.  Sports are good.

Jada my oldest Grandkid - she performed at her school pep rally singing Lean on Me like no tomorrow.  Wish I could figure out how to upload this link - but it was on the phone, and you really can't see her, but if I could figure out how to just get a voice clip.  Still can't get over the fact my oldest grandkid is a JR in High School. 

Live each day, life is so freaking short

Tomorrow President's Day - I will reflect in the morning of the blessings of America, and how proud I am of the red white and blue, thankful that I am able to vote for who I want, Women still have the Right to Choose, (which is not the opposite of Life), and I can worship my God in the way that works for me.

Glass Castle - Jeanette Wall

This is a great read - quick read.  It left me with two thoughts, Accept you - who you are, where you came from, your roots, your culture - you.  Count your blessings and appreciate all you have.  We are all dealt a different hand - you can win or lose, depending on how you play it.

Glass Castle Jeannette Walls   5 stars

Drama

Why is it so difficult to have everyone happy at the same time?  Lets just leave it at that. 

I am wondering who gave in, MSG or Time Warner, no matter, just so happy I have the Knicks again.
#17 Knicks Lin  This is a great article in Huffington Post - what can we learn from J Lin - must read for everyone

Happy Valentine's Day

Hope all of you are feeling loved today.  I am, as I am so blessed with kids and grandkids.  The day was not the best for Brittney and Heather, disappointed for sure, but you know what they say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.  Brittney is right, everything happens for a reason,so there must be one.  

New Topic  This is the latest update of SK Treasures, Heaven and Earth Designs.  This week I am working on another Heaven and Earth Designs - Fancy Dancing by Teri Rosario.  I will post a picture on Thursday..  For all Heaven and Earth designs please check link on my favorites. 

Would be wrong not to mention Jeremy Lin #17 Knicks have to do that.  He is making a believer out of several non - believers, my Knicks have won six in a row.  And might as well mention here, once again, how upset I am that MSG and Time Warner could not do something to resolve their differences.  Which is amazing and I am sure this will all even out, but right now it is fun to be a Knick.  Talking about basketball SU just beat Louisville last night and they just did not seem to be there.  So glad they were able to beat both Pitt and Louisville Scoop and Joseph's Sr. Year. 

Loving, loving, my Color Nook.  It fits my needs perfectly.  Should spend more time reading and less time playing Solitaire, but it does make me happy.  Talking about reading Scottish Prisioner by Diana Gabaldon is very good for me.  Do I miss Claire, yes I do, but I also love Jamie and I also know I would love most anything she would write.  She does keep me interested, but do believe I should read once again the whole series before her next book.  There are so many books to read in so little time.

Love the new TV show on abc Once Upon a Time.  I really am addicted to it - hope the storyline stays this exciting.  Trying to keep up with Alcatraz on Fox, but it is harder. Both of these shows seem to have ties to Lost.  Love the introduction of Belle on Once - it is Claire from Lost. 

Greed

Finally could watch the Knicks - on espn  - beat the Lakers - MSG /Time Warner - one word Greed.......
Lin was fun to watch and it is nice to see the Knicks having fun again,

Worked on Fancy Dancing today - will post update soon and update of Treasures.

SU beat UConn - excellent.

It is snowing - seriously - why am I excited well because so far this year we have only had about 31 inches --  we should have had over 100 by now,

Caught up on General Hospital today- Wondering why I love Carly - but really do not like the Kate Howard character at all - never did even when it was the other actress

NCAA Men's Basketball

Hats off to S.U. Men's basketball - Georgetown was not an easy win, but as we all know if we watch the game an historic one.  I go so back and forth with the Big East - ACC thing.  Don't know sure where I am on this one.  But the one thing I do know, I would much rather listen to Bobby Knight - I think he is a great announcer - then Dickie V.   Luck for me last night, I could watch the Duke/North Carolina game on the ACC channel and not ESPN so I did not have to watch it without the sound.

How quickly the season goes, the Big East Tournament is right around the corner, and I don't think I will be going this year.  Seems like everyone is bringing a guy, and that doesn't seem to work for me right now.  I will miss being in the Garden this year, there is nothing better - Missing my MSG network for realLets Go Orange

Tracking - Weight Watchers

Okay, so this is not to influence anyone to join Weight Watchers, but since I had great success losing my weight through Weight Watchers I feel connected to this program.  It was easy for me to follow, and to lose weight and to never, ever feel as if I couldn't have what I wanted to eat.  Sometimes it was as simple as just eating less of it.

BUT anyway - that is not the reason for this post.  Tracking - even if you do not do Weight Watchers, it doesn't matter what plan you are on, if you want to lose, you have to burn more than you eat.  It is a very simple concept - and the only way I know how much I eat, is by tracking, because then it is there in black and white, and I can't pretend I didn't eat something  or fake it when I get on the scale and wonder why I am not losing.

But that is still not the point, the point is in my tracker they have little bits of advice each day, and todays tip was
'Did you Know? - Get your rest.  Not getting enough sleep has various negative effects on health and has been linked to weight gain and obesity."  How many of us get enough rest?  How much is enough?  I heard between 7 and 9.....  Think about that  Please Please Please if you quote me on this make sure you give the props to Weight Watchers - it is their quote... Thanks all

February Goals

Okay its about time I set up my February goals as it is a week in. I am going to work out this month at least 5 days a week. I want to, I have to, it is a part of overall good health. I know that, why do I lie to myself and make excuses. Who knows....
Tracking - one of my Weight Watchers Tools - I am tracking - not only my food, but my emotions, my arguments with food. I have to get back to what works for me. Embrace a life style that makes me happy and healthy.

I love my nook - but one of my goals for Feb is to spend more time reading than playing games. I can't believe how easy it is for me to get involved in some random computer game.

File my taxes

Cross stitch - switch all the game playing time with cross stitch - work towards my Heaven and Earth goals, but it doesn't need to be the only designer.

Print out my movie list -- movies since I was born who have one the Oscar for best picture or at least been nominated.

I also have to find a new hobby.

I am back

Today is a good day - last years football season is officially over - the Game was Game to be remembered and to the very end a fight. Could not have asked for a better game. However, of course this means for right now up until September 2012 we and when I say we I so mean the Browns, have the same record as every other team, and we have the same chance of making it to this game. I am very sad, I have not seen a trip to this game, and we have come close - why I am so not a Broncos fan - however - It goes to say, I am a Browns fan, win or lose, never, ever will I be anything but that. Why did I start to play Fantasy Football - I started to play during the years when my Browns were side lined and I had no team. Never giving up my Brown and Orange, and it still hurts my heart to think we had to go so long without a team. But lets not go backwards, only forward and to say I am looking forward to draft day is an under statement. Our history gives me faith - our tradition gives me strength.

Also I have started tracking again. Fingers crossed it lasts more than a week.

The sun is shining - seriously, CNY in February with only 32 inches of snow. This is so strange, not complaining, just saying.

Thinking of Brittney today as she readies herself for a new chapter in her life, thinking and praying as much for Heather as I do for her.

Thinking