I'm a Crank Ass!

We have a seller that has finally gotten under my skin. He's been nothing but a rude, unhappy, ungrateful, asshole since we put his house under contract. Yesterday he spent 30 minutes cussing at me and telling me what a horrible job Josh has done as his realtor. Today, he started in again bitching about everything. He's a loser who's pissed off at the whole world and I'm so thankful his house closes tomorrow. Im' taking a half day and I know that shit is going to hit the fan about 7 times before all is said and done. I don't care. 99% of the time I love my job, but some times I just don't get paid enough to deal with sellers shit.

I can't believe I'm even thinking about it!!!

For for the past few weeks I have been working out with Tiffany, Josh's wife. There is a woman's ministry workout class on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. It's hard, it kicks my ass. Last October Tiffany did a 26.2 mile marathon for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society. Today she called me and told me she wants me to do it with her this year! What?? I'm up to 90 seconds running non stop, that's a LONG way from 26.2 miles! Even if I walked some, hell, even if I walked it all, that's an insane amount of miles!! What's even more insane is that I'm thinking about it!! I'm actually thinking about it and even a little excited about it! I love to run, I'm loving the the Couch to 5k program. Twenty-six miles though??? I just don't know. I'm scared, excited, intimidated....

My God....

is awesome and amazing. It's VERY easy to forget this. I'm thankful to be blessed with wonderful believer friends. Friends who know what an awesome God I serve. This is very important to me. I know we are to love all, but I have always found it difficult to relate to non-believers. I can't fathom not believing. To some extent I have a blind faith. I'm not overly educated in all things Christian. I know the basics, I have been to many bible studies, and had the pleasure of being able to speak with many people more knowledgeable than myself. However, if some Darwin lover hijacked me and wanted to have a pissing content, I'd lose. All the semantics don't matter to me. I KNOW Jesus died for my sins, I KNOW that he was the son of God, I KNOW this because I have faith, because I believe in my God. I believe that my God loves me, cares for me and always has my best interest at heart. I have been given terrible, horrible, awful trials, and my God saw me through. My God never gave me more than I could handle. He molded me, and taught me, and used me(yes me!) for HIS glory! It wasn't, and never is, about me, or you, it's about Him. How are you going to use this day, this situation, this conversation, this life to glorify Him??

We've never been a "Keeping up with the Jones" kind of family. It's so overrated and totally not who we are. We live a pretty simple life. We buy what we need, when we need it or when it needs replaced. We just got our first game system last year, and it was a PS2 hand-me-down from my brother! Crazy right?

My point:

Last night Jason decided that he wanted to buy a new TV. A thought totally unfathomable to me since our 19 inch TV Jason bought in Korea in 1994 still worked JUST FINE! Was it big? Nope. Fancy? Nope. Did I care? Nope. I had NO desire to go buy a new TV just b/c our TV was old. I was content. Bills paid, money in savings, happy Angel.

However, we all know how men are when they get that bug! He flitted all around, looked on-line, looked on ebay and came to the conclusion that what he wanted was cheapest at Wal-mart(Isn't it always??) So I told him to GO! It was worth the cost of the TV to get him settled and out of my hair.

So, now we are the proud owner of a 32 inch HDTV. It's huge! I can't imagine anything bigger, I'd need theater seats! It's nice to watch DVD's again though. We snuggled up and watched a little 'The Unit' last night.

If he's happy I'm happy...even if we didn't need it!!

Truckin' Along

I seem to have this hump I can't get over, I can do 3 workouts a week. Fitting in that 4th is where I run into a brick wall...It's hard. I have done my 3 for this week. I think I'm going to suck it up and buy the Biggest Loser for working out at home. The Wii Fit Plus game is eh, So far. Maybe it's me, maybe it's the game. I'm going to keep working with it, but I want more results. I'm also starting this tomorrow. I really want to run. I do alternating walk/run on the treadmill at the gym, but I need a PLAN. This is my plan. If I can be running 3 miles by mid-march, I will be stoked!!

I ate out. It's an evil addictive habit. Once you start it's hard to stop. I'm going to start tomorrow again and try to do it again for the rest of the month. It's SO hard for me to make the right food choices while eating out. They say,"oh, just eat a salad". NOBODY wants to eat a salad!!. I truly believe that. And if you do it's covered in shredded cheddar and full fat ranch. Salads are not good. At least not compared to a bacon cheese burger and some fries. Which is way I have a hard time eating out. I'd rather not eat out, than eat an $8 salad. Just me.

I hope all of you are doing well on your resolutions, goals, or whatever it is you are working on this year. I'd love to hear about it on your BLOGS!

Hallock Family Updates

Jason-He's getting ready to go back to school next. He's SOOOO ready. I was concerned about him taking 20 hours, but he seems to be organized and prepared and most importantly pumped up. If only it were over already...I'm read for the increased pay and decreased VA BS :O)

Me-Work is finally picking up again. Praise God. As you can tell by my daily FB activity during work hours, I haven't been busy. Once we get into the swing of things again. I will hardly have time to get on FB. I didn't workout 4 days last week, only 2. I decided to keep track of which weeks I did the 4 workouts, then at the end of the year add up how many I succeeded and how many I didn't. It seems like a much better way to do a resolution then to do it until I fail, and never do it again. I have lost 4 lbs since January 1. It's the 12th and I still haven't eaten out! Wow! Now that is a feat for me :O) It hasn't been hard really, and today was the first day I wanted to stop and grab something.

Jonathan- Can we say emotional pre-teen? AGH! He has so much attitude and mouthiness lately. He's still doing well in school, so far. I'm scared of when that will stop, or become more difficult for him.

Savannah- Her attitude is improving daily. Sometimes I still have to inhale/exhale deeply before responding, but it's getting better. She has decided she wants to do competive swimming. I spoke to the swim team coach and enrolled her in lessons so she can improve her technique before the summer season starts. She is pretty stoked!

Harrison- He's a BRAT! Where did my perfect baby go? He was sucked into the terrible 2's!! Why? Why did that happen to my sweet baby boy? He's getting fun though. He has about a 7 word vocabulary. He can be really fun, when he's not throwing himself down on the ground, or screaming b/c you are changing his clothes...LOL!

It was nice for one year...

Last year I wrote this post regarding News Years. Blah. I am weak. That 63 lbs did not stay off. Thankfully it didn't ALL come back on, but about half of it did. Agh! So that means this year I have weight loss on the agenda. Sucks. It's not really a new years resolution b/c I've been working on it for a couple of months now. I want to keep it up in the New Year, so it's going on the list. One thing I have learned is 'out of sight, out of mind' when it comes to stuff like this. So I'm posting it everywhere! By my desk, on my mirror in my bathroom, on my mirror in my bedroom, one my desktop, my blog. There will be no forgetting!! This is pic of me from last Christmas, I'm printing it and putting it everywhere. It's my inspiration.