Originally Posted by nancia
well, i'm suspicious the frozen dinner diet won't work for me.i'm going to give it the full week but i;m not hopeful. i try not to weigh myself every day because anything can affect my weight and i can't take the drama. so i'll wait til tuesday for my answer.
btw, does anyone else find themselves spending way more time online here than quilting? something wrong with that? yes? no?
Oh YES! I sure do spend more time here than quilting!! I love it here and I have come to love you guys too!
I am so glad that I no longer have to weigh in 3 times a week. That was so hard emotionally. Now the surgeon only wants me weighing in every two weeks and that makes me very happy. It is not that I do not care or wonder about how much I have lost it is that I have spent so much time weighing in at the hospital over the last year that to not HAVE to go is a relief. Is that bad of me? I dunno.
I have been reading all the posts and I want you guys to know that as I read what each of you have written I am praying for you. I wish I knew of something magical to say that would make things better for you guys.
I do want to say that you guys are not alone in dealing with money issues. We are too. I have been on disability since 98 and although I bring in a good amount of money I tend to use most of mine now to help my mom and stepdad out with their bills and buying groceries and things like that.
We have been remodeling our house for what seems like ever and this weekend it seems to be coming to a place where our main floor is almost finished. UNFORTUNATELY, when we went to switch our new upstairs sofa and two chairs with the new downstairs sofa and two chairs we discovered that the sofa was so huge that we could not get it in our basement. UGH. So we had to remove about two feet of a wall that is at the base of the stair case. Yuck. Now we have to build another wall.
I have been spending my time this weekend in our kitchen downstairs trying to make it into our new quilting studio. It is so nice to no longer have a second kitchen in our house. I know that sounds weird but the second kitchen has only been used to hold our old fridge and all of the zillion 12-pack boxes from the soda we consume. Now there is no stove and most of the cabinets are out. FYI, so you won't be confused, we have a main floor with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a very large open kitchen/dining/family room. Downstairs we have a huge family room, kitchen, two master suites, master bathroom suite and four very large storage/closets. It is a huge house but we have found that opening the upstairs up by knocking down most of the walls has made it such a warm friendly area compared to before. We have done almost all of the work ourselves which has saved a ton of money. In our upstairs kitchen we are laying black granite ourselves which would have cost thousands and now only cost us a few hundred because of using granite tile and laying it ourselves.
I spent Thursday refolding my entire fabric stash. Now that is an absurd amount of fabric! I went through a year long period where I went to the LQS every payday and bought anywhere from 16-20 yards of fabric. Now how ridiculous is that? I am so embarrassed to say I did that. I have not done that in about 6 months.
We found that our local Target was literally getting rid of all their canvas bins/boxes for a dollar a piece and we bought all of them that they had. (about 20) Now I have all of my fabric all folded and sorted by color in those bins. They will go on shelving that my stepdad is going to put in there tomorrow. I hope, once I get it completed, that I can take some pictures of the room so you can see where I work.
We have a really nice size wall on one side that will be my design wall. I love having a design wall. We bought this awesome book some time back called How to Build Your Quilting Studio. It talks about the quilting triangle (sewing-cutting-pressing area) and working the rest of the room around that. I never thought of doing that so after I get it done I will let you know how that works.
Anyway...sorry for rambling. I hope you guys are doing well and know that I pray for all of you every single day.
Love,
Missy