party time!

Have been cooking a lot this week for a party Sunday afternoon!  Made cheese straws, cookie dough, chicken salad, carved a watermelon, made punch.  tomorrow I'll bake the cookies, assemble the turkey roll ups, slice the croissants, wash fruit,and take the punch out of the freezer to start thawing.  This is exciting!

Busy Week!

wow, such a busy week we've had here.  Patrick started College Algebra on Monday, and has had weight lifting as well as working in the afternoons.  I have actually been very busy at home.  I've been getting ready for a party that I am making food for this weekend and I am excited about that as well.  Had a friend call and ask me to make her 2 batches of those "wonderful muffins" because the first batch went way too fast.  Sid and I have been working in our garden, trying to stay ahead of the grass!  We have had a lot of rain this year, so maybe those green beans will flourish!

Last year when we helped Liz move to her new place, there was an old broken table and chairs in her house..I asked her what she was going to do with it.  She told me that her landlord was going to haul it to the dump.  I said, NOOOOOO!  It was too cute, so I took it home with me.  well, it sat in our basement for about a year before  I had time or the inclination to work on it.  It was not in as bad a shape as I first thought.  It just needed tightening up, a little glue and one spindle replaced.  I had been seeing this weathered looking furniture on pinterest and thought that little table would be so cute fixed up like that.  Well, I finished it and delivered it to Liz this week.  Had a really nice visit-got to try out that cement pond!  I also hung blinds and a towel bar for her as well.  She bought me supper at the Hometown, which was awesome!  Love that place. 

Here it is!  She had nothing negative to say about it!  I think she liked it!  I thought it looked cute, kinda beachy! 

Love not working for someone else!  God is good and He will provide!  ;)

Where has the time gone?

Well, since my last post of January 2012, I'm down to a size 8 or 6 depending on the item. In addition to Insanity (R) I have completed, ChaLEAN Extreme, Les Mills Combat, RevAbs, Body Beast and have started Turbo Fire.  Not sure I like this new one yet.  I am a Beachbody Coach now!  YAY!!!  I try to help people reach their fitness goals, not that I am an expert or a professional trainer, but just mainly as a cheerleader, or encourager.  I have found that no matter how much you want something for someone else, they will not achieve success unless they want it for themselves.  I am here, though, for whoever wants me to be!

Since my last post, our family has grown to 6 Morrisons!  Jonathan married Julia Mounger on September 23, 2012, and we couldn't be happier.  They are a good mix and complement each other nicely.  We love her as one of our own.  They share a love of fitness and are both gym members.  I am glad to see them committed to being healthy at a young age instead of waiting until they were 50 like me!

Liz started teaching 2nd grade last August.  She had a classroom of lively kids whom I was able to meet the last week of their school!  I took some cupcakes over and met them and had a really fun afternoon!  It was really fun to put faces with the names and stories!  Mercedes and the pancake syrup/glued reading fair project!  Amaya, the one who hijacked Liz's phone to tell her mother that Miss Morrison is taking me home today, because she needs me to help her! Tinkerbell, the boy that flits all over the room and tattles on everyone else and others.  It was a fun day. 

Patrick just finished his Junior year and finished with a 98 average overall.  He played baseball and was a super scholar.  He is still doing Bible drills, achieving his 9 year award a year early!  Next year he will earn his Bible!  He is taking College Algebra this summer through Holmes Community college.  When he asked me what I thought about it, I told him anytime you can knock out a whole semester class in 3 weeks, go for it!  Doesn't hurt that his sweetie is also taking it!  I didn't know that you could take college classes while you were still in high school, but you sure can!

Sid is still plugging away at UPS.  He will have 26 years in this July2.  Looking forward to retirement in the near future.  I told him NOT until Patrick is done with college!  He is wanting to be a veterinarian, so We really need the income for a few more years.  God will provide, though.

I recently quit my cooking job.  Miss Sippy's was sold in February and became the Carrollton Cafe'.  I stayed for a while, but it was not enjoyable to me anymore, so I came home.  In the 3 weeks that I have been home, I have redone a bathroom, painted Liz's kitchen table and chairs and re-organized my pantry!  I am really enjoying being off...I went to Patrick's awards day without asking anyone to be off!  I took Sid to the skin doctor Thursday without asking off.  I've had a few job offers, too, but for now I am happy just doing my thing. 

Life is good, but mostly God is good, all the time...

Insane?

Did I mention I totally lost my mind?

Yes, I went insane.                                             
Ordered Insanity even though I wasn't sure that I would be able to do it.  Patrick said that there was no way that I could do it.  He said his weightlifting class guys were dying doing the plyometrics and the pure cardio. I didn't tell anybody that I was ordering it and when it came in guess who met the mailman?  Patrick.  Of course it didn't come in a plain brown box, NO!!!!  Insanity written all over the outside.  So my secret was out.  I just thought I would sneak around while nobody was looking and try it and then if it didn't work out, I would send it back.  Now, I gotta do it.  He said I couldn't.  OH NO!!! It is onnnnn, buddy!  I started it last monday, the 16th.  It is everything that it claims to be.  Insane!  I am on  the second week and I really do feel stronger.  I was rather disappointed in the scales yesterday, but thanks to a great support system in Team Excel's fun and Fitness group, I feel much better.  I AM going to go the full 60 days and I am going to earn the Insanity t-shirt!  Insanity makes the pilates videos I was doing on netflix seem like kindergarten level stuff!  I walked this afternoon for 40 minutes after doing pure cardio this morning.  I made it!  I have been eating by the Insanity food guide and drinking lots of water as well.  I know eventually the scales will be kinder.  Even Sid has started exercising with me.  He has gone a whole week and seems to look forward to our workouts together.  I am so proud of him!

Did not get to do a video today, but I did walk for about an hour and 15 minutes this afternoon in the freezing arctic wind!! Good thing I had a friend walking with me to keep my mind off the pain.  Looking forward to spa day tomorrow.  Never had a facial nor a mani/pedi, so this will be interesting.  Love a massage, though.  Can't wait.  Feel like a kid on Christmas eve!

ok, did another pilates video and I am so sore! I am adding running a half marathon to my bucket list. I don't want any smart tails out there making fun of me because you know if you say that I can't do it, I'll do it for spite! can't believe I used to do aerobics 5 days a week along with weight training. I am so weak.

OK, I've started! I found a Pilates video on Netflix and did that today. It's amazing that the moves that look so easy are really not. I feel a little like jello. On the plus side, I did 9 REAL push-ups today. You know, the kind with your legs straight! I'm pretty excited about that. I guess I'll try the next one tomorrow and see how that goes! (that is if I can move tomorrow!) I plan to go see my friend Liz tomorrow. I haven't been to her house since before Christmas. She is making sure that I am catching up on my scrap-booking! I sure hope I can keep this up. I really want to. I'm tired of being all jiggly!