MinnesotanMommy's Journal

My trip to Ohio is in FOUR days people! I've NEVER flown before! I hear its a breeze. I'm so looking forward to seeing my sister again though! I miss her like crazy! I know I haven't been updating often. I did talk to my treatment therapist about my lack of journalling and she said I'm probably just burnt out on writing all the time and that that's okay and to write when I feel inspired to. So, here I am, inspired, I guess. I'm almost ready for the trip. My sister has a lot of the stuff you'd usually have to pack, such as hair stuff, so my packing might only be to one checked bag! I might not need a carry on bag! I hope not! I'm borrowing my mom's rolling suitcase because its a hair bigger then the one my friend borrowed me. I'm like super excited to go though! I have a semi busy week. Not so much with appointments, but with getting the house cleaned up, the laundry washed and folded and put away, the piddly things, then Thursday night I'll pack everything. I'm mentally building a list in my head of what I need. But it really isn't that much outside of clothes and a few others things like meds and the bag of wild rice my sister asked me to bring her. LOL. I'll leaving here with my friend on Friday afternoon, then we'll go to her daughter's graduation, and after that we'll go to her boyfriend's place to stay (closer to the airport) and then on Saturday her and her boyfriend will take me to the airport and I'll fly out to Ohio! Then I'll be gone and fly home June 8th! I'm way excited! One day we are getting a make over by a Mary Kay consultant (I'm a sucker for make overs!), and one day my sister is having her starter show for Party Lite so she can become a consultant (I'm excited to be there for that!) and we might go to Cedar Point (amusement park I guess) one day (not sure on that one) and one day we're going to her in-law's for vegi lasange (I'm excited for that cuz I haven't had REAL vegi lasagne in years!). The other days, I dunno. My allergies have kicked in real time. I'm on allergy medication, but I only use the Clarinex. I have the Advair but I don't really need it often (unless I get the flu or a cold), I have Flonase (but I don't really need that so much either) and then I use my Patanol eye drops as my eyes get problems (which is once or twice a week now). I'm sneezing now. Fun fun these allergies are. Carl's leg and hip are bothering him BAD! So bad I had to call our chiropractor over the weekend to see if we could swing by to get him adjusted. His leg gave out under him, he was limping REALLY bad before the pain meds. I've got him on a routine of prescription strength Naprozen every twelve hours for the pain otherwise his limp is super super bad and he's in so much pain. I hate keeping him on pain pills, but he can't go to work without them or his leg could give out while he's cutting up a beef and that'd be bad, very bad and dangerous. I have to call the chiropractor at 8 to schedule Carl into the schedule cuz he said he's going over there after work anyhow. He didn't understand why I have to schedule him in if he's just going over and I told him if he's in the schedule, he'll get in and out faster then if he just walks in. I'm just waiting on my mileage check to show up. I'm sure it won't be here until Thursday though...being yesterday was a holiday. Usually they go out Mondays (last Monday in the month) and they arrive Wednesday, so this week it'll be Thursday, so I'll be cutting it close getting the money and getting my odds and ends for the trip. But it'll all work out! I'm doing really well with my binge eating disorder treatment program! I've lost more weight (though they're attempting to get me over my obsession with the number on the scale, it'll take me time to do that!). My scale at home is about to hit the garbage tho, so I only weigh at my therapist's office now, which is healthier for me so I can't be obsessed with the number every hour all day long! I'm not so mentally obsessed with food and I'm loving the change, my binges are down to maybe once a week now! I'm really accomplishing a lot and I truly am proud of myself for tackling this! When I get home from Ohio, that next week I start the group for 16 weeks. I'm eager for that to happen. I think I'll really thrive from that and do well! Umm...this is Ethan's last week of school. He has a field trip to the park and movie theater today that he's really excited for. Lots going on this week! I think that's it...again, if you want to keep in personal contact in between my journalling (which is far and few lately), drop me a line with your e-mail and I'll drop you a line from my personal e-mail (which I still have to do with one friend who dropped me their e-mail!). But today I'll have time to answer e-mails and write them. I better run! Time to get Ethan ready for the bus! Have a beautiful week my friends!