Half~full

I am happy to say that I have always been the "at least half-full" kinda gal. Even when my life was going to hell in a hand bag, or I had a bunch of metal rods holding my body together, or some psycho was threatening me with a gun... my life has always been, more than, half-full. I like half-full. You can let your guard down, a little, with half-full and you can enjoy the little things just a smidgen more, at half-full.

The way I see it, if you are half-empty, you're sinking and struggling and possibly hitting that proverbial rock bottom at times. I've hit bottoms. Too many times to brag about. The difference with my bottoms were that I had no idea I was at a bottom, until I had re-surfaced and moved on, into my, "half-full," kinda life.


Maybe I am naive.


Somehow..I don't think so.


I have always denounced resolutions for the new year. I even wrote about how I never make resolutions and maybe put some people down, inadvertently, while I did. At the very least, I know I offended some since I received hate mail. Ok, maybe not hate mail.. but still.. as Pudgie might say..."Nos so nice" remarks.


So this year, being no different than others.. there are no resolutions. Tommy and I spent New Years Eve.. together.. in his work truck.. hooking up drunks and going to family fights and just being together.. I know.. How romantic is this? Whew... lost my train of thought for a sec.

We laughed about the past and present and talked about some dreams and realities of our future. We made some little plans here and there and made a semi-sub-conscious pact to, "enjoy" our family, each other and ourselves, more. Enjoy the extended family more and laugh at all the little blunders that happen every single day. We talked about prioritizing ourselves and our health so that we never need to worry who would take care of the kids and taking time out for, "talking time".... together, just the two of us. We both know that the three munchies know how to nudge their way into a room and dominate a conversation in a matter of nano-seconds and we vowed to stop them in, "mid-mommy scream."

It is slowly working.

Things are crazy and lazy and hot and cold and busy, busy , busy around here. Our priority for health and fitness is and always has been, on-going. Anyone that is remotely close to us knows that we refer to our gym as our church. On the 3rd of this month I finished up a contest with our gym. We got, as I lovingly refer to it as, "TICK DIPPED," to test our body fat 6 weeks ago. How sick is it that we got tested the Monday before Thanksgiving??? The whole point of it was to watch what we ate throughout the holidays and still have fun.

I was not dreading the second test, although, I can not say I was wildly happy either. I ate a fair amount of chocolate chip cookies and my sister's most yummy, pumpkin bread so I was hoping to, simply, maintain. I was shocked and worried when I was weighed and then dunked. I almost fainted when I found out that I had lost another 5% body fat in the six weeks. I was so excited.... but that much fat percent loss without trying or training for a show is rather high.

STILL.........Damn Skippy... I won the contest.

Yeah for a free membership to our gym!!!!!!!!!

Half-full kinda life, I tell ya! Things just keep looking up.....

*The two munchies brought home their report cards last week. Straight A's.

*I got amazing news in the mail.

*Pudgie is talking better and better everyday.

*Tommy's squad produced record breaking numbers last month, thus, producing a boss that is happy as ever when he comes home to our house.

*It has not rained in a few days so I can walk without hearing cracking in my hip and spine and knee......

SERIOUSLY........HALF-FULL!

Maybe I have just chosen to see the happiness and stop the complaining. The half-full glass is very complimentary to my extremely full life. I can't change things that don't warrant change and I have chosen to just not associate with people that moan and whine and complain about everything under the sun. It seems to be working, even without having to make the resolutions... that we all know get broken anyways!