Where has all the sugar gone?????

So, today it has been 7 days that I have gone without any kind of sugar!!! I am totally addicted and decided it was time to stop and now, i am wondering why.....

I made the decision when ...get ready....... this is totally embarassing to to admit.... in one day I had, hot chocolate, chocolate ice cream with mint oreos on top, a twix candy bar,animal crackers, hot tamales & milk duds. I don't think i'm forgetting anything. Other than a lot of water which is the only thing i ever drink(and i drink a lot of it),, and maybe a bowl of crispex cereal....i looked back at my day and realized that i had not eaten one healthy thing and then i realized that a lot of my days look the same.....

So, after 7 days of no sugar, i don't feel any different. I have heard people say that they feel SO much better after cutting sugar out of their diets after just  2 or 3 days and i feel nothing except ready to eat chocolate!!!!

The problem now will be that as soon as i decide to indulge, i will feel guilty! I always do!! Maybe i can learn to eat it in moderation!!!

Does anyone know of any legit. jobs that you can do from home and actually make money???

Three Things Tag

I was tagged by Annie  so here goes....

So here's the deal: Post these rules on your blog.  List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obessions/collections, 3 facts about yourself.  Tag 5 people at the end or your post by leaving their names.  Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!

(i'm copying annie by not listing the obvious like kids, husband, family etc!)

3 Joys:  

1. music- music has pretty much always been a constant "love" in my life!!! i don't do much without it. whether it's playing the piano, singing, or just listening, it pretty much always makes me happy!! 

2. friends- i've come to learn over the last 4 years that if i don't have friends, life can be hard and boring when you live far away from family.  i've never been the most talkative and outgoing person but i've really had to work on it and come out of my shell a little bit otherwise i would be very lonely.

3. exercising- i'm listing this one because other than the little bit of running i have done over the last year, i have not exercised at all like i was before we moved to Ohio.  i have really learned how happy it makes me and how much i miss it.  i feel so much better about myself, my body, my health and life in general when i am exercising...guess i better get back into it!!!!

3 Fears: 

1. losing the people I love the most

2. public speaking-- in a situation like speaking in church i'm really not good at it

3. now that i'm in the midwest....tornados are kindof a bother...

3 goals:

1. get my body back in shape

2. learn to eat better

3. find a new hobby or something that i can do to better myself

3 current obsessions/collections:

1. i guess i have to say blogging even though my postings have slowed down a little bit

2. buying new books 

3. flipsides 

3 facts about myself:

1 .i am addicted to chocolate

2. i have a thyroid problem

3. i feel old and have to remind myself all the time that i'm only 32 and i'm still pretty young 

Tag your it!!!

april

kourtney

katie

natalie

kelli

A quite night at the Sorensen house.

It's 8:42 Friday night and I am home alone! Somebody that B works with got a promotion so he went to a promotion party. Mitch is at Breckens and Ali is at Maddies so that just leaves me.
It has been a very quiet night. I wondered what I would do all by myself but it has been a good night. Mitch had a baseball game so he came home, changed and left ,so I decided to eat the dinner of champions which was a bowl of Crispix,my favorite cereal.
Then because I was freezing to death decided to take a bath which is one of my favorite past-times ( that is where I get a lot of my reading done). Blogging is always good when no body else is home and I've decided that I hate my background and am tired of looking at it so I think when I am done with this post I will change it!! Thanks to those of you that voted for a change!!! I really hope I can get the last three chapters of New Moon
finished tonight and then since JoAnna and I switched months for the book club I may even write up my summary on the book club blog.
I can't wait for Brandon and the kids to come home, but it has been a nice relaxing night!!!

It's amazing!

When we moved to Ohio, I purposely didn't want to get a gym membership. You see, I am not a runner. Never have been but I'm not going to say I never will be! So, I decided I didn't want to get a gym membership because after working out 5-6 days a week for 1 1/2 to 2 hours a day for the last 3 1/2 years, I knew that I wouldn't stop just because I didn't have the membership and it would force me to run. Now what is so amazing, is how fast our bodies can adapt to something new. I started running the end of August and on Sept. 27th I ran 3 miles non-stop which is the furthest I have ever gone without stopping (sad I know) but I was pretty proud of myself!! The next amazing thing is how fast your body can get out of shape if you stop exercising. After taking a brief hiatus from running for the last 3 months I have started again and i'm so sad to say that over the last week I have not even been able to make it up the street without stopping. I never thought that I would be so out of shape but I guess I chose it. Anyway, I'm back at it and maybe I'll even take Aprils challenge and run a marathon!!

My Latest Project

Something you might not know about me is I love....love....love....the old kindof countrish distressed looking things!!!!I love my new house but was so sad that only few of the countrish items I have to deorate with will acutally work with the decor of the rest of the house and to really make it the way I would really love it to be, would require a lot of "revamping" (lucky for B because he doesn't love these things as much as I do).

One of the things I love are the signs that you see pretty much everywhere these days, you know the ones with quotes or other random words on them.
For Christmas the past few years I have made little hanging signs for the kids teachers with their names on them that they could hang in their classrooms and the kids asked if we could make them again this year. Well, I couldn't find the kind of wood that I have used in the past so I had to come up with a new idea...so here it is!


I think they turned out ok but the problem I always have is the letters start out straight and even but by the time I am finished, they are kindof off center and un-even and, I had a hard time with the distressing part on these ones. Give me an entire kitchen full of cabinets to redo and distress, no problem but two little signs, not as good!I guess I need to keep practicing.

Here are just a couple of the little things I love in case your wondering what the heck I am talking about.

A Big Thank You!!!!

My little family is the BEST!!! I have been pretty sick for the last week and have not done much of anything except lay in bed. Brandon and the kids got a big taste of what it is like when mom can do absolutley nothing so I just had to blog a little bit about how much I love and appreicate them.

Actually, Brandon does so much around here anyway that I really feel bad he has gotten stuck with me this week (he did have to go out of town for a few days and I think he was probaly really glad to leave).

a little list of things they have done for me this week....

help me sit up
get me food or drinks
pick up perscriptions
wash my hair
put my hair up
help me get dressed
listen to me barf and cry because it hurt so bad
get me heating pads and ice packs
clean out the barfing bowl

all these things along with all the everyday things like..
lunches for school
homework
lessons
breakfast,dinner
grocery shopping
laundry
dishes

I think you get the point...

You can really tell how much your family loves you and cares about what you are going through when you have hard times like we have had this week. They will probably never really know how much I appreicate them taking care of me and all they have done this week.

I am still not back to normal but am feeling a little better today. Yeah!!!


Brandon, Mitch and Ali, I love you guys so much!!!THANKS!!!!