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I have to brag on my grandson and his baseball team—an undefeated season and on to Regionals!  We are so proud of them and are looking forward to some great baseball next week.  We’ll be in Shawnee, OK, for about 4 days, thank goodness for a wonderful neighbor that is willing to come and take care of all my dogs and the horses.  

If ( a GREAT BIG if) they make it through regionals-it’s on to state at Weatherford, OK the very next week.   So they could be playing ball into the third week of July.  I’m praying for some sort of freak cool front so we won’t melt down.

      This pic is of the team with their tournament bracket–Josh is last on the right,standing.

The team went the whole year without losing one game, I hope they can continue the trend.  Even with a broken wrist, Josh still had the best on base % of all the boys, now that he is all healed up and back in shape it will be fun to see what he can do!  Can you tell that I’m a doting Granny? 

Today is Tony’s birthday–Rachel and Josh will be coming up and we are going to have supper together, I’ll be celebrating my birthday next week in Shawnee, think I’ll tell the team I want a win for a present!   Going to stir up a cake for T—he wants one of those Mandarin Orange Cakes–tons of calories and guess what I love it–I guess I’ll just have to be disciplined and eat only a small portion.  (fingers crossed) 

I hope you all have a great, fun, safe 4th of July.  God Bless America,

GO XTREME!!! 

I just can’t seem to lose enough weight to be comfortable in even a pair of knee length shorts.  Fat knees are so unattractive.  Thank goodness capris are still in style.   I did have to do a weigh in at the Doctors office the other day and I had lost 2 lb that I hadn’t realized were gone.  That made me happy, and I hadn’t put on any more weight since last year so that was a good thing. 

We’ve been  busy  dealing with one thing and another around here, mostly crisis that are hitting my daughter.  Hopefully things are settling down some. 

My grandson’s baseball team is starting the city tournament the end of this week–hopefully they will get to go to regional, and then (fingers crossed) on to state.  His wrist is completely healed and giving him no problems, he’s back to batting and pitching at his earlier level.  We are looking forward to seeing him play more now that his arm isn’t bothering him. 

Work on the Mustang is moving forward, I can drive it now, after a new muffler and a brake job, but the seat needs some work to be comfortable.  Tony is working on it most mornings and it is coming along pretty well.  I think he’ll have it ready for me in a month or so. 

Hope you all have a good week and things go your way.  Keep cool. 

motivation and caring,these are the things that I lack in my efforts to lose weight.  I talk a good story, I get on the train, but I just don’t carry through with all my plans.  I just got through reading some really great blogs about getting fired up, working hard and I thought yes!that is what I need to do.  Then I walked through my kitchen and mindlessly grabbed a cookie and started munching as I walked into the computer room to sit down and read more.  I didn’t even think about what I was doing, what I was putting in my mouth, I wasn’t hungry—I was just chewing!  So I got up threw what was left in the trash and here I am.  Now I just don’t understand, I don’t want to be this heavy, I know that with my family history is in not good for me to carry all this extra weight, it’s hard on my knees, I can’t do the things I want to do, (shortness of breath, no stamina)  and I hate the way I look.  I don’t even enjoy shopping for clothes, because I know I look like a sack of potatoes.  Ok I know all this, so why aren’t I willing to get up and do something about it?  Why do I use the things that are happening that are stressful in  my life, as an excuse?  I was doing pretty well, lost 10  pounds, then the wheels fell off and I just can’t seem to get back on track.  I’m back up to 192 and mad as hell about that, but I’m still grabbing cookies with out even thinking about what I’m stuffing in my mouth!  I have a treadmill (that I hate), tapes, weights, and a really good place to walk outside, all the things I need to get all the exercise I need plus a horse that needs to be ridden in the worst way.   I need to get back on track and start doing the things I need to do, so I’m fessing up and maybe I’ll come back here and read this every morning and tell myself, pay attention, do your part, the skinny fairies are not going to sprinkle you with magic dust so you can wake up thin!  I am so mad at myself for letting this slide, I have to kick myself off dead center and realize that just NOT gaining more is NOT what needs to happen,  I need to get up and start working and get back to LOSING and that is going to require that I do some WORK. 

Hopefully next time I get on here and write I’ll have better things to tell you all.    Starting over once again, I will do better.   

easy and no cost to you, run screaming from the room!  My Internet provider sent a notice that I “needed” to upgrade my obsolete modem, easy 5 minute self install,  at no cost.   I thought I’d better do it since I was told that they were fazing out my model.  So I placed an order and waited and waited and waited —- after several lengthy calls, they finally sent me the new modem, yea! faster downloads and better service, RIGHT!   The easy 5 minuter install turned into a 2 hour ordeal on the phone producing no results, and the  company telling me that they would send out a tech to trouble shoot the problem for a $125.00 charge.  Needless to say I had choice words to say about that, and the upshot was they sent someone to fix the problem no charge.  It took the poor guy 4 hours to figure out the modem was bad, out of the box and get the satellite realigned.  But now I have my Internet service back and really I don’t see any difference in speed or anything else.  Oh well.   At least I can get on here and check in with you guys and say hello!  But watch out if you are told that you need a upgrade and they tell you that it will be easy!