A Facebook Status I found...

This is a Facebook status I found while looking through my downloaded copy of my facebook account, just thought I'd share it here.

Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 10:30pm CDT

Trebor Jule Cox updated her status.

I've had an epiphany I guess you could say. Those who know me well know I've struggled with religion and spirituality as long as I can remember. I've searched and moved from 1 thing to another, trying to find my place. I've moved away from my Christian roots and my heart over the last decade or so because I felt I was never "good" enough and never could be. Then I realized its not about being "good enough". Its about the journey, trying to get there, whats in your heart. Jesus has always been in my heart and YES I'm guilty of denying that. Because I thought I was being denied the promises because I couldn't BE "good enough" for those promises. Not anymore, I know my place. Jesus came for the sinners so what does being good enough have to do with it? I was being blinded by my own stupidity. If this isn't your cup of tea for a topic, well you know where that lil x is at the corner of this msg :) I'll never be a "perfect" Christian, but I don't know any either, and if they existed what did Jesus give his life for?

I got nothing

Yup you heard me I got nothing to talk about. I could sit here and ramble about nothing but I'm sure none of you care.

I'll save you the boredom.

Doc Appointment

My doc appointment was uneventful, I weighed about the same as my last visit, everything was fine. I had blood work done again. And paperwork filled out for my cpap company for prescription renewal and the last several months of my visits faxed over to the surgeon. I have that class in April I haven't gotten the date on it yet, then everything will be sent off for approval. Man what a long and tedious process!

In other news, going no-poo has turned my hair into a curl factory! I've lost a few inches in length because it is all curling up. I must admit I kinda missed the curls. I hated them when I was younger, but they've been gone for so long I was kinda missing them. I do notice tho when I don't use the baking soda rinse in the shower, it takes a lot longer for my hair to dry, like hours! But it doesn't feel gross, just different. I'm still in over production of oils, but that should tame down soon. The amount of hair I was loosing each day has slowed down a lot! My hair doesn't stink like I thought it would. Now mind you hubby hates the smell of it after doing a baking soda rinse, he says it smells like straight baking soda, maybe I'm using to much. I'll adjust it hopefully eventually I won't even need the baking soda rinse.

That's all folx

My Day

Woke up late this morning, had my coffee and washed my laundry while I read my morning news-feed on Facecrack.

Hubby had an afternoon doc appointment because he hasn't been feeling well lately and has had no energy. I went with him to help him remember what all he needed to discuss with the doctor. Mainly to make sure that he told him about his horrible moods. I think they have a lot to do with him not sleeping well. Takes him till 4 or 5 am to fall asleep after getting home at 1 am. Then he sleeps so lightly that a mouse fart in the next room will wake him up. Then he is pissy all day and to be honest I just wanna ring his skinny little neck!

Anyway the doctor put him back on his mood pills and another mood pill at night that is supposed to also help him sleep. Lord I hope this works! I loved him immensely on mood pills a few years ago, I didn't stop loving him, I just don't like him very much right now. How can you like an asshole???

And THEN.... I picked up my grand daughter, then went and picked her mother up (daughter number 3) and took them to the grocery store. I took daughter #3 home, then took my grand daughter home. Came all the way back home and picked up daughter #4 and both my grandsons and took them to the grocery store and picked up hubby's prescriptions while I was there. Whheeew! By this time I am exhausted and STARVING! Luckily daughter #4 cooked dinner for all of us, I love her so much! It was stuffed shells YUM! Maybe I will share her recipe in another post on another day I'm to damn tired to type it up today!

The best part of the day? It's my Hailea's birthday, that would be granddaughter #1, and Wyatt grandson #3 cut his first tooth today! Bout time he is almost 10 months old.

Anyway time to relax and maybe watch last nights episode of "The Walking Dead"

Later Creepers!

Yup this is me

No its not a full body shot, but you can definitely see how big I am in this pic. In a years time I'm hoping to be half this size. I have my last weigh in check up this week on the 25th. I won't be doing the Begin class this month, I'll have to wait until next months class. That is the last thing the surgeon's office needs to send the request to the insurance company.

If anyone out there is reading that has done this, I'd love to hear your story. Diet you follow, your experience, how you felt after surgery, just anything! If you've blogged or made a YouTube channel following your progress please leave a link in the comments, I would love to check it out.

I've had no luck finding an affordable personal trainer, so I'm going to check out planet fitness next week and see if I feel it will be a comfortable fit for me. I know this is going to take work, that it isn't a miracle cure, it is a tool. A lot of changes will be required for this to work. 

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared. Surgery is a drastic measure and I've had a friend die from this surgery. Granted that was years ago and so many advances have been made since then. But still it isn't without a lot of risk. My main fear tho is failure, not death... just plain and simple failure. If I fail I let everyone down from family, friends but most of all myself. As it gets closer I worry even more. I've failed at this so many times already without surgery. I would much rather not have to go threw surgery. But this can't be the end of my story, I cannot die this large and have that be how I'm remembered. I'd rather die trying than to live like this anymore, then at least I gave it all I had.

Anyway if you have a story to share please do, or a recipe site for after surgery share that too!

Till next time ya weirdo's!

BFF Time

Slept most of the day, just feeling tired lately. Then went and spent some much needed BFF time with my BFF and BFFH. Ahhhh I needed that!

Repairmen, Oxygen guy and general nothingness

My brand new fridge is on the fritz, so the repairman was out today, a part is out he has to order it and it won't be in till around Monday, bleh. Then the guy from the cpap company I use for my machine and supplies came out today to check my oxygen concentrator and left me some supplies for that, new hoses and what not. Then I paid bills, did a water change on my fish tank cause I was a bit worried. My grandson woke up in the middle of the night and decided to put his hands all down in the tank and clean the tanks with windex. I wasn't sure he didn't get any in the tanks and my fish were acting a bit weird so I went ahead and did at least a 40% water change. I think I'm gonna have to start doing a water change twice a week anyway due to the amount of fish I have in my 55g tank. THEN it was off to walmart and I just got home and grabbed me some ravioli's and nuked them, then decided to bore yall to death with the details of my day. To hell with punctuation and paragraphs I just blurt it all out there. NOW I'm off to see the puppies that are now 4 weeks old get their first bath cause they STINK!
Till next time creepers....

No Poo

I still haven't shampoo'd my hair, not sure how many days its been I know more than a week if I'm not mistaken. My hair is clean tho, I've been running a rinse of baking soda and water threw it when I shower and it comes out squeaky clean. And my hair loss is down to a minimum now. My hair is also getting its natural curl back. It's still weird and while I was showering today thinking about nothing I almost picked up the bottle of shampoo out of habit.

Anyway I'm off, I just not in  a bloggin mood today.

Bye creepers...

Busy Weekend

I had a very busy weekend and got distracted from making my daily blog posts. I had grandkids all weekend, we were going to the park and pet stores and fixing them their own fish tanks. So it was a very full, fun but tiring weekend. Back to blogging tonight ya weirdo's!

Bored

I'm really bored tonight, not much going on. Just the waiting game till 1 am when hubby gets off work.
As for this "no poo" thing, my hair feels so gross, I'm about to go do a baking soda rinse threw it and see if it feels any better. So if anyone knows any tricks to get threw the first part of the yuckiness let me know cause ya I'm not feeling this at all! But I'm determined to see this threw to the end and see if this really works for getting healthier hair.
Till tomorrow...

Weirdo

Ok I still don't have anything to say to you weirdo's! Nuthin! I'm in a weird mood and I don't even care, you are all crazy for coming here everyday and reading about nothing, kinda creepy to! Creepy Weirdo Stalkers is what you are!
But I luv every damn last one of ya, keep reading :)

Oh, ya, I quit washing my hair like 3 days ago, I'm going "no poo" yep I feel kinda yucky, but they say it will get better once your hair stops freaking out. So for now I'm dirty greasy head, but not a poo head!

Later weirdo's....

Yup

I know I didn't blog yesterday, by the time I thought about it I was already in bed and I was tired and wasn't getting out of bed to do it. So longer post later. I'm out the door gotta run my daughter around town on errands and appointments.

Till later....

Sick Day

I've beens sick today so no blog.

My Day

All I've done today is clean this kitchen and made a pork roast that I'm about to turn into pulled pork BBQ. I've done nothing else! And it was great :)

Till tomorrow...

Family Stuff

This is my brother Bud, he is in town right now. He is a truck driver and only comes home for a few days once every 6 months. I took this pic yesterday.

Then I also had this little munchkin yesterday, She's such a little goofball.

Took this picture from my daughter Amanda's back porch.

That's all folx...

Exhausted

Its been a long and busy day, I got up way to early and was on the go for most of the day. So this is all ya git for the day. I'm going to bed :)

Goodnight

Almost There!

I got another phone call from Dr Galloway's office yesterday to update me on what is left that needs to be done. On the 24th I go to take a 2 hour class called Begin Class, near Dr Galloway's office, when I leave there she said bring by the certificate from that class and my $150 co-pay for the surgery. The very next day I have my last appointment with Dr Sherman at that appointment I get him to fax over my Oct-March records to Dr Galloway and she will get everything together to submit to the insurance company. She said NOTHING about seeing a psychiatrist which I was told would be one thing I would have to do for approval. Guess we shall see.

So I don't know how long it takes after submitting this to the insurance to get the approval, but it doesn't sound like by the way Heather (Dr Galloway's coordinator) talks. So I am hoping that I will have a date for surgery sometime in April.

Nervous but happy....

Surgery Update

So I got a phone call from the cardiologist office, I am cleared for surgery. It was exciting to hear the nurse explain how great everything looked in my ultrasound, working perfectly! Then I saw the vascular surgeon and got that settled they will put in a filter to stop blood clots in my main artery. They will go up threw the groin area in my leg all the way to just above my belly button and install the filter. Kind of scary that this will be something that stays in my body permanently.

Anyway my next step is to call Dr Galloway and find out what I need to do next or what they need to schedule next. Because at this point I have 1 appt with my regular doctor on the 25th of this month and thats the last scheduled pre-op checkup with him. All 7 visits with him will be complete! They say that is the hardest part to accomplish because you have to go once a month and always in consecutive months, if you miss a calendar month you have to start over and your last appointment has to be after or on the day of the month as your first, in my case that was the 13th.... so going on the 25th is fine.

I'm getting there! It has been a LONG process since my first visit with Dr Galloway. But it will be so worth it. I know I still am supposed to be scheduled to see a psychiatrist and I think take 3 classes? Before they schedule my surgery. I'll find out when I talk to them today.

Later...

Till tomorrow..

Saving my post for tomorrow, its been a long emotional day and I am just drained, but I have news, you will have to wait to read about. Till then

Damn motha fucka's video!

Ok I have a problem I have seen this video a few times on facebook and everytime I see it I watch it over and over again till I have to walk away from it cause its just to damn funny!!! So then I get tagged in it again tonight while I am at the register at walmart and I play it over and over again on my phone..... I need help!!

Post by Best Funny Videos.

Driftwood Hunting

I had grand daughter Adlen after she got out of church this morning and we went on a hunt for driftwood, shells and rocks for the fish tank. We went down to Bayou la Batre to the state docks. We found a few peices of driftwood, but not much else. It was fun tho. Here's some pictures I took while we were there.

Stay off this seagulls stump, its private property.

LOVE this last one of Adlen

Came home and cooked corned beef and cabbage, Adlen tasted it and said it was good and gave me a high five for it, then when it was time to sit down and eat she refused to eat it! Weird kid. Gotta love her.

She is at her dad's and its time for me to relax before the week begins again.

Later

Great Day

It was a great day at the park, with my youngest 2 daughters and 3 of my grand kids, well 4 if you count the half baked one in daughter Billie's belly!

Some pics from the park.

David looking like hmm freedom to run all these kids, what should I do first?

Adlen just happy to be at the park, David still trying to decide.

Wyatt and Adlen enjoying their ice cream because of course the ice cream truck stays parked there even on a chilly day like today. David refused his ice cream, so Aunt Billie ate it.

David made a friend for a split second.

Climbing is such hard work.

Playing so hard works up a thirst.

This is what happens after a hard day at play and its to late for a nap.

So after the park we took them all to Zaxby's for a late lunch. Was a great day, but I am pooped! And I still need to go do my grocery shopping!

Till tomorrow.....

I got confused!

Ok so last night I'm sitting here thinking about doing my blog post and thought "Oh I blogged today" woke up this morning and went to my dashboard and realized I didn't!!!
Yeup I'm getting old...

Anyway had a great day after my doc appointment, actually the doc appointment went great, I got there 20 minutes before my appt time and they called me straight back to the echo room, immediately did my echo cardiagram and woot I was out of there before my appointment time ever came around! By the time it was 2 o clock I was already in I-65 headed back home LOL. Love those kind of appointments!

After that grabbed a bite to eat and got my grandbaby Adlen, ran to get coils for my ecig, dog food for nursing momma, mcdonalds for Adlen a McFlurry, then swung by daughter Amber's and picked her and the boys up. They played at my house with Adlen for a few hours, took them all home and ta da, the end of a good day!

Here are some pics of SOME of my 8 grandkids!

Ok this was yesterday's post :)

The END!

Yay!

Another day of my boring posts! Here I'll post some cute pics :)

These are the puppies at 1 week old, still no eyes yet, but oh so cute!

K till tomorrow :)

Doc appointment today

Nothing much to tell, it was my regular weigh in appointment that I have to do every month for 6 months (actually 7 total) for my weight loss surgery. Lost 5 lbs since my last visit, bleh. It is what it is.
The rain and cold has been miserable today, guess we are lucky tho, our neighbors north of us are posting snow pictures, only pic I could post is the mud lake that is my front yard right now.

Later....

Blogger Policy Change?

I logged into my dashboard to ponder over what to post about today since I did NOTHING today. First thing I see is a notice about policy change that blogger will no longer allow "certain" sexually explicit content, with a link to click for more info. Hmm news to me that they even allowed it at all! Now no video's or pics of nudity are allowed unless its educational. Those of us with none already on their blog will not notice any change. Who the heck uses a BLOG for porn??? Doesn't seem like an efficient way to get your porn fix to me, I could be wrong but umm ok. I'd think if you were on the net looking for porn related material there are so many sites that are available to find such why would you go looking for blogs? Why would a person who is wanting to put that kind of material on the net decide a blog was the best place to get noticed? Seems like a hard way to go about getting your freak on. Different strokes I guess, yes pun intended.

I have nothing left after that... I'm spent LOL

Hello

Another day with not much to say LOL, sorry just didn't do much today, took my daughter to the grocery store, then took her home, then came home and studied stuff online about fish and keeping fish tanks.

I think I want to get some discus fish, they come in a wide range of colors and are cool looking.

Anyway that's about it for my day I'll try to have a more thrilling day tomorrow, or think of something interesting to talk about haha ya right good luck with that...

Later gators....

I know I'm boring

The dynamic of the weekend changed yesterday when I went and picked up my daughter Billie and her youngest child Ayden because she needed to get out of the house, but thats ok it was good and we have had a good visit and she helped me with some stuff I needed done around the house. I love how she is now, She's fun to hang out with and we can actually talk now. Her outlook on life has changed a lot over the last 6 months and I hope it continues for her sake.

I know I'm a boring blogger but whoever is reading this just has to deal, I'm in a challenge and I have to complete it :)

Anyway till tomorrow, LUV YA!

Quiet Saturday

Its just a quiet Saturday, just me and hubby. Got us a quick breakfast at Waffle House, I have a roast going in the crock pot for pulled pork sandwiches later. Have to run get buns and coleslaw fixings later. It's just gonna be a lazy day, I'll do a few loads of laundry but thats about it. Love days like today, nothing stressing or pressing that has to be done. Just the 2 of us. Think hubby is gonna go take a ride in a bit.

Yay! for lazy Saturday's!

Till tomorrow....

Typical Friday

Busy running errands all day, just got home from grocery shopping, bout to eat something and relax. Nothing else to talk about I just need to chill for a little while.
Till tomorrow...

It's a new day.

The last few days I have felt fantastic, my COPD hasn't been as bad and I'm not gasping for air every step I take. And it gave me a new  motivation feeling so good. So today I begin my diet again. Fingers crossed and lots of praying, I would really love to loose as much as possible before my surgery is scheduled. Sooo, my biggest problem is gonna be giving up my Monster Java Mocha Loca!!! I love those, so instead of giving them up completely I'm going to allow myself 3 a week. I can't be denying myself everything I love right? But with those 3 a week I will still have to stay under calorie goal, so on the days I have one that will cut into my calorie intake of food. At least thats the plan.

Anyway, just had to do a short blog on this, maybe I'll blog more later I'm starting to enjoy this blogging thing.

Puppies!

My grand daughters dog Zoey, that lives at my house just had 8 puppies!! They are adorable but for a dog her size that is a LOT of puppies! Anyway yes I know she should be fixed and she will be as soon as these puppies are old enough. Don't judge me ... I'll not explain myself here to anyone who doesn't know me, just know you don't know me or my situation or even how this came to be. But she will be fixed ASAP! But for now we have 8 wonderful little 4 legged fur baby's to enjoy and believe me I will enjoy them lol.

On another subject my BFF is doing some give away's on her knitting blog, so for those of you who knit you might want to go over there and check it out, her blog can be found at http://knittinfun.blogspot.com/ with details on how to win and what she is giving away. So head on over.....

Shoo...

GO ALREADY those give aways won't stay there forever!

It's cold!

OK so I've done nothing today because it is to cold in this old house. So I've snuggled under the covers in my warm bed watching TV all day. Matter of fact its to cold to sit at my computer so I'm blogging from my bed on my phone.

So glad my warm cuddle buddy is off work today to snuggle with me.

Till tomorrow....

My Long Weekend

This is how I spent my weekend and today, with my daughter Billie and her 2 beautiful brats. We had fun tho. We ate a lot of junk, watched movies, made cookies, and played outside. Now its time to get back to the regular normal weekly grind. Oh joys cuz my weekly grind is nothing but chores, and cooking late night supper for the ole man who works nights. But he is off tomorrow for Mardi Gras.

Its funny tho, banks and schools were closed today for Presidents day, hubby had to work, banks and schools are back in business tomorrow and hubby is off for Mardi Gras LOL.

Happy Mardi Gras!

Excused

I have excused myself from yesterday's post. I think I'm allowed to do that. Yesterday was a roller coaster of a day on the ole emotions. I can't share any details because well it isn't my story to share. But on top of the train wreck of yesterday morning, my daughter Billie and I were entertaining the girls. We had Adlen and Ayden, They ate waffle house, played, ate icecream, went shopping. I think they had fun.
Another adventure with them both today since Adlen is out of school for presidents day.
Then I have to get my house back in order from this long weekend with the kiddo's. More to come later :)

Happy Valentines Day

Hope everyone had a Happy Valentines day and enjoyed someone's company and got in some cuddle time. If you didn't have a significant other, I hope you done something nice for yourself. I had a good day, spent it with grandkids, then spent time with hubby tonight.

Yesterday was pretty busy but awesome, I got my drivers license!! I haven't had a license in 20 years for one reason or another. Now I'm totally legal to drive!

After that I went and picked up my granddaughter Adlen and we watched The Boxtrolls and Frozen and ate popcorn. I enjoyed that time alone with her. She is an awesome kid.

Had her and her sister Ayden today with their mom. All in all a great weekend so far.

Now I'm off to bed, till tomorrow....

Long Day!

I am  exhausted so I'll save this for tomorrow.

Busy Day

Good thing I set an alarm to remind me to do this blogging thing every day! I have it set for 11 which is why you are just now getting this blog entry!

I had a pretty busy afternoon, I had a doctor's appointment with the cardiologist for clearance for my gastric bypass surgery since I have a history of high blood pressure and afib. Didn't get out of there till well after 5 pm, my blood pressure was great and my EKG looked normal, so they are scheduling me to do an ultrasound of my heart then they will clear me for surgery. That's another hoop for the insurance company down. I will be so glad when all this hoop jumping is over with! I am so sick of doctor appointments! And you know they do this to see how committed you are hoping you will give up so they don't have to cover the cost of the surgery! Whatever, I'm not giving up now, I've come this far and it will be so worth it when its done!

Anyway I have to get to bed, I have to be at the DMV at 9 am to finally get my drivers license taken care of. So ready to have that done to and be legal again! Never let your license slip thinking you will take care of it later.... lesson learned the hard way.

Till tomorrow :)

Walking Dead Marathon

I just spent the last several hours catching up on "The Walking Dead". I'm going to need a few days to process all that has happened. I am now an emotional wreck! I am glad I have the DVR set to record because I don't know if I'll be ready to watch the next episode on Sunday.

After all I've seen this evening on that show, I have nothing else to talk about, so till tomorrow...

New Computer

So remember the other day I told you my computer crashed? I got a new laptop last night. Nothing fancy except that they keyboard glows red, just a functioning computer for me to do my daily crap on that is to difficult to do on my surface tablet.

Now onto something else, I am way behind on this season of The Walking Dead, so if things go well, I've got an entire marathon of episodes on the DVR I plan to sit and watch tonight. FUN! It's quiet here I'll be home alone, why not binge watch some TV? I'm gonna need supplies, like chips and drinks, so of course I'll be headed to the store later.

That's all folx....

Fish Tank!

OK so this is what I wanted to show you, more pics to come later as I decorate and get this like I want it. This is my 55 gallon tank set up I just bought from my niece Desire'. I've been running around for 2 days getting stuff to set this up. I had to get rocks, a pump and bubbler. I had to make 2 trips to the pet store yesterday with screaming grand babies to get the pump, got it home it wouldn't work so I had to take it back. I got it back to the pet store and dropped it as soon as I walked in to exchange it, they took it back there hooked it up and it worked, so me dropping it fixed it!!

By the time I got all that running done I was exhausted! That's why I missed yesterday's post. But the very BASIC setup is done. Now time to add fish and decorations. I got to baby Oscars floating in bags in this pic waiting to be released along with 2 parrot fish. Yes I know I shouldn't have 2 Oscars in a 55 gallon tank, but they are baby's right now so just deal with it!

I still need to get lights for the tank too. Lots of stuff I gotta add before I have the setup I want, but this is a start :)

OK till next time

FAIL!!

Ok so I've already failed the Challenge!!!
I couldn't seem to get sat down yesterday to do this, my house was FULL. Daughter 3 and 4 were here with 3 of my grandbaby's. 1 of which was very ill, crying and wanting granny to hold him cause he didn't feel well. By the time most of them went home I fell fast asleep and just woke up. I told ya, I SUCK!
Oh well I will continue on this challenge anyway. This is yesterday's post, so today's will be later tonight... I got something to show you :)

Computer Crash

Day one of the 365 day blog challenge and my computer just took a dump. Blogging on my surface tablet is a pain. So this will be short while I work on my computer to see if I can revive it.

Blah.....

Blogging Challenge

BFF asked me if I wanted to do a blog challenge, where each of us had to post to our blog at least once a day for 365 days.

Well I think she is doing it to help me get more into keeping up with my blog, because in all honesty, I SUCK! But, challenge accepted! I don't know how this will turn out, I don't know if I can find something worth y'all reading for me to talk about every day on here. I'll try. So the challenge is set to start tomorrow. Wish me luck :)

If you want to follow along with her you can find her blog here: http://wondersb-log.blogspot.com/
She is better at this blogging thing than me so you should probably go check her out :)

I think she likes this 365 day challenges because once she challenged me to the Great Blanket Project of 2012, where we were supposed to get a blanket for our queen size beds knitted in one year... we both failed miserably, but I failed first! I quit long before the project was even good and going yet. I came to the conclusion soon after that I can not call myself a knitter. I can knit but that doesn't mean I am a knitter. Knitters can knit useful items like blankets and sweaters and such I can only knit washcloths or dishcloths.

Anyway so follow along with us on this challenge, ya never know what will flow from these fingertips.

Till tomorrow...