Day Two Hundred Sixteen - REST DAY

I woke up early this morning and damn it was COLD!!!!  I was freezing so I fired up the stove early and just stayed inside.  I had lots of files to organize on the computer so I did that all morning.  I decided to take it easy today because it was just too cold and I didn't want to get out there and freeze like I've been doing lol.  The other morning when I walked, there was a slight icy breeze and my nose was so numb coming home, so was my forehead.  Crazy!!

Went to church today by myself.  Lisa had to work on her homework because tomorrow she's got a big presentation in one of her classes.  So, that's what she did most of today.  I went to church but it wasn't all that great.  I think some ppl (family members) are mad at me because I tried to get them to participate in the Christmas Eve gift exchange at my Grandparents house this year.  Like I said though, they're all too cheap and no one wanted to participate.  They all kept texting me "count me and my family out" ugh!  I mean come on. That is just lazy and stupid, I don't care how you look at it.  We used to do this every year, but now everyone is so cheap and don't want to buy gifts for anyone.  It's just stupid.  Anyway, I think that's why they're probably mad at me and since they're church members also, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to not help out at the parade this Thursday either.  Some of them volunteered to walk in the parade and hand out candy to the audience.  We'll see how that goes.  So, needless to say I didn't have a very good time at church.  Then, I got hustled by the pastor's idiot son.  Get this, the kid comes up to me and saw there was lots of straw in back of my truck from yesterday when we worked on the float.  The float will have straw on it so I bought a big straw bail.  We tore it apart and put some on the float so there's a lot of it left in back of my truck.  Anyway, he sees that and says, "wow there's still straw back here", so I told him yup and that he should clean it for me.  I was just joking!  He says, "only if you pay me".  Again, JUST JOKING, I told him "ya I'll give you two whole dollars" then I laughed.  We both went inside.  Well during church service, I guess he went out there.  After service, he comes to me and says in his little boy pouting voice, "you said that if I cleaned out your truck you'd give me two dollars".  AAArrrrgggggh!!!!!!  I'm like, did you clean it?  He said, yes.  So, because I didn't have my wallet with me, I asked my mom to loan me 2 dollars.  I gave it to him and he's all happy bouncing off.  Well when we get ready to leave, I gave a guy from church a ride home.  I get out there and look in the back.  The damn thing is still dirty!!!!  He only brushed off a few handfuls of straw, that's it!  There was still a lot left in there!!  Oh man, I was pissed OFF!!!!!!  So when I see that kid again, I'm gonna make him get his skinny butt out there and clean my truck!  He ain't gettin away with this one!  I was mad, really mad.  So yeah, I came home and didn't bother going back for evening service.  I was so fed up and irritated by everyone.  Really cruddy day!!!

This evening was cool because Lisa helped me outside.  We patched up the roof on my storage house.  There was a huge area that didn't have any shingles on it, so I wanted to patch it up really good with tar paper and the works.  We did that.  Lisa was such a trooper. She was up there crawling around, putting tar up there and hammering nails lol.  I was so proud of her.  She got her whole hand covered in tar though so I had her get inside and wash all that off.  It took her a while because for those of you who know, tar will not come off for nothing.  I gave her some of my shop wash and it got that stuff right off.  Then, we got up there and finished it.  It looks Awesome and now I don't have to worry about snow and rain getting in there.  I hear that this coming week, it's supposed to rain or snow, one of those.  Now, no worries ;)
Oh man, another awesome thing was tonight while we were working up there, my sister came over.  She showed me the new tattoo that she got on her left arm.  She put the tattoo that I designed, on her arm!!!  I was so happy.  I designed this tattoo for her to wrap around her arm a couple years ago.  She'd been looking around for ppl to do it since but all these idiots around here couldn't do it.  She goes to Durango and some guy out there who has a shop, told her he could do it no problem.  So she made an appointment last Friday and got it done.  It looks so nice!  I did a great job making that thing.  Now, my designs label has some serious stride behind it :D  Great Christmas gift for me!!

Ok, well that was my day.  Tomorrow I want to clean out my storage room now that I got that roof patched.  So I might go ahead and skip my walk tomorrow so I can get that done.  We'll see what happens.  Right now, I'm goin to relax a bit then head to snoozeville ;)  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Fifteen

Oh man, totally sluggish this morning lol.  Well, I got up early enough and did my 3 miles.  Lately on my walks, I've really been keeping a very swift pace!  I walk fast, so now my mom can't give me crap saying "when I see you you're just walking reeeealllly slow and just strolling along" aarrrrggghh!!!!  That is NOT TRUE!!!  I tell her, "that was when I did 6 miles every morning and you probably saw me on my sixth mile.  By then, I'm totally worn out and my feet are so tired so ya I'm walking pretty damn slow by then!"  That is true!  When I was doing 6 miles, that really wore me out and doing that everyday, oh man that did a number on me.  Just in case you forgot or don't know, I stopped doing the six miles because it was wearing down on my knee too bad.  My knee, ever since my hunting trip in Chama, has not been doing good.  That six miles after coming home from that, well that was really killing my knee.  I took a short break and only did 3 miles until my knee was feeling good, but then I kicked it back up to 6 miles.  That lasted for a couple days, then my knee started up again so I went back to 3 miles and have been doing that ever since.  3 miles is still a long way!  It's been doin great for me though.  My knee hasn't been hurting lately and I'm getting faster in my pace.  Soon as the holidays are over, I'm going to add some daily DDPyoga and Bowflex to my workouts.  By then, my knee should be ready to roll.  I'm just trying to strengthen it up right now and I've been working on NOT popping it.  I have a nasty habit of doing that on occasion.  Pisses me off but I'm really working on that. 

Ok, well today we went to the church.  Pastor called me this morning and said he thought we were meeting today.  I told him that I had just gotten done with my morning exercising and that we'd be heading over there soon.  Once we got there, we got busy.  Pastor and his family were there.  His son is a young 13 year old kid...oh man he was so destructive!!!!  That kid won't listen, he's like a rocket ship, constantly running around.  Him and his friend, but his friend was more obedient.  He listened and really wanted to help us out all day.  Anyway, that was that!  We all worked on the float and got it lookin really Really nice!  Of course, it was just Lees and I, along with my mom and dad, and the pastor and his family.  That's it!!!  No one else showed up!  See that's the problem with our church members.  They won't help!  They're all just too lazy and too shy, well not all of them, I shouldn't say that.  Some of them are though.  Then when it comes down to the day, everyone panics and complains, yet the whole month I was trying to get the thing ready and inviting everyone to help out, Nothing NoOne, Nadda!!!!  Anyway, we got the float almost done.  All we gotta do now is put the lights on it and get the kids on there.  It's gonna look nice!!! 

We were there at the church all day until about an hour before it got dark tonight.  Afterwards, we came home and been relaxing here ever since.  I'm so beat, I'm thinking of taking a rest day tomorrow.  But, we'll see how cold it is outside.  If it's not bad, then I'll go ahead and do my walk.  Ok, until then you have a great night ;)  Sleep well.  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Fourteen

BLACK FRIDAY...WHOOOAAAA!!!!

No way man, I didn't go out there this morning.  Instead, I woke up around 7:30 then went out and did my 3 miles :D  I'm really kickin it in high gear this holiday season.  I'm not going to slack off on my exercising.  Especially with all the turkey and holiday food, I've gotta stay up there and keep fit.  Oh good time to use this movie line, "Stay Fit, Keep Sharp, Make Good Decisions!"  lol I bet you don't know who said that one ;}

Later on in the day, Lees and I went up town.  I didn't do any holiday shopping but I got some good ideas for what I want to get everyone.  We're planning a Christmas trip to Albuquerque on the 19th and we're gonna stay out there that whole weekend.  My parents and my brother, but probably not my sis because she's working, are goin to cruise out there with us...or atleast I think they are.  That's when I'm going to do the majority of my shopping.  I'm really looking forward to that trip.  I have been all month.

Lisa was sore today from digging up that waterline last night hahaha.  Dang you should've seen her.  she was on her hands and knees digging with her hands, moving the dirt and mud around.  She really helped out my dad and did some hard work.  I was so proud of her!  I'm so glad she's a hard worker.  A few days ago, I deleted this stupid woman on facebook.  That woman was so jealous of Lisa.  She and I had a thing goin for a while, but she was totally convinced that me and Lisa were together and fooling around.  I told her again and again that Lisa was just my best friend, but because she's so damn stupid, she didn't believe me.  She even wrote to lisa herself and lees told her flat out that me and her were just best friends.  Of course, that stupid woman didn't say anything to that and still kept telling me that she knew I was sleeping with Lisa or whatever the hell she was thinking.  I got so sick of it the other day and we finally had an argument over it so I just deleted her dumbass out of my life.  Her freakin loss!!!  I don't wanna date stupid women anyway.  I was actually starting to wonder if she was hoping me and Lisa were dating or married.  Maybe she gets off on that sorta thing.  Hoping to steal a man away from his wife or gf.  Now that makes her even more stupid!  I NEVER cheat on a woman and I told her that numerous times.  I said that if I was married, or had a gf, there is NO WAY I'd even be talking to her.  Of course, even when I said that, she still didn't say anything.  Anyway the point is, I am never going to give up Lisa for any woman out there!  Lisa is my best friend and she'll be in my life forever!  Whoever I end up with, she's gonna accept that fact and she and Lisa are going to be best friends also.  Not some jealous woman who wants it all.  Hell No!!!!

Ok now that I've had my rant lol.  This evening we went to the stores and I bought some early Christmas treats.  I bought some Christmas movies, 'Miracle on 34th Street', and 'Santa Claus: The Movie'.  Those are some older Christmas movies I'd never owned.  I also bought, 'The Expendables 3'.  Finally found that crazy movie at Walmart.  I'd been looking since Tuesday but nadda.

Ok well, that's my day!  Tomorrow we're going to be working on the Christmas float.  The Parade is only a few days away (next Thursday).  Tomorrow was the scheduled time I set to work on it but I seriously doubt anyone is going to show up.  That's the problem with some of our members.  They won't lift a finger to help out..but dang they'll sure criticize when they can.  Makes me mad :(
Anyway, thanks for reading!  Until tomorrow :D  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Thirteen - Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!!!!

Today was an interesting day!  Woke up this morning and put our bird into the new turkey oven we bought.  Once it was cookin, I headed out and did my 3 miles.  Lisa came with me.  It was an Awesome walk.  Kept up a really swift pace.  Wanted to really get some good exercise in before all the turkey lol.  When we got back, we got ready and checked on everything, then about noon we headed over to mom's for Thanksgiving dinner.  My grandparents were all there and it was a pretty good meal.  I limited myself to only one plate, which was good enough because I was stuffed!  I ate more later on in the day, but not too much.  I'm really watching my intake of food ever since my Fyrescape started. 

After lunch, I talked with grandpa for a bit.  We all had a good conversation and laughs.  Around 2:30, we went home to check on the bird, which was totally done.  We hung around the house for a bit, then toward evening we went up town to watch 'Fury', which we'd been trying to watch for a while now.  But, as usual, we couldn't get in because we were too late getting up there.  Thanksgiving so there were tons of ppl at the movies.  Not much else to do in town on this day.  Anyway, it was a good thing too.  God was looking out for my family!  I called my mom while I was still in town to inform her about some things regarding our Christmas Eve dinner gift exchange down at my grandpa's, which everyone pulled out of because they're too cheap!  Anyway she told me that their waterline had broke outside and that my dad and brother were out there trying to dig it up and that they'd been working on it since 3pm.  Oh man!!!  So I told her I'd come over and help.  Lees and I went home, changed, then headed over there and got right to work digging.  Dad was tired, so was my brother. We did our best to help out and got it dug up.  We found were the pipe was cracked.  Oh man we got muddy though.  It was a mess down there.  Definitely glad we found it though, now they can use their water.  It took a few hours though.  We didn't get done until close to 10 this evening.  Grandpa and Grandma came by to and helped out.  Grandpa told my dad which stuff to use to replace the pipe we cut and everything.  It was Awesome!  Afterwards, mom invited me and Lisa to stay for Thanksgiving leftovers lol.  So we did and ate a nice meal before coming home.

So it was a very interesting Thanksgiving Day!  I loved it and I got to work off all that turkey this evening digging up that waterline.  It's just pretty COLD right now lol.  Well, I'm pretty tired and wanna crawl into my warm bed.  I hope everyone had an Awesome holiday.  About 28 days till Christmas ;)  Woohoo!!!  Celebrating our Lord and Savior's birthday is Always the Best part of every year :D  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Twelve

Got up, not so early today, but still went out and got my 3 miles in.  Really had to clean up the place today!  Day after tomorrow, which shoots off the Christmas season, I'd like to decorate.  I remember last year, we didn't decorate or put up the tree until about a week and a half before Christmas.  That was terrible!  I've gotta say, last year was bad.  I had just left my job on Christmas Eve because of some horrible threats my idiot store manager gave me while I was working.  I wasn't taking that crap from an idiot like him, so I left.  Long story and it was for good reasons too.  Don't think I just got mad and left, no no that's not how it was.  All I'll say is that I should've taken his ass to court, but that job just wasn't worth it.

Anyway, I'm rambling on here.  Not much to report today!  I'm fighting with my pellet stove.  Oh the good news, I think I finally captured the problem with that crazy thing.  Lately it's been not starting.  Well, turns out I think it's that thermocouple.  Apparently if that thing isn't lined up just right, it won't start.  I think I need a new one because it's happening more and more.  When Grandpa had it, he didn't have this problem so it's obviously a new thing.  I'm going to fiddle with it a while and if it still gives me problems, I'll have to ask the pros at Raindrops and see what they suggest.  Probably have to get a new one.  No big deal though, I saw how it's installed and I can replace it no problem.

Well, that's about all for today!  Can't believe tomorrow is Thanksgiving!!  Wow, this year has really gone by.  Not too long ago I did Hallowed Eve 7, now here it is Thanksgiving lol.  Coolness!  Ok, time to sleep.  Until tomorrow ;)  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Eleven

Woke up early this morning and got my 3 miles in.  Brrr it was cold though :(  It sure is gettin down in temperature.  Especially when the wind blows that icy winter wind!

Well, not much to say about today really.  Just another day for me!  Lisa's last day for work, yay!!!  She'll be on vacation starting tomorrow all the way until next Friday after the Christmas Parade, then she'll be working up to the 19th, then she'll be on Christmas Vacation :D  It's gonna be Awesome this year.

After she got off tonight, we went to town and bought some stuff.  I'd been wanting to do this but we've just been so busy doing things around here that I hadn't got the time.  We finally bought a turkey oven, since I don't have gas inside my place yet.  I was gonna fill my tank outside, but it just costs too darn much so I'm gonna wait until January.  So anyway, we bought the turkey oven and I bought a new Christmas Tree :D  This thing is Awesome too, it's Black!  Well, unique.  No nothing weird or evil lol.  I just thought it was a neat color tree.  It'll match my black furniture and my tv, as well as my new Pellet Stove haha.  So yeah, plus I wanted something different this year.  I wanted something I'd never had before and a black tree, well that's pretty different.  It's a fake tree, so it won't be messy like last years was and it's pre-lit, so the decorating is already half done lol.  I just wanna add some cool red and silver ornaments.  That'll look good!

Well, that's my day.  It's pretty late right now and I'm beat!  Time to catch some z's and snooze it up.  Until tomorrow ;)  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Ten

Oh man, today was frustrating!  I didn't walk again.  This time it was because my dang stove is/was giving me problems.  Just like last night, I couldn't get the damn thing to start this morning.  I was all ready to go walk because it was nice and calm outside this morning.  Lisa left for school.  I figured I'd start the stove so it'd be nice and warm when I came home.  Well, it did the same damn thing from last night.  Attempted to start...but then it just went off.  Grrrrrrr :(

So I called grandpa and he came over.  He showed me how to work it and thankfully, I think I was doing something wrong.  I wasn't pressing the reset button every time it went off.  Apparently when you completely shut the system off, which I've been doing every night when I go to bed, and you turn it back on the next morning or whenever, the reset button needs to be pushed.  I didn't know that!  I'm pretty sure he mentioned it because both my mom and lisa knew that...but I didn't.  So I must've not been paying attention.  Anyway, we got it to start up fine after that and it ran nicely all day long.  Grandpa was here for about an hour because he wanted to make sure it was working. 

....ok shit, it's doing the same thing now.  Damn!  I need to go and work on it.  Goodnight.

Day Two Hundred Nine

I woke up early this morning with the intention to go and walk.  My dad calls me just before I was gonna leave.  He wanted to give me Cooper's old dog house for Cody.  So he came to pick me up and take me back to help him load it up.  I went outside and OMG it was COOOLLLLLDDDD!!!!  Dang, the wind was blowing and it started to snow.  It was really coming down for a while.  We went over to his house and loaded up the dog house and brought it back.  On the way I told dad that I was planning on walking, but he said it was way too cold.  I told him maybe later on when the wind stops, but he said that the weather reports say that it was going to be windy all day long.  Sure enough, he was right.  The rest of the day on into this evening, it was windy!  An icy wind too.  I left the heat lamp on for the cats and you should've seen them.  They were sleeping in that thing all day, nice and toasty warm.  Even with this cold wind, they were snuggled up and warm.  I was so happy about that!  Cody and Cooper were both in their houses snuggled up in the straw.  Cooper has his tarp for a wind breaker and Cody now has two houses.  So my animals are good!

Went to church.  It was great!  Pastor was really upbeat.  Me, I was sluggish and tired.  This evening was the potluck and program with the other church.  That went really great!  I got some extra help for the Christmas Program that I'm hosting.  That's my last project for the year and I really hope it goes great!  So far, the ideas are Awesome!!  We talked about that tonight, had a great message, and enjoyed some great food and conversation with everyone.  It all went great!

So, it was a pretty busy day.  Oh man it was so cold outside!  The really cruddy thing was my wood pellet stove...it's giving me crap and problems :(  I don't know what the heck happened to it.  Before I left for church tonight, I turned it on.  It started up really quick and the flame kicked on right away.  When I left, the heat was blowing out.  Since it was so cold outside, I wanted it to be nice and warm when I got home.  Well, when I got home, the stove was completely off.  I figured it was at room temperature, but nope, it was cold in the house.  I checked the thermostat and sure enough, it was about 50 degrees inside the place.  My thermostat was set at 70 degrees.  Oh man, I don't know what to do.  I fiddled with it for about an hour and a half.  The damn thing wouldn't come on.  It starts up, but before it really gets going, it acts like it hits room temperature and reverses.  The thing cools down, then it completely shuts off.  I turned it on again, then again, then again.  All three times it did the same damn thing.  I'm so frustrated right now.  I don't know what I'm going to do.  Finally about an hour ago, I got it to work.  I unplugged the damn thing, pressed the reset button, and turned it on.  Then it came on and got warm!  Ugh, I don't know why it's giving me problems.  I hoped I wouldn't have any problems with it until after I've had it for a year.  I'll need to ask grandpa tomorrow!

Anyway, that's my day.  Until tomorrow :(  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Eight

Woke up this morning and wanted to do my exercise, but I had to get ready, shower, and head to the church by 9am.  We had set the time to work on the Christmas float for then.  When we got there, though, only my mom was there.  We were a bit late!  Didn't get there until about 9:30.  Anyway, nobody was there.  Mom was only getting the list for the potluck we're having tomorrow night.  Another church is coming to ours to do a special program.  Afterwards, we're having a Thanksgiving dinner with them.  Anyway, that's what she was doing.  So Lees and I started working on it. 

Eventually, my dad, brother, his friend, my grandma and grandpa all showed up and we got to work.  We're going to have a Nativity scene on the float this year so we built the stable that the Baby Jesus, Mary and Joseph will be in.  It's lookin nice!  We were there until about noon.  Mom and grandma left to get some stuff for the potluck tomorrow.  When they came home, they brought us all lunch.  It was soo good!  We finished up the frame of it, which was the goal I was shooting for.  Now all we gotta do is decorate it up by adding lights and animals (fake animals that is).  So it's lookin great!

Afterwards I came home and Lisa went to work.  I wish she stayed home.  It sucks hanging out by myself lol.  I just sat home and watched movies the rest of the day.  When Lisa did get home, we went up town and bought some stuff.  I finally got the heat lamp bulb for the cat's house.  When we got home, I put it in right away and turned it on.  Now, it's super warm inside that house.  I put their food in there and they seem to like it.

Well, that was my day!  Pretty good.  I hated I didn't exercise, but I was pretty busy with other things, which is really not an excuse, but the good thing is this, no matter what, even if you miss a few days, always no matter what, get your butt back out there and do it!  That's what my Fyrescape is all about.  I was busy all summer and throughout fall, but now I'm getting busy here at home and church, however that's not stopping me.  I'm still gonna be at it!  Ok, until tomorrow, Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Seven

Wow!!!!  Today was AWESOME!!!
I woke up early this morning to a cold place.....brrrrrrr, it was freezing!  I cleaned up the kitchen and straightened up as much as I could.  Then about 9am, Dad showed up.  We waited on Grandpa then we got to work.  All day almost, that's how long it took.  Grandpa didn't think it would be that long, but it was.  All I can say is that it was busy busy.  Grandpa and I worked on the inside.  Dad crawled up on the roof and cut the hole for the piping and did all the drilling from up there.  He went home a few times to get some tools we needed.  My brother came back with him the first time and helped him out up top.  Grandpa and I worked on it from the living room.  We connected the piping and worked on cutting the hole in the ceiling.  It was a really messy job!  I was constantly vacuuming the corner because there was so much dust in the ceiling.  When we were almost done, we installed the thermostat to the stove and I poured the wood pellets in there.

Lisa didn't help out too much because she had a meeting at her work that she went to early this morning.  Afterwards, she paid some bills in town then I had her bring home some donuts for everyone helping.  She did and she made some coffee for them.  During break time, they had coffee and donuts.  Lees was there until about noon then I had her go into town and put some money in the bank so I could pay the rest of the bills later, and to bring home some lunch for everyone.  We bought Taco Bell for everybody.  So, before they all left, they had a good lunch.  Dad got all his tools, so did grandpa.  Then, we fired up the stove!  We were all standing in front of it as we watched it make it's first spark, then the thing kicked on.  It was an Awesome moment!  Lisa was so excited and happy, as was I.  Dad and my brother left after that.  Grandpa and I sat there for about 30 mins making sure the heater stayed on.  We also made sure the thermostat was working.  We let it get warm, then we shut it off, then turned it on.  So yup, it's working beautifully!  After that, I thanked Grandpa for his help.  He was glad and happy it was working, then he left.  Lisa had to go to work so she left before Grandpa did.  Afterwards, my sister came by to see it all.  She really liked how warm it was inside.  I gave her some of the tacos that we had left over, so she ate too.  Then we had a small talk.  Some time back, I designed her a tattoo that she could get on her arm.  It's a really nice design, but no tattoo artist in town could do it.  Why, I have no idea!  Anyway, she searched forever it seemed.  Well apparently today she found a place in Durango who could do it so she made an appointment and came by to tell me that.  She was really happy and excited.  I'm very happy that she's going to do that.  Now she'll have MY design on her arm, which will give me exposure ;)  That's very cool!!

After everyone left, I washed up and needed to go up town to get a straw bail for my dogs and to get a heat lamp bulb for my cat's house.  I'm so worried about my animals and I want them to be warm just like I'll be warm.  So I left.  On the way up town, which was around 5pm, I get a call from mom and they asked me to come eat out with them.  So, I went to the feed store and bought a bail of straw.  My dad asked me to buy him one too.  Afterwards, I met them at Furrs restaurant and we had a great dinner there.  We had to wait on my brother, as always.  Me, mom and dad looked in this store before we went in to eat.  It was nice!  Lots of neat stuff and everyone has their Christmas stuff out already so it's really getting exciting ;) 

Dinner was great!  We had a good time with lots of laughs.  Afterwards, everyone scattered.  I went to Sams Club and got my dogs some food, then I went to Walmart to find a heat lamp bulb but they were out, then I came home.  I divided up the straw between Cody and Cooper.  They love it!  They snuggled up in it all night long.  I was very happy for that. 
Well that was my entire day!  Busy busy!!!  Right now, I'm beat but it feels great to sleep inside a warm house.  Mom and Dad came by after I got home tonight because Mom wanted to see the stove.  It was nice and warm when they got here.  She loved it and was very happy!  I thanked her and Dad so much for that stove.  Mom said it was an early Christmas present ;) So looks like I got my gifts early this year.  I'm very happy!  I am very thankful to God.  He has blessed me with a very wonderful family and He is always watching out for me.  I urge you to put your faith in Him.  He works miracles everyday ;)  Until tomorrow, Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Six - REST DAY

Took a day off today because I needed to get some things done.  Yesterday, grandpa wanted me to come down today and get that Wood Pellet Stove since he was all done.  So this morning, I got up and cleared out the place for it.  Grandpa told me he'd call me when he was done cleaning it up.  Lisa went to school early.  I spent the morning clearing out the corner of my living room where the stove was going to go.  After Lisa got home, we sat around for a bit.  About 1:30pm, my grandma calls and asks if I'm still getting the stove lol.  I'm like "grandpa told me he'd call".  Well, I guess he told her I was supposed to call him.  Oh well, so Lees and I went over there and we got our stove.  Grandpa already had it on a wood pallet so we loaded it up, which he was impressed by because he didn't think Lisa could lift it.  I told him, well she's lived with me for years that's why she's super strong ;)  Anyway, we brought the stove over and put it inside.  Grandpa built me this really nice platform that the stove would sit on in the corner.  We put that in first, then the stove.  It looks so nice and I can't wait to fire it up :D

We all talked a bit and they told us how it operates and all.  Grandma was really sad lol.  She loved that stove.  They got a new one, but they're not used to it yet.  Grandma was really used to it, to the point to where she doesn't want to learn how to use another one.  But, tough beans lol.  They'll get it eventually.  Anyway, afterwards I called my mom and she told me to call 'raindrops' here in town about the piping.  I did and they quoted me a pretty good price.  So, she wanted Lees and I to meet her in town at 5 this evening.  We did!  Mom bought me the piping and everything I needed to hook up that pellet stove, and she bought me six bags of wood pellets.  I'm all set!  We then went to ACE Hardware and bought a thermostat to hook up to it.  After that, she left to go do some things.  We thanked her again and again, and most of all I thanked God for blessing me with a wonderful family that helps me out and for His blessing on my life for Always looking out for me and taking care of me and my little family!  It's Awesome!!

I made plans with my dad and grandpa to help me install this thing tomorrow morning at 9.  So I'm really looking forward to that.  The rest of the evening, we just sat around at home and ended up falling asleep.  Lisa already went to bed and I'm going to turn in early too.  I'm beat!  A long day tomorrow, so I probably won't walk tomorrow either.  I don't know how long it's going to take to install the heater. 

Oh yeah, on another note, Yesterday I forgot to mention that my all-time favorite wrestling company, TNA IMPACTwrestling landed a new TV Deal with Destination America, which is a Discovery Network channel.  That is so so so so so so so so so so AWESOME!!!!!  People have been saying for the last few months that TNA was going to die at the end of this year because they parted ways with their current home, SpikeTV.  I knew and had faith that they would live on and yesterday was that day!  They made the announcement all over the internet and it was in the news.  Now, my favorite IMPACT wrestlers will be living on with TNA for many more years to come.  So much for the haters saying they were done.  "WE'RE STILL HERE BITCHES!!!!!"  hahaha :D  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Five

Woke up this morning but I didn't do my walk right away.  It was so freakin cold outside and inside!  I didn't want to get out of the warmness of my bed.  So yeah, I stayed in bed until the sun was high in the sky.  After that, I woke up and fired up my new computer with the goal of getting some stuff done.  Lisa cooked me some breakfast before she headed off to school.  After she left, it was sometime before 11am.  I updated my computer and that took forever!!!  So while I waited, I went out and did my 3 miles.  Nice walk and so peaceful!  I did not run into anybody down there.  Just a swift, quiet walk with just me, Cody and Cooper.  I love walks like that because I can totally focus on my pace and get it done quickly.  That really builds up my heart rate and it keeps me at a strong feel through the whole thing.  Whenever I run into someone down there, I usually have to stop or slow way down just to hold my dogs back from running off or else they stop me and start talking, ugh!  I really am not down there to socialize!  I just want to exercise.  So yeah, none of that today, I just got it done strong and quick.

After that, I cleaned up then waited.  My computer took all day :(  Only because I installed the latest Windows 8.1 and that crap took the rest of the afternoon and all day to finish.  Lees and I left home around 3pm.  We went to the church and got the church van, then we went back to my dad's place and hitched up his flatbed trailer.  That's what we're going to use for the Christmas float.  I had to air up a tire, hitch everything up, then get things loaded before we did that.  We didn't finally get to the church until around 5:40pm.  Some people showed up, but only my grandpa helped with the float.  It was ok though because we got a good idea of what we wanted and made plans for this Saturday to go over there and finish it up.  That'll be Awesome!  The parade is 2 weeks from tomorrow.  Crazy!

Well that was my day.  Lees and I gave this guy who was at church, a ride to where his family was going to pick him up.  He was a nice dude.  Then we came home and been here since.  Lees cooked some supper and me...oh man, I got so sleepy from the day that I dozed off.  I tried watching IMPACTwrestling but I fell asleep.  I awoke long enough to eat, then watched a lil tv, but then I couldn't take it and decided to go to bed.  Here, rather than sleeping, my computer was finally done updating and loading up so I decided to finish it up and then write this blog.  So yeah, that was my day.  Now, I'm really going to sleep.  It's been a long day and my eyes are getting ready to just shut on me.  Until tomorrow, Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Four

Woke up early this morning...freezing lol.  Got dressed then headed out and did my 3 miles.  Nice walk today!  Cody and Cooper came with me, happy as ever.  I'm really keeping an eye on Cody though.  I'm pretty sure that crazy dog hurt his paws on his rear legs, or maybe it's the front.  It's hard to tell, but he can't really jump lately.  Ugh, he's just a very stubborn dog.

Did some work today, hauling off trash and cleaning up the place.  I'm also finally working on my side road into my property.  I borrowed some of my dad's tools and I'm winterizing my place, and picking up nails and metal so I can open my road up.  Lots to do and tomorrow is when we start on the Christmas Float.  Hopefully that goes ok, but it's gonna be tough especially if the weather is bad.  This cold icy weather is hardcore.

My grandparents came by this afternoon.  My grandpa is measuring the spot where I'm going to put in my wood pellet stove.  Hopefully we have that in by next week.  I'd like to have this place toasty warm by Thanksgiving.  We shall see!  They also bought me some groceries today.  I love my grandparents so much.  They're always looking out for me and helping me whenever they can.  It's a real blessing to have them in my life.  My crazy uncle, I hear from my grandpa, is out drinking again.  That guy is such a freakin disappointment to the entire family.  Now I hear he's getting my grandpa in trouble because he's working on people's cars but he's doing it down at my grandpa's house, using his shop.  So, when he gets these cars, he does a lil work on it, then he takes off drinking so their car ends up sitting there at grandpa's for weeks.  The people get tired of waiting, so they keep calling grandpa asking if my uncle has their money he owes them.  Apparently, these people give him an advance, so he takes off drinking and doesn't do the work, so they want their money back.  Then they just start harassing grandpa about it because they have no other contact because no one knows where my stupid uncle is.  Anyway, grandpa ended up paying one of his debts and right now, he's kinda scared about having to do that again because my uncle is currently working on a car and it's down at grandpa's right now.  The people are already starting to call grandpa wondering where my uncle is.  Damn that makes me mad!  I told grandpa to not pay any more of his debts and to tell these idiots to go look for my uncle themselves and get him to pay them.  It's really upsetting me to think that my grandpa's own son is putting him and his mom thru this.  Pisses me off!!

Anyway, that's all I've got for today.  I'm still playing with my new computer!  This thing is so Awesome, I can't begin to describe it.  I tossed my old computer.  Took it outside and smashed the crap out of it.  I was so tired of that thing!  This one, it's so nice, new and fast.  No constant crashing, just easy going computer things.  I love it!  Ok, I am pretty beat right now.  Another big day tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Three

Ok, today was a day to remember!!!

This morning, I woke up early and did my 3 miles.  Cody kinda worried me because last night when I was working on his house, he was crying and whining!  It looked like his front paws were bothering him, or one of them anyway.  He was still doing it this morning and I noticed that he had a huge sticker stuck in his front paw.  I took it out and he seemed ok.  Well, this evening when I was feeding him, I usually hold up some meaty bones for him and he'll jump up and snatch'em out of my hand.  I did that, and he yelped like he was in pain.  Dammit, he probably did something to one of his legs.  Crazy dog!  So I'll have to keep an eye on him over the next few days.  See what happens!

So Lisa went to school today at the usual time.  Oh boy it was sooo cold last night.  It dropped down to 16 degrees apparently.  We got thru it though, so did my animals.  I'm so glad too.  Anyway, when Lees got home from school, she took surprised me with this huge frozen turkey!  Dang, this thing is Big!  Big enough bird for a whole family lol.  She put it in the freezer, then we headed up town.  She took me to Home Depot so I could get some weather strip and sealant to block out the cold air coming in thru my front door.  After that, we came home and she cooked lunch.  Before that, though.  She was staring at me a bit, then she got really happy and said that she made a decision.  She said to me, "I wanna give you your Christmas gift early!"  I'm like, Ok.  She tells me to sit down and cover my ears and hum.  At the time, I was thinking "hum...oh man, I hope she didn't get me a puppy or a kitten lol."  Not that I would've minded, but I just didn't know what I was goin to do with him if she did so I was tryna think.  Anyway, she comes back inside and lays something heavy on my lap.  She told me to open my eyes.  It was wrapped in her jackets.  I unwrapped the jackets and saw this big black thing wrapped in plastic.  I lifted it up and it took a while to really sink in....then I burst out in joy!!!!  I said, "LISA IS THIS A COMPUTER?!!"  She said, Yes!  My best friend bought me a new computer for Christmas!!!!!  Oh my gosh, I was so so so happy!!!  I had been wanting a new computer because the other one kept crashing over and over.  I hated it!  Well she really surprised me.  She said she had just picked it up today and the place she bought it from, gave her that huge turkey because she was a VIP member.  I was so happy, you wouldn't believe it!  I hugged her over and over and thanked her again and again!  This is the greatest Christmas gift yet.  Right now, I'm writing this blog on this new computer!  It's a fance, All in One HP Pavilion 23 computer.  This thing is so cool.  It's one of the latest models that exist today!  I didn't know they made these kind of computer!  It's totally Amazing!!!!!

Anyway, that was my huge surprise.  All day I've been playing around with it.  I got it all setup and hooked up my internet and everything.  It's an Awesome machine.  Can't wait to learn more about it because it has so many apps and features that is goin to take me a while to learn and experience.  Very cooly Awesome gift hahaha!!!!

Ok, that's about all for today.  Oh I got my front door all sealed off too, so now it shouldn't get too cold.  Last night because the wind was blowing this icy air, it got quite cold even with our heater on.  This time, it's nice in there.  Ok, I'm pretty tired so I'm gonna fiddle around with my early Christmas gift a bit more, then head on to sleep.  Fyrescape just got more Awesome today lol.  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred Two

Brrrrrr....omg it is/was/still is super freakin COLD today!!!  So cold, in fact, that I totally blew off my walk.  Screw that, man!!!  This morning was so cold, as soon as I crawled out of bed, I was freezing.  I haven't really winterized my place yet.  My front door has open creases around it, which sux.  My cats tore out that weather strip, so I get a cold draft coming thru my front door.  I need to work on that!  Tomorrow I will.  It's been super windy all day, since last night.  I was so worried about my pets outside.  It was freezing!  Looks like we got some kinda cold front that blew in here.  It's been cloudy the last couple days.  Today was bright and sunny, but an icy wind was blowing all day.  I can't wait until we get our wood pellet stove.  We really need it about now!


This morning, church service was Awesome!  Good message.  The pastor used me and Lees as visual aids while he gave a message on Adam and Eve hahaha.  It was funny!  Lees and I stood up in front of the church while he preached his sermon and used us to speak certain lines.  It was funny.  We had everyone laughing.  That was a nice moment in church.  I also scheduled plans to work on the Christmas float this coming Wednesday evening.  Well, depending on how cold it is.  If it's anything like today..oh man I don't know. 


After service, Lees and I went to lunch with my mom and dad.  We followed them to Aztec and ate at this Chinese restaurant that we'd never been to.  It was nice!  Really good food there.  Nice to spend time with them again.  My brother and sister didn't tag along this time.  Just us.  Dad also asked me to join him on his very last hunt of the season which doesn't happen until January, but I agreed.  So, I've got another elk hunt coming up in January!  That should be something.  I just hope it ain't cold like today.  Oh man, it's so cold. 


When I got home, I did lots of work outside.  I made Cody a nice little hut that he can sleep in that should be warm for him.  I wanna buy some straw bails and divide it up between him and Cooper so they can sleep on it at night.  Now I won't have to worry about them tonight.  Cooper, I still have work to do on his area, but it got dark on me so I didn't finish, but he's got a wind breaker over there now so he shouldn't have the wind blowing into his dog house tonight.  That'll be good.  I also gotta work on my cat's house tomorrow.  Ugh I just hope the wind is not blowing.  If not, then it'll be all good.  I came in about an hour ago and my face was numb from the cold.  The mountain up the road from here is covered in snow so it's really been winter time over here.  Snow, wind and even rain, which is what we got yesterday and last night.  Then the rain froze, so yup.  Crazy weather!


Well, that's pretty much all I've got for today.  I hope to walk tomorrow, but if it's the same, I may not.  I need to get me a ski mask before I start doing my walks in the morning during this kind of weather.  I sure needed one tonight because my face froze!  Anyway, another day tomorrow.  Hopefully warmer lol.  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred One

Brrr it was pretty cold last night!  I woke up freezing.  I can't wait until we get our pellet stove.  I could really use that thing about now, especially Lisa.  It gets pretty darn cold in the house at night and back where Lisa's room is, that area really gets cold.  My room is no different!  Grandpa said he should be putting his new one in on Monday so anytime after that is when I'll be getting it.


So, I woke up this morning about 7am.  I got ready then went out and did my 3 miles.  Lisa came with me.  It was a nice, swift walk!  I was sweatin pretty bad when we got home.  Lees and I had some good conversation during the walk.  One thing she mentioned to me was about my 6 miles that I used to do, or did all summer.  I told her that I really want to get back to the 6 miles.  Seriously, I loved that but lately I've only been doing 3 because of my knees.  My mom suggested to slow down a bit and not to walk as much because of my knee.  I took her advice, as well as Lisa's.  Mom wanted me to stop entirely until my knee was fully healed.  I said, No Way Man!!!  I can't just sit on my butt and not do anything.  So, I just cut my walks down to 3 miles for the time being.  Once my knees strengthen up, I'm going to go back to 6 miles.  Until then, it's ok doing just 3.  It's not like that's nothing.  I mean, come on, three miles! Wow, that is a lot especially to do on a daily basis. 


Well, it rained today.  Right now, it's really cold outside.  My little dog, Jayde, she's been acting strange today.  I think she's just cold, but I really don't know.  It's pretty cold out there and my idiot Cody, he's just laying out in the open.  Right now the wind is blowing and it's pretty nippy in the house.  Can't imagine what that dog is thinking, just sleeping out in the open.  I need to go out there and check on him.  I'm so tired right now.  Sleepy!  I didn't go anywhere today, but still it was a long day.  Well, that's it for now.  Until tomorrow, another great day ;)  Goodnight!

Day Two Hundred - REST DAY

Wow, today marks Two Hundred Days of Fyrescape!!!  That is Amazing ;) This is by far, the longest I've ever kept up an exercise routine!  I'm so proud of myself and I'm very thankful to God that I was able to lose as much weight as I have and that I've gotten healthier over these last several months.  It's indeed been an Amazing journey!


I celebrated that by taking a Rest Day haha :D  Honestly though, I was just so tired most the day.  This morning I woke up on the couch at about ten minutes before 5am.  I jolted awake by the sound of my cat fighting outside. Oh man, I jumped up, fiddled around for my glasses, then staggered to the front door and struggled to open it because I was till asleep.  Finally I got it open and ran outside.  Only my cat was there.  He was fighting this big white cat that comes around eating their food.  I'm trying to catch it so I can haul it off because it's just being a nuisance!  He's eating all my cats food, now he's fighting with my oldest cat.  Pisses me off!  I need to invest in a cat trap.  Anyway, the rest of the day I was just dragging.  I took a nap about 11:40pm and I slept until a bit after 1:15.  That was very much needed sleep.  It kept me going the rest of the day!


This evening was cool.  My mom wanted a family night out so I met up with my dad, brother, sister and her.  We all went to eat dinner at Red Lobster.  It was nice, but there were sooo many people there.  We had to wait 45 minutes in the lobby before we got seated.  While I was there...I've gotta say.  There was this girl that walked into the lobby.  I say, this was the hottest, sexiest girl I'd ever seen in this town.  She looked like a model.  She came in and totally stole the show.  She had on a super short and super tight white and black dress on with high heels.  Her hair was styled really nice and she had on a small coat.  She looked Amazing!  I couldn't take my eyes off her at first.  She actually turned toward me and we locked eyes with each other for a few moments.  Total eye contact!  It was really nice.  I got totally lost in her for those few moments.  They, of course, her dude walks in.  Now this guy, oh man this dude did NOT match her at all.  She was this skinny dude who dressed in jeans and just really drab looking.  She looked like she rode to the restaurant in a limo and he looked like he rode a skateboard.  They just did not match at all.  That also pissed me off lol.  I thought to myself, how does a guy like that get a woman like her?!  Well, I'm sure I'll have my time one day.  I meet women all the time but the ones I meet are awful and by that I mean their personalities.  They're very selfish and inconsiderate!  Every one has been the same.  I've never met a woman like that one who walked into the lobby.  I hope to one day!


Anyway, the family night was great!  They took me home afterwards.  It was cool to be with everyone.  I wish Lisa could've came with us but she was working.  She loves Red Lobster.  Ok, well I'm going to sit in the living room for a bit, maybe watch a movie if I can stay away, then I'm going to fall into a deep sleep.  Until tomorrow ;)  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Nine

I woke up pretty early this morning!  I was feeling so refreshed and energized.  I went outside and greeted my animals.  It was warm outside and cloudy, so I know it was snowing season.  I heard that down south from us here it snowed.  Down in Santa Fe and Albuquerque.  Crazy!  It didn't snow all day though, but it sure looked close.


I spent the day updating my Facebook page and getting groceries.  I got some dog food and some more propane.  We also so my grandma at Walmart.  She came up and hugged me.  She said that she was just thinkin of me just when she saw me haha.  She wanted to ask me to change out a light bulb for her sometime later that day.  My grandpa is out doing a job down in Silver City along with my cousin.  So this evening before it got dark, I went over there and did that for her.


Now because I didn't walk this morning, I wasn't going to let that stop me.  At 5pm, I went out with Cody and Cooper, to do my 3 miles.  It was Awesome!  First time walking in the evening since summertime.  It starts to get dark about 5:30 so it got dark on me out there.  I kept up a really swift pace though and finished it in just over an hour.  That was surprising.  The dogs had a great time and were so happy to be out there in the evening time.  Again, I saw that dang ShyGuy down there!  I swear, that dude just wanders around down there all day!  I mean, I see him in the mornings when I go down there to walk, then when it was about to get dark, seriously?!  He's down there again!  Ugh, that just irritates me like crazy!  Oh well, whatever!


But I'm glad I got my walk in for the day!  I'm also starting to drink more water.  I did that today.  Anyway, after I got home, my sister came by and we had a long talk.  She wanted to talk to me about a scary dream she had.  We talked for about 3 hours.  It was nice!  She's struggling with certain things but I know she's strong and that she'll fight hard.  She seems to be coming back to God and putting her faith back in Him.  I told her that that was all she needs to do!  She was once a very strong Christian girl, but she just drifted away, then her life turned dark.  Now, thankfully, she's coming back.  I thank God for that everyday!  I pray she continues this positive path she's on.  I told her it wouldn't be easy, but that it would be totally worth it!


Well, that was my day.  Got my exercise in and had a pretty busy day.  Now it's time to relax a bit, then go to sleep.  Until tomorrow ;}  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Eight

Guess what...I woke up on the couch again this morning hahaha :D  It's cool though because I had my heater on and I was so warm all night long.  I awoke rested and feeling great!  I went out and did my 3 miles.  Lisa was still mad this morning lol.  I didn't see her until I got back from my walk.  Cody and Cooper came with me and they were great dogs as always.


I stayed home the rest of the day finishing up all work.  I wanted to go outside and work on my yard, but probably not until tomorrow.  I'm writing this blog kinda early because I won't be able to get back on the computer later on.  I'm gonna head up to Sams Club and get a few groceries.  I bought this movie a few days back called, 'The Christmas Candle'.  I actually took my whole family out to watch that last December.  Dad chose the restaurant and Mom chose the movie.  I didn't want to watch it, because I wanted to watch a different one with Christian Bale, but since it was she and my dad's birthday night out, I let her choose.  It was actually pretty good.  It'll be my first Christmas movie of the year ;}  Lookin forward to it!


Well, that's about all for today.  I feel so great that I got all my stuff done on the computer and I finally got caught up on my blogs.  I'm never goin to let that happen again lol.  Anyway, have a great evening.  Be safe! 

Day One Hundred Ninety Seven

Ok as far as sleep and rest goes...ugh today was terrible!!!  I woke up on my couch at like 5:00 this morning. Bad thing was I didn't go to sleep until 2am.  So yeah, only about 3 hours of sleep.  I still had some things on my computer to catch up on so I stayed up and finished it.  Anyway, I woke up because my cat was fighting some damn stray that keeps coming around.  I'm trying to catch that thing.  He's this huge white cat.  He comes around and eats my cats' food and now they're fighting.  That's what woke me, so I ran outside and chased it off...again. 


Anyway, I stayed up and finished up my stuff.  Afterwards, I did my 3 miles.  The walk was really tiring today and I know that was because I didn't get much rest.  I still finished pretty strong.  The rest of the day I had some runarounds to do.  Went up and met one of my uncles because he got some scrap boards from his work so he gave'em to me.  I'm goin to use that to build our Christmas Float.  After that I took them and unloaded them at the church.  Later, I went to see my dad and get the trailer measured so I can start planning the float design. 


Busy day.  Lisa was away all day.  She was doin whatever she was doin.  This evening, we went to my mom and dad's for dinner.  I mentioned before that we had this planned out.  It was great!  The food was Awesome.  Dang I was so so sleepy though.  My body started shutting down at 6:30 this evening.  I was over there yawning and trying to wake up.  After dinner we watched 'Hercules'.  Very Awesome movie and everyone enjoyed it.  I barely stayed awake throughout the movie.  The chair I sat in was so uncomfortable lol.  I got up with a strained back.  Sux! 


Well, now I'm home and it's time to go to sleep.  I'm going to watch tv a bit.  Lisa is in a bad mood, ugh I hate when that happens.  She's just my best friend, but she's also a woman and all those moody emotions that come with women, well she's got'em bad tonight.  Anyway, great day today!  Hope tomorrow is just as good.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Six

Today was a Great day!!  Woke up early this morning.  Went out and did my 3 miles.  I feel I'm ready for six miles again, but we'll see what happens.  My knees have been feeling great.  Lisa walked with me again today, which was Awesome!  We did a swift walk this morning.  I didn't take the dogs with me.  We needed to get the walk done quickly and usually the way it goes, I always end up running into someone down there and having to hold Cody back because they usually have dogs too, well that really disrupts everything and kills the momentum I had starting.  I hate that!


Stayed home today and got caught up on all my Fyrescape Blogs!  I had fallen so far behind and I needed to catch up so I can get this off my chest.  I write in this blog everyday, but because I have been so busy these last few weeks, I'd really slacked off and haven't been updating them on a daily basis.  That really needs to stop and it's going to.  From now on, I'm going to update this thing daily and keep up with the dates so I can put everything in there I need to put in.  Hallowed Eve 7 is over now, so is Halloween, so now I can finally put all my focus on here and keep up with everything.  Tomorrow, I want to try and clean out my weight room and really start hitting the weights.  I want to build up my muscle really good.  That's a part of my Fyrescape that I want to venture into, muscle building.  I think that would be Awesome! 


Well, I am worried about my dog, Cooper.  He needs to be dewormed.  I just can't seem to afford the medication for him though.  I swear the vets around here are leeches.  I'm sure it's like that everywhere, but damn they want to charge me for a vet visit, which is $60 alone.  Then whatever it costs for the pills they want to put him on.  That's gonna be another $40 or $50.  I wish these ppl would do it because they love and want to help animals.  I mean, geez that's why I would do it if I were a vet.  I would never let an animal suffer.  If someone couldn't pay, I'd still want to help their animal so I'd have them pay me whatever they could and then help their animal.  But no, that's not how business works around here.  Money first, or you're out in the damn streets.  So I'll take Cooper in probably next Friday, if things stay on a smooth course.  My deer should be ready for pick up sometime next week, hopefully.  If not then, the week after.  That'll have been 3 weeks.  Seems kinda soon though, but whatever.


Well I'm going to go feed my animals now.  I'm so happy and glad I got caught up on my blogs tonight.  Been workin at it for a while now.  Thank all of you who read these.  I'm glad someone does ;)  When Lees gets off work, we're gonna head up to Walmart.  Maybe I can buy another movie with the wrong BlueRay in there lol.  That was fun!  Anyway, until tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Five

Woke up early this morning and did my 3 miles.  Lisa came with me again.  It's so cool how she's wanting to get back in it.  She just pushes herself too hard at school and with her job also.  I'm constantly talking to her about that and trying to get her to loosen up and not take on so much worry or stress over unnecessary things.  She has a problem doing that a lot.


Church service was good.  I got there late because I was trying on several different clothes and trying to get comfortable with something.  I couldn't find anything.  A couple years ago, my mom took me up town one evening and bought me several pairs of pants from the mall.  I got pants, shirts, and some other clothes.  Over the years, I probably only wore 2 pairs of those pants she bought me and that was only occasionally.  Reason being was because they were tight on me, some were.  I don't know if they fit me when I tried them on, I can't really remember.  Basically though, I put on more weight after I got them.  Last year, I could wear them but they were pretty tight.  Well, now I can wear them...only problem is that they are too big!  They feel so rough too because I'm used to wearing those loose running pants all the time.  So jeans really feel rough and stiff.  It's hard to try and get used to.  I really wanna start wearing jeans full-time again, but these jeans I have now, they're really big.  They look like clown pants now.  The legs are so baggy and they're really long.  The waist area is big so when I walk, they slowly start inching their way down and eventually they'll start to pull my underwear down with them.  I have to keep pulling them up.  When I lose some more pounds, they're gonna be falling right off me constantly.  I'll need a belt, but even then they're gonna be huge, like clown pants.  Anyway that's why I was late to church.  I thought I could wear some jeans to church this time and tried some on.  They were just too uncomfortable because of how big they were.  I'm goin to see what I can do though because I wanna start wearing them.  I'll just buy a belt, but I need to do something to them to make them not look so burly.


After service, I had all the members and ppl who wanted to participate, stay for a meeting.  Pastor announced it to everybody before service and after.  So I conducted the Parade Meeting.  I sat everyone in the sanctuary and we tossed our ideas around and came up with an Awesome idea for our Christmas Float.  I think it'll be nice!  It's something we haven't done in several years.  Pastor is excited and he's going to be walking, passing out candy and invitations to our church.  That man is such a blessing!  I was really surprised when he volunteered to help out and walk.  For years, I've been trying to get our pastors to get active and participate.  Never had one that was willing.  Last year, that crazy guy we got was sort of involved, but then he got greedy and then all that craziness happened so we cut him loose after a very hard fought battle.  He was so manipulative and he almost stole our church away from us.  But with God's help, we prevailed and to this day we're so thankful for that!  We had a few guest pastors from Sunday to Sunday after we finally got rid of that bad preacher.  Then one day, our Pastor now, Pastor Johnson, came along.  He didn't know the story of what really happened between us and the previous guy, his name was Bridge.  I don't refer to him as a pastor though because that man was the furthest thing to it.  He was lying up on the pulpit.  Lying about our former pastor.  We found a Wanted by US Marshals poster of him, which he also lied about.  And, he'd been married 3 times.  So he was an ex con, or so we hope.  For all we know, he may have still been Wanted.  Former drug trafficker apparently.  Anyway, he practically tried taking over our church and kicked all of us who voted him in, he kicked us out.  We fought him for about a month.  He would not leave!  We even had the cops involved and tried to get rid of him, but they couldn't do anything because he hid behind our church bylaws.  He even had the higher ups in the Baptist Convention on his side, so they were no help to us when we asked.  Nobody would help us and we had tried everything.  Bridge was so manipulative and he was evil.  Like I mentioned, he lied and everything.  Oh, he also went thru all our church money.  We had a good amount of money in our checking account.  He spent All of it and we don't know what he spent it on.  Him and his wife never paid any bills either, when they were in charge.  It was just chaos!  So anyway, when we finally got rid of him, he ended up spreading lots of horror stories about us to everyone.  Our Pastor now, Pastor Johnson, he didn't know the story so at first, he was actually trying to convince us to settle things with Bridge and ask him to come back to our church.  LOL!!  Needless to say, that didn't make him too popular amongst our members who just survived this hardcore battle with Bridge.  Anyway, we eventually explained everything to him and now he knows.  Now, his feelings are completely different.  He's completely in support of us and he does not agree with anything Bridge did.  He helped us recover from that situation and now we've built up some of our money.  He's been a wonderful Pastor and he's doing great thing.  God really blessed him with a gift of bringing His word to all of us every Sunday.  It's wonderful!  Anyway, I've been working with him a lot.  He helped me out so much for Hallowed Eve 7.  Now he's pushing me to do great with the Christmas Float.  I'm also planning a Christmas Program, so he's excited for that too.  It's just going really great right now!


Wow, that was long lol.  Sorry I got carried away.  Talking about Bridge always brings back all those memories of how bad it got.  It was crazy!  And those idiots up at the Convention, they're still mad at us for getting rid of him.  They don't know what he was doing at our church because he lied to all of them.  In their eyes, he's a good preacher and we just ganged up on him and got rid of him because we didn't like him.  That is a total lie!  This man was awful and he was doing some really really bad things in our church, not to mention he kicked us all out and was telling some of our members that they weren't welcome in God's house.  You believe that?!  He was turning ppl away from God's house!  That was one thing that really upset Pastor Johnson.  He said that Everyone is allowed in God's house and that no man alive has the right to say that to anyone!  So yeah, that's who and what Bridge was.  So because he lied his butt off to everyone, he got everyone to see us all in a negative light.  We don't care though.  We're a strong church and now we have a wonderful Pastor who's doing great things for God.  We've truly been blessed and our membership is slowly growing.  My work with the church has been really great and everyone is excited for the coming months, especially with the success of Hallowed Eve 7 and now with the Christmas Float and Christmas Program. 


Tonight mom invited me over to their house for dinner.  It's so cool, I've been spending so much time with them lately.  I just wish Lisa was there with us too but she's always working.  She's been working so much these last few weeks, only having one day off so it's been tough.  Mom made plans for this coming Tuesday.  She's going to cook a ham and she invited us over again.  She's happy because she'll be off on Tuesday.  So, we're really lookin forward to that.  I'm also going to bring 'Hercules' over.  They were all excited to hear I bought that movie and they wanna watch it so we're gonna do that after dinner on Tuesday as well.  That'll be fun!


Ok well that's pretty much all I've got for today. Lots of words haha :D  Well, it's been a long day so I'm going to just relax and then fall into a deep sleep a lil later!  Thanks for reading.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Four

Woke up early this morning and did my 3 miles.  It was so cool because Lisa went with me this time.  She hasn't been out there in months.  She has been super busy with school and everything so she's really slacked off on exercising.  So she came out and walked with me today.  That was really cool!


The rest of the day was pretty mellow.  We went up town and did a few things.  Then, Lees went to work.  She and I sure don't spend much time together anymore.  She's my best bud but we don't hang out as much.  She's either at school or she's at work. 


Tonight was super fun!  Dad called me up and said he was going to go watch another movie with my sister.  They wanted to go see 'Fury' with Brad Pitt.  I told them I'd tag along so dad came and picked me up.  We went up to the mall to watch it.  Saturday night so there were quite a few ppl there.  Crazy thing too because just when dad got up to the ticket booth, the movie Sold Out.  Awwww :(  So we talked about which movie to go see and we decided on 'Nightcrawler'.  Oh man, now that was an Awesome movie!!!!!  I had really wanted to see that one when it came out, but didn't get the chance.  So it had started just about 10 mins after Fury and we decided that was the one.  Yup, such a great movie!  My dad really liked it, so did my sis.  Tonight I told Lisa about it also and now she really wants to see it lol.


Anyway, after the movie we came on home.  That was really fun!  I got to hang out with my family two nights in a row.  Those are priceless moments!  Over the weekend, I bought a few movies also.  I bought 'Hercules', 'Maleficent', and 'A Christmas Candle'.  I got two of them early Friday morning around 1am, which I forgot to mention.  The other one, Hercules, I got this morning.  We cruised up to Hastings and I finally found it.  Walmart didn't have it.  I'd been looking all week.  I swear, that dang store never has Anything anymore!  I really need to get groceries too but I'll probably put that off until sometime this upcoming week.


Ok, well that is about all I've got.  A lil secret of mine, I really wanna get back to that rapid weight loss I had over the summer.  I feel like I'm still losing weight, but it halted to a slow decline now, like really super slow.  My body is so used to the walking and I really need to start building up again and doing so much more.  I'll be working on that very soon, I can feel it.  Ok, time to snooze it up for the night.  Until tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety Three

Wow today was a really busy and cool day!  This morning I went to help a friend from church pick up a desk he bought from a store in town.  He doesn't have a vehicle so my grandma asked me to help him out.  I did that.  Went over there and picked up his cabinet.  Then I took it back to his house where Lisa met us.  She helped me carry it in.  This friend is an older man and he has some health issues so he couldn't help out.  It was cool though because we got it in his house and set it up for him. He was really happy!  Lees had to leave early from home this morning so we didn't meet up until after the cabinet.  We took her car back home, then we headed back into town and paid some bills then got some fish at Long John Silvers.  uuuuggghhh I should NOT have eaten their food.  I felt so freakin bloated afterwards.  We ate about 1pm.  By the time Lisa got to work at 3:00 I was still full.  Dang, I think that food was super greasy.  Grease is one thing I cannot eat much of.  My stomach doesn't agree with it.  Anyway, about 3:40pm my mom called and asked if I wanted to join them for dinner and a movie.  I sure wasn't gonna pass that up so I agreed.  We went to watch 'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day'.  It was my second time seeing that movie.  The first for everyone else.  My sister went with us and that was so fun.  My brother, though, he didn't wanna watch that movie so he stayed home.  He met us for dinner afterwards, though.  Oh man, that movie was so funny.  Everyone had a great time watching it.  We ate at Fuddruckers afterwards.  Ugh!!!  Dang I was still so full from that crazy fish.  My stomach was so bloated and did not feel good.  I didn't want to be rude or disappoint anyone though so I ordered some food.  I got a small burger, though I don't know if that's really what they got me because my hamburger was HUGE!  I didn't even finish it.  I was so full afterwards, then on our way home, my dad pulls into Dairy Queen.  OMGOSH NOOOO!!!!  I got a small cone.....I only finished the top part of it.  I can't begin to tell you how freakin full I was.  My stomach was hurting.  I felt so bloated from that damn fish from earlier.  It was horrible!!!  So I just saved that ice cream for Lisa.  I'm sure she'll eat it.  Better than throwing it way.  Well, right now my stomach feels like it's ready to pop so I'm going to lay down for a bit then maybe I'll get up and watch a movie or somethin.  Well, it was a very fun day and I'm so happy to have spent it with my family.  Lookin forward to another great day tomorrow!  Goodnight ;}

Day One Hundred Ninety Two

Got up this morning and I had this cleaning bug in me!  I suddenly wanted to get done some things I really wanted to get done.  So when I woke up, I cleaned up, then I started.  I cleaned my room and put lots of things away.  I did some other stuff and more cleaning.  Put some of my tools away.  Basically everything I've wanted to do since Hallowed Eve 7.  Now, they are all done.  I didn't finish until about 10:15 this morning.  I still wanted to get my walk in too.  I didn't want to skip that, so I did my 3 miles after that.  Got that done!  I'm so proud too.  I didn't make any excuses or tell myself that it was too late in the day.  I finished it out nevertheless ;)


The rest of the day was pretty plain.  I moved my room around and finished up some other stuff.  Got in some relaxation time and tonight I enjoyed a bright full moon.  I was having fun with my friends on Facebook tonight.  Told them it was time to go howl at the moon.  So yeah, now I'm gonna tell YOU that also!  My Wolf Moon is calling ;)  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety One

Back at it today!  Got up early this morning and did my 3 miles.  Finally got all that stuff out of the way.  My hunt is over.  Got, Hallowed Eve 7 finished.  Halloween is over.  My Chama Elk Hunt is over.  Wow, I can finally just relax and breath for the next 3 weeks, but during that time I'll be organizing and getting the Christmas Float ready.  We're gonna be working on that in the coming weeks, leading up to Parade Night on December 4th. 


Today was just a day.  I didn't do anything.  Cleaned up the house a bit, but it was my first day to just relax and be lazy and that's exactly what I did.  I did not do a thing today lol.  It was dad's last day off.  He's been off for the last two weeks for hunting trips.  He got his deer early and just relaxed the rest of the week.  Now I got my deer early too so he got to relax the rest of his vacation.  I'm glad because he works hard and now he can get his laziness on too and go back to work tomorrow fully rested :)


Well, I don't have much else to say.  Oh, watched IMPACTwrestling tonight!  Super Awesome show.  Lookin forward to next week's show ;)  Well, until tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Ninety - REST DAY

Yup, today was my Rest Day!  Dang my back muscles are sore today from lifting that deer.  I did all the lifting by myself.  I tried to not let dad do anything.  I'm paying for it today though lol.  I'm sore, but I feel great!  I slept in.  When I got up around 8:30am, I cleaned up and put on my nice black sweater that FITS ME NOW lol.  Then I drove up town and got some gas, then we to dad's and we loaded my deer in my truck.  We took it to the processor.  They took my deer and I ordered the exact kinda meat I wanted.  One thing I've always wanted was jerky so that's one thing I'm gettin made.  That and polish sausage, hamburger, steaks, and breakfast sausage.  It's gonna be great!  It won't be ready for about 3 or maybe even 4 weeks.  We'll see.


After that, dad and I went to vote.  Election Day!!!  We drove to two different places and got it over with.  We even saw Lisa at the second one.  I told her to come out and vote since it was morning.  Once she got out of school, she drove over and got hers in as well.  Mine took a while because after I voted, I needed to change my address since I no longer lived in the city limits.  That took a bit of time.  Anyway, we got it all done and headed home.


The rest of the day was so relaxing!  I was tired, oh man was I tired.  I fell asleep on the couch.  Lisa was off today so she spent the day at home with me.  She slept a lot too.  But, we got everything out of the way.  Now, time to get back to the norm ;}  This evening, Lisa and my Grandma cooked all the deer liver that I had.  Oh my gosh, soooo good.  Lisa did a great job on it.  When it was all cooked, I gave some to grandma, then I took some down to my grandpa and gave lots of it to my mom and dad.  My mom surprised us again.  She bought a really nice indoor propane heater so we can keep our place warm while we wait for Grandpa to take that Wood Pellet Stove out.  She was very sweet.  She said that she did not allow dad to turn on their furnace because Lees and I were without a heater at our place.  Now, we're gonna be warm until we get out new Pellet Stove.  It was such a great day! 


We took the rest of the cooked liver over to mom and dad's and had dinner there.  It was nice seeing my sister there.  She came with me and Lees down to my grandparents house.  They were very happy to see her.  It was such a great night!  Things have been so good.  Now, I'm home and ready to hit the sack soon.  It's been along but Awesome day!  Until tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Eighty Nine - 2014 New Mexico Deer Hunt

HAVE I GOT SOME NEWS!!!!!
I GOT ONE!!!!!  I GOT MY FIRST DEER IN OVER TWENTY YEARS!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!


Oh my gosh you have no idea how HAPPY and EXCITED I am!!!  Ok, so my dad and I went out hunting this morning.  He wanted to leave like at 5am this morning, but I'm like, No Way!  I told him we'd leave at 7am.  He didn't like that, but I didn't care.  It was my hunt, not his and I decide when we go out!  Anyway, we head out there at 7am and we hunted all day long!  The whole morning, we drove around all over.  The same places we'd gone last night.  My mom called this morning and wished she was out there with us, but sadly she had to be back at work today. 
Anyway we drove around and dad took me all around.  I didn't know the area at all.  Dad said I had went back there with him when I was a kid, but I don't remember it at all.  I know we did, but since I was just a spud, I'm sure I was off in my own world somewhere and didn't really pay attention to anything.  We just road hunted all morning.  I went out and did some short walks.  We'd get out and walk to the edge of a box canyon and look over the edge.  We saw deer Everywhere!!!!  Oh man, they were everywhere, but they were all doe's (females). That's my other rule, I never kill females.  I forgot to mention that yesterday.  On elk hunts, it's either sex.  Lots of guys kill cows (female elk) but me, No Way!  I will Never kill a female, I don't care if it's allowed.  No females and No babies.  Anyway, so we saw nothing but doe's everywhere.  No buck!  We stopped and had lunch about noon.  We ate sandwiches and had some laughs.  It was so nice being out there hunting once again with my dad.  There was way less pressure on us than last time too.  Up at Chama, we were walking and pushing ourselves like crazy.  Out there today, it was easy.  Mostly drove and just some short light walking.  It was nice! 


Well, after lunch we continued my hunt.  Still saw deer all over but no buck.  Toward evening time, we chased out some and really thought there were some buck in there, but nada.  Dad saw a buck, but it was so small, he wouldn't even call it a buck.  Said it wasn't even legal, it had a tiny 2 inch horn on it's head lol.  I called it a Spud.  Just a lil Spud hahaha.  Well it hit 5pm and the sun already started to go down.  We were heading out and driving down many roads trying to get back to the one we came in on.  I had no idea where we were at, but dad knew.  Just as the sun went down, it was still light and you could see, but the sun was down...I saw two good size bucks standing by the road.  I told dad to stop.  He didn't see them at first, but then he finally did.  He kept telling me, Hurry get it get it!  I got out of the truck and they just stood there looking at me.  Soon as I got out, I loaded up a bullet, then they had turned and began to walk swiftly away.  I got off the road...aimed.....*fire* ....I hit it! 
I hit it perfectly to where it couldn't run.  It was still alive though and it brought me back to when I was a kid, but this time, as an adult, I could handle the situation.  It was different too because my scope was totally fine.  I was calm and I went close to it and shot once more, putting it down.  We waited a few minutes and let it take it's last breath, then we went and got it.  It fell very close to the road.  It was about the exact same size as the one dad got.  Honestly, when they stood by the road, they were big, and he was big, but he also looked like he had a lot of points.  I thought he was atleast a 4 point buck, but no he was a fork.  Really good size fork though and he had some big horns.  Dad was so happy for me and I was very Very proud.  Right away, I prayed and thanked God for giving me the opportunity and for giving me the skill to do what I did.  God blessed me with a successful hunt and I am so very proud of myself.  I got my first kill in over 20 years.  I'm very happy to be able to provide meat to my family.  It was such a good, great day!!!


I loaded the deer up in back of my dad's truck and we headed home.  Called everyone.  Lisa was so very happy and excited.  My mom was really happy.  Everyone congratulated me.  My grandpa was happy.  My uncle wanted to see it so when we got back into town, we drove over to his house so he could see it.  He was happy and now he really wants to go hunting.  He was asking my dad to go Trophy Buck hunting with him next year haha.  After that, we headed back to my dad's and we hung the deer up in his garage.  Tomorrow, we're gonna take it to the same meat processor that he took his deer to.  I can't wait, and now all that pressure is off me.  My hunt is over, two whole days early ;D 


Now, I'm so happy and worn out.  I'm going to bed now!  Tomorrow will be Awesome.  Voting day too.  I was telling dad, hey now we can go vote haha.  Well, Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Eighty Eight

Woke up early again today and did my 3 miles!  I woke up feeling so positive today because of the great news and actions from my sister yesterday.  That really lifted everyone's spirits.  We're so happy and proud of her.  So far so good.  She's at work today so she missed service.  She works early in the morning until 3pm. 


The one thought that kept lingering in the back of my mind was my hunt.  It started yesterday.  My dad bugged me a lot about it.  For him, he's all into hunting.  He loves being out there.  Me, honestly, I love hunting but I haven't got a deer since I was about 12 years old.  That was that last time I actually bagged an animal.  That is a whole sad story all on it's own.  I love animals.  I always have, so hunting was always hard for me.  Yet, I've come to the conclusion that I do it because I want to provide food for my family, which God allows.  So that's why I hunt.  I have really strict rules though.  I never kill baby deer, and by that I don't mean just fawns.  I don't hunt anything that has less than 3 points, though I'll settle for a fork (2 horn points on each side) if he's a big, full grown deer, like the one my dad got on his hunt.  Those are good too!  But spike's (only 1 horn on each side) those I consider babies.  My first deer was a spike.  I only got that one because my dad kinda pressured me into it.  I was a young idiot kid too so I didn't know any better.  Well, long story short, I was not too accurate with a rifle back then and I think my scope was really off.  I shot this poor baby deer several times because I kept missing.  I messed it up pretty bad.  I felt so so bad, I remember crying.  I finally told dad to put it down for me because I couldn't hit it again.  Dad shot at it again, but the bullet missed so that's how he knew the scope was way way off.  I don't know what the hell happened to it.  Anyway, he finally put it down for me.  Since that hunt, all those years ago, I have never ever Ever bagged an animal.  I always felt I was being punished for what I did to that poor little deer.  All because that damn scope was off!!!!  Pisses me off when I think about it.  Anyway, so now I'm 33 years old and in the whole twenty one years I've tried to hunt, never have I got an animal.  So needless to say, when hunting comes around, I don't really care to go because I know I won't get one.  I try and try all the time.  For a few years I hadn't hunted so I was pretty green.  This elk hunt I went on a couple months ago, that was the first time I bow hunted in years, as I mentioned.  I'm over that whole "I'm cursed in hunting" thing though.  I was just a kid and I didn't know anything back then.  I sure wasn't a good hunter.  I think all those years, I just beat myself up over nothing.  I just never tried or put my whole heart into it whenever I hunted, so that's why I never got an animal. 
This year is different, way different, however!  I'm on my Fyrescape right now.  Fyrescape is a Journey of Change, of difference.  A New Beginning!  So I took my hunts seriously this year and I put my whole heart into it.  I almost got an elk.  Almost!!  I just wasn't very skilled at bowhunting so I missed :(  I know, next year if I go, I'll be better!  For sure ;}  I have pure confidence.  I came really close so I know that it's there.  Anyway, point is, I've just been so tired because of all I've been doing since that elk hunt.  Then with Hallowed Eve 7 and Halloween.  Now another hunt ugh lol.  So I'm not too enthusiastic about it, but dad sure is.  He really wants to take me out there.  So last night, he asked again and I finally broke. He wanted to take me and my mom out to where I'll be hunting, this evening.  So that's what we did. 
After church, Lisa and I went and got some lunch because she had to go to work.  Then, I went home, ate and waited.  About 3:37pm, my mom and dad came by and picked me up.  I had my hunting gear on.  Dad let me use his rifle, the same one he got his deer with.  Good thing too because I hadn't sighted mine in.  We went out there.  It only takes about 30 to 40 mins to get out there from here.  Because of the time change last night, though, it's now getting dark a lot sooner.  We got out there and only had a lil over an hour to hunt.  Then, a bit after 5pm, that's when it got dark.  We didn't see anything.  Drove around all over, but nothing.  We seen some tracks.  No deer though.  I had hoped that maybe we would see something, anything, but nada!  Oh well, so we left and headed home about 6pm.  By then it was pitch black out there.  We stopped in Bloomfield and picked up some food for tomorrow.  Me and dad are going out again in the morning.  I guess we're gonna hunt tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday.  That's the last day of the hunt, so hopefully I get somethin.  I have confidence!  Fyrescape ;}


Ok, I'm tired now so I'm going to relax a bit then hit the sheets.  Long day tomorrow.  Goodnight!

Day One Hundred Eighty Seven

Oh man Oh man, today was such a Blessing!!!!


First off, I got up early today and I headed out and did my 3 miles.  Had a pretty good walk.  On the way back though, I got a call today.  It was from....my sister :O  That was a surprise!  I answer it and she told me the most surprising news.  Right away, she said that our prayers have been answered.  She's gettin out!!!!  Getting out of her crazy lifestyle and leaving that whole situation behind and moving on with her life in a good and positive way!  I'm not going to sit here and plaster my sister business all over this blog.  Just know that she's finally seen the light at the end of this dark tunnel that she'd been lost in these past couple years.  She told me her story and how yesterday was really bad.  Today, she decided No More and that she's getting out!  She had already called my mom before me and told my mom that she was moving back to her house, and if that was ok, to which my mom was so happy and said YES!  So, my sister was at work when she called me.  I talked to her for a long time.  I gave her advice and told her what she needed to do.  She listened well.  She wanted my help, as well as the whole family's help.  Later, my mom called and told me to meet up at my sister's apartment and that we were going to help her move out TODAY and get her out of that damn place!  So I agreed.  Even our Pastor wanted to be there so he came along.  At 4pm today, we all met up at her apartment.  At first, my sister wouldn't answer her phone and the ppl she was living with kinda gave us a hard time, but our Pastor was really bold with them and wouldn't back down.  He is such a good man and he really cares for us all.  Finally, my sister came out and said "Let's Get Out of Here!"  I was so happy and proud of her.  So we loaded up all her stuff into our trucks and got her out of there.  She left some of her stuff up there, but she did not want to go back there so she just left it.  We headed back home.  First, we all prayed together in the parking lot.  Pastor prayed and we thanked him so much for coming out and helping.  He was very happy my sister decided it was time for change.  Now we're all encouraging her to stay with it and to never look back.


She (my sister) wanted to talk with me still so after we moved her out.  I went home and she came by my place.  We talked for a couple hours here.  I talked to her the best I could and gave her lots of advice on how to handle this change in her life.  She seems to genuinely want this change and she felt so bad that she missed my mom's birthday.  She said that she just got tired of the life she was living and couldn't handle her situation anymore. I told her that we would forever be there for her and that there is so much more better out there.  She seems confident and positive about her future.  I'm just so glad and happy that she's home.  I missed my little sister so much!  I thank God so much that He brought her home.  God is so Good!!!!


It was a great day!  Lisa was very happy also that my sister made a change.  It was just such great news and the whole family is happy!  This evening, I took all our Halloween decorations down :(  Awww not until next year again lol.  I'm sure it'll be more fun next year.  Hopefully we'll be in California at Universal Studios for Halloween Horror Nights.  Oh man, I so want to go there sometime.  It looks Awesome there ;)


Tonight mom invited me over to their house for dinner.  They bought some stuff before they came home after we moved my sister out.  So for the first time in a long time, just my family and I, all sat at the dinner table and had a nice meal, laughs and a good time.  It was so fun!  I can't begin to say how positive things are within the family now.  I hope and pray that it continues this way and that one day, my sister does something extraordinary with her life :)


Ok, now I'm beat.  It's been a long but happy day!  Until tomorrow...Goodnight!