I have had a very busy week. I worked all week at the state police. I have been working overtime due to the increase in numbers of mail that comes into our office. I believe we are at least four days behind on entering the applications but that is okay. We are understaffed and we do what we can. I have been able to work over to get comp time for later. Hopefully this bad weather won't make use what time I have accumulated.

But the most inventfull that that happened was Saturday. I was at work when I got a call from my soon to be sister in law. Seems she, my brother and my mother-in-law went to Walmart only to break down on the way home. My mother-in-law, I'll call her Catty, lives south of here and she comes up to visit us. But she can't stay with us because we have no room so she stays with my brother and his soon to be wife. She drove her van up Friday afternoon and they decided they needed to go to Walmart in her van. Well, when she called I thought she was joking around but it was serious. The transmission is shot. It just quit - no noise - no bells - no caputs - no nothing. Just quit going in drive. Reverse won't work either - just neutral. Luckily I had our truck so when my husband got there they were able to pull it to our house with a chain.

So stress is what I face now. With Catty here, and by the way, we have to take her home Saturday, Christmas without presents because we don't have the money and didn't plan for it - is making the Holidays Blue for me.

My husband lost his full time job in October. He is now working a parttime job. I have been working over at my job and we just don't seem to have any money for anything.

I know we are in a recession and it is people like us who feel the most effects. I am thankfull for one thing and that is the price of gas has gone down. It sure is nice to fill up my tank in my car for only $14.00.

I know this has turned into a long blog but hopefully next year things will improve. At this point in time any improvement is better that what we have now.

Long time - No write

I know that I haven't kept my promise. I was supposed to write everyday or at least try to. I was supposed to keep this as a promise to myself to lose the weight. Well, I have no excuse. I have been so busy that I have put this blog at the back of my mind.

I found Facebook and some school friends. What lead me back to this was a post from a girl at school who decided to write about what it's like to be divorced. She laid her heart out there for everyone to see. She claimed to be a private person and so do I but as you can tell - this is not the place to write if you don't want the whole world to know what is going on in your life.

So here it is. I have 268 days left to fullfill my promise to myself to lose this weight that has burdened me for most of my 20's and all of my 30's.