It has been right about a year since we moved back into our house. And what a year it has been. I've felt so behind on things and always feeling like I am trying to catch up. We finally opened those damned IRA accounts that have been just at the back of mind forever and setup an automated transfer to fund them every two weeks. I also put a savings plan in motion and a plan to pay off the little bit of credit card debt we've carried for a year, now. I am feeling much better about my job, my house, my finances and everything in general. All I can say is it is such a relief.

Now that I am all "caught up" on things, I am going to focus more on my weight and my body (and getting that Microsoft ceritifaction for my "mind" ). I am going to tell my trainer tomorrow that I really want him to work with me on "upper body building" and core strength/stabilization. I can do great on my own with body building the lower half of my body, but need some extra direction when it comes to the upper half. Hope he is up to. He seems to have a bit of a memory problem that I find fairly annoying.

My baby boy is going to be ten years old on Tuesday and I can barely believe it. I am the mother of a pre-teen! I've promised him a really big party for years when he turns 10 so we are really having fun with this one. I was not one of those parents who felt compelled to throw my child a party every year so this one is really pretty special for him--which is exactly the way I wanted it to be.

The neighbors next door are divorcing (finally). I've stuck my neck out and reached out to "him" because "she" has tried her absolute hardest to get him ostracized from all the joint friends. Makes me kinda sick, really. I feel sorry for him. She tried her hardest to get me to not like him, but I was able to see right through her plan and tune it all out. Besides, his son and mine are like brothers and I find him infinitely more stable/reasonable than her. LOL. I tried to talk her into this great big house swap where he could live in my house, we could live in their house and she can move into their rental house (farther away), but she wouldn't have any of it. She won't be able to afford to live in that huge place by herself, and he and I really want to keep the boys together, but she said that she refuses "to allow him to kick her out of her home." WHATEVER....hope that attitude helps out when all the bills have to be paid on that place.

Off I go to finish working for the day.