I'm so happy it's Friday! This week has been so hard, lots going on in my personal life and the crazy is picking back up at work. I have to accept that most things, things that I am not solely responsible for or that belong to others, are out of my control and just have to wait and see what happens but that is the hardest thing to do. I am trying to keep positive and focused on my journey...basically I'm trying to mind my own business even though I see things I don't like happening that affect my loved ones.

So I bought more training sessions last night, not as many as I had hoped. I had planned on buying 24 but my car ended up in the shop and although I only $145 worth of the repairs done yesterday I now have to shell out another $800 next week so that trumped my training. I promised my husband that my training sessions would never impact our monthly budget and he made the same promise regarding "stuff" for the motorcycle. So I will buy more at the end of February when they run the next special. I totally plan on taking this all the way and then Elle and I will meet once a week, then once every two weeks, then once a month to tweak and make sure I'm doing ok without her but that's a ways off yet.

Tomorrow is time with my Grandson day and then Sunday is shopping for an outfit for my great, great nephew's baptism on Feb 15th. I have have pants but most of my dress blouses are way too big now and look sloppy. Can't go to church looking sloppy right! I hate shopping for myself so I enlisted a very close friend who has the patience of a saint and the ability to talk me off the ledge when I get frustrated and want to give up. I'm tall and that makes for difficulty in trying on all sorts of clothes the cuts are made to hit the right places for shorter or maybe average height women and I just don't fit that mold, even back when I was thin I had trouble finding clothes.

Anyway, gotta go now but first a positive quote that spoke to me today. It applies to every aspect in life , especially those who try to bring us down (we all know one or two).

"We need to find the courage to say 'NO' to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity."

~~ Dr. Barbara DeAngelis

Have a great day!