Random Thoughts

Well since I have to be totally packed in 6 days my work outs are changing drastically today and for the next 6 days. I won’t be doing much of anything except packing and stacking boxes for the next week. I think I literally ran up and down our stairs 15-20 times today so that should do me some good.

I leave next Tuesday which is just over a week away but I need to be totally packed by Sunday night or Monday which is pretty much a week from today. We have 60 days to be out of our house but in a week I will be gone for 6 weeks so as you can see there is no time for me to be doing anything but moving. I guess I better quit blogging and get back to packing.

My biggest hang up this week is going to be food. Who wants to grocery shop and cook when you have to pack your kitchen and it takes time to cook. I actually have had pizza twice in 2 days and my stomach is very much not pleased with me right now. I can’t do that anymore. I need to figure out how to eat healthy without stocking my kitchen and leaving a bunch of food to go bad while my husband moves us while we are gone.

My friend Margaret is bringing us an awesome dinner over tomorrow so that will definitely help. I guess reality is that I need to try and fit some more exercise in my schedule somewhere this week but not sure where.

Here we go!!!

So the bank would not refinance is nor would they work out a deal with us but they bought the house back and now have to kick us out, clean it up, then sell it again. Does this make any sense at all? We could have made the payments on the mortgage if they would have just refinanced us in the first place.

We were on one of those mortgages that the interest rate would rise every year for 4 or 5 years. If we could have gone back to the first year or even the second year’s payment we would not be in the situation we are now. I guess they can do whatever they want with the house now. We are packing and looking elsewhere.

I had enough packing with 2 young kids running around so my daughter and I took a break and made some paper flowers. I think it was something she saw on sprout the other day and I decided, “what the heck, let’s take a break.” I am attaching a picture of the finished product along with my cute daughter of course.

It was a nice break in a hectic day which followed a very hectic week.

The flowers were very easy to make. Cut out a flower and let my daughter color it and put it on a straw with some tape. Put different color paper in the center and taped that to the straw as well.

I made the vases with a piece of paper that I taped around 2 t-candles. The paper vase would tip over without them on the bottom. Smashed some tissue paper down in the vase and shoved the flower in. Both of them took about 45 minutes and my daughter thinks I am the best Mom in the world! It was fun and made my whole day better.

So far this week, my grandma has been in the hospital with heart attacks and I am a mess and our house made it to Sheriff’s sale today. Is this how I get rewarded for my positive thinking? As you can tell I am in more than a little “bump” in my positive thinking I am in a hole!

I am still trying to think positive but it is not working real well, will keep you posted as somehow I need to get out of this rut I am in. Can I scream now?

Today was the second attempt of the city’s Sheriff’s sale on our house and this time the second time was the charm I guess. We have not heard if the house even sold yet but it did happen.

I am trying not to get stressed about it but reality is stressing me out anyway. I called the Sheriff’s office today and asked how I could find out if my house was sold and they told me to call back and gave me a number to call and of course no one answered at all and the web site is not updated. I realize that we are being foreclosed on but how hard is it to answer a phone and let people know how long they have to be in their home? Very frustrating!

Hopefully we will find something out tomorrow.

I am glad last week is over but this week does have its own stresses. I am not allowing myself to get as down though and have been keeping up on my work outs so far.

I am still pretty tired and we have a lot of things going on this week and it has been hard but I have been lifting my 5 pound arm and leg weights for about 20-30 minutes, jumping jacks, jump rope, pushups and some abs work too. After I do that I have been jogging in front of the TV for at least 30 minutes. I cannot always jog at the same time I do the rest of my work out and the last couple nights I have literally jogged at 10:30 and 11:00 at night. It is difficult but I am forcing myself and I feel really good afterwards.

Tuesday nights are easy because I watch Living with Jillian and she inspires me to get off my butt and move. I find myself jogging her entire hour long show so that is good.

The work outs have actually been helping with my stress too. House went on Sheriff’s sale today and have not heard if it has sold yet, so I worked out a lot today to keep my mind off of it as much as I could.

This past week has been HORRIBLE! I cried for 4 days straight and finally got some relief yesterday as I decided I need to leave the house and go take my mind off things and visit friends in KY. It did help a lot.

On top of being upset with my husband for a few days my Grandma has been and is still in the hospital because of heart problems. So far she is still here, but things are not looking too good. I absolutely love my Grandma, she is one of my favorite people ever and this has been really hard.

I have not been sleeping or eating well and this has made me tired and every time I tried to work out I would puke, literally.

I am feeling fat and nasty again and I keep going back in my mind “go get some diet pills.” I use to do this all the time in the past and I would stop eating and take diet pills. I got sick so many times and it really does mess with my moods but I would lose a bit of weight so I would go on them til I got sick them go off of them.

I guess I am just looking for any control this week and I know that this is not control but for a few days it felt like the only control I could get.

I did get a 50 minute work-out in today and I am hoping things get better this week and this too shall pass. Right? AHHHHH!

I finally got to watch the movie Food Inc. tonight and I am so utterly disgusted I don’t even really know what to say. I even cried during it and spent 99% of the movie with my jaw hanging down to the floor.
All I can say is if you have not seen it I would suggest it. For anyone that wants our government to rule every little thing we do and not question it then you need to watch this move and tell me if you still agree. This is very disturbing and I will never ever allow me or my children to eat fast food again and am going to find different outlets other then the grocery store to buy my meat.

I just don’t get how our food industry has become so corrupt and the government does not stop it? We can’t even pass a bill to allow the USDA to close down industries that test positive for ecoli, salmonella, and whatever else, constantly? Ridiculous! We need to fight the government and make them change the way all these processes are done. We need to allow smaller companies like they had back in the 50’s, 60’’s and 70’s so we as people have a choice. We keep giving the government all this power but we don’t fight hard enough when they are severely screwing up like they are with our food.

How these slaughter houses and farms abuse these animals is horrible. Not giving the chickens any light at all and the hidden camera shows the abuse that they get. Cows and pigs in their own feces all the time and they are so close to each other they can barely walk. Disturbing!

I tried The Goddes Workout with Dolphina today and it was pretty good.  I could feel the burn in my thighs and it did make me sweat a little but not as much the other one I posted about with Veena and Neena.

I will do this one again for some variety and I like learning th edifferent moves as the two DVD’s definitely have different moves and they are fun and make you feel a little sexy so what the heck and the DVD’s are cheap so not a big deal.

I will still need to add some weights later or take the kids in the double stroller for a walk.  The stroller with the kids weighs about 90 pounds so if I go up a couple different hills it will be worth it, plus it calms the kids at night if I go right before bed time.

It has been a hard week and a half. I have tried every day to work out and have, but have not worked out as much as I need to. I have at least walked with my kids’ everyday or did some arm and a leg weight for a total of about 20-30 minutes per day but that is it.
Why…well I have been exhausted. My son is not sleeping right now due to the fact that he cannot breathe. We thought it was his allergies but the medicine was not helping. We finally went to the doctor and she thought that he might have an infection as well so now we are doing amoxicillin with the allergy meds and hopefully we will have some relief.

What I have been doing with the 20-30 minutes a day seems great if I want to maintain my weight but it is not enough for me needing to lose. I am heading to bed as soon as I am done with this post and if I can get at least 6 straight hours of sleep I should be able to bust out a 45-60 minute workout easy tomorrow. It is my birthday and I want sleep and a work out!

BTW: I HEART the new Jillian Michael’s series that started tonight, I believe it is called “Losing it with Jillian? “ It made me get off my tired but and I jogged for 25 minutes straight in front of the TV well I watched it.

We have been in our house for 2 ½ years well it has been in foreclosure. I figured I might as well share a little on how we have helped slow it down to take so long.

We were consistently 60 days behind our house payment for about 6-9 months. We were considering in January 2008 filing for bankruptcy and we were currently two months behind in our house payment. We had some awful things happen between January and March 2008 and we decided by April 1st that we were ready to declare bankruptcy and use the house in the bankruptcy as well. We then missed our April payment to make up a full 90 days behind and within a week we got foreclosure papers from the bank.

In May 2008 we filed bankruptcy and it took until July for us to get accepted into the bankruptcy court. Even though the house was already in foreclosure, filing bankruptcy brought that process to a screaming hault and the bank was forced to close the foreclosure until the bankruptcy was discharge. Discharging takes longer and even though we had court in July we were not discharged until October 2008. It took the bank until the end of November 2008 to send us paperwork again to start the foreclosure.

Well I can’t say that it is in any way “good” timing but for us it seemed to be good timing. Since the economy crash came on full force around the fall 2008 it took clear until July 2009 to get our first Sheriff Sale notice. So far we had been in our house now for a year and a half.

Obama passed a bunch of new housing laws and literally the day of the Sheriff sale the bank was forced to cancel it and send us an affidative to fill out and see if they could work out a deal with us to keep the house. Well it is now 9 months later and we got a second Sheriff’s sale notice in the mail and only because the bank lost our paper work we faxed to them 9 months ago. We sent in new paperwork almost 2 weeks ago and as we talked to the bank today they said that after they put in the information into their system they will then flag our account asking to have the Sheriff’s sale cancelled well they log in all our info. If it is accepted to stop the sale then it will take 12-14 weeks for them to review our paperwork and either work out something with us or put the house back up for Sheriff’s sale.

I am posting this because I am finding a lot of people in my life are going through or thinking about doing foreclosure and bankruptcy. If you want to milk it as long as you can file for bankruptcy as soon as you hit that 90 days or shortly after and let it takes its course as everything is really delayed right now and you could be in your house longer then we have been.

It is not that I want to live like this forever but since the bankruptcy we have $10,000 in medical bills hanging over our heads and I have been able to pay down half of it in just about a year and I could not have done that if we were making a mortgage payment.

I can’t wait to be back into a home that we own again someday and have our finances back to normal but for now this is how we have had to do it.