Lone Black Spider

One of the first things I did when I bought my new house, was check on line for Sexual Predators. Since I had such a messy divorce (my son who was 1 at the time had his own attorney!), I wanted to be sure my neighborhood was safe. Because of Megan’s Law, I was able to enter my zip code on line, and acess all the homes in the area that had registered sexual predators. I strongly believe that we should know if we have criminals as neighbors. Knowledge is power, it gives confidence and strength; all the things I need cuz there is just a single-mom, me, that lives in my house!

Originally posted Aug27 8:50am

Yesterday a few of us Parents had Board Of Review training for Scouts. It was a very good training session, but I just don’t agree w/some of the rule the BSA has. Of course, it is mostly the religous stuff. When the Boys ‘rank up’, they get reviewed by a groug of Parents; its like a interview. They ask the boys tons of stuff, like . . . what Leadership qualities they have and give examples, are they living the ’scout spirit’, and what they do in thier daily life to support their ‘duty to God’. This is where it gets tricky. According to BSA, a Scouts HAS to believe in a higher entity, spirit, God, or whatever you want to call it, in order to be a Scout. Well ! Me and my son, um, dont realy believe much in what we cant see or touch, we dont go to church as we sure as hell dont believe in any type of ‘higher entity’. I believe that we make and control our own lives, there is no one else but ME that makes my decision, runs my life or leads me in a certain direction; I take full responsibilty for my life.

Anyways . . . So now if my son wants to rank up in scouts to a Life, we will need to figure out a way to say what the Board wants to hear about God and religion, and to tell the truth, but do it in a sneaky way as to not incriminate ourself and flunk the Review! eGads,that one is going to take me a while; figuring out how to word the correct answer to: How, or What, do you do to support your Duty to God?

Originally Posted Aug26 2:11pm

My mother is as we speak, in Germay having a wonderful time. I want to write her a letter, but that would take forever to arrive, so I think I should call her instead. However, since I only have a Cell phone here in the States, it would cost me .99 a minute! Yikes! I know she has a calling card for Germany, as she does not like to use her friends home phone. Plus, it is rather cheap to use international phone cards over there. She can use them from a private home, a place of business or even a payphone. And yes, the still have payphones over there, because I was just there couple years ago. They are all in German, so luckily the phone cards have prompts for English.

ewwwww, we all had just a terrible week. What is going on ? I know what I did was totally eat what I wanted to last week; kinda like the last blast of summer. Rather Stupid as I sit here w/my pants way to tight. But I am starting over today. This Tuesday Group does inspire and motivate me, so today is going to be Day One. Start Over. Begin Anew.

Here are my starting stats:

Age:45

Height: 5′8″

Weight: 154.8

Goal: 142

and here are the Group Results:

Chris - 2 GAIN

Tammy - 1 LOSS

Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0 CHANGE

Grace - no report yet

Leigh - 3.5 GAIN

Clara - 4 LOSS

Dette - 2 GAIN

Julie - 0.2 LOSS

Cheryl - 0 CHANGE

Audrey - 2 LOSS

Christy - 2 GAIN

Tina - no report yet

Danielle - 0 CHANGE

Jessie - 0 CHANGE

This week’s total - 2.3 GAIN!

Today it was very hard to get up and out of bed. School was just too stressfull for my son and of course it rubs off on me. But overall, he told me this morning that he likes his schedule and most all his teachers are pretty neat. He is just freakin’ over his Science teacher; shoulder length white hair, full white beard, very stuffy Harvard-type teacher. I guess he used to be a Principle at some other school, retired, then came back to public schools as a teacher. I did meet him, he seems nice, but I can see from an 8th graders view that he might be a tad over powering, heeheehee.

All in All, the school year is starting out okay. No more 4 day weekends, no more traveling for the year, and no more travel insurance, just plain ol’ work work work. I even work Labor Day !

Original Post: Aug25 8:53am

Monday. School started today. and I have GOT to start getting back into the groove! I totally pigged out last week and ate whatever the fetch I wanted. Today I am paying for it. My back really hurts. It could be stress (over what I have no idea) but I think it is the extra weight I am dragging around. I just have no motivation, no BF, not dating, no reason really, to loose weight. Okay, other than health reasons that is.

And I want to be healthy ! I need to be healthy for ME and I need to do this for ME, no one else, just ME. but I have a really hard time doing things just for me. But this time I really dont have a choice. I am falling apart health-wise and I gotta get back on track.

Originally posted Aug24 7:24pm

I love Chocolate, but it has to be the good stuff. Not all chocolates are good enough for me to eat and I will only buy top of the line chocolates. My mother is in Germany right now and I did request her to bring some chocolate home as well, but she will not be around ’till mid October. So in the meanwhile, I will probably order some GertrudeHawk chocolates on line. They also have Fudge, Caramel dipped Apples and even Suger Free Candies. Have you even had Chocolate cover Coffee beans…? out of this world I tell ya! It does get boring just eating the plain chocolate candy bars, so I do like to spice things up a bit and try new things. This time I just might try the Sea Salt Caramels in Dark Chocolate, yum !

Originally posted Aug24 6:42pm

Okay, we get this very nice invitation to attend a Eagle Scout Court of Honor from one of my sons friends. This is thee highest rank a Scout can achieve. So put the invitation aside, and pull it out like 15 minutes before we are to leave. However, get this, there is no fetchin’ address on the invitation! All is says is Butler West Stake Center. OMG. Like where the heck is that!? I know it is a Mormon Church, but do you know how many Mormon churches are in Salt Lake City !? Every other corner, sheesh. So I start searching on line to find the dang thing, but can find no listing of Mormon Church address anywhere, I have been doing this for at least 30 minutes now and its too late to go. I thought about calling the kid, but I am sure he was at the church way before hand, so that is point is moot. Good Gosh, I really wanted to go too! I wanted to see what a Eagle Scout COH is all about, and . . . I wanted to see how the Mormons do one. Well now my kiddo has to explain to his friend in school tomorrow why we did not show up.

But it really ticks me off. They just expect everyone to be Mormon and know where each Stake is! Well they should be conciderate and put the damn address on the invitation if they want us Non-Mormons to come. Or - maybe they did that on purpose, so that we would Not show up - ya never know . . .