DeannaLynnCox

Hello All,

I am just going to put this out there right now.  It’s been very hard for me to keep up with buddy slim.  I honestly don’t understand how you all do it and keep up with everyone.  Between work, school, studying, trying to work out and have a life I can’t figure out how to keep up with everyone unless I try to do it at work, and that takes away from getting things done at work, or I try to stay up late and then I start getting very tired from lack of sleep.  It’s almost a full time job trying to keep up with reading everyones blogs and being supportive.  I just want you all to understand that.

 I go back to work tomorrow…I’m not very excited about that.  It’s really just because I’ve had so much time off of work that I just am used to having all day to do something…well even though I was packing and moving for about 5 days after Christmas.  Finally got everything done on December 31st so I’m finally moved.  then this weekend we had my Aunt, Uncle, and Cousins visiting so we didn’t have a relaxing weekend since we were having to worry about entertaining. 

So I’ve never really decided on what Job I’m going to do when I get out of school but I’ve finally decided to follow a dream that I’ve never really followed due to people I’ve been dating.  But I’ve always wanted to be a police officer and work in the K-9 unit!  Wouldn’t that rock?!  So I’m going to start to getting in better shape so I can follow that.  I will wait to apply till after I graduate from KSU in a yr and a half. 

Played the Wii and also did Wii Fit Plus and I burned 125 cals on the Wii Fit, that doesn’t count all the playing of Wii sports I did, oh well, it was a blast!  :-) 

Hello All,

So I am having a nice sit down night with my family.  We are watching the Matrix movies.  I will resume my packing tomorrow and I’ll hopefully get all of it packed tomorrow.  Then Wednesday my Dad will be able to take a day off and we are going to make two trips with a uhal truck…one to the dump and one to the storage unit then I’ll be completely moved.  Although I will be cleaning the house on Thursday, top to bottom.

I am getting back at the working out.  I did get the Wii and Wii Fit for Christmas.  :-)  I got the Wii Fit Plus and it is amazing!  I love that it actually keeps track of the calories that I’m buring during all of the exercises and games.  Woohoo!  I’ll start sharing that with you all on here tomorrow.

 Eating right and being active…woot woot…I’m back at it! 

Hello all my awesome buddies!

I’m so so so sorry that I’ve been absent for so long.  So much stuff going on right now trying to get all of my things packed up and moved to either my parents house or the storage unit.  My mom also had a hysterectomy yesterday and she is back home today.  I get to repay her for all of her help when I had Ashden. 

 I have fallen off the wagon a bit with all this moving and other things going on with work and taking care of my mom.  I know i will jump back on the wagon soon but it will just take a little bit of time.

Over the next couple of days I plan on getting back in touch with all my buddies on here!

 Oh and I started a new blog about my open adoption with updates on Ashden…if you all want to check it out please feel free.  I will continually update it with things about Ashden and the Adoptive Family!  http://adayinthelifeofdeanna.blogspot.com

Take care and enjoy the holidays everyone!

Well I’ll try to make this short and sweet buddies…but we all know I like to talk so we’ll see what happens…

So I haven’t been able to jump back on the exercise wagon from being back at my own place.  When I first moved back in this past weekend I thought of a list of things that I wanted to get done before next semester started.  So I have been staying up later then I have been planning and then not getting up soon enough in the mornings.  Excuses excuses…really I just miss the Wii Fit!  :-(  On top of that our office keeps receiving “goodies” from our clients or other people that we work with.  The big tins of pop corn and cocolates!  To much unhealthy stuff.  :-(  Two marks against me already…damnit!

Then on top of all that…my parents offered to have me move back into their house since my lease is up at the end of December.  I have decided to go ahead and go for this because I only have 1.5 years of college left and I if I move back in with them then I can save money up so when I graduate I have some money in savings to help me find a place to live and all that other great stuff when I get my first job.  Plus I can work just a little less so I will have more studying time so I can try to pull the same grades I did this last semester.  I don’t like it because I really enjoy having my own space, cooking my own meals, going and buying my own groceries.  Oh well…if it’s what I need to do to better my life in the end then I should go for it right?  At least my dog gets to come with me!  LOL.

Well take care everyone…I will try to be around to everyones sites sooner then later…I just have a very busy day at work today! 

Well I’m very sorry for my absence.  I have officially finished my Fall semester of college.  I received straight A’s.  Woohoo.  This is the first semester in college that I have ever received straight A’s!  I’ve been in college for 5 1/2 years now. 

I moved back to my house this weekend so I have slipped off of my eating healthy and working out but I plan on getting back at it tomorrow.  The thing that sucks about not being at my parents anymore is the fact that I don’t have the Wii Fit at my finger tips.  But I’m crossing my fingers that I will get that for Christmas this year.  So tomorrow I am going to do a workout video I have here at my house and keep at those.

I’ll be catching up with everyones blogs again this week so hopefully it wont take me to long to get caught back up with everyone. 

I hope you all had good weekends!

Hello All,

So this morning I had my “6″ week check up…I call it that because it’s really been 7 weeks since I had little Ashden but they wanted to wait an extra week due to how badly I tore.  I know, lovely right?  Well I’m still very tender down there.  I couldn’t believe that they cleared me.  There is so much about pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the recovery period that they just don’t warn you about.  That still being tender part is one of them!  But the good news is I’m cleared!  I can start really working out and getting back into it.  YIPPY!

I did 30 minutes on the Wii fit this morning (and an hour yesterday).  I’m going to plan on exercising some more tomorrow morning when I get up.  Then I’ll have an updated weight.  Oh and the doctor told me that I should be around 144 lbs.  I read someones blog that said that if you are 5′ you should be around 105 and for every inch after 5′ you add 5 lbs…that gives you the weight you should be around.  Well with that calculation I should be at 125…ok 20 lbs is a huge difference!  But I trust my doctors word so I’m going to set a goal of 140 and then if I lose a little more then that eating the right way and exercising then so be it.  But I have a new goal.  Woohoo.

It’s snowing like crazy here.  I just took a ruler out into my parents front yard to measure the snow and it is at 8″ and it’s supposed to snow all night.  My pup, well he is 3, and I went out and played in it for awhile just chasing each other around.  He is half Huskey half blue heeler so he is loving this!  I’ll leave you with a pic of him in the snow!

Hello All,

The weekend was good.  I can’t believe how much running around I did.  I have sooooo much catching up to do on here it isn’t even funny!  :-(  Sorry I’ve been an absent buddy, but I’ll have plenty of time after this week is up since I’ll have a month break before school starts up again!

It’s finals week so I have three finals and then I’m finally done with the semester.  When I’m not at work I’ll be at home studying!  My finals are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  Just three and then I’m finished with the semester!  Woohoo!

New Moon was really good.  I have read all of the books though and the books are still way better.  Althought I’ve never really watched a movie that was better then the book.  It’s just so much different when you have an over active imagination and you are reading opposed to when they finally put it all down in a film.  I hope that makes sense.

I helped me mom with the decorating of her house this weekend and I’m working on my Christmas cards right now.  I am hoping to get them all addressed and in the mail by next weekend…or maybe a week from today since I won’t really be able to work on them much until next weekend.

I plan on moving all of my stuff back home this coming weekend.  I’m still living at my parents but I’ve only stayed so long now because I don’t want to move back home during finals week and instead of studying I’d end up cleaning.  That would be really productive with school.

Well I’m going to start getting around to everyone’s sites…I don’t know how long this is going to take to catch up with everyone. 

Hello All,

Sorry I have been absent the past few days.  I have just been very busy with finals being next week and the craziness of the end of year work stuff.  I’m just ready for a break, which I won’t be getting any time soon. 

This weekend I’m helping my Parents put up Christmas decorations at their house.  We are doing that tomorrow and then I’m getting some pictures taken with my dog infront of the Christmas tree for our Christmas cards.  Then I’m going to finally see the New Moon movie!  Woohoo.

I haven’t been able to work out the past couple of days and my eating has been very sporadic.  But I’m going to get back into the groove of things tomorrow. I can tell how much better I feel when I’m eating well and exercising!  I’ll be waking up tomorrow and getting my Wii Fit on…hehe.

Take care everyone!

Hello All,

Well I had my appointment with my adoption worker yesterday and I got a wonderful card from the family that adopted my son and his first art project!  I wanted to share that with you all!  It was for Thanksgiving! 

Here is what their card to me said:

Deanna, Joe (that’s my dog) & Family,
We are so thankful to have you and little Ashden in our lives.  We send our wishes for a very happy Thanksgiving full of rest, relaxation, and of course good food!  We are doing well - Ashden is up to 9 lbs 7 oz from his recent doctors check-up!  He is a wide awake little guy these days, too!  The card from him was our first craft project at 1 month old - he didn’t seem to mind playing in the orange paint!  We hope your classes are going well for you - not too much longer of this semester!  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
Love Terresha, Brian, Ashden…
Charisma, Jake, and Bailey too (That is their cat and two dogs)

I don’t remember if I told you all but one of the biggest reasons I picked them was because they were animal lovers like me and they had this section in their adoption scrap book (that you look at to pick the family you want to meet) that was all about their animals.  Haha.

Just thought I’d share all of that…Oh and I have an appointment tomorrow with the counselor…

 (it was to big to just stick in my blog so I had to do a thumbnail version…I think you can click on it to make it bigger if you want).

Hello all,

I took my final last night for Criminal Justice.  I only missed two so expecting that I get 100% on my book report I will have a 97% over all in the class.  So now I just have to focus on my 3 finals next week and then I’m done with the semester!  Woohoo.

I have still not recovered from the long holiday weekend.  I swear you need a vacation after a vacation!  So I’m very very tired.  I can’t wake up in the mornings to do my exercising like I would like to.  :-(  Yesterday I worked out at about 1:00.  Today I worked out at about 4:30.  I’m not going to even try to make myself wake up tomorrow morning to exercise so I’ll work out again tomorrow afternoon.

I’m very sore from my workout yesterday on the Wii.  I did yoga positions, one strength training exercise (I need to work on my upper body strength), a few of the areobic exercises and some balance ones as well.  I was trying to get a well rounded exercise routine in and boy I really did that.  I can feel it in my legs, my arms, my back and my abs!  Today I stuck with a lighter workout and hopefully I can get a better one in tomorrow.

I am going to try to get around to everyones sites now while I’m watching my show, Son’s of Anarchy.  I’ll get around to all of them for sure tomorrow!

Take Care,
Deanna