Thoughtful Thursday...

When my friend, Janet Brown Hicks (as I like to call her), heard that we were flying to Sacramento, she offered to take us to the airport...and pick us up...and leave our car at her house. Jan has been an coworker, of mine, since last fall. A couple of weeks ago her position was eliminated, so she finds herself with lots of time to spend with her new baby grandson and being a wonderful friend!!!
I told her how nice the offer was and that our flight was at 7:30 am, which would mean that we would have to be at her house at 5am. "No big deal" she says!!!
So, we took her up o her very THOUGHTFUL and kind and generous and wonderful offer. So, here I am at the airport and praying that she made it safely back to her house as she was driving my manual transmission 5 speed car.
T H A N K Y O U J A N E T B R O W N H I C K S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT???????? Wednesday

SERIOUSLY.....ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????????????
I would think that fire fighters everywhere would have a problem with this. Don't you become a fire fighter to help people? I am just saying!

Tennessee Firefighters Watch House Burn Down; Owners Didn’t Pay Subscription Fee
Oct 3 2010 Posted in U.S. News by Dan Evon with View Comments
In certain parts of Tennessee, there is a $75 subscription fee for firefighter services. Gene and Paulette Cranick of South Fulton, Tennessee, learned the hard way that that subscription fee is not a joke.
A group of firemen arrived to an emergency call, then watched the Cranick’s house burn down. The Firefighters were ordered not to put out the fire because of an unpaid subscription fee.
When the fire spread toward a neighbor’s house, the firefighters did step in. The neighbor, of course, paid the subscription fee.
Mr. Cranick, the owner of the house, said:
“I thought they’d come out and put it out, even if you hadn’t paid your $75, but I was wrong.”
The Telegraph reports that the Cranick’s live in a rural part of Tennessee, out of the firefighters typical designated area. The people who live in South Fulton, Tennessee, can pay a $75 fee to have their house protected by firefighters, but it is not a mandatory fee.
Timothy Cranick, the owner’s son, was arrested shortly after his parent’s house burned down for punching the fire chief.

Truth Tuesday....

I am going through the Beth Moore Bible Study, Believing God (albeit very slowly). One of the topics she covered is that God acts on what he remembers. In the Bible, it often says, "God remembered...." Well, I thought that God remembers everything all the time. Does he forget about people? NO!! When the Bible says this, it shows that God is going to act on that persons behalf, or against that person, if it is necessary. And, Beth makes the point that we act on what we remember also. Our pasts are always a part of us, but the parts of the past that are on our minds, the beliefs about our selves that have become a product of our pasts are the things that we act on. So we need to be deliberate about what we remember and what we think about, so that we act upon those thoughts and not just the random thoughts and memories that pop into our heads.
Beth says, "Beloved, both freedom and faith emerge from deliberate acts of the will to shift our focus from all that begs to differ to the great and glorious truth of the living God. Remember his goodness, we are far more inclined to believe him in our present and future. Be deliberate, Dear One. Remember, we're going to act on that which we remember most." p. 155.
God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Genesis 8:1

Gonna Try Something New

My friend, Jen (who is abandoning me to move back to Arizona this week) came up with this idea, or stole it from someone else, but I like it, so I am going to steal it. Each day of the week has a basic heading and you blog about something under that heading each day. So I am going to try. Sitting at Samuel's baseball practice last night, with no laptop or book, I got out a pen and paper (funny huh?) and came up with my list of topics. Here they are:
Mmmmmm Monday...a new recipe to try or just one that I love that I want to share.
Truth Tuesday....a biblical scripture or concept that has stuck out to me, recently.
WHAT? Wednesday...something that has made me say..."WHAAAAAAAT?".
Thoughtful Thursday...maybe a specific challenge in how to bless someone, or something that I found...thoughtful.
Fitness Friday (This might change to Family Friday.)...A fitness tip.
Sassy Saturday/Sunday....Just something fun for the weekend.
We will see what happens.
Oh, and I can blog randomly too. I also wrote a list of things to blog about on my family blog and this one.
So, are you ready?????

Ok.....Not So Much

Well, my Lemonade Diet is over. I got kind of scared by some of the comments and then it was clenched when a trainer that I trust told me, in no uncertain terms, not to drink anymore salt water. So, now what? I do not know. I was really set on making it through the 10 days, so I am a little frustrated. I guess I am going back to eating healthy and regulating my calorie intake and working out as much as I can. I did lose a few pounds in the 2 1/2 days that I was on the diet. But really I just want to get my body into fat-burning, weight losing mode.
I am going to make a Dr. appointment to talk to my naturopath about weight loss and my other issues. If you know me at all, you know what they are. :)
p.s. My friend, the trainer also recommended a book that she said I must read. I, of course, got on the library website immediately to put a hold on it. I am number 40 on the reserve list. I am thinking I might just go to Borders and buy a copy. I am curious. The book is:

Some Adjustments

So, the book says that day 2 is one of the hardest days. That was NO lie! I fought with myself all day. Going back and forth about allowing myself to eat. I was sooooo hungry. The popcorn in the children's dept at church was tantalizing! Sooooooooooooo....I finally decided to allow myself fruits and veggies for the rest of this craziness. Others were telling me how crazy I was to not be eating and still expect to be able to work out as usual. That made sense to me. I haven't found anything in the book about working out. As I am typing I am trying to get down my 32 oz. of salt water. I cannot describe how disgusting it is!!!!!!! What is causes is pretty disgusting too!!!!! For real!
I go to work today. I am going to take fruit and veggies with me and my oh so yummy lemonade concoction.
I have spin class today at 4:15. Woooooo Hoooooo!!!!!!!
Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cayenne Pepper and Maple Syrup and Lemons...OH MY!

So, a friend mentioned "the lemonade diet" to me a while back. So I looked into it. I checked out several books about it. It is officially called The Master Cleanse.

The bottom line is this:
10 days of eating and drinking NOTHING except:
-6-12 glasses of the "lemonade" (2 TBSP fresh squeezed lemon juice, 2 TBSP Grade B Maple Syrup, 1/10 tsp Cayenne Pepper and 8 oz. water)
-1 cup herbal laxative tea (I haven't gotten any of this yet)
-32 oz water w/ 2 tsp uniodized salt. FIRST THING EVERY MORNING!!!! (It is 6:57am on Sunday and I drank my first qt of salt water about 1/2 hour ago. GROSS!!!!!! I don't know that I can do that 9 more times!

So, I started yesterday. I forgot about the salt water part until I had already drank some lemonade. I started the salt water flush today. Drinking 32 oz of salt water is nasty!!!! I only got about 28 oz down actually.
The book says that 1/2 to one hour after drinking the salt water you will begin to have "urges to eliminate". I will spare you the details!

I am going to drink a cup or 2 of coffee each day. I don't want to go through caffeine withdrawals while I am starving myself. (The books say that you don't feel hungry. They lie!)

My goal is to keep a blogging journal of how this goes. I am not saying that I will last 10 days. I may not last through today. We will see!!!!!!

p.s. I am down 3.2 pounds from yesterday.