Updates

Exercise: I've starting jogging with my friend April and her husband. We've been taking it kinda slow but I'm ok with that. We've doing each week twice instead of just once. But I should still be about to the 5k in Feb like I want to. I've kinda cut back on the bike riding and my 8 minutes in the morning, but I will get back to them next week!

Boys: Like the last post states I've done with him. I've also hidden my profile on plentyoffish for the moment. I think I need to give myself a little more time before I try again.

Friends: Still talking to Lori, Amanda, and Eileen.

Me: I kinda feel like either I've undone everything I did in the past five months or that they just don't mean anything anymore. But maybe that's just cause of having a bad weekend or knowing that I still have lots to work on. Either way I think that feeling is going to change this coming up weekend.

Puzzles: I finally got a frame for my puzzle, but I don't have any place to hang it. I'm gonna wait til at least December to start on the next one.

Volunteering: I haven't been to the SPCA in three weeks, just haven't really felt like it. I'm on vacation this coming up Thursday til next Wednesday so I might not go this week either, but I will be back the following week.

National Kidney Foundation

Nov 1st I'm gonna be walking for the National Kidney Foundation around Lake Hollingsworth here in Lakeland. A woman from my work lost her husband to the disease two years ago. Her daughter also worked in my department during her breaks from college. They both are really nice and although her daughter is one of the smartest 20-year-olds out there she makes some bad decisions when it comes to her boyfriend. But some of the smartest women I know become "dumb" when it comes to boys. If you would like to help me raise some money or see how I'm doing with raising money check out the link below.

http://nkf.convio.net/goto/rachel

SPCA

Today was my first day volunteering at the SPCA. And it was actually kinda boring, lol. I stood around for most of the two hours I was there and when I wasn't I cleaned two cages and changed three boxes of litter. I didn't really feel like I was helping but I'm sure after being their a couple of times that it will get better. I really hate new things, I totally feel ackward and am insercue about what I'm supposed to be doing. It's so bad that the first day I worked at HR Block I cried when I was getting ready and didn't stop until I got there. I almost didn't go. But I'm really glad I did, it's some pretty good extra money and it's not a second job I hate like Hallmark was.

It's time for me!!!

It's time to work on me. It's been three and a half months since Paul and I broke up and while I have worked on a few things I'm nowhere close to where I want to be. I've lost about 15lbs since then but I'd like to lose about 15 more, and I think I can do it. I'm doing pretty good on my eating and I'm trying with my exercising. I've started doing the "8 Minutes In the Morning" strength training and so far I've been doing pretty good with it. It's not the same boring 20 minutes 3x a week, so I think I can keep up with it. Then there's my jogging, I would like to be able to do the Gasparilla 5k in Feb. I started the training going pretty good but have been kinda lacks lately. I think part of the problems is trying to jog when the weather is so warm, so I'm gonna try to do more later in the evening.

The next thing I want to work on is volunteering more. My friend April and I are going to start doing Habitat for Humanity on Sat mornings from 8-12 and tonight I'm going to a volunteer information session with the local SPCA. I've been reading a book on Buddhism and part of what I've really liked in the reading is the importance of giving to others, including animals. I've always felt you should help others and have done volunteer work before but nothing in a long time. I really feel that once I start doing these things I will start to feel better and better things will happen to me. I also plan on giving $20/month to charity. Again something I've done before but haven't in a long time. Last month I gave to AIDS Walk St. Pete because the boyfriend of Taylor from the Podcast, "Pod is My Copilot" was trying to raise money for it. I think I'm gonna start asking Podcasts that I listen to choose the charity and challenge their other listeners to donation also. I don't know if that will actually get other people to donate money but it might.