I’ve kind of hit a brick wall when it comes to my ongoing weight loss. While I am very close to my original goal and I’m still eating properly, I’m having a bit of trouble with preforming any real exercise. A few weeks ago, while on one of my regular daily walks I was unaware of a big dip in the road based on the fact that it was filled in with leaves. The step down basically knocked me on my ass and I literally had to call the house to have my hubby come and pick me up off the street a few blocks up. I couldn’t walk and my foot swelled up to about three times the size. I knew it wasn’t broken because I’ve broken and sprained my ankles so many times that I can tell the difference. I’m aware that I have weak ankles due to past experiences so naturally I knew how to treat it. I pulled my aircast out of the closet, pumped it up a little and slapped it on. I’m able to move around but standing up for long periods of time is proving to be difficult for me. Since I’m hunched over from trying to avoid putting too much presser on my foot, I’m finding it hard to keep my back from hurting me as well. So basically it’s a whole series of issues that I hope to clear up as soon as possible. The cast I’ve been using for years is a bit tattered and torn so I’ve been looking into new ankle braces on betterbraces.com. While I was there I began looking into knee braces for Sean because of the water in his knee thanks to an old Wrestling injury in high school. The two of us are literally falling apart, guess we were meant for each other - heh.

I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last post here.  It’s been quite a busy month, with a lot of disappointments.  On October 22nd, Sean and I took a trip up to New York so we could pick up the loan check at HSBC.  The following Saturday, after numerous unreturned phone calls, we found out that the place in Ohio fell through.  The complex we were looking into is currently between owners and Sean’s brother Brett is moving down to Florida to be closer to his family.  They aren’t literally brothers, but they grew up together and I’d say a 20+ year friendship is a brotherly type of thing.  So with this news we were taken back as to what we were going to do about moving into our own place.

For now we’re staying put and hoping to bank on the money that we did get from the loan.  Unfortunately we’re already down $4,000 and it’s only been a little over a month.  But I’ll fess up to a quick $2,000 being dropped on Christmas gifts, this is only because that’s the route I’ve taken for quite a few years now.  I’ve always banked at least $2,000 over the course of the year to put towards Christmas gifts, but you also have to factor in that I come from an extremely LARGE family.  My mothers side alone consists of about 16 people, that includes my mother and step-father.  My father’s side is a bit easier, but I tend to spend more money there based on my comfort level with this side of the family.  My father I tend to go over board on, same goes for my aunt and uncle.  His brother and sister truly are the greatest people in the world.  I then have to shop for my sister who isn’t really picky at all, she likes money and needs clothes - a gift card can kill two birds with one stone when it comes to her.

This year I added a few more people to the list though.  I have Sean and his mom, plus his mothers sister and her kids.  The kids are pretty easy to shop for though, I figure a $15 gift certificate to a local game store could really do the trick so it’s not that big of a deal.

Either way the shopping is completed, and now I’m slowly rebuilding the money that’s been spent over the last month.  However, it’s only the 3rd and I’m already at about $300 so figure if that’s about $100 a day on average I hope to have around $3,000 back in the account by the time the New Year rolls around.

: crosses fingers :