Lucky 13?

I just noticed my Feedburner subcriber number has jumped from 72 to 85 in the last couple days! Welcome to the 13 new subcribers, I hope you enjoy my madness! I still can’t believe that even one person subscribes to this mess much less 85 so I hope I can at least keep you all mildly entertained if nothing else

Things are plugging away as usual here, the new healthy eating plan I’ve put myself on seems to be working as 5lbs. has already melted away! It’s amazing what eating more salads and less fried foods can do. I’m only getting to the gym once a week but that’s 100% more times a week than I had been going so I’ll keep looking at it in that glass is half full sort of way for awhile

Finances are still troubled waters, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. That end is a long ways off yet so I’ll continue with my little plans and spending analysis as I have been. I would really like to get back to using my Quicken program to track spending and whatnot but that’s going to require a couple of days where I do nothing but focus on updating and getting the information straight. I did manage to get one loan paid off in December which was a huge relief because it frees up almost $130 a month to put towards other debts. I know that I can get this all fixed and be back on track in time, right now things are tight but it’s good because it forces me to take a hard look at where I put my money.

My simplification process is coming along swimmingly, I spent two whole days last weekend purging closets and rooms in my house making boxes of things to offload at an upcoming yard sale. I still have a few more rooms to go through and then I’ll execute what I’m calling the “Final Sweep” where I take a serious look at what’s left after the purge and rid myself of even more. The dreaded task of sorting through years of papers and files still looms ahead of me and I’ll be getting to that very soon. I already feel more in control of my home and posessions thanks to the clean out, it’s been a liberating experiance for me and that motivates me to continue on in the removal of excess “stuff”.

The cleaning of the figurative house (my life/relationships/emotions) has been a challenge as well. I’m being faced with some new lessons on perception of situations and am now facing head on all of my trust issues. Sounds kinda sissy but it’s what’s going on with me. Coming to terms with not being in control of certain things and just having to trust they will work out is a hard lesson. But I’m learning. I picked up a great book by Dale Carnagie that is comprised of excerpts from many of his books and it’s been a huge help. I’ll continue to re-read it until all of the principals sink in…I’m slow like that

And finally the online world for me is starting to show signs of life…the much neglected housekeeping behind the scenes both here and at my other blog Fire Safe House.com has been done. A visual re-vamping of this place is still on the drawing board as I feel that with my new life I need a new look…but that will be a ways off…right now I’m just proud that I’ve managed to log my ass in and post with a certain regulairity.

Life is good, progress is being made and I’m happier now that I think I’ve ever been. Things are looking up and I thank my lucky stars every night that the universe hasn’t given up on me yet