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I am also open to suggestions if you have any. There are a couple fancy things I am in the works on that will be added next week but for now, its coming along and I am enjoying learning something new. What a fun job web designers have! I am pretty sure I could never be a “real” web designer because the back end code is still a mystery to me. I can find stuff occassionally but I have never been able to successfully change code and it work. Which is why I love WordPress templates, they take the difficult part out for me. Really anyone could do it.

My goal is to be done unpacking by the end of Sunday, then next week I can clean and ready to move onto the next stage of life. Hopefully a new job! Get back on track and actually be more worthwhile again. Back to work I go!

Prayers were the only way we would find anything with horrible credit and three dogs our options were very limited and extremely expensive. But, as always, a miracle presented it self just in time. Our lease in Wagener ended in November and we really hated renting. We looked for very small, cheap houses but it was going to take lots of help from dad and many fancy financial loops that didn’t seem feasible, until… A couple we know offered to buy a house and basically finance it for us. Who does that? I will never know how to show how grateful we are.

So, in December we packed up our house in Wagener and relocated to Aiken. We are now 5 minutes from church, Billy is 25 minutes from work (he was an hour) and all our friends are within 10 minutes. We still need to downsize our possessions but we love the house. It is a little three bedroom house that is cozy as can be and has a fenced back yard for the dogs. They have a dog door again! Yay!

About 20 more boxes to unpack and we will be moved and unpacked for the second time in 10 months. Talk about a lot of work, geez!

New subject: my little man, Gizmo, has been having some heart troubles. I think we may have it under control but we almost lost him. We got Gizmo a few months before we got married, he walked down the aisle with me (11+ years ago), so, I am a bit attached and will hate when that day actually comes. We take him to small group with us on Wednesdays and the prayers warriors help me pray him through another week

Dinky and Duke are doing great, Duke is starting to listen a bit but still has to be bad a couple times a week. Dinky is still great!

So we start 2012 off in a new home close to church and friends and are loving our blessed life. I will try to be better about writing this year, last year just got away from me a bit. Hopefully add some more wonderful recipes as well.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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We lasted MUCH longer on salads but even those get old. Basically by today… we BLEW it! We went out with church friends to Mexican then went got chicken nuggets and french fries on our way home. Oh man were they tasty. But I can tell our stomachs did shrink this past week because we gave some of our meal to the dogs when we got home. Now I have two days to plan the rest of the week, maybe one or two salads, the rest… healthy meals. We can do this!

Now I just have to digure out an acceptable way to make beets, maybe if I think long enough they will rot, then whoops guess beets will have to wait

Yesterday started off interesting, I woke up with a TON of energy but was still super dizzy and very shaky. So I shimmied and shaked through the laundry, changing the bed, playing with dogs and getting ready for my Tupperware party that night. After I was ready to go I got my lunch drink (to get it over with) and started drinking it. The further into it the more disgusted I got and towards the end I started throwing up each gulp before I could get it all the way down. Right then I realized I probably wouldn’t survive this for 10 days. I don’t want to get an eating disorder over this whole business, I just want to get Billy and I healthy. At lunch I drank my breakfast apple, pear and lemon drink. Even though it was good I was having a similar reaction as that morning but I was able to keep it all down. Still SUPER shaky and having a hard time typing at work.

I talked to Billy a couple times while he was at work and he was worse off than me, migraines, gorilla belly, shakes and a bit dizzy. He had also been doing some research on the computer and found that being dizzy for more than one day is not good and the fasting should be rethought. So, we failed! The juicing portion that is… but we didn’t run out and buy that cheeseburger we both wanted so badly, we ate romaine lettuce, fresh mozarella, avocados, slivered almonds and olive oil and red wine vinegar for dressing. All whole, no processed foods. As I took my first bite I was in heaven. I don’t even like red wine vinegar and still each bite I felt like I was eating a fancy meal from a fancy restaurant and it was healthy.

Yes, I was verging on quiting on my own, I mean you can only throw up so many meals before that becomes unhealthy. But with Billy being just as miserable we weren’t being very strong together. So we broke, with the wonderfully, perfect salad! We are going to continue to eat unprocessed foods and eat more veggies. At this point I think I could cook just about any vegetable and it will taste better than them being juiced.

So here we are Food Addicts. Maybe the one step program was to drastic, maybe there is a 12 step program out there for people like us. Until then we will stay on this whole foods kick. Today we had apples and raw nuts for breakfast and until I can go to the store we are stuck with salads till Friday. I figured I could bake some chicken or salmon to add to our salads and mix up our veggies we still have. So wish us luck on our new plan, I think it is more reasonable and will be easier to follow. So far neither of us has thrown up dinner and we are no longer dizzy. Although we are not Joe Cross success cases, still Good on Us for trying Mates!

Yesterday for breakfast I drank 2 pears, 2 granny smith apple, 1/2 lemon and ginger root then I remained on my butt the rest of the morning trying not to launch my breakfast, I was oh so dizzy. All I could think of was the old song, Dizzy, my head is spinnin’ not to mention I am sure I expelled at least 30 lbs of yuck into the sewers yesterday. Not a fun day at all. When it came to lunch time I was dreading it because we juiced Kale, celery, cucumbers, beets, ginger root and lemon, ugh! Its even worse that it sounds. Every drink was a challenge. I was promised my taste buds would change, I wish it was instant so I didn’t feel like launching my lunch every time I took a very large drink. I figured the quicker I got it down the sooner I could forget about the horrible, unexplainble flavor but it was even too awful to chug so about 30 minutes later I was done with lunch and still dizzy as ever. On top of dizzy apparently somewhere in that juice I swallowed an angry gorilla cause he was making it known from across the room how miserable he was in my tummy. I sat as my tummy growled. I waited for Billy to get home so we could “juice” dinner. Ugh! Not excited at all.

All I wanted was a bacond cheeseburger, goldfish, tacos, nachos, really anything I could crunch and had a TON of salt. Its amazing the level of food addition I have, I have expensive, although nasty, high quality caca veggies in my belly and all I can think about is going back to my processed food heaven. Oh well. Heres to health! Right?!?!

Billy being an only child he has this idea that you save the best for last so he drank his breakfast for lunch and suffered through the lunch for breakfast. Because I come from a large family, I eat my favorite first so no one can steal it. Well, I am alone so today I am going to take my hubby’s practice and get lunch over with, today it is Romaine lettuce, celery, carrots and lemons. Ugh! No better than yesterdays. Whoever told me this stuff wasn’t bad LIED!!!! But now I have breakfast to look forward to for lunch which is pear, apple, lemon and ginger root. I figured since I actually have to work today it would be best this way cause people won’t have to see my contorted faces after every gulp of nasty lunch. Cheers! We made it through day 1 without cheating, Miracle 1!

After watching this documentary we thought about it and we are probably worse than the average person, we eat about 90% processed food, 10% semi healthy food. Our conclusion… if we give this a shot maybe I can get off my pills that I take for Hypothroid and maybe Billy will no longer have heart burn, stomach aches, migraines, etc. No more medical bills, no more pills, would be a miracle. Our challenge, addiction to food, little $, and our extreme dislike for veggies. We bit the bullet. We went to the grocery mart and bought $89 worth of veggies and fruit to juice. We are going to try a 10 day fast which will hopefully reset our systems and taste buds so we will like veggies more.

For breakfast today we each juiced 2 large pears, 2 small granny smith apples, 1/2 lemon, and fresh ginger. I was nervous about the ginger but it actually made it wonderful. I am doubting whether I can survive this but I am going to give it my all. Here we go, 1 meal down, 29 to go. In the words of Joe Cross “Good on You for trying”