Well today is my first real test of the holiday season. I have to try not to go too crazy, although I am allowed to eat alot and more then what I normally would, but I’m going to try not to go too out of control.
I love thanksgiving food, I do remember though that I don’t like the I’m going to explode feeling you get after eating too much. So I think I will be okay. My biggest thing is trying to keep my sugar down, so I have to watch the carb. Of course everything including the veggies will have carbs because my mom still has not figured out what a carb is. I’ve pretty much given up on her.
I’ll try to remember to write more later today and let you know how I did.
Since I’m now diabetic and this is my first holiday season dealing with this, I am always looking for tips to keep my weight down. My meal plans do include splurge days which will be thanksgiving, my family Christmas on my fathers side, Christmas, new years and my birthday! Yes I was born around the holidays.
The problem is that most people have other things they have to do like company Christmas parties or Christmas at a friends home. I luckily don’t but I could still use some good ideas to help me though this season. That is where this Holiday Survival Guide comes in handy. I think my favorite section is the one titled 7 ways your family makes you fat. In my house the biggest way my mother makes me fat is by stressing me out. Lets put it this way, my little sisters are coming to visit. My mother wants the house spotless. I don’t get it, they lived here! The sad thing is she doesn’t get mad if it’s not, she gets really mad. She starts swearing and threating to kick people out of the house. I could go on, but thats not what this post is about, so I won’t.
I consider today the start of the holiday season, why? Well because most people leave for there trips and things today, they also start getting all crazy about thanksgiving and Christmas and what there going to buy.
When you work in retail you dread this time of year, but I don’t anymore so it’s starting to get it’s spark back. The one thing that is bad for me personal this time of year is that the anniversary of my father passing falls during this time. It will be 3 years on Monday and it’s still hard. I find myself everyones in a while crying for no reason, it’s not often, but if I see something that reminds me of him it will sometimes happen. I have been told it’s normal. I was only 21 when he died and I don’t think it’s still though my head yet.
Even with all of this sadness there are still some happy things, My nephew just had his first birthday Monday and my sister is due with another girl on the first of December. Life does go on. I think though this is the first Christmas I have gotten into since my dad passed. I’m not fully into it, but I’m trying. I hope by next year to have a little more Christmas spirit.
I am a moderator on a forum and the staff always send Christmas cards to each other. I love doing this as I don’t really have a reason to send cards to my family, I see them every Christmas so I just don’t see a point in spending the money. That and there really are not many good Christmas cards out there anymore.
I want to start not only sending them to my forum friends, but to my niece and nephew who are young and would love to get a card in the mail. My nephew and soon to be born niece are a little young yet, but my older niece is 7 and I really should have started a few years ago.
If your a business owner, or looking for a really nice card, I think I have found the perfect site in the Holiday Cards business that has some wonderful Christmas cards. Not only is Gallery Collection providing great cards, but they are also helping our solders at war send cards to their family’s and loved ones. They have teamed up with Soldiers Angels to send each solider there own Christmas card as a thank you. Any site with this much of a heart deserves to get my money. I plan on buying a few Christmas cards there this year.
I’m very excited, Pay Per Post, now IZEA. Is letting out there new ranking system called Real Rank. The members will have first access this week. By Thursday, Thanksgiving here in the US, we will know what our real rank is and we will know where we stand with pay per post.
I like this program very much because it realize on stats from your site, not someone’s opinion of what your blog is worth based on who links to you. Here is my question, yes you get a website to link to you who is a PR 8, but does anyone actually click that link? If not does it really matter? I still am a firm believer that traffic is the most important thing for any website.
I think this is a great program and will blow the whole page rank thing out of the water and make it invalid. There of course is always more information (and a video) on the IZEA blog.
I have a very close friend of mine who has just started his career as a firefighter. He works long hours at the fire department, then works nights at a local retail store stocking shelves. He’s always complaining he is sore or that his leg hurts. So I told him to try this great product I have found, Freeze It Gel. I love this gel because it helps so many different things, like Arthritis, Sore Muscles and Back pain.
Now me being the nice friend I am even bought the bottle for him to try. Mostly because he’s too much of a manly, man to do it himself, you know the type, the guy that complains about the pain to his wife, girlfriend or best friend, but won’t do anything about it so you have to do it for them. I don’t know why I put up with it!
This is the kind of thing he had to do in school just for training. I don’t’ know if I want to know what all he has to do at work. I personal think he’s nuts. I respect what he does, as I could never do it. but that is also why I think he’s nuts! No really I do understand that Firefighters do alot for everyone, and they really do put themselves in danger and harms way just to help others.
Anyway I told my nice spoiled friend that there was also a chance that I could win a year supply of Freeze It and I would be nice and give him most of it. He then proceeded to laugh at me. I understood because I never win anything, well anything that I want to at least. I thought is was a nice gesture though. Now I’m having second thoughts, If I do win maybe I’ll give it to his co-workers instead! That would teach him not to laugh at me right? Okay so I’m not that mean, but it’s still a fun thought.
Now not only am I mad at the horrible G-word. I am not happy with Pay Pal right now. I have a friend who is now as I write this being evicted from her home because pay pal has held payments from some websites. I understand pay pals reasoning, but it has been almost a week and this poor girl was pushing it to begin with.
It’s hard when the economy is so bad that you can’t get a job at a gas station, it’s hard when you have to look at your children and tell them there will be no Christmas because these super companies or the government could care less about you. It’s even harder when you’ve had money in the past, like my friend and lose your job because the auto company moved their plant to Mexico or China.
I just don’t understand what happened to compassion, I guess a thousand years from now, when people look back, they will see that this was the time that changed everything, this is the time where compassion and caring about people died. My question is, by that time will they even care?
