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13 June 2014

I'm setting my scale aside... and my intake tracking. I've done this befor when I got stressed, but when I did it I wasn't still trying to loose weight. This time I want to go back to how I started this year's weight loss off. I logged in on Feb 3rd and weighed myself... then took a couple weeks of no tracking, no weighing just trying to eat reasonably and less. I logged back in on Feb 20th and weighed 2lbs less. Obviously not an amazing loss, but a loss and from there I started tracking and steadily went down. I want to sort of re-jump start my weight loss from this point. I weighed 149lbs yesterday. I'm going to take the next week or two to just try and watch what I'm eating(visually, not tracking) and eat more reasonably and see where I am in a couple weeks. In the past when I've not tracked (and not tried to loose weight) I've always stayed the same weight within a pound so (I've not gained weight outside of pregnancy in my adult life). So my assumed worse case scenario is that my weight would stay the same, but hopefully the next weigh in will be a couple pounds lighter =)

Unlike the first time I did this, I will still be journaling. Trying to listen to how my body is feeling from one day to the next and adjust for that without the stress of the calorie numbers added to the equation.

Happy Friday the 13th everyone ;-) Hope you all have a great weekend =)

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12 June 2014

Still 149 today... hopefully will stick at this point then start moving down this time =p Yesterday I just tried to take the day to do normal stuff and process. My husband was off work and so we had a lot of long conversations throughout the day as one or the other of us just needed to discuss, process or just have a sounding board for what we are dealing with between the Trace's medical and rent finances right now with their perspective stresses.

We did get an email from the male renter/squaters (lol JuanaBsmall). He said they would be moving asap. We responded saying that if they weren't out Sunday we'd be filing for eviction on Monday. So that means we aren't getting paid for June which is an issue financially, but at least they will get out and we can get the place cleaned up, that niece moved in and put the place back on the market. My husband said the place was pretty trashed when he went to deliver the eviction notice, he didn't remember it being that bad at all when he delivered the non-renewal of lease notice last month... so obviously they just decided to screw us over after that point. Trevor said it doesn't look like they've even had trash service for the last month or two and we will absolutely have to get a dumpster out there... which is another couple hundred bucks. *sigh* I have no idea where that money will come from but we'll figure it out. Maybe we can find someone with a truck who will let us borrow their truck if we promise to take it through a car wash. A car wash and dump fee is much less then the dumpster.

On my youngest son's lungs- I've decided the next time he has cyanosis, wheezing or coughing we are taking him into the ER. He just had cyanosis a few days ago, while on the higher dose- so it's not like the lower dose is going to be able to stop that from happening if the higher dose couldn't. I am not waiting until either a- he ends up with increased damage in his lungs showing up on imaging(which is permanent might I add, damage to his lung now means damage for life), b- he stops breathing again, or c- he stops breathing and this time I'm not with him but he's in a bed and it's not the ER we end up at with him. I will not feel bad for taking him into the ER for something I can treat here, when most of the families in the country could not treat it at home. Not if it means getting him back on the medication he needs to be on.

So yeah, that's pretty much where we are on both situations. Hopefully be moving forward and making all this a distant memory very soon =p

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
67.6 kg	11.3 kg	13.6 kg	Reasonably Well

(5 comments) steady weight

11 June 2014

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
67.6 kg	11.3 kg	13.6 kg	Reasonably Well

(2 comments) Losing 2.5 kg a Week

10 June 2014

Our week just keeps getting better /sarcasm

So my nearly 4 year old (in a month) already has damage in his lungs from severe asthma, as we found out at the previous visit, was put on qvar 80 2puffs 2x a day by his pediatric pulmonologist; who has nearly 50 years of practice and more then 30 years of treating the children with asthma in my family.

We found out today that the insurance company has informed his doctor that Trace does not need to be on the 80 qvar but instead half that, the 40 qvar.

Now, Trace also has a growth disorder that makes him smaller then a 2 year old currently and can not be treated for the growth disorder until we can be certain an abnormal growth on his pituitary (not related to the growth disorder he shares with his older brother) isn't cancer. So we have a child with lungs the size of a 2 year old's, that are already damaged (and if he's not being treated with a high enough dose will be stacking more damage on his tiny lungs) and insurance is going to play chicken with his breathing. Since he can't do pfts the only way to get him back on the higher dose is if he stops breathing again or otherwise lands in the er for breathing problems.

I don't even know how to deal with what I'm feeling at the moment. The screw around crap they do with Tristian's hormone shots is bad enough... at least that only (only!) affects quality of life- not the actual being alive part.

Obviously I would be able to process this better if we weren't already dealing with the renters screwing us around... but I literally think I am just numb atm. I would say things can only go up from this point... but I'm afraid what might happen if I dared to actually believe that o.0

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10 June 2014

First, the nice folks at FS customer service changed my screen name for me to something less easy to connect my FS self to my RL self. Second I switched journals to private since there is some drama potential if they were stumbled on by our renters or anyone that knew them well enough after my last post venting about that stressful situation. Third... BACK IN THE 140S WOOT!!!

Onto what is stressing me out right now- I worked on the numbers tonight and if they do not pay for this month's rent then we are as far in the red on this as we would have been if we had the house sitting on the market not selling the last 6 months. But think about how much LESS stressful that would have been?

So (while I'm working these numbers and realizing this) the female renter called me last night trying to convince us to let them stay. Which had me wanting to reach through the phone and throttle her... just seriously? The male renter called me husband... same thing. Let me just say, if we had received June's rent at this point, the conversation would have had a much better chance of going their way- not great considering the lying to us about the frig to get an upgrade thing, but better. Both told us they would be paying rent last night. Nope.

So I made up and printed "Three-Day Eviction Notice For Non-Payment of Rent". We have not and will not accuse them of anything but not paying rent unless we get to court and they try to accuse us of something(at which point I will be very well prepared to show just how well we've kept up our legalities of being landlords and just how poorly they've kept up their side as tenants). I've just repeatedly told them we are not cut out to be land-lords, it's cost us too much money and we just want to sell the house. We are not interested in any sort of blame game or drama, we just want to get them out of the house at this point.

I am a renter too and I simply don't understand screwing over someone this way. I LOVE our landlord, he basically leaves us along, we'll only bother him if it's absolutely necessary (hasn't been yet) and we pay befor the 1st each month. We got really lucky finding a 3 bedroom full basement house in our price range inside the city in a safe neighborhood and we know it (in fact we only got the house because my husband is the upper manager directly over one of our landlord's friends for the last couple years and he gave my husband glowing reviews to our landlord. We didn't even know they knew each other. The landlord just recognized where my husband worked and asked his friend without us knowing). Regardless of circumstance of relationship I would never choose to create hardship on another individual like this. If they were having financial issues, ok- but when the male renter is calling my husband and talking about taking the female renter out to dinner the night befor for half and hour, then ends the conversation saying the rents going to be late... SERIOUSLY? Please, please never do something like this to a landlord if you can help it. Especially not a landlord that was trying to help you out to begin with (ie not charing a deposit or gorging your rent price) and certainly not one you know personally.

We are not a well off family. We struggle as it is and spend more then a third of our income on medical necessities... granted it wasn't that high befor ObamaCare. The resulting income that we actually live off places us firmly within the poverty level but without any chance at help because medical bills don't count as expenses (at least not here) unless you are over a certain age or within a certain percent of the poverty level BEFOR the medical expenses. We make it financially with some very serious planning and thriftiness. This combined with the raises in the cost of helath care caused by ObamaCare has been extremely hard on us financially this year. Very, very stressful.

I'm really, really hopping they either pay or just move out and we can move on from this and start to get finances back in order and hopefully sell the house soon.

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
67.9 kg	11.0 kg	14.0 kg	Reasonably Well

(10 comments) Losing 0.6 kg a Week

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