Happy Birthday Aunt Jeannie

Well today, October 3rd is my Aunt Jeannie's birthday. However, 8 1/2 years ago, she passed away from complications with Diabetes. She contracted diabetes at the tender age of 11 years old and she had to live her whole life with this disease. At such a young age, she had to learn to give herself shots every day for the rest of her life. She never let it stop her though. She was amazing. She grew up having this disease and she never let it control her. She got married and had two wonderful sons and she was an amazing women to all of our family. I can remember our family always getting together for weekends and holidays and I can remember her always happy and smiling and loving life. As I was growing up, I started to realize that what she had was slowing killing her. I remember her starting to get sick and then she had to go on Dialysis. But throughout her life, she was happy and made the best of it.

When I started working with Handicapped children at the age of 15, I told her all about it. She was sssssoooo very proud of me. She told me that I was an angel in her eyes. And that one day, God is going to call me to his home and all the children I have been helping over the years are going to be there and free from their disabilities. We created such a bond towards the end of her journey on this earth that when she died, I realized right then and there that she was MY HERO!!! She was so proud of me in the things I was doing with the children. But she suffered so much and throughout it all, she never let it get her down. She is everything I wished I could be. She was the definition of Strength.

I never got to tell her the feelings that I had for her. I never got to tell her that she was my hero. I never got to tell her that she was the reason I am who I am today. SHE was the reason I love my job, I love the kids I work with. She was the wind beneath my wings. I am the person I am today because of the encouragement, love, and support that she gave me.

The very day that she passed away, the very minute I heard about her passing away, this song was on the radio "The Wind Beneath My Wings"!!!!!!! So right then, I knew that what I was doing with my life is what I have been placed on this earth to do. I knew right then that My Aunt Jeannie was MY HERO!!!!

Money Sucks!!!!!!

SO today is Friday, the day I usually pay bills. It is a weekly event Yeah!!! NOT. Sam is the only one who got paid today, I get paid every other Friday. Well it seems like as soon as I get the money into the bank it is gone. I don't know what is going on. He makes the same amount every week. But it seems like the money is just disappearing faster. I think it is because of the price of gas, food, electric, etc. Everything is going up except our paychecks. IT really sucks. I just don't know what this world is coming to. I am actually starting to go through my closets and shed to see if there are things in there that I can sell just to come up with some extra cash to make ends meet. I am half tempted to sell everything except the clothes on our backs. LOL. That is just the kind of mood I am in. I hate dealing with money, I hate stressing over money, I HATE MONEY!!! I wish we can get our paychecks and be able to save like 1/2 of it every week just so we can have a little saved up in the bank for those "emergency" "rainy days". And you know what really sucks, we make too much money to qualify for financial assistance or food stamps. So I guess I just need to be delinquent on my bills, sell all the things I don't need that bad, and get a second job just to make it in this country. I sure do hope that who ever does win this election year, fixes this financial mess this country is in. And I hope they help us poor lower/middle class people. WE need a break. WE need change. WE need help. WE need a new president!!!! And I am not ashamed to say that I am for Obama all the way. WE need a change.

It's been awhile since I posted

Wow, I haven't posted anything on here in a couple days. I was almost posting daily but I guess Life has gotten in the way with my posts. Anyway, I have had a really good week so far. I know it is almost over and it is almost the weekend again. Man time sure does fly. I didn't have many meetings this week, only 2. One of the meetings I had happened today. As the president of my local union we are in negotiations with the school district for a new contract. If anyone has ever been in negotiations it is a long, drawn out process, and we are just in the beginning stages of it. So we had a meeting today for like 4 hours and I left there feeling like we did not accomplish anything at all. It was the weirdest feeling. But as the time goes on, we should be getting closer to a settlement. This process can take months or even years to accomplish. But I am in it for the long haul. We have 6 members on our team all fighting for the rights of the paras in our district. It is really a cool experience to be involved in if you are into that kind of stuff. And me, I am into that kind of stuff. I like being the president and I like having people work together to accomplish something that is for the good of all. Together we are a team. I can not do this alone.

Ok so enough about my boring life.

I am doing wonderful, I still feel fantastic, energized, and new. I know I have probably hit the 50 lb mark by now. But I will not weigh in till Sunday. So Sunday I will post another update on how I am doing. Until then there is not enough words that I can say that can describe how wonderful I feel. This is truly been wonderful for me to have this change in my life.