Life is good! I’m hoping it keeps on this upward motion because I like it! I’m feeling my confidence grow every week as the scale keeps going down and it’s such an amazing feeling! I’ve now lost a total of 28.8 pounds since joining Weight Watchers. Yeah, it’s been four months and some people have lost much more in much shorter periods of time but I don’t really care how slow/fast I lose the weight, as long as I lose it in the long run! It’s been really awesome to see the small changes in my appearance. I don’t really notice much of a change for the most part but I delight in the little things! For instance, the definition in my knees is much more noticeable now. I actually am starting to like my legs? I’m actually comfortable crossing my legs now. For many years, in fact as long as I can remember, my legs have been so pudgy that crossing them was actually sorta uncomfortable. Not anymore! Little things, oh how I love thee! Hopefully, more and more of these little things will keep becoming noticeable until it creates a whole.

As such, I’m feeling the hidden girly-girl inside of me finally coming out! I’m finding this desire lately to embrace it! I love bright bold happy colors and I love “cute” things. I’ve always loved makeup (just ask anyone who knows me in real life) and love painting my nails in funky colors with funky designs. Lately, this has increased tenfold! I want to go on a shopping spree for cute girly things like makeup and clothes and anything and everything else. I did splurge a little bit and bought some of the new lime crime magic dusts. Can’t wait for them to come in. I also ordered some MUCH needed eyeshadow brushes from Sephora, one was one of their brushes and then I also got a set of the tokidoki brushes from the oodles of adorable tokidoki goodies they are selling. I couldn’t resist the complete and utter cuteness!

I gotta behave for a while now though. I’ve been doing really well of saving my money lately and with the holidays coming up soon, I probably should keep to the essentials for a while. I’m also saving up for a new car. I’m going to get a Ford Fiesta. They’re just really cute cars and right up my alley and something that would work perfectly for me. I’m aiming to get it sometime in the Fall, so we’ll see! I know Keight is excited about it, because that means she can have the same “first” car that I had! She’ll probably inherit the good ol’ PT Cruiser. It’s been a good little car to have for the last several years and I must confess I’m going to miss it!

Other than that, things have been really good. Friendship-wise things are in a good place. I’m working on meeting new people, getting to know others better, and strengthening current friendships. It’s a good feeling and nice to know where I stand with my friends these days. It’s nice having the communication lines open and not being afraid to be honest. CHEERS! Also, since a post isn’t complete without at least one plug. I was going to make some Inception stamps for Bliss MB tonight, but a blog was in order. Perhaps tomorrow! If you haven’t joined yet, Fridays are the best day to join! Stamp Friday! Just our little TCG. I know my tumblr people might be curious about Inception stamps. Oh and maybe these?

There’s tons more where these came from too! In fact there’s a list of all the sets we have right here! If you join just remember that Angela Ashley referred you! We have lots more than just a TCG too. Friendly people and fun times and we’d be absolutely stoked if you decided to join us!

Once again I basically failed to update more often this week. I think it’s safe to say instead I’ve been wasting time at work. I had a really odd week. I was able to waste time at work and I’m not really even sure how (although I think tumblr plays a large part in this). I know I did some work on blissmb.net for the most part. We had a couple new members join that I’m really loving. I swear even after 8 years, nothing makes me happier than when a new member joins and actually sticks around and posts! I hope they keep coming around!

So I guess I can scratch off one thing on my To Do List I posted last week but the problem is I just need to prioritize and determine what is the most important thing that I need to be doing and get it done! I think that step is key for me. Otherwise I get frazzled and lose what little motivation I had.

One thing I’ve been doing, that goes hand in hand with working on a Message Board, is getting back into making graphics. There are two things that motivate me most to make graphics. Great pictures and great fonts. So I decided to add a little more fonts to my collection and make a few requests for people! All of which were similar to the one I made for myself:

Sometimes a simple font with a splash of color and a simple pattern just does the trick! I’m hoping that it will spark enough creativity that I can make a theme or two for blissmb.net as well! We’ll see how it goes.

My journey on lucid dreaming has been quite a roller coaster this week. Definitely haven’t had any lucid dreams but I have been having 2-4 dreams each night that, for the most part, I can recall in great detail. Apparently this is an important part of eventually learning to lucid dream. I’ve been jotting down all the dreams I can remember in a notebook and I finally got a notebook today that I can use solely for that purpose.

I also got some closure this week on something that has been weighing me down a lot this year. I had been leaving that door cracked open and hoping for someone else to walk through it (instead of walking through it myself) and it didn’t happen. Also got a pretty clear message saying they had no intention or desire to walk through that door. I’m far too drained on that subject now to even be bothered by it. I’m not the type of person to quit on something but at some point I have to learn that it’s not always my responsibility to do ALL the work. If I’m working harder at something than everyone else, it’s time to let it go and let nature take it’s course. When one door closes another opens, right? Even though it’s sad that all that work has clearly meant NOTHING, I feel liberated! It’s like I traded my roots for wings!