short and sweetner

This one will be short… Earlier I posted an older post because it fit...tonight I am posting a new post because part of my process is to blog daily...Here it is! Today I realized: We are all just people trying to get through life the best we can. Bullies suck! Goji Berries are amazing! I am truly blessed and want to do everything I can do to be a blessing to others! I have no ulterior motives behind doing the things I do. Love is why we exist. That is all! Happy eating, Healthy living and see you on the flip!

Simple Choices!!!!

Simple Choices…HA! We are faced with choices every day. In fact, everything we do involves a choice. From what we drive to what we wear, we make a decision about everything we do. I certainly do not think any choice is easy, however, some do become habitual and therefore we do them instinctively. Food for me is never simple. The choice is always about quantity, and never good for my body. I am a TASTER,I love the taste of sweet, rich food, sauces and pastas, rice and grains and all the things that turn into fat in my body. Yesterday I made a choice to buy yogurt instead of donuts. Today I made the choice to eat healthy again, in fact I had a huge salad for dinner and chicken baked with rosemary and a yogurt and an apple. My goal here is to start making these healthy choices turn into instinctively automated choices. I don’t think I will ever become a SIMPLE eater, I will always want to enjoy a tasty Milky Way to a stalk of celery.I will totally always want fresh Lasagna to Smart Ones lasagna or eggplant/zucchini lasagna with no noodles. What I am going to try to do is cook the Eggplant version and learn to do it without noticing the Stouffers one. I will always want new shoes or cologne instead of the new socks I desperately need too. My point here is that there will always be choices and they should all be thoughtfully and prayerfully considered if we are to avoid the downfalls that society put in our face. Lets all try to make better choice in general, and in all aspects of our lives (except when it comes to shoes, they still will probably win). Thanks for reading this, God Bless

The New Year blahhhhhg

So, here I am on the first night of the great 2014!!! HOORAY!!! To be honest though, I’m in kind of a shitty mood. Why? I don’t know… So far the New Year hasn’t brought me riches; in fact I spent more than I should have. I went to weigh in at a popular weight loss center and guess what? CLOSED! Closed for the holiday, which would be fine if they would update their web site to reflect the cancelled meeting...(after all today should be the busiest day of the year for them). Then I noticed a giant hole in my new shirt that I got to look great with my new shoes that I bought right before I found out that I needed to renew my car registration. I got my credit report in the mail….don’t even ask. I woke up with a stiff neck. Went to the grocery store, to buy donuts, to lift my spirit, but my senses kicked in and I bought yogurt. I realized that New Years Day has not brought forth a significant other nor has it fixed my ailing car nor has it paid off my student freaking loans… This New Years Day thing is not a time to get excited for what’s possibly going to happen in the New Year, It is more like a day set aside to look back and see all the things you did wrong over the past twelve months. So I can’t weigh in until Friday and it really has me pissed off…I am still trying pretty hard to stay on track, but my mood is a big obstacle today. On a positive note I have done the following things to a degree of great success; I have music playing in my house again. I am getting ready to work out in a bit. I have begun to save money. My house is cleanish. I have a plan. I have my Lord. The rest of it will be ok in the morning! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

The Letter T

How do you pickup the pieces of a life you have thrown away? How do you move forward when you have allowed your surroundings to consume you? How do you stay focused and pursue the life you have all but forgotten about? How do you begin again? Well I can tell you really fast...you open your dusty laptop remember those forgotten passwords, open your blog up and start typing!!! I joined a weight loss program today, bought healthy groceries and pulled out my Turbulence Training guide and am getting ready to figure out a new budget...I will be posting daily again and plan on not being single much longer either... I am integrating some great supplements and exercise and plan on whipping ass!!! 2014 is going to be MY YEAR!!! (it has to be) Happy New Year Folks!!!!

Time for some new words

Pouring my heart out is easy, listening to my own advise is not. I have spent the better part of a year and a half contemplating and trying to figure out how to get to a better state of mind concerning this journey I am on. I am no closer to a solution now than I was six months ago, but I am, however, a tiny bit smarter today than I was then. I don't want to sell any fad or be a celebrity blogger or promote someone else, I just want to be as healthy as I can be/ How do I do that? That is a great question/ I'm going to begin with food/ btw the period button won't work on my keyboard, therefore the slash will replace it/ FOOD SUX/// there is no easy way around it/ It sux/ Yes,it sustains us and fuels us and blah blah blah, but for me it also comforts, rewards, sooths, and helps me to forget/ it SUX/ Especially over the past year/ I am now going to do something quite radical, I AM GOING TO DEVELOP MY OWN MEAL PLAN BASED ON WHAT WORKS FOR ME, seriously people, how much money are we going to throw away to weight loss companies that change their programs every year just to get you to spend more? tHe work is easy, choose foods I like, lean meats and fish, cheese, yogurts fruits and veggies/ drink only water stay away from added sugar and artificial sweetners, avoid pasta, rice, bread, cereals, and proccessed foods, no soda or carby desserts/ Eat often, I am now eating for weight loss again, breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, snack that's it/ EXERCISE ROX/ it flippin ROX AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IT// my workout is simple, follow one that is built by a pro and use it/ Follow the workout word for word and don't expect same day result, Be reasonable, and be careful/ i will begin my workouts each day upon rising, Then, througout my day I will dedicate two hours to physical activity this activity should also serve to curb my appetite and cravings to snack/ WORK IS WORK/ it is getting better, I credit work with my weight gain,even though i know it runs deeper than work/ Having said that, my job is getting easier and my client base is getting stronger,no more excuses/ FRIENDSHIPS CHANGE/ Over the past year my core group of friends has changed, I see now that the ones Ifelt closest too, barely knew I existed, It's bullshit to finally realize this, and extremely painful/ i have to use this sadness to push myself harder/ I promise myself to never again allow two or three people to hurt me so badly that I let it tear me down into an even deeper place, Shame on you, you know who you are/ GOD IS AMAZING/ yes, HE is, i used to be worried that acknowledging any specific reliigeon would alienate others, but I need the world to know, i turned to God,and HE forgave me/ So beginniing right now, I am putting myself first, and fixing this mess/

Food and work out!!! 11/30/11

Did pretty good yesterday...

Breakfast, oatmeal, with fruit

Lunch, yougurt and carrots with ranch

Dinner, veggie chili with veggie burger meat

wheat thins and salsa for a snack

all in all good day!!!!

worked out and feel alot better today. I think the fact that I wasnt staying in control was makin me guilt and that guilt made me feel really bad!!! Feelin great today!

Checkin back tomorrow!!! Love ya!

Getting back to Good!!!

Hi everyone!!! I am BACK!!!!
I hope everyone has had a great few weeks. Mine have been…stressful, But not totally bad.
After my Grandmother died I took some time off from blogging and took some time to focus more on work and put my program on the back burner. BIG MISTAKE!!!!
I have gained about thirty pounds back… I lost all control of my eating and exercise program and feel like crap for it! My clothes stopped fitting and I am feeling miserable!!! ENOUGH!!!!!
Two weeks ago I began slowly working out again and am trying very hard to get back to good.
I quit my second job and am working at the salon full time now, I am keeping my fingers crossed that this whole thing works out!
Have you ever lost control before? I have come to understand that the reason this is happening is not that I stopped caring, it’s that I became too used to things going well that I stopped tracking what I was eating, I stopped feeling the need to work out and once I began to fit into the clothes I liked, I stopped trying to lose weight…
So I have done a good job at planning out my day, food wise, but I will be damned if the new gas station in Boiling Springs isn’t selling pastries for $.19 a piece, DAMN YOU QT!!!!! I am making a conscious effort to stay the heck away from that place, but it is hard, especially when I have been consuming more sugar than usual and I am craving more sugar to supplement as I get hungry. This is how my weight gain begins!
I have started with oatmeal and yogurt and veggie juice during the day and a nice sized meal at night. I have to remember what it feels like to win small victories over this eating disorder, and not give up half way through each day. When I give up, I over eat and then I over eat for days!
So I have decided that I am going to start blogging everyday and be honest with my readers about what I eat and how I work out. I have to get back to good folks; I came too far to let it all completely unravel…
SO…keep yelling at me when I order French fries at the restaurant and keep asking me if I really need that cookie, keep telling me I should order a regular coffee instead of a Chai Latte, and please, please…KEEP READING… I am not going to let this fat return without a fight!!!

On the bright side, I am doing very good in other aspects of my life…I am seeing someone new, I am getting busier and busier at work, and life is getting better and better, Cesalee is doing great and the holidays are going to be magical!!! I just need to get this whole thing under control again!
OK, enough about me, let me know how you all have been doing with the Journey you have been on…Are you still trudging forward? Or have you been stuck at a four way like me?
I love and have missed you all!!!! Let’s do this damn thing!!!

Tight Hugs, and French Toast!

So as i sit here thinking about why I am back in my hometown and what is going on and how it is going to affect me and the rest of my life... I realize just how important life is.

I can type my feelings much better than I can speak them, so I am going to attempt to put how I am feeling into words in this post...

My Grandma, pronounced, Grammaw passed away on halloween. SHe had been in a nursing home for a couple of years suffering from what the Doctors could only assume was Alzheimers Disease.

I lost someone very special this week and am full of guilt over having not seen her for almost two years.I know what many of you might say to that, but I still stayed away...I shouldnt have.

The last time I saw her she was not speaking, she was in and out of it for the entire visit. resorting back to her childhood and then back to an imagined present day full of dreams.

I dont want to remember her like that. The woman I remember was a woman that had a smile that made me feel like the world was ok, she had a cute giggle/chuckle when she got tickled about something and a sense of humor that understood me. I got my dry wit from her as did my mother, uncles, cousins, and sisters...She knew how to laugh at herself and could take a joke. She also knew how to let us know that we had put on a few pounds when she saw us, She was "just sayin"...but she never meant it to offend us, it was her way of looking out for our health.

She attended her church every sunday, living close to it, she would take a glass of cold water for the preacher and knew everything about every person that attended. She is probably yelling, right now, at the person responsible for making the decision to close her beloved little church from heaven.

She tried fried okra, southern style, in her eighties, and LOVED it!!! She loved my parents preacher and his wife and while she was living with my Mom in SC before going into the nursing home, she made sure to be at church on Sundays to see them.

She had the coolest car in the world, a 68 or 69 chevy nova, it rocked!!! and alot of my early memories were made inside of that car, including her rolling the window up on my fingers one time.

She was always home and we never had to knock on her door, we just walked on in and she would be waiting for us, she would hug each of us so tight we almost couldnt breathe, but we knew it was because she loved us soo much. she made great pumpkin pie, and made me french toast for breakfast when i would stay with her.

I remember lying in the grass in her yard and rolling down the hill and laughing as she sat under the tree with my Pap-pap watching us, probably laughing herself silly at us.

We all got treated the same, my cousins and my sisters and me, she was close to each of us, the same, yet seperately. Sadly as i got older my visits declined and years would go by between my trips to her house, but it was always the same, the sound of her screen door opening, the smell of her back porch, the kitchen light she had to jump up to tap on to get the wires to connect, the butter cookies she kept in the cabinet above the stove in the white cookie bucket, the peanut butter eggs she made at easter and the Gobbs (to hard to explain) she made randomly for us and her pumpkin pies and french toast...the sound the chairs in her kitchen made as they slid across the floor, I can still hear my Uncle John's Gremlin pulling up and getting excited that my cousins Mickey Joey and Jeremy were coming, opening aunt MarySue's stockings at Christmas and Grandma's Pumpkin Pie.. all memories now...I miss my Grandma, I miss my Pap-pap, I miss my uncle John...I know death is part of every life, I know that with each death a part of us changes and I am just trying to figure out how much of me will change now too.

My Grandma Reba was one of the people that molded me into the person I am today and every time I tie my shoes, I will remember her being proud of me when I tied them when I was five and taking me with her to Super Shoes to try on shoes just to practice. (something I had forgotten until just now).

She is gone now and my memories are all I have left in my head,but those hugs, those tight hugs she gave us like she didnt want to let go, I can still feel. I hope I always feel them...

Rest In Peace Grandma, Tell Pap-pap and John I love them. Keep your perms rolled on pink rods and be amoung the first people I see when I finally show up, hopefully late, to Paradise! I LOVE YOU!!!

slow down so you dont stop!

Ok, so i was driving to work this morning, talking to myself as i often do, when i realized something, i will now share with you the conversation i had with myself that led to this great discovery!

Sane self: why did you sleep so late?
Crazed self: Cause im tired,duh!
Sane self: you are burning out, you arent sleeping properly, you arent working out properly, you are gaining weight, you are sleeping in, you even ate Cheetos last week......CHEETOS!!!!!!!
Crazed self: so?
Sane sef: CHEETOS!!!!! YOU HATE CHEETOS!!
crazed self: Look sanity, I have only a small window left in my life to build my career,acheive my proffessional goals in order to provide for myself and my daughter and to get my CSX....so im burning the candle at both ends, could i do things differently? Yes...could i eat better? Yes...could i sleep more? Yes...am I geting busier every day? Yes....
Sane self: you have plenty of time to do all of that! Your 38 not 88....besides....your "small window in life " will get even smaller and shrink faster when you neglect your health then it will... As... You... Age...WOW!
Crazed self: WOW
Sane self: wow
Then i said out loud.....Wow!
While talking to myself i realized that as hard as i am working to build my career while i still have the time to do it, neglecting my health and notmeeting my daily potential mentally, physically, spiritually as well as proffessionally, my time wont matter much anyway because my quality of life will deminish...

I think we should all have a talk with ourselves today, do it everyday. We know the answers to most of our problems, most of our issues and most of our questions. We know ourselves better than almost anyone and until we work it out in our minds, no amount of advice or no amount of training will get through to us!
Go and talk about it folks! Love ya! Happy Tuesday!!!!!

Do you have junk food in your house? How is that working for ya?

SO what is the affect of having too many sweets in your house? I saw a facebook post on Craig Ballentine’s facebook page today that made me think. Could having the temptation in front of us be the single most important part of the success or complete breakdown of any program?

Historically speaking it is pretty messed up that even the strongest and wisest men could not avoid looking into Medusa’s eyes even though they knew they would turn to stone. Adam and Eve were tempted and lost Eden because of it. Yes, I do believe that temptation is the downfall of what we are and what we are to be.

I have a weakness for sweet foods, I don’t think I am alone in this weakness, I do considerably well during the day, but at night I feel that I need sweet foods to unwind and relax. I eat to think things through, I eat when I am angry and I eat to avoid stress!

The desire to unwind and relax and EAT is part of who I am, in order to regain the control that I have lost recently I MUST find something else to do to unwind and relax at night, something that does not include eating poorly. I might try yoga, meditation, playing with the Cooper, cleaning, something, ANYTHING that does not include EATING.

A lot of people that are overweight are bigger because they over indulge on drinks, or eat out a lot or because they don’t move very much or just out of boredom, I do all of these things and to top it all off, I am a closet junk food-aholic with Little Debbie tendencies (self diagnosis). So it’s rather important to me to figure out why I do this and why after 9 months of great results I am beginning to yo-yo out of control.

I start off each day with Coffee and oatmeal, no sugar little half and half and some sweetener in each and I eat a banana or some pineapple.
I then have a snack of string cheese and or some nuts about 3 hours after breakfast. Lunch is tricky because I can be too busy to eat sometimes, or I will have to find something frozen to heat up at work, either way I make sure it’s healthy and not to bad for me Points wise so as to not mess up my WW.

Another snack in the afternoon consists of nuts and or fruits, even dried fruits or dehydrated plantains (my new favorite chip).
Dinner is tricky as well, I am working two jobs and most nights don’t get to dinner and because I don’t go grocery shopping right now due to the time factor, I stop at the store each night, while I am hungry by the way, and buy dinner and most always DESSERT! I ruin my efforts toward my health every day, at night! I buy bad food, add some junk, because I keep telling myself I can try again tomorrow, and my recipe for a bad night has been written.

So here is my decision concerning junk food, late night eating and a few other things that I see better now that I have typed them out.
1. No more late night eating!
2. If the TV is on, I will not eat!
3. No more junk food in the house, PERIOD!!! If you bring it in my house please understand and don’t be offended when I ask you to remove it immediately.
4. I must grocery shop once per week and plan my meals in advance!!!
5. I must never enter a grocery store when I am hungry, for any reason!!!
6. I WILL take the TRICKY out of my roll! Plan better for the days I work both jobs and on the days when I have clients right through lunch.
7. Workout when I need to think things through!
8. Workout when I am angry!
9. Workout when I need to work through some stress!
10. When I have the urge to overeat, or turn to sweets, GROW UP AND WALK AWAY FROM THE FOOD!!!

I hope everyone has an awesome Sunday! Remember the Saints play the Colts tonight at 8:20!!! WHO DAT?
And I love all ya’ll!
"It’s not about how fast we get to our destination…It’s about what we learn along the way!" ME

google is changing on us!

Well, i have heard a rumor recently that Google is shutting down blogger in an effort to create more interest in google+ which is great...it does not mean that robirobtheblog will no longer exist...according to google, it will not change a thing, but in the unlikely event that the blog disappears please save my email address and info and become a facebook friend or a google+ friends and i will inform u of where to go to find me. Please feel free to friend me anyway... I love new friends!
Robirob1234@gmail.com or facebook.com/robirob123 or send me an email for a google+ invite.

Love u all, more posts are coming soon, i promise....i have alot going on and alot of changes i wantto make to the blog...we need a revamp!

Help! Seriously, HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gotta say, I'm pretty darn tired.

I mean, I knew when I embarked on this professional change, taking on a second job, while trying to keep life as normal as possible, was going to be extremely difficult, but I had no clue just how tired I was going to be.

I know that sleep is important and I promised Daniel that as part of my readjusted routine, I would sleep like I should be sleeping, keep up with my workouts and nutrition and stay focused on my health. I have, btw, gotten back on track with my health, i gained back some weight, how much is a well gaurded secret but it wasnt enough to kill my program, I am working out but i am so tired that it's been less at less than100%. What is happening rigt now is that I am out of my comfort zone and in more of a terror zone. I have no clue how the bills are going to be paid, I am neglecting my home, I am figting tooth on nail for my future and even though I am seeing great results, i am so drained and exhausted that I feel like giving up for a while all together. I dont even know what the date is today. i am so unbelievably sleepy I just wanna cry...

I need some help...I know most of my readers stay quiet for the most part but i really need some feedback. I need ways to stay alert and happy and excited about my journey without using energy drinks or drugs. Supplements are different and I am getting ready to order some antioxident rich fluids that migt help, but ineed my health food nuts to give me some secrets. Give me some tips, whether its a breathing exercise, a workout tip or a food that might help.

I am never giving up on my goal to be successful in my industry and i am getting busier and busier, but the hours between the two jobs is killing me.

HELP!!!!!!!

just a quicky

I think we put way too much into trying to explain the way to a better life, the way to a happier healthier lifestyle, it’s all very important information, but most of it gets lost between our lips and the brains of the people we are talking too.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think it is important to get the right nutrition and the right workouts and the advice from qualified people that know what they are talking about, but seriously folks...If it is going to be SO difficult that you dread your routine, and you get burnt out and you can't face the day without making an unhealthy EXCUSE, or if you aren’t going to listen to the advice you are given...Then are you really helping yourself? Are the people trying to help you wasting their time?

I am sure some of you will take issue with this post, but I am speaking from the heart and I have gotten away from that lately because I was trying too hard to impress my readers and it started to detract from what I was trying to do here... this blog is about ME, it’s My way, My Journey, My life and ultimately My Death...Yes folks it's all about me, and me helping you to understand how good it feels to become the person you have always wanted to be. So here is my advice for the day. This advice is for the people searching for the help they need and the people trying to give the help needed.

It's all about the smile!

That's it, no technique, no this is right and that is wrong. It is all about the smile!

If you are not smiling, ask yourself why!Professionals, if your clients are not smiling, investigate that first. Chances are if you get to the bottom of the frown, you will find the REAL problem...for those of you needing an illustration of a frown covering a problem, I will do my best to draw one for you...

(---)...this is a frown
..p.. . this is the problem
See how the frown hides the problem???? Ok so not the best illustration, just imagine a frown with a P under it!

EVERY PERSON YOU SEE TODAY NEEDS A REASON TO SMILE, BE THEIR REASON

something I need to say!!!

SO I have spent a large part of my life dealing with something that actually makes me, a greown ass man cry at night. It keeps me awake, it hurts me to my core,it offends me, it makes me regret being born sometimes. The worst part of all of this....It should not bother me it all. It is who I am and it is What I am and I have spent my life running from it!

No, it's not my weight, it's not my Cancer, It's not my failed marriage or my beautiful son that died. It is not my distance (geographic) from Cesalee, it is not my thinning hair... It's a secret, one most of you now know, but it's still a secret to many... Most people figure it out when thety meet me, some don't. Alot of people could care less, Thety accept me regardless, some don't... But it's still a secret.

It's also a sin...even though I know that no one sin is worse than another, it is still a sin, but I am committing another sin by lying about this secret to the people I deny it too...

Recently I have started to suspect some members of a local church have been gossiping about this secret, as they suspect it. And that saddens me, because these people are the ones that should, in my opinion, be loving, is that not what Jesus told us to do?

I love everyone regaerdless of what or who you are. I will never judge you for ANYTHING!!!! I am tired of being a joke to some people, I am tired of being afraid to be me.

I will say this about the gossip girls and guys. I will include anyone else that dislike me...I love you, because I am supposed to love you. I would physically break anyone in half if they ever hurt any of you. I would fight to my death to keep all of you out of harms way.

That is what I believe GOD wants from us. Not all of the gossip and pot stirring and judgements that abound....Think about that for today folks.

Happy Saturday!!!!!

Sometimes we have to know our limits...

I AM TIRED!!!

I have been busy lately. One thing I have promised my trainer that I would do is post on this blog at least 2 times per week and make a list of the things I am proud of and happy about each week...Its hard to find the time to even workout, much less post a blog and make lists, take the trash out keep the dog occupied, pay bills be a Dad, date and work two jobs and sleep and stay positive...There has to be a way to find an equilibrium in all that mess (my hand is in the stop position making a circular motion while I say “all that mess” in my head, as if I am in a Madea movie)!

The truth ... I am burning the candle at both ends and need to either blow the candle out or use a stronger wick!

It’s so easy to say, I’m just going to call in today, or let’s sleep 5 minutes longer, or the dog can wait a few more minute…It’s easy to go by a Wendy’s fatburger or a McKill-me Big Artery clogger than it is to plan meals and pack food. It saves time to let the bills pile up and pay them on your next day off, (a month later) It’s not that hard to fall asleep with your clothes on, forget to put on deodorant and shave with instant oatmeal because you can’t take 5 minutes to go pick up shaving cream, and does the dog really need treats when a hand full of dog food can do the same thing? Let’s not forget to mention that I haven’t seen my daughter in two months!!!

I AM Tired

I have been busy lately…

My daily schedule starts at 5am…I wake and instantly feed the dog and put him in the yard for his play time with the critters that I can’t see cause its still dark…Then I workout, intensely (thank you Daniel), this workout wakes me up and is probably the biggest motivating event of my day. I eat my oatmeal and egg, drink an airborne and shower, put the dog in his kennel for naptime (cause it’s his favorite thing), then I go to work, at 7am…I sit here, and I think, about work, I market myself, I drive around handing out flyers and business cards, I book appointments, I clean the salon, I organize my life and I blog (:}) and I basically wait for my business to grow, which it is, at a fantastic rate, thanks to people like Jon and Joy Garner, Elizabeth Verdell Walter and Emily Rogers, and Kim Stevens, Robbie Flatford and Kaye Dillard and Aaron Creech and Dean Sewell and my parents…(just to name a few). They have been with a lot of other people (that I WILL recognize eventually as time goes by)by spreading the word about us and sending us their friends, LOVE YOU GUYS. I sit here early tying to get traffic from the very busy road that runs next to the salon…I sit here and do all of that, and do my appointments as well until 2pm each day when I pack up and go to work at another full time job until 9 pm. I then spend time with the dog, my folks, or on the phone with people I have been trying not to neglect and one person recently in particular that I am trying to get to know better. I do that till about eleven or twelve midnight. Then I go to bed for what feels like a few minutes and I get up and do it all again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My days run together and I feel so worn down that I just wanna go back to the “It’s so easy to say” paragraph and give up!!!

I am TIRED!!!

I Have been very busy lately!!!

Then I remember something… No matter how tired I feel, no matter how busy I am, no matter how scared or depressed or anxious or terrified I might be… IN EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF MY LIFE…someone or something is depending on me to keep going, Cesalee, Cooper, my folks, my sisters my friends, my readers, my clients, my bank my bill collectors and my own damn self!
As I come to this realization, I raise my head and look out at the beautiful sunshine and the awesome day ahead of me, and I find a smile through the sleepiness, and I find renewed motivation to get through yet another day of “non-stop interstate JOURNEY traffic”!

Can I get an AMEN?!?!?

CAN I GET AN AMEN?!?!?!

Have a great day, and if you’re having the same issues I am right now, take a look at the blue sky outside and remember that there are people under that blue sky dying to keep your blue skies safe enough for you to be tired under…If that does not work, go get some damn coffee and shut the heck up!!!

So I have choosen to use a stronger wick, to use the slower burning candles and to keep plenty of fuel nearby in case the flame goes out on me! But friends, I gotta be honest, I need your help!!!