Ah the smell of spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, working hard making their nests. The snow is melting and almost gone. I can smell the newness of the world. The smell of clean dirt and fresh water. My spring bulbs are starting to pop their green little heads through the brown dirt reminding me that I need to get out there and work in my yard. All the familiar sounds and scents of spring are there. There is one familiar sight that is there too. CANS!!! Cans every where. A long cold winter of people throwing their trash out their car windows and no one picking it up,CANS!!!!!!! Exercise and and free cash just waiting there for you, all you have to do is get off the couch. CANS!!!. Last summer I made about $300 just in cans. You can walk down any of these country roads and look down and there are a butt load of cans. Cans Cans Cans!!! You don't pay attention to the fact your exercising when your making money now do you? I know I don't! This is something Lexi and I like to do together. And this is the time to do it. Any time between snow falls is a great time but the beginning of spring when everything melts and no one else has gotten out there and picked it all up you can get bags and bags of free money. I know its not much. But I walk a mile and make a few bucks! Bonus.
I took Hiro out for a walk Wednesday. The poor little puppy hasn't been feeling good. So I let her lead and we did a nice little walk (and got cans). Man I forget every winter how much I miss walking. I just like going out and feeling the sun and breathing in the fresh air and feeling like a human being.
My sister-in-law Tracy lost 52 pounds since October. I am so proud of her. I am so amazed by her and I wanted to take a moment and give a shout out to her. It took her getting the "diabetic" news for her life to change. I got the "pre-diabetic" news and I was ready for my life to change and for a while it did. But I didn't stick with it. I gave up. I slipped right back into old habits. While I am still down 15 pounds since October I am not down 52 and I would very much like to be in the same boat as Tracy. So I am redirecting myself. I'm starting the whole thing over again. Maybe not starting over again, maybe I am taking this next fork in the road. Because obviously the road I am traveling isn't the one that is going to get me where I need to go. It is obviously a loop.
Tomorrow, Friday, I am going to take my dog Tators and I am going to go out and I am going to collect CANS!!, then I will come home and I will trade her in for Libby and I will just walk her she is to hard to collect cans with she wild lol. Then I will get Hiro and she and I will enjoy a long walk and allot of can collecting. Then I will clean my house. Not so fun, but I love my new vacuum and that is exercise too!!!
I would like to take this moment to say a prayer.
Dear God, Thank you for Today. Thank you for giving me another day with my horses down at the stable. I find that being down there is making my week seem more enjoyable. It gives me a reason to get out of the house and I need that reason some days. Thank you for the love of my family I am amazed by the people you have surrounded me with. You have consistently led me down paths that I would have never seen before, because I was blinded by myself and others. You have given me the barn, my wonderful dogs and the strength to walk through my neighborhood and collect cans. You provide for me spiritually, physically, emotionally and financially. Thank you for my therapist, For my family and my friends. Thank you for a body that can physically support me, for a mind that functions properly and mentally supports me and heart that knows you and believes you and lives in your way and can spiritually support me. God please be with those who are suffering. Please watch over those who don't understand they pain of depression and the anxiety and frustration of mania. May they find help and peace in your word. Amen
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