Making Progress!

This will be a short post, but I just wanted to say how excited I am to have lost three more pounds. I'm down to 157! I started at 165, then got stuck between 163 and 160. I don't know if it's the gluten free diet, not eating very much, packing up my house and subsequently going up and down stairs a lot, or a combination of all of those. Whatever I'm doing differently, it's working and hopefully will continue to work!

Decisions and Other News

After prayer, advice from others, and discussing it together, we have made a decision. We are no longer looking at Amazon for jobs. We are struggling too much to wait on them. Instead, we are moving near the end of October, the third weekend to be exact. Of course, I didn't realize it before, but that will be the one year anniversary of Grandpa's death. But I will talk about that later. Now that we have decided when we are moving and have actually taken steps toward that goal (i.e. giving 30 days notice to our landlord and going to give our two weeks notice soon), I'm very excited! I can't stop thinking about it, and I've already started packing as much as I think I can. Of course we have a list of things we have to do before we actually move that is too soon to start on yet, but I'm so anxious to move forward now that we know what that means for us! When I spoke to my mom on the phone, she told me we are moving at the right time because everyone there is hiring for the holidays. My mentor/author friend, Cheryl, also told my mom that there is a publishing company who might be hiring, which is an awesome opportunity for me! God is good and His plans are perfect.

Some updates unrelated, on the first of next month I will have been gluten-free for three weeks. It's getting a little easier, training myself to avoid thinking about foods I can't have anymore. Some are harder than others (really wish I could have had pizza before I did this). However, my belly has slightly deflated and I'm losing weight faster. Of course that could just be that we've had next to no food in the house (and even less that I can eat). Because we're trying to stretch what little food we do have, we're not eating as much, which in turn makes our stomachs smaller, causing us to not be as hungry. When we do get hungry we are starving, but it doesn't take much to fill us up. After weighing myself this morning, I am at 159! I've been trying to get under 160 for a long time, and nothing has seemed to work. I seemed to be teetering between 160 and 163, so I'm really happy! I just hope I can keep this up.

Needing Prayer

So it turns out that Amazon keeps pushing back the start date. At first it was maybe the first week of October, now it's possibly the end of October. Traffic at Sonic is getting lighter and lighter since it's getting colder, and we're already not making enough. We really don't know how much longer we can work at Sonic and make ends meet. We know we're moving to Cincinnati soon, but if Amazon keeps pushing the start date back, we may have to change a lot of our plans, and sooner than we thought. We're not sure what the next step needs to be right now; I guess we're kind of in limbo. I know all we can do is pray right now, but we need all the help and support we can get. I know God has a plan, we just wish we knew what it was.

I'm Back

I know I haven't written in a very long time. Honestly, I forgot about it and I didn't think anyone was reading. But with the encouragement of a dear friend, author, and mentor, I'm back. I don't know how frequent the posts will be, but they will come. So, as an update, a lot of things have happened since last time.

We are still at Sonic, but we both got the job at Amazon. We are very anxiously waiting to hear what our shift will be, since they don't have any available at the moment (unfortunately). Hoping that will change come the first week of October. Until then we just have to keep plugging along at Sonic, praying that we make enough to make ends meet.

After much prodding and encouragement from several people (including-especially-my parents), I have decided to go on a gluten-free diet. I have been on it for roughly a week now. I figure, even if I'm not allergic, it can't hurt to try it. it can do nothing but good things for me. I'm hoping it will help me lose weight where I can't seem to (my gut), and it's possible that it will help my fertility, which is always a good thing.

David and I have gotten better in our spiritual walk, and I think part of that has to do with the fact that we've actually been able to go to church more than once a month. Praise God, I'm able to go at least three times in a row! That's actually a big deal right now, sadly enough. We've also come to a decision about not being in Campbellsville anymore. We feel like God is telling us to move to Cincinnati. We don't know when, must most likely sometime between December and the first of February, when our lease is up. We will live with my parents until we can save enough money to get our own place, and thankfully we know people with lots of connections.

Speaking of connections, my writing has been a lot better. With the extraordinary help of my mentor, Cheryl, I have written roughly ten pages of a short story. I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy (mostly) with my progress. If I didn't get stuck I would be farther, but then again who doesn't get stuck. Some days I just want to quit my job and spend the day writing. I have been reading a lot lately too, but honestly that gets tiring after a while. Especially when you read so much in a short amount of time, you get burn out quickly. So I switch between reading and writing to even myself out.

Well, I guess that's enough rambling for a little while. Hopefully these posts will be semi-regular. It would help if I knew that people actually wanted to read them. If you don't have an account, you can always shoot me a message or wall post on Facebook.