Doing my thing

Played basketball with liv and burned a ton of calories...and a salad assembly line...dinner for me and liv...lunch for tomorrow

still here

Hi All,

Healing from a dental emergency.... I have been seeing a dentist and edodontist at Case, working towards a comprehensive plan to fix my teeth... first priority was the tooth that was causing me some grief.  Then last weekend my tooth that I had two root canals on starting really bugging me..it never stopped bugging me but the pain became unbearable. I had my third root canal on tooth #29 on  3/17/14.... It was a tough call - to try to save it or pull it. I totally went in there expecting to ask for it to be pulled. It was never really done right so I opted to try to save it. After all these are specialist with state of the art equipment. After that I started swelling up bad on my gum line and I was having severe pain and pressure building up... I could hardly talk without being in pain and  the pain killers were not touching it...then 3/20/17 after talking to my dentist on the phone, I went back for a emergency surgery to drain my abscess and a apiectomy... oh my that was dreadful....


I was near tears when I told the doctor.. Listen .. I have a life.. I can't be consumed with managing this tooth pain.... they are asking me to be patient and give it time to settle and for the infection to heal. I am on antibiotics and hoping & praying that this time it works. I am feeling better each day... today was my first day being able to function with no pain pills.... so that is a start.

words of wisdom

" You can't out exercise a bad diet"


It's 80% food choices and 20% exercise... or so they say

I have been doing good with my exercise.. consistent.

My weight is up.....not pleased... when I take a good long look at my intake I think snacking is still my downfall that and emotional eating depression. I realize I don't know what to do with myself when Liv is with her dad... come summer I can get out & about more. But I think I medicated myself with wine & cheese & crackers & olives & chocolate. I fell off the my fitness pal food dairy wagon... I did that daily for 1.5 years... after awhile I guess I figured I had a good sense of calories. I am back at tracking my intake.


It will be ok. I am back on track. I just have to ask myself  " why am I eating this? am I bored? am I lonely? "

Busy Mom

Hi All,

We are in the midst of one of the most brutal winters ever... geesh.. when will it end?. I really don't recall such a long stretch of bad weather. I am doing my thing over here..working out three days a week. Monday, Thursday and Saturday. This summer when Liv attends summer camp at the Y, I am planning on working out in the early mornings after dropping Liv at camp at 7.30, working out, freshening up and then heading to work. I look forward to getting my workouts done in the morning again.



I have been spending my Mondays off trying to get my dental work completed, I am going to a school so its a process... a very long process. I have been there three times already and still no work has been done. Its a hour drive each way, I need to schedule an extra 15 minutes for walking to my destination from the parking garage and then the actual apt takes 2.5 hours because the student needs to run every step by her dentist professor whom she has to hunt down. What an ordeal... but a $40 cleaning versus the $150 the regular dentist charges makes it worthwhile. I was just thinking today about the craptastic weather when it comes to my long dentist commute. In Dec I canceled my dental apt due to the weather, In Jan it was 30 below when I went to the dentist, In Feb I drove through a blizzard and today March 3rd..we are recovering from a power outage, a winter storm and below zero temps.


I am blogging less overall because this single Mom business is no joke... Its all on me...therapy appointments, picking up, dropping off, play dates, gymnastics, packing lunches... it does not leave much time for anything else. I am doing my best.