Haters Beware!!!!

I got my first hater on YouTube this morning. I woke up at my normal time, very tired but ready to start the day anyhow. I got a message on my phone that someone had left a comment on my channel page. When I saw what they wrote I had to laugh. Why did I laugh and not get mad???? Well first its my first hate comment since I made the channel almost 2 years ago and second, why get mad? That's all they want anyhow!

I went to this person's page and left a message thanking them for leaving such a wonderful comment and that I'm not like them and going to send more hate. Instead i told them that I wished them many blessings and to have a nice day. What else could I do really? I then blocked them and went on my way to work.

While I was driving to work I got another message saying this other person had wrote on my page and they too were a hater. Different people or the same?? I think it was the same. When I got home I blocked the second person and deleted all the comments off my page. While I was doing that I noticed that they had marked a good friend of mine as spam. I know it was this person because she had shown up fine this morning.

I looked at both sock accounts and noticed that they were a few others that told them to stop too. Such hate coming from one person for different reasons. Its so sad to think that one person can spend so much time on hating others. This wont stop me from making videos, it wont stop the kind of videos I do, in fact after this I wont talk about them again. i have to many important things to do and to worry about.

So my message to anyone that has had a hater comment on a video or blog or anything else for that matter, just let it go. Move on and put it out of your head. Why waste your time on such negative energy. I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!!!! I am so excited, that means just one more work day and also one more day of waking up early in the morning.

Motivation

If I didn't have motivation to lose the weight and get in better shape before, well i do now! I just found out that a former friend that likes to rub crap in is training for a 12.5 mile run/walk in June. Now I doubt that she will really do it, she always has great ideas but never does it.

For me that means I have to step up my game some. I already wanted to do that today because of my weigh-in at WW but now its in me even more. Before I go ahead any further I will catch up on what has been happening with WW. I have lost a total of 8.4lbs with WW in 10 weeks. That right there frustrates me to no end! I have been on this yo-yo for the past 4 weeks. I gained 2.2lbs last week and lost 1.8 this week. This week I wasn't able to exercise at all, in fact last night my class was canceled. I'm sure if I had been able to go I would have seen a bigger number on the scale but I am happy with where I am.

So my motivation is to step up my game even more and get in better shape and show her that when I set my mind to it, I get it done! Competing against someone isn't a bad thing, in fact its a good thing. If that is the motivation that I need to drop the weight and get in better shape then so be it! Watch out world cause I am on a mission!!!


It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain

Putting my new dehydrator to good use

I decided a few months ago to start canning and dehydrating the food I grew in my garden. My mom had canned food for years but I have never known anyone to dehydrate food. I watched several videos on YouTube and have read many books on how and what to dehydrate. Finally I decided Friday night that I would start dehydrating food. A few days ago I bought some mushrooms that were on sale, I didn't know what I would make with them at the time I just bought them because of the sale price. I still didn't know what I was going to make with them so I brought out my dehydrator and decided that would be my first project!

So late Friday night I took the mushrooms out of the refrigerator and placed them on the drying trays. I only had an 8oz container of them so it cover almost 2 of the trays. I turned it on and let it dry overnight. I looked at the guide it came with and it said to dry them at least 12 hours.

The next morning around 9 or so in the morning I shut the dehydrator off. Now I learned that they should just break apart in my hands, and that they did. I did it! Now I wasn't thinking ahead really, I had no idea what I would put them in. I had planned to have glass jars for food but I haven't bought them yet. So I grabbed a freezer bag and put them in that. The good thing about the freezer bags is that you can write on them the date you dehydrated them. Now this isn't where I plan to keep them but it will do until I buy glass jars.

When I went to the grocery store yesterday onions were on sale so I bought 2 5lb bags of them. I sliced up 4 large onions, maybe it was 5, I'm not sure and I placed them on all 4 drying trays. I have them drying as I am typing this. Talk about being a cry baby, boy were those onions strong!!!! I can still smell them on my hands and worst of all I cut my thumb. Its not to bad but it hurts!

So overall I can see how having this dehydrator will be a great addition to my kitchen. I have over 300 onion bulbs that I will be planting soon. There is no way that I could eat all of them when they are fresh so dehydrating them will be the way to go for me! I spent $6 for the bulbs compared to who knows how much at the store. Oh yeah the onions alone will save me tons of money come fall. That is a major plus for me!

Changes in my blog

Well as you can see if you follow me I have been making some changes around here. I decided since Spring is here that I should brighten things up a bit. Searching for just the right layout can take hours! So I hope you all like the new changes in the look.

Also there will be some changes in what I post. Some of you may know that I have two blogs, this one and a cooking blog. I have such a hard time keeping up with the things that I have that I have been thinking about combining the two, bringing my cooking over here. I wont be closing the other blog yet, just trying something new.

So I hope you all stick around and see what I post next. I know I have said I would post more and I am still going to try that. Spring and summer I will be spending more and more time outside but I also want to blog about what I am doing. I will be spending more time in the garden, both flower and vegetable gardens, I will be taking more nature walks and just enjoying everything that there is outside. I hope you will enjoy what is to come, I know I am excited!