I'm now seeing a chiropractor after my camping adventure.  We formally go over my x-rays on Wednesday, but the gist of it is that I have arthritis in my neck and 2 bulging disks in my lower spine.  I'm a little sore after seeing him!  Hopefully, I will be back to myself before long. 

I have been exercising more, just doing lots of walking at this time.  I also have gone back to my roots of eating a salad with chicken.  I want 20 pounds gone by 9/29, the day of my coworker's wedding.  I am at 266 tonight, but I need to weigh myself in the morning to get a more accurate weight. 

I have worked out a budget using EveryDollar.  I really would like to try the Dave Ramsey FPU but it costs $119 on sale right now.  I am going to start with baby steps, putting together a $1000 emergency fund and then start snowballing my debt. 

I do have some expenses coming up, like DS3's retainer and half of the deductible for his phone.  I also need to get my tooth fixed, I broke a crown right off a few months ago and have yet to get it fixed. 

I'm hoping for more OT, but may pick up a second job if it doesn't pick up.  We have one person retiring in November and one of my coworker's is talking about going to the police academy in January for a career change.  It will take them a while to get 2 people hired in, so hopefully mucho OT!  Keeping my fingers crossed.

So finally back from vacation!  It was quite an adventure.  The Mighty B broke down the night before we were supposed to leave.  It appeared it was the fuel filter.  DS3 attempted to get it off but couldn't here.  He had to meet his dad in town and he was able to get his father to come and help, but they needed tools that were back at the house, so DS3 drove it there and the EX, DS2 and DS3 worked on it and got it done.  But, it still wasn't acting right.  Me, the way that I rationalize things, thought it was because things may have been clogged leading up to the filter and would need to work itself out.  DS2 said it was misfiring.  DS2 was supposed to do a tune-up a few months ago for me, but that never happened.  I asked DS3 to change the spark plugs at least and that hopefully it would work itself out.  DS2 said even with the misfire, we should be fine going up north.

We made it up north with both dogs, 2 kayaks and the Mighty B filled to capacity, after not leaving the night before when we originally were supposed to go.  The dogs literally had to sit in our laps on the way up!  DS3 lost his phone within an hour of being up there, no where to be found.  The deductible is $225.  I just don't have it right now.  I told him he had to pay for half of it and if it happens again, he has to pay for it in full.  So he is without a phone for a couple of weeks.  He thought he left it in the Mighty B, which his GF and I both saw it in there.  He had put it on airplane mode as he thought he hadn't brought his charger, but his GF had grabbed the charger.  We had taken the kayaks down this huge hill (guessing 150 feet?) and his kayak did turn upside down and I'm thinking the phone was probably in there and now at the bottom of the river.

This hill?  Holy crapola.  It was pretty steep and I am surprised I made it down.  I helped DS3 with the kayaks going down as well.  We managed to go that first day kayaking for about 2-3 hours and DS3 got out fishing for a bit.  Getting back up that hill?  I am surprised I didn't have a heart attack.  A lot of it was sand, which a lot of it was sand making it difficult to get a footing.  I slid down numerous times.  I finally had to ask DS3 for help about 3/4 of the way up.  There was a patch of about 3-4 feet that I just couldn't get past the sand without losing my grip and falling further.  He got me past that and then had me go off to the side where I could get better footing.  I was there maybe 15 seconds and realized I was in a wasp nest!  I yelled at him to run, while I was trying to haul ass getting away after being stung.  I literally got sick after I got up the hill.  It was pretty embarrassing.

DS2 made it up with GF!  I was so happy!  With all that transpired, it absolutely made my day that he made it up.  DS2 and DS3 got along too, and both GF's also got along.  He actually made reservations to come back this next weekend, hoping to bring his dad up, so that he could spend more time and fish.

DS2 did look at my vehicle while there and all it was, was a spark plug was not in all the way.  Mighty B is back up and running!  Whew....  that kid is such a genius!!

We got lots of sun, had lots of food, and just enjoyed each other. 

I'm posting this now as it has taken me days to do so!