CAUTION: Woman In Progress

I know I rant a lot. Head's up: That's not gonna change. Current rant: Okay, so why is it that nearly everything I do gets snide commentary from folks around me? I mean, I know I see the same people every day and maybe we get used to seeing/experiencing certain things from each other but must everyone comment on EVERYTHING I do? I can't wear lipstick, or change my hair, try make-up, or wear an off the shoulder blouse to my cousin's wedding, or even fill my glass from the new water bottle filling station in the library without someone making a big deal out of it. I mean, I can understand the changing the hair thing if the commentary was like, "Oh, I like your  hair like that!" Or the off the shoulder blouse thing if the commentary was to say that it looked nice on me. But NO. The commentary is always with a hint of snideness or teasing like, "Look at you, changing your hair." "An off the shoulder blouse?" asked as said blouse is near...

If anyone is actually reading this blog and then even a little curious about my health goals updates, I've been blogging regularly over at my fat girl blog . But if you don't want to read all the hard stuff, I'll give you a little mini-update: Over the course of the month, I've lost 6lbs and 1 inch! Cue the party horns and balloon release. haha My financial goals...well, I'm still on track but I've been overextending my grocery budget because surprise! healthy food is hella expensive. BUT, I recently got a small raise at work which goes into affect on the 15th so I can reexamine my grocery budget and maybe pad it a little to keep from creeping into or derailing my overall financial goals. The hardest part, I'm realizing, is trying to decide what is the wisest thing to do with any extra money I come across. Gut instinct says to put it toward debt but then I second guess myself and think, you know, I might need to save that into my emergency fund so tha...