WW Update - Week 2

 

Well, honestly, I didn't want to report out to y'all today.  I knew I wasn't going to have anything good to report on Monday when I weighed myself at home, but I made a good go at starving myself for the past 3 days anyway.  As this handy chart will show you, I have gained .4 pounds.  Which brings me back to an even 2 pounds.  I told my leader that it was just because I didn't like decimals. 

 

So, looking on the brighter side as they try to tell us in these classes, at least I didn't gain it all back.  And I'm aware of the issues.  So although my little scale doesn't get to slide to the right any further, at least it's not moving to the left!

 

Today's meeting was actually pretty helpful.  We discussed how to make your favorite foods lower points.  Too bad it was at noon and none of us had eaten yet so we were all starving and craving pretty badly the whole time.  At least we had each other man.  At least we had each other.

 

Yikes!

Does anyone feel sorry for me? These are actual temperatures. With the winds, it's actually going to be even colder!


I just have to keep chanting, "I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband." Since he's the reason I'm up here anyway. But since he's done nothing but come home, be grubby, and sleep on my couch for the past 4 work days. It's sort of hard for me to appreciate him to his fullest. :o)

Pray for me.

Air Purifers

I may have mentioned a time or two that my office sometimes reeks due to the manufacturing department located right below my area.

I suggested to my manager that we get an air purifer for our area.   So I picked out an Alen T300 Tower Air Purifier.  It rated pretty high in consumer reports.  And had all the things we wanted for our area, kills germs, cleans air, removes the stink.

 

We've had it for 3 days, and let me tell you.  It's fabulous!  Our area smells so nice and fresh while other areas reek to high heaven!  Ahhh.  Bliss!

This is totally going to help me with my headache problem for sure.  Not to mention kill everyone's cold germs.  Yippie!

Nevermind

I take it back. iTunes doesn't suck my ass, like I previously posted. I talked to a co-worker of mine who gave me some tips. She told me I there is a setting in iTunes that you can make all your CD's copy as MP3s. So that way you can use them. Then she told me that she adds MP3s to her iTunes all the time. So that is good to know before I got too far into purchasing music for my iPod. Now I'll be buying MP3s and then converting them to iTunes when I want to use them. Woo hoo! She totally made my night last night!

Oh My God!

OMG!  I just looked at a package of Oreo cookies and thought to myself, "Yulk, that's disgusting."  What's wrong with me?!!! Oreos are packed full of yummy satisfactory goodness!

iTunes Chaps My Ass!

I discovered this cool program on my computer.  (It's one of those trial dealios you get when you buy your computer.) So I messed with it for a while, and investigated it further.  For $12.99 I could purchase the whole program and get all the bells and whistles.  So I bit.  I bought it.  It's not totally high tech, but it'll work until I decide to really get into that sort of stuff more. 

 

Anyway.  I put all my "Lake Summer 2006"  photos into a slideshow and went to add music.  Turns out, because iTunes doesn't let you use their music with any other device I couldn't even use my music in there for my slideshow!  I'm ticked off.  Basically, iTunes music are M4a's (Apples own concoction), and there is no way to convert M4as to MP3s.  Dang!

 

So basically, any music I want to use for slideshows I'll have to buy again as an MP3.  Dang!

 

So if anyone knows of any device out there that converts M4as to MP3s, please let me know.  My guess is there isn't one.  I can tell you one thing.  I won't be buying music from iTunes.  I'll be buying it elsewhere and then converting it over for my IPod.  If I buy something I should be able to use it however I want so long as it's not for commercial use!  Damn it!

 

I heard that there is a major class action lawsuit about this very thing in Europe.  I hope they win man.  For humanities sake, I hope they win!

 

Down with M4as!

WW Update

Well, I can't update my cute little scale at the moment. (Problem with the host site). But I can show you this! It looks better anyway. Looks like I lost tons! Love it!

I've really only lost 2.4 lbs. But hey! It's a start. And quite a few people in today's meeting didn't lose anything.

Teaching My MIL

Sometimes my MIL is totally cute.  For Christmas I asked for (and received) a tripod for my camera, and a flash drive for my laptop.  I told her exactly where to get them, how much they cost, etc.  I got both.  But what's cute about her is, when we got to talking after we opened gifts, she asked me about the flash drive and what is it for, blah blah blah.  So I told her.  It basically replaces the floppy disk, and holds more memory, blah blah blah.  Well, it took me a while to explained to her  what a floppy disk was, and how you can save your files to either a floppy, CD, or flash drive then take them to another computer and open them to work on, blah blah blah. 

 

Well, anyway.  This weekend we headed into town to see my grandma, and wound up at the farm for a birthday dinner for one of the relatives.  She tells me she bought a flash drive, and wants me to show her how to use it.  So I then tell her that it's exactly the same as saving to a folder on her computer.  Just tell the computer to save it to her E:// and all is good.  The next day, I come into the house, and she's sitting there with her new digital camera and her flash drive.  She was getting ready to try to download the images, as well as use the flash drive.    So I sat down with her, showed her how to use both.  When I showed her how easy the flash drive was, she was totally excited.  All I did was show her how to drag and drop into the E://.  Then, just in case she didn't know about it, I showed her how to read the last date the file was accessed and some other tools. 

 

Although I'll likely be showing her the very same things again soon, it's sort of fun teaching someone who grew up before computers even existed.  She's so excited about her computer that she has even been trying to convince my FIL to put his farm records on there.  I doubt that will happen, because he's too worried about someone stealing his information.  And I keep telling him, so long as he doesn't put it on the internet no one is going to steal  his information.  Unless they literally steal his computer, or disk.  But I left that part out.  After all, it's just as likely as someone to walk into his office and steal his big ole box of farm records themselves. 

YULK!

I bought something new at the store.  Yoplait Whips! Creamy Latte.  I have been looking forward to my mid day snack for most of the day.  So I go get it, and all excited.  It smells really good.  Doesn't look very good, but smells fabulous!  So I take a big ole bite.  Eek.  It's tart at first.  But I think to myself, "That's ok.  It'll get better once I get used to it."  So I took a few more bites, and I thought it really was getting better.  Then I just took another bite, and nope.  I don't think it's getting better.  I'm very sad. I wanted a good snack and I waisted 3 whole points on this thing!

 

I do think it'd taste really good blended with ice.

Weight Watchers Update

I successfully made it through my first official day on WW. I think I did pretty well too. Aside from major cravings for things that I think were only there because I knew I was making an effort to not eat anything, I think I did pretty well.

Here is the deal. To lose the amount of weight I want to lose, I can only have 25 points a day. Then they throw in this "extra 35" points for the whole week, just in case you go out to eat or something. So yesterday I had 28 points. I made a chocolate ugly cake (Tastefully Simple Product) for DJ because he had a hard day at work, and I wanted to be a good wife. (50's style apparently. A way to man's heart is through his stomach you know.) So that little piece of cake put me over. And you know what. It wasn't even that satisfying. I should have just had my little two point pudding. Then I would have made it exactly.

This morning I woke up so hungry I thought my stomach was eating me alive. So when I got to work, I ate two hard boiled eggs instead of one, and really wanted to eat my yogurt too, but didn't. (For fear of the points. The points! The points! The points will get you!) Then in my 10:30 meeting I swear peoples heads were turning into steaks, chicken cutlets, and Qdoba burritos. I even thought one girl was doodling steaks. I was wrong. It was underwear. (I didn't bother to ask what that was all about.)

If things keep up like this, I'm going to have to call this the hungry girl campaign.

Ouch!

Because a lot of my girlfriends are knocked up. OK. Only 3, but 3 also just had babies, so I've been visiting iVillage a lot. I have decided I pretty much like this site altogether really. It's easy to use, easy to find stuff (most of the time), and has good info.

Anyway...I found this "Get Fit Without the Gym" article and thought the stuff it tells you to do sounded pretty easy and so I printed it out and put it somewhere visible in my office. I have done the "Seated Quad Shaper" three times this week, and the "Break-Time Butt Drill" once. My butt and abs are a little sore today and this must be why. I can really feel it when I walk up and down the stairs. I actually can feel my abs being worked out when I do the first excersise, and I don't feel like I'm doing anything anyway. I actually do that one two or three times in one day. OK. Just yesterday I did it 3 times. I think I'll try to put them all into a rotation, and maybe I can skip the gym forever!

In My Dream Home

In my dream home, I want a library. 

 

A room lined with hard wood bookshelves, with doors that slide into the shelves themselves when opened, and close to keep the room looking rich and clean.  I want a nice hardwood table in the middle of the room with one of those library book lights that never give off enough light, and a big soft oversized armchair in front of the window with a matching side table where I can sit in for hours and read.

 

It would be fun to say when asked, "Babe, whatever happened to my book on the solar system?"  "It's in the library.  Second bookshelf, 4th book in."

 

Heaven.  Absolute heaven.

Happy Birthday!

My friend Blac17 turns the big Three-OHHHHH! today. So I thought I'd wish her happy birthday and welcome to the club!

I know you're not supposed to tell a woman's age, but since I'm not posting any pictures of her, and because I'm already 30, I figured it didn't matter. :o)

Happy birthday girlfriend! You're my oldest friend. (Not oldest as in age, but oldest as known each other too long.)

Here's to another 20 years of friendship, and at least another great 30 years of good looks!

In The News

Anyone happen to checkout the home page of MSN today?

Yep. We're so popular, they're writing national articles on us. ;o)

Here's the article:

15 Great Cities for Job SeekersBy Meg Donohue, CareerBuilder.com writer The harsh truth of job-hunting is that in some cities, no matter how hard you look, there just aren't enough jobs to go around. Since a low unemployment rate is an indication of a city with a proportionate number of jobs for its population, it stands to reason that cities with minimal unemployment rates represent promising economic environments for job seekers. The 15 cities in this list have unemployment rates well below the national average (4.5 percent in December 2006, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). To create a comprehensive portrait of the employment conditions of each area, we've also included the mean annual wage as well as the most prevalent local industries and occupations. Local chamber of commerce and tourism Web sites are additional resources for job seekers interested in learning more about a specific location.

1. Fargo, N.D.Unemployment rate: 1.7 percent *Mean annual wage: $32,580*Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (22.8 percent)**Predominant occupation: 33.4 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations**

2. Logan, UtahUnemployment rate: 2.0 percent Mean annual wage: $29,520Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (29.1 percent)Predominant occupation: 32.7 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

3. Billings, Mont.Unemployment rate: 2.1 percent Mean annual wage: $31,290Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (21.4 percent)Predominant occupation: 31.9 percent of workers are employed in sales and office occupations

4. Charlottesville, Va.Unemployment rate: 2.1 percent Mean annual wage: $38,490Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (39.3 percent)Predominant occupation: 44 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

5. St. George, UtahUnemployment rate: 2.2 percent Mean annual wage: $29,770Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (18.1 percent)Predominant occupation: 29.2 percent of workers are employed in sales and office occupations

6. Provo-Orem, UtahUnemployment rate: 2.2 percent Mean annual wage: $38,490Industry with largest percentage of workforce (Provo): Educational, health and social services (32.7 percent)Predominant occupation (Provo): 38.3 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

7. Bismarck, N.D.Unemployment rate: 2.3 percent Mean annual wage: $31,580Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining (32.7 percent)Predominant occupation: 38.2 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

8. Ames, IowaUnemployment rate: 2.3 percent Mean annual wage: $36,050Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (39.1 percent)Predominant occupation: 47.3 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

9. Iowa City, IowaUnemployment rate: 2.3 percent Mean annual wage: $32,530Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (44.3 percent)Predominant occupation: 43.6 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

10. Huntsville, Ala.Unemployment rate: 2.3 percent Mean annual wage: $39,540Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (19.7 percent)Predominant occupation: 44.3 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

11. Idaho Falls, IdahoUnemployment rate: 2.4 percent Mean annual wage: $32,970Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services (19 percent)Predominant occupation: 37.9 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

12. Sioux Falls, S.D.Unemployment rate: 2.5 percent Mean annual wage: $31,340Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (19.8 percent)Predominant occupation: 33.2 percent of workers are employed in sales and office occupations

13. Fort Walton Beach-Crestview-Destin, Fla.Unemployment rate: 2.5 percent Mean annual wage: $32,430Industry with largest percentage of workforce (Fort Walton Beach): Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services (15.7 percent)Predominant occupation (Fort Walton Beach): 30.3 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

14. Lincoln, Neb.Unemployment rate: 2.5 percent Mean annual wage: $34,020Industry with largest percentage of workforce: Educational, health and social services (24 percent)Predominant occupation: 36 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations

15. Boise City-Nampa, IdahoUnemployment rate: 2.8 percent Mean annual wage: $35,330Industry with largest percentage of workforce (Boise City): Educational, health and social services (17.8 percent)Predominant occupation (Boise City): 38.8 percent of workers are employed in management, professional and related occupations* Unemployment rates and annual wages obtained from BLS in January 2007.

** Industry percentages and predominant occupations obtained from 2000 census.Meg Donohue is a writer and blogger for CareerBuilder.com. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues.

Horrible Noise

I am being driven crazy.  Approximately every 2 minutes I  hear what sounds like a tiny little person shrieking.  (There it was again)  I have no idea what it really is, but I hope it's not some poor person being tortured and yelling for help somewhere down in the basement of this building and here I am ignoring it and letting them suffer.

 

My coworkers think it's something to do with the heating system, but I don't know.  Sounds a lot like a shriek of pain to me.  (There it was again)

 

It's driving me nuts, and I can even hear it when I put on my headphones.  What the freak man?!

Pictures

I went to someone's office last week and they had tons and tons of photos of their friends.  I realized since changing jobs that I don't have many up. I have one of the crew from Wilsons at my going away happy hour, one of my friend Jordan in a frame someone gave me that sits next to the Las Vegas jar she gave me.  And then one of me and DJ in the bluebonnets. Oh, and if you want to count this one, I have one of me and the Blues Brothers from my last business seminar in Orlando.

 

So what I'm requesting of all of you who read my blog is to email me a good picture of you so I can stick it up in my cube.  That way, when I get fed up with the way people are here, I can look at all my friends and go to a happy place.  :o)

 

Can't wait to see your pics so send them soon!

 

A Joke from My Father

I just received this joke from my dad via email. I had to share it.


A man and a woman were driving down the road, arguing about his deplorable infidelity when suddenly the woman reached over and sliced the man's penis off.

Angrily, she tossed it out the car window.

Driving behind the couple was a man and his 6-year-old daughter. The little girl was chatting away at her father when all of a sudden the penis smacked their car windshield, stuck for a moment, and then flew off.

Surprised, the daughter asked her father, "Daddy, what the heck was that?" Shocked, but not wanting to expose his little girl to anything sexual at such a young age, the father replied, it was only a bug, Honey."

The daughter sat with a confused look on her face, and after a moment said "Sure had a big dick, didn't it?"

Dancing Pipecleaner

This is the most exciting thing I've seen in a while. I played with it for like half an hour when I was at work, and another half and hour when I got home and showed my non so enthused husband. (I'm begining to think he's a bit boring.)

Here is the link to it. It's great! I particularly like songs A and F. A is the best by far!
Dancing Pipecleaner

Brrrrrr!!!!

It is  7:30am, and currently -13.  That is the real temperature.   The wind chill makes it -40.  NEGATIVE 40!  Brrrrrrrrr! I thought my face would freeze just walking the two car lengths from my car to to the office door  this morning.  Today's high is supposed to be -4.

 

The always give the actual temperature, and then the wind chill temperature.  I have no idea why they don't just say the temp is whatever the wind chill temperature is because that's what it really is.  It's so freakin' windy out right now, even my fat sell could blow away!  Brrrrrrrrrr!

Alyssa Lies

Has anyone heard this song?  It's new on the country charts, and it's just heartbreaking.  It's by Jason Michael Carrol who's new to the scene (I think).

Here are the lyrics.  Terrible, but I think this is a good way to bring awareness to a very big issue in this country...  Child Abuse.

 

My little girl met a new friend,
just the other day,
on the playground at school
between the tires and the swings

But she came home with tear-filled eyes,
and she said to me "Daddy, Alyssa lies"

Well I just brushed it off at first,
'cause I didn't know how much my little girl had been hurt
or the things she had seen.
I wasn't ready when I said "You can tell me"

and she said...

"Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"

My little girl laid her head down that night to go to sleep.
As I stepped out the room, I heard her say a prayer so soft and sweet
"God bless my mom and my Dad
and my new friend, Alyssa
*oh*I know she needs you bad

Because Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"

(bridge)

I had the worst night of sleep in years
as I tried to think of a way to calm her fears
I knew just what it was I had to do *I knew exactly what I had to do*
but when we got to school on Monday I heard the news

My little girl asked me why everybody looked so sad
the lump in my throat grew bigger
with every question that she asked.
Until I felt the tears run down my face
and I told her that Alyssa wouldn't be at school today

'Cause she doesn't lie in the classroom
she doesn't lie anymore at school
Alyssa lies with Jesus
because there's nothin' anyone would do

Tears filled my eyes when my little girl asked me why
Alyssa lies
*Oh Daddy, oh* Daddy tell me why
Alyssa lies

I Wish

I wish that this is how WW worked.  You pay them your money, you go to bed, and the next day you weight 30 pounds lighter and have no desire to eat anything ever again.

 

I'm so tired this morning.  DJ had an appreciation dinner through his marketing firm last night in the Big W.  So we drove an hour and a half to attend that, get our free food, and some interesting information.  (It was interesting to me because talking to a farmer about his business is pretty painful, so talking to actual business people about the buisness was so much nicer.)  I am not schooled on how to read his reports, as well as how they are predicting the crop is going to be next year.

 

We ran into my cousin and my SIL while we were there.  The dinner was held in the local Legion, and they were in the bar that is attached to the party room.  They were having drink before they went over to the bowling alley for league night.  So we went over there before heading out to the farm (Where all time stands still).  I think when we go to the farm, time stands still just on that little plot of land, and then speeds up anywhere past the dirt road.  We waste so much time there, and get nothing done.  We never get out of there either.  I'm going to start bring a stop watch.

First Meeting

Well, I just got done with my first WW meeting.  This was just the informative meeting, next week starts the real deal.  Basically, I think I just gave away $100. The lady hosting the meeting says she lost 30 pounds in over 4 weeks.  So maybe I'll do the same.  Ideally, I'd like to weigh 145.  That's what I weighed in college (and was still considered fat by comparison to all the other students).  But I'd definitely love to be that fat again.  Then I figure, but the time I lose all this weight, I'll probably be forced to get knocked up and my current wardrobe can double for my pregnancy cloths.  So I guess not all bad things can come from being knocked up if I look at it that way. As you can see, I'm still lacking enthusiasm for this making making scheme. For some reason I thought I'd eventually start having that yearning for them.  I am now thinking that feeling won't be happening.  Which is fine by me.  "Not all women were meant to procreate, nor are all couples meant have to a bunch of parasitic kids running along side them at all waking moments.

Baby's Got a Bran New Coat

On my ride into work this morning, I realized something.

 

Last night I bought myself a coat.  I thought nothing of it, other than, "I finally have a coat that is not leather or suede."  My leather one is not very warm, although very fashionable.  And my suede coat is very warm, but is so stiff I feel like an abominable snowman in it.  (I'm also claustrophobic, so not being able to move as freely as I'd like really freaks me out if I am in it for too long.)  Anyway.  Coats are on sale right now, so I went and bought me a casual coat for wearing around the farm.  $50.  You know, one that I wouldn't mind getting cow shit on.  ha!  Just kidding, we don't have cows.  But one I wouldn't mind if it got a little dirty.  (OK, who am I kidding.  I'll mind if it gets dirty, but at least it will be easier to clean if it does get dirty.)

 

So I'm wearing my new coat this morning, and as I said, during my 10 minute drive to work, I realized that this is only the second non leather coat I have bought.  EVER.  While in Texas, the only coat I owned for majority of my 8 year residency was a jean jacket.  I finally broke down and bought a wool jacket in winter 03 because walking though the parking ramp everyday in the winter really got cold because of the wind whipping factor.  So that was my first ever purchased coat.  Then working where I did before coming here, I have bought 2 leather coats, and 1 suede. 1 leather coat is completely useless other than it's quite cute on me.  So I'm pretty excited about my new one.  I'll have to go buy matching gloves, and knit me a matching scarf.  I already have the yarn for it too!  (I bought it on clearance about 2 months ago.  Must have been fate.)

 

On other notes.  WW starts today.  It's actually just the informative meeting,  hopefully I have another week before they weigh me in.  I want to make sure I'm as far away from 200 as possible before it's recorded in ink.  God I'm a lard ass.  I'm not 200 lbs, but I'm pretty close.  Too close for my taste.

 

What I'm eating right now... pudding.  DJ made it last night, and I can't let it go to waist!  After I eat this pudding, I'm eating my egg that I brought in, and I should be good until lunchtime, where I'll be eating a SmartOnes during my WW meeting.

The Weekend

Well, I didn't sleep very much last night.  I kept thinking about this web project I am working on, and how I don't have any creative tools, and how the web designer that has the creative tools A)  Doesn't care about the site I'm working on to want to help in a timely manner, and  B) Is too busy with the main website to really want to help even if she did want to help.  Which she doesn't.  So I'm thinking about how the guy I'm creating the website is going to be let down if I don't produce something soon, and how I really need to take some classes on how to use some of this fancy software (even though I don't have any of it on my computer.)  If only I had the software, at least I could try to use it.

 

Then, another problem I was having last night...  I kept having this nightmare about how terrorists were taking over my college campus, and the group of friends I was with got separated, and how I had to hide in this hotel room all alone, and try to find my friends without getting shot.  I woke up when I was passing through this tunnel and came out the other end, and this terrorist put a gun to my head and told me I wasn't going anywhere.  Alrighty then...

I'd fall back asleep after a while, and re-dream the same thing.  On top of all that.  I woke up at 2:30 and had to go to the bathroom. So bad that I was dreaming I was hiding under a bed, and had to pee really bad.  So I got up to go, and I have this pain in my lip.  Apparently, I bit my lip in my sleep!  How can a person do that?  Am I going to need to start wearing some sort of jaw locker?

 

So as you see, it was a rough night for me.  I think my terrorist dream stems from watching the movie Blood Diamond.  The world is a very crappy place.  Did you know that?  We're a very privileged country for the majority of us to not have ever had to even fathom dealing with some of the issues young children in other countries have already lived through. The worst thing I had to worry about this weekend was "Is my ankle going to swell up?", and, "Should I get Starbucks or Caribou in the morning?"

 

Oh yes, that former comment up there reminds me.  I'm having a major stroke of clumsiness.  So you might already know from previous posts.  On the way out to the movie, I was right behind DJ, and I slipped on the ice, twisted my ankle, somehow scraped my big toe on the other foot, and fell to the ground.  HARD.  Want to know what I heard?  The pickup starting.  DJ didn't even notice I wasn't around.  Which pissed me off.  So I'm laying there in pain, wondering if I am bleeding, and no one is running to help me up.  Eventually I get up, and D just looks at me like, "What the hell are you doing?" (He's inside the pickup you know.)  So I begin the process of sending him daggers with my eyes (some day this is really going to work), and begin the long and painful treck to the passenger side.  His new pickup is tall, and hard to get into when I don't have a twisted and throbbing ankle. I open the door, and yell at him for not coming to my rescue.  His reason.  Ready....  "I thought you went back into the house."  "Yeah, even though I was right behind you the whole way.  What am I Houdini?  Like I have the ability to be right behind you at one minute, and in the house the next?!"  Bastard.  Then (although not necessary, but would have been nice) he didn't help me out of the pickup once we reached our destination.  Here I am limping up to the door of the theater, when we get there I twist my ankle again, but catch myself before I fall down, and all he says to me was, "What was that?"  Umm.... Hello bastard!  Ever hear of asking if a person is alright, and trying to help them out?!?!?!?!  Or maybe even an obligatory, "OMG!  Are you alright?  Poor baby, Let me kiss it make it better."  I couldn't walk on my ankle for most of the day Sunday.  I was a bit limpy.  And guess what my sensitive husband wants to do?  Go walk around the mall.  Yep.  He was really Mr. Wonderful this weekend.  Not.

 

Now I'm at work, not wanting to work because I have too much anxiety, and I can't open the files I worked on at home this weekend because I saved them in the wrong format!  Wow.  I sound a little bitter today. Can't wait to get home so I can nap.  MMMMmmmmm Nap.

An Argument for Supplements

I know you guys don't want to hear it, but I have a really good argument for taking supplements. I have been taking a Joint Care supplement since June. Because I've been out of the office, and on vacation, I've forgotten to take them. (If I don't do my normal routine, I forget to take them. It's amazing that I remember to take my birth control pill when I'm on vacation!) So it's been approximately two weeks since I've taken my normal regimen. See my past post.

This morning, I woke up and the pain I felt before starting on supplements was back. I'm pretty sure I have arthritis developing in my fingers in my left hand. So apparently it takes about 2 weeks for your body to use up the supplements that you take on a regular basis. I've been taking a combo of Glucosamine, MSM, Evening Primrose Oil, Chondroitin, and Boron. Another great thing about all this is that the recommended use is that I take 1 pill three times per day, and I have only been taking it once a day.

So anyway. Although the best way to be sure you're healthy is to eat right. But obviously it's very rare that a person is going to be eating right 100% of the time. And even if a person does eat right 100% of the time, taking into account how much the worlds source of food is tampered with, i.e. stripped of it's original nutrients, and added extra nutrients, it's pretty hard these days to ensure you're body is getting everything it needs. In addition to all this, there are some things that you'd have to eat a lot of (Think of those Special K commercials where someone not eating Special K has to eat 18 bowls or something crazy to get the amount of fiber in one bowl of Special K.) to get the right amount of nutrients out of it for your body.

And I don't know about you, but I'd rather take an all natural supplement that my body needs anyway, rather than a bunch of chemically structured pills that my body wasn't meant to take in the first place.

My Vacation

My vacation to ABQ went quite well. DJ and I did very little, and it was fabulous! I love it when he's lazy. I wish he were like that more often.

I'm not going to bore you with details, but wanna hear a gross sister's boyfriend story? Of course you do!

Let's cut right to the chase. Turns out, he likes to pick his boogers. All the time. In front of crowds. While talking to you, sitting in a living room full of family... Then roll them around in his fingers for a while before either they disintegrate, or he wipes them somewhere. I don't know which. DJ had his own personal experience with it while he was talking to the guy. He just reached up there and dug for gold in the middle of the convo. And according to D, he really went to town. All the while, still talking. No apologies for the dig. Then the next day, we were all gathered in the living room watching football, he was in the front of the room, in front of the TV, (So in eye shot of everyone) just digging away, and then rolling it around. It was making me sick. I turned to D and told him not to shake his hand when they leave tonight. ha! The worst part was, once I noticed it, I was fixated on watching how many times he did it. He'd pick his nose, roll it around for a while, then pick his ear then go back to the nose. It was DISGUSTING! I don't ever remember him doing that when he and I were friends. It must be a new habit that my sister brought on. Maybe he does it so she will stay away from her. ha ha ha ha!

New Year's Resolutions Anyone?

What are your New Years Resolutions? I have to say, I'm off the bandwagon this year. I don't think I have any. I usually have some sort of list running on things I want to improve of myself, and at this very moment. I can't think of anything to bring to the forefront. So I thought maybe I'd just adopt a couple of my friends resolutions. So what do you got?

I really wish I could stop associating with people who annoy the crap out of me, but I think that's an unrealistic goal.

I thought I'd dredge up a list I made last year and see how I'm doing with that one.
I think I did pretty well with it.

Christmas Traditions

Have I told you about the Christmas Tradition we have at our house regarding money?

 

Some time ago, after my parents moved into the house they are currently in, my Dad decided to start his own tradition.  He started hiding one-hundred dollar bills in the tree.  One for me, one for my sister.  The first year, they were in cards that were then placed into the tree.  That eventually evolved into just the bills being hidden in the tree.  It's fun to try to find the money!  I think there's only been one year where my sister found the money first.  I usually find both sets, make her suffer for a while while, then tell her where it's at.  My dad gets a kick out of trying to one up us.

 

This year, he was extra sneaky.  He hid one dollar bills in a couple glass ornaments (which I found immediately).  I didn't realize they were one dollar bills until DJ noticed it.  So then I had to find the hundred.  The only hint I had was that I had already opened it.  So I had to go through all my presents looking for this bill.  Meantime, as some of you may have already figured out, my sister was being a big bitch.  She refused to look because she thought her dog was sick.  So she sat on the floor staring at her dumb dog, who in return was staring at her.  Most likely he was acting weird because she was acting weird, and he didn't know what was going on.  There's more to that story, but the key here is this.  She's such an idiot.

 

The good thing about this bill, is that I usually don't spend it right away.  a.  Because it's a big bill, and like McDonalds is going to cash that big of a bill right?  And b.  I just don't ever have cash on me, so I forget when I do.  Well, I am sad to say, that what?  Two weeks later, I'm finally spending the last of it.  I've got four dollars left in my wallet.  That's pretty good eh?  I am totally proud of myself.  I really haven't spent much this whole week either.  I spent about $50 for New Years Eve dinner, then another $20 at the comedy club on drinks.  Haven't eaten out all week either.  Accept for yesterday when I decided to have my very first of the year Qdoba!  (Not that I've lost any weight from this eating in crap...)

 

I'll write more about my trip from home.  I was going to do it last night, but got busy doing some other stuff. TTYL!