Current Mood: Reflective

Well, today was a day of firsts…..I tried my 1st leg wax, ouch….it stings. I couldn’t shave for about a week before and it was driving me nuts. I just hope it lasts. The waxer had a hard time seeing it because it is so light, but it was long enough.

I also did my training session today at the gym and took a big step and signed up for a personal trainer. They make you sign contacts and everything…..kind of unsettling, but understandable. It will be for 1 hr sessions, twice a week for 3 months. I need someone who knows what they are doing and to help encourage me. I just hope I can do it, the more I think about the more nervous I am on letting the trainer and myself down. I start sessions on Monday.
Honestly, I am at the heaviest I have ever been and I am not happy about it and it was due to my feet issues. Between the cortisone shots (that have weight gain as a side effect) and then the surgery, where I couldn’t do as much, that just made me gain weight…….and now working at home with not as much activity, it is harder to remove it.

In fact, until I discussing my history with the trainer, I didn’t realize that any time that I went up a lot in weight, it was a medical issue. In college, the doctor was worried about my blood pressure due to my migraines, I was able to low my weight by talking a bowling class and then doing games in between classes. Years later it was due to the dropo-vera (sp) shot (birth control). Lost that weight using the treadmill that I hated and am so glad we got rid of. I have never liked running except during a game….ie, soccer, basketball. Now with getting older and not working outside of the house, I need to find a way to motivate myself and get a routine. So now I have a personal trainer.

I’ve always been a big girl, so don’t worry I will not become a stick….my body isn’t built that way and I couldn’t stand it anyway. I just want to get rid of some the extra jiggle and tone up some…..even get some of my flexibility back. The main reason is I just want to help prevent the health issues that my family has. Most of my family is big built to begin with, but struggle with maintain health weights due to our build and in turn, have heart issues and a few have had diabetes. So I just want to do all I can to prevent it.

My goal is about 30 pounds of jiggle….I say that, because if I gain muscle, that weighs more. So weight doesn’t mean much at that point….then it will be about inches and maintaining a healthy balance.

I feel better that I got my small freak out vented……….lol

Current Mood: Stressing Out & Working

Boy, since last night it has rough on trying to catch up on work, emails, & messages.  I finally made a dent.  I still have some emails from our business, but all my personal and job emails are caught up.  Thankfully.

I have a bunch of other work that I need to get done for 1st, I’m hoping to be able to get some of it done tomorrow.

I have my appointment with the trainer tomorrow.  It is part of the membership, you have to one to help you get a routine and they supply it.  I’m hoping that I get some good ideas for it.  So far, I’m doing 25min on the stationary bike and then 6 on a row machine (I think that is what it is) and then down to the floor to the different machines.  I figured the 25 min on the bike is good for getting my heart rate up and burn some calories.  Then the machines, of course, help me focus on spots.  Of course, by not being in a gym in forever, I carefully read all the instructions on the machines before getting on them.

Other then work, I have just been stressing over Reggie……..but that is for another post.  =(

Current Mood: Cool

Damn, I am burnt.  I did it last night.  =(  It is my chest.  I try so hard to be careful when I start back into tanning and then some how I goof it.  Oh well……no tanning for the next few days.

We did watch the oscars last night.  It was nice we used the drv and didn’t start watching it until about 2 hours after it started.  I just wanted to see how Jon Stewart was doing, didn’t really care about the rest.  So we were able to forward through all the speeches, commercials, musical numbers, and the few categories that we didn’t want to watch.   It made it much more enjoyable.

I had to take yesterday off from the wii, because when I tried to bowl 2-3 frames I was in so much pain….icks.  I haven’t played today.  Had way too much to do once we got back from the gym and the store.

I have my alarm set to try and get my ass out of bed by 8am.  Our goal is to roll out of bed, eat and head to the gym.  So when we get back it doesn’t feel like we have wasted half the day and have a ton of work to do.

I’ve been so busy with my other job that I haven’t been able to keep up with my emails/messages.  =(  I’m hoping that I won’t have much to do tomorrow on my job that I can attack my personal stuff.

It looks like we won’t have to worry about wintery weather at our elevation anymore.

 Looks like another fairly warm week with plenty of dry weather.  The Portland metro area will see scattered areas near freezing overnight and a nice warm day Tuesday with highs near 60 degrees.  Wednesday will see scattered areas of rain both in the morning and afternoon.  The snow level mid-week will be near 4,000 feet.  The wettest day this week for Portland looks to be Saturday.  Still no big storms in sight.  With March beginning Saturday, it is starting to look like the low elevation snow season has possibly come to an end.

Rod Hill

This is great sign for heading to the parks and maybe another trip to the zoo.  =)

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

The weather has just been stunning for a Feb.  I love it, not too hot but sunny with a crisp smell.

Didn’t get to the gym today, but spent time on the wii doing the “training” for the boxing so I can figure out the moves.  That is a work out.  And I finally broke past my game high of 186 from 2 days ago for bowling, got a 203.  That is only because I got 2 turkeys (3 strikes in a row) because I missed a few spares that I normally don’t.  My shoulders are sore.

I am enjoying that fact that when I get restless and don’t want to be in the office for a few minutes and I have something to do.

The problem with it being nice out is that I don’t want to be in the office getting work done and I don’t want to be downstairs, because nether place gets the sun very well and that just drives me nuts.  Our old office received a lot of sun so that was nice and if that wasn’t enough, I worked on the patio.  When it is nice out I’d rather be in the bedroom because it gets the most sunlight.  So that is when I like playing the wii, I can open the window, enjoy the fresh air and be active.

Today I had to do a quick errand and decided not to come home right away.  It was just too nice out and I didn’t want to be in the house.  I finally stopped at a bookstore not too far from here that I’ve been waiting to visit. It was so different to the one that I’ve spent the last 3yrs browsing through, but it was a nice set up.  I also felt lost because so many new books have come out that I wasn’t familiar with.  I miss knowing all that.

Current Mood: Crappy

I am sore, especially my right shoulder. I spent about 3hrs bowling on our wii last night, did a few games today. I really wanted to do more and actually was thinking that I need to do the boxing one, just so both of my shoulders are sore, but I had to get work done that I’ve been avoiding. =( I also went to the gym today, got some stress out there. Really, debating with myself about getting up tomorrow for a class at the gym. With it being a Saturday, I don’t know how busy it is going to be. I hate crowds.

I was doing so much running around that I forget to eat lunch…..not good. I’m having some wine and cheese and crackers right now. But before this I only had 1200 calories for the day, that is not good. A body should not go below 2000 a day. So I’m treating myself……probably at 1500 calories now.

Started to go tanning again this week. I haven’t done that since we left Indiana, so I was trying to take it slow. I did great the 1st night, but the second night I think the girl put me in a stronger bed (I asked for a weaker one) because I had some red marks on me……ouch. Needless to say I couldn’t tan for 2 days due to the burn. =( I went today, I’m a little red. We’ll see how I am by tomorrow evening. If the red hasn’t faded very well I will have to wait until Sunday to go back. The good thing about tanning is that it makes me use lotion like I should be.

Right now I’m watching Real Time with Bill Maher and I’m trying to figure out why when I try to upgrade my itunes I get an invalid drive?? It is just pissing me off. I never had an issue before…….ggggrrrrr

If you seen Torn’s post earlier, we are stressing about Reggie. =( He hasn’t changed in attitude but, hell, he doesn’t have a clue. He want love when he wants it and grouchy as hell when he doesn’t and looks cute the whole time…..ornery shit.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

We got our wii today. After arguing with fed ex……..gggrrrr My body is sore. =) Thanks to our friend KrisMadison for bringing hers down, we just had to get it. We now have an actual video game that I will play. Hell, my parents played more video games then I did when I was a kid.

I’m just hoping that playing wii today will help me settle down in bed tonight. For some reason it has been hell on getting comfortable. And the other night it was so bad that I went downstairs just so my husband could sleep because I was so restless.

Actually went back to raining today after some stunning sunny days. But it did become clear again in the afternoon and it was perfect for viewing the lunar eclipse tonight.

We are going to visit a gym tomorrow to see about joining. It is with a national chain and they are all over Portland so it will be easy to transfer to where ever we move to.

I had a lot of other thoughts that I wanted to add, but just don’t remember them………lol

Man, these people are annoying!

** This is so true! If you have traveled as much as I have you would recognize it.

In Ohio, “Pandering” Carries Lifetime Stigma

**Another reason why never to move back to the midwest. They are nuts.

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

It was a stunning day weather wise.  Sunny, clear and in the 50s…..a little breezy, but perfect.  Too nice out to stay inside, so I went for a walk today.  It felt good.

One thing I noticed the other day, that when we are driving towards home when Mt Hood comes in view it looks huge and it doesn’t seem that far, but when I walk it seems so distant.  I wonder if it is because the road that we drive is higher up then the road I follow when I walk.  Food for thought.

It is chilly when we get up in the morning, as normal mornings are, but it seems as if we never warm up.  Then it dawns on me, we usually end up in front of the computers so we aren’t moving…….so our circulation sucks and makes us cold.   But I didn’t have to worry about that today…….today is my normal attack the house.  Boy did that warm me up.  I like to vacuum just for the activity it gives me.  Then I did my walk and I’ve barely been chilled since.

I am also hoping that it will help fall asleep.  Activity is great for that.  I can’t wait for the wii…….that will help.

Our truck is as 99,998.5 miles…….I know it is goofy, but I want to try and get a picture of it at 99,999 and 100,000.  The only thing is that it is a digital………so I won’t get the turning of the miles, the old fashion enjoyment of it. I know, I’m weird…….lol

A Boilermaker won the Daytona 500! 

**It doesn’t say anything about his association in this article, but Torn said that they were saying the Boilermaker won the Daytona 500.  So that was cool.  I honestly find racing boring………but I’m always happy when a Boilermaker wins……..it is the school pride thing.  =) Here is his wikipedia page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Newman 

Now this is when Bill Clinton is at his best : Fired Up Bill Clinton Goes Off On Pro-Lifers 

**I would love to see the video of that.

Current Mood: Chilling & Reflective

After 2 days of intense work, I’m just chilling mostly. I some work that I can and will do…….but not the main focus today. I’ve brought my laptop downstairs just to get out of the office. Totally tired of it for now.

Grief-stricken? How to deal with pet death

I can honestly say that I have never gotten over it — I’ve just gotten used to it.

**This quote is a perfect description of how I feel. I thought I was nuts and the only one who hadn’t gotten over it.

The most distressing are hallucination-type experiences that leave an impression that you are hearing familiar sounds of your pet walking or calling. Some people even think that they see their pet out of the corner of their eye, especially after just waking up

**I some times feel as if I should still be seeing them……..even though we have moved since. This article was nice in that I some of the things that I go through is considered normal.

I have a little quote thing on my google desktop and it came up with a very interesting one from John Adams, our 2nd President and one of the main architects of our government :

“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion”

“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”

**There is a lot more of similar quotes from other greats on that page, very revealing.

This is coming from one of our most religious of founders.

So I get to livid when people like Huckabee say shit like this :

“But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

He just needs to be bitch slapped and given a huge history lesson on what this country is founded on. The founders were very religious and used it to guide them, but they were very well aware of the dangers of a theocracy. Which people such as Huckabee want us to be, they are no better then the Taliban and the other Islamic extremists……..ggrrrr

Between all the work I’ve had to do the last few days and Reggie, it has been stressful.

I can handle the work load, what I can’t really handle is the worry that I have had for Reggie the last few days.  If you haven’t already, just read Torn’s post and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

We did get a call from the vet this evening.  Reggie is negative for feline HIV and luerkama  (I know, I can’t spell it).  He has one or two signs that could be cancer, but it could be normal for him since nothing else indicates it.  We trying to weigh whether or not to get the exam where they put something up his nose to see what is going on.  If it is a tumor there is nothing that they can do, but the vet said it could be something small, like a piece of litter or a fungus.  If it is fungus they can give him meds.  I’m not sure if they can do anything if something is stuck.  I just want him to be well.  He still is his grouchy, crabby self……….while looking fricking adorable.

I’m a little less stressed since we have been told from the vet that we don’t need to worry at the moment.  But I still worry about him.  We lost Aurora just over 2 yrs ago and Randi 4yrs ago in April, I am NOT ready to lose any more of my babies.  He is only 13, so I’m keeping his grouchy ass until he is at least 17, the cat average.

We’ll see how it goes, but I’m going to see about getting Alexis a check up.  She throws up too much, not always fur balls…….more of food.  But she eats and drinks fine.  I just wonder if she eats too fast because some of the food is full size pieces.  But it won’t hurt to get her checked out.

We finally order a wii………thanks to Kris and her friend for bringing theirs down…..can’t wait until ours gets here.  Of course, Monday is a holiday……….never fails…….we order something and we have to wait longer then normal due to a dang holiday….gggrr   We are suppose to get ours by the 20th.  I think it will be a great stress reliever.

Kansas HS refuses female official

**It is 2008 in the US!  You really would think that we would be over that.  But as another article stated that it is more acceptable to be sexist then racist. Just look as the sexist comments that some of the political pundits make about Hillary.  Morons!

Here is the article about it : Some voters say sexism less offensive than racism 

Well, I need to order some office supplies………..my online job ate up the majority of folders that I use for our businesses filing system.  And it eats a lot of copy paper.  Thankfully we can find our printer ink on ebay in bulk.  That has been a life saver.

Current Mood: Chilling

Some days there isn’t much to do, overall and then the next……..wham. No big major projects, just a bunch of little things at once. Today was one of those days that I got bombarded.

I think I got more of most of my quickbooks issues done. Spent over an HOUR on the phone with intuit about it. SO far I’m able to download 3 of my 4 accounts from our bank. I think that when I had the business account hooked up to our others online I goofed that one for download. I’m thinking I’m going to have to start an all new registry in my QB for it to allow the downloads. But now I have an idea it makes it much easier.

Tomorrow I’m going to take a small break and get my poor nails done. They are looking kind of rough. But last tech really didn’t do the quality of work that I’m use to. So I’m going to head into Portland while Torn goes into the office to get my nails done there. If I have to get them done here in town, I think I have another place I want to try out.

I don’t think I’ve said anything. But my online job has grown in responsibilities. I’m now helping out in the support area. I’m slowly but surely learning the in and outs of it. I just can’t wait until I get a better grasp on the tech side of it, for the going through before deciding if I need to contact the techs.

Good news is that the Purdue Men’s Basketball won again Mich. St. 1st time in our history that we won against 2 top 10 teams back to back. They are doing great and they are freshman. They were recruited for long term, not just for one big time player that will leave in a year. I just hope this means that the program is back on track. I just wish the Purdue Women’s Basketball would get back on track. We use to be really good, but non of our coaches have been long term and that really effects the program.

Nightline Face-Off: Porn King vs. Porn Past

**This may be interesting. I just hope that Monique Alexander is knowledgeable and not a “stereotype”. I don’t know anything about her. I want someone who argues that women can enjoy porn as much as men and have it on their own terms. Porn can be very feminist. Especially amateur porn…..what a woman says goes. There is also the ones that get taken advantage of, but that is in every business.

Gang-Rape Victim Says She And Others Silenced by Halliburton

**This is just screwed up. I know I posted before about, but it rallies me up every time I read about it and don’t want it to be forgotten.

Sign the Open Letter from American Feminists

**I get The Nation, can be very left wing so I read it carefully. I am a feminist and a liberal. But I’m more of a common sense, moderate one. I’m not into extremism on either side. But magazines such as that really helps you get informed on issues that the mainstream media avoid.

This article was addressing how the mainstream media likes to vilify american feminists. Which pisses me off to no end, because it is so fill of lies and misconceptions……gggrrrr Here you have an opportunity to add your name to a letter protesting and speaking up against it.

So get your name added.