Current Mood: Stressing Out

I’m about to go freak out……every time I think I’m caught up so I can work on a major personal project, there is bunch of work to be done. I REALLY need to get on it….that is what is freaking me out…..gggrrrr

I really need a clone…..I SO hope that I can get onto it this weekend. I need one full day of focusing….then I can tidy it up then next weekend.

I did get my work done today and had enough time to do this entry (even if it is not much) and some messages…..surprisingly. I hope tomorrow is light one, because I really need to get my nails done……but I don’t want to lose those 4hrs.

Today we went into the gym later then usual. My trainer was subbing in a cycling class that she wanted me to try. DAMN it was a bitch, they have you do “zones” which is what they call tightening and loosing the tension on the bike…..I couldn’t do the standing, I couldn’t keep my balance. Some how I hurt my feet…..which I found very strange. But I did work up a sweat more then I have before and my legs were shakey as hell.

I woke up with my back hurting, that happens a bit…..just haven’t gotten around to a getting a new mattress. But it felt different today, so I wonder if it was from Wednesday’s workout. We are working on the front upper on Mondays and the back on Wednesdays, throw in some leg work and on Fridays putting it all together.

Weather has been weird……yesterday if flurried for 2 min….there was very small hail for 30 sec….rain and sunshine.   Wacky….at least none of it stuck.

Excellent!  My word press is now updated!!

Now I can look at different themes!  Once I find one, I can figure out what I want to do with my links.  =)

I have just busy as work, as normal……

After thinking this weekend, I’ve decided to try and make my cardo more intense.   I usually do 15-20 min on the treadmill or bike before meeting with my trainer.  She gives me a great work out for sections of my body, but I really need to burn some fat off since my job now involves sitting on my ass.  So I hit it hard today and worked up a really good sweat.   Which also made my leg part of my workout more intense.  Now, lets see if I can keep it up.

Well, I just wanted to stop in and say hi.  =)

Current Mood: Beautiful Day

Dang, I have been busy as hell this past week.  Took me about 4 days before I could even get to our own checkbooks.  =(  But I did get them done and FINALLY got caught up on all my messages.  Lets see how long that lasts.

This was my 1st week of meeting my trainer 3 times a week.  We have been good on going to the gym.  We go M-F, workout hard on MWF and on T & TH just go in to stay in the habit and do some light work.  I may have to change that light work out…..gggrr….I’m not seeing any difference and it is driving me nuts. I just want to see a result…a dent…something.  Torn and the trainer say that they see a difference but the scale doesn’t and I can’t see it.  So I tried on a pair of pants that I was able to wear just over a year ago, still can’t fit, but now I have something where I can actually tell.

Luckily we brought a new jeep last month, because the truck was squeaking a lot in the front end.  I was thinking it was the shocks, suspension or CB boot since my rims were black before I got it washed.  So the truck sat for a couple of weeks, before we got time to get it in.  Found out is was the ball joints and tire rod ends, which meant that it needed an alignment once all that was fixed….of course when they drove it they noticed that it was driving rougher then it should.  It ended having the fuel injection cleaned out.  I know most of this is because it hit 100k, but doesn’t make it any easier.  But speaking to the mechanic, said there is no reason why my engine shouldn’t last another 150k.  =)

Of course, I had to take a picture of it when it turned……..lol

It is nice to have my truck back and being able to drive it.  I enjoy the jeep, the power steering is much easier then the truck’s, makes tighter turns, but I really missed driving my truck and it is running so much better.  Having all my things where I want them, my own space.  And I really am a truck girl…..I love driving other cars and suvs…..LOVE a powerful sports car…..I have an addiction to them, but I always feel like I am home when I’m in my truck.

I really enjoyed doing my errands today, because it was a stunning day out and I had my truck back.  I used the jeep later for tanning, just because I was afraid of losing my parking.  =(  We have a one drive way space and then it is where ever you can get parking on the street/alleyway.  And I like where I have the truck.  I don’t feel like it is going to get hit….it is bad enough that it has scratches….so I couldn’t handle a hit.

This is one of the views we get while doing errands….nothing like seeing that among all the traffic and lights.

Like I said, it was a stunning day..almost hit 60.  I didn’t expect that because last I heard we are suppose to get rain for easter Sunday…. and it has been raining a lot.  When it is that nice out, I get really antsy, I hate staying inside…..so I had to go for a walk, even if it was brief (Purdue was playing today).  And I really wanted to capture some of the spring time.

These are in our back yard, I just love the color.

Now this is spring.  =)

These are the trees that gave such brilliant color in the fall.  It is great to see that they start out as stunning.

Kind of like pink snow…….lol

Current Mood: Reflective

Current Mood: Chilling

Got my ass worked off by my trainer today. Got bombard with things from work as soon as I got home. Which is normal for Monday.

We did do much for the weekend, we rarely do. We don’t like dealing with weekend crowds and such, so we try to do things during the week. What I find is weird is that even though I have worked weekends for 20yrs, I don’t feel like working that much on them….even if I do some.

Divorce costs former Beatle McCartney $48.7 million

**This woman does not deserve to get that much, if any. She wasn’t with him that long….those are earnings that he got rolling years ago with his 1st wife. He should take care of of his kid, that is no questions…..but that was never the issue…. The issue is that she is a greedy, greedy person….she makes it harder for women who actually deserve to get funds from their ex-husbands.

Dirty Words

**I love the fact that the FCC was called on their double standards.

Parents Turn to Police When Daughters Have Sex

**This is the issue with the sex offender registries. They do not make a difference from sex among teens from actually rapists and child molesters. Teens DO NOT think of it legally. I do believe that some need to have the book thrown at them for a wake up call, BUT they should not be marked like that for the rest of their lives…..the majority of them do not become rapists and child molesters, but it totally destroys their future.

On Tibet Frontlines, Protestors ‘Shot Like Dogs’

**This may be messed up, but I have a strange satisfaction that this is happening to Chinese government. I would LOVE if all the outlining providences, that were never apart of China at the beginning of the 1900s raise up and make them look like shit for all their human rights violations.

Obama set to deliver speech on race, Wright

**Now I really don’t have an issue with what his pastor say. You know why, because this highlights the race issue, the timing can be better. But overall whites just can’t see and don’t want to see the problems that the black community faces…the fact that more and more young black men are disenfranchised into our jails and IF the economic differences were addressed that would be a HUGE help in reducing that. Many black churches have had sermons as fiery as the one he gave…..he is expressing what the overall black community feels about how the US treats them, which overall is crappy. The US is controlled by RICH, corporations……and they have it set where the richer get richer and the poor, get poorer….which effects people of color more then the whites. You can thank Bush/Cheney and their shitty cronies for the last 8yrs of making it worst….the jackasses.

Current Mood: Exhausted

I have a huge project that I need to work on and get done…….but I am dreading it.  I got everything caught up today that was waiting for me.  I’m afraid that I will have a bunch waiting for me tomorrow when I get up….but I need to get it done and out of the way as soon as possible, so I can get the project at least started.

Friday and Saturday are tied up in processing pay for my online job.  I’m hoping that it will be less stressful then the last one.  But that was because we had been tied up at the dealership with paperwork.

I keep telling myself that I have give myself some me time…..as in off of the pc……but it is hard.  I hate checking things and all of the sudden have a bunch of things waiting on me.

I’m a little out of it……

Current Mood: Chilling

FBI: Improper Tactics Used In Terror Probe

**I meant to post this last time, but with all the other items I missed it.  But I am not surprised by this….sadly.  This administration has done everything it can to remove our protections from things like this.  That is why we have joined the ACLU…….an organization whose goal is to protect our Bill of Rights and the Constitution.

Well….unfortunately it has been another few days since my last post.  =(  It has been the normal busy as heck kind of thing the last few days.  I don’t even get the chance to surf my news and politics as much as I use to.

Torn has been surfing and researching national parks for us to visit, we have been watching a lot of National Geographic shows on them.  Part of the reason why we joined a gym is to get into shape so we can go hiking and camping, without killing ourselves.  One of our goals is to camp at Denali.  I don’t mean the park with a camper and camp type thing, I mean the one where you take the bus in, they drop you off and you hike about half mile and set up…..very, very basic.  You can’t leave any trace of yourself behind……no fire, you have to use MREs, and there are no latrines…..so you have to clean up after that.  No firearms……so you have to have a whistle, maybe an air horn and research ahead of time how to deal with the possiblity of meeting a bear.  But hopefully it gives you the opportunity to see nature at it’s best.
Now I like camping, I am girly enough that I miss my toilet and it takes me a day to get over my ickness over things…..but we haven’t done it in so long that I feel like moron on planning.  Torn found that some of the community colleges around here give classes on things for that…..just as how to pack a backpack and some will take you on a few rough camping trips in the surrounding mountains.  So we are thinking once we start getting some basic camping gear we will start on that and hopeful by 2009 we will be ready for rustic camping in one of the best and wildest parks that the US has to offer.

So that is what is going on in our heads….parks.  We love them and that is one of reasons why we moved out here.  There are just too many of them out here not to enjoy.

My mom called tonight……wasn’t expecting any phone calls, so when my phone went off it scared the shit out of us…..lol  Anyhow, mom is flying down to the Tampa area to visit with my great aunt, who will be turning 90 this Thursday.   Mom hasn’t flown in a long time and is just packing a carry on and she had questions on what she can have.  Even through she has her state DL and her Military ID, I told her to take her passport……just because she paid for it and mis well use it to get her money’s worth…..I told her we are going to start using ours, we spent the money and stressed over the paperwork that damn it we want to use them……LOL….she busted out laughing at that.

Excerpt: ‘Cheer!: Three Teams on a Quest for College Cheerleading’s Ultimate Prize’

**For those who still seem to think that Cheerleading is not a sport.  They have done studies that cheerleaders go through more injuries then football players and yet, in a lot of areas people seem to think that it is easy.  Trust me, has a former cheerleader, who was no way near the level talked about in this article, it was never easy.

Current Mood: Exhausted

If you saw Torn’s post earlier, you will see that we have new car. It was totally unexpected and unplanned. We spent 6hrs there at the dealership. It was exhausting. But we got a really good interest rate and everything and really too good of a deal to pass up.So I was totally stressed from all of that and came home to piles of work that totally did not help. My goal for Friday was do to nothing by work….so it made it even worst not to catch up on it.

So I was up late and had to start early Saturday…..then spent Sunday playing catch up. Monday was running around and trying to get my work done around it. I really didn’t get a moment until Tues evening with everything. Today I didn’t plan on spending too much time with my online job, want to work on other stuff, but that didn’t happen. =(

We did find a Japanese steak house Monday…..could only find one and it was on the other side of Portland. We haven’t had that since we left Florida and we craving it something bad. So we meet up with our friend and went out. It was good and will be heading back. Then we got home so late, I was so exhausted yet I couldn’t settle down to sleep. I ended up breaking down and taking half a PM….oh boy, I felt like crap when I got up. I could barely do ride the bike at the gym.

This was my 1st week with my personal trainer. She is young one, but nice encouraging girl. Easy to talk to which is great on distracting me from some of it. I meet with her 2 days a week, Mon & Wed, and on the other 3 days that we go to the gym, I work on cardo. I’m sore, which doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that the hour goes by pretty quick, the exercises don’t seem too be hard starting out and we don’t do many of them……but damn, do I sweat and hurt with them.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard that one of the greats is retiring :

Favre to discuss retirement on Thursday

**I’m not sure what to think. I would’ve loved to have seen him get another ring. He always made is so much fun to watch a game. Never loss his love of it. So many of of the new stars are so into the money that they don’t seem to have the love and the heart…..he never loss it.

Atheist soldier says Army punished him

**This so pisses me off. The military, overall, has always had a conservative feel to it and its issues. But the extreme bible thumpers has been over stepping the lines for years, since W has been elected, and is now poisoning a great institution. What pisses me off most is that they have no respect someone believing different or not believing at all.

Group labels PSU class dangerous, anti-American

**More of the idiotic right wingers who wish to smash free speech and thinking. I forgot, you aren’t a true American if you disagree with them……well, according to the foundering fathers…….that is bullshit. You are Unamerican if you DON’T question your government.

Moses Was High on Drugs, Israeli Researcher Says

**I just find this funny and I honestly would not be surprised.

Choice

**This is a great reflection of how far women have come and how much farther we still have. Just by looking as what choice Justice O’Connor didn’t have when she got out of law school.

Clinton Chips at the Glass Ceiling in Primary Victories

**This is a good article on the inner turmoil that older women are having with this primary and I am having. I would love it if gender and race didn’t matter. But it still does…..sexism is still accepted…..racism isn’t. Look at just how the media writes and covers her. If she does whatever any other male politician does (most of it I never agreed with to begin with………I hate dirty politics), the treat her even worst then if it was from a male. A woman can’t be strong and aggressive without being considered heartless and a bitch. And that is such bullshit!

What makes it hard for me is that I love what and how Obama speaks……but it is true the press isn’t has hard on him as Clinton, when it comes to questions on his plans. She actually has plans, not just flowery words. The dream ticket is if it was both of them, it would balance them out…….but with their personalities and Bill….it probably won’t happen. Sadly, I’m kind of grateful that OR is a closed primary and I’m not affiliated, because I have no idea who I would vote for. But we did send money to Obama, I personally feel that he would actually do a better job of uniting the country and do the best against McCain.

Well, I think I made up for not posting the last few days. =)

Current Mood: Exhausted

I know I haven’t posted in a few days. I hate doing that. And there is so much to post about……..Favre retiring….the primaries….Purdue losing to Ohio St…life…..I swear, IF we don’t go anywhere I will try and do a decent post tomorrow.

I have just been totally busy since Friday playing catch up on everything. And I haven’t had a chance to touch my Private Messages and emails. =( I promise I will get to them. Then I really want to call my family and see what is going on with them….gggrrr

I am just so exhausted, been on the going crazy with errands and doing work. Didn’t help that I couldn’t sleep without a PM last night and didn’t crash until after 1 =( I felt so screwed up when we went to the gym, it was bad. So I took a half to make sure I do crazy tonight and I’m heading to bed.

Wish me luck, another day with my trainer tomorrow….I know she is going to kick my ass………lol