I can't believe it, this is almost unheard of. I have only three more presents to buy for Christmas and I know what I'm going to buy. Usually a couple days before Christmas I'm still scrambling around for that last gift or two. This year has been so easy!
Thanks to a very blended family, every year I have about 14 - 16 people to buy for. Not only is it hard to come up with the money for all those gifts, it's hard to come up with ideas. Somehow I did it and I did it early this year.
I baked some cookies this weekend and wrapped the presents I purchased too!
I don't feel the usual stress the holidays bring. I'm calm, cool and collected. Very nice.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Progress & goals
I haven't updated my WW progress for some time. I am down 5.4 lbs. Slow and steady. I told myself I'd take a walk a few times a week after work to move things along but it's so cold out. All I want to do is come home, change clothes and snuggle up with a blanket and my boys.
I hope to be 10 lbs less by the end of the year.
I hope to be 30 lbs less by this spring.
I hope to be 40 lbs less by the end of summer.
I hope to be 10 lbs less by the end of the year.
I hope to be 30 lbs less by this spring.
I hope to be 40 lbs less by the end of summer.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
It makes my stomach hurt
There is something profoundly disturbing about this picture. I can't put my finger on it, I can't find the right word but immediately upon seeing it this morning I was deeply offended. I can't be sure if it's the look on Bush's face, the kiss, the way he has his arms around the soldiers or what but it disgusts me.
The gratitude of the commander-in chief
President Bush kissed Marine Lance Cpl. Marc Olson of Coal City, Ill., after talking with Olson and fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Pittman Jr., of Savannah, Ga., at the White House on Tuesday. Olson and Pittman were injured when a suicide bomber attacked their checkpoint in Ramadi, Iraq. Earlier Tuesday the president spoke to the Corps of Cadets at West Point, defending his doctrine of pre-emptive war and warning that the United States must remain willing to“take the fight to our enemies across the world.”Down to his waning days in office, Bush is trying to define his legacy. The president declared that today’s military is“stronger, more agile and better prepared”than the one he inherited in 2001. He urged President-elect Obama to“stay on the offensive”against Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups and said his administration had“laid a solid foundation”for meeting emerging threats around he world. The speech came six weeks before he is to leave office.
HARAZ N. GHANBARI • Associated Press
The gratitude of the commander-in chief
President Bush kissed Marine Lance Cpl. Marc Olson of Coal City, Ill., after talking with Olson and fellow Marine Lance Cpl. Patrick Pittman Jr., of Savannah, Ga., at the White House on Tuesday. Olson and Pittman were injured when a suicide bomber attacked their checkpoint in Ramadi, Iraq. Earlier Tuesday the president spoke to the Corps of Cadets at West Point, defending his doctrine of pre-emptive war and warning that the United States must remain willing to“take the fight to our enemies across the world.”Down to his waning days in office, Bush is trying to define his legacy. The president declared that today’s military is“stronger, more agile and better prepared”than the one he inherited in 2001. He urged President-elect Obama to“stay on the offensive”against Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups and said his administration had“laid a solid foundation”for meeting emerging threats around he world. The speech came six weeks before he is to leave office.
HARAZ N. GHANBARI • Associated Press
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
People and books
I do most of my reading at work during my breaks and lunch and then right before bed.
I'm very good at tuning people out while I'm reading. So much so that most of the time I don't know when someone is talking to me. I like this about books. I like that a good book can completely take over my being and remove me from reality.
People are funny about books. People that don't read a lot, that is. When I start a new book a guy at work asks if it's a drama or a comedy. Is it a true story? If it's fiction he refers to it as "fantasy". He wants to know what the book is about as if I would be telling him the plot of a movie. We do this week after week, book after book.
Another guy tells me that he doesn't read much... occasionally he does... he's reading a book by so-and-so now and it's really well written. It's about a girl who gets done with high school and is now going to college and then... she's just gone. He's only on page 75 and they're talking to her parents now. But it's really well written, the way the author writes. The library didn't have it... he bought it... his wife had a $25 gift card. So anyway...
Another guy just asks what I'm reading and no matter what I'm reading asks if I've read the latest Dean Koontz book. I love Dean Koontz and so the conversation leads to that. The same topics, every time.
Reading at work is a great way to tune others out but it also invites some odd conversation.
I'm very good at tuning people out while I'm reading. So much so that most of the time I don't know when someone is talking to me. I like this about books. I like that a good book can completely take over my being and remove me from reality.
People are funny about books. People that don't read a lot, that is. When I start a new book a guy at work asks if it's a drama or a comedy. Is it a true story? If it's fiction he refers to it as "fantasy". He wants to know what the book is about as if I would be telling him the plot of a movie. We do this week after week, book after book.
Another guy tells me that he doesn't read much... occasionally he does... he's reading a book by so-and-so now and it's really well written. It's about a girl who gets done with high school and is now going to college and then... she's just gone. He's only on page 75 and they're talking to her parents now. But it's really well written, the way the author writes. The library didn't have it... he bought it... his wife had a $25 gift card. So anyway...
Another guy just asks what I'm reading and no matter what I'm reading asks if I've read the latest Dean Koontz book. I love Dean Koontz and so the conversation leads to that. The same topics, every time.
Reading at work is a great way to tune others out but it also invites some odd conversation.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Long holiday weekend
This holiday weekend was a busy one.
Thursday was spent at my brothers waiting for dinner. He was almost two hours late in serving. Then onto my dad's for dessert. My favorite - pumpkin apricot cake with cream cheese frosting!
Friday was spent shopping... six hours of shopping. I usually go with my sister but she was in Europe this past week (lucky!). I went with a friend and her two kids. The 15 month old wasn't having any of the shopping business but she did well overall. I got a couple gifts purchased and a couple things for myself... of course.
Saturday I met an old friend for lunch and we ended up hanging out all day. We went on all the rides at Nickelodeon Universe. I've never been on any of the rides at the Mall of America so this was all new to me. I've always gone for the bars (way back when), the restaurants, the movie theater and some shopping. It was fun!
Unfortunately I got a cold somewhere around Thanksgiving morning and it hit me hard Sunday. I slept most of the day and then went to the airport to greet my sister - finally home from Paris and Barcelona.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sort of out of sorts
I've been somewhat out or my brain for the past several days. Mostly because nothing has really been going on (other than gorging myself on a turkey dinner last Saturday on a trip up to Hinckley).
After eating to the point where we couldn't stand, walk, sit, we managed to lay down on the floor. After a couple minutes, the juvenile humor began. The most dangerous part of this is laughing so hard that we're literally rolling on the floor. It hurts so good.
Yesterday I had a punch in the gut as I noticed a friend on my Facebook page sent me a friend suggestion. I click on the link and it's hell revisited. A person from my past that I really need to leave in the past. Memories of this person are toxic. I have absolutely zero longing for this person. My anger has surfaced. My disgust is prominent. I am walking a thin line between detest and hate. The good news is that I now see this person as a joke - everything they have said, done, will say and will do. I bask in the belief in Karma.
Make him go away.
After eating to the point where we couldn't stand, walk, sit, we managed to lay down on the floor. After a couple minutes, the juvenile humor began. The most dangerous part of this is laughing so hard that we're literally rolling on the floor. It hurts so good.
Yesterday I had a punch in the gut as I noticed a friend on my Facebook page sent me a friend suggestion. I click on the link and it's hell revisited. A person from my past that I really need to leave in the past. Memories of this person are toxic. I have absolutely zero longing for this person. My anger has surfaced. My disgust is prominent. I am walking a thin line between detest and hate. The good news is that I now see this person as a joke - everything they have said, done, will say and will do. I bask in the belief in Karma.
Make him go away.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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