Forgot my water bottle the last two days because I took it home to clean it, but I've been doing pretty well with that.
Down 5.2 pounds since we started this shenanigan (two weeks). Good stuff. Would be better if the weather hadn't been keeping us from the gym and if I hadn't eaten myself stupid at the our friend's wedding festivities this weekend.
Have also decided to add to the mix the following challenge - walk 100 miles in the 150 days until the wedding. So I have an 8 day reprieve and then its on. I don't think it will be too tough.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Doc is (plugged) In
So a few weeks ago I went to the doctor over something weird that happened (thought my brain was malfunctioning - turns out that it is just normal malfunctions). I might as well have just consulted Web MD and then written myself a prescription for a CT scan.
I went in. Paid my $25 copay - which I had to pay again two days later if I wanted the results (they were holding them hostage). Sat with the nurse practitioner (been going to the same place for nearly 10 years, never actually seen a doctor there) who was so busy typing on her computer that I gave up trying to tell my story mid-way through and she didn't notice. Just kept typing on her computer. So I waited until she asked what she wanted to know. She typed it all in her computer. Never touched me, hardly looked me in the eye. Told me what the computer said, got my prescription for a CT and left.
If this is going to be the case why can't we just do it by conference call and I will weigh myself and email it to her (honor system style)? Doctor's appointments via Skype.
I don't know if finding a new doctor's office will help, from stories I have heard they all seem like that.
I went in. Paid my $25 copay - which I had to pay again two days later if I wanted the results (they were holding them hostage). Sat with the nurse practitioner (been going to the same place for nearly 10 years, never actually seen a doctor there) who was so busy typing on her computer that I gave up trying to tell my story mid-way through and she didn't notice. Just kept typing on her computer. So I waited until she asked what she wanted to know. She typed it all in her computer. Never touched me, hardly looked me in the eye. Told me what the computer said, got my prescription for a CT and left.
If this is going to be the case why can't we just do it by conference call and I will weigh myself and email it to her (honor system style)? Doctor's appointments via Skype.
I don't know if finding a new doctor's office will help, from stories I have heard they all seem like that.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Scooter Store and the Fountain of Youth
My mom got a letter from the scooter store the other day - my middle brother and I giggled for a good 40 minutes. She says it is because she is old, we told her that doesn't happen until she turns 70 so she isn't allowed to call herself old until then. But really, the Scooter Store? A little premature for a woman with no medical issues except high blood pressure (which I am pretty sure my brothers did to her).
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Happy Birthday Maid of Honor!!!
Happiest of Birthday to my littlest brother, favorite groundhog and rockin' maid of honor.
We weren't close for years, now we are and I can't imagine daily life without you.
Love you.
We weren't close for years, now we are and I can't imagine daily life without you.
Love you.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
One month down...
Update on the resolution status... I promised to try something new or go somewhere new each month. Here is what we have for January:
The Piggy Event -- definitely new, and from what the manfolk says, never to happen again.
Two new memorable restaurants -- Texas de Brazil (meat coma) and Yucatan Taco Stand (need to go back and try the margaritas)
Threw my first baby shower -- luckily the other two throwing the shower with me are pros so I basically was everyone's bitch which worked just fine for me. I can blow up some balloons with the best of 'em.
I got Iced -- something I hoped never to happen, but it did. For those of you who don't know what iced is: if someone gets you to take possession of a Smirnoff Ice (gross) you must get down on one knee and chug it within a minute. If not, more appear. It has become quite a trick to avoid them as they can be put in places such as gift bags, the dishwasher (bastards) or on top of a toilet seat (if you touch it it is yours, and if you really have to go it may be the lesser of two evils). And it was warm, double gross.
Went to a wedding in a castle -- even better, the castle was in a north Texas field surrounded by cows and horses. RANDOM.
I think that list pretty much satisfies January. With everything going on (we looked at the calendar last night, it is insane) this may be the easiest resolution ever.
The Piggy Event -- definitely new, and from what the manfolk says, never to happen again.
Two new memorable restaurants -- Texas de Brazil (meat coma) and Yucatan Taco Stand (need to go back and try the margaritas)
Threw my first baby shower -- luckily the other two throwing the shower with me are pros so I basically was everyone's bitch which worked just fine for me. I can blow up some balloons with the best of 'em.
I got Iced -- something I hoped never to happen, but it did. For those of you who don't know what iced is: if someone gets you to take possession of a Smirnoff Ice (gross) you must get down on one knee and chug it within a minute. If not, more appear. It has become quite a trick to avoid them as they can be put in places such as gift bags, the dishwasher (bastards) or on top of a toilet seat (if you touch it it is yours, and if you really have to go it may be the lesser of two evils). And it was warm, double gross.
Went to a wedding in a castle -- even better, the castle was in a north Texas field surrounded by cows and horses. RANDOM.
I think that list pretty much satisfies January. With everything going on (we looked at the calendar last night, it is insane) this may be the easiest resolution ever.
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