So Much For That

I wasn't going to sit on the computer much at all today. But that didn't quite pan out the way I wanted. There's always tomorrow.

Weighed in at 203 again today. Having a little trouble dropping those last couple of pounds. Having access to candy at work and then falling back into some old (bad) eating habits certainly doesn't help. I need to limit my french fry intake to a maximum of once a week. That may help.

Bought a new digital scale today. I've been looking at them for months, got really serious about getting one in the last month or so and took the plunge today. The last time I bought one was right at the beginning of my diet. Our old one worked, or so I thought, until that fateful doctor's appointment where I found out I weighed 300.5 lbs. My scale at home was much, much kinder. It got thrown out that day and I bought a new scale. Only I had a panic attack when I stepped on it for the first time and found out I was too fat to be measured. It went back the very next day and I bought the analog scale. While I love that scale, it's not great for getting an exact reading. It's sometimes hard to tell if I weigh 203, 202 or 204. I take my best guess at it. Now with the digital, I'll know for sure. This one registers weight to the 1/10th of a pound. That's nice. I'm scared to weigh myself on it for fear of finding out the analog scale was being kind. I'll find out first thing in the morning. But until next Sunday, I weigh 203 pounds.

Tomorrow is a free day off of work. I'm very happy about this. I've started to get used to having all these fake holidays off of work. When I was in retail, I dreaded them. All these annoying people would shop like crazy all weekend and then come back out in full force on Monday. How much fucking shopping can one person do? Now that I'm on the other side of that fence, I've been loving them. This is the last one until the end of May, though. I'll miss them. Also, last week we got a floating holiday for Lincoln's birthday. I usually hold on to my floaters for a while, but I'm going to use it on Thursday. I haven't seen my friend Todd in probably a year. I'm going down to spend the day with him. I miss him like crazy.

Random Pictures

Some pics I found when cleaning out my hard drive.

Me, drunk off my ass and my friend Cindy having to put up with it. Circa 1990.

Me at my heaviest. Not a pretty picture. Of me, that is. Dancing with Lori. Lynn is fighting the power in the back.

I'd like to thank the Academy... Me and my friend Ken's Emmys.

At a party or a wedding or something. My expression seems to be saying "take the fucking picture already." I really like this pic, even though it's nto all that great.

My sister and I riding the Comet at The Great Escape in Lake George. I'm so not pretty in this pic.

An experiment in hiding my chins. Learning to pose to make myself look thinner. This was probably 1996 or 1997.

Circa 1995. Not. A. Morning. Person.

This is 1994, shortly after Ken and I met. I look so young and so thin, though I'm thinner now by 30 pounds than when this was taken.

I think this is probably 1991 or 1992. The lady in the picture is Andrea Marcovicci. Google her if you don't know her. (And I miss that sweater.)

My Simpsons avatar.

Me in front of Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom last September.

Someone got wet.

Sexy? Not with that hairline.

Lame attempt at looking cool.

Jesus Beware

Annoyed...

I have a podiatrist appointment this morning at 8 am. It's my second of seven shots to the foot to alleviate the pain the neuroma causes. If this was just a one shot deal, I would have taken the whole day off today, but since I have to so this for a month and a half, I don't want to use up all of my sick time. I scheduled this appointment as early as possible so I could get to work as early as possible. I just got a call. They want to move my appointment to 9:10 because we had a bad snow and ice storm last night. I got my ass out of bed an hour early because I knew I would have to shovel and take a little extra time getting there. The storm isn't a surprise. We knew it was coming. Even my reminder call last night said that there was a storm, so if I couldn't make it, please call. I went out of my way to be responsible, why couldn't the fucking podiatrist? I want to get this over with and get to work. If I would have known this in advance, I could have slept in a little longer. Grrrrrrr..... Can you tell I'm cranky this morning?

Big Brother started last night. I'm glad it's back, though I'm overwhelmed by how much of a commitment it's going to be. Three nights a week, just like in the summer, but with all my other shows added on top. It's too early for me to really know who these people are yet. Give me a week or so and I'll be up to speed.

Ken's in Texas on business right now. He flies home tonight. Last night he wandered into the Hard Rock Cafe and ran into someone he knew. Well, he knew her, but she didn't know him. It was Nakomis from Big Brother a couple of seasons ago. We're both big fans of her. He got all fan-girly around her. He said that she was super nice and really tiny. He got two pictures. This on was with his cell phone. There's another one with his co-worker's camera, but I haven't seen that one yet.

Quickie

Not much to report. Don't really have anything to say. I need to go make the bed is what I need to do. Stripped both beds and did up the sheets. I love fresh sheet night. Nothing nicer.

Anyway, today's weigh in was neither as good nor as bad as it could have been. Official weight for the week is 203. That golden ring is so close. Maybe one more week? I just need to start avoiding the fries again. I've been indulging way too much the last couple of weeks and I know it. Knowing it is half the battle. The easy half, but half nonetheless.

Obsession Of The Week

First thing I do everyday when I get online is go straight to Facebook to play Scrabulous. I generally have 5 or 6 games going at any one time. Can't get enough. If you're on Facebook, start a game with me.

Score!!!

I stepped on the scale this morning, as I do every morning, and got quite a jolt. The scale registered 200 pounds. For real. I was so excited to see this that I ran for the digital camera to take photographic proof. What I didn't realize is that taking a picture while standing on the scale isn't the easiest thing to do. I guess if I actually fixed the settings to take a decent picture, I would have had better results. Anyway, here are my two attempts to take a picture of the scale. I know I'll probably be closer to the 204 I was last week when I weigh in on Sunday, but I'm basking in the glory of hitting my goal for now. Of course, tonight we went out to celebrate/sabotage. I haven't had mozzarella sticks in a while, so it was well worth it. I'll self-loathe tomorrow.


In other news, I started the series of shots to my foot today to kill the neuroma in it. We're only doing my left foot for now, since that is by far the worst foot. I'll be getting a shot of alcohol into my foot once a week for seven weeks. By the end of the shots, the nerve the neuroma is on should be dead and the discomfort will be gone. I'm hoping this goes smoothly. I'm getting sick of foot issues and want to get back to wearing non-sensible shoes on a more regular basis. Especially because Ken came back from his business trip yesterday with a little giftie for me. A pair of Converse All-Star High Tops in tweed. So very dressy!

iTunes Questionaire

How many songs total: 29,945
How many hours or days of music: 78.8 days

Most recently played: "Half A Heart" by Jill Sobule
Most played: "Watching Without Words" by Alexander Schultz
Most recently added: "Emotional Rescue"

Sort by song title
First Song: "A-Hunting We Will Go" by Hem
Last Song: "99.9 F°" by Suzanne Vega

Sort by time
Shortest Song: "Interlude: Let's Dance" by Janet Jackson :04
Longest Song: "I'm Sorry That I Got Fat" by the Wesley Willis Fiasco 32:15

Sort by album
First album: "ABBA" by ABBA
Last album: "99.9 F°" by Suzanne Vega

First song that comes up on Shuffle: "Somebody Stand By Me" by Stevie Nicks

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 19
Life - 448
Love - 2,658
Hate – 84
You - 3,944
Sex – 117

Holiday

Was today a holiday? It sure felt like it at work. Half the office was out. It was so damn quiet and I liked it. I remember reading recently that the day after Super Bowl Sunday is the single most skipped workday of the year. I think it's rather pathetic, but it's true. More people call out sick today than any other day. I guess it's okay, because we are a country of people who don't take responsibility for our actions. Hmmmm, Sunday night? Let's drink heavily because football is on. Makes me sick.

Today is the 18 month anniversary of my diet. As my friend Alex pointed out, I didn't post a weight update yesterday. I forgot. Anyway, I have to go with Sunday's weight as my official and yesterday I was 204 again. Didn't gain, didn't lose. That's okay. However, this morning I was 201. I really wish that today was my official day. I'd feel extra good about myself all week, knowing full well that I'd be back to 204 by next Sunday.

The cd uploading is finished. Finally. I wasn't going to kill myself getting that last stack uploaded, but I sat here and did the whole thing anyway. To recap, I've got 29,945 songs on the computer now, though I'm sure there are still a bunch of duplicates that I haven't found yet. Is there something in iTunes that tells you how many artists or number of albums you have? I'd like to know, but only if there's an easy way.

It's Been A Week?

Wow. I haven't posted anything here since last Sunday. I really don't know how that happened? I would have thought three days, maybe four. Not a whole week. Sorry to both of the people who read this. :)

Anyway, I've had a productive day so far. The clock on my computer says it's 8:32am as I type this. I've managed to bring Ken to the airport, go walk for an hour, do my grocery run, clean the kitchen and start laundry. At the rate I'm going, I'll be in bed by 6 tonight. The paper should be here any minute now. I'll check through the flyers and see if there's anything worth leaving the house for today (I'm guessing no, but you never know). I need to print off my state tax form and do that today. I'm feeling really productive and it scares me.

On Thursday night, I uploaded what I thought was the last of my cds in my massive uploading-to-iTunes project. I felt really good. Then on Friday I found a couple I missed. And on Saturday, I pulled the couple of mix cds I had that I had to type the tracks in that I was too lazy to do earlier. Then I was done. Until this morning. When I was in the basement doing laundry, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted the small tote of cds I put down there that I had forgotten. So one more batch and I'm done. There are about 50 discs sitting on my desk right now. I'm not going to chain myself to my desk uploading them today. I'll do what I can and save the rest for this week. This should but me just over the 30,000 song point, I believe.

Today has been very positive so far, but the weekend didn't start out that way. Friday night I got home to find a reminder on my voice mail about my doctor's appt on Monday. Following that was another call from the doctor's office cancelling my appt. This annoyed me. I mean, nothing like waiting until the last minute to cancel on me, right? They have hours on Saturday, so I called yesterday to reschedule. The first that's available is Friday afternoon, so I took it. So now I'm taking Friday off. What annoyed me was I was all hyped up for a three day weekend *this* weekend, not next.

Then, yesterday, I went to walk on the treadmill. About 20 minutes into my walk, a song came on that I didn't want to hear, so I pulled my iPod out of my pocket to advance the track, lost my footing and started to fall back. I didn't actually fall, but I did manage to break a piece off the back of the treadmill that holds the tread up. I broke the treadmill! I'm so annoyed. At least it was free in the first place.

We recorded our second podcast yesterday. I really didn't have any nerves about it this time. I don't know if that means it's going to be better or worse. I haven't listened to it yet. I'll probably save it for work tomorrow. We did have Skype issues, I know that. Hopefully the content itself isn't that bad.

I was listening to the AmeriNZ podcast this morning on my walk. One of the stories Arthur talked about was really interesting to me, especially being the age I am. While I'm not 44, I'm closing in on it. It explains a lot. http://au.news.yahoo.com/080130/21/15oo4.html