i am loathe to ever admit to being bored at work. around here, most people think that means you don't have anything to do. i don't think there are more than a handful of folk who understand that what it REALLY means is that you don't have anything interesting to do. i've been plugging away, for two weeks, on some painfully boring, cookie-cutter, have to do the same thing every month stuff. it's mind numbing.
to alleviate my suffering i find myself focusing on the actual arrival of spring - - the warm weather that is approaching (and yes, the thunderstorms too) has me giddy with thoughts of planting and moving dirt and making things grow. we're going to have to do a lot of the dirt moving this year. we have some serious grade issues with the ground around our house. it's going to take a lot of dirt. and we'll be moving some shrubs, and some rose bushes (if they merit the effort) and some sidewalk (ugh) and some concrete steps (double ugh) but it will be very pretty when it's done. i'm sure of it.
and then there are the spring holidays coming up - - well, there's Easter and my parents anniversary (for which I am wholly unprepared) and my daughter's birthday (3 this year - how time snakes away when you aren't looking - - and even when you are!). and mother's day - - which will be the start of a week in Florida for me and mine (including the cat)... and finally Memorial Day - - already bringing summer on its heels.
i'm not really wishing the time away - i know it will speed by well enough on its own - but looking forward to all these wonderful days in front of me. it's a real mood booster - - which is a required element when faced with the reality of numb-ers calling to me.
happy spring y'all!
21 March 2007
19 March 2007
Back on the Wagon
I'm at it again - - spring is shouldering its way onto the calendar and into my thoughts, and I'm looking at myself in the mirror thinking, I can't go out in summer clothes looking like THIS.
So here I am, again, tracking my food and trying to figure out what's going to inspire me to exercise. Watching my eating really helps. So does drinking gallons of water every day (and cutting WAY back on the diet soda).
Crazy as it sounds, my husband just found some research that supports that whole "diet soda will make you fat" crap. Apparently inundating your diet with zero cal sweeteners tricks your body into thinking that all sweet things are nutrient free, and it processes them carelessly, as opposed to breaking them up the way it ought.
Doesn't mean I'm jumping right back to full sugar on everything, but since most of the sweet i eat every day is fruit, I figure i'm ok with the occasional pink packet on my fiber cereal and in the random cup of tea. And NOTHING BUT NOTHING is going to make me give up my Breyer's vanilla ice cream with Splenda.
Snow and cold in Michigan these days - - looking and feeling nothing like the spring that's supposed to be right at our threshold... ah well, soon enough I'll be grousing about the heat. There's really no pleasing some people.
Happy Monday!
So here I am, again, tracking my food and trying to figure out what's going to inspire me to exercise. Watching my eating really helps. So does drinking gallons of water every day (and cutting WAY back on the diet soda).
Crazy as it sounds, my husband just found some research that supports that whole "diet soda will make you fat" crap. Apparently inundating your diet with zero cal sweeteners tricks your body into thinking that all sweet things are nutrient free, and it processes them carelessly, as opposed to breaking them up the way it ought.
Doesn't mean I'm jumping right back to full sugar on everything, but since most of the sweet i eat every day is fruit, I figure i'm ok with the occasional pink packet on my fiber cereal and in the random cup of tea. And NOTHING BUT NOTHING is going to make me give up my Breyer's vanilla ice cream with Splenda.
Snow and cold in Michigan these days - - looking and feeling nothing like the spring that's supposed to be right at our threshold... ah well, soon enough I'll be grousing about the heat. There's really no pleasing some people.
Happy Monday!
Back on the Wagon
I'm at it again - - spring is shouldering its way onto the calendar and into my thoughts, and I'm looking at myself in the mirror thinking, I can't go out in summer clothes looking like THIS.
So here I am, again, tracking my food and trying to figure out what's going to inspire me to exercise. Watching my eating really helps. So does drinking gallons of water every day (and cutting WAY back on the diet soda).
Crazy as it sounds, my husband just found some research that supports that whole "diet soda will make you fat" crap. Apparently inundating your diet with zero cal sweeteners tricks your body into thinking that all sweet things are nutrient free, and it processes them carelessly, as opposed to breaking them up the way it ought.
Doesn't mean I'm jumping right back to full sugar on everything, but since most of the sweet i eat every day is fruit, I figure i'm ok with the occasional pink packet on my fiber cereal and in the random cup of tea. And NOTHING BUT NOTHING is going to make me give up my Breyer's vanilla ice cream with Splenda.
Snow and cold in Michigan these days - - looking and feeling nothing like the spring that's supposed to be right at our threshold... ah well, soon enough I'll be grousing about the heat. There's really no pleasing some people.
Happy Monday!
So here I am, again, tracking my food and trying to figure out what's going to inspire me to exercise. Watching my eating really helps. So does drinking gallons of water every day (and cutting WAY back on the diet soda).
Crazy as it sounds, my husband just found some research that supports that whole "diet soda will make you fat" crap. Apparently inundating your diet with zero cal sweeteners tricks your body into thinking that all sweet things are nutrient free, and it processes them carelessly, as opposed to breaking them up the way it ought.
Doesn't mean I'm jumping right back to full sugar on everything, but since most of the sweet i eat every day is fruit, I figure i'm ok with the occasional pink packet on my fiber cereal and in the random cup of tea. And NOTHING BUT NOTHING is going to make me give up my Breyer's vanilla ice cream with Splenda.
Snow and cold in Michigan these days - - looking and feeling nothing like the spring that's supposed to be right at our threshold... ah well, soon enough I'll be grousing about the heat. There's really no pleasing some people.
Happy Monday!
14 March 2007
Bergdoff Good Who?
i stumbled across Bergdoff Goodman today
holy cats
what rich folk won't do to throw away their money.
i'm still trying to figure out what makes designer clothes any different (other than their occasionally ridiculous extremes of uselessness) than something nice normal people might find at a decent shop, or for mercy sake, make on their own.
once upon a time the idle rich knew how to stitch, and knit, and decorate their own bonnets. now, apparently, they're too lazy (or stupid) even for that.
ridiculous...
utterly
holy cats
what rich folk won't do to throw away their money.
i'm still trying to figure out what makes designer clothes any different (other than their occasionally ridiculous extremes of uselessness) than something nice normal people might find at a decent shop, or for mercy sake, make on their own.
once upon a time the idle rich knew how to stitch, and knit, and decorate their own bonnets. now, apparently, they're too lazy (or stupid) even for that.
ridiculous...
utterly
13 March 2007
glorious
This is Detroit
My weatherbug says it's 63 degrees today With a blue sky and sunshine and
I
am
trapped inside this building for another 90 minutes.
some days, there is no justice. tomorrow, it won't be warm or sunny at least not according to all the weather geeks just another average april day in Detroit but today...
ah....
12 March 2007
Spring Forward Crap
i really don't like the whole daylight saving time thing.
the biggest reason is my wake up time.
during most week days i'm awake by 5:30 and leaving the house for work at 6.
up until this past weekend, i was almost driving during daylight hours. it felt like spring to me.
now, i'm back in the dark ages of winter and miserable in the morning - - and it's not just the jet lag feeling of having lost an hour either, it's about the sunlight playing with my wakefulness.
don't even get me going on the ridiculous excuse of "saving energy" the freaks in Washington tout. as if. longer days mean the family hopping in the car to drive up to the local DQ for sundaes and dilly bars. no one walks in the evening anymore. please. this is America after all.
i'm still cold too - but that's a whole nuther story...
the biggest reason is my wake up time.
during most week days i'm awake by 5:30 and leaving the house for work at 6.
up until this past weekend, i was almost driving during daylight hours. it felt like spring to me.
now, i'm back in the dark ages of winter and miserable in the morning - - and it's not just the jet lag feeling of having lost an hour either, it's about the sunlight playing with my wakefulness.
don't even get me going on the ridiculous excuse of "saving energy" the freaks in Washington tout. as if. longer days mean the family hopping in the car to drive up to the local DQ for sundaes and dilly bars. no one walks in the evening anymore. please. this is America after all.
i'm still cold too - but that's a whole nuther story...
06 March 2007
Chilly McBlue in Floodland
I'm cold and tired and feeling rather grim, on the overall.
last week Thursday night / Friday morning (1am) we got a call from my mom - - in whose basement most of our stuff is - was - stored - - informing us that there were 6" of ice water (she omitted the ice part) in the basement, and that we needed to get over and help out.
the water was very cold.
a lot of our stuff was in cardboard boxes.
we had television sets and press-wood furniture on the floor
we got cold and wet and spent the better part of the weekend cleaning, sorting, and disposing.
on Sunday my husband reminded me of how lucky we were that we had moved the sofa just a couple of weeks before. the multi-thousand dollar to replace sofa. just thinking about it made my stomach turn, and i agreed that we were indeed lucky.
somehow one of the sump pumps had quit working without notice (AWOL) and the other had slipped out of a "boot" designed to keep it from pumping water INTO the basement.
shudder - 6" of ice water.
now, a lot of our stuff has made it into our basement. oh, yeah, there's a lot more to go, but we're getting there. we still have a lot of going through, and organizing to do (if only i had a few thousand dollars for shelving, i would have library stacks in my basement!)
anywho...
last week Thursday night / Friday morning (1am) we got a call from my mom - - in whose basement most of our stuff is - was - stored - - informing us that there were 6" of ice water (she omitted the ice part) in the basement, and that we needed to get over and help out.
the water was very cold.
a lot of our stuff was in cardboard boxes.
we had television sets and press-wood furniture on the floor
we got cold and wet and spent the better part of the weekend cleaning, sorting, and disposing.
on Sunday my husband reminded me of how lucky we were that we had moved the sofa just a couple of weeks before. the multi-thousand dollar to replace sofa. just thinking about it made my stomach turn, and i agreed that we were indeed lucky.
somehow one of the sump pumps had quit working without notice (AWOL) and the other had slipped out of a "boot" designed to keep it from pumping water INTO the basement.
shudder - 6" of ice water.
now, a lot of our stuff has made it into our basement. oh, yeah, there's a lot more to go, but we're getting there. we still have a lot of going through, and organizing to do (if only i had a few thousand dollars for shelving, i would have library stacks in my basement!)
anywho...
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