Month: February 2006

  • Hi, my name is Kelly and I’m an addict.

    A clearance/sale/shopping addict.

    But it’s soooo cheap/such a good price/I’ve always wanted one/it’s good for me.

    Multitudes of platitudes, dude.

    Today was a kicker though, I went with a friend to Michael’s – the
    craft store. To buy little cards to put floss on and give it labels
    (not that it’s really important but when you do a big cross-stitch, the
    biggest bitch, even worse than all those wee little x’s is trying to
    keep straight which color is dark olive drab green and which is medium
    drab green  and which is khaki, dark khaki or medium khaki – hence
    the use of little cards which you loop the floss onto and give each one
    its little name so that you can keep all those damn shades straight).
    However, we walk into the cross-stitch aisle to big signs that say “All
    Needlework kits 40% off!!!!”

    That’s a bad sign.
    And a good sign.

    I only spent $70. But now I fear I need a new box to pack cross-stitches in!

    Otherwise, the weekend was uneventful but good. Full of multitudes of
    eating and coke consumption (bad me). Monday starts my full on Curves
    diet.

    Week 1: 1200 calories, 90 grams of carbs (which I originally wrote as
    crabs, which would be rather tasty and low in fat) – 6 meals a day.

    Basically, I’ll be eating every 2 hours or so. That’s a lot of meals.
    Wee little tiny ones. We’ll see how this first week goes – after this
    very restricted phase it jumps to 1600 calories and 130 carbs….

  • Previous birthday posts:

    Monday, February 21, 2005

        Happy Birthday to me!
    I am officially 1/4th of a century old.

    I think I’m going to go take a nap….

    Saturday, February 21, 2004

       

    Happy Birthday to me!

    I’m 24.

    And I now own a set of 800tc sheets – queen sized no less. Soft as a baby’s behind and quite a bit smoother…

    And tonight…I’m thinking steak…and possibly a long island iced tea…

    Friday, February 21, 2003

       

    i seem to be cranky and crabby and all kind of other mean c words a lot lately

    i’d like to blame it on PMS, menstruation, an incipient infection, stress, the weather, faulty landlords…

    but i don’t think that’s what it really is

    what is it? i don’t really know

    i’m not good at being happy. never was. don’t remember a time in my
    childhood of actually being happy…not unhappy…just no happy. maybe
    people shouldn’t be happy? who knows…we humans…I just don’t
    understand us…

    we invent boredom, loneliness, dissatisfaction…we constrain ourselves
    with religion, education, ignorance, houses, heat…do we ever really
    liberate the us that’s inside?

    sometimes, i wish just for a moment, a day, a week, to return to a time
    when it wasn’t so damn complicated – not childhood or anything like
    that… maybe what i mean is, a past? where there were places where it
    really got dark at night, places where you couldn’t hear cars at night,
    places where we didn’t break the earth up into itty bitty neat
    organized rows to make it do what we wanted…

    so what the hell am I saying?

    again, I have no idea.

    however, this time I do think i have something to blame…digestion…

    this is what comes from eating chocolate chip cookies, cheese chunks and milk for dinner

    ******

    My thoughts for today?

    eh.
    I don’t so much care.
    Birthdays are birthdays – I feel like I ought to give my mother a present (I was, after all, 8lbs and 10oz of pain).
    My husbands family (well, his mother to be specific) likes birthdays. A
    lot. I like presents and I’ll appreciate gifts…but *shrug* I suppose
    I survived another year.

    Changes from last year?
    No more third shift working – I get to see sunshine.
    Curves diet starts next Monday, though our first class is tonight.
    Themes there include carb moderation and 6 meals a day…nothing new,
    but I’m hoping that the fact that I’m paying for it and the fact that I
    am in the class with my mom, my sister and my friend will help me stick
    to it (there are 10 total people in the class and my “group” makes up 4
    of them…somehow, I don’t think the other six will enjoy things as
    much as I will).

    I will miss my carbs though – I like to consume them in large quantities. Mmmmm….bread.

  • Now let’s go the other direction.

  • Yup.

    I’m a sheep.

    But go ahead, give it a try.

  • Goals for this week:

    1.) Filing.
    Haven’t done it in forever. Probably 1/3 of what is sitting in my “TO
    BE FILED” pile I can throw away and very little of it is probably even
    worth the effort of looking at it a second time. Someday, I will be
    better at calculating what I need to really keep.

    2.) Clean out filing cabinets.You
    know. Since I’ll be in there anyway. Get rid of the old and the stuff
    that doesn’t belong – of which there is plenty. I packed stuff into my
    two filing cabinets when I moved in with my husband so….I need to
    take out the pictures and the diplomas and the like and find a new box
    for those to live in. I think I’m going to sell the yellow filing
    cabinet and keep the red one for AZ.

    3.) Box up VHS tapes. The DVDs are done. All my books are done. VHS is next. I shudder at how many boxes this will be.

    4.) Get real license plate.
    Oh DMV how I hate thee. With your long lines and your angry workers…I
    so don’t want to spend my morning with you. But I will. And then my car
    will really really really be all mine.

    5.) Call the doctor.
    You know. For that “special” appointment. I keep putting it off. I
    would request some reminders of this. Because, I really don’t want to
    do it. At all. But I know I need to. Stupid cervix.

    ***

    I think that’s all for now.

    The house is damn clean at this moment, so hopefully that sticks around
    a bit longer. We had an open house today and I got up at 7am to finish
    the cleaning. We painted last night — still need another coat of that
    in the bedroom. Otherwise, actual house-cleaning is damn good right
    now.

    Unless you count the basement.

    Which is scary.

    I think maybe next Sunday will be dedicated to cleaning that up and getting it organized and ready to move. Blech.

    What a way to spend my day off.

  • Since I got tagged:

    Four jobs I have had:
    1.  Cashier
    2.  File Clerk
    3.  TA
    4.  Sandwich Artist
     
    Four movies I could watch over and over:
    1.  When Harry Met Sally
    2.  The Matrix
    3.  Dogma
    4.  Pitch Black
     
    Four places I have lived:
    1.  Flint, MI
    2.  Fort Wayne, IN
    3.  Bowling Green, OH
    4.  Columbus, OH
     
    Four TV shows I like to watch:
    1. CSI
    2.  NCIS
    3.  Discoveries this Week
    4.  Family Guy
     
    Four places I have vacationed:
    1.  Boston, MA
    2.  Phoenix, AZ
    3.  Denver, CO
    4.  Springfield, MO
     
    Four places I would rather be right now:
    1. AZ
    2. driving somewhere that was not work
    3.  snuggling in a bed with my husband
    4.  at the movies
     
    Four of my favorite dishes:
    1.   Red Beans and Rice
    2.   Pizza (with green olives)
    3.   Mexican food
    4.   Baby spinach salad with delicious chicken and other bits of stuff on it
     
    Four bloggers that I tag:

    ummmm
    I got nothing
    if anyone would like to do it….
    have at.