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What are your resolutions for 2007?
Oh god..same crap as every year, right?
- Eat more healthy stuff and less crappy stuff. I'm less enthusiastic about the You On A Diet thing than I was at the start. A lot of that food is just horrible. GAH! So, yeah I'd probably be more healthy but I'd be so fucking cranky that nobody would want to spend any time with me and I'd probably not want to even spend time with myself so that is right out the window. I'm just going to try to make better choices when I can and then still eat junk food once in a while. I figure 80/20 ratio good stuff to junk and I'll be OK
- Get some damn exercise already. I'm not known for my athletic abilities or abs of steel and I never will be, but it would be nice to be able to climb stairs again without getting all out of breath. Since I quit roller derby I have been a total couch slug over here. That needs to stop.
- Finish more knitting and general crafty projects. I'm really bad about starting stuff and not finishing it or buying supplies for a project and not ever even starting the project.
- Organize the yarn room and keep it that way. I've done this before and I always fall back into the trap of putting stuff in the floor or on the desk "just for now because I'm in a hurry"
- Organize the closet and dressers in the bedroom and don't let the pile of stuff accumulate again. Same as with the yarn room. We throw clothes on the floor or make piles of papers on the dressers and just in general we're totally slobby in there. We also both have a lot of clothes that are totally too messed up to wear or that don't fit anymore and that we just need to get rid of so that is part of it too.
- Take more photos. I'm that girl who goes on vacation to some fabulous place and comes back with nothing but photos of the airport and my hotel room because I forgot to take pics of anything else while I was having fun. I'd like to stop that and think to take the camera out of my bag when good stuff is going on.
Show us how you rang in the new year!
I rang in 2007 at Julia's house with Julia, Danielle, and a bunch of people I don't know. YAY!
Saturday morning I got up early to help take my Mom's little dog Buster to the vet. Buster is 5 years old. He's mostly Corgi with a little mutt thrown in. I found his mother in a parking lot all starved and wet and sad. At the time we didn't have room for a dog so after putting an ad in the paper and getting no response I gave her to my sister who lives out in the country. I can't remember if she ever got a name, but she must have had a good time out there because she had some puppies the next year not too long after my Dad died. Mom wouldn't admit it, but she was lonely over there at the house with no husband and no pets. When she heard about the puppies she decided that Ian needed a dog, (yeah, right...) but that since we didn't have room for it at our place the dog would live at her house. For a while we thought he could be an inside dog, but after he chewed through the vinyl flooring in the bathroom it was pretty obvious that Buster needed to go live outside. He's been living in a big fenced in area out behind Mom's house ever since, and he seems pretty happy. All the grandkids take him out to play when they come over and Mom takes him for walks/runs around the rest of the yard regularly. Lately it has been pretty obvious that Buster isn't feeling so hot. When he gets really excited he has a hard time catching his breath and will often need to just lay down for a bit. This is super weird in a dog that is known for jumping five feet straight up in the air and running laps around the house just for fun so off to the vet he went. Turns out Mom hadn't been giving him heart worm prevention stuff because she thought it was transmitted from other dogs and since he was never around other dogs he didn't need it. Heart worms are transmitted by mosquito bites and poor Buster has a good start on a case of them. The vet says that since he is still seeming pretty happy and not sick in between excitement episodes that they probably haven't done that much damage yet and he'll be fine after treatment. I dropped him off this morning for his first round of shots. They'll keep him all day then he goes home with three pills to take one per month for the next few months and he'll go back for another round of shots. The hardest part is going to be keeping him from running and jumping for the next few months so that clots of worms don't kill him. I really hope he pulls through this because he's a sweet little dog and because I know Mom will really miss him if he dies. A lot of times just a few months after Dad died I think Buster needing to go out and be fed was the only reason she bothered to get out of bed in the morning. So yeah, if you have any good vibes send them his way.
Last Thursday when I stayed home with the migraine I watched Oprah. One of the doctor guys who wrote the new book "You: On A Diet" (they have a series of You: books) were the guests and they had some pretty gross visual aids. I'm talking body parts from dead people: a fatty liver, an enlarged heart, a tongue, fatty omentum, a giant, clogged aorta. ewww! The show reminded me that I'm still about 30lbs overweight and that last time they checked it my bad cholesterol level was inching up into the not so good range. I should really do something about that. So I went over to Amazon and ordered their book. I'm going to try to eat more healthy stuff and less not so healthy stuff like the partially hydrogenated, enriched, corn syrup filled junk I eat now. The husbeast and I grew up in the 60's and 70's - otherwise known as the era of tv dinners, kool aid with so much sugar in it that it made your teeth ache, and Wonder Bread full of so many preservatives that it would keep on the shelf for a month without ever growing mold. I ate "Sugar Frosted Flakes" and "Super Sugar Crisp" all the time! (YES kids, the makers of breakfast cereal used to actually promote the sugar content right there in the name of the food!) Back then you never heard of any kids getting hyper from eating too much sugar either. Hell, there was no such thing as too much sugar as long as you remembered to brush your teeth. Dinner wasn't complete without some red meat or SPAM or something, and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil spread was considered good for you. We hadn't heard of cholesterol or trans fats or any of that stuff, and Mom put a big spoon of bacon grease or margarine in the canned veggies to add some flavor. Oddly, there weren't any really fat kids running around either because I guess everyone was so hyped up on the sugar that we literally DID run around a lot. We just ran around outside so the adults didn't notice and label us hyperactive I guess. haha Kids today spend most of their time indoors sitting in front of the tv or the computer or the video games. Maybe that's why they get noticed when they twitch. So anyway, neither one of us grew up with much of a taste for healthy goodness. I haven't really been making sure Ian develops any healthy habits either. We get pizza once a week and I let him eat an entire medium if he wants. (He's 14! Try to take a pizza away from a 14 year old boy and you'll pull back a bloody stump cause he'll eat your hand.) The rest of the week he pretty much lives on enriched white flour bread, peanut butter with added sugar and partially hydrogenated oil, cholesterol filled cheese, chocolate milk, and soda pop. He sometimes eats oatmeal, but he puts about half a cup of sugar and a tablespoon of butter in it. geez. SO, starting right now no more regular sodas for me. I'm going to start weeding out the really horrible foods (goodbye Doritos! I'll miss you!) while I wait for the book to get here. I'm hoping the recipes in the book aren't horrible and aren't full of fish cause eww I totally am not down with eating any fish or fish products no matter how good for me they are. Sadly, I also have to stop eating Campbell's Tomato Soup for lunch every day because holy crap, the 4th ingredient listed is high fructose corn syrup! Who knew? I'm also replacing Ian's bread and pasta with whole wheat versions and no more pizza from the delivery place. He's so gonna hate me.
The pictures on this entry were taken last weekend. Steve and I went driving around looking at the fall colors and taking pictures. The first two are from White Rock Mountain. There were eleventy jillion other people up there that day taking pictures and the woods all around were full of deer hunters, so we didn't stay very long.
The other pictures were taken at Devil's Den State Park. There were eleventy jillion people there too, but most of them were families and old people. That's just as scary as picture people and hunters, plus five times more annoying and with some screaming thrown in. I mostly don't like the kids of people I don't know. Especially when those people let those kids jump up and down and throw chairs around in the state park cafe place. I seriously thought about throwing that kid down into the nearest cave. Maybe Devil's Den needs a "watch your children" sign too.
Oh, and Julia...this pic is for you. This is one of the bat shelters at Devil's Den.
November is National Blog Posting Month. I'm participating over at The Knitting Blog. That has become more my main blogging outlet lately. Julia just reminded me that I haven't been keeping up with the voxing lately so I thought maybe it would be nice to also make a post here every day this month. Most likely I'll just copy whatever I put over at the other blog over here, but some days it'll be something different. How about that?
It's too late to get in the running for prizes, but you can still challenge yourself to post every day this month. Won't that be fun?
Maybe it's because I'm really bad about taking forever to snail mail people stuff or to reply to snail mail letters and stuff, but it seems like nothing I order through the mail will show up lately. I ordered a new, redesigned ipod shuffle last month when it just said they would begin shipping in October. Mine won't go out till 10/31. I ordered a new Strauch Petite Drum Carder (It's a gizmo for carding wool. Don't worry about it if you didn't know what it was.) four weeks ago. After first one delay then another they are supposedly shipping it now. I will believe that when I see it cause the company it is coming from is not so great with the customer communication. I ordered a WooLee Winder for my Kromski spinning wheel. (Another gizmo you don't need to worry about. It winds yarn onto the bobbin kind of like a fishing reel thing with a loop that automaticly goes back and forth.) I got the confirmation email, but never got one saying it shipped. This was last week. I wrote to the guy who makes them. He usually writes back within 24 hours. Not a word yet and the thing hasn't shown up. I've also got 20 skiens of yarn and a small triangle loom out there all paid for and hopefully headed towards my house soon, but everything is taking FOREVER to turn up. bleh.
What is Oprah doing right now?
Click Here to see what I'm talking about. Moo cards are like little mini business cards you can get with all your contact info or a message of your choice printed on the back and selections from your flickr photostream printed on the front. They're giving away ten free sample cards if you have a flickr pro account. Sounds cool, so I just ordered mine. You should get some for yourself. If the samples are nice these will be my new contact info cards for fiber arts related events.
Show us a cool shadow.
Bungee is the coolest shadow I know :)
