Oh yes I did.
Excuse the reflection while taking the picture!
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
I'm Still Here!
I'm still around! Now to catch y'all up...
This has been a busy time with dentist and doctor appointments. Jerry, Andy and I had our annual physicals. Andy had been complaining intermittently of his heart racing before our appointments, so we cut out any caffeine and sugar but that didn't help, so he mentioned it to the doc when he had his physical. His EKG was fine, but just to be sure he sent Andy to a cardiologist. There was nothing wrong and he was given a clean bill of health. He has to go back in a month for a followup, but just between you, me, and this blog page, I think the follow up is more to help finance the doc's yacht rather than because Andy actually needs to be seen.
I held onto winter as long as I could, but Spring sprung anyway! I finally changed my snowman flag out front. Now I need to remove the snowmen from the living room where they've resided all winter. Yes, I know it's April.
My slogging is progressing slowly but surely. I completed the first 9 weeks of C25K and have started a second cycle of it, this time increasing my speed on the running intervals. I am on my third pair of running shoes, and at $100.00 a pair, that's not a purchase I take lightly, and I have gotten professionally fitted each time. The first two pairs were to correct overpronation and plantar fasciitis. Then when that got better and healed, those shoes became too heavy and were bruising my toes and nails because I didn't need the structure anymore. The next pair were lighter with less structure but around Christmas time my knee started hurting. I have been just been purchasing inserts to put in the shoes which for a while were helping the knee pain, but now they don't seem to help much, and I made a discovery. I noticed that my knee hurt the most when I was wearing shoes; any shoes, but when going barefoot the pain was much improved. So I experimented on the treadmill and discovered that I don't have any pain at all when I run barefoot! Somehow it does use a different muscle set, though, because I'm sore in different places than when I run in shoes, so I'm taking it easy and only running barefoot (well, in socks) the first 1.5 to 2 miles and then finishing the rest in shoes. After doing much research on barefoot or minimalist shoe running, I am saving for these shoes. I LOVE that color! I have also somehow managed to make it to level 3 on Jillian Michael's 30-day Shred DVD. I am actually starting to see muscle underneath my marshmallow layer! Now to burn off that marshmallow layer...
The garden is doing well. About three weeks ago I planted Romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. I think frost might have gotten them once because there are some white spots on a couple of leaves, but they recovered nicely. I watched Julia Child on DVD make a braised lettuce dish and now am anxious to try it.
I have The French Chef DVDs in my queue for Netflix so in between movies that's what they send us. Right now we are waiting for "Lincoln" but there is apparently a long wait, so Julia Child it is! As you know, we don't have TV so we just watch Netflix on instant queue. Currently we are watching Psych and White Collar, which we really like. We have to pace ourselves, though - we tend to want to watch "just one more...", and next thing you know it's past midnight and we have trouble getting up the next morning!
I haven't made cookies in a while but sure want to. I miss decorating cookies. My dogwood tree is blooming beautifully this year and I'm thinking of ways to paint dogwood blooms on cookies. Strange, I know, but I'm okay with that.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll try to keep y'all updated as best I can, since evidently my brother has fallen off the face of the earth and hasn't updated his blog in, well, FOREVER.
Happy Friday, everyone!
This has been a busy time with dentist and doctor appointments. Jerry, Andy and I had our annual physicals. Andy had been complaining intermittently of his heart racing before our appointments, so we cut out any caffeine and sugar but that didn't help, so he mentioned it to the doc when he had his physical. His EKG was fine, but just to be sure he sent Andy to a cardiologist. There was nothing wrong and he was given a clean bill of health. He has to go back in a month for a followup, but just between you, me, and this blog page, I think the follow up is more to help finance the doc's yacht rather than because Andy actually needs to be seen.
I held onto winter as long as I could, but Spring sprung anyway! I finally changed my snowman flag out front. Now I need to remove the snowmen from the living room where they've resided all winter. Yes, I know it's April.
My slogging is progressing slowly but surely. I completed the first 9 weeks of C25K and have started a second cycle of it, this time increasing my speed on the running intervals. I am on my third pair of running shoes, and at $100.00 a pair, that's not a purchase I take lightly, and I have gotten professionally fitted each time. The first two pairs were to correct overpronation and plantar fasciitis. Then when that got better and healed, those shoes became too heavy and were bruising my toes and nails because I didn't need the structure anymore. The next pair were lighter with less structure but around Christmas time my knee started hurting. I have been just been purchasing inserts to put in the shoes which for a while were helping the knee pain, but now they don't seem to help much, and I made a discovery. I noticed that my knee hurt the most when I was wearing shoes; any shoes, but when going barefoot the pain was much improved. So I experimented on the treadmill and discovered that I don't have any pain at all when I run barefoot! Somehow it does use a different muscle set, though, because I'm sore in different places than when I run in shoes, so I'm taking it easy and only running barefoot (well, in socks) the first 1.5 to 2 miles and then finishing the rest in shoes. After doing much research on barefoot or minimalist shoe running, I am saving for these shoes. I LOVE that color! I have also somehow managed to make it to level 3 on Jillian Michael's 30-day Shred DVD. I am actually starting to see muscle underneath my marshmallow layer! Now to burn off that marshmallow layer...
The garden is doing well. About three weeks ago I planted Romaine lettuce, iceberg lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage. I think frost might have gotten them once because there are some white spots on a couple of leaves, but they recovered nicely. I watched Julia Child on DVD make a braised lettuce dish and now am anxious to try it.
I have The French Chef DVDs in my queue for Netflix so in between movies that's what they send us. Right now we are waiting for "Lincoln" but there is apparently a long wait, so Julia Child it is! As you know, we don't have TV so we just watch Netflix on instant queue. Currently we are watching Psych and White Collar, which we really like. We have to pace ourselves, though - we tend to want to watch "just one more...", and next thing you know it's past midnight and we have trouble getting up the next morning!
I haven't made cookies in a while but sure want to. I miss decorating cookies. My dogwood tree is blooming beautifully this year and I'm thinking of ways to paint dogwood blooms on cookies. Strange, I know, but I'm okay with that.
Well, that's about it for now. I'll try to keep y'all updated as best I can, since evidently my brother has fallen off the face of the earth and hasn't updated his blog in, well, FOREVER.
Happy Friday, everyone!
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Catching Up
It's been a while. What's been happening around here? Not much, but I'll fill you in anyway.
I never saw another mouse, and we never caught the second one. I did some reading and discovered that mice really don't live that long and can't survive too long without food or water. So, either it escaped somehow, or I will find a dead mouse somewhere in the near future. Or it (or they) have managed to keep quiet and out of sight.
I miss cookie-ing. I haven't made cookies in a while but I've thought of lots of cute ones that I want to make. I may have to make cookies this afternoon...
Work is picking up somewhat, but still not back to normal. Or maybe this is the new normal for this field.
I started the Couch to 5K program several weeks ago as I had a knee injury and had to take a couple weeks off from the treadmill and then start back slowly. I really like the program as it builds up your speed and stamina gradually and was recommended for beginners or those coming from an injury, like myself. I just finished week 7 yesterday in which I ran (slogged) 25 minutes straight at 4 miles per hour. That's not fast, but by the end of 25 minutes I was feeling it! There are three workouts in each "week" of the program and I do it every other day. I'm scared to start week 8 on Friday. My plan is to do this with the running (slogging) speed at 4, then when its finished, go back and do it again increasing my speed. My goal is to run a 5K the weekend of my 50th birthday in October at my best time yet.
I also started Jillian Michael's 30-day shred. I am on day 8 of that. And I hurt in places I didn't even know I had.
Jerry did tree work a couple of days ago. He brought home a check from the man and I Googled his name. Now, before you think that's all stalkerish (okay, I guess it kind of is...), the man's lifestyle made Jerry curious; mansion, expensive cars, etc. Although Jerry and the man talked, the man never said what he did for a living. Turns out he is a retired astronaut, and a pretty famous one, too. I found pages of material on him including videos and interviews. He flew three space shuttle missions and there is film footage of him in space doing tasks on the shuttles. It was very cool.
The trees that Jerry worked on at said astronaut's house had poison ivy on them. Jerry doesn't get poison ivy. I do. I now have four sizable patches on my person that are driving me crazy. Usually Jerry tells me when he does a job with poison ivy so I can wash anything and everything that he touched so that I don't get it, but he forgot to tell me this time until two days later. I guess that's payback for being nosy about the man, huh?!
Well, that's my update for now. I hope you all have a lovely Thursday!
I never saw another mouse, and we never caught the second one. I did some reading and discovered that mice really don't live that long and can't survive too long without food or water. So, either it escaped somehow, or I will find a dead mouse somewhere in the near future. Or it (or they) have managed to keep quiet and out of sight.
I miss cookie-ing. I haven't made cookies in a while but I've thought of lots of cute ones that I want to make. I may have to make cookies this afternoon...
Work is picking up somewhat, but still not back to normal. Or maybe this is the new normal for this field.
I started the Couch to 5K program several weeks ago as I had a knee injury and had to take a couple weeks off from the treadmill and then start back slowly. I really like the program as it builds up your speed and stamina gradually and was recommended for beginners or those coming from an injury, like myself. I just finished week 7 yesterday in which I ran (slogged) 25 minutes straight at 4 miles per hour. That's not fast, but by the end of 25 minutes I was feeling it! There are three workouts in each "week" of the program and I do it every other day. I'm scared to start week 8 on Friday. My plan is to do this with the running (slogging) speed at 4, then when its finished, go back and do it again increasing my speed. My goal is to run a 5K the weekend of my 50th birthday in October at my best time yet.
I also started Jillian Michael's 30-day shred. I am on day 8 of that. And I hurt in places I didn't even know I had.
Jerry did tree work a couple of days ago. He brought home a check from the man and I Googled his name. Now, before you think that's all stalkerish (okay, I guess it kind of is...), the man's lifestyle made Jerry curious; mansion, expensive cars, etc. Although Jerry and the man talked, the man never said what he did for a living. Turns out he is a retired astronaut, and a pretty famous one, too. I found pages of material on him including videos and interviews. He flew three space shuttle missions and there is film footage of him in space doing tasks on the shuttles. It was very cool.
The trees that Jerry worked on at said astronaut's house had poison ivy on them. Jerry doesn't get poison ivy. I do. I now have four sizable patches on my person that are driving me crazy. Usually Jerry tells me when he does a job with poison ivy so I can wash anything and everything that he touched so that I don't get it, but he forgot to tell me this time until two days later. I guess that's payback for being nosy about the man, huh?!
Well, that's my update for now. I hope you all have a lovely Thursday!
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Mouse Story
We have mice in the basement. Is that like bats in the belfry? Anyway, the other night Jerry went downstairs to start the woodstove. We had let it go out because the weather had gotten warmer for a few days. He called upstairs for me to bring the cat downstairs quickly. When I got down there with the cat, he told me that he had seen a mouse running back and forth across the floor. We put the cat down on the floor and waited. Of course, the mouse never made another appearance, the cat got bored and just wanted to be taken back upstairs. Jerry set a trap but we didn't catch it that night.
Yesterday morning I went downstairs to fix the fire for the morning and the mouse ran out and watched me. He (she?) just stood there and watched while I stirred the fire and put logs in it. I stood there a while and we just stared at each other. He was awfully cute, I must admit. Just a tiny little brown thing. Then it ran off. I didn't see it again yesterday afternoon.
Last night I was downstairs putting logs on the fire again when Jerry came down and asked if I had checked the mouse trap. I told him I hadn't yet, so he went over to it and told me that I might want to go upstairs if I didn't want to hear the ominous snap. The mouse was actually on the trap, eating the cheese we had put there and the trap hadn't gone off yet. Jerry stood there and waited while I went upstairs, not wanting to hear what would happen next.
Shortly afterwards Jerry came upstairs in disbelief. He said the mouse had eaten some of the cheese off the trap while he was watching, and then ran off again. Andy said that there are probably mouse friends hanging out down there and the one that dared to eat the cheese off the trap said to another mouse, "Hey Steve, watch me mess with this guy watching me!"
This morning I was sitting at my desk working when I heard it. The ominous snap. After I finished working I went downstairs to get the trap but when I got down there, there was a little brown mouse sitting right in front of the woodstove hearth just staring at me. I laughed and told him that he somehow managed to get out of the trap again (yes, I talked to the mouse, and yes, he stood there and watched me!) When I walked closer, he ran away. I put logs in the woodstove and then went to look at the trap. The trap was upside down and there was a very dead mouse in it. So that confirms that we have a situation, apparently. As cute as they are, I really can't be sharing my food with them, nor do I want them nesting in my belongings. So the stats right now are us 1, them 0. I guess the battle is on!
That's my mouse story for today. Hope y'all have a happy (mouse-free) Saturday!
Yesterday morning I went downstairs to fix the fire for the morning and the mouse ran out and watched me. He (she?) just stood there and watched while I stirred the fire and put logs in it. I stood there a while and we just stared at each other. He was awfully cute, I must admit. Just a tiny little brown thing. Then it ran off. I didn't see it again yesterday afternoon.
Last night I was downstairs putting logs on the fire again when Jerry came down and asked if I had checked the mouse trap. I told him I hadn't yet, so he went over to it and told me that I might want to go upstairs if I didn't want to hear the ominous snap. The mouse was actually on the trap, eating the cheese we had put there and the trap hadn't gone off yet. Jerry stood there and waited while I went upstairs, not wanting to hear what would happen next.
Shortly afterwards Jerry came upstairs in disbelief. He said the mouse had eaten some of the cheese off the trap while he was watching, and then ran off again. Andy said that there are probably mouse friends hanging out down there and the one that dared to eat the cheese off the trap said to another mouse, "Hey Steve, watch me mess with this guy watching me!"
This morning I was sitting at my desk working when I heard it. The ominous snap. After I finished working I went downstairs to get the trap but when I got down there, there was a little brown mouse sitting right in front of the woodstove hearth just staring at me. I laughed and told him that he somehow managed to get out of the trap again (yes, I talked to the mouse, and yes, he stood there and watched me!) When I walked closer, he ran away. I put logs in the woodstove and then went to look at the trap. The trap was upside down and there was a very dead mouse in it. So that confirms that we have a situation, apparently. As cute as they are, I really can't be sharing my food with them, nor do I want them nesting in my belongings. So the stats right now are us 1, them 0. I guess the battle is on!
That's my mouse story for today. Hope y'all have a happy (mouse-free) Saturday!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Randomness on a Sunday!
I saw this ad today for a perishable manager. I'm guessing this is a temporary position?!
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Well, that's depressing.....
I got off of the treadmill a little while ago and then signed onto iFit to check my stats. Here's a screen shot of what came up.
Apparently, I have no goals.
They could make it a little friendlier by saying, "You have set no goals on iFit," but no. Evidently you are supposed to sign on and immediately wonder at the futility of your life.
Apparently, I have no goals.
They could make it a little friendlier by saying, "You have set no goals on iFit," but no. Evidently you are supposed to sign on and immediately wonder at the futility of your life.
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