“Pain killers” is such an interesting term. It makes me think that after I swallow the pills and they dissolve in my stomach and head out to my blood stream they are a bunch of little ninja like guys. Those guys then find the pain and an one on one fight occurs. The little ninjas with daggers in their mouth wrestle the evil pain down then they kill it. Sometimes there is more pain than the killers so you have to take another dose.

Hmm

Ode to the kon tiki

Kon tiki, where we can go and forget the daily grind, drink a luscious beverage and munch on a monkey, ouch why do you punish me in the morning?

Ode to The Shelter

 pour me a drink yes I’ll have a martini, its ok that I have no gogo boots; I’ll sit by this handsome fellow, wait is that JFK? Oh just pour me another.

Ode to leslies house

Yes I’d love some wine, look there goes a kangersquark. The patio or the living room, perhaps the lounge. Is Steve here maybe we can sing

Ode to no happy hour

Limits mean no bar, no bar tab, no fuzzy conversations and laughing about nothing. No going out past ten… maybe tomorrow but probably not; there is laundry and dinner to be made. when did this happen? Where did we go? what happened … oh just life and responsibilities. Honey pick up some wine on your way home

It has been a few months since I have posted about my awesome life. Only because things have been normal awesome and I have been slack on my absurd observations. Next week the hubby and I will be heading to LV for a couple of nights and we have nothing planned other than having fun! Normally I get too many things planned to do and our vacations get a little stressful.

All is going well with the kids and animals.

Umm I’ll try to look for something good to blog about …

:D

Title:	slacking
Topics:	stuff
Date:	2009-07-17 @ 08:40
Security:	public
Mood:	sleepy

This week has been weird; the step son has been out of the house for about a month. And my step daughter left to visit her mother’s mother in Iowa we have 2 weeks of totally alone. What can we possibly do with all that time? I’d like to say that we’ll get a million projects done, but I know that won’t happen. I am just hoping to get a few things done around the house and get our yard looking pretty.

I am very tired this week also, I believe this has to do with the fact I am working on my final in my class and still doing all of the things I need to do. Sigh my advice to anyone out there is stay in college its sooooo much harder to go back when you have a house to clean and other people to feed.

Howdy!! It’s been a long time since I posted. So here it is all in one fell swoop.

The hubby is doing much better; we go in next week to schedule the surgery to remove the rods in his bones. Then he is off to physical therapy.  He isn’t able to do much to help out around the house but I am so glad he isn’t in as much pain as he had been in for the last month. Seriously there is nothing worse than seeing your loved one hurting and there is nothing you can do to help. I just don’t know how a parent goes through that with a child.

I have an unexpected break from the kids this week. Long story short we were exposed to swine flu and just don’t want to risk getting his daughter sick so we are waiting a few day to see if either of us gets sick. The break comes at a great time because this week I have 3 chapters to read and 3 assignments and 3 tests all while my midterm is due also! In fact I should be working on my midterm right now but I am sneaking a blog post instead.

The husband’s son who is 18 will officially be out of our house next week; I have mixed feelings about it. I hate to be that hard ass parent but he knew a year ago if he decided to not go to college his free ride ends. He is moving in with his grandma. I just hope he gets a job. I just don’t understand this generation. When I was 16 I was chomping at the bit to get a job and car. Then moved out the week I graduated from highschool. Of course I also went to school full time for the first 3 years out of highschool.

I made a couple amazing things recently. I made a chili verde from Kates blog.(http://superdaintykate.livejournal.com/)  It was SOOOOO EFFN yummy!!! I changed it a tiny bit because, well you know me I like to make it lighter, so I used chicken instead of pork. Next time I think I am going to make it in the crock pot because I don’t think cooking it for a long time will hurt it at all.  The husband put corn chips in his and I tore up a corn tortilla and put in it. I topped it with a bit of sour cream and some chopped green onion.
 

The other thing I made was watermelon martinis!!! Sooooo freaking good. Unfortunately this was not a light recipe! I blended some watermelon in the food processor. Then strained it, added some simple syrup and vodka. Shook it with ice and put it in a sugar rimmed glass. It was soo pretty and gosh darn good. Unfortunately they go down very easy. Hehe

I will not dwell on my whole weight watchers issues but I have to admit I haven’t been very good about working out. So I am hoping to remedy that this week.

So, I have not fallen of the face of the earth. I have just been given 42million things to do.

My husband broke his right arm about 2.5 weeks ago, he has not been able to use it for much of anything until recently. He had surgery last week and they put a load of metal in his arm to help it heal. But he cannot do anything around the house nor can he drive.

My class started last week and I’ve been running around madly trying to keep up with it. We had to replace some plumbing in the bath room. So I have been putting off tiling, in fact because there is so much going on we are having someone come look at it to possibly do it for me.

I have completely fallen off my weight watchers wagon… and I haven’t had time to work out. BUT the hubby thinks he can start walking again in the mornings with me next week and this weekend I am joining my little community gym to at least use the treadmill 2 to 3 times a week.

I am feeling very swamped but optimistic I can turn it all around.

bionic pictures! 
 

Toastmasters….

Well I did mention that I was asked* to join by my boss who thinks it is a good development opportunity for me. This all stemmed from the fact I didn’t want to go in front of the whole company at our meeting a few months ago. The real reason is not that I can’t do it but I feel a bit like I just don’t get paid enough to do it. I know, I know that is very selfish of me to say however let’s just put this in perspective. The VP and Directors are the only people that speak at the company meetings. I am not either, in fact I am sure all of the people that speak make at least 2 times my pay most 3 to 4. I am not saying it has only to do with pay but these are responsibilities that fall on senior management and I am not even management in this company. That is the core reason I asked not to be the substitute. I can do it with preparation but I will be nervous and I probably won’t like it. You see my reasoning?

I speak weekly to my new hires and at various meetings; I have done this for the last 15 years of my career. I can speak about things I am knowledgeable on and have not problem with groups of people. With this being stated, Toastmasters is a little piece of hell.

My club is relatively new and I am lucky that it is with in my company so I do know all of the members.

Here is how it works:

• We have 3 presenters that have a speech those run about 5 minutes.
• We have 3 evaluations of those speakers those run about 2 minutes.
• Then we are off to table topics and that is where a speaker discusses a subject and asks questions of other members and they need to get up and speak about a minute on that topic.
• All the while we have a Toastmaster who runs the meeting,
• We have grammarian that tracks what everyone is saying and reports at the end any problems.
• We have the AH counter this person must ring a bell each time anybody says Ah or um.
• We have a few other duties that I won’t go into.

Personally I feel like this club is a bit out dated… the goal is to get people ok with speaking in public and to help them speak clearly with out cluttering their sentences with unnecessary words. Before you speak you must address the crowd and the toastmaster “madam toastmaster, Fellow toastmasters….” You must shake the hand of the toast master before and after you speak. They hit a gavel to call the meeting to order and then again to adjourn the meeting.

I wonder if I will get a secret handshake to use when we aren’t in the meeting to recognize a fellow toastmaster. I think we definitely need a hat we can wear in the meetings and we need a secret word to call out if we believe the meeting has been infiltrated by a non toastmaster. Maybe a passage to escape….

If you never hear from me again I may have been “taken care of” because I am not even sure I can talk about the club this openly…

In all seriousness I feel dread before the meetings typically about 24 to 48 hours, I had a nightmare last week before the meeting. I had to speak and do my speech this week and I did great! The feed back I had was good and there were only a few things I needed to work on. Where I have problems is during that table topics part, I have a hard time talking to a group about something right off the top of my head. Weather or not is a subject I am knowledgeable about or not. I am unsure if this is a skill I am in need of having.

I believe I could reach the same goals by talking a class in college or something that requires me to speak or have me speak more to the company. I think I just can’t get over the weird rules this club follows.  

I am a member for another 6 months…

Well yet again I was pretty dang good till Sunday.. Then because it was mother’s day I crashed and burned.(really I am sure mothers day is an excuse.) I am going to stay on plan this weekend come hell or high water.

So recap of today…

Walked 55 min with the hubby in the morning

Two quick 15 min walks at work.

I ate my planned lunch and snack at work and tonight I am going to try a super healthy one dish dinner. I’ll post how it goes tomorrow.

On another note, my summer class starts in exactly 2 weeks… eeek I am dreading all the papers that will be due!

A whole other note.. Has any one joined “toastmasters”? My boss had me for my work development. It is evil…  I will have to blog about that

So last week I was on a high, I lost over 3 pounds, then this morning I weigh in and I gained .8 its not even a pound so I am trying not to kick myself but it doesn’t make me too happy. I am sure it has to do with the splurge meal I had Sunday for dinner. But I did kick up my exercise and maybe next week I’ll see another loss.

The hubby and I walked 3 mornings this week for about an hour and it seems to be getting easier for him to get up and walk. I am SO happy about that. He even wanted to walk this morning but I had met a girlfriend yesterday and walked another 2 hours after work so I wanted to sleep in this morning.

Tonight I am going to the store and stocking up on veggies and getting dinner fixings for my Saturday night mothers day dinner. We are having my mom and dad and his mom and his uncle over for dinner.

Nothing more to post except hopefully next weekend we’ll tear out the tile in my bathroom and replace the leaky plumbing and retile!! Whoo hoo