October 18, 2012

• Thursday Thoughts

  • I honest-to-gosh can’t think of one good reason I blog, anymore.  Because of the need to talk?  Cuz that’s just about all I do over here, anymore… talk at the cellspacing.  Yaaaaaah-da yadda-yadda-yadda.  Nobody hears, even if they’re listening.  ((Breaks out in song)) But nobody ever hears him, or the sound he appears to ma-ee-ake, and he never seems to notice… BUT THE FOO-OOL ON THE HILL SEES THE SUN GOING DOWN AND THE EYES IN HIS HEAD SEE THE WORLD SPINNING ‘ROUND….!!!!!!    Did you know that was my favorite song my sophmore year of high school?  It was… everyone else was singing ‘Material Girl’ and wearing flourescent pink, and I’m all pig-braids and Pop’s shirts, staring at my classmates like they’re idiots, and them all staring back at me like I’m freak-girl (the piano playing one with the brains).
  • Whatevs.
  • The world never changes.  It’s the same now that it was back then.  And you’d think that I would’ve gotten less naive with age, but it doesn’t ever seem to happen.  I’m still way too easy to sucker.  The only difference is that I don’t like people BEFORE they sucker me, now… I don’t wait until I realize I’m suckered to dislike them.  Cynicism.  It’s made the world a much more jaded place.
  • By the way, I don’t think I’m in a better mood than I was yesterday.  FYI.

  Having said,
  I promised a Thursday Thankful:

  • I’m thankful for… 
  • … 
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  • Um… 
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  • My Husband, who I am getting along marvellously with (now) considering Monday… 
  • My kids.  My house.  My faith.  My KnOok.  Dark Chocolate.
  • The book I’m reading that has lousy punctuation but deliciously big words and bigger thoughts and even has a reoccurring theme centering in Greek Mythology, which is our school sub-focus this fall.  This tickles my inner geek.
  • Fresh nail polish.  I was still wearing the stuff from Lydia’s bat mitzvah (in August) on my toes, and… well, it’s nice to take the mostly gone stuff off and put on pretty, fresh color.  Just sayin’.
  • FINALLY a disk came from Blockbuster that’s not cracked in two.  It’s been two weeks since we’ve joined.  It was getting ridiculous.  And we’ve been waiting ALL that time for our next episode of Alias.  ((Yes, we’re doing the series again.  SO good.))
  • I’m grateful for stuff.  Lots of stuff.  There’s just other stuff I’m not terribly grateful for that gets in the way… and I’m not grateful for that.  So we’ll have to try this again another day.

  And since it’s Thursday:
  …it’s also supposed to be my weigh-in… although I don’t have to report it to my MFP group until tomorrow.  Still.  So here’s the skinny (haha) on that:

  • If you must know, I used my last Dr. Appt weigh-in (in June) as my starting weight, since it was a nice round number (much like my tummy).  So I plugged in 200 pounds at MFP without weighing myself presently, because I don’t like scales and haven’t for quite some time, and I’ll be damned if I’m getting on one without some extreme peer pressure. 
  • Imagine my surprise when – last Thursday, after three days of food logging and exercising – I was cajoled into weighing in and it read 195 pounds.  Now I know most of that was summer biking/gardening and only little (or none, who knows) was the three day effort, but… like I care. 
  • ANYHOO, I weigh in on Mondays and Thursdays, and this Monday brought two more pounds off – I was at 193 – so maybe those first three days DID do something, too.  Who knows? 
  • All I know is that I stepped on the scale this morning and another pound has gone away.  I’m at 192, and apparently dropping.  Which is a good thing. 
  • My goal is 185 pounds by New Years.  And that’s just the SHORT term goal.  But let’s focus on the smaller steps. My doctor appt was back in June.  So from June to October (five months) I’ve lost eight pounds, with minimal effort.  I think I can manage eight more pounds in three months (by New Years) if I actually exert REAL effort.  It’s doable.
  • I feel the need to add that – since having Owen – I’ve weighed about 200.  I’ve maintained, for two years, not doing anything.  So my goal is to drop the extra baby weight that’s just been sittin’ on me, and then go BACK to maintaining, just at a lower poundage.  I am not out to run a 25K, I’m not out to get a six-pack, I don’t want to be buff-mom.  I just want to be able to run 5K without collapsing…
  • …and I want to fit in jeans that don’t say “Mommy and Me”.  Because Mommy IS me, and there ain’t nobody else in those jeans with Mommy, anymore.  And technically, Mommy don’t want to be in them, either.  I’d rather be in my pre-kid jeans.  Even my pre-Ethan jeans.  I’d settle for my pre-Aaron jeans.  But not the pre-Owen jeans because I bought them a size too big and they’re stretch jeans, so they fit me now, and kinda slop around, at that.  And the butt is cut unfavorably, so I have to cover the rear with a big, big shirt.  Let’s not go here, right now, k?

  It is exactly THIRTEEN days to Ark Day (which is what I’m calling it, since 17Cheshvan is a mouthful, and ‘PotentialRaptureDateRedux’ is lame.).  It’s also Hallowe’en, but I’m not pagan like that.  But speaking of…

  I need to address the costume thing:

  • I have been really working on costumes, regardless.  This week’s handicraft for school was cooking gloves in RIT dye, and we got a great result.  I needed a blue/purple pair, and a beige pair, from white.  They look perfect.
  • I also started on two of the masks, and got two more costume pieces in the mail from eBay.  I have a LONG way to go, but…
  • I found a little periwinkle suit (how many of THOSE do you see everyday?!?!) on Craigslist in Aaron’s size, which was EXACTLY what I needed for his costume.  But when I got there, it looked WAY too small.  I was so bummed, but the woman gave it to me and said, “I’m never going to get rid of it, just take it and see what you can do.”  Happy to say, I can make it work!!  I have to add some lace to the cuffs, but it’ll do, after all!!
  • We went shopping the same night to K-mart for bath towels.  I have to make a furry shirt, and I figured bath towels would give me the texture I need.  Then Brian had me looking at bath MATS, which are furrier still, but I’d need three, and I was looking at $25 for towels OR mats… and then I turned around and looked up, and there’s this FUR blanket – camel colored, light weight, and PERFECT for what I need… only it’s $36.  But the suit was supposed to have been $15… so it made up the difference!!!
  • I had to spend $50 at the craft store for supplies to make more costume pieces.  And I found everything I needed (for now)… but wha, fi’ty dollah!!!  And next I had to go grocery shopping, which is usually $220.  Can you believe my food total was $173… and that made up for the craft store?!?!  WoW, He takes care of me!

  In other totally unrelated news:

  • I heart Brian Calley.  If it weren’t for his opinion article on Proposal 6 (the international bridge), I wouldn’t know WHAT to think.  These proposals are clear as mud, anymore.  But I really like/trust Brian Calley.  He’s the dude who stood up against the local gov’t when that woman in our county nearly got busted for watching a kid without a childcare license (she only let the girl over for the 10 minutes  between her mom leaving for work and the bus coming… HOW STUPID is the gov’t, for trying to bust a kindly neighbor NOT GETTING PAID who was seeing to the safety of a child?!)  Anyhow, Calley says “NO” to the proposal, and actually explained why in normal-person-speak.  So ‘NO’ it is.  Thank you, Mr. Calley, for making things clearer and skipping the legal-speak.
  • School is going well… ish.  I’m happy with it, anyhow.  Lydia LOVES her new typing unit, and the boys are eating up the LEGO challenges we’ve added.  So fun.  Last night we did our first fairy tale – we started with ‘Snow White & the Seven Dwarves’, since we saw ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ this summer.  They LOVED the Disney version.  I need to get the Faerie Tale Theatre version – you ain’t seen a dwarf ’til you see Bubba.  Although I must say… Disney’s ‘Sleepy’ looks EXACTLY like Brian’s Grandpa Wally.  Just sayin’.
  • And of course tonight we start ‘Narnia’… which I’m really looking forward to, although my friend Cagey warns me that its theological stance will probably drive me nuts.  ((What doesn’t, anymore?))  But I’ve never read it [aversion to CSLewis], so this will be interesting.
    
  • I found an amazing article at EarthSky.  I liked it so well, I printed it out for our nature notebooks.  In case you’re interested, it’s here (LINK).
  • I was supposed to tack the LEGO challenge on here.  Not gonna – this got TOOOOO long.  I’ll post it separately tomorrow.  I’m about done talking at the walls, for now.

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