My Selfish Year, and the journey to skinny

For all the running around I just did I better have burned a few hundred calories. It is slick as snot outside on the roads too! I wonder if a mild heart attack burns calories? It should. The lady at the DMV needs to find another job where they hide her away where people can't see or talk to her. I had to renew the trucks registration under the exs name...and pay for it. Not happy. but at least I don't have to deal with that for another two years. And, why on earth do we need to register vehicles out here in the middle of nowhere, its an island, they are not going anywhere or getting stolen or anything.


GAW! the school just called and my son is hurt...gotta go...
 
Lol@ Brawny! Yes, it is better then a gigantic ass...anything is.


So, my son whacked his head pretty hard in what he describes as a near fatal sledding accident. There were four kids injured in it, lol, it was a collision involving a slow sled with not enough kids on it and a fast sled with too many kids on it. He's got a nice cut that got butterflied, and huge bump and probably a bruised ego. Because he was on the slow sled.


Day, I'm warning you. Get better or else!
 
Sounds like an exotic, exciting place you live in between the soccer coaches, the luge-like tobogganing and the trials and tribulations of dealing with the DMV people (although the DMV experience is pretty much the same anywhere you go), not to mention the trifling appendix incident the immediately preceded the great coffee creamer fiasco of 2012...


I grew up in an isolated town as well and the ability to find the humor in life seems to be mandatory... imagine a couple hundred years ago one of the key selection criteria for immigration was to have a great sense of humor... anyone found to be lacking one was sent to __insert_commonly_insulted_state_here____
 
AIt's actually mind numbing boring, I just give it an exciting inflection when I write it down. I mean really, only I can make coffee creamer a fiasco. I'm also the only person on this island that now had updated tags. I was at the gas station this afternoon ($4.49 a gallon for regular unleaded) and I saw tags fron 2000 and 2007.
 
Where do you live Oldschool?! I agree with feelinggooder...sounds exciting to me (although, I have to admit, I like not having to deal with the DMV today since I don't have a car!)

HOpe your day gets better!

Sarah
 
Sarah, have you watched the Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel? I live in Dutch Harbor, AK. I don't know if china gets Discovery, but, the producers of the show took a page out of my book and have a flair for the dramatic also...its really laid back and boring here. Snooze fest half the year, and the other half is drunken debauchery with fisherman who smell.


Last night could have been a bad night, but I went to bed before my cravings got out of hand. Still, I awoke with a huge craving for fried rice. Why? no idea. The last time I had an intense craving for it I was pregnant with my now 10 year old Son. I'm sure there is a recipe for a healthy version out there somewhere, and I'm sure it tastes like crap, so I'll get the real thing and work all my other calories for today around that one indulgence. I managed to not eat pizza last night even though my son wanted it and I heated in the oven for him. He's got a few nice big slices in the fridge that he can nuke for dinner now. For me, last night I had chicken and green beans. And I snacked on some snapea crisps that I found at the grocery store that were divine. I'm in love. I walked three miles on the treadmill while watching My 600 lbs Life, which is quite a downer of a show. I wish they had made those people lose weight without the surgery, it all came down to calorie control in the end anyways because they were all able to overeat even with the GB. I think weight loss surgery is a placebo, really. Its just gets their head in the place it should have been all along.
 
That sled wreck sounds awesome!!1 Those kids will be bragging about that for years.

And now for a sled story (dont have many being from Texas)

Back in H.S. I drove a 1980 subaru brat That was like the smallest pickup ever built but it was so cool. It had seats in the back. Well I had this friend who was a delux redneck. They had a yard full of wrecked cars and boats and scraps...anyway it snowed. We took a big piece of flat sheet metal and bent the front edge up (that was the sled) Then we took a captains chair out of a boat and fastened it to the metal. It looked like the chair captain Kirk sat in on star treck (total boy greatness). We pulled that thing all over the country roads where I lived. All was good till we took out an old ladies mailbox coming around a corner too fast....my dad made us rebuild her mailbox...but it was worth it...got 3 stitches outta that one. That redneck kid now drives a road grater for the county.
 
Lol, ummmm, thats a standard of practice around here for sledding. We get over inflated tire tubes, long ropes and tie them to the backs of snowmobiles...never had more fun in my life, even if I have broken both my arms multiple times and a few ribs more then once. We don't condone mail box use out here, the USPS doesn't even deliver mail you have to go pick it up from them. Good story though, never imagined a Texan would have a sledding story that epic...how much snow was there? A few inches?
 
So last night sucked. So munchy!! Almost broke down and had a piece of my son's leftover pizza...but I restrained myself and hated every second of it.


So I went to bed early. I tossed and turned for a while but I got to sleep and slept good.


Today is the day, either that elliptical is coming home with me or its not. HOPEFULLY IT IS! I'll give the guy a call a little later and then hopefully my coworker will help me move it, otherwise I'll have to ask my Dad and he has been in an assy mood all week and I don't want to deal with it. Oh, this is a genuinely funny thing, the elliptical is being purchased because of the tax refund that I have coming. Part of it is going to pay for my ex's lawyer from our divorce (its our last time doing our taxes together), and then part of it is buying the elliptical. Well, the other day I had to deal with the truck getting reregistered and paying for it. Last night the ex told me that came out of MY portion of the tax refund. I was like...no effin way buddy. that is your truck and you refused to find the title so it could be transfered to my name so when that check comes from the IRS you'll get your share for your attorney less the amount that went to cover registering YOUR truck. Next time I get a divorce I'll time it better...so I don't have to do taxes with an ass again. Our split up for the most part was amicable and we are still BFF's...but...grrrrrr! He is so clueless. It makes me want to buy a sheet cake and inhale it. But I won't.


I'm just going to focus on my elliptical dream. It's a good machine for an excellent price and its already on the island so it makes it that much easier to say yes.
 
Hell yeah...buy that thing then jump on it and ride it (what do you actually do on an eliptical ride? walk? Slide? Shimmy?) Whatever...use that dang thing


Snow answer...3 or 4 inches maybe twice a year. When it happens we get really stupid and crash our pickup trucks into each other. Personally I close school and sit by the fireplace. I am the one who gets to decide when we close school. All my kids friends call and say "tell your dad to close school". We just stop down for a little snow.


Hope you get to start elipticizin.
 
I'm the one that gets to shut down or medical and behavioral health office in bad weather, but I have policies I have to follow, first there has to be a catagory two travel advisory issued by public safety, then the school and the city departments have to be shutting down and sending people home. And lastly, I have to inform everybody and their mother of contingency plans...which usually takes me all day so I never get to go home. I'm usually here by myself after all the other staff is gone home feeling all sorry for myself because I know when I go to leave and drive home I'm going to get stuck and have to shovel out by myself. A catagory two is when its blowing about 100 mph, and there is so much snow that the road crew can't keep up snow removal on secondary and primary road systems. Which...isn't often because our road crew is awesome. Too awesome.
 
AI am such a slacker today. No exercise, beer, pizza, practically lethargic. I have a house full of boys so I've been hiding in my room, laying in bed, watching tv. My sons team won a big soccer tourney today so the team is all over here partying, playing Xbox, blasting music, peeing all over the bathroom (really, what is wrong with boys aim?).
I'm skipping weigh in tomorrow.
 
Sounds like a very relaxing day, minus the bathroom pee-fest. Maybe if you painted a big bulls eye on the bottom of the toilet bowl or figured out a way to make a balloon inflate when they hit the bowl like a carnival game it would help?


Hope you enjoyed the rest of the day and are now in the middle of a great on track day to cancel that one out.
 
alllllright, quick update and then a very busy brutal day will begin. I did not weigh in yesterday. Today I feel bloated beyond belief. But, its a girl thing...if you catch my drift. I did not buy the elliptical, when I tried it out it felt too rickety to invest that much money in it. I'd rather save the money for something sturdy when it comes along. I have a treadmill that I got for free last summer and it is a solid machine and has ruined me for crap equipment. I will stick with the treadmill.


Today I have a vitual on site visit scheduled for my clinic. It will be via webex, but I'm not 100% prepared for it yet. I still have a timeline I need to bang out. fun fact: our original hopsital was bombed in WWII by the Japanese and has never been replaced, thanks US Gov't for all the support. Anyhoooo, that happens at 1pm today so I'll finish updating after that and get to everyones threads to read and comment. Oh, did you all see the triple conjunction this weekend? It was awesome.
 
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