Wow, it's been a really long time since I posted. I won't try to catch up, only saying that I've recently spent 2 weekdays and a weekend home with a sick, diarrhea suffering 2 year old. Can we say YAY, I GET TO GO TO WORK TODAY!?
Time to get back on the healthy eating wagon. Weight continues to pile back on and it's sickening. Summer is just around the corner & we plan on having many beach days and pool days and road trips with the kids. I gotta look decent.
Took measurements last night (no, I won't share). Started diet today, similar to HcG except I'm not taking supplements. Eating chicken, fish, shrimp (grill or boil only) along with a veggie (asparagus, broccoli, lettuce, tomato are all I like). Giving apple or orange for snack. No sugary drinks. Coffee or tea is allowed but no creamer or sugar can be added so that's out for me. I'm a good water drinker so it's no problem, maybe I'll get some Crystal Lite today. I will have no problem keeping up with this at least a week at a time. Try to stay close on weekends and then back on during the week and at work.
Getting ready for Warrior Dash this weekend! So excited to go play! Friends and I are searching for iron-on letters for "Duh, Winning" T-shirts.
Also gearing up for a grueling Spring Baseball Season for the boys. Our 7 year old will be playing his first year of coach pitch and our 5 year old will be playing t-ball. They practice 4 and 3 times a week. Just got the schedules and we'll have 2 to 3 games each week until the end of May. Yay. Why did we do this again? Just think (I tell myself), next year Ally will play! Kill me now.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Let's All Go to the Lobby
This is something that I wrote in a forum today, in response to a bunch of "when we were young" stuff. Someone brought up the "let's all go to the lobby" song we used to see before movies and this was my response.
Oh. Em. Gee.
The lobby song. I swear, my brother and I sang that song everytime we went to the theater. No matter if we were by ourselves or with friends or with parents, we sang it. And not everyone liked it.
Funny story about what huge geeks/nerds we are: Several years ago we drove to Beaumont, TX to watch a midnight showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They still played that song before movies then. It's going & I'm singing and my brother says "Tracy, hush and listen." Sounded like every damn one of those geek/nerds was singing, too. It was like when you stop singing the National Anthem at large events & just listen to everyone else sing.
I said to my brother, "These are our people."
It was magical.
Oh. Em. Gee.
The lobby song. I swear, my brother and I sang that song everytime we went to the theater. No matter if we were by ourselves or with friends or with parents, we sang it. And not everyone liked it.
Funny story about what huge geeks/nerds we are: Several years ago we drove to Beaumont, TX to watch a midnight showing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They still played that song before movies then. It's going & I'm singing and my brother says "Tracy, hush and listen." Sounded like every damn one of those geek/nerds was singing, too. It was like when you stop singing the National Anthem at large events & just listen to everyone else sing.
I said to my brother, "These are our people."
It was magical.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
WIDT - Feb 17
6:30 Yeah, woke up feeling like I hadn't slept at all. Sucks. Stayed up all night playing poker and won nothing. Bah.
Tshirt of the day:
Tshirt of the day:
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| American Idiot! |
I love wearing this shirt. The middle schoolers all yell "Green Day!" and look at my like I raided their closet. I was in college when they came out, fetuses!
Printed out my $20 Groupon to Barnes & Noble so I can go buy a couple of books today: Just a Geek and Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton. As you know, I've been reading his blog for a few weeks and really want to read his stuff.
Yeah, that was a complete bust. Barnes & Noble didn't have any of his books in store. I will have to check at the B&N by my house or order them online. Poot. Wanted to get started!
Just checked. Out Of Stock for every B&N in the Houston area. Bah.
Just checked. Out Of Stock for every B&N in the Houston area. Bah.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
WIDT - Feb 16
Tshirt of the day:
11:00 Woo Hoo! I get to use our Fog Server today! We used Fog to image our laptops this summer and it was infinitely better than using Symantec Ghost, like we used to. We just use the network boot & spit it out. I am so excited! And typing that also made me sad. Because I am such a nerd/geek/dweeb. Ha.
Not much more at work worth mentioning.
4:45 Ordered pizza before I left work. Yes, laziness set in and we didn't want to cook tonight.
6:00 Home, discovered I made a mistake and ordered one of the pizzas with bacon, not Canadian bacon (ham). Colby liked it but nobody else would touch it.
6:30-ish Played in a $3.00 Homegame tournament on PokerStars in which anyone who outlasted the host (Kevin Mathers) got 1% of his winnings in Friday's $335 LAPC Shootout. Not much but if he at least makes the buy-in money, I get my $3 back.
8:00 Played in the weekly Negreanu open tournament on PokerStars. This time it was $11 buyin. I went out 11th or 12th. Had fun playing but won no money. Probably gained some points towards the leaderboard but that's it.
Then stayed up too late catching up on American Idol. I really need to start being smarter about my hours.
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| Stop Looking At Me Swan! |
When I wear this shirt & people who are not well-versed in Billy Madison see it, they assume that it says "Stop Looking At My Swan" and they ask what does "swan" really mean. Heh.
11:00 Woo Hoo! I get to use our Fog Server today! We used Fog to image our laptops this summer and it was infinitely better than using Symantec Ghost, like we used to. We just use the network boot & spit it out. I am so excited! And typing that also made me sad. Because I am such a nerd/geek/dweeb. Ha.
Not much more at work worth mentioning.
4:45 Ordered pizza before I left work. Yes, laziness set in and we didn't want to cook tonight.
6:00 Home, discovered I made a mistake and ordered one of the pizzas with bacon, not Canadian bacon (ham). Colby liked it but nobody else would touch it.
6:30-ish Played in a $3.00 Homegame tournament on PokerStars in which anyone who outlasted the host (Kevin Mathers) got 1% of his winnings in Friday's $335 LAPC Shootout. Not much but if he at least makes the buy-in money, I get my $3 back.
8:00 Played in the weekly Negreanu open tournament on PokerStars. This time it was $11 buyin. I went out 11th or 12th. Had fun playing but won no money. Probably gained some points towards the leaderboard but that's it.
Then stayed up too late catching up on American Idol. I really need to start being smarter about my hours.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
WIDT - Feb 15
Craziness at work lately. That's all I can say.
Picked up Whataburger coffee this morning because the coffee at work sucks. Hit it with some French Vanilla creamer and way too much sugar. Yum. Someone brought Shipley's this morning & because I am spiraling out of control, I ate half of one. I can feel all the sugar in my body right now. #fail
9:40 Just bought 2 Groupons for Vegas. $15 for $30 worth of food and drinks at Margaritaville. Those margaritas kick my ass. Plus, they are like $12 each so I figure, I could get a few while I'm there this summer. We have to go now, right? Like, $30 is such an investment, there's no way I can throw that away!
Tshirt of the day:
On Wednesday nights, my boys usually spend the night with the Hub's mom, Nana. This started a long time ago when the hubs and my mom bowled on the same team Wednesday nights. Nana offered to watch 2 of my 3 kids to help us out. This has continued even though they don't bowl anymore. It's helpful but doesn't have to happen. This puts me and the hubs with only our daughter on Wednesday nights. I hardly EVER plan anything, I like having "girl time" with her.
So, I finally decide that my mom and I should have "girl time" this Wednesday and go play Bingo. There's a bingo hall that has daily bingo plus 2 nightly sessions. I told her I thought we should go play the 9pm session after Ally falls asleep. She practically jumped for joy.
Not 10 minutes later, Nana calls to cancel our Wednesday ritual. Seriously? The ONE night I wanna do something? Bah.
Picked up Whataburger coffee this morning because the coffee at work sucks. Hit it with some French Vanilla creamer and way too much sugar. Yum. Someone brought Shipley's this morning & because I am spiraling out of control, I ate half of one. I can feel all the sugar in my body right now. #fail
9:40 Just bought 2 Groupons for Vegas. $15 for $30 worth of food and drinks at Margaritaville. Those margaritas kick my ass. Plus, they are like $12 each so I figure, I could get a few while I'm there this summer. We have to go now, right? Like, $30 is such an investment, there's no way I can throw that away!
Tshirt of the day:
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| Vegas, Baby! |
Trying to restore 2 different machines today, one HP PC and one Lenovo laptop. The HP has 2 harddrives that failed at the same time and HP sent me one replacement last week. I had to call & say, "Where's my other HD, dude?" Just received it today so trying to restore it. Laptop was a teacher's that got one of those fake virus spyware programs on it. Yay. I try and try to clean those damned things off but they are difficult. So now I'm just copying the user's files and then I'm going to restore that one to wipe it clean.
12:15 Decided not to eat lunch because I had so much before. Very sugary coffee and half a donut that I did not need! Not the best idea but I didn't bring anything for lunch and I always make bad decisions when I enter Fast Food World looking for something semi-healthy.
12:20 Ha! Got chewed out by a friend on Twitter for not eating lunch. #pwnd
2:00 Found an orange! Thank goodness because I am starving.
Had a conversation via SMS with my bro earlier. He's Mr. Moviebuff so I asked if he had Swingers on DVD. Negative. I expressed my disappointment with his library. And so forth and so on. I'm on such a Vegas kick that I really want to watch Swingers and Ocean's Eleven. He proposed that since we've seen O-11 so many times, maybe we wouldn't be albe to enjoy it since we pretty much say the lines with them. I replied that O-11 has reached Grail status and that we will never NOT enjoy it. I've created a new rating now, Grail Status. Like Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We've seen it countless times (including a midnight showing in Beaumont) and will recite many a line while watching it. Which is why no one wants to watch it with us.
Had a conversation via SMS with my bro earlier. He's Mr. Moviebuff so I asked if he had Swingers on DVD. Negative. I expressed my disappointment with his library. And so forth and so on. I'm on such a Vegas kick that I really want to watch Swingers and Ocean's Eleven. He proposed that since we've seen O-11 so many times, maybe we wouldn't be albe to enjoy it since we pretty much say the lines with them. I replied that O-11 has reached Grail status and that we will never NOT enjoy it. I've created a new rating now, Grail Status. Like Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We've seen it countless times (including a midnight showing in Beaumont) and will recite many a line while watching it. Which is why no one wants to watch it with us.
On Wednesday nights, my boys usually spend the night with the Hub's mom, Nana. This started a long time ago when the hubs and my mom bowled on the same team Wednesday nights. Nana offered to watch 2 of my 3 kids to help us out. This has continued even though they don't bowl anymore. It's helpful but doesn't have to happen. This puts me and the hubs with only our daughter on Wednesday nights. I hardly EVER plan anything, I like having "girl time" with her.
So, I finally decide that my mom and I should have "girl time" this Wednesday and go play Bingo. There's a bingo hall that has daily bingo plus 2 nightly sessions. I told her I thought we should go play the 9pm session after Ally falls asleep. She practically jumped for joy.
Not 10 minutes later, Nana calls to cancel our Wednesday ritual. Seriously? The ONE night I wanna do something? Bah.
7:30-8:00 Kids nightly ritual. Sitting on the floor waiting for Dylan to fall asleep so I decide to play a little pokers. Started off on Ultimate Bet playing $15 satellite into 10K tourney later tonight. Small crowd, only about 16 people paid to get in so there's 2 seats + $15 to the 3rd place person. Early on, I'm dealt QQ in the big blind. Hot damn! Everyone freaking folds. Very next hand, I get KK. I min-raise from small blind. Everyone freaking folds. Seriously? I ended up in 3rd so it was like I lost the $1.50 that UB gets from the tournament so all is good. I move over to Poker Stars to play Triple Draw 7-2. This game is growing on me. I like it so much better than Razz. Although, I lost half my stack raising the entire way while holding 6-5-4-3-2...no idea that a straight counted against you. Chalk it up to rookie mistake but won't happen again. I didn't win anything playing that tournament but I do like the game.
10:45 Nighty-night too late.
10:45 Nighty-night too late.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Feb 14 - Catch Up
It's been way too long since the last time I wrote here. Don't even know how long. Well, that's a lie - just scroll down. Duh.
10) How could I forget!! Crap, one of the reasons I haven't been writing is because I've been too busy reading. Decided to jump on Wil Wheaton's bandwagon about 10 years too late so I thought I'd start reading his journal/blog. I went to wwdn in exile and saw that it started in 2005. Okay, I can do that. During that first post, he talked about wwdn and how they had to move. So I go to wwdn and see that it started in 2001! Holy crap! But I really wanted to read from the beginning so I could get on board teh Geek Train that's sweeping the nation (yeah, I stole that from him). So, that's what I've been doing with my free time, readying his journal. I'm up to sometime in 2004 right now and it feels like I'll never finish! I have added many books to my Amazon Wish List though, including his, so at least I'll get some MORE reading material. Really regret not being into all this when it happened, we are very close in age & seem to be interested in a lot of the same things, in the same time period. Would have been cool to be a part of all that when it was getting started. Oh well, it's never too late to attempt to be cool, so I'm trying!
Nothing exciting (big surprise!) + boring weekends (big surprise!) = brain dead me.
Guess I can recap anything that I remember since the last time I wrote & then promise myself that I'll write more frequently.
1) My boss has been out of town since the middle of last week and it's been slow at work. Weird how when he (the boss) isn't here, things slow down to a crawl but when I (the lowly tech) am not here, things break like crazy. I've been able to repair 2 Macs and start on another PC because I've got no pressing problems. One laptop with a virus but it's scanning so not much work for me right now.
2) Colby got on the team he wanted in his baseball league. This will be his first year of coach pitch, he played t-ball last year. Gotta rein back the hubs or he will burn him out of baseball. The hubs played college ball and is very passionate about teaching the boys. We can tell that Colby really isn't that "into" baseball as much as we are but he does want to play and he really wants to please. If I am not there to stop it, the hubs will practice him every day after school including the days he has real team practice. Colby would rather be playing Wii or DS.
3) Dylan also got on last year's team again and he's still in the t-ball division. I won't have to change my "____'s Mom" shirts for either of them, yay!
4) Ally fell asleep in my lap last night while I was at my mom's house watching American Pickers. She's still so small and I love it but it hurts to think that in a couple of years, that won't happen anymore. She's the last of my kids and there are so many "little kid" things that the boys don't do anymore that I miss. And as she gets older, she stops them too. Then, I will have to wait until they have kids so that my grandkids can do all that stuff to me again. Depressing.
5) Saturday night, I bought skirt steak and chicken for fajitas plus shrimp, bacon, jalapenos and monterrey jack cheese for bacon-wrapped shrimp. I have no idea how these places get those things so wrapped and the bacon crispy. I've tried everything. Grill burns. Broiler did NOT work. So, I cooked them for 10 minutes under broiler then put them in a frying pan to crisp the bacon. They tasted really good but I'd really like to know the secret.
6) Sunday night, we baked chicken strips with sweet corn and mac and cheese. I had promised the kids we would fry up biscuits disguised as donuts but we ran out of time.
7) I worked out a total of 0 times this weekend, just sat on my lazy ass and watched a marathon of Pawn Stars I had DVRed last week. LOVE that show. Those guys are very amusing. Addicted to that show, along with Storage Wars, American Pickers and Auction Kings.
8) Colby spent the night at a friend's how on Saturday while my parents drove to the home land. My mom went to visit her sisters and my dad when to watch a few basketball games. Of course, their day ended at Coushatta but can you blame them? If I was within an hour of a casino, I'd go too.
9) Haven't played poker since last Wednesday night. Thought about Ultimate Bet and how I used to have an account there. Tried to login and I don't have access to the email I used to use. Worked with Customer Service and they were able to reset my email and reset my password. I logged on to find close to $20 still in my account! Woo Hoo!
10) How could I forget!! Crap, one of the reasons I haven't been writing is because I've been too busy reading. Decided to jump on Wil Wheaton's bandwagon about 10 years too late so I thought I'd start reading his journal/blog. I went to wwdn in exile and saw that it started in 2005. Okay, I can do that. During that first post, he talked about wwdn and how they had to move. So I go to wwdn and see that it started in 2001! Holy crap! But I really wanted to read from the beginning so I could get on board teh Geek Train that's sweeping the nation (yeah, I stole that from him). So, that's what I've been doing with my free time, readying his journal. I'm up to sometime in 2004 right now and it feels like I'll never finish! I have added many books to my Amazon Wish List though, including his, so at least I'll get some MORE reading material. Really regret not being into all this when it happened, we are very close in age & seem to be interested in a lot of the same things, in the same time period. Would have been cool to be a part of all that when it was getting started. Oh well, it's never too late to attempt to be cool, so I'm trying!
Guess I'll add to this as the day goes and my memory is restored.
Not much happened at home, except my laziness continued. Read some more wwdn while Ally fell asleep & then went downstairs to watch a couple of Pawn Stars I had recorded. Got to be about 11:30. Could have used that time to work out but I didn't so I suck.
More suckage tomorrow!
Not much happened at home, except my laziness continued. Read some more wwdn while Ally fell asleep & then went downstairs to watch a couple of Pawn Stars I had recorded. Got to be about 11:30. Could have used that time to work out but I didn't so I suck.
More suckage tomorrow!
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
WIDT - Feb 8
Weighed this morning & I've put back half of the weight I dropped last week. Thanks, Not Snow Day Weekend!!
Eating watermelon for lunch. Love salted watermelon. Turns out, I did not salt my watermelon, I sugared it. Very disappointing.
Eating watermelon for lunch. Love salted watermelon. Turns out, I did not salt my watermelon, I sugared it. Very disappointing.
Feb 8 - Catch up
Man, that Snow Day that was actually just a Cold Day completely threw me off, blog-wise, exercise-wise, eating-wise, blah.
We left early last Thursday because of the threat of snow and icy rain. Well, only got a little bit of icy rain that night, no snow. We were all very disappointed, especially my kids. I had to tell them all day Friday that there was no snow coming.
Staying cooped up in the house for 3 days was trying. The hubs had to work Friday and OT on Saturday, so it was just me & the kiddos. They hung out at my mom's house a little bit each day so I could get out to the grocery store but mostly, it was insane running around the house, fighting, playing video games, making messes, typical ages 7-2 year old junk. And I wanted to pull my hair out.
It was way too cold to run on the treadmill so I didn't. I had no healthy foods at home so I ate badly. I can't remember much of what we did, really.
Saturday, I actually bundled up and ran on the treadmill. Ran 2 miles in about 20 minutes. It was so cold in the garage & our heater was cranking inside. Felt like I was going to vomit when I was finished.
Shawn and I hit the Outback Saturday night. It was super crowded so we sat at the bar. My steak was yummy and the broccoli was yummy-er. LOVE their broccoli. Don't try to tell me how many calories are in it, I can taste it.
For a Super Bowl party on Sunday, I made these awesome brownie-peanut butter bites from Bakerella.
We left early last Thursday because of the threat of snow and icy rain. Well, only got a little bit of icy rain that night, no snow. We were all very disappointed, especially my kids. I had to tell them all day Friday that there was no snow coming.
Staying cooped up in the house for 3 days was trying. The hubs had to work Friday and OT on Saturday, so it was just me & the kiddos. They hung out at my mom's house a little bit each day so I could get out to the grocery store but mostly, it was insane running around the house, fighting, playing video games, making messes, typical ages 7-2 year old junk. And I wanted to pull my hair out.
It was way too cold to run on the treadmill so I didn't. I had no healthy foods at home so I ate badly. I can't remember much of what we did, really.
Saturday, I actually bundled up and ran on the treadmill. Ran 2 miles in about 20 minutes. It was so cold in the garage & our heater was cranking inside. Felt like I was going to vomit when I was finished.
Shawn and I hit the Outback Saturday night. It was super crowded so we sat at the bar. My steak was yummy and the broccoli was yummy-er. LOVE their broccoli. Don't try to tell me how many calories are in it, I can taste it.
For a Super Bowl party on Sunday, I made these awesome brownie-peanut butter bites from Bakerella.
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| Yes, they were awesome |
I also made a pizza bread rollup thing that I make for every party we ever have. Our friend Danny has a Super Bowl party nearly every year and he always requests it. Basically, it's a dough filled with cheese, seasonings, garlic and pepperoni (no sauce), rolled up, baked and cut into strips. Not sure why it's such big hit but Danny isn't the only one who requests it so...
Super Bowl was okay. I really only watch for the commercials, as I didn't have a favorite team this year. My dad has always been a Steelers fan so I was kindof rooting for them but didn't do it with gusto.
Twitter was fun during the Super Bowl. I could see many people that I follow shared my like or dislike for many of the commercials and the musical "entertainment".
Also over the weekend, I successfully parlayed a $27 tournament ticket into a $82 tournament ticket on Poker Stars. I'd like to get at least one more step up and then wait for some WSOP satellites to pop up so I can qualify to go. If I get an entry to ANY of the tournaments, we have to go! Right?
I'm writing this on Tuesday and I can't remember anything remotely interesting that happened yesterday. Blah.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
WIDT - Feb 3
6:30 Super tired this morning, did not want to move. 5 hours is not enough sleep. Downed a 5 hour energy and had a big cup of coffee. It's working for now. Wonder where I'll be when I hit that wall?
10:13 Not getting much work done at all, waiting for 1) school to close early or 2) snow to fall. I work a good 40 minutes away from my house and my kid's schools so if it's gonna come down, I need to get out of here before that happens.
It's freaking freezing in my office. It's like I'm sitting outside. Still have my coat, scarf and gloves on and I'm still cold. Ridonkulous.
I've modified my .99 cotton gloves for use with trackpads and iPhones. Resourceful.
10:13 Not getting much work done at all, waiting for 1) school to close early or 2) snow to fall. I work a good 40 minutes away from my house and my kid's schools so if it's gonna come down, I need to get out of here before that happens.
It's freaking freezing in my office. It's like I'm sitting outside. Still have my coat, scarf and gloves on and I'm still cold. Ridonkulous.
I've modified my .99 cotton gloves for use with trackpads and iPhones. Resourceful.
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The tips of those glove fingers have been repurposed as hats for Yoda and my IT dude. Yes, I have silly things on my desk.
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| One Up, R2, Yoda, Oscar, Dwight |
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| Mr. IT |
Can you tell I don't want to be here today? I have done NOTHING productive. Ack.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
WIDT - Feb 2
Ugh. After staying up too late to play poker and getting knocked out on the bubble, I'm in NO mood for crap today. It's freezing. Seriously.
8:10 Things are looking up though, because I weighed myself today and I am down 7 pounds from last Monday. Yay me! Didn't bring anything for lunch today. It's so freaking cold, not sure if I'll want to even get outside for food. Guess we'll see later!
11:00 Breakfast for lunch. Went to the Egg & I in Meyerland. Bacon and cheese omelete. Was just okay. Not much flavor except for the bacon. Hazelnut coffee = no thanks.
2:40 Had to go across campus again for something that was unplugged. Seriously. How hard is it to scan your environment before you call me? It's too cold. Wah.
Been trying to get this IBM working wirelessly on Jolicloud all freaking day. Jolicloud is Linux based so it's been difficult figuring out how to install a driver in that platform. I don't work with Linux and while the terminal commands have been fun, they are getting me nowhere. Going to install on a different computer to see if maybe that card is bad.
The boys are staying with my mother in law tonight so it's just me, the hubs and Ally. She loves Ramen noodles so I made her some for dinner. We watched American Idol. Meh.
8:00 Playing in Daniel Negreanu's $11 Open tourney on Poker Stars again. I placed last week so I figured I'd try again. Sitting next to Ally in her bed while she tries to sleep. Trying to pat her and play poker. I'm nothing, if not a multitasker.
8:55 On break. Think I've been dealt Queen-Deuce off about 10 times. Woo. According to my stats, I've seen 40% of the flops on my table. Too many?
12:33 (next day) Just finished 4th...$197.20. If I could have just lasted one more, but I guess I can't be greedy. Freaking exhausted now. Feel better that I stayed up this late & actually got paid. Yay me!
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| I live in Texas! We don't like this! |
11:00 Breakfast for lunch. Went to the Egg & I in Meyerland. Bacon and cheese omelete. Was just okay. Not much flavor except for the bacon. Hazelnut coffee = no thanks.
2:40 Had to go across campus again for something that was unplugged. Seriously. How hard is it to scan your environment before you call me? It's too cold. Wah.
Been trying to get this IBM working wirelessly on Jolicloud all freaking day. Jolicloud is Linux based so it's been difficult figuring out how to install a driver in that platform. I don't work with Linux and while the terminal commands have been fun, they are getting me nowhere. Going to install on a different computer to see if maybe that card is bad.
The boys are staying with my mother in law tonight so it's just me, the hubs and Ally. She loves Ramen noodles so I made her some for dinner. We watched American Idol. Meh.
8:00 Playing in Daniel Negreanu's $11 Open tourney on Poker Stars again. I placed last week so I figured I'd try again. Sitting next to Ally in her bed while she tries to sleep. Trying to pat her and play poker. I'm nothing, if not a multitasker.
8:55 On break. Think I've been dealt Queen-Deuce off about 10 times. Woo. According to my stats, I've seen 40% of the flops on my table. Too many?
12:33 (next day) Just finished 4th...$197.20. If I could have just lasted one more, but I guess I can't be greedy. Freaking exhausted now. Feel better that I stayed up this late & actually got paid. Yay me!
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
WIDT - Feb 1
Wow, cold today. They are predicting possible snow on Thursday and Friday. Gotta get to the store today to get my kids some real gloves and better jackets. We live in Houston. All they have are hoodies!
Could not go to sleep last night. Guess those 2 cups of coffee were really not good.
8:20 Downstairs at work only to find weak-ass coffee. HATE. Now I'm drinking hot water, flavored with sugar and cream. This is why it's not effective to just use the free coffee at work. If it tastes like shit, who cares if it was free??
10:10 Found Firmware Password Utility when booting to Mac OS X DVD but still not working for me.
10:30 Out to find the kids some warm things. Target = nada. JC Penney's = nada. Thankfully, Academy saved the day. Yay. Bought some beef jerky & I feel like I'm going to pull my teeth out with this. Tastes good but damn, gonna get a charlie horse in my jaw. Texted my brother that and he replied with "That's what she said." Bastard.
12:30 Ate some watermelon. Nothing better in the world than salted watermelon. mmmm
1:15 Finally had to call Apple. Not going to solve my firmware password problem but now I can't even get the iMac to read a disc so they are replacing the optical drive.
1:22 Hungry!
3:18 Just got back from traveling across campus for a "problem". Here is my rant. First of all, we have a ticketing system. You need help? Fill out a tech support ticket, the entire staff is alerted, you get a number, you are in the queue, we help you. But this person is just too special for all that mumbo jumbo, they just email one tech person. Projector cable in Room blah dee blah is not working. Okay...follow up email asks, Is it a problem with the laptop connection or the wall connection? Reply is laptop connection. I go across campus to see what the problem is. Person who sent email is sitting there, I ask, so what's the problem? Oh, it's not me, it's the other teacher that teaches in here. (Um, you are the one who sent the email!) Well, do you have any problems with the projector? Nope. Okay, shoot me now. YOU sent an email complaining about a problem that YOU don't even have. Broken = YOU. /rant
Really want to go to the Houston City Hall Farmer's Market tomorrow. But it will be too cold and it will take more than my allotted lunch hour to enjoy. Boo
4:11 Just ate 4 Milk Duds. Some caramel still stuck in my teeth. Ready to go home!
Wow, again. Very cold. Turkey tacos for dinner.
6:30 Decided to play $11 Omaha H/L on Full Tilt while kiddos watch a movie. Built a fire in fireplace. Toasty.
7:00 And decided to play for a Step ticket on Poker Stars. Did I already have one? Yes. Should I have looked before I registered? Yes. Bah.
Now I have a Step 1 ticket and a Step 2 ticket.
10:15 Out on the freaking bubble. DAMMIT! I hate playing for hours and getting nothing out of it. So angry with myself for the way I started playing with about 25 left. Too conservative or too loose, changed hand to hand. I've got to get better at the end-game of tournaments.
Could not go to sleep last night. Guess those 2 cups of coffee were really not good.
8:20 Downstairs at work only to find weak-ass coffee. HATE. Now I'm drinking hot water, flavored with sugar and cream. This is why it's not effective to just use the free coffee at work. If it tastes like shit, who cares if it was free??
10:10 Found Firmware Password Utility when booting to Mac OS X DVD but still not working for me.
10:30 Out to find the kids some warm things. Target = nada. JC Penney's = nada. Thankfully, Academy saved the day. Yay. Bought some beef jerky & I feel like I'm going to pull my teeth out with this. Tastes good but damn, gonna get a charlie horse in my jaw. Texted my brother that and he replied with "That's what she said." Bastard.
12:30 Ate some watermelon. Nothing better in the world than salted watermelon. mmmm
1:15 Finally had to call Apple. Not going to solve my firmware password problem but now I can't even get the iMac to read a disc so they are replacing the optical drive.
1:22 Hungry!
3:18 Just got back from traveling across campus for a "problem". Here is my rant. First of all, we have a ticketing system. You need help? Fill out a tech support ticket, the entire staff is alerted, you get a number, you are in the queue, we help you. But this person is just too special for all that mumbo jumbo, they just email one tech person. Projector cable in Room blah dee blah is not working. Okay...follow up email asks, Is it a problem with the laptop connection or the wall connection? Reply is laptop connection. I go across campus to see what the problem is. Person who sent email is sitting there, I ask, so what's the problem? Oh, it's not me, it's the other teacher that teaches in here. (Um, you are the one who sent the email!) Well, do you have any problems with the projector? Nope. Okay, shoot me now. YOU sent an email complaining about a problem that YOU don't even have. Broken = YOU. /rant
Really want to go to the Houston City Hall Farmer's Market tomorrow. But it will be too cold and it will take more than my allotted lunch hour to enjoy. Boo
4:11 Just ate 4 Milk Duds. Some caramel still stuck in my teeth. Ready to go home!
Wow, again. Very cold. Turkey tacos for dinner.
6:30 Decided to play $11 Omaha H/L on Full Tilt while kiddos watch a movie. Built a fire in fireplace. Toasty.
7:00 And decided to play for a Step ticket on Poker Stars. Did I already have one? Yes. Should I have looked before I registered? Yes. Bah.
Now I have a Step 1 ticket and a Step 2 ticket.
10:15 Out on the freaking bubble. DAMMIT! I hate playing for hours and getting nothing out of it. So angry with myself for the way I started playing with about 25 left. Too conservative or too loose, changed hand to hand. I've got to get better at the end-game of tournaments.
Monday, January 31, 2011
WIDT - Jan 31
Wow. I left this open all day and didn't write a thing. Here's a recap, then:
Spent most of my day trying to revive an iMac. Original problem with it was that it kept losing it's credentials in the lab and not allowing any of the students to log in. We use Boot Camp to dual boot to Mac and Windows. The Windows side was okay but the Mac side would shake at them. This happens because the time on the Windows side would be different on the Mac side, so it wouldn't authenticate. When this happens, I can usually change the time back and change the server where the Mac side gets the time. In extreme cases, I will have to unbind it from the servers & then rebind.
This one in particular wouldn't allow the rebind so I brought it back to my office. I've reset permissions, original settings, etc. - still no rebind. Tried to reinstall Mac OSX, unsuccessful. Tried resetting PRAM, didn't work. Found out we have a firmware password & it's making it difficult to start from scratch. Before I left the office, we were researching how to reset or turn off the firmware password but I have found nothing. Bah.
Also, only ate a pear and had 2 large cups of coffee today. I know, I know. Not healthy. Trying to shrink the stomach but that's a little extreme. Will try to eat more tomorrow.
Got home & my mom offered to make hot dogs for the kids. I seasoned up some turkey meat with seasoned salt and garlic salt for me & Shawn. Made 4 patties and fried them on the stovetop. Shawn ate them like burgers with bread/fixings and I just ate mine like chopped steak. Very yummy, maybe a tad on the salty side. I meant to put one of mine away for tomorrow's lunch but I was just too hungry after not eating all day. Ally wanted to stay with my mom so I didn't protest.
Back home, we found Pawn Stars on the History Channel and watched a bit. I decided now was the best time to work out. Treadmilled 2 miles, took 23 minutes and burned 335 calories. Did the thing again where I ran 4 minutes, then walked 1 minute. Linkin Park made it easy to run fast!
8:37 Sitting here, typing this out while my 5 year old tries to go to sleep. My typing is too loud so it's not happening. Haven't showered yet so I feel salty and sticky. Gross. Am going to try to do some kickboxing in the garage after he falls asleep. Bought a standing bag last Christmas and it's fun to beat the shit out of.
9:53 Whew. Decided kickboxing the bag might be too loud so I decided to play Kinect Dance Central. I chose Pon De Replay by Rihanna, figured there'd be some bootie shakin' & I was right! Played the easy version with 100% moves passed so I thought I'd try the medium version. It was tougher with more moves to remember but I passed 93%. Quite a workout. I probably should have danced a couple more times but my core hurts & if I keep going, I'll be cramping big time tomorrow.
Plus, Pawn Stars is still on. Addicting.
Spent most of my day trying to revive an iMac. Original problem with it was that it kept losing it's credentials in the lab and not allowing any of the students to log in. We use Boot Camp to dual boot to Mac and Windows. The Windows side was okay but the Mac side would shake at them. This happens because the time on the Windows side would be different on the Mac side, so it wouldn't authenticate. When this happens, I can usually change the time back and change the server where the Mac side gets the time. In extreme cases, I will have to unbind it from the servers & then rebind.
This one in particular wouldn't allow the rebind so I brought it back to my office. I've reset permissions, original settings, etc. - still no rebind. Tried to reinstall Mac OSX, unsuccessful. Tried resetting PRAM, didn't work. Found out we have a firmware password & it's making it difficult to start from scratch. Before I left the office, we were researching how to reset or turn off the firmware password but I have found nothing. Bah.
Also, only ate a pear and had 2 large cups of coffee today. I know, I know. Not healthy. Trying to shrink the stomach but that's a little extreme. Will try to eat more tomorrow.
Got home & my mom offered to make hot dogs for the kids. I seasoned up some turkey meat with seasoned salt and garlic salt for me & Shawn. Made 4 patties and fried them on the stovetop. Shawn ate them like burgers with bread/fixings and I just ate mine like chopped steak. Very yummy, maybe a tad on the salty side. I meant to put one of mine away for tomorrow's lunch but I was just too hungry after not eating all day. Ally wanted to stay with my mom so I didn't protest.
Back home, we found Pawn Stars on the History Channel and watched a bit. I decided now was the best time to work out. Treadmilled 2 miles, took 23 minutes and burned 335 calories. Did the thing again where I ran 4 minutes, then walked 1 minute. Linkin Park made it easy to run fast!
8:37 Sitting here, typing this out while my 5 year old tries to go to sleep. My typing is too loud so it's not happening. Haven't showered yet so I feel salty and sticky. Gross. Am going to try to do some kickboxing in the garage after he falls asleep. Bought a standing bag last Christmas and it's fun to beat the shit out of.
9:53 Whew. Decided kickboxing the bag might be too loud so I decided to play Kinect Dance Central. I chose Pon De Replay by Rihanna, figured there'd be some bootie shakin' & I was right! Played the easy version with 100% moves passed so I thought I'd try the medium version. It was tougher with more moves to remember but I passed 93%. Quite a workout. I probably should have danced a couple more times but my core hurts & if I keep going, I'll be cramping big time tomorrow.
Plus, Pawn Stars is still on. Addicting.
The Boring Weekend
Not much to report for the weekend. Filled with housework and playing with my kids.
Saturday Took the boys to the ballpark, Colby has tryouts and Shawn just wants to practice a little with Dylan. Waited in line for a good hour + 45 because they combined the 8 yr olds and the 7 yr olds on one field. Colby did well. He did not get his bat on any of the balls but we were satisfied with his swing. It was level and strong, he just didn't hit anything! He also stopped his grounders and threw to first well. Did not catch the fly balls but he got his glove on 2 of them. All in all, a good tryout for his level.
Sunday 3:20 Treadmilled 3 miles, running 4 minutes + walking 1 minute. Took 36 minutes to finish those 3 miles. Felt really good. Much better than straight running. Guess I will keep doing this, increasing 4 minutes to 5, then 6, and so on.
I am sweating and my face is super red. My 2 year old comes up and says Hey you all wet! You nose is burned!
Saturday Took the boys to the ballpark, Colby has tryouts and Shawn just wants to practice a little with Dylan. Waited in line for a good hour + 45 because they combined the 8 yr olds and the 7 yr olds on one field. Colby did well. He did not get his bat on any of the balls but we were satisfied with his swing. It was level and strong, he just didn't hit anything! He also stopped his grounders and threw to first well. Did not catch the fly balls but he got his glove on 2 of them. All in all, a good tryout for his level.
Sunday 3:20 Treadmilled 3 miles, running 4 minutes + walking 1 minute. Took 36 minutes to finish those 3 miles. Felt really good. Much better than straight running. Guess I will keep doing this, increasing 4 minutes to 5, then 6, and so on.
I am sweating and my face is super red. My 2 year old comes up and says Hey you all wet! You nose is burned!
Friday, January 28, 2011
What I'm Doing Today - Jan 28
T-shirt of the Day:
Too early: kids woke up, dropped them all off at school, headed to work.
8:00 Arrived at work. Need to wake up badly, eyes are very heavy. Will try coffee first. If that doesn't help, I've got a 5 hour Energy in my purse that will take care of me.
9:49 Been personalizing a laptop for a teacher today. Just weighed myself & I'm down 3 pounds since Monday morning. Yay and stuff. Still tired from staying up too late last night. Will be paying for it all day. Part of me wants to have whatever I want for lunch and party of me thinks that's stupid since I'm losing weight. Blaming it on dead-brain and will think about it again later.
11:30 Still haven't decided on what to have for lunch today. Guess I'll make a smoothie and see how that goes. Been at my desk for most of the day and still have Vegas on the brain. Re-reading all of my Vegas Trip Reports, torturing myself. I need help.
12:43 A Facebook friend shared this article on the newsreel. Big Coach, Little Gym. I had to keep clicking away from the page to stop myself from getting teary-eyes while reading it. My father was a coach for, I don't know, 40 years. My brother is a coach. We all played basketball through college. We can relate to the dedication this coach had for basketball. I always thought my Dad would go this way but thankfully, he stopped coaching a few years ago. Now I only have to worry about him going while at the poker table.
2:18 So, very boring Friday. Sorry if there's actually someone reading this today. Still trying to work on Jolicloud, helping with the occasional password reset and network permission issue. Listening right now to a teacher chew out some eighth graders in the hallway. I've realized I could never be an actual teacher, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from cussing at them when I got upset.
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| Yep, BFD |
Too early: kids woke up, dropped them all off at school, headed to work.
8:00 Arrived at work. Need to wake up badly, eyes are very heavy. Will try coffee first. If that doesn't help, I've got a 5 hour Energy in my purse that will take care of me.
9:49 Been personalizing a laptop for a teacher today. Just weighed myself & I'm down 3 pounds since Monday morning. Yay and stuff. Still tired from staying up too late last night. Will be paying for it all day. Part of me wants to have whatever I want for lunch and party of me thinks that's stupid since I'm losing weight. Blaming it on dead-brain and will think about it again later.
11:30 Still haven't decided on what to have for lunch today. Guess I'll make a smoothie and see how that goes. Been at my desk for most of the day and still have Vegas on the brain. Re-reading all of my Vegas Trip Reports, torturing myself. I need help.
12:43 A Facebook friend shared this article on the newsreel. Big Coach, Little Gym. I had to keep clicking away from the page to stop myself from getting teary-eyes while reading it. My father was a coach for, I don't know, 40 years. My brother is a coach. We all played basketball through college. We can relate to the dedication this coach had for basketball. I always thought my Dad would go this way but thankfully, he stopped coaching a few years ago. Now I only have to worry about him going while at the poker table.
2:18 So, very boring Friday. Sorry if there's actually someone reading this today. Still trying to work on Jolicloud, helping with the occasional password reset and network permission issue. Listening right now to a teacher chew out some eighth graders in the hallway. I've realized I could never be an actual teacher, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from cussing at them when I got upset.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
WIDT - Jan 27
7:10 Colby frantically wakes me up, saying "It's Thursday! A school day!", like we had slept until 9 and missed school. Funny.
7:40 Dropped Colby off at school
7:50 About to run a couple of miles (hopefully). Missed doing it last night because of playing poker. Bah.
8:15 Finished running. Ran 1.609 miles in 18:40 at 5.2 speed. Made a great playlist today - favorite was Eve 6 "Open Road Song", really had me going. Had every intention of running that and then dancing a few songs on Kinect Dance Central but just ran out of time. I'm supposed to be back at Colby's school for his Honor Roll breakfast at 8:30! Plus I have to make him a lunch! Jeez.
8:16 PB&J, Pringles, string cheese and juice into the Speed Racer lunchbox and then up to shower. I just can't take a fast shower, hair in pigtails and out the door at 8:32.
8:35 Arrive at school. Colby is waiting for me in the hallway, frantically looking, afraid I wasn't going to make it. Donuts for breakfast, my willpower was strong this morning. Good thing I was late, though, we had a seat near the door and after the Honor Roll certificate presentations, I was the first out of the cafeteria and first out of the parking lot. Yay me.
I giggled when a kid named Montoya got his certificate. I wanted to ask if his father's name was Inigo.
9:20 Get home to find the hubs came home from work. Slacker.
7:40 Dropped Colby off at school
7:50 About to run a couple of miles (hopefully). Missed doing it last night because of playing poker. Bah.
8:15 Finished running. Ran 1.609 miles in 18:40 at 5.2 speed. Made a great playlist today - favorite was Eve 6 "Open Road Song", really had me going. Had every intention of running that and then dancing a few songs on Kinect Dance Central but just ran out of time. I'm supposed to be back at Colby's school for his Honor Roll breakfast at 8:30! Plus I have to make him a lunch! Jeez.
8:16 PB&J, Pringles, string cheese and juice into the Speed Racer lunchbox and then up to shower. I just can't take a fast shower, hair in pigtails and out the door at 8:32.
8:35 Arrive at school. Colby is waiting for me in the hallway, frantically looking, afraid I wasn't going to make it. Donuts for breakfast, my willpower was strong this morning. Good thing I was late, though, we had a seat near the door and after the Honor Roll certificate presentations, I was the first out of the cafeteria and first out of the parking lot. Yay me.
I giggled when a kid named Montoya got his certificate. I wanted to ask if his father's name was Inigo.
9:20 Get home to find the hubs came home from work. Slacker.
9:30 On way to work. Creeper on a riding mower just outside our neighborhood is just sitting there, staring. ewww.
Hair is flippy today. Rushed shower = no lotion on face. Very dry.
9:50 Arrive at work. Loads to do today. Need to test Jolicloud more, very excited. We recently demoted one of our DNS servers and just realized today that we needed to run ipconfig /renew on all of our machines on campus. Assembly line stuff all morning, then. Plus I have to get info from a failing HD, save it and then build a new laptop for one of our teachers.
I can't stop spacing twice after periods. I have to go back and take a space away when I'm done typing. It's just something that I was taught very young, very hard habit to break. Peter Cetera.
12:10 Made a few rounds to update computers. Hungry now. Rushed out of the door this morning so I don't have much. Some cut cantaloupe, maybe an orange. Guess it's orange food day. Sunkist and Cheetos, here I come!
1:17 Ate my fruit and still hungry. Trying to drink alot of water. Listening to Barenaked Ladies today. "I made you say underwear"
2:23 A lot of running around today and not much happened. Read a few Las Vegas trip reports on a few different forums. Can you tell I really want to go back? Like now? It's been 2 years and I'm going through withdrawals. I'd like to plan a girl's trip with me, my sister in law, and a few friends. But I'll be more likely to talk the hubs into a summer trip.
2:59 Decided on another cup of coffee to curb my hungriness. Had a conversation with a co-worker about American Idol. Disgusted with the parents that lie to their children, telling them that they are great singers when they are obviously tone deaf. Encourage your children, give them all they need to succeed. But if they think they are great because you tell them over and over again that they are and they aren't really great, they will get made fun of and it will be your fault. Ugh.
4:51 About to head out. Spent the last hour changing the rc.local file on every freaking Mac in that lab. Hidden file so I had to change permissions on 3 different folders just so I could adjust the server that it was pointing to. Hate working with Macs in a Windows environment. Not seamless. Not smooth. Yes headache.
8:45 Played xbox 360 Kinect Dance Central. Did easy versions of Bust a Move, Hella Good, Poison and Just Dance (highest difficulty dance) all at 98-100% accuracy. So I think I can do Just Dance at medium version. Wrong! Felt ridiculous because I was trying to hop around and do these moves that were way over my head. I'll try medium versions of the other songs next time. Danced for about an hour, got a decent workout.
But then, I stayed up to watch some recorded shows. I was 2 weeks behind on The Office, so I watched those. And I am about 8 weeks behind on Castle so I watched one of those. Love that show. But now it's midnight. Sometimes I am so stupid. Never get any sleep.
12:10 Made a few rounds to update computers. Hungry now. Rushed out of the door this morning so I don't have much. Some cut cantaloupe, maybe an orange. Guess it's orange food day. Sunkist and Cheetos, here I come!
1:17 Ate my fruit and still hungry. Trying to drink alot of water. Listening to Barenaked Ladies today. "I made you say underwear"
2:23 A lot of running around today and not much happened. Read a few Las Vegas trip reports on a few different forums. Can you tell I really want to go back? Like now? It's been 2 years and I'm going through withdrawals. I'd like to plan a girl's trip with me, my sister in law, and a few friends. But I'll be more likely to talk the hubs into a summer trip.
2:59 Decided on another cup of coffee to curb my hungriness. Had a conversation with a co-worker about American Idol. Disgusted with the parents that lie to their children, telling them that they are great singers when they are obviously tone deaf. Encourage your children, give them all they need to succeed. But if they think they are great because you tell them over and over again that they are and they aren't really great, they will get made fun of and it will be your fault. Ugh.
4:51 About to head out. Spent the last hour changing the rc.local file on every freaking Mac in that lab. Hidden file so I had to change permissions on 3 different folders just so I could adjust the server that it was pointing to. Hate working with Macs in a Windows environment. Not seamless. Not smooth. Yes headache.
8:45 Played xbox 360 Kinect Dance Central. Did easy versions of Bust a Move, Hella Good, Poison and Just Dance (highest difficulty dance) all at 98-100% accuracy. So I think I can do Just Dance at medium version. Wrong! Felt ridiculous because I was trying to hop around and do these moves that were way over my head. I'll try medium versions of the other songs next time. Danced for about an hour, got a decent workout.
But then, I stayed up to watch some recorded shows. I was 2 weeks behind on The Office, so I watched those. And I am about 8 weeks behind on Castle so I watched one of those. Love that show. But now it's midnight. Sometimes I am so stupid. Never get any sleep.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
WIDT - Jan 26
I'm going to try listing the things that I do or the things that happen around me during the day. My BFF and I used to make lists in college and they were always fun. Here goes.
Today's T-shirt:
7:15 Dropped Colby off at school for breakfast
7:25 Dropped Dylan and Ally off at daycare
7:30 Put $20 worth of gas in my van (Dragon Dictation heard this as "$20 working it")
8:05 Arrived at work
This ridiculous song the kid's listened to this morning is stuck in my head. Help me.
Three giant dinosaurs flying in the sky
Two say to the one, let's have a pterodactyl pie
I think I'm gonna eat you, chomp chomp chomp
I think I'm gonna eat you, chomp chomp chomp
I think I'm gonna eat you, it's been really nice to meet you
1, 2, 3, 4, chomp chomp chomp.
Been on a semi-diet for 2 days now and I'm already craving things. Pork cracklins. What the hell is up with that? Although, there's protein in them, right? (Dragon Dictation heard this as something about Friday night. I give up on that program.)
8:20 Made coffee - added Skinny Latte creamer. Yum.
8:21-8:28 Had conversation with co-worker about workout out, motivation, training, etc. Told her my ultimate goal was doing a Triathlon. Ended with me promising to burn her a copy of the Kenpo X disc of P90X. Love that workout. It's one of those workouts that you feel GREAT afterwards. Not like you need to puke.
8:31 Began this post. Then checked my regular daily sites: Woot!, Questionable Content, TMZ, Girls with Slingshots, 9gag, The Daily What, Pop URLs, Facebook & Twitter.
8:44 Bought this shirt from Tanga for $4.99 + $1.99 shipping. Sweet!
9:12 Trying to rebuild old IBM laptop with the hopes of loading Jolicloud on it. Sounds awesome so we'll see how it works out.
9:40 Installing a backup program on this extra admin PC so that I won't have to rebuild from scratch the next time someone decides to click on sketchy crap and install viruses or malware. Just because we have anti-virus program doesn't mean you are completely immune. If your house has an alarm system & you allow a sketchy dude inside, the alarm system isn't going to stop him from snooping in your undies.
10:00 Got a frantic call about a printer not working. Yeah, it helps if you haven't unplugged the USB cable from your computer because it was "in the way".
10:07 Schooled a co-worker in the countless ways and reasons I love and am obsessed with Eddie Vedder.
10:11 DAMNED FIRE ALARM!
10:23 Now I have a headache. Already had one because I'm wearing pigtails today. Bah.
10:29 While rebuilding 2 laptops, I'm perusing Restaurant.com. Trying to find deals here in Houston and in Vegas. We have to go if I have a $25 gift certificate, right? That's totally worth it!
10:42 Purchased a Living Social deal for Houston: iT'Z Family Food & Fun (Chuck E Cheese type place). For $24, I get a pizza buffet, 90 minutes of play (no idea what that means), 200 prize tickets and 3 attraction credits. The kids will enjoy that.
10:59 Just got back to my office after walking across campus to see why a particular student couldn't access a class folder. And it's because the teacher didn't include her name on the list of allowed students. Also got to see some of the middle schoolers playing lacrosse in the courtyard on my way back. You wanna go to school, here, don't you?
11:00 Can't get wireless card in this old IBM to work, despite installing every possible driver. Gonna have to open it up. Yay.
11:30 Made a smoothie at school, thanks to my little knock-off Bullet blender thingy. Blueberries, cherries, blackberries, apple juice, tiny sugar = yum.
12:23 Smoothie was good. Trying to decide if I should purchase my cart on Restaurant.com. I have 6 or 7 items totaling $19. Some Houston, some Vegas.
12:36 Ugh, finally got this wireless card to work. Why are there 5 different drivers listed on the website for this particular laptop? Seriously?
1:07 Woo Hoo! Down 2 pounds since Monday morning on the school's weight room scales. It's not hard for me to change my diet, eat very little and lose weight. I've done it many times before. The kicker is going to be working in exercise along with it. I know those 2 pounds I lost are probably NOT the substance I want to lose because I'm not eating much at all. Probably losing fat + muscle. And frankly, I've done the "lose weight by not eating" deal before and then put it right back on again. If I can really commit to exercising via p90x or running on my treadmill or riding a bike (when I buy one!), I am confident that I can get my body to where I am comfortable with it. I'm not naive enough to think I can get back to HS or college days. Seriously. I was a Division I college athlete. I used to work out every day for hours. Since then, I've given birth 4 times. No way in HELL this body will ever be close to that body again. I'm only a little concerned with the number on the scale but more concerned with how "in shape" I can get myself and how my clothes fit. I miss being able to do any activity I wanted to do.
I do want to get involved with racing more. I've done RunTheJailbreak in DFW which is an obstacle race, about 3 miles. I'm signed up for Warrior Dash in Conroe in March and Survive WW3.5 in Orange in April. They are really fun races, with muddy obstacles and things to climb over. Eventually, I'd like to run a Triathlon, albeit a small one or even a half marathon. I just need to commit, do the work & it'll make me happy.
2:12 Downloading Jolicloud on this old IBM. The .iso image is taking forever. But almost done. Then we'll see how awesome it really is.
2:49 Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust. love love love love love love LOVE LOVE
4:25 Eating an orange, yum. Also finished installing jolicloud and it's sweet looking. Playing with apps and stuff. Haven't been able to open a word type document yet, trying to figure out how. But really cool.
4:50 Headed home
5:30 Took Colby to Luby's. Ugh. Hate that place. But he loves it. Also, kids eat free on Wednesday.
6:30 Got home in time to see that last 20 minutes of Empire Records. Shawn was playing a Full Tilt Poker Rush Tournament.
7:00 American Idol time. Steven Tyler is the saving grace, if there even is any, this year. I miss Simon.
7:28 Registered for Daniel Negreanu's $11 private tournament on Poker Stars. Also, these people can NOT sing. Awful. Seriously?
8:10 Earned a Step 2 tournament entry on Full Tilt & playing Daniel's tourney on Poker Stars.
8:19 The commerical where the parents tell the 2 kids that they are going to DisneyWorld in a couple of hours & the kids jump up and scream makes me tear up every time. Hope I can do that for my kids one day.
11:00 Still in this Negreanu tournament. Down to 30. For sure getting my entry back + knocked out 2 people, so won $4 for bounty. Need to make top 5 for at least $100. I needed to work out tonight but been playing poker for 3 freaking hours. Guess I'll have to run in the morning.
12:34am Just finished. Went out 7th for $54.62. Freaking tired.
Today's T-shirt:
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| I'm a Ghostbuster! |
7:15 Dropped Colby off at school for breakfast
7:25 Dropped Dylan and Ally off at daycare
7:30 Put $20 worth of gas in my van (Dragon Dictation heard this as "$20 working it")
8:05 Arrived at work
This ridiculous song the kid's listened to this morning is stuck in my head. Help me.
Three giant dinosaurs flying in the sky
Two say to the one, let's have a pterodactyl pie
I think I'm gonna eat you, chomp chomp chomp
I think I'm gonna eat you, chomp chomp chomp
I think I'm gonna eat you, it's been really nice to meet you
1, 2, 3, 4, chomp chomp chomp.
Been on a semi-diet for 2 days now and I'm already craving things. Pork cracklins. What the hell is up with that? Although, there's protein in them, right? (Dragon Dictation heard this as something about Friday night. I give up on that program.)
8:20 Made coffee - added Skinny Latte creamer. Yum.
8:21-8:28 Had conversation with co-worker about workout out, motivation, training, etc. Told her my ultimate goal was doing a Triathlon. Ended with me promising to burn her a copy of the Kenpo X disc of P90X. Love that workout. It's one of those workouts that you feel GREAT afterwards. Not like you need to puke.
8:31 Began this post. Then checked my regular daily sites: Woot!, Questionable Content, TMZ, Girls with Slingshots, 9gag, The Daily What, Pop URLs, Facebook & Twitter.
8:44 Bought this shirt from Tanga for $4.99 + $1.99 shipping. Sweet!
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| No, I will not fix your computer for free |
9:12 Trying to rebuild old IBM laptop with the hopes of loading Jolicloud on it. Sounds awesome so we'll see how it works out.
9:40 Installing a backup program on this extra admin PC so that I won't have to rebuild from scratch the next time someone decides to click on sketchy crap and install viruses or malware. Just because we have anti-virus program doesn't mean you are completely immune. If your house has an alarm system & you allow a sketchy dude inside, the alarm system isn't going to stop him from snooping in your undies.
10:00 Got a frantic call about a printer not working. Yeah, it helps if you haven't unplugged the USB cable from your computer because it was "in the way".
10:07 Schooled a co-worker in the countless ways and reasons I love and am obsessed with Eddie Vedder.
10:11 DAMNED FIRE ALARM!
10:23 Now I have a headache. Already had one because I'm wearing pigtails today. Bah.
10:29 While rebuilding 2 laptops, I'm perusing Restaurant.com. Trying to find deals here in Houston and in Vegas. We have to go if I have a $25 gift certificate, right? That's totally worth it!
10:42 Purchased a Living Social deal for Houston: iT'Z Family Food & Fun (Chuck E Cheese type place). For $24, I get a pizza buffet, 90 minutes of play (no idea what that means), 200 prize tickets and 3 attraction credits. The kids will enjoy that.
10:59 Just got back to my office after walking across campus to see why a particular student couldn't access a class folder. And it's because the teacher didn't include her name on the list of allowed students. Also got to see some of the middle schoolers playing lacrosse in the courtyard on my way back. You wanna go to school, here, don't you?
11:00 Can't get wireless card in this old IBM to work, despite installing every possible driver. Gonna have to open it up. Yay.
11:30 Made a smoothie at school, thanks to my little knock-off Bullet blender thingy. Blueberries, cherries, blackberries, apple juice, tiny sugar = yum.
12:23 Smoothie was good. Trying to decide if I should purchase my cart on Restaurant.com. I have 6 or 7 items totaling $19. Some Houston, some Vegas.
12:36 Ugh, finally got this wireless card to work. Why are there 5 different drivers listed on the website for this particular laptop? Seriously?
1:07 Woo Hoo! Down 2 pounds since Monday morning on the school's weight room scales. It's not hard for me to change my diet, eat very little and lose weight. I've done it many times before. The kicker is going to be working in exercise along with it. I know those 2 pounds I lost are probably NOT the substance I want to lose because I'm not eating much at all. Probably losing fat + muscle. And frankly, I've done the "lose weight by not eating" deal before and then put it right back on again. If I can really commit to exercising via p90x or running on my treadmill or riding a bike (when I buy one!), I am confident that I can get my body to where I am comfortable with it. I'm not naive enough to think I can get back to HS or college days. Seriously. I was a Division I college athlete. I used to work out every day for hours. Since then, I've given birth 4 times. No way in HELL this body will ever be close to that body again. I'm only a little concerned with the number on the scale but more concerned with how "in shape" I can get myself and how my clothes fit. I miss being able to do any activity I wanted to do.
I do want to get involved with racing more. I've done RunTheJailbreak in DFW which is an obstacle race, about 3 miles. I'm signed up for Warrior Dash in Conroe in March and Survive WW3.5 in Orange in April. They are really fun races, with muddy obstacles and things to climb over. Eventually, I'd like to run a Triathlon, albeit a small one or even a half marathon. I just need to commit, do the work & it'll make me happy.
2:12 Downloading Jolicloud on this old IBM. The .iso image is taking forever. But almost done. Then we'll see how awesome it really is.
2:49 Pearl Jam - State of Love and Trust. love love love love love love LOVE LOVE
4:25 Eating an orange, yum. Also finished installing jolicloud and it's sweet looking. Playing with apps and stuff. Haven't been able to open a word type document yet, trying to figure out how. But really cool.
4:50 Headed home
5:30 Took Colby to Luby's. Ugh. Hate that place. But he loves it. Also, kids eat free on Wednesday.
6:30 Got home in time to see that last 20 minutes of Empire Records. Shawn was playing a Full Tilt Poker Rush Tournament.
7:00 American Idol time. Steven Tyler is the saving grace, if there even is any, this year. I miss Simon.
7:28 Registered for Daniel Negreanu's $11 private tournament on Poker Stars. Also, these people can NOT sing. Awful. Seriously?
8:10 Earned a Step 2 tournament entry on Full Tilt & playing Daniel's tourney on Poker Stars.
8:19 The commerical where the parents tell the 2 kids that they are going to DisneyWorld in a couple of hours & the kids jump up and scream makes me tear up every time. Hope I can do that for my kids one day.
11:00 Still in this Negreanu tournament. Down to 30. For sure getting my entry back + knocked out 2 people, so won $4 for bounty. Need to make top 5 for at least $100. I needed to work out tonight but been playing poker for 3 freaking hours. Guess I'll have to run in the morning.
12:34am Just finished. Went out 7th for $54.62. Freaking tired.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Hello
I doubt that I'll write anything all that interesting but since I've got my hands into almost every other form of internet expression, blogging seems like the next step. I have 2 sites that are badly in need of updating. One in which I chronicle my family's events and another where I have stored my trip reports to Las Vegas. Here I just want to write things about everyday events or thoughts or whatever. Guess this place will be mostly for me.
My posts will be about silly things my kids say and do, food I eat, workouts, poker or my job. I'm sure that occasionally, I'll complain about something.
If I amuse you, that's cool.
My posts will be about silly things my kids say and do, food I eat, workouts, poker or my job. I'm sure that occasionally, I'll complain about something.
If I amuse you, that's cool.
Lunch with Sonya - Cafe Express
Going to have lunch today with a friend/former co-worker whom I haven't seen in ages. She's a super cool and super talented artist and photographer. Healthy eating at Cafe Express was her choice so we'll see if I can find something to eat that will fill me up for the rest of the day. I've been eating so bad lately...cheeseburgers, pizza, fried seafood, pastries. Gotta get back to healthy eating. Today is a start.
Had the turkey burger, fresh fruit and a side Caesar salad. Plus added sundried tomatoes and capers to my salad. Turkey burger was not dry, flavorful, very good. Salad was like any other Caesar but with the addition of the capers was very good. Didn't even taste the sundried tomaotes, really. I know Caesar isn't the best choice but I like it, so there.
Miss her. Her birthday party is coming up and I have lucky enough to be on "the list" of invites so looking forward to it.
Also, who wears all white turtlenecks anymore? Chunky girl in the corner really should have worn something over that. </dig>
Had the turkey burger, fresh fruit and a side Caesar salad. Plus added sundried tomatoes and capers to my salad. Turkey burger was not dry, flavorful, very good. Salad was like any other Caesar but with the addition of the capers was very good. Didn't even taste the sundried tomaotes, really. I know Caesar isn't the best choice but I like it, so there.
Miss her. Her birthday party is coming up and I have lucky enough to be on "the list" of invites so looking forward to it.
Also, who wears all white turtlenecks anymore? Chunky girl in the corner really should have worn something over that. </dig>
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