Yes, I AM Almost 40, What's it To You!?

Ok, so I've written before about my addiction to Webkinz. Well, I really am not that bad anymore. Really! But they just recently came out with a dragon Webkinz, and he's SO cute (see pic). My long-time fans know that I LOVE dragons... cute dragons, not the fierce mean ones. And I have a collection of MANY dragons, I can generally count on getting one dragon for either birthday or Christmas each year.

So, knowing that they were coming out soon, I headed to my local Hallmark store to see if they were in. They were not, but I was told they were expecting a shipment and they would take my name and number. They could not guarantee me one, but they'd try. The very next day (Wednesday), I got a call that my Dragon was in!! I was so-o-o happy. After work, instead of going to work out (yeah, I have my priorities straight), I went and picked up my dragon.

I rushed home and entered the code and named him Snuffles. I don't know, I just find a nifty dichotomy in naming such a fierce creature as a dragon a cute and fluffy name like Snuffles. I'm odd, what can I say. Anyway, the little cartoon dragon that plays online is just adorable. I've created Snuffles a sort of castle room. And he is currently wearing boppers.

Anywho, I just had to share the new light of my dragon collection.

I hope I haven't broken any rules by putting the pics in here - my apologies to Ganz, if I have.

Epiphany!!

I'm so very excited. I was sitting at my desk this morning when it occurred to me that Monday is Memorial Day! And more importantly, this upcoming weekend is a THREE-DAY WEEKEND!! Whoo hoo!
My neice Natalie graduates on Saturday May 31st, so I guess I just thought that that was Memorial Day weekend.

Now that I've got a clue, I get to figure out what to do. My sister highly recommends going to see Iron Man with Robert Downey Jr. She says he's hot, and she likes that he's over 40 and playing a superhero. I already had plans to go see the new Indiana Jones movie, despite early panning by critics. And then there's always the ubiquitous mowing of my parents' lawn. Curves is closed Saturday thru Monday for the holiday, so I can skip working out without any guilt.

Speaking of Indiana Jones, last week I bought the first three movies on DVD. I already had 1 and 3 on VHS, I never really cared for #2, but when I decided to replace my VHS with DVD, I figured I ought to get the complete set. Anyway, maybe I should schedule a marathon some evening to watch all three of them before going to see the new one.

Stupid is as Stupid... is

Ok, so as I already mentioned, my doctor doubled my cholesterol medicine, I had side effects, and she took me off of them. Well, this morning, I went to go take my pills and I realized as I was refilling my pill dispenser for the week that last week when I sat there and picked/tossed out the cholesterol meds from the days last week, I actually tossed out one of my blood pressure meds. Sigh.. I have a good excuse, though, see, my blood pressure pills used to be yellow, and the cholesterol meds (prior to the doubling) were pink. On the day I got the doubled Rx for the cholesterol meds, I also got a refill on the BP meds. The new doubled meds were now white and the refilled BP meds were pink. So it made perfect sense to me that I remove the big pink ones that looked exactly like (only bigger) the little pink ones that my cholesterol meds previously looked like. Does that make sense?
Anywho, this morning, I made this realization, and filled my dispenser correctly. So today is my first day without the meds that were making my joints ache. I guess that's why my knees were never feeling any better.
I know, it's a duh moment for Rose, but who's really surprised? :)

T.G.I. Saturday!

So I was supposed to participate in a walk for (against) juvenile diabetes today. One of my nieces and a nephew were even going to come down to Holiday World and hang with me for the day. I was really excited about it, and I think Natalie and Duncan were too. But as I mentioned previously, I've had this knee and hip pain, and although it is feeling somewhat better, there was just no way I had any business walking a mile, let alone walking around Holiday World. So I had to cancel my walking plans and dash Natalie and Duncan's hopes and dreams of a Saturday with their favorite aunt! For those who sponsored me, I'm sorry I didn't get to go walk, but your donations went to a good cause and thanks.

As it turned out, despite being deprived of my presence, Natalie managed to buck up and go to HW without me. She and a friend came down, had a good day at HW, and then drove to my place, via Kentucky (don't ask!), to spend the night.

It's was a beautiful day here in So. Indiana. I went to Curves this morning for a slow workout - I don't want to lose the ground I may have gained already. Then I went to mom and dad's to mow their yard. This was the 4th Saturday in a row that I've mowed their yard. I enjoy it, the breeze as I ride around listening to my mp3 player, but you'd think I hated it by the way I've been treating their mower. Two weeks ago I managed to dent some wheel inside the blade housing, and couldn't finish the lawn. Dad fixed it with no lasting damage, but then last week, after filling the gas tank, I failed to put the gas cap back on, so for like the first hour as I'm bumping around I'm smelling gas... I thought I'd got it on me, but no, it was just escaping out of the tank! I got the gas cap back on and finished the yard. Dad makes the comment that he hopes I didn't get gas in the tank. (Not that I have any clue as to exactly what that would do, but..) The important thing is I don't think I did any lasting damage to the mower today! Whew!

Curves

It's been a while since I blogged. :) But I've been busy.. I made a dramatic decision a couple of weeks ago. I joined Curves. I'd been thinking for a while that I needed to do something, and then my doctor who had recently put me on cholesterol medicine DOUBLED the dosage because it wasn't working well enough. So I'm sitting in the Pharmacy area at Sams and thinking that something has to give. I had already talked to a lady at my office who goes to Curves, and she'd given me a Guest Pass, and I knew that the place was open until 7pm, so on my way home from Sams, I drove by it, and then I went in. I talked to the trainer, Lola, and she's very nice and excited about me joining (yeah, I know, she's paid for it, but still). Anyway, after talking to her, I decided to do it. I had to break down and put the membership fee on my credit card. That hurt because it's been almost 2 years since I've used my credit cards. But May was(is) a 5 payday month for me, so I decided it would be alright.

So now, a little under three weeks later, I've been going pretty regularly, a minimum of 3 times a week, and last week I went 5 times! I'm enjoying it and it's making me feel somewhat more energetic.

On a side note, that cholesterol medicine has had a side effect of giving me INCREDIBLE knee and hip pain, so I've had to discontinue it entirely and slow down a little at Curves until the pain goes away, but that' s ok. I figure the exercise will do its job and I won't need the cholesterol medicine at all pretty soon!

OMG! It's a Festivus Miracle!

First, to sketch in a little background, as it were... I moved into my apartment Sept of 2005. At that time, the woman who lives in the other first floor apartment was driving a white Plymouth Acclaim (or the Dodge equivalent) and around Christmas time, said white vehicle had a flat tire in our parking lot. After that, it NEVER moved. After about a year, I pointed this out to the landlord, stressing that it made the place look.. uh.. white trash. After two years, I'd given up. Frankly, I didn't even see it anymore, unless the parking lot was really full, affecting my ability to get into my parking spot.

Well, so tonight, I come home and uh.. something's wrong.. uh.. am I at the wrong place? No... the white car.. it's GONE!!! I felt like it was my birthday (July 22nd, BTW:) and Christmas all rolled together!! It's a Festivus Miracle! I've been airing my grievances about the stupid car for years and it was surely a feat of strength to get through the past 2 1/2 years of having the hunk of junk there. Whoo hoo!

I've Got the Happy Secretary's Day Blues...

Ok, this week has not been good. Yesterday, Steve (boss #1) yelled at me, and made me cry. Now I know that he's been in a mood and has been having a stressful week, and it wasn't really ME that he was yelling at, but the client whose crappy mess we were having to deal with, but I've been very hormonal and emotional, and it was all I could do NOT to burst into tears while he was standing there at my desk. Fortunately for both of us, he got a call and went back into his office to take it, and I was able to sniffle in private. Carrie (boss #2) noticed and came out to ask me what was up... Because he's generally very even tempered and never speaks a cross word. Thank goodness, he left early after that.

So this morning, I got to work, Carrie had a secretary's day (or Administrative Professional, whatever) card and gift for me. The card made me cry. Then mom called me to tell me it was a beautiful morning, and I started crying. By the time Steve got there, I was in dire danger of me bursting out in tears if he looked at me wrong. He brought me in some beautiful flowers. Of course then he tells me that he'd forgotten it was secretary's day until he was driving in (I gather he heard it on the radio) and he was surfing the net on his blackberry as he was driving in. And then it occurred to him ... oh, I guess THAT's why we're having a luncheon today... secretary's day.. DOI! My question is... why tell me this? Sigh.. Why do men have to be like that? Sigh..

Anyway, we seem to have made it through the day, he spent most of the day behind his closed door, so I was able to deal with my own issues. Then about 3:30 this afternoon, he comes out of his office and his mood is lifted. He's back to his usual self. I think the aliens must've returned him and taken his evil twin away. Whew!