A healthier lifestyle...

Hi Everyone...

I just wanted to let you all know that Mike and I have decided to make some changes in our diets and adopt a much healthier lifestyle! We started looking at the number of calories and sodium that are in the foods we eat. Yikes! We ate really, really bad. Did you know that a cup of chocolate chips has 840 calories!!! Crazy. One double cheeseburger from McDonald's has 440 calories. We are trying to cut out all the frozen foods of convenience that are oh so bad for you... like taquitos and frozen pizza. It will probably cost more to buy mostly fresh foods...but I think the benefits out weigh the added costs. I am hoping that I will start acquiring a taste for more veggies... like peppers and things. So many recipes call for them...

welll... I better get back to work. I hope that everyone has a great day!

Hee Hee...

One saggy boob said to the other saggy boob:
"If we don't get some support soon, people will think we're nuts."


...this really made me chuckle!

Wet Bathing Suit = Cat Toy?!?!

Lydia has a new favorite toy... my wet bathing suits!! Let me tell you that it is very strange to see a petite little cat carrying your bathing suit around the house!! She cries like she just caught something too!! Funny, funny cat. I guess she will be mad once I get some of those little suction cup hooks for in the shower. Right now, I am just hanging my wet suits over the side of the tub!!


Here is a picture of Lydia carrying one of her other favorite toys around... now... just picture her with a bathing suit in her mouth! Craziness!

My New Happy Place!

Here is a picture of me in my new happy place...



ok...so, I haven't taken a picture of our "new" hot tub yet. But...this is a picture of the same brand with my head photo-shopped in!! Our friend Kevin repairs hot tubs and got us a really really good deal on a used two person tub! WE LOVE IT!

Nuxhall, youngest player in MLB history, dies at 79

ESPN - Nuxhall, youngest player in MLB history, dies at 79 - MLB

Good-bye Joe Nuxhall...

Many of you may not know who Joe Nuxhall or Marty Brennaman...but the duo will forever be etched in my mind as a major part of baseball...and my childhood memories of baseball. They were pretty much celebrities around town...everyone knew who they were. They did commercials together... maybe for Kroger. I can't remember. I know it was one of the grocery stores.

I never realized that he was the youngest person to ever play in the majors... less than 16 years old... can you imagine!

Trying to stay healthy shouldn't hurt so bad....

I got my flu shot this morning... I was doing ok at first, but now my arm hurts so freakin' bad! I can hardly move it. It hurts even when I don't move it. This is only my third flu shot... The same thing happened the first time I got one. I couldn't move my arm for like a week (ok, maybe I am exaggerating a little). Last year... my co-workers convinced me to get one. It wasn't bad at all. ... So, I decided to go ahead and sign up for one this year. The actually shot itself wasn't that bad. It has been about 5 hours and I am in rough shape right now. My fingers a tingly and numb and my shoulder hurts like you wouldn't believe. Two out of three shots have been horribly painful for me....hmmmm, I am not seeing too many flu shots in my future. I guess I will wait and see how long the pain lasts. I just took some more aleve... hopefully that will help!

Tootsie Roll Pops

Did y'all know they have new tootsie pop flavors??? Here is a link to the tootsie pop site.
Tootsie Roll Industries - Tootsie Roll Pops

I got some for halloween and was surprised to see the new colored wrappers. I have to say, I am quite fond of the watermelon tootsie pop that I am currently enjoying (sorry, I couldn't bring myself to say... that I am currently "sucking"). I am a little leary about the newest flavor...lemon lime. I am just not all that fond of citrusy flavored candy. hmmmm...

Have you guys ever seem my shirt with the owl and a tootsie pop on it that says "how many licks does it take?" I love that shirt! A lot of people here at work aren't familiar with the old tootsie pop commercials, so they have no clue what the shirt is about.

A good visit with the parents...

My mom and Larry got in around 2pm on Friday afternoon... and left around 8 am this morning. It was a really nice visit. My mom was having trouble controlling her emotions...but heck, who wouldn't. Mom and I got to do some shopping. Our trip to Kohl's was a little disappointing... I know, I know... it is hard to believe that going to Kohl's could be disappointing. Mom was looking for some new robes for her and Larry. But, all they had were these super duper heavy fleecy/microfibery type robes. She wanted something a little lighter for herself and Larry needs something even lighter. I guess they only stock super thick robes in the winter.

Mom and Larry brought me a rocking chair from Uncle Clifford's house! He had two, mom is keeping the other one. They are soooo comfy. I have it in the spare bedroom right now. It looks great in there. I hope to refinish the wood and get it re-upholstered (I may attempt that myself). Here is a picture of the chair, I took this picture when we were in Cincy for my brother's wedding.



They also brought Mike a huge old 2 person saw. Mike fell in love with it when we were there. We hope to hang it over the doorway in our fireplace room (don't worry... we plan to secure it really really well to the wall!)

Fwd: testing

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> Ok... I am testing the email blog thing to see how it works (so I
> can hopefully make blogging a little easier on my mom!). I am
> supposed to be able to send an email and have the message post
> automatically. that is kind of cool...if it works!
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My (New and Improved) Spare Bedroom...

Here is what the bedroom used to look like back in 2005, when my grandparents came to visit.





Here are the pictures of our newly painted spare bedroom! (it is still a work in progress...but I thought I would post my hard work so far...)

I bought the new bedding with some of my Atlantic City winnings! I am going to have Mike make some shelves for the walls. I am going to paint them white. I have some antique fishing pictures that we got from Uncle Clifford. I am going to frame them for that room. My mom is bringing some of his old fishing things...old wooden bobbers and such, that will help to decorate the room. I am hoping that this room will be my little oasis...where I can retreat to when Mike is snoring to loud!! Oh yeah... we purposefully left the drawers out of the armoire. We plan on turning the opening into the kitties feeding station.

Amber Electric

Here is the link to Amber Electric. They have like a diamond or something in the picture...kind of reminds me of "amber sparkles" hmm... I wonder if there is any copy right infringment going on???

www.amberelec.com

I'm back...

Mike and I are back from our little get-away to Atlantic City. It was a very nice and relaxing trip! Mike suprised me with a room upgrade... he got us a suite!! Super nice!! It had a wonderful soaking tub!! I got like 2 baths a day!! It was wonderful!!

I forgot to take my camera :( so I don't have any pictures of the trip! bummer... I know! I saw so many awesome things from the car too. I could have had some awesome pictures taken from the car! Here are some of the things I would have liked to snap photos of...

Amber's Electrical
Picnic Grove Homes (the glorified name of a trailer park!)

ok... so I am now having a brain fart and can't remember all the other things I told myself to remember for the blog!

but... I do know that Mike and I came back with more money than we left with!! that is awesome! Mike bought himself a new chainsaw with some of his winnings. I bought new bedding for the spare bedroom. I don't know what we will do with the rest of the money... maybe save it for our next trip up there!

Rachel's Hats

Here are some picture's of Rachel in the hats that I made. Rachel was a piggy for halloween. She got to go trick or treating up and down the hallways at the hospital.

Not so bad...

So... the chiropractor wasn't all that bad. I did have to sit through a pretty lame video talking about how chiropractic treatment is the best possible thing you can do for yourself. A lot of what they "teach" ...they don't just want to help you they want to teach you... makes sense. It is all about the correlation of the spine and the nervous system to the rest of the body. As a biologist, it makes total sense to me. However, it is still kind of hard to get the "chiropractors are a bunch of quacks" idea out of my head. I am not into the total holistic approach that some of them use. I am all for medications, however... I also know that some medications are just bandaids. But, sometimes...you need the bandaid to help you heal!!

I do have to say that the best part of the visit was getting to lay on the massaging table for 10 minutes after my adjustment!! The table has these big rollers under it that move up and down massaging your back, neck, ect... so relaxing!

I also went to the dermatologist yesterday. One of the moles that they took off the last time I was there was "pre-cancerous" or something like that... They had only shaved and cauderized it the last time. This time... he sliced and diced me. They wanted to make sure they got it all, so thy have to dig deeper and wider than the area that the mole covered. I have an 1 1/2 to 2 inch slice in my arm. With 9 or 10 external stitches... and a whole bunch of internal ones too. It hurts pretty bad today. Which reminds me... I think I am due for some more tylenol!!