Good evening, or should I say night, lol. How is everyone doing?
Kind of a quiet day around here. I got up and picked up Caleb from school. "Can we go to McDonald's Mom?" "Don't you want to go to martial arts, today? If you do, we don't have time for McDonald's right now, but Daddy can take you after class." "I don't want to go to martial arts, I want to go to McDonald's now." Oh sure. Caleb's been twice this week to martial arts so that's fine by me. Drive to McDonalds, order, and get up tot he window to pay and guess what? I forgot my wallet at home. Silly me! I had it pulled it out last night buying something online and forgot to put in back in my purse. "Sorry boy. You can go to McDonalds tomorrow. Do you want to go to martial arts now?" "No, I want to go home and watch cartoons." Okay. Caleb has extra homework to do today as we didn't get finished yesterday so that is okay with me, too.
Oh guess what I got today? I really have been doing so horrible on my diet since going to San Diego. As a matter of fact, I have gained 4 pounds since then. Ugh. That means not only did I gain back the 3.4 pounds I had lost, I gained an extra pound also. Yea! Just in time for the holidays to hit and Kathryn's cheesecake. Ugh. So I decided since I was having a hard time losing weight and getting motivated that I would try one of those food prepared diets. eDiets has one such program and you can choose from all sorts of plans like low fat, low cholesterol, low carbs, diabetic, etc. I chose low carb for this week and then got to calculating and determined it probably wasn't going to be the best plan for me. It would if it was more like Atkins, but it's not exactly Zone friendly (40%protein, 30%fat, 30%carbs). So I am choosing low cholesterol for next week as it is the closest plan to Zone offered. So eDiets prepares all the meals fresh and send it to you a week at a time. All the food is stored in your refrigerator, not the freezer. I've eaten two meals so far today and they are both very good. The down side of all this is that it is pretty expensive, but I'm all for that if I can start losing the weight I need. Hopefully I can jump start my weight loss and switch over to me cooking pretty soon. This is kind of a birthday present to myself, KWIM? I just can't go around being fat and 40-something forever. I just hate looking at myself in the mirror. I want to lose 25 pounds, and that is a lot on me to lose being only 4'10". Another thing I've got to do is get back to exercising and get rid of the Halloween candy! I took some to work already, but I need to get it ALL out of here. 
Oh man, my right hand is hurting like crazy! I injured it last year when the boy decided he had to be first into the house and tripped me in the process. Now I know he didn't mean to hurt me, but I fell and jammed my hand into the door frame. I had/have a "gamekeeper's fracture" which is a break between the thumb and index finger. It has taken almost a year for it to get better because I'm stubborn and refused to wear a cast because "I can't work wearing a cast". Dumb me. Well my hand has been feeling much better the last month or two, so what do I do? I scrub the heck out of my shower tonight and now my hand is throbbing. Pretty smart. Oh, did I say it's my dominant right hand that is hurt. Of course it is! LOL.
Have a great night!
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Thursday Threesome::A Day in the Rain::
Onesome: A Day--or so ago? Oops, wrong meme. Wait, that might be cool... "A Day or So Ago, I saw......." You fill it in <my boy doing “kick and punch”>!
Twosome: in-- case of rain, do you carry an umbrella? ...or do you just hoof it in a hat? Depends if I get a head’s up or not. If I’m in my car or heading to my car, then I grab the umbrella.
Threesome: the Rain-- in Spain? Nah, how about locally: has the rainy season kicked in for you yet? Snow? Nothing? Come on, it's almost Thanksgiving here in the States! The rainy season has already passed for the desert of AZ. We should get another monsoon season in the spring.
Oh this is kinda silly, dumb, a waste of my time. I'm sitting here filling out my "orientation packet" for work. I'm mean, come on. I'm not even on orientation as I've been working at this facility for a year now. Forget the fact that I just signed on as an employee, I've worked in this facility, in this ER, as a registry nurse for one year. Okay, so no orientation for me, "it's not needed" according to the Nursing Director. So why am I having to fill out an orientation packet, can someone please tell me?
So basically here is what I am doing. I'm going through the stack of papers and checking off on each one that I've "met my goal" on a million little tasks. Now I've got to rate my orientation experience and my Mentor. Huh? How the heck am I supposed to do that? Am I supposed to play pretend and make up comments? Oh geez!
Just sneaking an entry under the radar. Not much happening here today. Just sleeping after work, picking up Caleb from school, hanging out with my boy and doing homework together. Talked with Hannah on the phone. David at work. Night night!
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Hey guys! Did you have a good weekend?
De
Not much happening here today, thank goodness. Monster headache going on all day. Or I should say since I woke up because I slept until 4:00pm, lol. Couldn't get to sleep this morning until after 7am, ugh. I do hate sleeping the day away though, because I feel as though I don't see my kids, especially if it's a school night.
De
I had to get up and take Hannah to the airport today. I swear I just couldn't get it right. First of all I forgot to print her boarding pass last night and then we were at the end of the street today when I remember. I backed up and ran in to print it off the Southwest Airlines website and I got a nice little message..."The number of online boarding passes has been allocated. You will need to check in at the kiosk." What? I've never seen that before. Oh great, I hope she makes her plane. So that means we are running late now. Southwest encourages you to check in 90 minutes before your flight here because Phoenix is such a busy airport and it was now 1:15 and her flight was at 2:55. We are going to cut it close. Speed to the airport in my nice new zippy fast car, park and get in line at Southwest. Short line for a Saturday, so why isn't it moving. What? They only have 6 attendants and they are slowwwwwwww. We wait for 45 minutes to check in and the lady helping us must be new cause she is having major problems. Finally! In the meantime, Stephanie, who is flying with Hannah, calls me like 15 times asking me "are you on your way, are you here yet, where do you want to meet, are you checked in yet, do you have your boarding pass yet, are you headed through security yet, etc, etc, etc". And I'm like going to kill Caleb because he is bouncing around and asking me fifty-hundred questions and not staying beside me. The we finally get through security and to the gate and Stephanie goes "so I guess your luggage won't be on the plane with you". I'm like more than annoyed with her by now and go "Why would you even think that?" She said "Oh I asked the ticket agent if you weren't check in by now would your luggage be on the plane and she said no." Long glaring stare by me. "I'm going to go with the agent who actually checked us in and that if that was a possibility she would have informed us." Geez. Did she just want to make my day any worse?
I almost forgot...It's Veteran's Day! I just want to say "Thank You!" to everyone out there who is working hard to fight for our rights and feedom. Without you we wouldn't be the Greatest Nation on Earth! 