Tuesday, November 6, 2012
POTD: November 6, 2012
Journal: November 5, 2012
I hate when I don't journal before I go to bed. I mean it was only yesterday and I sure as hell don't remember what happened. Let me see...
So, I know I woke up. That's a given. And I headed downstairs for my date with the treadmill. Started week 3 of Couch 2 5K over again because I haven't run in awhile and I wanted to start again with a routine I knew I was comfortable with. The numbers weren't bad. I still hate running - when will this nirvana people talk about kick in - I'm still waiting. Maybe it'll kick in when my ass isn't as fat as it is now - yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
After working out went and got ready for the appointment with my head doctor. Worried about the winter months as always as my depression seems to really kick in then. I will say that working out has helped in this area a lot and I think if I stick with it as much as I can (maybe lose some damn weight!) it will help with this. The doctor agreed. She doesn't want to make any medication changes but wants me to continue working out and start seeing a counselor again. Sigh. Before I found my previous counselor, I had seen so many people and none of them fit and then I found Paula and we fit. She didn't coddle me. She didn't let me get away with stuff. She called me on my "bullshit" as she called it. I loved her. When she left, I was devastated. I just don't want to go through the seeing 40 people again to find one. It's harder than dating, I swear. So I discussed this with the doctor - she thinks that she knows someone that will work. I made an appointment with her on December 8th. We'll see.
Saw a sign on my way home that reminded me of just how close we are to the devastation that Sandy caused. Still so sad about this.
Work was work today - there was actually some genuine things I needed to get done and those were accomplished. Awesome.
I attended a seminar for Crafting your Business. Found out a lot of interesting information that I'll see about implementing as time allows.
Got mail delivered for the first time in over a week and had to go to the post office because they held one of my packages as "undeliverable". Just one more reason Stew can't stand our mail person. Most of it was junk mail, I did receive 3 boxes of craft goodies! And this ad for Joann's. I posted this on Facebook, but I think it bears repeating - this is the epitome of false advertising. There's no way a Steelers fan and a Browns fan sit together on the couch so amicably. Just no way - wait until Shawn comes home and we're watching the Steelers and Ravens - I'll post some pictures and then we'll see what it looks like when divisions play against one another.
Stew came home from work and worked out on the recumbent bike. Numbers were good: 8.22 miles, 243 calories, 45 minutes. He's watching From Earth to the Moon while he works out and he's enjoying that.
While he worked out I made this recipe that he found on food.com
Spanish Chicken Rice Bake
It took way longer than 45 minutes to cook. So long in fact that we gave up and had cereal for dinner, but once it was done, I served both of us a small portion. We like it, which is good because it's Wednesday night's dinner. Tomorrow I'm making pot roast in the crock pot.
We ended the night watching CSI, but not for long. I was exhausted. In bed at 9, asleep by 9:30. Soooo tired.
So, I know I woke up. That's a given. And I headed downstairs for my date with the treadmill. Started week 3 of Couch 2 5K over again because I haven't run in awhile and I wanted to start again with a routine I knew I was comfortable with. The numbers weren't bad. I still hate running - when will this nirvana people talk about kick in - I'm still waiting. Maybe it'll kick in when my ass isn't as fat as it is now - yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
After working out went and got ready for the appointment with my head doctor. Worried about the winter months as always as my depression seems to really kick in then. I will say that working out has helped in this area a lot and I think if I stick with it as much as I can (maybe lose some damn weight!) it will help with this. The doctor agreed. She doesn't want to make any medication changes but wants me to continue working out and start seeing a counselor again. Sigh. Before I found my previous counselor, I had seen so many people and none of them fit and then I found Paula and we fit. She didn't coddle me. She didn't let me get away with stuff. She called me on my "bullshit" as she called it. I loved her. When she left, I was devastated. I just don't want to go through the seeing 40 people again to find one. It's harder than dating, I swear. So I discussed this with the doctor - she thinks that she knows someone that will work. I made an appointment with her on December 8th. We'll see.
Saw a sign on my way home that reminded me of just how close we are to the devastation that Sandy caused. Still so sad about this.
Work was work today - there was actually some genuine things I needed to get done and those were accomplished. Awesome.
I attended a seminar for Crafting your Business. Found out a lot of interesting information that I'll see about implementing as time allows.
Got mail delivered for the first time in over a week and had to go to the post office because they held one of my packages as "undeliverable". Just one more reason Stew can't stand our mail person. Most of it was junk mail, I did receive 3 boxes of craft goodies! And this ad for Joann's. I posted this on Facebook, but I think it bears repeating - this is the epitome of false advertising. There's no way a Steelers fan and a Browns fan sit together on the couch so amicably. Just no way - wait until Shawn comes home and we're watching the Steelers and Ravens - I'll post some pictures and then we'll see what it looks like when divisions play against one another.
Stew came home from work and worked out on the recumbent bike. Numbers were good: 8.22 miles, 243 calories, 45 minutes. He's watching From Earth to the Moon while he works out and he's enjoying that.
While he worked out I made this recipe that he found on food.com
Spanish Chicken Rice Bake
It took way longer than 45 minutes to cook. So long in fact that we gave up and had cereal for dinner, but once it was done, I served both of us a small portion. We like it, which is good because it's Wednesday night's dinner. Tomorrow I'm making pot roast in the crock pot.
We ended the night watching CSI, but not for long. I was exhausted. In bed at 9, asleep by 9:30. Soooo tired.
POTD: November 5, 2012
Sorry yesterday's posts are so late - been trying to get to them all day!
Stew installed the new shower head in our master bathroom - the shower head wasn't the issue with the water pressure - the house just has low water pressure - we must figure out a way to fix this! We must! It takes way too long to rinse out my hair.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Journal: November 4, 2012
Lazy pajama day around the house.
Started the day in the scrap room. Did the video for the winner of my October contest and alerted my you tube subscribers to the November contest.
Found a web hosting site as part of my day 4 assignment for Craft your Business. Can't wait for the teleconference tomorrow. I have some questions.
Finally finished that layout of Will and Grace picking apples. Glad that's done and now I can move on to something else. Really should work on getting Project Life caught up.
Stew got up and headed out to the grocery store and Home Depot. He installed the new shower head in our shower but doesn't think it helps the water pressure at all and that sucks.
We had BLTs for lunch or in Stew's case BLCs. Add cheese, subtract tomato.
We watched some more of season 4 of CSI. Only 90 seasons to go. LOL
Watched the NASCAR race. My poor Kasey. Scraped the wall in the final laps, chase chances, slim though they were at the start of the day, are now completely wiped out. Damn Jimmie Johnson won again. Sigh. Only good thing about that is that I love Chad. I mean you have to love a crew chief that tells his driver that he should go back to saving fuel because he was going faster when he was doing that than when he was driving hard.
Race finished and Stew switched back to regular tv to find the Steelera game on. There were 2 minutes left, Giants were out of timeouts. I seriously could not believe what I was seeing. Maybe I shouldn't watch at all anymore. They do better when I don't, those bums.
Went back to the scrap room to import another video to narrate tomorrow.
Ended the night looking at message boards.
Now, going to read a few pages of my book and head to bed. Back on the treadmill in the morning.
(This post was written on my iPhone so any typing errors or misspellings, I'm blaming on Apple.
Good night, ya'll.
Started the day in the scrap room. Did the video for the winner of my October contest and alerted my you tube subscribers to the November contest.
Found a web hosting site as part of my day 4 assignment for Craft your Business. Can't wait for the teleconference tomorrow. I have some questions.
Finally finished that layout of Will and Grace picking apples. Glad that's done and now I can move on to something else. Really should work on getting Project Life caught up.
Stew got up and headed out to the grocery store and Home Depot. He installed the new shower head in our shower but doesn't think it helps the water pressure at all and that sucks.
We had BLTs for lunch or in Stew's case BLCs. Add cheese, subtract tomato.
We watched some more of season 4 of CSI. Only 90 seasons to go. LOL
Watched the NASCAR race. My poor Kasey. Scraped the wall in the final laps, chase chances, slim though they were at the start of the day, are now completely wiped out. Damn Jimmie Johnson won again. Sigh. Only good thing about that is that I love Chad. I mean you have to love a crew chief that tells his driver that he should go back to saving fuel because he was going faster when he was doing that than when he was driving hard.
Race finished and Stew switched back to regular tv to find the Steelera game on. There were 2 minutes left, Giants were out of timeouts. I seriously could not believe what I was seeing. Maybe I shouldn't watch at all anymore. They do better when I don't, those bums.
Went back to the scrap room to import another video to narrate tomorrow.
Ended the night looking at message boards.
Now, going to read a few pages of my book and head to bed. Back on the treadmill in the morning.
(This post was written on my iPhone so any typing errors or misspellings, I'm blaming on Apple.
Good night, ya'll.
POTD: November 4, 2012
All this time and Stew finally gives me a key to the house. Actually, my original house key has not been working so great so Stew got me a new one made when he went to Home Depot today. He even tested it for me before he gave it to me. How awesome is he?
Journal: November 3, 2012
Got up this morning around 7:30. Headed down to the craft room to get some time in down there before Stewbert woke up. I did the first three assignments for a class I'm taking this month with Lain Ehman - it's called Crafting Your Business. How great would that be to be able to make money from sitting in my scrap room - lovely! I don't know what will come of it, but I thought I could take this class and see what it may take to build a business from this. The first two assignments focused on why you'd want to do this and what resources you have to dedicate to it. The assignment for today was to look to see if a domain name that you may want for your business is available. I checked. Mine was! So I bought it. ginabeth.com - belongs to me. I guess I'll find out as we work through the assignment what I should be doing with that.
I purchased the prize for my October contest winner. I really need to put up the information on youtube about November's prize. Hopefully, I'll get to that tomorrow.
Stew woke up in major task master mode and I'm happy to say we got a lot done. We got all of our DVDs put away. We own 13 DVD storage containers that hold 100 DVDs....except for leaving some room in DVD Thing 1 for Wii games, we only have 70 slots left in DVD Thing 13. Pretty incredible to think of the number of DVDs we own.
Besides that we went through all of our books. From 7 full bookshelves to this....
That's all we have left. We love books, but storing them just takes up so much room and now that we both have Kindles - paper books just
So now we need to find homes for all of these books.
We got the exercise equipment where I want it.
And we cleaned up the kids' room.
Following that, I got all of our clothes put away. Changed the way I organize them, too - so that was a mountain to tackle.
We have a few more things to finish up tomorrow, mostly general cleaning and laundry - but I'm thinking tomorrow is definitely a pajama day. I'm going to play in the craft room. Stew's going to watch football (I may watch too if they broadcast the Steelers game around here). I'm going to put something warm and fall like in the crockpot for dinner and we're just going to relax a little.
We ended today by ordering Pat's and watching tv. I had spaghetti. It was good, as usual. Stew tried something new. He ordered a roast beef melt to go along with his potato skins - he said it was surprisingly good.
We watched Elementary, Vampire Diaries, Blue Bloods, Project Runway All Stars. (We watched Person of Interest while we were eating breakfast this morning.) Vampire Diaries just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I don't particularly like anyone on Project Runway All Stars - but Person of Interest, Blue Bloods and Elementary - loving those shows.
We turn our clocks back tonight - an extra hour tomorrow. I can sure use it.
Ohhhh, another thing I need today before Stew got up - I started our Christmas shopping. I have 4 of the kids done and if I had ideas for the other ones, I could have finished those up today, too. I'll have to call parents tomorrow.
And I end the night with a picture Clint Bowyer posted to Twitter - it's the fly over from today's Nationwide race. HA! It's JETS!!! He loves me. LOL.
Good night, ya'll. I'm going to read for awhile and then get some much needed sleep.
Started Christmas shopping. 4 of 11 kids done.
I purchased the prize for my October contest winner. I really need to put up the information on youtube about November's prize. Hopefully, I'll get to that tomorrow.
Stew woke up in major task master mode and I'm happy to say we got a lot done. We got all of our DVDs put away. We own 13 DVD storage containers that hold 100 DVDs....except for leaving some room in DVD Thing 1 for Wii games, we only have 70 slots left in DVD Thing 13. Pretty incredible to think of the number of DVDs we own.
Besides that we went through all of our books. From 7 full bookshelves to this....
That's all we have left. We love books, but storing them just takes up so much room and now that we both have Kindles - paper books just
So now we need to find homes for all of these books.
We got the exercise equipment where I want it.
And we cleaned up the kids' room.
Following that, I got all of our clothes put away. Changed the way I organize them, too - so that was a mountain to tackle.
We have a few more things to finish up tomorrow, mostly general cleaning and laundry - but I'm thinking tomorrow is definitely a pajama day. I'm going to play in the craft room. Stew's going to watch football (I may watch too if they broadcast the Steelers game around here). I'm going to put something warm and fall like in the crockpot for dinner and we're just going to relax a little.
We ended today by ordering Pat's and watching tv. I had spaghetti. It was good, as usual. Stew tried something new. He ordered a roast beef melt to go along with his potato skins - he said it was surprisingly good.
We watched Elementary, Vampire Diaries, Blue Bloods, Project Runway All Stars. (We watched Person of Interest while we were eating breakfast this morning.) Vampire Diaries just keeps getting weirder and weirder. I don't particularly like anyone on Project Runway All Stars - but Person of Interest, Blue Bloods and Elementary - loving those shows.
We turn our clocks back tonight - an extra hour tomorrow. I can sure use it.
Ohhhh, another thing I need today before Stew got up - I started our Christmas shopping. I have 4 of the kids done and if I had ideas for the other ones, I could have finished those up today, too. I'll have to call parents tomorrow.
And I end the night with a picture Clint Bowyer posted to Twitter - it's the fly over from today's Nationwide race. HA! It's JETS!!! He loves me. LOL.
Good night, ya'll. I'm going to read for awhile and then get some much needed sleep.
Started Christmas shopping. 4 of 11 kids done.
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