Showing posts with label NASCAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASCAR. Show all posts

Sunday, February 20, 2011

DAY 21, Post 3

It's been a lovely day...  A lovely weekend for that matter...

Today Thing 2 had a Jedi Training birthday party to go to, and he came home with a new Yoda costume and a bag full of candy from a pinata.  I asked him if they used their light sabers to break into the pinata and he said no, a golf club.  Hmmm...  Seems some Jedi wasn't quite thinking about the powers of the force.

I went in to get my schedule this afternoon and I have tomorrow and Tuesday off and I work Wednesday 10-5.  I'm thinking this means I'll be working full days this weekend, but as long as I get a fair share of hours I'll be satisfied.  I told CT this afternoon though that I plan on getting a full-time day job by the end of March.  I WILL get a full-time day job by the end of March.  While I love my co-workers at CMG, I would much rather know that I have every night and weekend to myself...  as well as not have to clean bathrooms and the lovely floor drains.  I'll keep my job at CMG so that I can maintain my health insurance post-divorce, however I need...  Something more...

On the way home from picking up Thing 2 from the birthday party we stopped at Family Video and got a couple movies (for me and CT) and a video game.  The movies are Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Monty Python and the Life of Brian. 



I find it quite amusing how some things seem to parallel (YOU will know what I'm talking about).  Last weekend we got Paranormal Activity 2.  Not as good as Paranormal Activity (1) in my opinion but still scary.


CT is helping me achieve my fitness goals, even if for now I'm just getting psyched about them and haven't started working on them yet.  Having lost 60-70 pounds in the past year I've got a little bit of belly to burn away, and I'll be doing crunches everyday until I have money to do something more (like join a gym) about it.  Push-ups may also be in the cards, but...  I've never been a fan of push-ups.  It would be nice, however, to finally be able to do a pull-up.  I've NEVER been able to do one.  Imagine that, being able to do my first pull-up at age 32.  How completely satisfying!  Oh, how I would love a belly like Gillian Michaels'.


Mom asked me this morning if I would rather have clothes or money for my birthday, and the most honest answer I could give her was "Mom, I have no idea what size I wear."  Jeans I bought in October or November no longer fit, to the point that they fall off my hips when I'm at work.  It's ridiculous to think I've lost that much in just three months.

And on to the NASCAR race...  Denny Hamlin almost had it for me.  But with four laps left some other drivers crashed and sent him back to 24th position.  He made it back up to 21 though, but entering the season with 21 isn't exactly where I wanted to be.

Tonight I am making Lasagne for dinner.  Is it homemade?  No.  But this awesome Stoffeurs lasagne has been sitting in my freezer for some time now and I'm looking for it to be gone.  I didn't make breakfast today, and honestly, for the first time in a weeks I didn't miss Breakfast with the Beatles.  Maybe that means I'm finally moving on.  Yay me!

DAY 21, Post 2

Ahhh...  Today is...  NASCAR's opening day!  Ha ha.  I should be sitting here making my pick but my head and heart just aren't in it.  Yea, this city-chick-turned-country-hick is in a season-long NASCAR pool, thanks to my dear Aunt Flushy.

I started knitting Block 4 of my blanket last night and then started watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  I made it through the first movie, but only 20 minutes of the second before falling asleep.

I've begun to resent checking my mail, email or postal mail.  Yesterday after getting back from the YMCA I checked the mail to find a ton of paperwork regarding the divorce.  I'm getting highly frustrated because I need to turn in paperwork this week and I still haven't been able to get my file cabinet, or even the files within it, from DH. 

Then when I checked my email this morning I had another response to an email I had made weeks ago for a surprise for CL-WoW.  Why the hell can't the universe just let me continue on my path without constantly reminding me of him?  The email was regarding his love for Deloreans (yes, the car from Back to the Future), and was telling me he could/can have a ride in one on March 4 in Cincinnati if he wants one.  Sigh...  I tried to set this up with such good intentions, so why does it make me feel so much like shit?

Thing 2 has a birthday party this afternoon with a Jedi training theme, and I'm trying to figure out something affordable to do with Thing 1 while that's going on.  Well, forget affordable.  Let's just be honest here.  Something FREE.  It will make me sound extremely cheap, but the $10 birthday present for this little boy REALLY doesn't fit into my budget.

Well, back to my NASCAR selection.  I don't want to get penalized the first race for not having made my pick!