Excuses

So.  The 30 Day Shred.  Not happening today.

I know, I know.  I said no excuses but this is a crazy week for me at work with my co-worker being gone and one of our students just left and well, I don't handle change well, okay?

The plan is to start it on Friday which is my day off and take it from there.  I would really like to still be alive when I go see Alice in Wonderland on Saturday.



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Seriously?

Yesterday, while at Wal-mart getting the necessities in life (chocolate milk and peanut butter and fudge cookies), I stumbled upon a never before seen part of the store (mostly because the store is being remodeled and nothing, nothing is where it is supposed to be).  I found myself in the fitness aisle and they had exercise DVDs for $9 each.  $9.  I couldn't pass that up so I bought two, Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred and The Biggest Loser Workout Cardio Mix.

Yes, I'm fairly certain that I am sick.  Especially as I actually plan on trying them.

I've been thinking about exercising for awhile now but it really hit me in February.  February is when we get a physical for our health insurance at work.  They take your pulse, blood pressure, weigh, measure and bleed you to death take a vial or two of blood.  Then they give you a little glossy card with all the above information (including a wonderful BMI chart) and send your blood back to the vampires lab so they can run tests.

I hate that glossy little card.  For the past two years, I have been listed as obese.  Okay, I wear a size 12.  And I am obese. 

So, I have decided that I am going to exercise so that next year I can tell that little card where to go be friends with the little card.  I will be starting the 30 Day Shred tomorrow (Tomorrow?  Really?  Are you sure?  Yes, Kelly tomorrow.  No excuses.)

I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow.  If, ya know, I'm still alive.


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I'm tired and I wanna go home ...

Home...
Home...
Hooooooome.


(Don't worry if you don't get the reference. Although you are missing out on one awesome John Wayne movie.)

Lack of sleep combined with stupidly forgetting my allergy pill is making Kelly Lynn not a happy camper. I am grumpy and also, snotty.

I am ready to go home to my nice warm bed with my nice warm kitties and perhaps not wake up until oh, April? How does April sound to you?

Alas, I have to go home in the fog, which my weather alert tells me is not just fog but DENSE FOG. Which means snail speed all the way home. Yay!

And there will be no bed for me when I get home. I need to fix supper, clean off the table, put the dishes away from Monday, put the clothes away from Sunday and Monday, and OMG CLEAN THE CAT BOXES! Seriously, two kitties should not feel the need to poop and pee as much as they do.

Then and only then am I allowed into bed. Where I will be smothered by Emme and Kisa. Kisa will sprawl lengthwise down my body (of which she is almost half of me!) and be dead to the world while Emme will pin my legs down and bite me if I move and growl in ALL CAPS because OMG MOM! WE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!

Let me just say that it is not a fun time when the alarm goes off.




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Okay....

... not sure why my background has pulled a runner.

And now it's back.

Weird.

And now it's gone again.

And back.

:sigh:

Feeling a little sick ...

... that I wasted all that money.

I just paid back two credit cards at $404.76 and $419.96 respectively. I have not used either of these cards for almost 2 years because they were maxed out. And now, they have a balance of $0.

I feel like such a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. 




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The Results Are In ...

I HAZ MONEEZ!


I did my taxes and am getting a nice fat check from the government.  Life is sweet.

I will be using the money to pay off two credit cards (about $800 total) and using the leftovers to to pick up some much needed items (such as JEANS which I have not bought since COLLEGE) and I am trying very hard to make sure that I am not frivolously throwing my money away. 

Sooo, I'm not getting the kitties spayed.  And no, I don't think that spaying my cats is a frivolous thing.  It's just too cold!  I kept telling myself that just as soon as I got my refund, off to the vet we would go.  But I didn't figure that we would be in the middle of the Year of the Blizzard(s) and have 50 gazillion tons of snow dumped on us.  So the kittos and I are going to wait until Spring to venture out, probably by boat after all this snow melts.  If, ya know, we actually have Spring this year.

Anyhoo, I'm trying to make up a master list of stuff I NEED.  And trying to justify it, of course.  (I have a weird vision of myself as Rebecca from Confessions of a Shopaholic when she is justifying buying gloves because SHE HAS HANDS!)



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1001 Things Update

Here's a little update on some of the goals I'm trying to work on.


**Get Emme and Kisa spayed. Goodbye $175.  Debating on this.  I am hopeful that after my tax refund and subsequent repaying of two of my credit cards there will be enough left over to get the girls spayed.  Or buy me a freezer.  Decisions, decisions.

**Wash face everyday for a month.  Doing pretty good on this one.  If you don't count weekends.  I'm lucky if I can drag myself from bed to the couch.

**Save $1000-1500  Hoping that this is one is a little closer in the making.  After paying off my two credit cards, I should have about $100 more in my budget, of which $50/month is going straight into a piggy bank.

**Pay off 2 credit cards  As mentioned above, I am using my tax return to pay off my credit cards (Thank you, Jesus!  Amen.).  My first return I ... did something with(?) the second I bought a bed, the next a car so now I'm working on debt.  Really fun.  Can't I buy another bed.  Or something?

**Pay off smallest student loan  The other $50 (or maybe $25) is going on to my smallest student loan.  Only $950 left!  Whoohoo!  We will not mention my other student loan.  Unless you want to see me weep bitter, bitter tears of hate.

**Put up blind in guest bedroom  The blind has been in the bedroom for 6 months now.  Why is it so difficult to actually ATTACH it to the wall?  Why?

**Meal plan every week for a month.  I've stuck to my meal plan so far.  Granted it's only nine days in but hey, February is a short month, right?  I get points for that.

**Lose 25 pounds  Okay, that number may be slightly high.  I would settle for 2.5 pounds right now.

**Cut cable package to internet only  I have a phobia of calling my cable provider.  I always sound like an idiot and no one can understand what I'm trying to explain.  I mean, I use technical terms and everything like ya know, the green light thingy is blinking or the green light thingy isn't green anymore but orange or maybe yellow?

**Buy a freezer  I have wanted to buy a freezer for a long time.  Especially since my grocery store has been having great deals on their meat that I cannot participate in because my freezer is full.  'Cause it's dinky.  And mean.

**Learn how to bake bread  There is a possibility this will be attempted on Friday.  Stay tuned for further announcement.  Also, be afraid.  Very afraid.

**Decide on keeping desk or not  Probably leaning toward yes.  Right now it is holding my almost-as-old-as-I-am TV which is allowing me to watch Poirot before bed.  We do not mess with the Poirot watching.

**Start exercising  Umm, yeah.  No comment.

**Organize recipes  This will take me five hundred years.  But five hundred years from now I will be the most organized cook in the world.  Also, very old.

**Catch up on tv series  Right now, I'm through Season 1 of Torchwood, about halfway through Season 2 and dragging my heels for Children of Earth.  I'm not sure I can watch.  Also, watching Poirot and slugging through my Netflix queue (which I can watch on my new Blu-ray player!) of which there are 358 movies and/or tv series to get through.  Where's another blizzard when you need one?



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