AtomicMrX

I had an appointment with my Dermatologist Wednesday night after work. My appointment was for 4:30 so I showed up in their parking lot at 3:40 and talked with Mom on the phone for a half hour to see if their power was back on and to get caught up on the news. So around 4:15 I though I should go in and begin the wait in their waiting room. They are never prompt and you have to sit in their waiting room for at least 15 to 20 minutes before they put you in a little room and wait some more for the doctor.

Finally at 4:55 I was taken to a little room to await the doctor. The A/C was not working right and I was hot in the room! I mean hot! Well, I waited and waited and waited and waited. I thought everyone had left at one point and forgot I was in a room but then at 6:15 (yes that is six fifteen!) the doctor came in to do the follow up on two ingrown hairs that she gave me some ointment for (which did nothing). She spent about 2 and a half minutes with me telling me I was stuck with the little bumps unless I want to get them cut out which would leave a two inch scar (let’s see a bump the size of an eraser or a two inch scar…. hmmmm). That was it. I waited for an hour and forty-five minutes to see the doctor for 2 minutes. I think she felt bad. She apologized numerous times for making me wait.

I left the dermatologist just furious and agitated. There had gone three hours of my already short evening. By the time I got home it was 7:00 (I go to bed at 8:30). I got a call from Shannon at 8:00 (got off from work) and went to get him then went directly to bed.

To make things worse, a storm was moving through at the time I went to get Shannon from his work and bring him home. The winds were so strong it made it hard to see out the windows of the car - they were a sheet of water! Plus it had nocked the power off at some of the major intersections and suddenly everyone was stupid and either sat at the intersection not knowing what to do or ran through blindly!

I’m taking some Personal Time today at work (probably two hours) so I can go home and just do nothing! I think I need a vacation (which I can’t afford). Everything seems to irritate me lately. I’ve eaten really badly this week and that is making me mad too. I need to get back on track.

My Topsy Turvy Tomato plants are really growing with all the rain we’ve had this past week. The gardens are really enjoying the rain as well.

I got the Wii Fit and have been using it every day. It is a good work out for a person like me (totally out of shape). The Yoga and Strength exercises are really making my thighs work! I can feel it and then some! I have really good balance and posture (at least that’s what my Wii Fit Instructor keeps saying) I just need to work on my core so I have better balance. I tend to sway when the exercise requires me to balance on one foot. I just need to build up the muscles in my feet. I use to have fairly strong feet in college but that was over 25 years ago (I AM SO VERY OLD! - sigh).

Jaki is loving the backyard. She runs around out there whenever we are working on the gardens and stuff. We don’t leave her back there unattended because there are some VERY big dogs that could (and have) jumped our fence and would easily think she is dinner.

Shannon put a lot of time into our gardens and it shows! I will take some pictures and post in the next week!

I used Mr Clean on the floors yesterday and I am very impressed! I use to use Pine Sol and thought it was good but we used it all up and I happen to have some Mr Clean left over from apartment days (over 5 years ago) so I used it instead. The floors have never been so clean, shiny, and feel great on the ol’ bare feet! The Pine Sol would tend to leave the floors sticky if you got the ratio off on water to product.

I had a great concoction last night. I wanted a smoothie and I didn’t have all the ingredients to make a Weight Watchers recipe so I made one up base on it. It was like a shake and kind of like sorbet. Very good and I ate the whole thing (I need to make a smaller batch next time!). Here is the recipe and it is very easy and simple.

1 package of Sugar Free - Fat Free Instant Vanilla Pudding & Pie Filling mix
16 oz package of whole frozen Strawberries
2 Cups Skim Milk

This makes 2 rather large servings or 4 one and a half cup servings (I went with one humungous serving!).

In a blender, put the milk, Vanilla Pudding & Pie Filling powder mix, and frozen strawberries; blend on high (scrapping down the sides often) till nice and smooth. This will thicken as it sets because of the Vanilla mix. It’s part of the Core plan for me so I don’t know how many points it would be for the Flex people.

It was so good - I thought I was cheating! I also bought a Chocolate Fudge Pudding & Pie Filling mix and can’t wait to try that one out!

Work has been very slow which is very unusual. We are normally doing over time because of the political season and the Memorial Day holiday - but we are not. We barely have work to keep us busy during the work day! I hope things pick up a little bit more as we get closer to election day!

I downloaded a free demo of DS Crosswords and it was a lot of fun. Made me think about spelling (which I’m horrible at) and wasn’t too hard to make me feel discouraged. It’s a cheap game too… only $20! That is unusual! I think I may pick it up - I need to keep this old brain a thinking and a little practice at spelling words correctly wouldn’t hurt either!

Well, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth or anything. Just have been going through a lot with family and such.

I still am loosing weigh and not gained since joining Weight Watchers. This week I lost a whopping 4 ounces (last week was 2 ounces!)! But hey- it’s a loss! So I have officially lost 14 pounds brining my current weight to 206.6 (start weight of 220.6) pounds. One more pound and I get my third 5 pound star!!! Whoo Hooo!

Get to feeling better brother Bill! Don’t pop your glue stitches trying to get out of bed!

Shannon bought an egg coloring kit and wanted to do it before Easter - so that meant today!

Here are the pictures of our little fun. I haven’t done this in years! It was fun and we didn’t even make a mess (big shocker)!

Now we have to eat them all!

Well, I’ve been busy and neglected the blogging. Sorry everyone!

Shannon is doing great on his diet. He has lost 35 pounds in a little over a month. My diet? not bad but nothing like the great looser Shannon (whoops, that doesn’t sound right). I have lost (in 7 weeks) 10.1 pounds. Not bad, and at least I’ve lost each week and haven’t gained (yet). I’m on Weight Watchers and Shannon is on a modified Atkins diet.

Last weekend was crazy busy on the computer. I spent the entire weekend working on a friends web site to finish it up. He had paid me some more money and I thought it was time I stopped dragging my feet and just dig in and get it done. Take a look at it if you want. Bense (the owner of the web site) did all of his own layouts for each page and I did the code/HTML to make it work online.

I changed doctors and went for a physical this past week. It had been almost 10 years since I had a good physical. I’ve gone to the doctor plenty of times - just not for a physical. Since I’m well over 40 I should have my prostate checked every year. I got that done and a ton of blood work. I have to get up every night at least 3 times to go to the bathroom and I have recently had a sudden outbreak of boils (fun! aint it?) both of which are warning signs of diabetes. So they will check that out and let me know. I just had the blood drawn this morning, since I forgot that is usually done during a physical and I ate the day of the physical.

Jaki is doing great. No more weird behavior that we could not explain (stroke? siezures?) and she is letting me work my finger around on her teeth in prep for teeth brushing!

Have a great Easter Weekend everyone!