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Randoms?
I don't want this board to die! Let's do some randoms.
Mine:
My bff, another friend, and I are going to Motley Crue, Poison, and New York Dolls on Friday and I'm SUPER excited about it!
I've had a nasty cold since Thursday, and I feel like the Gross Girl at work. I've been sneezing and blowing my nose non-stop. YUCK. I really wanted to call in sick yesterday but thought no one would believe I was really sick since I was on vacation last week. I'd rather be the Gross Girl than the Slacker Girl, I guess!
H and I have a bike ride to see a movie in the park tomorrow and I'm really excited! I love summer.
Related to summer, all of my exercise has been outside this year and I'm worried that the cold weather will unravel all my weight loss and fitness efforts. I'm planning on running and biking in the cold but I'm worried about the ice.
Speaking of weight loss, a lot of friends/family/colleagues have noticed that I've lost weight, and have been asking "how did you do it??" like there's some magic secret. When I tell them I've been watching what I eat and I'm training for a half marathon they seem really bummed. Sorry it wasn't some magic cleanse or pill, people!
Sorry, I'm chatty today. I'm blaming my HUGE iced coffee.
Now you go!
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
Re: Randoms?
Keep up the good work, Noron!!! You'll find ways to exercise come winter. But that's a long ways off, so don't worry about it until you get there!!!!
-I am tired of TTC. I'm over it. I may be on the cusp of giving up temporarily.
-I am also tired of spending the week apart from H. I'm also over it. I don't sleep well, neither does he, so we're both exhausted all.the.time.!
-I didn't get to see any Furries last week when they were in town for their convention and I am still irrationally bummed by it. I won't be here next summer to see them! Also, I get irrationally annoyed when people get all "EW! FURRIES! I JUDGE THEM!" Because, really? Would you say the same thing if it was a swingers convention in town? I don't know what they are really all about, but they aren't harming anyone in public, are giving out hugs and smiles and essentially do whatever they do behind closed doors (if they are doing anything at all). Why does it have to bother some people so much?!
-I have been eating like a major fat kid since H left. With the house in shambles due to the floors being redone our kitchen has been basically unuseable. I've been eating out, or not eating, or eating whatever junk food I can find in the house. Gross.
-Confession: I have been slacking off at my job pretty much because...what are they going to do? Fire me? That would only get me unemployment and to WV to be with H sooner so please, by all means, fire me. I don't even care that I've been slacking off. It's a slow job anyways with not much to do. Oops!
Noron, I'm sure you'll find something when winter comes, but it's not even July yet so that's a long way off.
Maybe a break from TTC would be good for your mental health. Especially with the move and stuff, who wants eleventy things to worry about at once. Did you decide what to do with your house?
So about these Furries - either NBC or CBS did either a news story or a special about them a couple years ago. Apparently behind closed doors some of them have really foul sex. The other half does nothing, I guess. I saw this show on TLC, one of their ridiculous shows about people with bad habits, and one of them was a furry. Her problem was though she had a lot of mental issues about being out in public as herself, she would never ever do it and at the very least she would go out with her head and tail on over her jeans and t-shirt. She really needed therapy. I wonder how many Furries who go to these conventions just really need help.
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I don't think I have too many randoms. We went out for H's birthday to some hipster restaurant and the rest of our weekend went as usual.
H punched me in the face the other night while he was sleeping. It was totally innocent, I was facing him and I couldn't sleep, and when he rolled over he stretched out his arm in his sleep and bopped me on the mouth. I was startled more than anything and he goes, "What?" and I go, "You punched me in the face!" and I was bawling, more because I was startled than it hurt, and he was snoring again already. He didn't believe me when I told him. Oh well.
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Thanks! I know winter is SO far off, but I'm a huge planner! I think having to be in a bathing suit in December in Hawaii will be a big motivator. Maybe I'll take up ice skating!
This made me chuckle (not the crying part, the punching and not believing part), since it sounds like something that would totally happen to us. H is always elbowing me or kicking me in his sleep; luckily I haven't been bruised or anything, or people would talk! Do you guys have a double bed?
January 2, 2010
EDD October 10, 2013
Noron: get some cold weather gear, and you should be fine, just be smart about ice.
Panda: DH totally does that to me, and I end up bawling because I'm more starttled than hurt. You're not the onlyone!
I have poison ivy all over my body...even on my butt and under my boobs. I have 5 types of cream, and none of them seem to work, but I just put hydrocortizone on line body lotion, and I'm sitting in the AC, so it seems to help. I'm back on the oral steroid (I was on it at the begining of may), which literally made me psychotic. I'm also sooo hungry, so it's hard to keep counting my calories. I've had some sort of poison ivy/oak/summac since the last week of April, and I'm at my whits end.
I have 5 weeks left until my triathlon, and I'm slightly terrified. although I know I can physically finish, I want to do well.
I'm throwing a small (15-20 people) shower for my FSIL NEXT WEEKEND, and I feel like I have nothing done.
Noron - no we have a queen but we're fat-asses and both spastic sleepers. When we travel we bask in the king sized beds when we can get them
Melks- I'm glad I'm not the only one! Sorry about your poison ivy. My doctor used to prescribe me a hydrocortisone for my eczema, since the OTC ones don't have enough in them. The pharmacy would compound it in Cetaphil lotion and it really did the trick.
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It's one of those things that seems like an easy thing to simply take a break from until you're actually in the midst of it. A break isn't really going to happen. And I would take on eleventy billion tasks x1000 if it meant we would have a LO.
We're putting the house on the market once the floors are done and the movers take the house goods out this weekend.
Swingers do a lot of things behind closed doors that disgust me, but it doesn't harm me so what the eff do I care? I do a lot of things behind closed doors that might disgust others, but if I'm not harming anyone or offending anyone then it shouldn't be a big deal. I'm sure that there are individuals that have issues and become furries to deal with them. The show My Strange Addiction is chock full of people that do effed up things to cope with their mental state, like eat toilet paper. Or how about the woman on that food show that ate tartar sauce on EVERYTHING and it was a result of her needing to cope with her demons. At the end of the day, the furries just give great big hugs and wave hello to everyone they see. Whatever they do behind closed doors is completely up to them and within their right as a human being, so long as it doesn't impact me any!
Nora - congrats on how far you've come with running! I remember when you started C25k and now you're half-marathon training! My HM was one of the best experiences, so hopefully you have as much fun as I did.
Melko - sorry to hear about the poison, that sounds awful! Hopefully it heals soon
CCH - I know that there is nothing I can say that will make any difference with the TTC, but I am sorry that you are going through that. I can't imagine how stressful it is. I hope you get your BFP soon!
Panda - I have totally throat punched H before in my sleep and not remembered. It happens to the best of us
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As for me:
I threw a bachelorette party for my best friend in Cleveland this past weekend with her cousin (I'm the Matron, she's the Maid) and it was amazing. Such wonderful things above and beyond what we planned. A limo was cheaper than a cab, so we got this amazing limo and driver, and then a guy we met at the first bar took us to his friends bar downtown and got us in VIP and free bottle service so we got a $200.00 bottle of patron, then the guy beside us in VIP ordered us a bottle of Dom.
I kind of hate my internship because I'm working with 3 other students that have never held a 9-5 job before and I feel like I'm babysitting. They keep asking what to do next - I just want to scream at them to grow up and learn to self-motivate. UGH!
Even though I am down 8 pounds since May, I am having a serious fat day.
I was riding my bike to work today and have panniers on it (those saddle bag things) and had a huge text book that I'm lending to my friend on one side, which had me weighted funny. Because of this I couldn't take my hands off of the handle bars to use hand signals. I looked behind me to see if I could cross into the turning lane at a red light and there was a car really far back, so I just crossed. This old guy pulls up beside me and lectures me for the entire red light about the importance of using hand signals so that drivers know what I'm doing. There was one hand signal I really wanted to give him, and I bet he wouldn't have liked it very much.
Wow! Lots of random stuff here....uhhhh....Happy Almost Hump Day everyone!
1. I am throwing a birthday party for DH on Saturday and I am SO STRESSED OUT. It's nothing fancy, but I have so much stuff to do between unpacking and cleaning and keeping up with everything. I feel like I need a stay at home vacation. I am excited though, he hasn't really done much for his birday in recent years. I'm making him superhero cupcakes and I think I'm going to get him a nice bottle of bourbon and some bar glasses.
2. I have no motivation to do my work at my job anymore. None. Zilch. The only thing keeping me there is the paycheck.
3. If we don't conceive on this cycle we'll have to wait a few months to try again. I didn't temp this cycle, with the move and work stress I just needed a break but we've had lots of great sexy time so I'm hopeful. I've also been sleeping bettter in the new place and generally happier. I know that whether I get a BFP or not, we're in a much better place here to start a family if we're so lucky to conceive. I also stopped going on the GP board every day because although I love it, I was getting obsessive over charting and every little feeling and I just need a break this cycle. I think it helped. I feel a little selfish because it's only our third cycle and some of those ladies have been trying MUCH longer. But, everyone's journey is different.
4. I have felt a strong desire lately to visit the west coast with DH, maybe spend some time in San Diego and then drive up the coast. I have never been to CA and would love to see it. I'm also nervous that we'd go out there and never come back to New England.
5. I finally got most of the new office cleaned up and unpacked and it just makes me want to work from home even more. There's a big picture window and it let's in the nicest light in the morning. My work office has no windows and it's next to the kitchen so I am always hearing gossip and chatter. Me no likey.
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