Wow, I've been busy, and haven't written much. Since I'm feeling a bit lazy about the whole thing, I'm going to take the easy way out and fill out this random blog chain letter thingy:
Four Jobs You Have Had In Your Life:
1. Barista
2. Scientist
3. Arby's Cashier
4. Project Manager
Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over:
1. The Breakfast Club
2. Bend it like Beckham
3. Crimson Tide (zero bubble)
4. Legally Blonde
Four Places You Have Lived:
1. Pittsburgh, PA (go Steelers!)
2. Pasadena, CA
3. Seattle, WA
4. Butte, MT (only during the week, for a year)
Four TV Shows You Love To Watch:
1. American Idol
2. The Closer
3. Project Runway
4. Law & Order (though the guy on CI is soooo annoying!)
Four Places You Have Been on Vacation:
1. Las Vegas
2. Vancouver
3. Hawaii (22 years ago!)
4. My house (sometimes the best vacation is when you don't have to go anywhere!)
Four Websites You Visit Daily:
1. Spike, Peanut & Me
2. CNN
3. Weight Watchers
4. Google
Four Of Your Favorite Foods:
1. Macaroni & Cheese
2. Sushi
3. French Fries
4. Anything Mexican
Four Places You Would Rather Be Right Now:
1. Singapore
2. Hawaii
3. Las Vegas
4. Anywhere with sun
Four Bloggers You Are Tagging:
1. Suz
2. Lisa
3. Dave
4. Experiglot
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Tequila in his heartbeat
Happy Anniversary to my parents, who have been married for 36 years today! Wow, what a long time. I hope they're having fun in Vegas, the ideal place for any celebration.
I've been less than motivated to do much of anything lately. Lots of work to do, tons of little things around the house, and I still can't get rid of this cough. Plus I'm having some trouble sleeping, which is insane. I'm the "fall asleep anywhere, need 10 hours a night" kind of girl so it's freaky to lie in bed and not be able to sleep.
I started lifting weights again (for real) on Sunday after hearing Dr. Pamela Peeke speak at Microsoft's Women's Conference last week. She talked about the importance of taking care of yourself, "removing" extra weight (because you usually want to find things you lost!) and the importance of building up muscle. All things I know, but needed to hear again. Now I'm just really, really sore.
Peanut and Spike are loving life now that TJ is home during the day. Trips to the dog park, a nice warm place to sleep and a person to entertain them. What more could they ask for? Life is good for these dogs.
I've been less than motivated to do much of anything lately. Lots of work to do, tons of little things around the house, and I still can't get rid of this cough. Plus I'm having some trouble sleeping, which is insane. I'm the "fall asleep anywhere, need 10 hours a night" kind of girl so it's freaky to lie in bed and not be able to sleep.
I started lifting weights again (for real) on Sunday after hearing Dr. Pamela Peeke speak at Microsoft's Women's Conference last week. She talked about the importance of taking care of yourself, "removing" extra weight (because you usually want to find things you lost!) and the importance of building up muscle. All things I know, but needed to hear again. Now I'm just really, really sore.
Peanut and Spike are loving life now that TJ is home during the day. Trips to the dog park, a nice warm place to sleep and a person to entertain them. What more could they ask for? Life is good for these dogs.
Monday, January 09, 2006
The red thread that binds me to you binds her to me
Yay. I have a nice life. What brought on this spewage of happiness? I just booked our tickets to Hawaii today, for the postponed honeymoon. We will be spending 10 days on Oahu, 5 days at some Marriott resort thanks to some deal they sent us through the mail, and then another 5 days, hopefully in the Kailua area, in a rental cottage TBD. I am using my Alaska Airlines miles, accumulated from my years at Deloitte, so our tickets are free. (woo hoo!).
So I have a couple of months to get into decent bathing suit shape. Should be doable with the freakish 5 lb loss I had this week. I realize that was an anomaly, and some of that weight will come right back this week, but it was nice to see. I hope to get back to the gym by this weekend.
I almost fell asleep at work today so I worked a few hours then came home and took a glorious 4 hour nap. It'll be nice to be over this illness. I feel a lot better, but still pretty tired. The next couple of days is the "Women's Conference" at work - should be fun.
Yay for Hawaii!
So I have a couple of months to get into decent bathing suit shape. Should be doable with the freakish 5 lb loss I had this week. I realize that was an anomaly, and some of that weight will come right back this week, but it was nice to see. I hope to get back to the gym by this weekend.
I almost fell asleep at work today so I worked a few hours then came home and took a glorious 4 hour nap. It'll be nice to be over this illness. I feel a lot better, but still pretty tired. The next couple of days is the "Women's Conference" at work - should be fun.
Yay for Hawaii!
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
This is the land of the living
Ok, I'm finally lucid enough to post again. I haven't been this ill in ages. After Saturday, it just went downhill. I finally got to the Dr. yesterday and she gave me the usual Z-pack and benzonate cough pills. She's really nice, but I don't have a lot of confidence in her diagnoses. I think once I'm better, I'll find a new doctor. I'm somewhat afraid that what I have is viral and the antibiotics are unnecessary. Then again, on Day 2 of the antibiotics, I am feeling better. So who knows.
Now TJ is sick too, so we're a pretty sad bunch. Basically we've spent all day, one of us in bed and one of us on the couch downstairs. We're kind of in that "don't come near me" icky sick phase. We did watch "The Closer" last night - another super episode! (That made me think of Big Gay Al on South Park - Super!)
The good news is that I'm not especially hungry so I'm not tempted to eat everything in sight. TJ made the executive decision to take the cake over to John and Jenna's on Saturday, which leaves us with the much less dangerous champagne. Which neither one of us has any desire to drink now anyway.
Well, back to another day in bed. I think the dogs have figured out that we're sick because they seem to be less fidgety and ok with just sleeping in the same room as we are. Peanut comes over every now and then and gives us a delicate lick to make sure we're ok, I guess. If I get really adventurous I might try to throw in a load of laundry. Good times!
Now TJ is sick too, so we're a pretty sad bunch. Basically we've spent all day, one of us in bed and one of us on the couch downstairs. We're kind of in that "don't come near me" icky sick phase. We did watch "The Closer" last night - another super episode! (That made me think of Big Gay Al on South Park - Super!)
The good news is that I'm not especially hungry so I'm not tempted to eat everything in sight. TJ made the executive decision to take the cake over to John and Jenna's on Saturday, which leaves us with the much less dangerous champagne. Which neither one of us has any desire to drink now anyway.
Well, back to another day in bed. I think the dogs have figured out that we're sick because they seem to be less fidgety and ok with just sleeping in the same room as we are. Peanut comes over every now and then and gives us a delicate lick to make sure we're ok, I guess. If I get really adventurous I might try to throw in a load of laundry. Good times!
Saturday, December 31, 2005
something's burning
Ick. Who's lame enough to come down with a cough and fever the morning of New Year's Eve, when we have not one, but two fun parties to attend? And even lamer, to get sick on the Saturday of a 3 day weekend. Can't even get a sick day from work.
This always seems to happen when I get back into the exercising and eating right groove. You'd think my body would be happier with all the clean living. My trusty digital thermometer (cheapy one from Longs Drugstore) tells me I'm at 101.4 degrees. (How do you get a degree sign to show up anyway when there isn't one on they keyboard??)
And we bought a fairly expensive chocolate mousse cake to take to Nathalie's party tonight, which will now sit in the fridge because TJ doesn't know them well enough to go there by himself. Danger Will Robinson! At least he will go to the Calixtos' for a few hours and take them the cute little bottles of bubbly we bought them at Seattle Cellars.
Weighing myself today was lame too. (It's been a lame day all around, ladies and gentlemen.) I lost the mysterious half pound I gained last week. So I'm where I was 2 weeks ago. Fabulous. But I have completed 11 workouts in the past 2 weeks which is probably more than I worked out in the 3 months before that, so that's still an accomplishment.
Actually, the one high point of the day was watching the Pilot episode of The Closer on TNT, starring Kyra Sedgwick. We watch so many crime dramas (3 flavors of Law & Order and CSI) that I didn't think it would be all that good, but WOW, was I wrong. An interesting plot line, though TJ, smartypants and TV connoisseur that he is, picked up on it at the beginning, but it wasn't blatantly obvious like on bad shows.
Here are some of the other reasons why I liked it so much:
1. Kyra Sedgwick's character is quirky, not in a TV, outlandish, Mimi sort of way, but reassuringly normal. I *loved* the part where she's faced with a box of donuts, keeps giving them sideways glances, finally picks one up, holds it, puts it down on her desk and licks off the glaze from her finger. Later in the episode she finds the donut and finally just tosses it into the trash with conviction. (Now all of this is kind of in the background while she's talking about something critical to the plot.) Just a really cool little real-life attention to detail there.
2. She's not "too pretty" for the role, and dresses in a way that's actually believable for a detective. (Don't talk to me about Ally McBeal or Angie Harmon, etc.) Her accent is also adorable, though I think people from Atlanta don't really have such a thick accent. Maybe the Georgians out there can correct me...
3. There's a lot of subtext about being a woman in a position of power, and having to come in and lead a reluctant team, especially one full of guys who aren't the most enlightened bunch in the world.
4. The detectives on her team, and the characters in the show are pretty diverse, almost a bit contrivedly so, but nice to see they're making an effort. Black and white, Latino, male and female, and even an Asian cop. Nice to see an Asian on TV as something other than a doctor. Don't get me wrong, it's better than always being portrayed as a thug or gang member or the Good Guy Who Always Gets Killed First, but it's great to see Asians playing other roles as well. Now all we need is that cute British Indian chick from ER/Bend it Like Beckham to become a detective too and we'll be all set!
So I was sad when it was over, because we just had one episode on the TiVo. But now we have a Season pass! Unfortunately it's only on once a week, but this gives me hope and something else to watch until American Idol 5 starts again in earnest.
Well, back to sleep. Hopefully I won't miss the ball dropping. It's so lame that we here in Seattle have to watch it on tape delay. What kind of idiocy is that? Lame, I tell you!
Happy New Year, my loyal readers!
This always seems to happen when I get back into the exercising and eating right groove. You'd think my body would be happier with all the clean living. My trusty digital thermometer (cheapy one from Longs Drugstore) tells me I'm at 101.4 degrees. (How do you get a degree sign to show up anyway when there isn't one on they keyboard??)
And we bought a fairly expensive chocolate mousse cake to take to Nathalie's party tonight, which will now sit in the fridge because TJ doesn't know them well enough to go there by himself. Danger Will Robinson! At least he will go to the Calixtos' for a few hours and take them the cute little bottles of bubbly we bought them at Seattle Cellars.
Weighing myself today was lame too. (It's been a lame day all around, ladies and gentlemen.) I lost the mysterious half pound I gained last week. So I'm where I was 2 weeks ago. Fabulous. But I have completed 11 workouts in the past 2 weeks which is probably more than I worked out in the 3 months before that, so that's still an accomplishment.
Actually, the one high point of the day was watching the Pilot episode of The Closer on TNT, starring Kyra Sedgwick. We watch so many crime dramas (3 flavors of Law & Order and CSI) that I didn't think it would be all that good, but WOW, was I wrong. An interesting plot line, though TJ, smartypants and TV connoisseur that he is, picked up on it at the beginning, but it wasn't blatantly obvious like on bad shows.
Here are some of the other reasons why I liked it so much:
1. Kyra Sedgwick's character is quirky, not in a TV, outlandish, Mimi sort of way, but reassuringly normal. I *loved* the part where she's faced with a box of donuts, keeps giving them sideways glances, finally picks one up, holds it, puts it down on her desk and licks off the glaze from her finger. Later in the episode she finds the donut and finally just tosses it into the trash with conviction. (Now all of this is kind of in the background while she's talking about something critical to the plot.) Just a really cool little real-life attention to detail there.
2. She's not "too pretty" for the role, and dresses in a way that's actually believable for a detective. (Don't talk to me about Ally McBeal or Angie Harmon, etc.) Her accent is also adorable, though I think people from Atlanta don't really have such a thick accent. Maybe the Georgians out there can correct me...
3. There's a lot of subtext about being a woman in a position of power, and having to come in and lead a reluctant team, especially one full of guys who aren't the most enlightened bunch in the world.
4. The detectives on her team, and the characters in the show are pretty diverse, almost a bit contrivedly so, but nice to see they're making an effort. Black and white, Latino, male and female, and even an Asian cop. Nice to see an Asian on TV as something other than a doctor. Don't get me wrong, it's better than always being portrayed as a thug or gang member or the Good Guy Who Always Gets Killed First, but it's great to see Asians playing other roles as well. Now all we need is that cute British Indian chick from ER/Bend it Like Beckham to become a detective too and we'll be all set!
So I was sad when it was over, because we just had one episode on the TiVo. But now we have a Season pass! Unfortunately it's only on once a week, but this gives me hope and something else to watch until American Idol 5 starts again in earnest.
Well, back to sleep. Hopefully I won't miss the ball dropping. It's so lame that we here in Seattle have to watch it on tape delay. What kind of idiocy is that? Lame, I tell you!
Happy New Year, my loyal readers!
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