It's been a while…

August 16th, 2009

So, I’ve been at the point where I don’t really want to simply blog about my weight loss. Or health. Well, not exclusively anyhow. I originally wanted to be able to blog on my website but honestly, I don’t think I feel comfortable with using it in a diary type way. Too many people know the site and it’s too easy for people to get their feelings hurt. It’s annoying to me. Then again, what is it saying about me that I want to remain anonymous? It’s not very straight forward of me even though I pride myself in being that. I guess it’s a conundrum, eh? So, to continue… I’ve been busy. Haven’t lost a lot of weight in the past two months (gosh, I need to update that sidebar!) but I have been losing inches. I’m trying to focus on that versus the pounds themselves. The sad reality though is that the USCG doesn’t give a flip about my inches lost. I need to fit into their weight limits no matter what. I’ll get there. I just don’t want to drop weight too quickly and then gain it all back. Seems a bit fruitless then, right?

In other news, it is currently 2:30 AM and I am wearing this robe thing that is incredibly itchy. I also have to be at a four hour training class in seven hours. Oh, and it’s for a job that I hate and won’t be keeping. How do I know this? Oh, easy! My younger son is having a surgery in September and they won’t give me nor my husband the time off for it. We can only have the day off if we find people to cover our shifts. Uh, yeah. Right. I’m totally going to ditch this job for one that will allow me time off for something important like this. I mean, it’s not like I’m sitting there heading off to some fantastic party. It’s amazing that there are still companies out there that can behave this way. I know it’s a horrible economy out there, but I don’t think that gives any company the right to tell parents to choose between a surgery for their child and their job. Because make no mistake, I will not be at work instead of his surgery. It just ain’t gonna happen. And make no mistake that if I don’t quit, they’ll be firing me for it. It’s ok in the end. I don’t want to work for a company that treats me so horrible. It’s not right and I wouldn’t do it to my employees (if I had any, that is). It’s crap and that’s exactly how I feel. Lucky for them that I’m not going to mention them by name because I’m just not that evil. Maybe some day I will be, but not today.

Oh, and this whole USCG makes me cry. At this point, even when I do meet the physical side of it, I can’t seem to make headway on the financial side. I know why they do it. I just wish I had a solution to make it work like they want. :( Maybe it’ll all work out. I might have a Fairy Godmother hiding out somewhere waiting to meet me and sprinkle some Fairy Dust on me! In the meantime… I’ll be over here exercising & looking for a replacement job. Anyone want to hire a hardworking administrative assistant?

mood: tired but not sleepy
listening to: Troubadour by George Strait

Fun with BMI!

May 15th, 2009

I was reading an article on BMI being misleading, so I thought I’d put my numbers in for some good old fashioned BMI fun.  First off, I used the NHL’s BMI Calculator. It seems to be a fairly accurate calculator as far as they go.  And it doesn’t tell me I’m Morbidly Obese if I weigh a certain amount.  Who thought that was a good phrase to coin anyhow?  Heaven knows it’s not a good scare tactic.  I mean, we all weigh too much for different reasons, but I’m sure that everyone who’s overweight can tell you that they know they’re negatively effecting their health.

Right now, I am considered obese with a BMI of 34.

When I get to 163.7 pounds, I will be overweight with a BMI of 29.9.  (Yeah, that’s the highest point on the range before being obese!)

When I get to136.4 pounds, I will be in the normal BMI range at 24.9.

My CG goal weight puts me at 27.2.  So…  The CG doesn’t mind me being overweight before entering Boot Camp.  Maybe that’s because they know I’ll lose it all in Boot?

Funny is that my goal weight of 115 pounds is a solid 21 on the BMI scale.  Right smack in the middle of normal range.  I can tell you for certain, that to be considered underweight I have to weigh 100.8 pounds and that isn’t going to happen.  That’s probably Hollywood thin and I’m sure I can’t reach it.  Nor do I want to.  I have no desire to be a tiny size 00.

Back to the Beach

May 12th, 2009

So, I’ve officially gone back to being a hard ass about my food intake.  This also means that I’m following the South Beach diet down to the letter.  A friend of mine bought me the new book (South Beach Super Charged) and I’ve read through it all.  Even though I have the original book, the new one has some different recipes in it, which I like.  I’ve also thought of rejoining the South Beach Yahoo Group.  I don’t know though, they get kind of whiny.  Not that I don’t get kind of whiny, just that there’s a limit to the amount of whinyness that I want in my world!  :)   Go figure, eh?

On a side note, I made the Vegetable Quiche in a Quiche dish versus the muffin tin and absolutely love it.  Much easier for me to deal with AND I’m not wasting muffin liners.  :)

Maybe I really *am* crazy

May 2nd, 2009

I’m visiting a town where I used to live and there’s someone that I needed to give something to.  He’s not really my friend, he’s really my husband’s friend.  However, I was tasked with giving him this one item, so I was out to get it done.  On Thursday, I happen to be going by his apt multiple times through the day, so I called multiple times to see if he was around.  The first time was at 11 am.  No answer, so I leave a message.  I’m thinking that he’ll likely not call me back because he probably won’t even listen to his messages.  Seems like most guys I know don’t listen to theirs in a timely manner.  Heck, come to think of it, I have a hard time listening to *mine* in a timely manner unless it’s left on my cell.  Ad that’s only because my cell beeps at me until I listen.  But I digress.  Anyhow, around 2pm, I call again as I’m driving by the intersection he lives near. No answer again but this time, I don’t bother leaving a message.  Then I call back at 4pm & 7pm, both times are as I’m going by the intersection.  Why am I going by this intersection so many times?  Because I’m cleaning someone’s house out and it’s full of stuff.  So, I’ve been making multiple runs to the dump and their storage unit.

At this point, I’m just like, ok…  Guess he’s not going to be around at his house at all today/tonight.  So, I drop it until Friday.  Now on Friday, I don’t even bother calling him.  I simply ask his best friend to confirm his address and let him know that I will be dropping said item off at the office of his apt complex.  It’s really going to be a pain for me to make my errands around when he’ll be home, so I thought, this could be the perfect solution.  So I leave it, with a post-it note and call the husband with the great news that his package has been delivered.  Except the husband tells me that his friend has something that’s supposed to be returned to my husband.  I guess it was an exchange and no one remembered to tell me.  So I call the guy up and of course, he again doesn’t answer.  So I’m like, hey, sorry to bother you, I was hoping to pick up the thing for the husband, please call me and let me know when’s a good time.  I am slightly dejected.  But it has nothing to do with the guy and everything to do with disappointing the husband.  That’s at 3pm.

Fast forward to 8pm Friday night.  I find out that I might be on the opposite end of town for the remainder of my stay.  Shit!  So, I figure that I’ll take the high road, send the guy’s best friend a text asking if it would be possible to come by Friday evening and pick up the package.  No response.  For real, the amount of “no response” I was getting was unbelievable.  Even if I dislike someone, or they’re annoying me, or whatever, I give them the dignity of responding.  I think it’s simply a common courtesy type of thing.  The husband contacts his friend in a game the mutually play and his friend says that he’d rather mail the package to my husband instead of me picking it up.  At this point, I’m amazed and hurt.  My husband can get a response but I can’t?  And all I’m doing is trying to get a package delivered and a package picked up.  Unpossible!

So, I go around feeling like the gum on the bottom of someone’s shoe for a while.  The rest of the evening, as a matter of fact.  But, I decide that it’s not something worth persuing beyond a simple text to the guy who is being the jerk.  My text went something like “You know, I’ve never been made to feel so worthless my entire life. Thanks for that and have a nice life.”  Did I mention that the husband tells me just after he talks to the guy that the number I have wasn’t for his house but was his cell?  Yeah, that would have been handy to know in the beginning…

So, I call it a day, delete the numbers and addresses out of my phone since they weren’t of any further use to me.  The this morning at 7am, I get the following text: First off, the reason I didn’t call u back was well. Weird.  But I figure there’s more coming, so I just hang back and wait.  At 7:10, I get:  A) calling me four times in one day… After the fact of one i was not home all day and two i didn’t have my phone with me is HELLO!  Is a little much.  B)  after getting ur so called “message of guilt” i now know what ur true intentions were.  So back at ya have a nice life. Interesting.  So, I responded with:  I didn’t leave a message of guilt, I had just argued with X. I don’t have a clue what my “true intentions” were other than “shit, X’s not happy with me”.  As for calling, I was literally driving past your apt every time I called b/c of my friends & where their storage unit is.  I didn’t think it would hurt to call.

I don’t understand people.  Although if this has been a girl, at least I could blame it on her being a stupid female.  It’s just dumb.  Some days, it doesn’t pay to talk to people.

Stumbling Blocks

April 10th, 2009

I am sitting here looking at my credit report and thinking that it’s not as terrible as it was 5 years ago.  The husband and I have made great progress in reducing our debt after being dumbasses in our early years.  It’s hard not to be sucked in, ya know?  Still though, there’s a lot riding on the plate right now as I can’t have anything in collections (at all) and everything must be in payments or paid off and my debt to income ratio can’t be more than 30%.  So…  Yeah.  That sucks.  That means that my total debt payments can only be a max of $900.00 or so.  I’m doing a rough guesstimate as total income is based on what I’d make out of basic and what the husband makes right now.  It’s not a whole lot of play room.  I started making phone calls yesterday to figure out exactly how much some of the odder debts want.  It’s not the most fun experience, let me tell you!

Of course, I’ve been doing this for years now.  Just not so many at one time.  At this rate, the financial side isn’t going to be done for a year.  If I work two jobs, I probably could get it done in six months.  I wonder if I’d die in the process though?  Either way, it’s the suckage.  If someone finds a money tree, please, send me a sapling, k?  :)

Let's start with the weighty issue

April 9th, 2009

I weigh too much to get in at the moment.  My wrist is just over 6 inches in circumference which means I need to weigh in at a max of 149 pounds.  I weigh 190 pounds right now.  Yeah, it’s a lot of weight to lose.  And I’m losing it at thirty, which means that my body is going to fight me.  At least that’s what everyone tells me!  I wonder if my body just hit thirty and said “Yo, wench, I am not doing your bidding no more!”  I’m thinking not.  So, I’m being optimistic and upping my exercise and chopping my calories.  And cutting my carb intake down.  I can’t live without carbs and I don’t think it’s healthy to go without them anyhow.  I just want to cut them down to make it easier for my body to want to burn the fat on me.  Of course I will be ditching the sweets (not completely, but not eating them every day) and increasing my veggies.  Which is easy, because I really do love veggies!  :)

I don’t have a goal date in mind for losing the weight, though at the pedestrian pace of two pounds per week, I’m looking at being at 149 around the first week of September.  But I’ve never lost weight that slow.  Of course, I’ve never been this heavy before, either.  I’m going to play it by ear, I suppose.  I’d like to go to Bootcamp this summer while the children are out of school.  But that’s doesn’t leave me a lot of time to lose the weight, so that might not be realistic.

Not that it matters, I was told by the recruiter that I can’t even go to get the physical exam until I meet the weight requirements.  In the meantime, I’m focusing on meeting the physical requirements for bootcamp.  I’m told this is for the end of bootcamp, but I’m using it as a guide for entering.  :)

  • 15 push ups in a minute
  • 32 sit ups in a minute
  • run 1.5 miles in 15 minutes, 26 seconds
  • sit and reach to 19.29 inches past my knees
  • jump off a five foot platform into a pool, swim 100 meters in five minutes, then tread water for five minutes

Right now I can do the 15 push ups (as a girl, I am going to progress to doing them the “right” way) and the sit & reach.  I’m not worried about the swimming, the husband says that it’s the easiest part of the testing process.  And I can walk 2.2 miles in 45 minutes, so I definitely need to work on the running aspect of it.  I’m confident I can do them all, just need to practice them.  If anyone actually reads this and has any tips, I’m all eyes!  :)

So, I came up with this great plan…

April 9th, 2009

I was going to be dumb and play the “I have a dream” card, but honestly, that phrase gets a little overused as is.  But I digress.  I’m a thirty year old girl who’s trying to get into the US Coast Guard.  Yeah.  At thirty.  The only people who know are my husband and my cousin (she’s one of my oldest friends).  I haven’t told any one else.  Bet you’re wondering why?  Well, maybe you aren’t, but I’m going to tell you any how.  :)   I don’t think that everyone in my world would be that supportive.  Most don’t know that I wanted to join the military since I was younger but didn’t for a variety of reasons.  But I’m ready and mature and the older I get, the more I think that I probably made a mistake not joining up at 19.  But we can’t live in the past and I love my life as it’s come along.  :)

Reported Attack Site!

June 22nd, 2008

When people visit my site via the fantastic Firefox 3, they get the below image:

Incredibly frustrating is the fact that there is no helpful information to explain exactly what the culprit is. Most everything is a bit vague and basically, tells me to clean out my site. I don’t have a huge problem doing this but you’d think they could be a bit more helpful. Supposedly Google sends out an email when they find a problem like this, but not only do I use gmail but also their website stat services and no email anywhere. Makes me wonder how many other programs are blocking my site without me having a say on the matter.

I’m not malicious and neither is my site. Now to just prove it to Google and the world. (Oh, and thanks to Darel for pointing out that Firefox 3 brands me evil!)

Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer Go

May 20th, 2008

Movie Tickets

We went and saw Speed Racer on Saturday. It was eye candy in some scenes. And definitely had some imaginative story telling (via imagery). But… I wouldn’t see it again in the theatre. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have seen it at all in the theatre if it wasn’t for the Terrors. And I must say, they absolutely loved it. :)

Oh… As we were entering, someone said to me, “The chimp steals the show.” Couldn’t be more accurate!

Oh… And the theme song is available on iTunes. Definitely a swingy little ditty. It’s a dance styled song and I had to buy it because it makes me want to get up and dance around the room. :)

Oh… National Treasure: Book of Secrets came out of DVD today! Gonna have to buy that sometime because I just love that movie. Well, and because I like to look at Justin Bartha. ;)

Frustrated with duplicate postings

May 7th, 2008

I don’t know why it’s happening and yet it is. There are duplicate posts showing up on Rachel’s blog. To call it frustrating is an understatement. I finally upgraded her to 2.5.1, which was easy, as usual. I can’t think of a time when upgrading Wordpress was tough, so that’s not really a surprise. And yet, every post that she’s made since the upgrade has duplicated and I can’t figure out why. I’m still researching, but if anyone has the answer, please leave a comment or send me an email! TY!

It was a plugin. Not sure which one, but it’s fixed! Woot! :D