so, our insurance company decided that for us to get a "discount" we have to go online and fill out all this stuff and earn points. i guess it is just leveling the playing field cuz the old system was you marked a form that you were either a smoker, non-smoker or smoker trying to quit. the last two options got you the discount. seriously? who is going to be honest, yeah, i am a smoker and i love it and i am never gonna quit and in the time it took me to mark this box i smoked 5 cigarettes! it was stupid.
now we have to log on and fill out a self report form telling our blood pressure and cholesterol and weight and what not. then you have to earn more points by doing certain other things. well, once i filled out my self report i immediately got an email saying i qualified for a health coach! it was so quick after finishing that it never crossed my mind that maybe everyone got one or every 50th visitor to the site got one or something like that. instead i saw it as a sinister message that i was in a bad way!
my coach asks me a lot of questions. most of them about what i currently do, what my goals are and what i am doing to get there. seriously? shouldnt he be telling me how to reach my goals? now, i read a LOT and i know how much you should exercise and what you should and should not eat, i am not stupid. my problem is sticking with a plan. i can cook healthy and eat healthy and even up my exercise but sticking to it for more than a couple months is my problem. and i always know when i am starting to falter....................
there it was, shining brightly in the sun, bone white, on the car seat, a tell-tale sign that i had gone off the healthy wagon that day, there it was mocking me, for all to see, a seasame seed! damn you ronald!
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
stacking
so today i was going to use my george foreman grill and i was looking for the drip pan that goes under the front lip to catch the grease. i have two of them, saved one from a grill that i tossed after years of service, so even tho one was in the sink to be washed i knew i had another one lurking in the kitchen.
forgive me as i have a flashback, they work in the movies, hope it works here. when i was growing up my father was a pretty lazy guy. i still havent figured out how his mind works and am glad actually. i remember opening the refrigerator to look for something and seeing this strange stack of tupperwared leftovers in a leaning tower that could only rival the pisa! see, my father only believed in using the middle of the top shelf for EVERYTHING! not only is that an issue but he also had a problem stacking items. you see, depending on how they migrated to the refrigerator the smallest item could very well be on the bottom or middle of the stack. his stacks were never largest on the bottom and decreasing in size going up until the smallest is on top. oh no. he did not hold to any conventions, ever, whatsoever. if he had a small container, in it went, if he then had a big container, in it went on top of the small one and so on in the order of putting it into the fridge, not size!
well, my mother was one for a place for everything and everything in its place according to size with the largest on the bottom and continuing up in decreasing size until the top item was the smallest. rebel! so, it did not sit well with her when she opened the refrigerator and saw one of dad's leaning towers of leftovers. she used to curse him and wonder why he couldnt figure it out and how if he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right he got it wrong every time. i also had to shake my head in wonderment and frown.
fast forward too many years to admit and i cant find that damn drip pan. i am scouring the kitchen when i look over to the table with the grill on it, it has to be there! finally i turn to my leaning tower of miscellaneous and there, tucked under the box of granola bars but before the much smaller box of flavored water packets, is that damn drip pan! i, like my father, in a bad case of i will deal with it later, had created a tower of large box on top of small box with a drip pan in between! damn.
forgive me as i have a flashback, they work in the movies, hope it works here. when i was growing up my father was a pretty lazy guy. i still havent figured out how his mind works and am glad actually. i remember opening the refrigerator to look for something and seeing this strange stack of tupperwared leftovers in a leaning tower that could only rival the pisa! see, my father only believed in using the middle of the top shelf for EVERYTHING! not only is that an issue but he also had a problem stacking items. you see, depending on how they migrated to the refrigerator the smallest item could very well be on the bottom or middle of the stack. his stacks were never largest on the bottom and decreasing in size going up until the smallest is on top. oh no. he did not hold to any conventions, ever, whatsoever. if he had a small container, in it went, if he then had a big container, in it went on top of the small one and so on in the order of putting it into the fridge, not size!
well, my mother was one for a place for everything and everything in its place according to size with the largest on the bottom and continuing up in decreasing size until the top item was the smallest. rebel! so, it did not sit well with her when she opened the refrigerator and saw one of dad's leaning towers of leftovers. she used to curse him and wonder why he couldnt figure it out and how if he had a 50/50 chance of getting it right he got it wrong every time. i also had to shake my head in wonderment and frown.
fast forward too many years to admit and i cant find that damn drip pan. i am scouring the kitchen when i look over to the table with the grill on it, it has to be there! finally i turn to my leaning tower of miscellaneous and there, tucked under the box of granola bars but before the much smaller box of flavored water packets, is that damn drip pan! i, like my father, in a bad case of i will deal with it later, had created a tower of large box on top of small box with a drip pan in between! damn.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
lame excuses
excuses. they come so easily to some and in some situations. some excuses sound really great and some just sound lame. oh, sorry i have a thing, me and friend are doing something, i already have plans. sounds like they are simple excuses, but the lack of details make them sound pretty lame, if you are lying and start to give details they usually just start to sound even lamer. i have had a couple favorites over the years, i think they sound pretty lame, how about you.
first there was the boy who would instant message me alllllllllllllllllll the time, even stay online til the wee hours of the morning. we worked together and he would basically ignore me at work, like it was his dirty little secret. well, one night we were instant messaging and i was bored, i wanted to do something, fun. so i got out my trivial pursuit game and started asking him questions, ok for awhile, then i wanted to take my turn answering. i told him to ask me questions, he couldnt think of any. so i say why dont you come over and we can play trivial pursuit. love this one, hope you do too, his excuse was: "it wouldnt be fair to the dog, i have been at work all day and he hasnt had a chance to see me". Really? really! i couldnt believe it! i got on my cell phone and called a close friend and read the conversation and the lame excuse to her, she couldnt believe it either! but wait there is another one in the race for best lame excuse.................
my other favorite one is from an older friend of mine, by older i mean she has grandkids. when my mother died she decided to become my friend, i appreciate it, her husband had died almost a year before and i figured she needed the support. well, finally she got remarried but before that... we would have breakfast and talk about things. she was getting more independent and doing a lot of things on her own, like going to her home country to see her family, and i was encouraging her to do new things and stand up for herself with her kids. she told me she had met a guy and was gone most of the year on trips with him and we would meet up when she was back in town. i was shocked when they hadnt known each other but about 6 moths and she announces she is engaged. i was happy for her and attended the wedding. then she stopped having time for me. i realize some women just become the person they married, they suddenly have no personality of their own and have to be joined at the hip and cannot have friends outside of the relationship, i am not that kind of person and didnt realize she was. she kept putting off meeting up for breakfast and my favorite excuse for blowing me off was "married life got in the way". seriously? seriously! what the hell does that mean? is that some kind of dig? sorry i am not married but i dont know any other married person that uses that lame ass excuse!
but i think my favorite lame excuses are the ones that i tell myself. the ones i make up to justify not eating right or not exercising. this weekend i have extra time, i could be cooking healthy meals and working out but i keep saying, i am just going to enjoy the holiday and then start in earnest on tuesday. when i was eating the whole container of homemade french onion dip, you know the kind, sour cream and lipton onion soup, i just kept telling myself just a couple more chips and then i will put it away. wait, now that side is higher than the other, just let me even this out and then i will put it away. oh, i still have a couple chips in my hand, better have some more. wait, there isnt much left, might as well finish it off and then lick it clean! OMG! what the hell!
do you know i currently have a gym membership that will end in a little over a month? i paid in full up front last year. figured if i paid for it i would use it. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. i did go and did really well for a couple months, always how it goes. told myself that if i got up early and got it done i wouldnt have any excuses and i would stick with it. i even went with a friend, to help me keep it up. she started calling me early to make excuses why she couldnt go and i would go without her and then eventually i wouldnt go when she didnt go, then i decided i needed my sleep more and i just quit going altogether. now i have a great idea that i will go right after work and i will stick to it this time! stand by for the lame excuses.
first there was the boy who would instant message me alllllllllllllllllll the time, even stay online til the wee hours of the morning. we worked together and he would basically ignore me at work, like it was his dirty little secret. well, one night we were instant messaging and i was bored, i wanted to do something, fun. so i got out my trivial pursuit game and started asking him questions, ok for awhile, then i wanted to take my turn answering. i told him to ask me questions, he couldnt think of any. so i say why dont you come over and we can play trivial pursuit. love this one, hope you do too, his excuse was: "it wouldnt be fair to the dog, i have been at work all day and he hasnt had a chance to see me". Really? really! i couldnt believe it! i got on my cell phone and called a close friend and read the conversation and the lame excuse to her, she couldnt believe it either! but wait there is another one in the race for best lame excuse.................
my other favorite one is from an older friend of mine, by older i mean she has grandkids. when my mother died she decided to become my friend, i appreciate it, her husband had died almost a year before and i figured she needed the support. well, finally she got remarried but before that... we would have breakfast and talk about things. she was getting more independent and doing a lot of things on her own, like going to her home country to see her family, and i was encouraging her to do new things and stand up for herself with her kids. she told me she had met a guy and was gone most of the year on trips with him and we would meet up when she was back in town. i was shocked when they hadnt known each other but about 6 moths and she announces she is engaged. i was happy for her and attended the wedding. then she stopped having time for me. i realize some women just become the person they married, they suddenly have no personality of their own and have to be joined at the hip and cannot have friends outside of the relationship, i am not that kind of person and didnt realize she was. she kept putting off meeting up for breakfast and my favorite excuse for blowing me off was "married life got in the way". seriously? seriously! what the hell does that mean? is that some kind of dig? sorry i am not married but i dont know any other married person that uses that lame ass excuse!
but i think my favorite lame excuses are the ones that i tell myself. the ones i make up to justify not eating right or not exercising. this weekend i have extra time, i could be cooking healthy meals and working out but i keep saying, i am just going to enjoy the holiday and then start in earnest on tuesday. when i was eating the whole container of homemade french onion dip, you know the kind, sour cream and lipton onion soup, i just kept telling myself just a couple more chips and then i will put it away. wait, now that side is higher than the other, just let me even this out and then i will put it away. oh, i still have a couple chips in my hand, better have some more. wait, there isnt much left, might as well finish it off and then lick it clean! OMG! what the hell!
do you know i currently have a gym membership that will end in a little over a month? i paid in full up front last year. figured if i paid for it i would use it. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. i did go and did really well for a couple months, always how it goes. told myself that if i got up early and got it done i wouldnt have any excuses and i would stick with it. i even went with a friend, to help me keep it up. she started calling me early to make excuses why she couldnt go and i would go without her and then eventually i wouldnt go when she didnt go, then i decided i needed my sleep more and i just quit going altogether. now i have a great idea that i will go right after work and i will stick to it this time! stand by for the lame excuses.
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