OUCH! AAAGGGHHHH! OH SHIT THAT HURTS!

At 4AM I was up again letting the dogs out. In a slumbering stupor I smashed my elbow on the corner of the wall at the top of the stairs and cried out. No one came to make sure I was OK. Double G was still out somewhere. G man was sound asleep with his earphones tightly secure inside his ears. Jenny G is away at college. Good thing I did not fall down the stairs, I was on my own.

Once the dogs came back in and I climbed into bed I realized my elbow really hurt and could tell it was swollen. My first aid skills kicked in as best they could at that time of the morning. Instead of getting ice to apply I opted for elevation of the injured limb. Using the extra pillows on the bed I propped my arm up hoping that when I awoke at a reasonable morning hour everything would be fine.

During the few hours of sleep that remained i dreamt about a BURSA SACK that traveled up and down my arm. Don't ask me why i couldn't tell ya. My sleep was not restful.

SO now I am walking around with a bag of frozen blueberries inside a towel tied around my elbow. My arm bends and can straighten, but the elbow has visible bruising and is still swollen.

G man looked at it and made a, what he thought was a funny laugh out loud, comment about not being able to clearly see the damage because of the amount of FAT on my arm. UH huh...and your size 40 pants make you ......what .....slim?

I said BEERS on ME

boy oh boy you guys must really be busy..........I have a post 2 down from this one that mentioned FREE BEER no one took the bait...where are you all?????????????? miss you.....

Today the temperature is going to be around 50....I will be outside cleaning up the 500lbs of poop in the yard.....what will you be doing?

" A man's got to know his limitations"

Did anyone watch Magnum Force last night?

I love Dirty Harry.....tonight The Enforcer is on.......oooohhh yyyeaaahhh!

He said "well that was quick"

I can't believe it......I am out of the basement all ready.....in less then one day....only a few hours ago I was moaning and whining about having to be down there for days. As it turned out I had nothing to worry about.

The stuff is organized, inventoried, the pictures to post on craigslist with descriptions are finished. All of it is priced. I even have the postings on craigslist done. AND have people responding to the ads. I have sold 2 items as of now. WoooohOOOO!!! Beers on me!!!!

OK who is responsible for sprinkling the magic dust?????? Sans was it you? You are Scottish after all (right?). Isn't Scotland the home for magic dust and fairies, and Loch creatures?

G man is amazed. Hopefully all of the stuff will sell and we will be a few dollars richer. Minus the cost of the beers.

It is beginning

I am in the basement. Not exactly cleaning...looking at stuff to sell on craigslist......hopefully I will be done in a few days. If you do not hear from my by the end of the week...send a search party in with some beer.

I cleaned the grout on my kitchen floor yesterday. It wasn't exciting but it had to be done. My fingernails were ruined in the process. The back splash behind the stove and kitchen sink were really gross, so I used citrus degreaser to clean those areas.

The pictures I framed of Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, etc are still not displayed. I have no where to hang them. Most of the walls in our house have windows or are to narrow to hang the pictures. I guess I could take down my collection of faces and masks to display the photos. Kinda make the house an art museum of sorts. Every once in a while change collections, pack away the old and bring out the new. Which brings me to the storage problem. Where to store the old stuff.

UUUgghhh....I know what is coming.........cleaning out the basement. Double G needs to help. He has all his beer making crap, that is no longer being used in the basement. The ski equipment, furniture from the store, boxes of documents from the 80's and 90's ( I think there are 10 boxes), kids memorabilia, trophies, old couches (2), camping equipment, and a bunch of old posters all need to be evaluated for keeping or tossing. This project won't go well. No one will help me, and I will toss something that should not have been thrown out, and all hell will break loose.

To bad!

There should be a law

I spent most of today on the telephone trying to get the health insurance company to understand why a refund of the $500.00 premium paid in advance for an employee of G man's company that quit is due to our company.

The health insurance people ( people not person, I spoke to 4 different people) said that the guidelines state no refunds if notification was not made in writing within 30 days, which used to be 60 days but was changed in June of 2008 to 30 days, of employment termination. Well..... when I called no one told me to send a letter. So now I have to get another form, fill in the blanks, write a detailed explaination as to why I did not notify them in writing within 30 days of employment termination, send it to the review committee for review and wait to be notified of the committees decision...........mmmmmm....ok.

So if the committee decides my verbal notification 13 days past the 30 day guideline requirement was not sufficient notification the health insurance company gets to keep our $500.00. Yep, that's correct.

The guidelines are made tooooooooo.......what.......punish small business. Like remembering to write a letter of cancellation is at the top of my things to remember......come on we employ 5 people, we do not have a human resource department that handles all of this stuff.......I am a jack of all things and a master of none...give me a break and just refund the premium.

AND>>>>>>>On to the car repair shop jackasses............. the Passat was involved in a hit and run.....we did not do the hit and run........$6000.00 worth of damages.....the first repair shop G man did not like......so he had the car, after it was taken apart and the estimate was approved by the insurance company, moved to another shop he was more comfortable with. Unknown to us the first shop never sent the license plate that was on the damaged bumper to the second shop. Mysteriously the plate is missing. The first shop has changed their story 3 times about the plate. First they claimed they gave it to the second shop, then it could have been in a box of plates that for some reason the shop keeps.....nope not there......or maybe the plate was left at the scene of the accident....uuuhhhhh no our pictures show the plate attached to the bumper that you threw out, even though you were told not to. Well nothing they can do.

I have to incur the expense of new plates, an extra 2 days of car rental costs, and the aggravation of standing in line at the DMV. They think it is over....HAHAHAHAHa....I will file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, and our insurance company which has given Blue Ribbon status to the first shop. ( Blue Ribbon status indicates a shop is recommended by the insurance company), and the city police. The police will be notified because the plate could have been stolen from the first shop.

There should be a law against this kind of customer treatment.


Plus..... NY State Department of Unemployment notified me that we have been OVER paying our premiums since 2006 and we are due $4200.00. BUT.....we may not get the refund because the state budget is F'd up. I need to call back at the end of February to REMIND the state to send the refund check. The reason we over paid is because the new percentage rates were not downloaded properly by the payroll program company we use. Well isn't that just special.

Lunch with mom

My mom and me

Today Jenny G and I took my mom to lunch...for the first time in years....we had a lot of fun at a small local restuarant...La-Tea-Da....part of the fun was dressing up in the old hats and furs....watching the little girls play dress up.......the food was fantastic.

Bread Pudding Jenny G, Judith, and me

Jenny G and grandma
our table

Thin is not always a good thing

First I want all the men to make sure you brush your teeth before you go to the gym.....AND your work out clothes have to be fresh and laundered daily......I can't take the stinky bad breath men at the gym anymore.........what.... you think when breathing hard your neighbor can't smell your nasty stinky breath......it's not like that are miles between machines......so please BRUSH your teeth......I do...I don't want to be the stinky person in class.....and you shouldn't either...AND if you wear the same gym shorts and Tee from the day before make sure it is LAUNDERED......I do not want to smell your stink!!!

Now that that is out of the way I can write what this post is actually suppose to be about..... I have 4 work out capris.....hardtails....mostly used for yoga...but I like them for working out......I wear them often and I do wash them after each use.......anyway....apprantly one pair is worn more often.....I just happened to be stretching in front of the mirrored portion of a wall.....my backside facing the mirror....bending over reaching the floor and looking between my legs I could see the very wide ass area of my body.....and the extremely THIN and see through back of my yoga capris........my underwear was kinda bunched up in the crack of my ass (normally I do not don under just because of the bunching up issue) and was noticeable as were some of my cheeks back there.......I am not sure I am describing this so you get what I mean....just know THIN areas of material back there is not good........mmmm...it's like black pantyhose....when stretched they are opaque....that is what the back ass crack area was like....still dark just opaque and see through.



I am hoping that while on the machines the capris did not stretch back there so that the people behind me could see my cheeks and contrasting bunched up underwear. I do not want to be the smelly person nor the THIN person.

Something new

Everyday I try to learn something new. Sometimes I realize what I have learned and sometimes not. Today will be remembered.

Never NEVER ever will I eat figs and goat cheese after 4 beers, then hit the sack. It isn't pretty. I will spare you the gross details.

I gave it some time.......

So I gave it some time and nothing is different.........I turned 50 about 2 weeks ago.....nothing has changed. So to all the soon to be 50ers don't be scared..........it doesn't hurt and nothing changes.

BEER!

Part of a Healthy Diet

Drinking one beer per day may be good for your health because it has been associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Why? Some experts suggest these reasons:
The folate found in beer may help to reduce homocysteine in the blood and lower homocysteine levels mean a lower risk of cardiovascular disease.
Lab studies have found constituents in beer that lower triglycerides and LDL-cholesterol in mice.
Drinking one beer per day reduces blood clotting so some studies found that cardiovascular patients who drank one beer per day also lived longer. Other studies have found that women who consume one beer each day have improved mental health. Drinking beer and other alcoholic beverages in moderation may also improve bone density.


I am so happy I found this article....there was more to the article but I didn't want to bore anyone with the length, so I will paraphrase. The other part had something to do with moderation and just because one is good doesn't mean.....blah blah blah yada yadyada.......blah blah. 3-4 beers would be good....blah blah blah........The benefits of beer nutrition probably have nothing to do with the alcohol and there are some low-alcohol beers and non-alcohol beers available which.......yadaydayda blah blah.

The good news is beer is part of a healthy diet.

Old fashion words

Does anyone use the word CLOBBER anymore? How about the phrase UP YOURS? What about HUSH?

OR; That's the cats meow, HARK.

I am just wondering.

Not a great commercial....but who cares

It's all about Jason Statham with me....not the car...to bad he didn't take his shirt off.

Realization can be cruel

I started recording my caloric intake.....and really being honest with portions.......the truth is ugly...I have been eating close to 3000 calories a day.......mostly foods that are "healthy".......I have been exercising an hour a day and burning anywhere from 600- 800 calories 4-5 days a week.....according to the calorie counter analyzer I will gain a pound per week if I continue to eat and exercise the way I have been.

No wonder I have not been loosing the weight.......damn those healthy foods! It has to be the guacamole and light beer. Maybe the vodka too. Oh and the 75% fat free cheese with the reduced fat triscuits and/or wheat thins. ( wheat thins my ass!). The chicken sausage probably doesn't help either. I have been such a fool.

So I will return to my salads, more veggies and fruits. Reduce the meat, crackers and cheese and sadly the alcohol. But I am not giving up OLIVES! Instead of guacamole I will slice the avocado thin and use it in place of mayo. No more eating almonds by the handful, just a sprinkle in the salad. Gone is using unmeasured olive oil, the measuring spoons will be out of the drawer and used all the time.

I know what I have to do. Rein in measuring by eye, grabbing handfuls of snacks, eating out of the box, and not sitting down to enjoy my food. I can do it. The rules are simple, just a little difficult to maintain continuously. I know when I fell off the wagon and why. Travel and holidays make over eating so easy, slipping into bad habits not difficult, uuugghhh the agony.

The good news is I did not put all the weight back on that I worked so hard to remove over the last year. And I did not stop working out completely as in past years. Specific vitamins have helped me maintain better moods, which in turn has caused less binge eating due to mood swings. So I believe I have a excellent plan to reduce my weight and increase over all health.

Hooray for me!