Archive for February, 2008
Okay, so the word got out that another new Firm workout will be released on May 20, 2008. Which workout? It’s the cardio jump rope one with Annie called Firm Cardio To Go. Both Amazon and Overstock are taking preorders on it, but the Overstock.com price is cheaper than Amazon - for now. It looks like the kit is going to contain a jump rope and a DVD and will come in a pink drawstring bag. It’s kind of hard to tell if it comes with anything else since the picture at Overstock is soooo tiny.
I think it is going to definitely be a must miss workout for me. Annie just doesn’t seem like she would be a very good instructor and well, I don’t like high impact stuff right now anyways.
Although, I am curious to see a preview of this thing mostly because it finally looks like the Firm is trying to take some “different” approaches workout wise - except for the gadgets thing. Grrr. Gadgets!
Oh yea, and I don’t write about Cathe Friedrich that much - mostly because I am in no shape to do her workouts - well not like I am in shape to do some of these Firm workouts either, but I digress…..
Well, Cathe has been talking about it for awhile now, but she is coming out with a whole new series pretty soon too. She’s calling it STS, which I think stands for shock training system. I think she is trying to come out with a version of P90X, but she is going absolutely Cathe crazy with making this series. What am I talking about? The series itself is going to be compromised of 37 - yes 37 - DVD’s! OMFG! She already started her presale and this is the time to really jump on it actually. Why is this good time to jump on it? Okay, I admit the presale price is really high, (it’s $200 plus shipping I think), but if you think about it, it comes out to about $5 a DVD! Saweeet!
Also each DVD is going to be about 45 minutes to an hour long. Not bad at all. She is already in rehearsals and has posted a ton of pictures on her blog. Dang! Those people got some muscles on them!
If I was in better shape, I think I would probably cave on this one - just because the price per DVD is so darn good!
February 25th, 2008
I feel weird. It was yet another extremely lazy Saturday for me. I literally did nothing productive except tear through season 1 of Dexter on DVD. Well, most of season 1. I need to wait for the last disc - the season finale. But I didn’t want to wait so I read the synopsis over at Television Without Pity. Then I read through all of the recaps for season 2. Gawd, I have no life.
In case you didn’t know, Dexter is a series on Showtime about a serial killer who kills other serial killers. It’s quite interesting - much more interesting than I thought it would be. I guess CBS is now playing this series too - probably because of the writer’s strike. I haven’t seen it on network television, but I wonder how it will play on CBS considering the vast amounts of editing they have to do in order to broadcast it. I guess you’ll be able to view the shows “on demand” starting in March too.
Other than watch hours of television and read recaps for a very long time, I did nothing productive all day - except overeat. Blech. I don’t know why I did that. I could have cleaned my house or worked out, but nope, I ate. I don’t know if it was boredom or PMS - probably a mix of both. Great.
I know that next week is the last week I can sign up for Weight Watchers without any kind of sign up fee. I need to get on that. Well that and purchase my reduced rate vouchers from my insurance plan.
Ugh, I kind of feel disgusted with myself that I did nothing all day - when I have so much stuff I can do around my house. It was hot, but not sweltering hot today, but I am pretty sure that is not what kept me from doing stuff. I guess I really did need the time to just veg out and relax and, this is especially important, just not think about work - which I am doing now since I mentioned it. Doh. Oh well. I just a little over 2 months to go now - YAY!
I still don’t know what I am going to do on Sunday. Maybe I will actually clean then, and work on my room some. I know that the Oscar’s will be broadcast Sunday evening and I am just hoping that my Mom forgets about that, so I can continue to have some space/privacy.
February 24th, 2008
I am sooo tired tonight. Yesterday was such a looong day for me. I had to leave in the middle of the day to attend yet another offsite meeting. Hurray! Especially when a normally 10 minute drive turned into a 30 minute one because of the horrible traffic because the city decided to do some repaving work near the downtown area - in the middle of the day. Super!
The meeting I went to was okay. I did learn a bit about what this organization was doing and learned a lot about how they are helping the community - which is awesome.
After the meeting, I had to head to the local shopping center to get some clothes for the big meeting I had today. I went to Sears on a whim and was pleasantly surprised by their selection of big girl clothes. I was yet again baffled as to why I could fit into clothes that were 4 sizes apart. Go figure. I was going to get some shoes there too, but I had to run off to yet another meeting that night. I found out I could thankfully just drop some material off at the meeting and head out. Thank goodness. I got home, got a quick bite to eat and then headed to another shopping center to check on shoes again. I didn’t find anything that I liked so I just settled on wearing some old sandals I had. Oh well.
It was kind of funny last night though. I don’t know if it was the fancy coffee I drank or the excitement of the meeting, but I stayed up waaay too late trying to figure out what jewelry to wear with the new outfit I got. I think I went through most of the fancy jewelry I had and decided on some pretty simple pieces because I figured the expensive stuff would have been really, really over the top. Hahahahahahaha.
I am still getting to be disillusioned about work, but I gotta write about that in a separate, private piece.
But tonight, the lack of sleep is really catching up with me. It was funny, I fell asleep lying next to my laptop and I swear, I woke myself up because I was snoring! OMG! How embarassing! LOL!
Sigh, I just need to wait for my laundry to get done and then I can try to get a good nights sleep. Yea right.
February 21st, 2008
Like the title says, I missed the Democratic Caucus tonight. Oh well. I got off of work on time and to be honest, I really didn’t want to go to it anyways, so I don’t feel like I missed out on anything.
My Mom really wanted to go though so I agreed to take her down. The polling place was a school that is a little over 5 minutes away - with no traffic. It took us almost 30 minutes to get there because there was sooo much traffic. I could see from the street that the place was packed - really packed. It was awesome.
I knew that the caucus place was going to br crowded and I highly suspected that a lot more people were going to show up than predicted, but my Mom was like, “oh no, we can just leave at 6:30. It won’t be too bad.” Hahahahhahaah. I wouldn’t be surprised if at least 1000 people showed up at my caucus place - there were that many people.
It was funny at one point though because I got stuck in the middle of a block and my Mom was like, “let me out here and I’ll walk to the end of the block, to the end of the line.” I was like, “yea, right. are you kidding me?” My Mom can’t even walk from her door to the car without getting out of breath - let alone walk an entire block - that’s how out of shape she is. Well, she didn’t get out of the car, thank goodness. If she did, she would probably be complaining for days about how sore her legs were.
I did drive to the entrance of the parking lot, just to see how packed it was and it was so packed, an attendant was there and had actually closed the entrance, so it wasn’t like we would have gotten in there anyways. We headed away from there and I decided to drive by this other school that was also a caucus polling place and they didn’t seem as crowded as the other one.
We then decided to get dinner and man, I ate too much. I am really disappointed in myself for doing that. I ordered a sandwich and a salad and was only going to eat maybe a 1/4 of the sandwich and the salad, but I ate half and then ate the second half at home tonight. Grrrr. Why did I do that? I really wasn’t that hungry. Grrrrr. Now my belly is completely bloated and my digestive system is upset.
Well, I suspect my digestive system is upset for other reasons - mainly the stress. I was handling the stress pretty well for the first couple of months, but everything went out of whack when the 2 clerks had a family emergency and they both couldn’t come to work, and I got to be assigned the committee clerk for the day. That day wasn’t too bad, but I was freaking out that they weren’t going to come in the next day and we had a hearing that day. Thankfully they did both come in, but I know I am still worried that something else is going to happen and I am yet again going to have to do the work of 3 people. I think I am doing the amount of work for 1.5 people right now since I am doing my own stuff and I now regularly help the committee out.
Ugh, it’s just getting to be too much for me and I don’t know how to tell my boss to lay off the work load. I had a bunch of stuff to do today, but since one of the clerks didn’t show up, I had to sit in on a hearing - which was okay since we didn’t have to do anything, except that I couldn’t do half of my work today, so it’s going to be there for me tomorrow, but I have a meeting I have to go to in the afternoon, so I am only going to be spending about a half day in the office. I don’t mind going to some meetings if they are in the building or within walking distance, but I really don’t like the off site meetings since I am not being reimbursed for any gas and again, I know I am not getting paid enough for all of the work that I do.
I just have a little less than 2.5 months to go and I am so ready for a nice mini vacation. But my OM keeps telling me that she would like to me stay on after the session ends and I don’t know how I feel about that. I mean, it would be nice to have a steady job, but, well for one thing, I am pretty sure that it is not in the budget to have 3 permanent staff members, even if 1 is part time and 2) knowing what I know now, I still don’t know if I want to keep working there.
There are a lot of things wrong with the office, but there are a lot of things that could be improved upon as well - but there would basically have to be some kind of stop in the work flow in order for any changes to be implemented - in my opinion that is - and I don’t know if something like that is even possible.
Oooof, it’s late. I really need to sleep more. Well, what I really need to do is to manage my time better so I can actually get things done around my house and organize my life more.
Oh and I’ve removed my password protected posts. Why? Well, because the security wasn’t what I thought it was and until I can figure out how to make it more secure - or change blogging software - or just change web host providers, I am going to keep those posts private for the time being.
February 20th, 2008
Wow, I had a pretty relaxing weekend.
I did go into work Sunday for almost 4 hours and it was soooo nice - hot, but nice. I still can not believe how much I got done and I know that I was that productive because I could listen to my not safe for work music and had no distractions. It was great. I wish I could just work nights or something. Hahahahahahah. The only crappy thing about going into work was that the air conditioning wasn’t on, so it was pretty hot inside of the office. I am soo glad that one of my co workers had a fan in the office and I just moved it next to where I was sitting for that day.
I really wanted to go out and be social Sunday but instead a friend of mine stopped by the local ice cream place and got us some ice cream Saturday and that was about the most exciting thing I did that day. I was a little worried about it though since I am lactose intolerant and well, I had had ice cream and a fancy coffee the night before and well, it wasn’t pretty. I was okay last night though. I had really wanted to go shopping that day and get some new shoes for work and a basic black skirt, but I just didn’t want to do anything. Ha!
I should have gone shopping and cleaned my house on Monday but it was sooo hot when I got up, I didn’t want to do anything - again. I did get to the beach though so that was awesome. The beach was totally crowded but I found a nice spot where no one was in the water and just hung out there for an hour.
I am finding myself to be more vain now that I know that there is some decent looking eye candy around work. LOL! I actually went out and bought some new makeup tonight - at a drug store - but still, I guess I am trying to improve my appearance a bit, I guess. I do have the hardest time buying any kind of foundation though since I can never tell what my skin color/tone is. I mean I know I am not pale, but I still have no gauge as to how tan I am. Oh well.
I am disappointed that I didn’t clean today though. I am trying - still trying - to get my life in order and I want to be more organized, but it’s difficult when I am working and just so very tired from working so much. I really want a vacation already. I just have to remember that I only have 2.5 months left to go and then I should have some free time - for a little while at least.
February 19th, 2008
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