Does a cold count as exercise? I vote yes.

I feel like I have been in a fight! I have spent the last two nights coughing… so my chest hurts. No if I feel like I have done 100’s of sit-ups does it count as exercise? I mean my stomach is really sore so technically I am sure I have been stretching those muscles so it is kinda like I exercised… that’s it I have exercised! Eureka (I love that show!) I found the magic cure for hating exercise… get a cold! Ok so I am pathetic and I try to exercise as little as possible, granted this leaves me in the dust in comparison to those who have been smoking for years on end in a race, but I am ok with that.

Last night was kind of nice, after work I went over to my in-laws house and everyone was over there. So we all hung out and talked, ate fresh baked cookies and watched my niece try to walk across the room. She is such a cute girl! It was so exciting to watch her wobble her way around the room… sometimes she would get so ahead of herself that she could only get a few steps in but she is getting better. Plus she loved Aunt Vicki’s cell phone… if anyone got any calls with baby babble I promise it wasn’t me! Since my phone is just an old stick model she was able to play with it as much as she wanted… and she got so good she was calling my voice mail a whole bunch. Now I might have some really large international charges when I get my bill but oh well. While I was there I was given some cough suppressant (that was taken of the market like 5 years ago) but that in combination with musinex and a behind the counter cold medicine seem to be stopping a lot of the coughing, well at least while I am sitting up, laying down is another story. I will probably overdose… if I do the medicine is all in my purse so they know what kind of chemicals I pumped into my body.

Tonight is my very last undergraduate final! I can’t tell you how glad I am to be done. Don’t get me wrong I love the classes and learning new things (crime is such an interesting thing to study) but I will be glad to not have papers to write or tests to take. It has gotten to the point where I really don’t care to do them… hence I have studied very little for my final. Oh well… at this point just as long as I go and make an attempt I will be happy. (Then Saturday I am officially done!) After the final we have to go to Tyler’s work Christmas party. I am not really sure what kind of party you can have in the break room of a Wal-Mart but I guess I will get to see. I sort of wish I could go out and celebrate being all done with school but I guess a Christmas party is a better way to go about spending the night, right?

Well I don’t have much else that is new and exciting to tell. So I guess I am done rambling for today!

A boring uneventful full of self pity weekend.

Ok so I did nothing but feel sorry for myself this weekend. Have you ever had those days when you just want to pity yourself? Friday was a horrible day because I got my feelings hurt over that stupid concert. So when I got home and found out that the dogs had used items I bought to make the finger foods as chew toys I just assumed that was a sign I was not supposed to go to the party. So I went and returned the items that they did not chew up... like the feta cheese because seriously it is not something that is good to eat on it's own. Then I went to Best Buy to pick up a game for Tyler. I was talking to my mom on the phone and started crying because I was so upset (yes over the stupid concert) and I think I scared some poor guy. He asked if he could look at something in front of me and when he saw I was crying the look on his face... it looked like he thought I was crying because of him. Well I went home and finished up that layout that I gave as a Christmas present... I will add a picture of it later on.

Then on Saturday I kinda got blown off by everyone (more tears) so I decided to go see a movie... all by myself. I went to go see Dan in Real Life because I thought I needed to see a funny movie... yeah it was good but not super funny. And seeing a movie all by yourself is kinda weird. Oh well... I love how guys are so clueless... I dropped some things off at Tim's house and was crying when I did it... his roommate who answered the door was oblivious to the fact I was crying. Sigh - guys! Although I don't think that it would have been much better if he had realized it.

Sunday I cleaned up a little, did dishes that were long overdue, did a few loads of laundry and just hung out watching movies. Pretty uneventful... until I decided to open my big mouth and tell people that they had hurt me (again over the stupid concert). That got um... not so fun. Oh well eventually I will learn to keep my mouth shut. Either that or I will eventually kick the bucket and it won't matter anyways!

So here is what I have learned over this weekend, some of it may make sense and some may not.
1) If there is a concert you want to go to... just suck it up and go alone.
2) If someone has hurt you... just grow up and ignore it.
3) If you want things for yourself... then just do it for yourself and don't ask others.
4) If you do ask others to do for you... remember that it probably won't work out they way you want it.
5) If it is slippery outside... start to break way before the end of the street.
6) If you are afraid to color on a picture... bite the bullet and color away, it will turn out fine.
7) If you are graduating... remember to tell folks because surprisingly some will come!
8) If it is cold outside.. only wearing a sweatshirt and no bra feels like wearing no clothes at all!
9) If you buy pre-made cheesecake filling... watch out because a spoon and not eating for two days can make it disapear quickly.
10) If you have a cold... stay away from husbands who tell you that you are gross because you have a runny nose and are sneezing alot.

ACKKK! I just got off the phone with dear old hubby... who is a jerk! He is getting upset with me because he has to go to my graduation on Saturday. He is mad because I told him when we started this going back to school I said I would not walk again. (Mind you this was two years ago) But now you would think I have really screwed him over by walking at graduation. This is ridiculous he is making me feel bad because he is inconvenienced. When he asked who all was going I listed off his family, my family and a few friends then I said Tim may be coming if another friend does not have graduation at the same time... he bit my head off saying well maybe the two of you can have a good lunch together afterwards. WTF! I am so tired of getting in trouble for trying to do something good for myself. When I said that the last time I graduated got over looked because of the wedding he spit out "well it was your wedding not anyone elses so you don't have any reason to complain" I just don't get it. He was so rude and kept saying I don't understand why your getting upset I am the one who should be upset. This is so fricking ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so tired of being belittled and talked to like I am a two year old. I don't understand why he can't shut the Frick up and just sit and smile for two hours and not make me feel like shit because I am graduating.

Ok I apologize for going crazy in that last little bit... but seriously, I feel like crying now! Good thing it is lunch so I can do just that.

What a day... or is it daze?

Wow I am tired! Yesterday was my volunteer event with a local charity's Christmas distribution center. I had 69 people sign up to volunteer for me throughout the day... food for 75... and plenty of work to do. Well being completely asleep when I was putting the dogs outside I did not notice the weather other than the cold blast of air, but at 6:30 in the morning thats normal. When I let them in 10 minutes later I had pup-cicles! They had ice in their fur because it was sleeting. Now the good majority of the 69 people are westsiders and the charity center is on the east side of town. This does not give a very good outlook for the day. I knew a few people would not show up because of the weather but I had about 10 show up instead of the 30 that had signed up for the morning... not good! I had so much food left over. Oh well, in the after noon at least 20-25 people showed up so that was good. Anyways in the afternoon they wanted a few of us to go shopping to make up the differences in their stock. Oh sure... going shopping to spend someone elses $2,500. If you ever have this opportunity say NOOOOO!!!! Just in case you were wondering K-Marts cash registers freeze up around 1,200 items (we had about 2,500 to buy) and then you get the fun experience of getting to ring everything up again. OMG! I swear I could have screamed by the time we were done. I think seriously from 9 until 7 I sat down for maybe 10 minutes all day. My legs and knees were killing me!

And then today... well long story short the Transnational Siberian Orchestra is in town tonight. I really really really really wanted to go but no one would go with me so I did not by a ticket. Low and behold a friend who told me there is no way they would go to it... is guess what going to it. I am a little upset... well really upset. Sadly it made me cry I was so frustrated. Oh well I guess I did not need to go anyways. That's what CD's are for right? Right... that's ok I don't believe it either. Oh well I at least hope they enjoy it... I know I would have.

So that is my griping for today. I am off work to go home make some spinach and feta cheese finger foods and off to a office party... and the weather outside is getting frightful so another cross town trek is in my future. So I hope everyone is safe and warm doing exactly what they want to be doing tonight because I will not be.

Tin Man... worth the 6 hours.

I finished watching the third instalment of the Tin Man last night. It was really good! Oh and I was right on the whole DG stands for Dorthy Gale... because the Dorthy from the Wizard of OZ is actually the how did they put it... Greatest of all your Great Grandmothers who you were named in honor of. Anyways it was really enjoyable to watch. I loved how they did the visual effects. Like in one scene she is remembering a place from her childhood being a great big beautiful lake and then when she gets there it is a burned out forest. So she finds the "perfect" stone to skip across the forest floor... and suddenly the forest floor is getting ripples across it like it was a lake... and then the trees sink into the ground and the lake appears just as beautiful as she remembers it. I would totally recommend it to anyone... I am hoping eventually they put it out on DVD because it would be a great stay in bed all day and watch movie.



Oh hey... I just want to prove to people that I do clean. see I cleaned up my windowsill at work. If anyone had seen it a few days ago it was much more cluttered and very dirty and cobwebby. But now look at that shine! And it is not as cluttered! Seriously folks this may just be a miracle. Shh don't tell, I did it more because I wanted to put a sweatshirt in the window to block the air blowing in & I had to take everything off to get at it.



Last night I started on a project for a Christmas present... so far I have glittered up a 12x12 page... but I am not sure how to continue from here. I would put up a picture and get opinions but just on the off chance that the recipient looks in on this page then I don't want to ruin the surprise. The paper I choose has a really large image on it so I am not sure how to incorporate pictures on it. I think instead I will just choose one picture and put the focus on it... but then I am afraid that it will be too plain... hmm.... I guess that is why I decked it all out with glitter. Lol here I am telling you all this but you don't know what I am doing so what good is it?



I also found some magnetic letters at Michael's that I am going to try to embellish but that will have to wait for another few days... tonight I have a FAFSA presentation at Kapun, tomorrow I have class, Friday I have a work Christmas Party (going to make spinach & feta cheese crescents) and Saturday I am helping out with a craft day at the Reno County Museum in Hutch.... so by the time I get back from that I might be crafted out. I don't know... maybe I can post a few pictures by Sunday of all the projects I am working on. Maybe! But for now I am going to show you a picture of the crafts I helped make at the Salvation Army Craft Day last Saturday. It was a really cute nativity scene made out of miniature flower pots. Mine did not turn out so pretty but who knows maybe next year they will be my gift that I give everyone... if I can get the whole making it look pretty thing down.

The Tin Man mini series is great!

Well I will admit it: I am not a real Kansas girl... I hate the Wizard of OZ. No particular reason just really don't care for it. So when the Sci-Fi channel started showing commercials for a mini series called "Tin Man" and the idea is that it is loosely based on the Wizard of OZ I was so ready to write it off as a crappy remake. But as the commercials started getting more interesting it wore down my resistance to the yellow brick road and I decided to watch it. Well Sunday came and went with me just taping it because Tyler wanted me to drive across town to drop off a coupon so he could buy himself a Xbox 360. I did not realize at the time that it was a two hour show so I hurriedly started to record it again after the first hour of recording shut off. Did not really know when I would watch it but heck at least I had it taped. Well last night I had no one to hang out with so I went home put on my blue & green pjs and sat down to watch the tape... but wait a look at channel 11 showed that they were rerunning it! So cool because after the first 2 hour episode they were playing the next 2 hour episode... 4 hours of Tin Man and I can tell you it is so much better than the Wizard of OZ! At first you really hate the "evil" witch but as it progresses you wonder if she really is the one to hate. Sounds weird not to hate the evil witch when she quite clearly is a very bad gal. But as DG (I assume it stands for Dorthy Gale - see they got that name in there) starts to unlock the memories in her mind you see that maybe she had a part in turning her big sis (sorry if I just ruined that surprise for you) into the evil witch that she is. I will have to find out tonight the ending to the story as they are playing the last 2 hour episode tonight. I can't wait... but I since I finally found a Wizard of OZ story I like I am going to see it through to the end... or at least if nothing better turns up.

Oh I have to share that I went out to Oeno's on Friday night with Tim and Brian. And I really liked the martini's I tried... well ok two of them were the Marilyn Monroe (I am pretty sure it was this... lol I don't think they would call a drink the Marilyn Manson but I could be wrong and it was dark in there) and they were really good. Very fruity with little alcohol taste. And then their friend Charly decided to tell us about a special just created not on the menu martini... um that one was not my favorite. It was the McGee and I think I got about half of it down before I just handed it over to time... way too strong of an alcohol taste in that one... although I was told it was pretty weak compared to the first two that were poured. Fine whatever it was still was to bitter for me. But everyone be proud of me I actually went to a bar... lol well a wine bar, it still counts right? Well I don't care what you think... I am going to count it!

While I was waiting on Tim to show up I went to a couple of the little stores... one I found a cheap ornament for the office Christmas party. It was only $1.50 and the lady wrapped it up all pretty. Yippy! Then I went into a card & paper store... and it was neat. I could not believe the price for some of their artwork. They had beautiful glass vases for like $30. Also alot of neat little stationery and other things. It is all located in the Old Town Square... which I found out is a very busy place when it is a Final Friday.