the physical therapist said my loose knee caps caused my tendonitis

i had lots of plans today, but all i did was watch tv. i did get caught up on some TV though. i scrapbooked a little this morning

pb

always leaves the house and forgets his wallet. it's starting to really annoy me.

my tree

my tree is nothing but trouble. it doesnt want to fit into the box.

i changed the thermostat to 70 in here and i'm still freezing. earlier it was at 68. the upstairs thermometer even said it was 68 before and onw it agrees that it's 70.

doctor

the doctor also has me going to physical therapy 3 times a week starting next week. i go for 3 weeks. in 4 weeks i go for a follow up appointment.

weight

so i keep forgetting to weigh myself. then yesterday i did. i was over 2 lbs more than the previous 2 lbs more of the normal. i thought something must be wrong, but i didn't even try a 2nd time. something must be wrong w/ me.

the doctor

says i have Patellar Tendonitis

sleep

i got a lot of sleep last night. i went in to bed at 10, played gameboy for a half hour or so then went to sleep. i slept until 7:30.

sleep

after i was really tired it still took me over an hour to fall asleep. the pain in my knees was so bad.


i just sawa commercial for "wife swap" one guy is flipping out he can't find the remote. he's even lifting up the couch and looking for it. now why can't he just turn on the tv at the tv. if he's watching the game he won't have to switch channels (men do that) until at least commercial.

dilema

i'm not sure what to do about my workout plan until i see the doctor. now my knee is in constant pain so i'm thinking i shouldn't do anything*. but then my appointment isn't until the 24th. i am going to call tomorrow to try to schedule it earlier. the dr is only in on tues and wed of each week.

*anything legwise. i can still lift weights on my arms but some of them still hurt because my knee hurts when i'm putting extra weight on it.

office 2007 is so hard to use. i can't figure anything out.

the chair was much harder to put together than i thought it would be. it kept bouncing off my knee or things kept hitting my knee. my knee hurts constntly now. you never realize how many times you bump you rknee in a day utnil it hurts each time you bump it.

i finally bought a desk chair. i hope it is easy to put together and that it's comfortable. i also got new toner for my printer. it's getting low.
I bought one of those containers with wheels and an extended handle today at Joann fabrics for my scrapbooking paper. They didn’t have any in black except the $100 one. So I got a purple one for 35. It comes with one of those organizer things like you had w/ all your scissors and stuff in it. I found a stamp set with a 3.97 clearance tag on it. I was excited. Then I get up there and the cashier tells me it’s not on sale and she doesn’t know how the tag got on there. I should have argued that it’s on there so I should get it for that price, but I just told her to forget about it.

I also went to the Big Lots in Greensburg. They had light pink and orange textured in the 20 pack. They had pretty white paper with small multi-colored stars 20sheets for $2. I bought 1 of them.

i still have my scrapbooking in the car form yesterday. it's hard work to carry it upstairs w/ a knee that is constantly in pain.

i took pictures of my knees to compare the bad one to the good one. both knees look awful. you can't tell at all that one knee has a big dent it in.

am i kind of light headed because i'm hungry or because i bumped my knee off of my bumper?

i gained roughly 2 lbs since i started lifting. but perhaps something is wrong w/ the scale. yesterday i was unhappy w/ my weight so i took off my pants and the new weight was 1.2 lbs higher than the old one.

stamps and paper

it took me over an hour to put together my stampin' up order. i only wanted to spenc 50 to get my free stamp set. i'll order the rest when i host my own party. it is hard work to get jsut 50 since things end in .95 or .50 and stuff.

math

i saved 59.12 + tax. i spent 72.46+tax

i also bought stuff at big lots and got pictures printed from sam's club.

good deals

i got them. joann fabrics has huge sales. scrapbooks were 50% off. the refill pages were 40% off. individual paper was really cheap. many things were 40% off. the 3 that werne't i used my coupons for them. i had 2 40% off ones and 1 50% off one. after i take pictures of all my goodness i'll check the receipt to see how much i saved (if it's on there).

i log into work to get a few things done and a few cases run. well then the server is down or something so i can't run my cases so i couldnt' get results. i guess they dont want you doing work at midnight.

photo shop is making me mad

workout 4

we exercised again.

this time i didn't do all the exercises. my knee hurts too bad.

workout 4 should really be aerobic workout. but i took a day off yesterday since i started a day early. and because of my knee and the thought that something might be torn i might skip that for awhile unless callie has any other ideas for the next week.

oh that dr

she wanted to know what was wrong w/ my knee. so she fiddled, poked, proded and now it really really hurts. i have to make an appt for a specialist

boy am i tired. getting a shower in the morning isn't so fun.

tonight

i went to a stampin' up party. it was fun. it was for mkaing cards. i most likely wont' make any cards but i'll use stuff in my scrapbooking. i want to host a party. you get to make cool cards. would anyone be interested in the next month. in the next month if you spend $50 you get a free stamp set. you can buy paper and everything. we made 2 cards and 1 bookmark tonight.

decorations

are comign down. i got about half of the ornaments off the tree and i took the greenery off the fireplace.

day 3

day 3 of my training was harder than day 1 because i'm sore. i only could do 4 pushups. the last one was liek .25 of a pushup but i roundedup. the 2nd set i could only do 3. the rest i could do the same it was just harder to do them.

i definitely feel my abs from both kinds of crunches. the key was holding the crunches for 2 seconds. i haven't done that since 9th grade. people quit doing it and so did i.

i'm good

my money market accoutn only collects interest if the average monthly balance is onver 1000. the statement i got today has my monthly average at 1000.42. that's what i call cutting it close but still making it. i had to take money out of there and so i had to deposit extra to make it have 1000. i did some rough calculations in my head to figure it out. i guess my calculations werent' very conservative. but i dont need to be more conservative than that. i keep the rest of my money in paypal where i collect over 5x the interest.

gym

going to the gym for my aerobic days takes up so much time and the elliptical machien and also the bike don't seem to give me much of a workout. my face was only slightly pink. what to do next time...who knows.

battery

oh and the verizon guy had to look at my phoen to makr down what phone the family plan was going on and he said i have a bad battery. i didn't know it was literally bad. then he showed me how my battery spun and batteries shouldn't do that. he gave me a new one.

tonight

we wpent an hour and 40 minutes today at the verizon store. changed pb's number (only did that for thing 2) then we got a family plan.

then we went to el campecino. it seemed to take forever because i was starving. it was good though.

then i went and picked up my car.

then got home to find kate's present. all kinds of scrapbooking things. it's perfect timing. i'm going to a big "super scrapbooking saturday" thing for 10 hours this weekend.

i still have to make ti to the gym tonight to stick to my workout. i also have to do a ton of work (work work). i've been putting together some trainings for new hires and slacked in my project.

day 1 of training

i have some questions for callie. one i have no idea how to do. the "reverse crunches" i kept hitting my knees to my head. i dont know how to do it any other way.

some things i added weights that there were none. some of the ones she said to use 5 i used 4 becuase i don't have a 5. but i could only do 9 pushups and her workout called for 12.


also i have no idea how to stretch my arms.


perhaps i should post my schedule so people know.

washer

my washer shakes like crazy in the final spin. you can see in these three videos. "with hangers" is the best one.

the scale

today i weighed myself after i woek up. i weighed 123.2 then a few hours later, i weighed myself. i wans't in my pj's anymore since i was about ot take a shower. but the 2nd time i weighed 122. now which weight should i put on my weight graph? every other weight is my morning weight. but i always assumed my morning weight was my lowest.

crunches

i just did 100 crunches while i was waiting for the hot water to actually get hot for my shower. my abs can really feel it.

training goals

these might help in callie making up her traning schedules for us. she said she was making them a few days ago and didn't get it to me. i have high goals and also some smaller ones that are actually achievable.

i want arm muscles that show (even if ever so slightly)
i want my gut gone and also my thighs to be smaller. (i want these so my pants fit again)

here's a goal that will happen as long as i do things: i want to stop getting out of breath from walking up the stairs.

maybe i should want to be strong so i can carry the 27 inch tv upstairs to put into the bedroom.


ehh there is probably more but i just got tired really quick so i'm off to bed.

ok so

if you ask someone a qestion on aim. then they ask u a question to clarify and you dont answer, that's no good. but then if the other person answers kind fo both questions and you make no response th at sucks. u shouldn' tdo that. then dont just pop in after 10 ims and say "well i'm off to bed".


gravester did that. he does it all the time. i can say his name here cuz he never reads this.

boy am i tired.

sweater

i lost my black sweater. i wore it once. where could it be? i've spent two separate days looking for it.i guess i didn't look hard enough since i didn't find it.

sweeper

my new vacuum is awesome. if vacuuming worked this well with my old sweeper, i would be doing it all the time. oh the stuff in the corners that i've been trying to suck up since i moved in is finally gone. i didn't do the basement steps yet with this new one. o man this sweeper is awesome.

my dress pants are too tight.

updating queen

now my weight graph is updated.

pictures

i have a ton of icons. i think i even made more but i didn't put them in my icon folder. i always think i should make artsy ones. i never do. then i notice how i label them in LJ. i label them by date. some people label theirs by what they are doing or something like that. mine are by date mostly.

sleep

i was so tired all day until about 20 minutes ago. this sucks.

oi

i'm awful. my inspection ran out on my car and i didnt' even realize or notice that it was close.

my teeth hurt from the dentist. i'm tired. i have so many things i want to do but i don't feel like doing them.

sleep

that nap ruined me. i couldnt fall asleep last night. i was in bed for hours and hours and not sleeping. it was no fun.

another one

this one is similar to my default picture. tomorrow i'll erase the background. it'll look better. i should have been in bed hours ago so i won't do it tonight.

i only have half as many userpics uploaded as i can. boy it might be a sad day come feb 14, when my paid membership runs out. i dont think ti's worth that much money just for the icons.

similar

but different

a new icon

i should make a new one a month

what i wear

i've updated my calendar site. i seem to only do this monthly. the orignal purpose of me creating the calendar was so that i knew when teh last time i wore something was. when you don't update it for a month it defeats the purpose. i started something new. i don't make the small version the same as when you click on it. when you click on it, most of the time, more of my legs show. sometimes i crop* my arms if they are extended.

Here's a funny one. Dave did it twice, but once I retook the picture. He just jumps right in right before it's about to click.

*i originally typed "cut off" instead of "crop" and thought i'd just get a comment from timmy or pb (if either of them read the post) about me cutting off my arms.

exercise stuff i can do at home

this post is so callie knows what i have so she can make my training workout.

here i have 1 8 lb dumbell and 1 15 lb dumbell. i let my mom use the 2nd one of both, but i could get them back if i really wanted. i have a barbel that has a 5 lb bar and the weights for it only make it go up to 17 though. i forget the increments because i always used 17. i only bought it because it was really really cheap. i used to use that one for squats and those types of things, but it never felt like i was lifting anything. i also have a jumprope at home. i can do crunches and pushups anytime too. i have ymca membership with my lease. it is probably really crowded in january with all those new years resolutions. it was crowded there in November.

my bed

my bed keeps giving me bruises. it took almost a month for one to go away. well it is still barely there. it doesnt look like a bruise anymore. then today i was trying to creep through the bedroom to pick up my hoodie in the dark and i turned the corner too sharply and got another one.

well

i just took a 3 hour nap. i'm still tired. i wonder how going to sleep in a few hours will be.

boy was i tired at work today. i think i'm going ot take a nap before i get my 2nd wind and then end up even more tired tomorrow.

eventful 2006

2006 will probably be one of my most eventful years.

I quit working at Pizza Hut
i moved out of Troy and Back home
I went back to working at Chesterfields
I found out where i'd be working at westinghouse
i started at westinghouse
I quit chesterfields
i moved out
i got engaged

thinking about it before i typed it up, it seemed like there were more things. perhaps i will remember them later. i kept forgetting to make this post so i just typed it up real quick now.

haircut

i just gave pb a haircut. back when i first started giving him haircuts, i used to take pictures. well not anymore.

hey

they told me my face wasn't red. well maybe this is just pink



more pictures

i'm gonna get fat. i eat super bad for you foods all the time.

new year's eve

i look forward to callie's party every year. I'm a picky eater so this year i decided to take something even though i didn't have to. i made pepperoni bread and took a bunch on a tray. i ate a little of it. it was a hit, so it disappeared early. i should have hidden some so at 4am when i was hungry again i would have something to eat.

i left my purse downstairs or i'd upload pictures now. i didn't take that many. at 11:15ish, i took laura home. she got sick and it wasn't from boozing. it's funny i took her to my parents house and nobody was home, which i knew was the case and she stayed there. i left a note for my parents so they knew she was up. Laura was still sick throughout the night. my parents didn't have any medicine for her. i guess i wrote a bad note, my parents thought she was sick from boozing, but i straightened them out or i think laura did that too.

all of callie's friends were in the garage because her brother and his friends took over the basement. well at midnight, we were sneaky. when they were all outside banging on the pots and pans, we snuck down and claimed the basement. they were mad. 2 people were down in the basement when we went down, they got scared off. but after the youngins rang in the new year they came down and saw us. they didn't know what to do. but we get the basemetn every year. that's where we sleep.

i had a gin and tonic. i didn't like it. i gave mike half. then i had whiskey and coke. it was pretty good. so i had more of that. people told me my face didn't even get red. i dont believe them. i think just becuase i was sitting by shane, with the reddest face, they couldn't tell about mine. i'll have to check my pictures.

i went to sleep at 6:20 ish. I was the last one up. Callie was next to last one up. then i woke up at 7:30 to drive mike home. well i really woke up to make sure he woke up so he could have enough time to get to his plane. since i was up i went on the ride ot the airport w/ my parents. i slept only a couple minutes in the car. the van is too bumpy. i came home (parents home) and slept 4 hours. then i woke up and talked to pb to make sure he didnt' think i was dead or anything. he wasn't worried. then i drove to my actual home. now i'm making this post and still starving. i did grab a cookie on my way upstairs.

i hope none of this sounds stupid. i aint rereading it because i'm going downstairs to eat now.

i can't believe i have to work tomorrow.

burn

i'm getting blisters. it hurts pretty bad. this is no fun. i'll probably be put off from cooking/baking for awhile.

i burnt my hand. it hurts

sleep

i just woke up. i woke up by timmy's phone call. at 10:10 i turned over and could have gotten up but i didn't. i would have had 8 hours of sleep at that time too. at 11 something i turned over again. i kept going back to sleep. sleep is nice. but then my day got all mixed up. i was expected ribs at my parents for dinner. then i got the call saying they were coming out of the oven. so i'm messed up. i'm going to shower there before calie's party so i can give my opinion on the showerhead that everyone else hates. i have a bunch of stuff i'm supposed to take over. i'll probably forget timmy's notebooks again. he was supposed to get those from me in August.

cookies

pb and i made very good cookies today. then nobody wanted to eat them. they said they'd get fat like mikey. mikey gained 8 lbs since he's been home. he's only been home for 4 days.

CSI

i watched all the episodes there are for CSI now. I watched the last 3 episodes made in season 7 today. i've watched it all in the past few months. ther were 23 or 24 episodes per season.

now i have to figure out what to get into next.

sleep

i was so tired last night i almost went to sleep at 8. then i decided to watch tv since it was too early for lseep. then i ended up staying up til aroundd 2. i fell asleep on the couch so i'm not sure of the exact time. then i slept until i woke up.

today

i felt so tired this morning that i anticipated wanting to drink coffee. i even took some instant to work. i didn't have to drink it though. i wasn't tired enough.

nobody was at work.

i went to mad mex for dinner tonight. my nose is still running a little bit.

today is my last vacation day this week. it is going to be rough having to wake up and be at work tomororw. the last few days i've been sleeping until 11.

i did a little shopping today. its amazing how much money you can spend in such a short time.

a christmas gift

i tested out my new sweeper. it sure is nice.

i just got home. t his is the second night in a row i'm up hours past my bedtime.

doorbell

oh so our doorbell tonight worked when the first people showed up. then after that it wasnt' working. i dotn konw for sure if they were hitting it right but you'd assume people knew how to work a door bell. we should look into that. what a time for the doorbell to break.

grrr

people said they'd show up and they didn't. they make me mad.

4 people rsvped on evite with a yes and didnt' show. there were 4 maybes (2 plus 1 guest) who said they'd come but didn't show. they didnt' change their maybe rsvp but they talked to me and told me yes.

my color printer doesnt want to feed 4x6 pictures in it anymore.

pb didn't get carded. i was with him too. back in the day they'd be carding both of us. i guess we really are old now. someone my mom knows gets carded and he's over 40!!!

icing

i never knew heating milk and flour would make it thick. i wish i would have known that before my first icing attempt. then i ran out of vanilla. i also used tub margarine since i ran out of stick. it was quite an adventure. so on my 2nd attempt i only made a half recipe. now i have all these pizzelles that need to be filled.

making icing is hard work.

wow i'm such a posting slacker.

my nelnet automatic payment for the 21st of every month never gets taken out on teh 21st. well it's only been 2 months. the first time it was on the 20th and this time on teh 18th.
(forgot to hit post on above)

so now i have another cold. this sucks.

i'm home now.

weight

everyone probably remembers my posts months ago about being fat. well i got fed up with it, so i stopped exercising and eating healthy. my gut is gone and i basically lost the weight that i had gained being healthy. my gut is rather nice now compared to before.

sealing envelopes is the worst. too bad i dont have a sponge. at least i only have 10 more

Chrsitmas time

christmas card writing is time consuming. what's worse is trying to get addresses that i once had and lost. i stll haven't been able to get a few.

this may sound familiar

but i forgot to go to sleep tonight too. that 2 hour season finaly (sp) got me. now it's late. id idn't get to do my updating of my money files yet either.

i forgot to go to sleep. i dont know how ti got so late.

publisher likes to crash when i change the size of the paper. i don't know why.

i blame it on my oven

i've made these cookies before. now they've turned out horribly. i'm so disappointed.

sleep

i keep sleeping too late on the weekends. it messes up me going ot sleep on sunday nights. this is about the third weekend in a row a least that i sleep 11 hours a night on the weekend and i sleep until about noon on sunday. this is no good.

microsoft

microsoft access is being difficult. i wish i knew how to use it properly.

remind me to post about my adventure today. i'm tired now.

my first live steeler game

I just got home from the steeler game. it was cold. It was very windy. I'm wearing nice boots, wool socks, feet warmer things, 3 pairs of pants, 3 shirts, a hat, scarf, and headband(earband thing). I did have on gloves and mittens and a coat. time to delayer.

It was like 20 degrees with a windchill of 0. the steelers won 27 to 7 against the browns. parker set a record. there were 3 bad calls that ai could tell.

Man it was so scary to get way up to our seats, but once we got there i was fine w/ being so high. You could barely tell.

stupid weather. took us over 2 hours to get from my house to station square.

oh and i went to joann fabrics today to buy the 3 string colors i'm missing to finish the last ornament i worked on. they were out of BOTH. they were also out of many other colors. i was mad.

my body

so my scale makes me fat so i weigh myself on pb's scale. i've been doing this for the past month or so. now his scale says i'm fat. i wish my knee would get better. tomorrow it will be one month of it hurting. that's probably long enough that i should call the dr. but she won't do anything. she'll send me to a specialist and by that time it'll be better.

this week

i'm tired.

i'm going to the steeler game thursday. i'm going to freeze. i freeze in the mornings here when the thermostat is set to 69. i wore my scarf around at work today. then friday i have to be in pittsburgh at 6:30 am. i wont get any sleep. i'll be so hopped up for going to my first football game.

shopping adventure

Express had tons of dress pants. Then they had this one rack that had short, regular, long for black. They had the same style in other colors but did not have longs. I asked an employee about this and she said they only carry black since it’s popular. Said the unmarked ones are 2 inches shorter than the long. Also said most stores are the same. Said if I call around some other stores might carry gray. They had pin stripe, brown, cream, more stripes, and gray in the uniform length one. Made me mad. too bad i have black pants and i want brown. but i also only have 1 black pair that fits nicely. i wear black pants everday of the week (well sometimes only 4 days) so now i won't have to wear the other black pants as often.

tired

i'm never tired at night anymore and it's really annoyng me. when i'm not tired and i try to go to sleep i just lay (lie?) there in bed for well over an hour trying to fall asleep. most of my recent nights have also been restless. i don't get into a good sleep until close to when it's time to wake up for work or on weekends after the point that i normally wake up. then it's really hard to wake up. i'll be tired all day at work. i get home and i'm not tired anymore once it hits about 6:00 and i get a nice jolt of energy at 9pm. maybe tomorrow i'll just try to go to sleep at 6pm.

money

i'm much happier the 2nd half of the month than the first half. the first half most of my money goes to rent and my dsicover bill. there is no room for me to play w/ the money and decide what to do with it. now the second half is so much fun. i have my car payments, car insurance, other cc bills (from any store cards i have an amex) and also money to play with to put into savings. how depressing that i have to wait 2 weeks just to get to the fun money playing time.

dreams

o man timmy is always so mean to me in my dreams.last night i was filling the pizzelles (the ones you roll up and put filling in them) and he kept eating them. all of them.. as soon as it was filled it would be eaten by him. these were the pizzelles i already made w/ gram that i have here that need to be filled.

knee

so i thought my knee was getting better. really it was just because i wasn't using it for 4 days when i was laying on the couch sick. it is killing me now. perhaps i shouldn't have scrubbed the floor. bending my knee, going down stairs, kneeling, and and sometimes just moving it hurt. in case you forgot this is the same hurt knee that started hurting November 7. oo that was election day.

tonight

all i was doing was mopping. i have 6 cuts on my thumb/hand near thumb. how did that happen? then at McD's, i got cut getting na lid. that cut is on my pointer finger same hand.

today i swept, swiffered, mopped, scrubbed, then used magic eraser on the kitchen floor. i still think it looks awful. i also cleaned the 3 bathroom floors but not as extensively.