Busy Holiday from Work

We headed out to go to Home Depot.  We were going to go to lunch on our way.  We ended up at Jimmy Wan's.  That makes it the 6th day in a row that I have had their General Tso's Chicken.  We had the same waitress that we had last Sunday. She remembered us too. We got lunch specials this time. We couldn't get those before.  Still the lunch portion is huge. I still have about half leftover.  The lunch portion also comes with an "appetizer" too. I got chicken teriyaki and Dave got a spring roll. 

Appetizers

Chicken and String Beans

General Tso's Chicken

 We went to Home Depot to buy the yellow fertilizer.

 I was going to change to do some yardwork after we got home.  I had Dave take my daily picture.  Then I went and changed into shorts.

The fertilizer went ok until the stupid green thing stopped opening so fertilizer wouldn't shoot out.

I had to set the timer to get a picture of myself. 

 I had to set a timer because while I was doing something Dave didn't take my picture.  I set the camera out for him, but he didn't do it.

The fertilizer turned me yellow.

 I fixed it with some screws. It isn't fixed right. I had to set the dial to about 6 to get it to where 3.5 was before, but at least I could finish the yard.

 I decided to do one more thing on my to-do list. I brought up a shelving unit from the basement. It was actually 2 but I put them together to make it tall.  I still have to put the new one together downstairs.

In the process of carrying it upstairs to the garage.

Before

After

In the process of cleaning off the refrigerator.

We finally hung up the thing for our rakes, shovels, and brooms. We had that thing for well over a year.   Now the garage is so much more organized.   We also swept and used the shopvac.  We didn't clean the entire garage but lots of places we did.  I also organized some things.  Our toolbox has a nice home now instead of on the floor of the garage.

After that I made plans with my parents for Easter. They are coming here but they are bringing some food. They are cooking more than us.

Pants from College

Last February 2, weeks after my knee surgery, I tried on old clothes.  In that 2 weeks I gained 6 lbs.  I was going through my closet to give stuff to goodwill. I won't just give stuff away without trying it on, even if I hadn't worn it in 5 years.  I got my tripod and rigged it up to take my picture in every outfit.  That was fun. Also, I couldn't really leave the house and wasn't even driving yet, so it really was a lot of fun.  But then I tried on this one pair of khaki pants from college. They didn't fit as you can see.  In August, I tried them on again and they fit.  I didn't try them on sooner so I'm not sure how soon they actually fit. I wore them to work a few weeks later.  They are slightly too short, so then I didn't wear them again until today.  You can kind of stretch them down so they look long enough so the pictures look ok, but once I walk in them they are too short.  I specifically wore them today so I could make this blog post.

February 26, 2009

August 8, 2009

August 20, 2009

Today I did not use my tripod or have someone else take my picture. I think you can tell they are looser now than they were even in August.   I should have tried them on in September, because according to my calendar site, I kind of look thinner back then.  I put on a few pounds in December and didn't lose it and then I put on a few more after the new year and didn't lose that.

PS this shirt is new. Today was the first time I wore it. I have had it for months. I ordered it from Victoria's Secret the day I ordered my red dress. I don't like it. The extra fabric below the chest ends up making a pocket or a puff. It's rather annoying. I should have probably returned it. It has buttons on the left side.  See the bottom of this post for pictures of the buttons and the "puff" the fabric makes.
  

I lifted up my shirt to show that it wasn't even a struggle to button.   In college when I wore these pants it was Fall of 2004. According to my weight graph I weighed about 120-122 back then. (I don't really have the data back that far anymore but I looked at the monthly average one).   I weighed 128 today.  February 26, 2009 I weighed 131.6.  (I did weigh 131 about 2 weeks ago.)  August 8, I was 128.4.  August 20, I was 126.8.  It is awesome to have a calendar site and a weight graph. I can see what I weighed when.  Before my calendar site was some database, I did it manually. Sometimes I put my weight below the date just for fun.   Too bad my calendar site doesn't go back to 2004 to see me in these pants. I lost my hard drive so I don't even think I have my pictures from back then.

Buttons - But it could look like I'm modeling my gowear.

What happens to the fabric if I don't do the following.

I pull it in the back or sides and then the front isn't stupid.

Colleen's Place - My Clothes Calendar

Colleen's Place - My Clothes Calendar: "My Clothes
I take a daily picture of myself and post it to my website. I have pictures going back to May 2005."

Now January and February are updated unless I have pictures on my mac that I took with the camera on my mac. I doubt it but will check later. I had a real picture from January 2 but decided to go with the running one instead.

Colleen's Place - My Clothes Calendar

Colleen's Place - My Clothes Calendar

I updated for March and April 1.

March is the 2nd month ever that I have a picture everyday. The other month was August 2009. I still have to update December, January, and February. I also have to update July and August of 2007.

I noticed I often wear similar colors 2 days in a row and then don't wear that color for awhile.

March 2 and 3. March 4 and 5. March 23, 24, and 25. March 30 and 31. And similar colors fall often like March 21 is black and March 22 is a gray shirt.

Everyone should make a calendar site like this because it is just so fun to observe how I wear my clothes and when I wear them. Looking back is awesome. Then I could see I wore my white pants a total of 6 times in 13 months.

April Fools Day

Nobody played tricks on me. That's good.

The month has to get better than it was today.


This morning I really noticed that my toenail did break and that you can really see the toenail growing under the "old" toenail. 


Today at work was nuts. I got to work early enough to pull some metrics before my 8:30 meeting. I needed to do that so it worked well.  But then the meeting took the full time and I had a meeting directly after. That meeting ran over.  It was a group meeting even though as of today we are all in different groups. Only 1 person in my "group" will continue to work for my manager. 


 I still had to assign all my IRs. that sucked.  I wanted to get coworkers to help but they said no.  I need to talk to people about how it's impossible for me to do this all on the day of the meeting. I can't go to lunch anymore. That should not be the case.  Lunch is a requirement at least you don't get paid for that half hour. 

 I had General Tso's chicken for lunch.  It was the rest of my lunch yesterday that I did not get to.  I wish there was more today. The sauce was much thicker.  I'm glad I had my own stash of silverware.   I realized almost when I was done eating that it is way easier and quicker to get rice and chicken on every bite if I use a spoon.  It was my 5th day in a row eating it and I just realized.  I only have 3 spoons left. I need to take in more.  I ended up having a little extra rice and a little extra sauce. I was late for a meeting so I didn't have time to eat it. I threw it away. Then that meeting got cancelled.  The cancellation was my doing. I mentioned that 2 of us had a conflicting meeting after 30 minutes and how that was required and how a third person was out. the 4th person was out too but I didn't know at that time. 


I had on white pants so I was surprised I didn't end up getting sauce on my lap.


I was insanely busy. I had to go to go a 1 hour training too. 


I almost finished what I was supposed to for the day. I went to the gym for Body Pump and was going to run after, but then I got lazy.  Instead I went to Dibella's and got cookies and a hoagie. 

I got cookies to eat while I waited. Usually I eat my hoagie but today I got it warm for the first time.

After dinner Dave started going through the fridge. We threw out a full bag of moldy and old things. We had a few moldy cheeses.

Wasted food.

Even though my appetizer was cookies, I had chip n dip for dessert.

Dessert

On March 22, I smashed my finger.  Look how visible the bruise is.

So I watched TV with Dave, then I used the exercise bike while watching 24. I'm 5 episodes behind. Dave watched at least 3 w/o me.  And now I'm here making blog posts.

The Month Ended Worse than It Started

The end of March was way busier than the beginning of March.  I really didn't want to wake up.  Then I picked out my clothes and wore a shirt I got from VS and only wore once.  I can't wear a gowear fit with this outfit so then I don't have accurate data from the day but I guess I looked pretty.  I sat in pictures 3 and 4. After 3 I realized you can't really sit and still look good so I just sat on the edge. I'm like a model just for my picture site. Too bad when I'm actually with people and socializing I don't take good pictures.

The 4th picture Dave took. 

I brought in leftover General Tso's Chicken. I ate it while working.  While I ate it I got an email from Brie and she said she had leftover General Tso's and Rice. man i thought I wrote that email and was totally confused.  I meant to put in the Stampin' Up order during lunch but that did not happen. I did get it in later though. I had to postpone my Simply Scrappin' Class. I had 0 available as of lunch. Figured it was just better to send out the email moving it to the week of May 2.

Added some sauce to the rice.

While eating I was also working. That is not a good combination. I stuck my sleeve in my plate and got general tso's on my sleeve.

While talking to Kelly about training, I scratched my finger. It was pretty painful.  My nails are dangerous.

At one point in the afternoon I noticed that I was hitting myself in the head.  Work stresses me out too much.

I ran outside with Sylena. But she made me walk a lot.  We also only did 1 lap instead of 2 or 3. The weather was great though. But then we went in to use the treadmill. My shins were hurting.  I ran .5 on the treadmill at 6.6 mph.  Then I stopped got some water and ran for .5 again. This time .3 at 6.6 (took 3 min) and then the rest at 7.5 mph for a total of 4:39.

Then I came home to an unhealthy dinner.  I ended up eating the entire can of baked beans myself and Dave ate almost all the rice himself. It was too spicy for me.

After dinner I got to watching 2 of the 4 episodes of 90210.  That was nice. I brought work home and didn't do it though.

I always find that I put my jewelry in my purse when changing at the gym.  It tends to get tangled because I don't take it out after that 1 day.  Well it's been twice now that I had to work for about 15 minutes before I could get it untangled.

White Pants

I wore my white pants today.  I rarely wear them.  Off the top of my head I think I wore them February 10, 2009 and August 18, 2009 and then possibly 2 other times.

Today I wore them with a red shirt and my red shoes. Before I couldn't wear red because I didn't have the red shoes.  Dave commented to me today about being so dressed up.  I didn't think I was that dressed up.   I thought it was normal or less than normal.  Lately I wear 2 skirts a week and I think pants are less dressy than skirts.

Today (4/1/10)

I was close; It was February 11, 2009 that I wore the suit for the first time.

October 30, 2009

August 18, 2009

May 1, 2009

February 11, 2009

June 1, 2009

OK I wore them 3 other times. I wore the same pants/shirt combo 4 times out of 6. Today the red from the shirt wore onto the pants a slight amount by the snap. This stupid shirt is from 8th grade and still bleeds so I have to wash it separately.  I was heavier last February and had less muscles. I kind of think the pants looked the best back then.

The day I wore the suit, I hid in my cube all day. I felt like I was too dressy.  I need to wear the white blazer with some skirt or something. Any suggestions?

Also what do you think of the pants?  Are they too dressy?  I don't think they are.

PS On August 18, I went for a run that morning.