Jack (formerly known as Buddy) is here!

I may totally get busted for this, but I need to show my love for Jack! He is the newest addition to the family. Andy, my older brother, and his wife Lindsay welcomed him into the world 2 weeks ago today.

You can also Jack's nursery on Lindsay's cousin's blog. The address is below.

http://nestegg.typepad.com/nest-egg/2010/07/goodnightmoon.html

Dear Self, I am so proud of you! Keep up the good work!

Like many people, I struggle with getting exercise into my daily routine. First, there is the time issue. I really need more hours in the day. Then you consider the fact that I get bored of doing the same thing especially if there is no end or goal in sight. Add in 100 degree weather with 100% humidity and it makes driving home from work seem like a fairly good workout. Sweat was involved!

Like those same people, I also know that for my health and for general life enjoyment I really need to take better care of myself and (unfortunately?) that involves exercise. So this time around I decided to do one of the Couch-2-5K plans. I wasn't sure how long I could stay committed but so far so good! I am now into my 5th week of work and I was really pumped that I ran for 5 minutes straight last night. I am taking the program slower than it is written, but I am ok with that as long as I am progressing. So I am just starting week 4 on the chart. It wants you to run 5 mins, walk 2.5 mins, run 3 mins, walk 1.5 mins, then repeat. I ran the same total number of minutes but I had to spread it out more and run in shorter spurts. The thing is, before I started last night I did not think that I could run for 5 mins. without stopping. But I did and I am really proud of myself!!! So within the next week and a half I hope to have mastered Week 4.

While I was running that LONG 5 minute stretch, I kept thinking it would be funny if there were a group of people around me hollering encouragement and telling me that I could do it. Instead Valerie Lawson and Bob Howell continued to babble on about the local news. A couple of hours later, Xzibit (this really interesting rapper person) provided me with the perfect solution.

Xzibit used to have this show called Pimp My Ride on MTV. He would take a person's pitiful, old, beat up, mess of a car and "pimp it out". He would put all kinds of cool gizmos in it and paint it really wild and add 22s or some other desirable tire. Oddly enough I came across a re-run of a Pimp My Ride episode and he made the girl a box with encouraging statements and all she had to do was hit a button in her car and this voice would come through the speakers and say things like, "You sure do look beautiful today" or "With your positive attitude, success is sure to find you". Those may not be the exact self-affirming statements they used, but you get the idea. So anyway, I really need a self-affirming, cheer-me-on box. And I really think everyone I know could use one.

So, for now, I will self-affirm myself this way...Dear self, I am so proud of you! Keep up the good work and Week 4 will be as easy as Week 1 in no time!

It is Baby Buddy Eve!

I am so pumped! Today is Baby Buddy Eve...similar to Christmas Eve, but in the end I will have a nephew. That means one of each kind. So now if I see something cute I will be getting 2. No favoritism here!!!! Buddy doesn't have a name yet, so I will have lots to report when I finally get off work and can finally go home and and can finally head to Birmingham for the big day.

old school bingo

Today was a great day. I took life by the horns and road it until the bull gave up and decided to sleep it off under a shade tree. Ok...maybe it wasn't that brave...but I think it was pretty brave. Luckily, Sue was there to show me the ropes! At lunchtime, we went to Winner's Bingo World and played Bingo. It was crazy. They call out those numbers and letters really fast and they don't play with simple lines. They want you to get things like a Mini-photoframe, a small diamond, equal signs, 3 straight lines, the entire card filled and stuff like that. It was a lot more complicated than I was expecting. How do the dumb people keep up?

Another great part was that you have to have a big marker thing that puts a colored dot over the ones that have been called out. They don't use the mini-poker chips or beans or anything like that. So now I have this really neat purple dot making marker and it works really well. Plus it was only $1.50. Some people at the other tables had these totes with little pockets all the way around it. And they had a different colored marker in each pocket. You could tell they were hard core.

So Sue and I gotten our instructions and settled in and then decided we had more questions. I am totally serious when I say that it was not as simple as I thought it would be. In the end, we didn't win anything but it was a lot of fun. I kind of want to have a fund raiser for something and do bingo.

Time Out...until Monday

I haven't quit blogging again, I am just taking a time out. I have a camera and a video camera but neither have charged batteries or chargers for the batteries, so I couldn't take pictures of anything. But I have taken care of all that so this weekend I am going to get all charged up and take a few pictures so I can start Monday and blog like there is no tomorrow! P.S. Next week is going to be great. My co-worker Sue and I are going to have some devilish fun during lunch one day and Buddy will be here no later than Wednesday! :-)

A Small Rant for A Lovely Thursday Afternoon

So, I am going to toot my own horn here...I have been posting like a champ for several days now...possibly close to 2 whole weeks. I am pretty impressed with myself.

Today, I was thinking about what to post and all that came to mind was those gross decals on the back of cars/trucks/whatever that has Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes cartoons) urinating on various things. Those pictures are gross. And they are stupid. And they are really just weird if you think about them. For example, it is a picture of a cartoon little boy with his hiney showing. His hiney is actually out there - crack and all. Who wants to see that? Granted it is not as bad as a real-life hiney and crack, but I see no need to draw cartoon ones either. Plus, why is it necessary to tinkle on something in order to show your dislike. Why can't we go back to drawing a circle around it and then drawing a line through that. It all means the same thing, but it isn't nearly as gross. So I suppose if I were cool I wouldn't mind them, but I do. I am not cool and I don't want to be. Because if I were my Calvin would be wee-weeing on a picture of himself wee-weeing on something else...since that is what I don't like!

P.S. No pictures today because I dislike that Calvin stuff so much. :-)