9 posts tagged “things on tuesday”

Today I Like:

     Charter will soon be gone from my life!

     Caribou Coffee

     Cool-looking, long painted fingernails of uniform length, despite the fact that they interfere with almost everything I do.

     Cherries….dark red, sweet, & juicy.  And on special at the grocery store.  Yum!

     Cottage cheese & red peppers

     Copious amounts of Diet Pepsi

     Cleaning supplies – from my Norwex party I got a free mop, cleaning cloth, body cloth, laundry detergent, and most of a jar of cleaning paste (as in I only had to pay for a bit of it…I am getting a full jar J).  I also bought some dryer balls so I don’t have to use fabric softener on my towels yet hopefully they won’t be scratchy.

     Cake…as in my birthday is tomorrow!  Not like I’ll do anything but it’s fun just the same.  I might buy myself this for a present.

     “C”-ing (OK, that was a stretch) a new number on the scale this week.  I’ve now officially hit the twenty-pounds-lost mark.

Today I Don’t Like:

     Logging on to my school email this morning and realizing that I have to take a final tomorrow!  It was on the schedule I got at the beginning of the semester but still it sneaked up on me.

     Lake cabin party for work that I’ll be missing tonight due to the aforementioned lack of planning on my part.  L

     Losing my Charter email address after tomorrow.  It’s hard to try to notify everyone when I get a new one.

     Labor – as in work, as in sitting at my desk today when I’d rather be at home studying or sitting out in the sun (or both)!

I haven't done this in a while.

Today, I really don't loathe anything!  For real!  Today was a great day.

Today, I love:

• Pistachios
• My Yahoo Music playlist with hard rock songs from my high school/college days.  Think Kiss, G'n'R, Def Leppard, 80's/90s Aerosmith, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Poison, Loverboy, Mr. Big, & Journey, as well as some various one-or-two-hit wonders like Warrant, Great White, Nelson, Extreme, etc.  And a few oldies thrown in for good measure, like BTO, Boston, and 70s Aerosmith.  I'm not kidding when I say it rocks!
• I'm getting a sense of direction as to where I want my career to go.  I'm not ready to make a move yet, but at least I know - or at least I think I know - which way I'm facing.
• As of this morning's weigh-in, I've lost 18 pounds!  Most of my clothes are too big for me!  This is kind of a double-edged sword.  Anyone want to donate to Mello's Hot New Wardrobe Fund?  I take checks.  I even take credit cards if you use PayPal.  I promise I'll post pictures.  No?  Oh well, at least my shoes still fit.
• Oh yeah, new shoes make me happy too.  I found a couple pair while out shopping last week.
• That people are actually starting to notice that I'm losing weight.
• Coffee
• Watching my husband have a grand old time with his new logsplitter.  Not your traditional Father's Day gift, but it sure makes him happy.  (I have to admit, it is rather mesmerizing to watch it split those logs.  I don't know why; it just is.)
• Feeling happy.  Those days off work really did wonders for my disposition.  :)  I feel like myself again.  I think I need to do this every few months.

Lesseee....pretty calm day today.....

I'm not liking:

• The fact that I need to listen to the second half of a 2-hour-45-minute lecture on things I already know for school.  I'm so tempted to skip it but I'm sure there will be one or two things in there that I'll need for the test. 
• Knowing I'm a procrastinator - I'm blogging instead of listening to lectures on things I already know.
• Running.  But I told Brian I might try to train for a 5K in August.  In the same event, he would run a half marathon.  He'd do the half with Erik and I'd run the 5K with Erik's wife Erin.  What on earth was I thinking, saying that?  (I'm tempted to back out so I'm writing about it here, which will require me to follow through.)
• Going back to work after a three day weekend.
• When the kids whine & argue with everything I say.  Grrr.

I'm liking:

• DVR.  HD-DVR to boot.
• Free tickets to a baseball game in June.
• Good hair days.
• Having my picture FINALLY get updated on the intranet directory at work.  My old picture was from 2003, and I looked forty.....which would be fine if I had been forty at the time.  I was twenty-nine.  The new picture is much better and less embarrassing.  I shudder to think that people would look at that old picture to see what I look like!
• Little-guy baseball starts this week.  I love watching Joey play.  He's not a bad hitter and also has a pretty good arm.  (Yeah, and I'm not biased or anything.)

I think that's it.  Happy Tuesday!

What I’m annoyed by today:

·      Cranky coworkers

·      Anemia – the exhaustion, headache, and coldness.  I’m going to take iron for a few days; eventually I should feel better.

·      My messy desk

·      Computer trouble that keeps me from doing my job and drives me to blog instead.

·      That the only color printer on this floor is under my desk and everyone and their brother knows about it and uses it, then expects me to drop what I’m doing and get their crap off of it.

What I like today:

I wasn't going to do this today (because if I do it every week I'll become predictable), but what the hey.  Here goes:

Today I loathe:

• Spending all day at work reading about FDA inspections.  I'm writing a mock inspection for our students to do as a learning tool.  Important stuff, but reading about the FDA all day sure makes me tired.
• That I slept horribly last night and as a result am quite tired today.
• That it's only Tuesday (see above bullet item).
• Being unmotivated to study for my coag final.
• Bad hair days.

Today I love:

• Red wine.
• The killer lasagna I have in the oven.  I can't wait to eat it!!
• That I fixed a door at work today.
• Long, painted fingernails, makeup, great shoes, jewelry, and other things that make me feel like a girl.
• The color scheme we've decided on for our bathroom.
• My kids.
• Spring - finally!  I'm even ok with those fabled April showers, as long as they're not snow showers.

That'll do it.  :)  Gotta go get my lasagna out of the oven.

Today I'm liking:

• Sunshine and 62 degrees.  Finally!
• Fitting into jeans that used to be indecently tight.
• Feeling better than I did last Tuesday!  :)
• My new red patent shoes.  I've wanted a pair for a long time.  They're just cheapies for fun, and fun is what they are.  I wore them to work today and got several compliments.
• Speaking of work, I love lab teaching exercises that work the way they're supposed to.
• Green and red peppers.  They're so pretty and make a good afternoon snack.
• My new haircut.
• Being able to grocery (& other) shop with Brian while the kids are at Awana.  It's a pathetic excuse for date night but we'll take what we can get!  Besides, it beats the heck out of doing the shopping with the kids.
• This cool razor I got Brian for shaving his head.  He hasn't used it yet but I can't wait for him to try it!

Headblade Sport

Today I'm not liking:

• Being obsessed with my weight.
• Not losing pounds this week.  I think I know the reason why I'm not losing but I'm not sure how to solve it in a healthy way.
• Having my coag final looming over my head.  I need to force myself to buckle down & study.
• Nothing else, really.  Today was a good day!

Things I'm hating today:

• When things don't go as planned.
• When things don't go well because I planned badly.
• Being a girl.
• The fact that it's April and its supposed to snow tonight.
• That my weight is up - hopefully only temporarily.
• Not being able to communicate with people.
• A scanner that doesn't work, when it worked fine yesterday!. >:-(

Things I like today:

• Nuts with lots of salt.
• That I can have really dark chocolate on SBD.....I found 70% cacao with toasted coconut today!
• That the pilot light in my gas fireplace still works.
• My navy fleece jacket...I wear the thing everywhere.  It's warm & comfy. 
• That I figured out how to get the musty smell out of my towels (apparently this is a well-documented hazard of having a front-loader)

So today the bad outweighs the good.  It's been a cruddy day.

Things I love:

• Let the demo begin!  Brian is using his spring break week to start tearing out walls for the bathroom remodel.
• Cinnamint tea from Caribou.  I think I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating.  If you appreciate herbal teas at all, you must try it.
• Healthy food that actually tastes good.  I made a killer lasagna last night with lots of veggies & whole wheat noodles.  I did use Italian sausage, though.  Even Picky Bailey liked it!
• My coag test this morning.  I think I did well!  It was easier than I expected.
• It's Steve and Janie's anniversary!  I love that they found each other.
• The B-52's have a new CD out.  I'm streaming it right now.  I'm only on the first song but I love it!  It sounds pretty much like their 80's stuff, which in my book is great.
• Raising Sand, a duet CD by Robert Plant & Allison Krauss.  Whoever thought of putting the two of them together is a genius!  One of my favorites is below.  I think it's actually used in a commercial of some kind.  (I'm not sure who that guy in the picture below is but if you click the video you can hear the song.  You will see pictures of RP & AK.  I had to link to YouTube because while I think I'm going to download the whole CD, I haven't yet.)

Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Killing The Blues

Things I loathe:

• All the mess from the aforementioned remodel.  I hate sheetrock dust.  I hate it.  I suffer through because the end result will be well worth the hassle.
• Snow on April 1.  I only wish it were a joke.  I heard it's supposed to be in the fifties by Friday.  We'll see.
• Speaking of commercials, there's this one for Benadryl where the person can't sing at all.  I think it's intentional, like it's supposed to be cool or edgy or something, but it just comes across as tone-deaf.  I wonder if that means I'm getting old.  (Back in my day, people who sang could actually sing!.....well, not really.  Anyone remember Tiffany?)

Hey, how 'bout that?  The good outweighs the bad!

Yeah, I know it's Wednesday, but I didn't want to wait another week to join this group because it looks fun.

Loathe:

• Being a day late and a dollar short.  :)
• That my big toe joint hurts like crazy.  Worst-case scenario, I'll have to quit wearing heels.  Best-case scenario, my doctor will tell me that I have to stay off my feet for a few days, which means staying home from work.
• Being spread too thin.

Love:

• Coffee
• My new coffee maker, which doesn't have a carafe; instead, it has a button that you push with your cup and the coffee dispenses directly into it.  It's like a soda fountain, except for coffee.
• That I'm in phase 2 of SBD and can now have bread.  I have smoked chicken salad w/alfalfa sprouts inside a pita waiting for me at lunchtime.
• That the snow is melting, and even though they've threatened inches of snow every night this week, the forecast highs are all above 32 degrees.
• That I have a good job at a great place, with good benefits and job security.  Even though I complain about it, but that's just because I'm lazy.
• Newspaper articles that bemoan the lack of writing skills among the general public.  I'm thankful that I had an English teacher in high school that insisted that we learn to write right.  (I don't always use those skills in my blogging, but I do know the rules & regs of the English language.)