Updates

SO, I found out yesterday I got a little job with Hallmark.  YAY for that!  This go round I'm actually working FOR Hallmark and not just AT one.  Merchandising...fun!  LOL I'm so tired of being unemployed and feeling useless.  It's only going to be about 10 hours a week, but some job is better than no job.  Maybe after I have started and more locations become available I can volunteer for them to fill my schedule.  Who knows?
OH, Biggest Loser started back up last night and I'm so excited about that! LOVE that show :)
Also, I plan on starting P90X again (after a LONG hiatus) on the 2nd.  Trying to get things I need to prepare, but am taking it pretty seriously now I have a small group of people who are my support group.  Hope this is the start of something awesome.  I plan on updating my progress on here too with the possibility of weekly video updates like I originally planned to do.  Who knows?
Anyway...small update...feeling a lot better after the past 2 days of my body freaking out. (HELLO ANXIETY....I dunno why you've come to visit, but I plan on kicking your ass out soon).
Stay tuned!

Girlie Talk...Beware!

7 months is far too long to go without a new blog entry!  What have I been thinking?!  Maybe I just haven't found the right source of inspiration.  I haven't been moved to the point of needing to express myself via written avenues.  BUT!  I told my friend Liz I needed to write so here it is. :)

Is it appropriate to write about how much I hate my cycle(of course it is dummy...it's YOUR blog after all).  Seriously. I hate my time of month.  It's just so damn uncomfortable and icky and just bleh.  And mine is just all sorts of bad.  I get the heavy days, the bloating, and the cramping....ugh!  The cramping is the w-o-r-s-t! My surefire way of assuaging the pain that comes with my cycle is normally a couple of Excedrin Migraine (a divine combo of acetaminophen and caffeine).  WELL, guess who recently (well since right after I wrote my last blog at least)has developed an allergic reaction to caffeine? *points to self* SO, any time I have caffeine now it does a combination of at least two of three things:
1.)Heart rate off the charts
2.)Lips puff up bigger than Angelina Jolie's
3.)Right Cheek goes numb
NOW, normally its #1 paired with 2 or 3...here lately I've had more the cheek than the lips. So, to add insult to injury, I can no longer take my "go to" pain reliever because it causes other problems entirely.  I have gotten to the point where the pain was so unbearable that I just had to suck it up and take the Excedrin, but that is usually chased with a Zyrtec pill to even out the allergic reaction, but damn.  I suppose its a good thing to have happened since I was trying to ween myself off of caffeine anyway, but geez!  I'd like to be able to have it when I need it, but apparently my body says NO!  Wish it would do that when it got hungry instead of craving shit that is no good for me.  LOL
Honestly I must have had this allergy for years, because I was breaking out in hives for awhile.  I figured it was brought on by stress, but ever since I stopped having caffeinated drinks (soda/coffee) I don't have the hives anymore either.  Thank god for that!  I only really miss the caffeine when I'm in pain...so...I'll live I suppose.
So it's short, but it was a mini rant cuz it's day 2 and I'm kinda in pain...BUT I've got a lot done today trying to ignore the pain since I can't take anything for it.
-Emissions Test - DONE
-Pay for Tags on the cars - DONE
-Buy new battery for the Corvette and get it started- DONE
-Take hubby out for lunch - DONE
-Write a blog to distract myself - DONE
-File my coupons so I can go out later to restock my stockpile closet - Next on the list :)
SIGH....thats it for now!
I hope you all out there (ladies especially if you are on the rag like me...ugh) have a lovely weekend!

Would it be more amazing..

This morning I was listening to one of the local morning shows.  They take a trip every year with special needs children to Disney World.  It really is a great thing.  They were talking about how amazing it is to see how giving people were, donating time, items etc with no expectation of remuneration.  That got me thinking...
If we all, as human beings, were so generous all the time, would people notice how amazing it is to be giving?  Seriously?  Would they?  Generosity would just fade into the background as every day life and would cease to be amazing.  Then, what would we have to do to be considered amazing?  It really baffles my mind that people can not be of a generous nature all the time.  Why does it take a sick child talking about going to Disney World for people's hearts to melt and want to give give give?  There are sick children, sick adults, sick elderly every day that could use the generosity of someone's time even.  Do we care to take time out of our busy day to take a toy to a child at the children's hospital?  To take a meal to a sick adult's family?  To take time to visit a nursing home and be there for an elderly person who may not have anyone?  I know there are some people out there that do these things.  Probably a good deal of people.  What I want to know is why...why is it more accepted for people to be ignorant and self serving?  It breaks my heart to think about it.
It's times like these that remind me why I have a weakness to donating...even to the people holding the buckets in front of the grocery store or Walmart.  It's extremely difficult for me to tell someone no and I usually will come out with some money after the fact (even if it is the little bit of change in my pocket) on my way out.  It's not to ease my conscience, but because it's the right thing to do.  Would someone stop and look, saying it amazing I gave them money?  Most likely not, but I know somewhere, someone is going to benefit from it.
Take time out of your busy schedules and pay it forward.  Do something "amazing" today!

(EDIT: I just realized the past two blogs were started by something I heard on the same morning show...I suppose I enjoy what they have to say because it's caused me to think and to write twice now...:) )

Not So Reading Disorder

I was driving into work today and the morning show I was listening to on the radio was talking about the possibility that one of the people on the show might have some sort of reading disorder and it got me thinking. What was weird about hearing this conversation this morning was that it jogged a memory from childhood that I hadn't really thought about in a while.

I'd like to first say I know I don't have a reading disorder.  I have mountains of books.  I'd rather read than watch TV and I always love to read a book if I know about it before going to see the movie.  AND I am a very fast reader!  I wonder if the problems I used to have happened because I read so fast?

The memory I recalled was when I was in middle school.  I don't know how the public school's go about vocabulary and testing now, but I specifically remember a history book that had King Tut's Golden Mask on the cover.  Each chapter had a mini test at the end with questions and a vocab/definitions etc.  I recall always having a problem locating the vocab words to define them (these books had glossaries for words in BOLD, but the vocab on the mini chapter tests weren't bold words).

When I read, I tend to quickly glance over the paragraphs and get the general idea by picking out key things in the paragraphs.  I don't always read every sentence and when I was younger I used to skip several paragraphs entirely.  When I was in school and had these problems was for the same reason; skimming.  I didn't do it intentionally.  I just couldn't focus my attention on all information at once.  I suppose you could say I was in a hurry when I would read.  I want to always know what comes next and I'm impatient.  I want the good stuff as soon as I can get it.

I just think it's weird I never really thought about it and realized that is what I did until I heard this girl on the radio talking about how she can't focus on the words past a couple sentences.  That the white of the paper would be blinding and the words would dance.  She also said she had an easier time reading novels when they were graphic novels.  I don't know why I don't read paragraphs whole.  It's bizarre.

I don't know if any of this makes any sense, but it was on my brain so I wanted to jot it down.