Sweet Mother Of Gawd.........

I went on a new diet today.
Since I was hospitalized last year with that kidney infection, I've gained all the weight back that I had lost...all 39 pounds of it.
Ive been scared to death to diet again because the diet I was on last time was too high in protein for it to be good my my diabetes-especially coupled with the kidney infection, too. I don't know why-And I didn't know it then either...... the doc explained it to me but as usual I lost the explanation about 45 seconds after they were finished explaining it. Suffice it to say I understood for long enough to retain the outcome and remember not to DO that again.

I've been searching for a more balanced diet- something that will be not so stringent and allow me to lose the weight sensibly.
I started the South beach diet this morning. There is a VERY strict 2 week Phase One, before beginning adding back some carbs and sugars into my diet again....SLOWLY.

They said in the book that if you follow it, you won't even notice the lack of bread, pasta, sugar, cookies, cakes, sodas, cereal & fruits for that two weeks.

Well, I don't know about the rest of the two weeks, but today has been absolute HELL for me. I'm Jonesing for carbs so bad right now I have the shakes. This is WAY worse than when I quit smoking. Not even CLOSE!

I can only hope it gets better tomorrow. One day down.........100 pounds to go.
(Pray for Paul.)

Since WHEN..........?

Can you believe that some schools in this area are actually sending home Parental PERMISSION SLIPS to be signed before their kids can watch the Obama address to students? Is this just a local thing that's happening or is it happening across the nation as well?

Since when do we NOT give the leader of our nation the respect to actually LISTEN to what he has to say when he addresses us?

Who changed the effing rules with President Obama and exactly WHY the fuck did they change policy NOW?????
I don't like this AT ALL!!!!! It's REALLY pissing me OFF!!!! What a bunch of close-minded, bigoted ASSHOLES.

What's YOUR Plan?

Today one of my blogger friends wrote a post about her hubby and brother and....well, read it for yourself HERE.

I read it to PAULIUS during our lunch and I think he said it best.
"You Women plan your whole lives for the perfect wedding- men spend their whole lives planning the perfect plan of attack for the Zombie Apocolypse. There probably isn't a man under the age of 40 who doesn't think he has the perfect plan for it. And in all seriousness- isn't somewhat looking forward to it."

He doesn't agree with my friends husbands plan of action, however.
Do YOU have a plan? I do- it's to stay behind Paulius and have LOTS of AMMO for the shotgun.

Hmmmmm.....

Well, I ate NO chocolate last night before going to bed and I still had those horrible weird dreams.........

Wonder what's causing them? And how do I stop them?

Ugh- Talk about unrestful sleep!!!!

MT Fury.....

Well, I went out and looked my bike(as in bicycle) over today. Put some air in the tires, checked the gears, brakes, chain, etc........
The tires seem to be fine altho if I'm gonna be riding it much I'll definitely be replacing them too. The gears are good altho the chain needs a bit of lubrication, the back brake needs replacing and the front brakes need adjusting just a bit. I will need to replace the pedals too at some point in the near future.
I haven't been on it in nearly three years for first one reason and then the other. But with cooler weather on the way I thought maybe I would give her another try soon.I didn't spend over a hundred bucks for her to rust away in the storage building, now did I?
I know Paul and I tried them out when we first bought them, but mine had a warped rim on it then and it wobbled so badly I was scared to get over 5 mph ....Paul didn't/doesn't believe that a little thing like a warped FRONT rim would make that big a difference - but it did to me. It scared the CRAP out of me on the downhills.
Anybody out there bike and wanna give me some pointers- other start off slow and don't bite off more than I can chew in the beginning? Been there- done that already.... learned my lesson. A twenty mile ride is nothing to try when you haven't been on a bike in over 20 years. You'll get about 2 miles down the road and turn right around.
I've read some reviews online about the Mt Fury, but all of the bad ones seemed to be Adverts for OTHER types of Bikes.....so I took them with a grain of salt, so to speak.

Damnation, I wish we had a motorcycle instead of a couple of bicycles.
(BTW- if you look to the right>>>>> you'll see that my Christmas Countdown is back towards the top again...only 113 days left til CHRISTMAS!!!!)

Spoiled

I think I got spoiled to sleeping all I wanted last week when I was on vacation.

Not a good thing. I don't wanna sleep my days off away.

Ugh.........

Shouldn't Have Done That.

Tonight I've been sick as a dog. Came into work- felt fine til I ate some extra dark, extra rich chocolate Birthday cake a co-worker brought me and another co-worker. Rest of tonight I've been back and forth from the office to the restroom alternating between feeling like I'm about to throw up to being close to passing out. It's dang near took my head off with my blood sugar rising so high. I won't be doing THAT again anytime soon.

Good thing I have a couple days off to recuperate. (That was a BIG word).....Uh oh...Gotta run.
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