Morning kids,
We were supposed to get 2 to 4 inches of snow today - right now the sun is shining (it's a bit hazy) but sure don't look like snow. They are so off the mark when it comes to the weather up here. We do joke about sticking your head out the door 5 minutes before you want to leave and that's the weather. About the only thing you can rely on is the temperature.
I guess I am an old fart. Officially. Looked up the weather and they have a spread on the 10 most popular places for spring break. Everything is all about drunkeness, naked girls (the guys are never naked, notice that?) and just general stupidity. Seems like young girls are pimping themselves out to hang with old guys just for the bling, bling. And they do expect to be pampered and treated like princesses (unlike the first wives). When I was cute and 21 there's NO WAY I'd ever consider dating some old geezer that was 35 or 40 ewwwwwwwww
I'm not deeply religious and I pretty much have a live and let live attitude but it seems to me that as a society we are headed towards the Sodum and Gommora end, no?
Yesterday I went to the doctor - I sure do like her. We had a nice chat, everything looks good in general. I told her I stopped taking the Metformin for the blood sugar a couple of months ago, we agreed to an A1C test and hopefully with a bit of a tighter control on my sugar intake, I can be off the expensive meds. I also wanted to check the cholesterol and it was time for my thyroid bloodwork. Finished with her and went to the lab. I was a little disappointed to see the girl in there - she was young and looked like she just got out of nursing school. I am not an easy "stick" I have small veins that like to hide. And of course she had trouble. She had me drink some water - 3 glasses that I chugged - anything to help
- still no luck. She was very considerate and did not stick me, just kept tapping to find a likely vein. Finally she said she'd have to call another person to help which was ok with me. Well C the lead person came out and she might as well have had a big red ball on her nose and a hat with jingle bells on it.
She just gave me that impression and I knew I was in trouble. She claimed she found a vein in my right arm - young girl said yes, but that's small and deep (which I know means a painful poke and a vein that will run fast from the needle). Ditzy McGhee then looked at my left arm and claimed she found a good vein. Ok, go for it. I never look and instead had my head turned, my eyes closed and had my fist buried in my forehead. Ditz sticks me and says - wow you didn't even move, you must not have felt that. I said through clenched teeth, just because I don't flinch doesn't mean I'm not feeling it. I'm trying to stay still for your sake. She was poke, poke, poking and I was pushing my fist harder into my forehead. She asked how I was doing and I said not very comfortable. She asked if I wanted to come back and I said yes - wanted to ask her which days she was off but I didn't
The first nurse said she's got a good vein in her hand there but Ditz said nope, she said she'll come back so let's do that. I smiled at the young nurse like that was ok and rescheduled my appointment for next week. As I was leaving Ditz said not to make it for Monday as they were booked solid. I went to the receptionist and told her I needed to schedule labs but not for Monday and she said - they have PLENTY of appointments open for Monday
thus solidifying my thought that she was Bo Bo the Fool's Mom. I really like my doctor but it sure does seem like a revolving door of staff at the clinic - every time I come there it's new people. And I have nothing against a new nurse - heck, everyone needs to start out but I think they should have an experienced person to back the newbie up because there are people like me who are not easy (my Mom's like me too) and we shouldn't have to be a pincushion for them to stab over and over. ESPECIALLY if your job is to work in the lab and draw blood all day.
So I go back next week. Gives me a chance to eat cleaner anyway.
Annie - must have been salad day yesterday. We had a salad for supper - romaine, arugula, spinach, chopped cold rotisserie chicken, pine nuts, sliced almonds, a bit of shredded cheese, the last of my fresh pomegranate seeds, chopped apple. I had a white balsamic dressing, DH tried a new tangy orange dressing (Litehouse brand) that he said tasted like marmalade and had bits of red chili pepper to give it a bite. That one was zero fat and not bad at all on the calories. Tasted good - I was just trying to use up some stuff in the refrigerator and pantry. Skipped the cranberries as DH is supposed to avoid them with the coumadin meds. Dannon makes some really really good yogurts in their lite n fit line. I never thought of partially freezing it - thanks for the great idea! You sound a bit more positive too - not so White Rabbit run, run, run - still a million things to do no doubt but all in good time and you can't achieve anything trying to do it all simultaneously. I'm very glad to hear it. Turkey humping time reminds me of one thing - the boys are strutting their stuff walking back and forth and honestly, the girls are totally ignoring them (
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All they want to do is eat and be left alone. As the days go by and it's not only their heads that are turning blue
they will begin to become more aggresive in their pursuit of the ladies. Then it's just a turkey run out there. DH and I will begin one of our favorite activities which is narrating and putting human voices to what's going on in the yard.
Laura - good luck with that goal planning. Wish you'd be allowed to put in some fun goals like being able to hold up a big STOP sign and judge's gavel
when someone is rambling on and on in a meeting (will improve efficiency by 25 percent in weekly status meetings), install a margarita bar for Friday happy hour (implement 3 procedures to improve morale and team comraderie). Right, eh?
Enjoy your half day off - hope you are leaving early for fun stuff.
Ceejay - I laughed so hard at your casual comment about if you had to do goals and objectives you'd have to figure out how to retire as early as possible
Good for you for not caving to the girls down the street. I can see occasionally helping but unfortunately, they seem to take advantage of the situation. And sometimes they need to give something back too...
Mel - I'm sorry your neck is bothering you now. Hope you didn't hit a speed bump. Sending you some good wishes (and a tube of Icy Hot).
Michelle - I hope that both of our A1C tests come out well
That's really considerate of you and your roomie to take the dogs out of the house during the day so they don't bark and get into trouble. Not many people are as considerate as you are. That was nice of your cousin to help you with options in CA, now if only they could include places that were hiring too. Is there alot of industry there or is it alot of government stuff because of the military there?
Shad - hope you are home for the weekend and having some good weather.
Have a good weekend.
And good for you turning down the girls - if between the four of them they can't find their own transportation, oh well, not your problem. Yeh, goals are a PITA. My boss is going to retire within a year or two - wonder if she has "retire" on her goals list, lol. Not likely, but I'm sure the goal is to make sure there's a smooth transition to the next head of the department. 
Good job on the exercise, and that salad sounded tasty!!
We gave up a good-sized base cabinet to make room for a dishwasher. 
I hope they stay a bit for a a visit. 
I can't believe how much the implant is costing my BIL. 
Hope you have luck the whole day through. 
The first pizza we had there was much better than this one. I guess it's back to making our own again. If nothing else, at least we had a nice night out. 
- does that make me an awful person? 
It's only that now he gets to see what we as ladies have struggled with all our life. And a bit of payback I admit for those comments long ago that "you just have to put your mind to it" (like it was just THAT easy) when a guy would fart and knock off 5 pounds. 
