starch spray

I finally tried using starch sprays when ironing my shirts. I can't believe the difference it makes, espeically on cotton shirts! It practically makes the shirt new again! The colour shines brighter and it definitely takes out those little wrinkles that never seem to go away, no matter how hard you press down. For 99 cents a can, that's the best buy I made from Target.

testing hello

So Tine' was telling about using Hello to post pictures on to Blog. She said it was easy. So I was all excited and looked into it several times. But the site had information relating to sales of drugs rather than anything about pictures. So I figured I'd ask Tine when I see her. Then I'd forget to ask her by the time I got home. A few weeks later I would ask her again. Same words..."you have to download it from Hello, it's easy" I'd go into their site and once again, it's the drug stuff. Finally, at work I emailed her. "Tine, this happy.com stuff isn't working out"

I have no idea how hello translated to Happy from the moment I stepped out of the house to the minute I stepped into work. Anyhow, a month later, I think I got it down. I had to find a picture to post.. I thought this one was funny, 'cuz I was drunk, sleepy and...



I look like shit

Cards and letters

I used to keep all my notes, cards, even my agenda and calendars from highschool. Finally I moved and I painstakingly forced myself to toss away most of my high school notes from friends, love letters and old birthday, Christmas etc. cards. It was time to toss those agendas and calendars too. I just had an odd habit of keeping a close timeline of the things I did. I used to write down everything I did daily! I'd flip back on my calendar and think " oh wow, I got menstrual cramps that day, how wonderful." I still keep notes from ex-boyfriends and all those little things; those were a little too sentimental to throw away. I also save things from my parents and sister (Grace). But with each passing birthday and Christmas and whatever other day’s people decide to hand you a card, they do accumulate and take up space. Eventually my size 6.5 shoebox simply can’t bear another Hallmark holiday. I feel awful throwing away cards. People do take time searching for the perfect card (someone elses words) to express their feelings. But at the same time, I don’t have space for your feelings. Ouch, that’s harsh. Can I place an expiration date on feelings? Like, if it was received 3 years ago, can it be tossed? Or maybe 1 month ago? Or yesterday? How long is one supposed to keep them for? I must admit, I do keep things from those closer to me, mostly loved ones. But am I disrespecting someone by throwing away his or her cards too early (what’s early)? Let’s take The Boss for example. His shit goes in the trash faster than I can read it. But that’s ‘cuz his wishes usually come on a scrap piece of paper he pulled out of the recycling bin folded in half. Ok, that’s not true, but it’s not far from it.

Lunges

Guys seem to enjoy that feeling of soreness in their muscles the day after a work out. The pain of lactic acid build up and minute ripping of soft tissues causing the muscles to ache and swell. I, on the other hand, prefer to keep the weights to a minimum while increasing my reps so I don't have to endure the soreness the following day. I also don't like to grunt and puff and feel my face swell with redness while pushing my last rep. J.Y likes to say that if you're not hurting, you're not working out hard enough. Whatever. If anyone's seen my arms while I work out they'd tell me to ease up, it's so unfeminine. eww..

So on Friday I decided to vary my work out and do lunges instead of leg curls and extensions. Lunges usually work my legs more, but never to the extent of cramps like I experienced that day. My legs wobbled as I stepped forward and I quickly stopped to stretch before I started whimpering in agony. My hamstrings and gluts started to spasm. I couldn't even continue to finish my set. I would never have guessed that I'd be this sore the days after. It's getting better, as usual, but I can barely walk up stairs without using the railing. Last night I couldn't even curl into a fetal position to sleep because it stretched my butt muscles and it HURT!

The saddest part is getting on the toilet. There's no arm rests so I'm anchoring onto the shower door and counter top just to lower myself. It's so pathetic.

Sunday, was a day to sober up and do some cleaning. Since my legs were sore, it gave me an excuse to skip my work out. I laid in bed most of the day reading Angels & Demons. Luckily Tine and DK reminded me where they had parked my car Sat night, otherwise I'd walk out this morning freaking out.

7 miles

At approximately 2:10pm yesterday marked a moment for myself to be proud of. I did my first 7 mile run. I guess from this point on wards it's simply pushing myself to run further and further till I hit 24 miles. But the best part was checking my time...1 hour 6 min 45 sec =) Ok, I wasn't the fastest runner on the trail, but shiet, I was pretty impressed. That just made my day.

V-day weekend bleh..

This year I decided to give myself something for Valentines. Which is great, single people deserve TLC too. On Sunday I walked into Macy's at Hillsdale and was surprised to see the place packed with men leaning over glass counters searching for the perfect gift. Some stood anxiously around the jewelry carousel holding up earings, uncertain on how to judge its' beauty. Boys sampled perfumes and quietly discussed which is best for their girl. I thought it was a very sweet sight. I walked into Express and got myself a pair of pants and shirt. That was good enough for me. I was searching for a jacket too, but I couldn't find one.

So for Valentines evening I went to watch "how we first met" with a friend. We missed the first half since traffic was such a pain trying to reach Fort Mason. The 2nd couple that they interviewed was so boring that there was hardly anything comedic about their relationship. All the girl could say was that she wasn't interested in him at first, and she emphasized it so frequently that it made everyone feel uneasy, does she even like this guy? Though part of the show was funny, I wouldn't recommend it, it's too inconsistent depending on the couple they interview. The first couple was good but we walked out of there feeling rather unsatisfied, especially when we rushed there after work.

We went for dinner at Ana Mandara after. The place was packed with couples.. well, what did I expect? The place is nice, it was a set menu though, so the food was ok. The steak was disappointingly over done. How can a restaurant like that charge what they charge and mess up your steak? I do like their drinks, but I wouldn't care to go there again either.

By the time the night was over, I was just happy to crash into bed. I would've had a better time watching a video by myself and eating instant noodles. I don't know why I felt the need to do something Valentines night. I guess I just like the idea of celebrating special days.

The talk

I spent a total of 1 hour in The Boss' office. Luckily I wore a black collared shirt today 'cuz I never felt so sweaty by just sitting in there trying to maintain my cool. "you want to take this weekend off and another 2 weeks from that?" I searched my room for answers.. yes? "there's no way" Why not? I get vacation time don't I? "oh you want to use those days.." 30 minutes later "... you do want your practice to grow don't you?.. it can't grow unless you put a lot of work into it.. " I want MY practice to grow, not yours bitch. Of course I do, but I also believe in enjoying life to remind myself why I work so hard. "I just want you to understand that if you want to grow you're going to have to put in more than 40 hour weeks and in my first year of practice I never took weekends off" i'm not you.

When did it become so fuckn hard to just ask for a few days off? How am I ever going to go on a long vacation? I'm So friggin pissed.

Food Allergy

My sister Celia has seasonal allergies. Every spring time when the flowers bloom and lawns get clipped, she develops these short mouse like sneezes.. usually consistently rhythmic. Ha choo choo (pause) choo choo choo, it’s her trademark sneeze. We’d like to count how many times she can sneeze in a row. My little sister, Grace, sneezes like that too. They both have lots in common.

So, Celia was the first person to introduce me to the concept of allergies. As I meet more people in life, I'm surprised to learn about all the various allergic reactions out there. My elementary friend P. was allergic to chocolate. As a 10 year old I thought that was the most tragic thing that could possibly happen to someone. I would never wish that upon anyone! Now, diabetes is up there on my tragic life ailments list too. But that’s not an allergy and I don’t want to diverge.

Um…(searching brain, where was I?) There’s common allergies like dogs, cats, nuts etc.. CN is allergic to Brazillian nuts specifically and DK to Mac. A few new ones to me are VA’s allergy to pears/ apples or something like that. I always felt allergies were such a pain. Some people don’t even realize they’re experiencing a reaction and thinks it’s normal to have that itchy feeling in their throat when they eat nuts!

So, I’ve been pretty pleased that I don’t have any allergies. Until today. I’m having this curry for lunch and it’s making my tongue feel numb. Sort of a tingling feeling like there’s a current running through it. I felt this once before when I was trying these Dan Dan noodles at a Chinese restaurant. The noodles were awful and it made my tongue feel numb just like this curry did. Now I’m curios if it’s a reaction or if it’s normal! It's kinda scary.

Lip Balms

I have lip balms everywhere. I've got one in my office drawerer "kiss my face" in Apple flavour. One in my purse, "soft lips" Strawberry flavour, my favourite lip balm. One at home by "Burts Bees". I'd keep one in my car too, but then it'll melt and that's not a good idea. So with three lip balms in rotation, I just realized it's going to take me a hell of a long time to finish just one tube! In fact, I don't think I've ever finished a tube of lip balm before. It always gets lost before I'm done with it. Either that or I get bored with it but mostly lost.

Oh, but there was this one time Boss' 18 month old son got a hold of my lip balm. I used it one day wondering why it was all jacked up, smooshed and moist. Then Baby Boss rolls in shortly and climbs onto my chair as he always does.. awe.. how adorable, he played with my keyboard then reached for my lip balm on top of the number keys and started applying it, sucking on it, dipping his fingers into it! WTF? Boss see's it then decides "oh I forgot to tell you, Baby Boss was playing with your lip balm, he likes it.. it's so cute" Cute? Baby Boss jacked up my favourite lip balm, how cute is that? Ok.. did he not think of taking it away from his son? And after seeing how jacked up it was, did he not think about replacing it? It's just a lip balm, but still, don't let your kid damange other people property and brush it off as OK because he's a kid.

I never applied so much lip balm when I was up in Vancouver, I wonder if there's a side effect of using it so much. Like, my lips will tend to chap more often if I don't use it. But they also serve to protect my lips from UV radiation. It's just one of those things I keep around.

mm.. dinner

I really want to be a better cook. But it’s so hard to cook after work when you’re tired and would rather sit back and boil a pot of water for dumplings or instant noodles. Some nights I like to get fancy and crack an egg in my noodles.. oooh.. Iron chef here I come. Pasta requires a little more work. One pot for the noodles and another pot for the sauce. That’s double the pots, double the clean up. I can also kick that up a notch and add ground beef.

The George Foremen grill is also great, though I haven’t used it in a long time. It makes the grilled chicken or whatever you put in there too tough and chewy, but it sure beats what I had for dinner last night. A Twix bar before my toastmasters meeting and half a bag of Chex mix, a few bites of pineapple during the snack portion of the meeting then I went home. Still feeling unsatisfied I tossed in two chocolate covered macadamia nuts while I searched around the kitchen for food. I reached for two eggo waffles, toasted then buttered. Mm… still hungry. I reached for the remainder of my Chex Mix. It was almost 11pm.. nothing was going to satiate me that night, so I just drank lots of water to rid the salty chex mix and called it a meal.

Outlook help

This post if from MT and me. Does anyone know how to add another account onto outlook? Specifically yahoo and AOL. i know how to add hotmail, it was pretty straight forward, but we don't know what to type in as our "server" or out going server, is it a pop3 account? HTML?? what??? is this even do-able?