Ok it wasn’t really an interesting week for me, but rather for Matt. He’s enjoyed his new job so far and says he really likes it. He claims it’s 10x better than Toyota. He’s obsessed about the monkey labs they have there, and the other animal labs. It’s like he’s waiting for one to escape.
Basically his job is a lot more important these days. He fixes the giant machines such as cat scans, x-rays, chemstations, etc.
I’ve worked out and one my cardio almost every day this week, which is good. I’ve been swimming a lot as well. The problem I have is I develope swimmers ear, and get massive infections that are so painful you can’t sleep. I think i’m gonna have to have plugs in my ears from now on. I can feel some pain near my ears, so I need to be careful. My ears are already mostly occluded from previous severe infections and i’ve all but lost my hearing. I had a really bad episode in 2003, and that was an infection that lasted almost a month. My last really really bad one was about a week after Andrew was born. What a way to recover from a c-section… that pain plus the pain of a massive ear infection. So anyway, mostly it’s due to swimming, but it does happen at other times too. I say “HUH” more now than ever.
I think i’ve lost another 5lbs in the last week. I gotta start drinking more water, and I know it helps you lose weight but I can’t get past the idea that if you drink 5lbs or more of water per day that your going to gain 5lbs in weight… which i’m sure I will. I’m gonna start tomorrow I promise.
Ok I officially hate my hair. I have no idea why I cut it short but i’m now growing it out. It’s really bushy right now and it’s hard to keep it under control. I over-moussed it today, to the point that it was brittle. I want my ponytail back!! Nothing beats carrying around a moldy smelling scrunchi all the time. I miss those days. It’s been about a year now. It takes too much to maintain short hair. When you have short hair you always have to get it cut or it doesn’t look right. I am anti-haircuts so this hurts. I think it’s a rip to pay $12 for a trim. That’s why I cut Matt & Chris’ hair with the clippers… much cheaper!
Hmmm… whatelse… We lit off the rest of our illegal stash of fireworks last night. A couple years ago we all had the bright idea of going to a park in Lincoln Park after the Wyandotte fireworks to light them off and we got busted by the police. So we didn’t light any off last year. Well since everyone else around us was, we figured what a better time to do them. Of course some of our bottle rockets didn’t make the 2 years in the shed and were “deadly” duds. They would shoot off towards us or the houses rather than straight up. However, our roman candles survived and well as most other things. Next year we will definetly make the trip to Ohio to get more.
The Taylor-tucky fireworks are tomorrow… not sure if I will go to that. The crowds are insane and there are too many people. Too many hillbillies as well. If we do go we stay in the front of the park by the pond where the families sit. If you want to go to hillbilly nation you go to the back near the stage. Last year when Matt’s parents were in town we took them to that show, and they loved it… but it took 2 hours to get out of the parking lot. We took them there straight off the plane from the UK so they were out for the count while trying to get out, because of jet lag.
I hate people in general – groups of people. Individuals are ok, but I hate crowds.
Anyhow, tonight I went to Babies ‘R Us with Julie to put more stuff on her registry… always fun. I give advice but usually none is taken!! I like it when we argue about the usefulness of certain baby products, and what things should and shouldn’t go on a registry. She also talked me into going to Cinnabon – a healthy persons worst nightmare. I can’t physically eat a cinnabon, so I bought a 45 cent side of frosting and ate it. Yeah that was bad, but there is less fat and stuff in that than eating a full cinnabon. Not to mention I don’t really like the cinnabon, I only like it for the frosting. It was mainly my only meal for the day anyway, so i’m sure it didn’t kill me.
