Hello Tiffy!

My left ear is STILL CLOGGED! Yes this is BITCHING BLOG. I went to the Dr. the other day due to my sickness and he told me that my ears are full of wax. Yay… I told him I stopped using q-tips because the news said that ears clean themselves out and q-tips can be damaging. He confirmed that the news was telling the truth… but some people’s won’t clean themselves out, and apparently I am one of those people. So I have like tons of wax in my ears. I could hear fine, then though. He says go to the store and get this Debrox wax removal stuff. It is like liquid that comes in a container like a nasal drops container. Anyway, I used that stuff and it was kinda cool I heard all this popping and fizzing, yes that is disgusting but it was also cool. Then I got to wash some of the wax out of my ear. Well that was 4 days ago and my ear is still clogged. Supposedly, this is normal if you have a lot of wax and I probably got the liquid too far in my ear, and now I get to wait for it to dry. When it dries, I should be able to hear again. In the mean time life is annoying hearing it out of one ear let me tell you. If I am sleeping on the open side when my alarm goes off I can not really hear it!

I unplugged it earlier at work for a sec and I was so happy…then 3 minutes later I sneezed and it clogged again. Lol…. I swear my life is a sitcom. I am miserable lately but I feel better today than I have in a few weeks. I guess the meds are working… yay!

I think I am running myself ragged or something, I keep getting sicker…. I am taking tomorrow off. My throat hurts so bad when I swallow I almost tear up

Someone, please send me happy healthy thoughts…

Sigh, what a crazy couple weeks it has been. I have been working my ass off, with a nice sick break in between. The work emails have been coming at full speed and since we have some new developments and features coming out on the site tomorrow I will not have any free time for a while, yet! Oh but my paychecks have been extra nice lately so I have been paying off some of my cards and my car so this is all good news.

I joined a gym yesterday a really nice one! So we have a nice gym here at Riata the only problem with it is that it is big, but not big enough for the 9 communities to share. I found one right by work called Planet Fitness that is only $10.00 a month and it is a brand new location so it is super clean and all the stuff is new. I love that. I joined yesterday but today was my first day there. Boy, am I out of shape!! I did 20 minutes on this cool machine which was actually fun and challenging. (Hence the 20 minutes before my lungs gave out on me) It is almost like a cross between an elliptical trainer and a treadmill, its fun and you just kind of swing there. Trust me, it does the job. I worked on my upper arms as well. Most of the lower body stuff was taken, and I was so tired from my big 20 minutes that I was ready to go home. LOL.

At least I started something again! I was loving my 24 hour Fit-Lite circuit training gym in the Bay Area, and this place even has a whole FitLite-esque circuit training area inside a full sized gym - yes, for $10 a month no contract.

I am loving that. I am hoping to get into a bikini this year (which would be a stretch to lose 45 lb by september but I can dream can’t I?

OR MY TATTOO. WHICH I PLAN TO HAVE THIS YEAR. DAMMIT

Hi, people! Whoever you may be that is reading this! Yeah, I have been twittering more and in the process had no more thoughts to mention here. Thinking of things to say, but in the meantime, why don;t you check out this lovely camera which I would probably give a kidney for:

Ok this is a good one. Last night, I took off my jeans to put on my pajamas and I noticed my thighs were gray, almost dull and it looked like my whole thighs were bruised. I thought this is really weird, how could I bruise my whole thighs? I worried for about 5 minutes, and decided I would wait until today to really check it out.

So just now, same routine, I go to put on my pajamas only now they seem even worse! I start to panic, and I run to the computer and start googling “gray thighs” “bruised thighs”. I see nothing but cancer and death results. Most of the time if gray skin is one of your symptoms, you are almost a goner.

I was having a mini-panic and was trying to make a decision on whether to go to the emergency room or wait until tomorrow and go right to the doctor.

Then I decided to try and “wipe off” the bruising with a rag. It came right off. It was dye from my jeans!

I am a size 16! By the way that is a good thing!

Oh. My. God. I stopped at Ross tonight on the way home from work, hoping to find something relatively-valentiney for J. I was floored by the bargains there, I mean call it the recession, call it that I don’t get out much but Holy. Shit. I found this gigantic beautiful expensive looking wall mirror (something I have wanted for a while) for 40 dollars, a set of alcohol glasses for all different kinds of drinks for 29.99 (we have never had a champagne flute, or an approrpiate glass for anything except wine or beer), a Breakfast At Tiffany’s retro poster in a frame for 19.99 (Just in case you wondered, I have ALWAYS wanted that in my house or apartment!), and big, nice-looking area rugs for 10-20 dollars.

Alas, I was a good girl, I know I don’t need to buy it “today” but I made a serious mental note and I left thinking about how 100 dollars at Ross may very well decorate my apartment and finally make it homey-feeling. We are in a bit more need of a new couch but we have so few decorations and we both want just a smidge of personality here. We have one big blue flower framed picture that I got from Ikea some years ago (that I love) and 3 colorful vases that I got at Target (that I also love, despite there being no real reason to have them except they look all moderny)

So, that is my excitement for the week, I may go back and drool some more tomorrow night even.

I watched part of the Grammy Awards tonight and I enjoyed all of the oldies being performed. I don’t know if this is normal since I normally don’t watch, but I felt good feelings hearing The Four Tops songs, Beatles songs and even Neil Diamond songs it was cool. I find it kind of interesting because I really did grow up on the oldies. Basically in a way I grew up on what my parents grew up on. I listened to the (now banished to AM-only) Bay Area station KFRC 99.7 FM with my parents. In my room it would be going 24/7. I got my friends into it, and we would have sleepovers at my house and call the 800 request line and talk to the DJs all the time. It was uber fun for me. I probably didn’t start to discover my own preference or opinion about music until I was about 12 years old. (Then, MTV tainted me with Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre but that is another blog). So anyway, the oldies are the ones that truly remind me of childhood. Pure innocent childhood. I remember that most of my time between being 9 and 11 was spent playing Mega Man or Super Mario 3 and I would wait for the radio station to play certain oldies songs, almost as if it was a new song. One I particularly remember getting into was the song Heat Wave, because it was used for a Dominos Pizza commercial and suddenly I was into that song. I, having no brothers or sisters, had quite lax parents, so Fridays and Saturdays I could sit in my room and stay up all night if I wanted to. Most of the time I did just that, and I remember calling up to request Heat Wave all the time.

What got me on this rant, again..?.. Oh yeah, Grammy’s. Well they were not bad and they have earned some respect from me for kickin’ it old school for once. However, I still don’t see what people like Lil’ Wayne for. If he got rid of some of the facial tattoos, maybe I could respect him. A little.