Giving Magic Jack a go.

So he went and ordered a Magic Jack, it connects to your computers usb, then plug your phone jack into it and make calls off your phone threw your Internet! Its 20 dollars a year lol so money wise this is sooooo tempting but i had put it off for a few reasons, but that was taken out of my hands last week and now its set up. So far its working well. we can call out and get calls and the connections are just fine. I only worry about emergency calls because it only works if the computer is on! this was my big hold up. I was told tho that a cell phone as long as its charged can call 911 even if its activated… And its true! I looked up a lot of places to make sure and now have my old old pay as you go one plugged in upstairs just for that reason.

So far i like it, and will love not having a phone bill every month! We already shut off the direct tv we never watched it except for cartoon channels and PBS is so much better for them to watch anyways   They have not minded to much and the side benefit its gets them off the tv more and playing!

Ok time to go out and work on the new garden bed! I will take some pic’s and share it with ..well who ever stumbles acrost here

god bless

on my way to healthy.

Well I am 2 more lbs down ! its been just over a month since i got serious about watching my calories and getting some exercise into my life. 13 lb in one month is not bad if i say so my self! BUT now that its been a month i have seen my self start to want to slack on the exercise because i don’t have a firm routine in place. I look at all the sites and just pick different things to do lol. mostly its strength stuff and not a whole lot of cardio even tho I KNOW cardio will burn so much more but i have not found much that i can do for more then 15 min ( if that ) before my legs hurt so bad.  I need to work on it more to get it up there but my lazyness gets in the way! so i do lots of crunches, wall push ups ( working my way to real ones! can do 5 modified floor ones now ) leg lifts lots of arm stuff with weights!  iv lost a few in” mostly from my waist lol told hubby i was going to look damn funny if that’s the only place i keep losing from!

I walk started walking are stairs daily .. man am i out of shape that will put it in your face fast. my max is 5 up and down before my legs are to watery to safely keep going. sigh. but its a start. its all a start and there’s nothing greater then seeing yourself improve something like this! Take push ups , i could not do ONE modified push up when i started a month ago but i have been working my arms and chest and doing wall pushups and can now do ( struggling!) 5 modified floor ones! so that seems like nothing to a lot of ppl but for a obeise out of shape me, its GREAT!

I need to sit down and actually make some goals i think to keep me motivated. and have something smaller to work for then just the huge weight lose im going for. maybe something like 5 military push ups LOL ouch.. or 10 times up and down the stairs. small but attainable a lot faster then the weight loss, and the thing i have to remind myself is. the goal isnt really the target weight its my life style change im working on. Eating better food, less of it and moving more!  doing this will eventually GET me to the weight i would like to be but regardless each day i am getting healthier and stronger and finally setting some really good examples for my kids.

ohhh my poor 11 yr old! sigh he is overweight also. he has no activity’s in his daily routine either and i keep saying i was going to get him started on something but keep pushing it off because i didn’t want to overwhelm him with school and band and chess and this.. when was i going to fit it in? would he then have to much? UNTIL yesterday.. he told me NONE of his pants fill comfortably, the 2 that do are at his DADS! sigh well you have to ware something to school! so now we have to go get him BIGGER PANTS! 34s!!!! omg.. so last night he started his first exercise tape. if it was not getting so cold out i would just make us both go walking after dinner ( i might still do that!) it would get the cardio i need and get him moving also. This was just the stray that broke my back. i fill so bad for him, i was fat in school and i know how the kids are and im letting my son walk right into it because im being to lazy to make him start moving. well no more! we will fold up the 32’s and save them for in a month or so when he can fit back into them and then hopefully we will be shopping for smaller soon!

so all in all its been going really well but now i fill myself wanting to slack and get that thinking.. ok i know what to do , i don’t need to keep track of my food anymore or i don’t NEED to do any crunches today.. Its time for my second wave of will power and making myself push threw it … hence the small goals..

I think ill go with the ones from above. my small goal will be to be able to do 10 modified push ups and 10 sets of stairs. sigh and i REALLY need to get more water daily but i hate water! blah! blah! blah!

well thats my rambling for today. god bless!

hidy ho! well lots of random stuff again to share lets see

new biggest thing for me is i am revisiting what i eat and the /cough lack of exercise in my life. I am so overweight that i have to start actively working on it. hubby finally opened up and told me how much he would like me to lose the weight also and i KNOW HOW HARD this was for him! if your a guy i know the pickle this puts you in. not a good one! how to say it with out pissing the girl off? HA well after another year of doing nothing about it and Finally becoming interested in it again he revealed his secret! I know that he loves me and still find me attractive because his affection level has not changed at all even with the weight. I told him that if he continued to tell me he didn’t care one way or the other then.. well what would keep me motivated when it got to hard for me? when hell my husband could care less why should i! it was an easy cop out and i used it!

I signed up to spakpeople its a great site. you set up your program and your goal time to lose your weight and it sets up your calorie chart for how much you should each each day to lose the weight… just make sure not to say you want to lose 195 lbs in one year !!! you will starve LOL i didn’t realize at first i had set it at this and moved it two 2 years and its now manageable at 2200 max calories a day.

It also gives you a fitness tracker and different strength activates to do. i have cardio and strength m/w/f  and you put in what you did and it saves all the info so you can look back at it. you can set up other goals for yourself like drinking 8 glaces of water walking  how ever long each day or stretching 5 min a day. you can make what ever you want and track them daily. and there are  A BRAZILIAN different community boards. from cooking to coping with loss. i found my Portland group, fibryomialgima group, over 30 needing to lose 100+ lb and a cooking one of course!

There is also!!! recipes RECIPES recipes! and a place to make your own to find the calories in your own recipes.

the calorie cut has been difficult because now i am really looking at everything i eat and how to eat for the whole day with out blowing it! i got myself a little 5 dollar scale to weight stuff on because… well damn it do you know how many calories are in cheese , IN JUST ONE OZ!! omg i just about died. i love cheese i did brake down and buy some shredded low fat cheese so i could still have it but I’m trying to avoid as many fat free things as i can because I’m not on a diet I’m changing my eating and exercise habits and the thinks i do today must be stuff ill be willing to do in 5 years. LOL and i can not put hubby on fat free diet the poor man would shrivel up and flout away!

yes.. i am hungry .. but I’m not starving! /cough not like i was the first few days when i had it at 1 yr and i was supposed to eat 1700 cal! oh lord! i was ready to jump ship and eat the sharks. thank god i found that mistake. the difference 500 calories make in your day is amazing.

.. i have lost 6 lbs in 1 1/2 weeks !!! so i think I’m stricken with it! and my husband i don’t think will let me bail out lol. i think hes shopping for new cloths at the moment.. LOL

OK OK on to GARDENING! and my freaky attempt at growing everything on my kitchen counter

so here it is. my red bell peppers , the seeds i stole from my store bought pepper

they are just about 2 1/2 weeks old and going strong it looks like. i had planted 3 seeds per pellet and all 3 sprouted from the 1’st and 3′rd pellet and i thinned to just the one … they already had very strong roots! but the 2′nd pellet has done nothing. they are under the plant light on the kitchen counter with the rest of the plants

My tomato’s who’s seeds i stole from store tomatoes also cheep seeds!

they are now 5 weeks old. I am not sure but fill like they should be bigger but since i have no other experience with it /shrug maybe this is the right size for there age. but they look strong and healthy to me….. we seemed to have attracted a lot of nats! oh man it was bad i had to put the lot of plants out side ( in the cold!!! oh lord! ) and i went to the garden shop 6 blocks from me!! i had no idea it was there , glad i found it. he gave me stuff to put in the soil to kill them because with so many he said they would be living in the soil now and the eggs waiting to hatch..blah! i didn’t want all my little baby’s to die! so /gulp i spend the 15 dollars on it. the plus? its a big bottle and you only use 1.7 in a gallon of water twice in the first week then reapply in 2 weeks. so this will last forever!

GREEN GARLIC SPROUTS! i have been reading about them on the seed sites i been looking at about growing your garlic and eating the shoots as they grow to get .. well like green onions but they taste just like garlic! so hay what the hell i have a draw for garlic atm so i took 6 cloves and planted in an aluminum foil pan and BACK 3 days sprouts were FLYING out of the dirt… right now they are only TEN DAYS OLD!!! wow. and ever bulb sprouted

now I’m looking up the important thing of.. when are they ready to be used? !! i cant wait!

oh and my beans.. well all along i have been trying to plant the things that we actually EAT and was looking at different bean plants on line and then thought..well what the hell i should grow the black beans we frigen eat already! so i threw 5 in a bag rapped in a wet coffee filter and BAM 3 days later i had some sprouts. i was supper excited! this was something i was actually going to work on to grow them right, i want these suckers to make it.. i dont know why i have taken a biger interest in the beans but .. dammit they will grow! so i took one of the 5 gallon frosting buckets i beg from fred meyers bakery and filled it 3/4 with potting soil and took a bunch of unfinished compost and ran it threw my “old” food chopper! to take it to a soil size .. my thoughts in the crazy move? it will brake down in the soil? like it would have in the compost ben and realise its goodness to my plants.. that’s what i hope anyways!

the kiddos? well they had a blast this halloween, emily figured out the door ringing and candy thing fast and well damn she can run fast to the next door! poor dan was scrambling to keep up! they got a huge hall and eat all the choclate first LOL now we have a huge bowl of suck on candys. my oldest the 11 yr old he went with his cousin tylor..more fun with kids yoru own age i guess! grr but he got to go to a halloween party with him! he had a blast also but no pics

ok i need to go to my work out.. ack the kids are going to hate me because they are playing are new ps3 game , little big planet. and LOVE IT.it a cute game lol i dont know if i like it tho becasue i have not been allowed to play yet!!!!

ok later all! god bless!

what a man i have!

ohhh my husband is so good! I was suppose to  go shopping yesterday but it was like 104 or something totaly crazy and we were out of milk and he was out of tobacco and i would have just been lazy to not go, but he INSISTED i stay and go in the morning when it was cooler and he went up to the little store and got milk.. NOW omg lol how sweet is that! one of us was going to have to go out and he went for me

this has been a very nice trend lately… its like when we were dating and he would go out of his way  to do stuff for me just because. Its so sweet!

oh man it was so hot yesterday.. after David went to the store for me i pulled the mattress down stairs so everyone could sleep out down here were it was nice and cool and stayed up 3 hrs later to keep it running for them and pulled the ac in. Man it was already warm when we woke up!

He got a bike from a friend of his from work. a big 21 in brand new bike. (davids 6′5) and hes starting to ride to work and back.. about mmm 30 blocks so not to bad.. boy is he filling it tho! i better get on and ride that bike too lol to keep up with him. cant have him get all in shape and still be a pile of BLAH. Hes super excited to have a bike again its been ages. I cant say i know what brought it up for him but it worked out great. the bike was free and its a 400 dollar bike and we get to save  like 65 dollar’s a month on buss!

well im getting side tracked all over the place lol so ill leave it at that for now!

god bless

When a deer comes to visit

Ok so I’m stumbling around and find this very cute cat site just full of pic’s. Well my little girl monster

makes me stop and look threw them she loves meow meows. and i came to this one and i have to ask…

were do they live!!!! omgosh! a mommy and baby deer coming right up to your door to visit LOL how totally great is that. I hope it wasnt because they were looking for food dont like that thought.  What a moment that must have been. glad they had there camera handy!

Need a good laugh?

Patient Charts

You wouldn’t think there were so many ways to misstate a health problem.

The following are comments from doctors as recorded on patient charts.

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Doctors’ Comments On Patient Charts:

• “Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year.”
• “On the 2nd day the knee was better and on the 3rd day it disappeared completely.”
• “The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1993.”
• “Discharge status: Alive but without permission.”
• “Healthy appearing decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful.”
• “The patient refused an autopsy.”
• “The patient has no past history of suicides.”
• “Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital.”
• “Patient’s past medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days.”
• “Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch.”
• “She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night.”
• “She is numb from her toes down.”
• “While in the ER, she was examined, X-rated and sent home.”
• “The skin was moist and dry.”
• “Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches.”
• “Patient was alert and unresponsive.”
• “She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce.”
• “I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy.”
• “The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead.”
• “Patient has two teenage children but no other abnormalities.”
• “Skin: Somewhat pale but present.”
• “Patient was seen in consultation by Dr. Blank, who felt we should sit on the abdomen, and I agree.”
• “By the time he was admitted, his rapid heart stopped, and he was feeling better.”
• “The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed.”
• “When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.”
• “Patient was released to outpatient department without dressing.”
• “The patient will need disposition, and therefore we will get Dr. Blank to dispose of him.”
• “The patient expired on the floor uneventfully.”

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Patients’ Sign-In Complaints:

• “Diarear.”
• “Sore trout.”

sigh.. i may move back to blogger

i really like the look of this blog,  but i miss some of the other functions i had on blogger .. either I’m just totaly missing them or they are not here.. anyone alse use this wordpress free blog site that maybe can help me out here…… i cant mess with the fonts and size  or color or my post! i hate that so much!! i cant change anything in the web coding with out blah upgrading! AND i the blog stats are not what googles were. … am i missing something some were or is it just not available for this one that i picked ! oh what  a mess i may have made… i generally do when I’m bored and start changing things well maybe ill get some answers and if not i may move my blog back to its old home were i know how to work it!
~ edit ~ well my hubby told me how much he loves the look of this new blog and his opinion means a lot to me. so he is voting that i do the upgrade on it for like 15 for the year to get the extra perks. lol that’s sweet coming from a guy who up tell two days ago could not remember the name of it! LOL  so it looks like i may be doing that.  but my cooking blog stays on blogger because i don’t have to buy STORAGE for my photos

now back to the hunt on finding actual up to date min to min coverage of the hurricane.. good news is it dosnt look like its going to creep north at all so my pa rants are sitting on the edge of it and .. i do believe loveing the show and looking forward to the full impact on there part. thank god its just the edge i do not think there little RV could take that much battering!  here they were last night watching the weather..

ok i just have to say.. OMG LOOK AT THE TATTOOS ON HER!! lol my mom! she has a whole jungle on her arm and back..and leg! i need some close ups mom! this has been her work in progress for a long time now. all her animals over the years on there and other personal stuff.. but me? NOOOOO lol! i love her tattoos they are very beautiful and well done and quite the conversational starter /wink. well they have been down in corpas Christi for quite a few months now. they got there RV and wanted to travel and have been work-camping.. there first big job was this rv resort on the island helping to manage it…. ended up they practically run the whole thing because of flaky work campers and a owner that has to dedicate her time between running this and her son in Canada. they will be leaving in December tho for RENO! lol and some new experiences there.. i think mom wants to be a DEALER!! HOW EXCITING! well i know they will be ok now and I’m sure they are going to have a blast in the wind .. be safe MOM! love you!

god bless

what happens when the garbage man doesn’t pick up your garbage!

Well we tend to over flow buy a few bags each week at my apartment.. i still say this would be FIXED if they would bring back the recycling bens! there is ONE left that made it threw last years switch of owners when the old manger used the other 3 or took off with them… now there is one that is always full… meaning HELLO ppl are still wanting to recycle. i know i use it and my trash output has dropped buy half. if i had a use for a compost pile id find a way to do one on the back porch to that would use up some more garbage. SOOOO THIS WEEK must have been very busy for some people because  this is what it looks like this morning. it was like this Monday morning when the garbage man pulled up and.. left it.

normally the few that are there he HUCKS to the back on the grass there and takes the garbage but oveasly there was to much to huck this week… so… what do you do when they dont take the trash??!!! omgosh!

I called the landlord and told them and was like umm..so what do we do ?? he said he would call them lol but how much more do you think will be piled up before its taken care of. what a MESS! AND ITS RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY APARTMENT. this picture was taken standing right out side my front door. what a morning view hu.

New links…frugal ..food..and money!

Well its Monday again.. and for me its not a whole lot different then any other day lucky me hu lol but i like to start my day off buy hopping around some of my favorite sites and i came across Some great articles that I would like to share.

Money and marriage: 7 lessons I have learned so far over at Christian pf…

The new Monday menus are up! Go look for some great ideas for your own menu over at organized junkie…

Frugal hacks for your home.. New ideas for me …. #21 and #33! Over at being frugal…

and now that i have done that there is chores waiting for my attention and kids wanting to play ! have a great Monday.

god bless.

Starbucks rewards!

That’s right starbucks is useing there gift cards as a rewards card! you get a few purks for useing your gift card. you get your flavor shot for free, coffee refill for free, 2hrs of a t&t wi fi a day for free AND a free tall drink when you buy a bag of there whole bean coffe. THIS is great for me because my husband is now addicted to one of them so he will get his coffee and I WILL GET MINE!!! go check it out guys!