Archive for June, 2008
I’ve been trying to lose a little weight and get into better shape lately. I’ve been doing yoga and exercising on the treadmill and elliptical, cooking healthier meals, and I’m already feeling better and lost a few pounds (I’ve only been at this a few weeks!) I’m really stoked because I have hypothyroidism which makes it more difficult to lose weight than it used to be for me.
Anyway, I got bored of my DVDs and decided to get a couple new ones. One of them was Fat Free Yoga. Looking past the silly title, I felt like it was a good choice due to having 126 reviews with a 5 star rating. I received the DVD and attempted to watch it today. This is the one of the funniest, stupidest things I have ever seen! She pants like a dog with her tongue stuck out, chants, and is basically smirking the entire time looking like she is trying not to laugh because even she knows how stupid it is!
I went back to the product page to see if there were really some negative reviews that I overlooked, and discovered on the forum that the negative reviews are promptly removed! Not just for this DVD, but for all the Ana Brett & Ravi Singh DVDs. What a scam. I feel like I’ve been duped.
About 4 years ago, my dad had to have angioplasty. We were lucky that his heart condition was discovered before he actually had a heart attack. I worry about him, and now I know I have a family history of heart disease. So heart health is an issue very close to me. If someone close to you has heat problems, you will want to learn how to recognize the symptoms of a heart attack. Even if you just want to learn more about heart health in general, HeartLibrary.com is a great resource.
Ok, I officially have the coolest parents ever. They just gave me that GPS unit, and then last night they gave me a new digital camera! It’s red (one of my favorite colors), and it’s 7 megapixels whereas my old camera was only 2 megapixels. I mean, truly, the camera in my phone is better than my old digital camera. The new one is much smaller, too! Pretty, takes great pictures, portable…what’s not to love?!
Now I just need to find some cool things to take pictures of!
I’ve always wanted to travel the world. I wish that I had studied abroad earlier in my college career (and I really have made a career of it…yikes!) Maybe if I had taken school more seriously much earlier on, it’s something I could have done. But the fact that I won’t be taking a semester abroad doesn’t really mean that I can’t still travel the globe, presuming I can find the time and money to do so.
I know I definitely want to go to the UK; Wales and London in particular. I have a friend that took a semester in England, and she loved it. I’m not sure where she stayed though, I think the school set up something so it’s not like she spent months in London Hotels, though I suppose that’s where I would be staying for my much shorter visit. If I go there, then I might as well take a trip to Wales as well. I’d probably go to Cardiff, because it’s the capital and has some pretty cool sounding tourist attractions (I’ve always wanted to see a castle, too, so I could kill 2 birds with 1 stone there!) I could probably even find some reasonably priced Cardiff Hotels to cut down on the cost of my trip. Even so, I’ll probably be saving up for a while to take a trip to Europe, so this is all just wishful thinking right now. 
I truly want to travel the globe though, so I’ll have to expand my horizons a bit. I think I want to go to Australia as well, and maybe even Spain. I’ve mentioned I love doing touristy things (I even made Zack go to some of the tourist attractions in his hometown when we went to Montana last year!) Well, in Malaga, Spain, there is a really nice Picasso museum that I’d love to check out. I’d just have to check into airfare and Malaga Hotels before I go on my globe-trotting adventure.
This could be a lot of fun, but it’s probably years down the line. It’s nice to dream though.
My parents got me a GPS today! Yay!! I am the most directionally challenged person I know of, and this will be a huge help when I have to start driving to school next semester, because I am not very familiar with Northridge. Also it will be great when we go visit my brother/sis-in-law, and I’m sure for a variety of other occasions.
Now, thanks to my dad, I have a GPS and satellite radio in my car. Now all I need is to make some money so I can put them in a car that isn’t so beat up with 90,000+ miles on it. 
I absolutely love chocolate, and I’ve been craving it lately. I never really treat myself to chocolate, though; I usually wait and hope to get it as a gift for Valentine’s or whatnot. My favorites are the caramels, by far. I’ve never been a huge fan of dark chocolate candy, but I love the variety you get with the boxes of assorted chocolates.
Unfortunately for me, Valentine’s has already come and gone, and I find myself pondering whether I should just go for it and treat myself. I mean, I’ve never bought myself a box of chocolates before, so the thought of it is a little foreign to me. Plus, it is a little scary because I always have to cut them in half to make sure I don’t get one with nuts in it. I’m lucky though because I’m not as terribly allergic to nuts as some people are: with me, if it’s something that’s manufactured someplace that also processes nuts, I’m ok, but if it actually has nuts in it, I need to steer clear.
I’ve actually found the perfect solution to this though! I ran across the website for Fannie May Candies, where you get the option to make your own assortment! That is great for someone who is picky or allergic or both, like me. So now the question is, do I order a box for myself, or drop some hints to Zack?
I think I may have found a way to play my Kyrandia games! Yes!!!
This makes me so happy. I know I was just talking about video game obsession recently, too.
But seriously, the Legend of Kyrandia series are some of my favorite games of all time. For the unfamiliar, they are older computer games of the point-and-click adventure variety. And they rule.
Here’s the thing. I feel like I can’t really write anything terribly personal here because I do some paid blogging. And I really need the extra money from that, so I can’t really stop.
I really want to go back to my old domain. However, I don’t really feel like I can go back to blogging there because I don’t particularly want my ex-husband cyber-stalking me and keeping tabs on what I’ve been up to in the years since we’ve been divorced. However, I don’t really feel all that intimidated because, last I heard, he lived in another state. The thought of him reading it still just seems a little creepy and weird though. But I think he’s finally moved on because he finally stopped with the e-mails/voicemails after we’d been divorced for a year.
Why the obsession with my other domain? My dad got it for me as a Christmas present when I was sixteen..10 years ago, back when domains and hosting were still actually pretty expensive. So yes, my parents could read whatever on there if they wanted to, but they never really did. I talked about skipping school when I was 17 and they never said anything about it, because they never read it. I said, “please don’t read this section of my site” and they didn’t (I have some cool parents, huh?). Zack already told me he doesn’t read my blog. He doesn’t “get” blogging. He knows I tell him everything anyway, so what is the point of reading what you already heard that day, that you were there for anyway.
And yeah, I could just get another new domain or use my livejournal or something for the more personal posts. But dammit, it’s just not the same. That was where I shared my most intimate thoughts with strangers for 8 years. I’ve tried livejournal, and this, and it’s just not the same.
Anyway, don’t mind me. I’m just venting. That’s what blogs are for, right?
Zack’s sudden and growing obsession with Final Fantasy is somewhat amusing. He’s basically talking to himself, and I have no clue precisely what’s going on in his game because I’m not exactly sitting there watching him intently. So I just say uhuh, yeah, mmhmm, ok… But I am exactly like him when I play Star Ocean. Exactly.
