Category: Meanderings

Good morning!  😀

I thought I would be around more this week even with the crazy schedule but that turned out to be not so true…. yesterdays work – Pampered Chef Party – opening night of Breaking Dawn 2 was fun, but I got to bed around 1 am, and got up at 6 this morning to pack for the Literacy Institute that I will be leaving for shortly here…

Had to pop in though and say “Hey”.

“Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyy.”

😛

SO in case you are wondering Breaking Dawn at points is cheesy… I laughed, my friends laughed – at points that normally you would not laugh at… at one point there is a confrontation and the entire theater laughed.  However just when I was about to say that the Twilight series is going down as a cheesy epic fail… it redeems itself and in the end I have, as well as everyone else… a WOW moment. 

Nicely played.

Any hoo – more on that later.  I just wanted to let you know I am alive, I will have my laptop this weekend and I am home late tomorrow afternoon anyway so I will still have part of the weekend to catch up on other things. 

Insert *yay!* here.

So hope your weekends are off to an awesome start! 

 

Good morning all!  😀

I was MIA yesterday – unplanned, but there it is.  Morning was busy – then work, then I helped out with the students last night and then watched Survivor with my hubby.  The day flew by and now here I am and it is already crazy Thursday which = work 8 – 3, Pampered Chef party here at 6 and Breaking Dawn Part 2 Movie at 10 pm but get there as soon as I can after the party to get in line…

Then I leave tomorrow morning at 8 am for the Literacy Institute program until Saturday afternoon. 

Ok…. I am going to need extra energy.  😀

But…

I wanted to talk about the book room.

The chairs came Tuesday late morning and they are so AWESOME!!!!   I really feel they complete the book room. I had book club at the house on Tuesday night and the girls really liked the lay out.  After book club ended my friend Amy and I sat and chatted and caught up in the book room… it was put to use right away!

So here is what they look like:

LOVE!  Ok, I need to keep moving, I am hoping to write my book club review yet this morning to because it was AWESOME!!!  (I say that a lot lately.

 

Good morning.  What’s up?  😛

Two, three… (when was it?) years ago when I started the Morning Meanderings there was a little bonus to it that hasn’t been around for a while.  That “bonus” was I would talk about my work outs, what I was doing to keep fit and where I fell short.  It was pretty much a part of the meandering culture…

So…

what happened?

Many things.  Life for one.  And about a year ago when we put our dog down I kind of hit a funk throughout most of last winter.  I lost my desire to work out and keep up the healthy patterns I had once as part of my life.  I didn’t want to do anything.  I was content with just going to work and going home and lying low.  It has been a real struggle to break these poor habits.  Throughout the spring through fall of this year I did a lot of bike rides but hardly any roller blading which I love, and I haven’t been to the gym since June.  😯 

Last week while spending time with both of my sons in Florida and Georgia I had a little wake up call.  College son does these shakes that his roommate got him hooked on, Vi-Shape.  Navy son works out 5 times a week and keeps track of calories using My Fitness pal – which is awesome and easy and free.  It was weird being on vacation with two guys who are both watching what they eat.

HELLO….. It’s called vacation….. 😆

Anyhoo…. I have always believed that each of us know our bodies and what feels like the right weight and what does not for us.  You can still be small built like myself and not feel you are at a healthy weight.  That is where I am at….

and I am ready to fix it. 

I hope.

I mean, I am. 😀

I signed up to do the Vi-Shape (which my son swears by) and my first shipment came in yesterdays UPS delivery.  It’s two shakes a day and a healthy dinner.  I am going to combine that with using My Fitness Pal again because it really is an eye opener as to how many calories you are eating in a day as well as what kind of calories.  I am also going to get my hiney back to the gym.

If you have looked at my friend Reagan’s posts lately at Get Fit 2.0 she can be a real kick in the pants too.  I am so proud of her and she has inspired me big time to get my fitness blog back up and running as well.

My goals:  Back to feeling good and looking good by my birthday in February.

 

So there you have it…  that’s me – a new beginning that I am excited to jump on.  Tomorrow I will let you know how day one has gone and maybe (maybe…) have a post on Kickin’ It, my neglected work out blog. 

Tonight book club at my house and the review of Language of Flowers.  I think its going to be great!  😀

 

Ahhhh… good morning!

The weekend (for me) is finally here.  While my work week was a short one, my running around lately has been non stop for over a week so hitting the breaks over the next three days feels like…

BLISS.

Over the weekend I plan to do some blog work – catching up on my Where Are You Reading Map which is dreadfully outdated (ummm…I think I last updated in April) as well as update my challenges at the same time.  With a little luck I will post an update to all when they are current.  Last night I updated my embarrassingly outdated side bar to my current reads and projects.

I also plan to do some reading.  I have the book club read to finish, and a few books that I need to complete as well.  I am hoping this weekend will really be a great time to do some of that.  I may work in the storage room tomorrow if the weather works for me to clean and haul stuff out… in that event, audio will be my companion.  Whatever I do… I am trying to refrain from my usual “Yes” to everything ways as starting Monday I have something every day going on through next Sunday and I need to stock pile my energy now. 😀 

If I can find my missing IPOD nano I may go on a bike ride this afternoon if the weather agrees as well.  I will have a review up today as my time with Rick Springfield’s memoir has just about come to an end.  (I am thrilled about this 😀 )

I hope everyone’s Friday is WONDERFUL!!! 

What are you reading or listening to over the weekend?

Good morning!  How ya all doing?

I had every intention of popping in with a meandering yesterday morning but circumstances did not allow such luxuries….

Let me explain.

Yesterday morning I got up and went downstairs to the laundry room to check the clothes I was drying the night before.  I noticed the mouse trap that I keep set in this room had been snapped and ugh…. I had a mouse.  (Our laundry room is the only part of our home that is old school basement).  I went to the dryer but then caught movement out of the corner of my eye…

the tail…

was moving.

😯

“Fresh kill!  Fresh kill!” And I run back upstairs…. whenever I see a mouse caught I have to wait to take out the trap (it is one of those snap open and reuse types) because I have to be certain the mouse is completely past tense.  I don’t like killing… but it is a necessary evil this time of year when the weather starts to turn cold.

So…. I wait it out.  I make coffee.  I shower.  I prepare for work… and then I head back down.  Good the movement appears to have stopped…. I could not stand it if it was suffering.

Oh, but wait.

Tail move.

GAH.

SO…. back upstairs I go and I grab an old towel and a spatula. Not exactly sure why but these were my tools of choice.  I go downstairs and scoop up the trap with the spatula and put the towel over the top.  I feel the movement…… eeeeep. 😯  I go upstairs and out the deck door where I hang the trap over the edge of the deck and hope hope hope when I hit the release button the mouse does not stick.  Ugh. 

 

Please don’t stick….

 

I release and the mouse drops to the leafy ground.  I can see its hind end it squished, but not hind legs and apparently no vital organs.  He looks up at me and runs.

Mission accomplished.

Of course, I have named him “Squish Butt”

 

Of course, I am hoping he does not get back in the house and fall for the trap  that I have now re-set.  If he does, I think I will recognize him.

 

Sometimes… being an animal lover (yes, all animals) sucks.  I can not do the things that other people can do…. like kill a mouse without feeling bad for him/her.  Like drowning a daddy-long-legs when he is in the shower.  (I actually carry spiders outside….)

Is anyone else like that?

 

In bookish news I should be finishing up Rick Springfield’s memoir soon here and thank goodness… while fairly interesting, a bit crude… it is definitely TMI and too long to my liking.  I should also (hopefully) finish Charlotte street tonight.

Good morning from Brainerd Minnesota!  Yup… as of 8:47 pm last night… I am home.  I am not unpacked…. I am not showered… (TMI?  😆 )  I am due at work in about… ummm…. 45 minutes…. but I am going to write this post real quick before I move on.  😀

I did manage between the plane rides *blessedly uneventful* and the ride home to finish a book and an audio.  AWESOMENESS.  Really 😀  Tonight there is a good chance I will finish a second audio. 

So for my geek moment of the day I have to show you the mug I bought at Universals Studios:

Which really is super cool on its own and Ithat is why I bought it but…. oh look what I discovered on the plane when I looked at it again….

 

 

Whoa!!!  What is this magic!!!!!   Yes, when you add a hot liquid the feet show up on the mug!  I was going to just put this in the reading room with my Potter books as a souvenir but now… I have to use!!!  And so I did…

 

 

I think I am going to purchase one or two more for gifts…  Ok thats my time.  I work, hopefully tonight I will get back to working out.  It’s good to be home 😀