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ok, so adam wasn't able to go for work, but he did get a few days off. so, we're going for a few days. it's going to be lots of fun. hopefully, we can keep the costs under control while doing it too. our flights are all set and ready to go now! :)
ok, so since i can't do all of the cool stuff i've been doing for workouts, i went to the local pool and did some laps. man, i feel like my arms are going to snap off, but i did it! i swam for 22 minutes which calculates out to be about .4 miles (i need .5 for the triathlon in august). i don't think that's terribly bad considering i really haven't done any swimming at all much less laps in at least 15 years maybe even 20. i got a 10 swim pass, so i now have 9 trips to the pool left before i need to buy another pass or whatever. :)
ok, so i waited 4 hours beyond when i was supposed to receive a call back from the rep earlier. turns out that the rep earlier did get my contract end date corrected (ended on 2/26), but she failed to call me back. when i called in, i got a rep named jacqueline. she was by far the most helpful person that i have spoken with since activating t-mobile service last february. since i couldn't really use my phone, she canceled it as of today instead of the end of the billing cycle with no ETF! YAY!!
ok, so i activated t-mobile service last february right before i left attws because their unlimited data plan was $20 instead of the $75 that attws wanted.
in december, i decided that i had had enough of crappy wireless service, so i called t-mobile around 12/9 and asked if i would be penalized if i ported out my number to another carrier then called back in after the port was done to reactivate service and get a new # assigned. i was told by john that that was totally doable with no penalty. on 12/9, i ported out my number to cingular. on 12/10, i called t-mobile to reactivate my line of service with a new #. i talked to another guy named john that day. he said service would be back on within 24 hours, and my contract would be extended by 2 days (to make up for the time when my service was canceled). i called back on 12/16 to see that the contract was added properly. it was not. per joann, the contract was scheduled to end on 12/11/05! WTF!! she transfered me to a guy named joe in activations who transfered me to a lady named de lynn who adjusted my contract end date (after she stated that it really should be ending in feb '05) to 2/26/05.
now we fast forward to today. since my contract was supposed to end yesterday, i called to cancel my service today. i was told by therese that it isn't supposed to end until september?!?!? she looked at the notes on the account (and said that the notes stating that the end date was incorrect), and she decided that she needed to talk to the activations department. evidently, they had a long hold time, so she said she would call me back in ~30 minutes. now, it it has been over an hour with still no call. if they try to make me pay the $200 ETF, i will so call a lawyer.
well, i knew that it was not going to be a good week. i was so tired that i didn't even go to my ww meeting. according to my home scale, i am up 2 pounds, so i recorded it and moved on. i had to play DDR. we played for an hour. i did 2 or 3 songs on standard with the rest on light. my ankle is feeling ok, but it could be better. i'm glad that i wore the mega strong ankle brace. :)
well, we thought adam was going to have to go to NYC for training next month. he had been talking with his boss for about 30 days. he received the quote on the training and booked travel arrangements immediately. now, he might not go. before we found that out, jodi spent 25k of her frequent flyer miles to buy a ticket for me to go to NY! jodi rules. now, the worst case is that adam doesn't go and i go by myself. we're hoping that adam does get to go. if not, perhaps he can change the leave date and we can have a few days there. :D
so, adam activated a line of service with cingular a few weeks ago. when he did that, we asked if it would be a pain to port in a number from t-mobile when his contract expired (so have a temp number assigned). they said that it was easy to do, and he should just activate the new line now instead of waiting the few weeks. well, we went into a cingular store (as instructed when we activated the new cingular line), and it was a major pain in the ass. it took 45 minutes for the guy to figure out who he needed to call and to get the port initiated. the good news is that it looks like it is at least half working (can call out but not in yet), and it shows as the new number when i log into the cingular account online. i guess we'll see in a few hours if it actually worked!
UPDATE: as of this afternoon, the phone is working! it can receive both inbound and outbound calls properly. YAY!
ugh. i HATE easter just because of the stupid cadbury creme eggs. i bought 4 at the store because they were 2/$1. i ate 2, then i decided that was going to eat all of them so that i would feel sick. well, mission accomplished. i will NOT have any other ones this year. UGH UGH UGH!
adam was snoring last night, so i couldn't fall asleep despite taken a xanax. so, i gave up around 3:30 and slept on the couch. blah. after i woke up before adam left, i went back into the bedroom and crashed for a little bit longer. when i woke up, i realized that my arms were SORE! that doesn't really happen much, but i guess my arm work yesterday really paid off. woo hoo!
a while back i bought the book buff brides. since i am off of my ankle, i decided to do some of the arm work in the book using 5 lb dumbbells. OMG, my arms feel all rubbery. here's what i did...
2 sets of 10 - 15 reps of chest press, seated overhead press, lateral raises, alternating front raises, tricep dips (only 1 set), tricep extensions, alternating dumbbell curls, alternating hammer curls, concentration bicep curls, and dumbbell rows. i also decided that tricep dips are EVIL when you weigh over 10 lbs. :D man, i'm glad that i had been doing some arm stuff with the FIRM but geez. i don't think that they expect you to do all of those, but hey what the hell. we'll see how much i hurt tomorrow. my FIRM box came in very handy to use as a bench for sitting on. :D
well, amex is finally worked out. it's about freaking time! adam's counselor called me today in response to a scheduling problem. anyway, that took just a few minutes to straighten out. if he gets his ass in gear on the clep and dantes stuff, he will finish toward the beginning of next year. i hope he does that because it is a much cheaper option for him to finish out his remaining gen ed stuff. i also realized that i will have to start repaying my student loans in june. UGH!
ok, so i was wearing a pair of size 14 jeans and an xl shirt yesterday. they fit well. i got my bridesmaids dress today. the skirt fit just fine in a 20, so it will probably need to go in a little before the april wedding. the size 20 top is TIGHT. i can get it on and zipped but OMG. it is one of those things that is a major pain to zip, but looks fine and is pretty comfy after you get it on. i'm a 38DD/40DD and i don't know who they designed the part of the dress for the boobs (strapless) because it's too big there. it will be really cute with the shoes too. :)
ok, here's a picture of me in it.
holy crap! i ate way too much crap today. 56 freaking points. bleh.
highlights of the day: i got all of my f/v, milk, and water
low lights of the day: i ate pizza, a bacon cheeseburger, and a cupcake (just one!) in celebration of the 6 years that adam and i have been dating
oh yeah, i have 2 flex points left until saturday. heh. i suck!
well, i had my weigh in today. after a week of sucky eating (v-day and finding out about the ankle injury), i was down .8! i got my 55# star. i think that going into the hole on flex points worked out well, it seems like if i eat more, i do better. i had a few left for the last 2 weeks and i was down .4 each week. i am already missing playing DDR and doing my FIRM workouts.
the best thing about today has been that i found a bra in a color that i have been looking for. it took me 3 victoria's secret locations to find it, but i got it! they didn't even have it online. i also bought a nude colored one too. i kind of felt a little pressured into buying it, but i figure it isn't a bad thing to have another bra that is comfy and fits well. YAY!!!!!!
well, we went back to outback tonight. i got a filet again. half of it was as ordered, half was not. adam's sucked. anyway, the nice manager took his off of the bill. we got the mushrooms too. :/
i bought some spanx (pants and a shirt). they rule. i like their power panties, but the clothes are even better. :D
well, i'm in the wedding party on my brother's side. the dress has been ordered and shipped, so it was time to find shoes. the bride wanted something black and open toe. after getting a veto on the first pair i suggested, i found these which she approves of. they are cute, comfy, and should go well with my black satin dress. :)
when i got the mail tonight, there was a letter from the california franchise tax board (FTB). they said that we owed additional taxes from 2002. well, i went through all of this with the IRS in APRIL of last year. so, i sent them a copy of what the IRS did and a letter explaining why we should get another $600 in taxes. god, i hate california. i'm so glad that we don't live there anymore.
wow, adam and i got home to find flowers (our apartment building has doors on the inside like a hotel). they are beautiful. i opened the card and it said "get better soon," and it was from the ddr addicts. that is so sweet! it made my cry. thanks so much, danburimom and team. so, check out my beautiful flowers.
well, when we got our IRS refund, they offset the amount that we owed them. i spoke with a person on the 8th who told me that they would no longer draft our monthly installment out of our checking account (normally on the 16th) because the account had a zero balance. that didn't work out as i was told. so, the IRS will send us a check for the overpayment in 4-6 WEEKS. so, we get screwed.
god, this has been horrible. for the first 5 days of last week, i averaged 35 points per day. for the first 5 days of this week, i have averaged 41 points per day. i just feel sick both physically and emotionally.
well, i just got home from the foot/ankle specialist. it is not good. i am off of my ankle for a minimum of 3 weeks to 3 months. i am only allowed to swim and use a stationary bike. i have to wear a lace up ankle brace if i plan on moving around at all, and i am having custom orthotics made. if that does not help, i will have injections at the site and surgery to reconstruct it. so, no more DDR, no more FIRM, no more treadmill until i get the doc's ok. the problem is different than other problems that had been previously treated. iirc, the doc said that it was the peroneal tendon on the outside of the ankle. the stabbing, burning pain under my ankle bone occurs because there is a nerve that runs right there. god, this sucks. i found the website for the redmond pool, so i'm going to go check it out in the next few days. i go back to see the doc on 3/3 for the custom orthotics.
oh yeah, i also just sent an email to cancel the cobalt flux order since i obviously can't use it for months.
well, i was hungry because i didn't eat all of my dinner. i ate a LC spaghetti, but i didn't stop when i was full. i continued to eat anyway, and then i ate a 100 calorie pack. god, why did i do that? :(
it's not even 4 yet, and today has been a cool, crazy day.
i dropped adam off at work because i had some errands to do. to start the day 'o errands, i went to victoria's secret at the mall to buy some black panties (i realized that wearing brightly colored ones don't always work when you wear black jeans or pants). well, the saleschick was so nice that i tried on a bra to appease her that i figured would not fit in a million years. much to my surprise, i found one that FIT! not that anybody other than me probably cares, but 55 lbs ago i was a 44DDD. the bra that i bought today was a 38DD. i had to try a 40DD on in a different style, but i bought a bra at victoria's secret. i am *SO* done with lane bryant. bras were the last thing that i could buy at lane bryant. well, that's it for my shopping days at LB!
next, i went to get my nails done. i decided that i needed to go back to wearing artificial nails because my nails and cuticles are just too sucky to look decent on their own. i went to a recommended place in bellevue, paule attar, and had them done. not only do they do nails, they do GEL NAILS! i haven't used gel since i was in the bay area. gels are so much cooler because they look so much more natural than acrylic and they don't get discolored. so, now i am back with a french manicure and loving it. if you go to paule attar in bellevue go see holly, she was way nice.
i also got a peanut butter cookie from cow chips. it was 6 points, but i got only 1. it was so good and so worth the points!
since losing a bunch of weight, i obviously shrunk out of my clothes. in december, i donated a ton of stuff to goodwill. i figure that it goes to a reputable organization and i can deduct it on my income taxes. well, last night adam and i went through his stuff to find more things to donate. right now, i'm in the midst of preparing donation #1 which will consist of primarily denim stuff. if i do it in multiple donations, i think it will be easier to manage. i am quite thrilled at the prospect of eliminating the big stacks of clothes from our hallway. :)
perhaps i will drop the stuff off before i get my nails done at noon tomorrow!
so, as you may or may not know, i have a repetitive soft tissue injuries to my right ankle. the more i do DDR, walk/run, and the FIRM, the more it starts hurting. to ease the pain before, a podiatrist that i saw in northern california used a shot of cortisone into the foot to break up some of the damaged tissue. well, i am thinking that i'm going to have to find another podiatrist in redmond to do the same thing. i'm really sick of the pain. my insurance will cover the visit, so i think that making an appointment is really in my best interest.
after sitting on hold for what seems like 15234235 years, i have a wednesday appointment at 11:40.
so, in our 2 bedroom apartment, we now have 3, yes 3, wi-fi base stations. we only had 2 until we brought my old iMac into the kitchen. it couldn't talk to the rest of the network, so the old base station was resurrected. man, that is just nutso. i really missed my flower power iMac. it is so nifty looking. i can't believe that i bought a mac because i thought it was too cute on a billboard. hey, i'm just a freak like that.
no, not food. we purged more clothes that were too big. i never realized exactly how many clothing items that adam has. it is shocking! anyway, we went through all of his stuff trying to find his missing suit. no suit to be found, but we gathered a bunch of stuff to donate. i ordered its deductible for 2005, so when that arrives i will input it for the next tax year. i guess there's no time like the present to start. :)
ugh, food. well, we went to outback last night because i really wanted a steak. we got an appetizer (breaded mushrooms) and a pecan brownie w/ ice cream for dessert. now, here's my good part of it. i got the 7oz filet and cut it in half. i also ordered a salad and promptly removed the croutons and cheese. i used a tiny bit of oil and vinegar for dressing.
today, we went to cheesecake factory. we got crab rangoon as an appetizer, stuffed chicken tortillas for dinner, and we split a piece of peanut butter cup cheesecake. thank god this is really a once a year thing. i guess it would be considered as our valentine's day dinner since we aren't going out with 1252075203895 other people tomorrow.
i would totally get another steak, but i don't think i would do dessert again. maybe that will be me once a month thing, a nice steak! at least i've earned 25 APs this weekend to offset some of the crap!
wow, i went to my weekly weight watchers meeting today. i was down .6 for a total of 54.4 pounds gone. i've also lost 45.5 inches (bust, waist, abs, hips, thighs, and arms) in that same period of time. i've lost 5/6 dress sizes. it's just amazing. i would have never thought that i would ever play DDR on heavy mode much less pass a few catas. i never thought that i would do a triathlon, but i registered for the danskin tri in august yesterday afternoon. i never thought that i would get an $800 income tax deduction for getting rid of a bunch of clothes that were too big. i can shop at "normal" stores where i haven't been able to shop in YEARS.
i get a lot of people asking if i feel better. i would say yes and no. i was active even when i was at my highest weight, so i was already ahead of a lot of others. losing weight hasn't helped my asthma at all and i still take my allergy and ADD meds. my bad ankle still bothers me especially when i do too much exercise in 1 session. i am often not the heaviest person in the room (i may not have been before but it sure felt like it sometimes). i'm not stressing about cramming myself into an airplane seat. i've got a lot of shirts that i couldn't wear before because they were too small. well, some of them are too big now. i eat healthier foods, but i still have a taco bell weakness. at least i've moved from bean burritos with sour cream (about 10 points per burrito) to soft chicken tacos (4 points each) for a lunch time total of 20 points vs 8 points. i refuse to give up mexican food. now i eat chicken/shrimp fajitas instead of cheesy enchiladas. i also eat at subway and get lettuce and tomatoes with NO CHEESE (i like the sweet onion chicken teriyaki for 7 points).
i think that's it for now. i'm sure that i'll think of more stuff later.
as we all know, there are many people that really enjoy trolling on the internet. most days many of us just blow it off and see it for what it is. then, as the frequency increases, some truly wonderful people are run off because of the childish, mean spirited antics of a handful of assholes.
melissa: if you ever see this and you remain gone, i will really miss you. you've been such an inspiration and a source of humor since i started back in april. oh yeah, your bitch ass better reply to my emails! ;)
ok, so i got a response from them as to how paying with paypal works. so, i don't have to pay immediately but they do have to have a payment before the platform ships. that's cool. i told paypal to xfer some money out of my checking account. as soon as that goes through, i'll pay for my CF! rock on!
ok, so i decided to pay for my platform using paypal. the website says that they bill you when it ships. if it is through paypal, i have no idea how that works, so i sent them an email. it will be interesting to see what they tell me.
well, i was looking at the cobalt flux website for information on whether or not they accept paypal and their policies for it. well, they do. without much warning, it says that i placed an order! i was trying to find more information and accidentally somehow i don't know placed a 2nd order. well, i emailed them within a few minutes (now an hour ago) asking if they'll cancel the 2nd order. i really hope that they do. this is majorly stressing me out especially because i didn't intend to order one at all today. :(
**update: as of 4:20pm, they have canceled the duplicate order! YAY!
well, i started out with buying a pair of size 14 jeans from gap as a stretch goal. when i could get them on and zipped (not even remotely comfy), i bought a pair of size 12s. tonight i put those 12s on again. they weren't comfy, but i could wear them out if i needed to. with the 1-2% lycra in them, they would stretch out a tiny bit after 15 or so minutes of having them on. woo hoo! next time i go into gap and see a pair of 10s at a major discount, i'll probably pick up a pair to have as my next stretch goal. ideally i'd like to be in a 10 or 12, so i think that it is really possible. i have less than 35 lbs to go before i reach the goal that my doc set for me. in the misses sizes, the general rule of thumb is 10-15 lbs to lose a size. if i'm in a 14/16 now, i can absolutely do a 10/12. :D
i am so freaking hungry. this sucks ass.
i was sad that freddy and kendra won the amazing race last night. i would have liked to seen kris and jon win but oh well. i'm psyched that the amazing race will start again in 3 weeks. i don't know how i feel about the people from survivor being on there, i hope that they don't win another million. after seeing alison and donny from big brother, i'm annoyed about the reality show people popping up in other reality shows.
we're now caught up with the oc, and we're ready for the new episode tomorrow evening. man, that show is so evilly addicting.
so, ever since adam and i got married 5.5 years ago we've had to pay the IRS. since i didn't work for almost all of last year, we were actually set to get a refund. well, we were making monthly installment payments to the IRS for additional moneys owed from 2002 and regular payments for 2003. since we had an outstanding balance to them, they subtracted that from the amount of our refund. it is cool because we won't have to make monthly payments to them; however, i was going to pay off most of my car. well, that isn't going to happen now. :)
well, i am back from hanging out at jay's to wait for comcast while he is at work. i was watching the return of the king extended version when comcast showed up. then, the DVD player wouldn't work anymore cause comcast changed some of the cables. BLAH! i watched the 1st 15 minutes of napoleon dynamite. it sucked.
now i'm waiting for adam to be done with work today so that we can get some food. i'm really hungry. here's what i've had... 16 oz jamba juice, 2 apples, a morningstar farms chili and cornbread pot pie type thing, and 2 packs of 100 calorie pack cheese nips. i guess that's not horrible since i've been up before 8 am today.
i really like my haircut still. adam even likes it because he says that "it's very japo." coming from him, that is a big compliment.
i'm also still considering ordering a cobalt flux dance stage, but i don't know if i want to wait over a freakin month to get it. sure, it would be the last DDR pad/stage/mat that i would ever need, but that is a long time to wait. if i do decide to get it, it would be cool because i could play more at home. currently, playing on the foam mat makes my calves hurt, and it really does nothing good for my bad ankle. BLAH!
thanks to the evil empire, i'm starting to get a sore throat. when they say that microsoft gives to the community, they really aren't kidding!
let's see what else happened today....
i wrote a letter to cancel my curves membership because it isn't challenging enough, i did my firm complete body sculpting video, and i read and filtered a bunch of spam messages. my ankle hurts like hell, and i hope that i don't have to stay off of it. i hope that the tax refund money comes in soon. i really want to register for the danskin triathlon. i have been freakin starving all day which really sucks. i'm also going to be hanging out at a friend's house waiting for the cable guy to show up while my friend is at work, so i need to dig out some books. :)
check it out! i decided that i needed to do something different with my hair. i like the new cut because it isn't designed to look perfect. just ignore the cat and adam's junk in the background. :)
we played an hour of DDR earlier today. sometimes exercise makes me feel better but not today. i hope that the home delivery prescription service gets the order soon and processes it quickly. i am quite sick of feeling this way. oh yeah, i love the oc. i know i know, it's sad but true.
most of these rants are from yesterday, but i am still annoyed. here they are:
so, adam decided that he wanted to activate service on cingular because t-mobile is shit. he got a new phone last night, and he spent the evening and this morning trying to figure it out. we think we are on a family plan, but that remains to be seen until the first bill arrives. god, i can't wait to cancel our t-mobile lines of service at the end of this month. they might be good in some areas but not here.
so, the stylus for my palm went AWOL. i thought they would have replacement ones at worst buy, but they did NOT. WTF?!? they sell the damn device. i don't get it. well, we then went to comp ussr. they had some, but not the right one. we thought that the styli for the zire 72 were the same as the zire 71, but NOOOOOOOOOOO. goddamn people, carry some damn replacement styli.
i took the note in to my ww leader that the doc wrote setting a higher goal weight than the ww recommended ranges. sure, the doctor knows what will work for me given my body type, amount of muscle, and medical history but i still think in the back of my mind that the ww receptionist will look at that number and think "OMFG, how can this person be at goal when they weigh that much?" i'm sure that wouldn't really happen, but that's how i feel. anyway, i really shouldn't care.
so, my car needed an oil change. adam called honda of kirkland on friday morning to see when i could bring the car in for just an oil change. they said MONDAY. UHHHHHH. a freakin' oil change takes like 15-20 minutes. so, we called honda of bellevue. they said to bring it in that afternoon, and they were shocked at what the kirkland dealership had said. anyway, they are owned by the same people so my complaint will be heard!
why must the jeans that fit me so extremely well be $100 a pair? :(
finally, i want my new damn medication. i don't like feeling all ADD and crap. god, i feel like shit.
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well, i stopped doing a blog because it was supposed to be all about my weight loss journey. anyway, i decided that i was bored with that so i stopped. soooooo, on the weight loss front, i am down 53.8 lbs since 4/3/04. i'm psyched because i can shop in "normal" stores now. i even bought a pair of jeans from lucky! i've been dying for a pair of lucky brand jeans for years now. i found out that my butt looks like a butt (not flat like it is normally) when i wear guys jeans, so guys jeans it is. anyway, here's a picture of me in them.
today we played ddr for 65 minutes, and i burned nearly 800 calories. wow! i've now passed over 300 songs on heavy mode. yay me! today wasn't a bad points day too. yay for weight watchers!
