Personal Best
10.16.09 (3:24 pm) [edit]I just had to go and check what I last posted here, it's been that long! Really must put this bookmark some where else for this site.
So what the heck has been happening here? I've been pretty busy with the training at work, go live date is November 14 I'm hoping things go smoothly. But I'm rather annoyed with the whole thing with how they've been scheduling me with the training and the fact that I haven't had any extra compensation for being so knowledgeable with the program and putting in this extra time. I'm still being paid the same as those other people that call in sick all the time.
I've been really stepping up my running routine, Rosie's liking my status on facebook reminded me I needed to come here. I ran in the Run for the Cure Oct 4th and went pretty well. It of course snowed during the run and I do not have the proper running gear to be running in Canadian weather conditions. Despite the weather I managed to run it in 32 minutes, it was really congested at the beginning. My personal best 5k run is 27:20 and I clocked my personal best 10k run today at 55:30. I really like the nike+ because it keeps track of this stuff for me. Only thing that I learned is that it needs to be calibrated every month or so.
B keeps getting on these eating health kicks, which I'm glad he does, but when he goes off the wagon it's bad news and lasts for a week at least and completely counteracts the good eating we did the week before.
I've been really enjoying the fact that we no longer have a room mate. But I'm still getting annoyed with the whole house situation. He moved out in August and the mortgage was supposed to be in mine and B's names. It is now the middle of Oct and it still is not. My money is still going towards that jerks' name. I've mentioned it a couple of times that I really do not feel right that it is still not in my name yet. B of course gets mad do you have a 1000 bucks to pay for the lawyer?? Apparently I need to pay for it all in order to have it in my name which is ridiculous.
Well that's it for now I am going to try and come here more often to catch up on blogs that I've been missing.
Nike+
08.22.09 (4:46 pm) [edit]I splurged today for a nike+ adaptor. I don't have the shoes, but there is a gadget that you can get to put the sensor onto your shoe laces instead. I went for a run today and it works great. I set it for a 5k run and it told me at every kilometer how far I have gone and how much more I had to go. It is a really nifty lil gadget to get for your Ipod if you do some running.
carb cycling
08.19.09 (10:02 pm) [edit]I keep reading about this, want to find out more about it. I heard it is an excellent way to lose fat. Anyone know anything about this?
eye twitch answers
08.18.09 (5:33 pm) [edit]A few months ago I re organized my bookmarks and made folders and named them appropriately and I put tblog in entertainment. I've come to realize that without my notifications of new posts, forgetting my password for bloglines and placing the bookmark for tblog there I just do not think of coming here to read blogs. Plus I just haven't really felt like blogging. Is the novalty of blogging done for me? I'm not sure.
I posted a while ago about a constant eye twitch that I have been dealing with. Someone told me this theory yesturday. That ideally workers in a work place should only be working at 80% capacity of thier energy levels. Anything above that stresses out the body and things like eye twitches occur. HMMMMM interesting!! I worked at my usual work site this weekend and eye twitch was full on. For yesturday and today I was at another site doing some training. Guess what?? eye twich gone!! It is related to work, I knew it was, but couldn't figure out a way to prove it. Now I have.
Need to log on more often
07.16.09 (7:37 pm) [edit]I've been concentrating on working out and such, that I'm just not logging on to tblog all so much. I had my last session with my trainer today and she did some measurements. I lost 2 cm in my waist. It's not much, but it is a loss, and I'm happy about that. Could be more if we were not eating so poorly. I need to say no more often and stop being so pleasing.
Room mate is definitely moving out. I plan on renting a rug doctor and steam cleaning all the carpets here. Someone had left it up to me to come up with money to pay RM out on the house, and I'm glad that the bank advised me not to do that. Turns out with the refinancing of the mortgage there is a loss of 17 thousand dollars and they said that the RM would end up owing us money in the end. So now he is going to walk away from it all with nothing as long as the mortgage company allows me and B to assume the mortgage. We are still working out the details.
I've ordered some wire wrapping books and I'll be making some new pieces soon. I will post them when I make them.
It's official B has adopted Punkin as his own cat LOL! When I got home from the gym today I checked the mail and there was a package addressed to B and Punkin. I guess he ordered some free food online for the lil dickens. He loves my kitties his actions are speaking way louder than what he says. He says he's annoyed by the cats but really he loves them :)
Work is continuing to be well work. I'm now training people on our soon to be new software, but they have made it difficult by having more ppl on vacation than that is allowable, they cancelled a bunch of shifts of our casual ppl that were covering for those people on vacation. Now it's getting difficult to pull people to spend 2 hours or so on learning the new software. I will just do the best that I can. I will soon be learning more about the program in a few weeks so that I can train ppl in the classroom how to work with the program to do the tasks that is requred of us each day.
And lastly I'm looking forward to seeing Harry Potter tomorrow night.
Birthday month from Hell
06.09.09 (3:34 pm) [edit]It's been a bit since I posted anything on here. Sorry guys been neglectful I guess. So I will summarize in point form for the goings on here.
1. Room mate told B that his girlfriend wants him to move in with him. So we are in limbo about what to do with the condo. B wants to just assume the mortgage. I would love to have the place just to ourselves and storage space would be nice. It would be a big step for me and B as well.
2. I have officially lost 16 lbs and feeling great about it. I am still going to the gym regularly. That is what has been keeping me from posting, I am beat after the gym. I actually bought an extra small top last night from Le Chateau. I never thought I would be buying that size from that store or even requesting to try one on.
3. I had the interview for the other part time job, but haven't heard anything yet. I'm getting a bit ancy about it now because of point number 1. I will need to have an extra job to be able to put my name on the mortgage.
4. I am finally making some headway with my trainer issues I had with my gym. They are finally seeing that he scammed me out of sessions and the company out of money that he did not earn. I'm getting a new trainer for the last few sessions, I'm looking forward to it.
5. This is the birthday month from Hell for me. My mom's, sister's, and B's birthdays all are in the same week. They span over 5 days, starting on the 6th then the 8th and the 10th.
6. I have started to take over the social committee at work, and we have lots of things planned. I want to make this committee great and do great things with it. I have also started to do some training to train our company on our new software that will be implemented in November some time.
So essentially I have been busy busy.
It's been a month since I applied for another second job and they finally have called me back today. Of course this was the day I left my phone at home and didn't get the messsage until 6 pm. I am hoping they offer me a position. It sure would help with the bills.
eye twitch
05.24.09 (9:40 pm) [edit]I've had this eye twitch going on for the past few weeks. I can't even think back to when it really started all I know is it has been more than 3 weeks. It goes off quite a few times during the day, if I had to put a number to it I would say more than 50 less than 100. I will often be talking with someone and feel it going off and it is always in the same eye the right one on the upper outer eye lid. I always wonder if other people notice it twitching. It is rather annoying, and have researched it. It is caused by fatigue, stress, and caffine. It can't be caffine I don't drink coffee and have eliminated diet pepsi out of my diet. It can be fatigue sometimes I guess, but I'm not overly tired. So I will just have to deduce that it is caused from stress.
I just want it to go away.
Question Answered
05.16.09 (10:45 pm) [edit]Rosie asked where I put all my jewelery that I make. Well I had gotten a great holder for xmas from B, but it was getting over filled. Today I ended up making a holder for my earrings after I made a couple of pendants and a ring.
I really like the look of this holder but I need more hahaha.
I've really been enjoying hammering out my wire so I made these little pendants. I really like how the flower one turned out. I made a necklace but I forgot to take pictures silly me.. I get on those tomorrow
Pounding the crap outta stuff
05.10.09 (9:00 pm) [edit]That stuff would be wire of course. I invested in a chasing hammer and block today. I wanted to make some stuff that required to flatten out the wire. I really like how it turned out. I made a pair of earrings and a necklace today. I think for the earrings I would go with a thicker gauge of half wire that binds the wires together. It was too thin and was breaking when I hammered. I'm thinking of soldering it for this design next time I make it and get the materials to solder.
Confirmation
05.09.09 (9:47 pm) [edit]I have had confirmation about how I've been feeling about somethings are in fact true. I am starting to think I am intuitive.
spamburger
05.07.09 (4:18 pm) [edit]I am being spammed so I am only allowing members to comment on my blog for now.
Not much going on other than just going to the gym lots. I've been going to the gym lots and I managed to run 5k in 30 minutes and 43 seconds. Not too bad I think. I will increase that time I know I will because I have the ambition to do it.
3 miles
05.05.09 (2:47 pm) [edit]I just ran 3 miles, that is just about 5 kilometers. So I am on my way to running a full 5 k. I'm glad I am getting my endurance back. I feel really good after my run.
Grossed out
05.03.09 (7:03 pm) [edit]I went outside to take advantage of the sunshine to get some pics of my latest ring and got extremely grossed out. I think Rosie is the only one that knew me back before I moved to my new city and has been following my blog since then. I blogged then about how I couldn't stand the cigarette butts that were flicked onto my patio. When I went out today onto our patio here and was just as grossed out. Butts all over the place. Where are they coming from you ask?? My room mate and his girlfriend are the ones that smoke and flick their butts out there.
I tried out a new pattern for a ring, I like how it turned out.
running socks
05.01.09 (8:34 pm) [edit]I went to the tech shop to check out the running socks they have. I have been having trouble when I run. There is a rubbing on the side of my foot. I can feel that if I continue to run it will form a blister. So I'm trying these socks that claim that they prevent blisters. We will see how that goes.
Wolverine
05.01.09 (2:43 am) [edit]We just got back from a midnight showing of Wolverine. I absolutely loved it!! I really like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, he does an awesome job. We went with a couple of friends of B's, and I'm kinda feeling like crap right now. The wife of B's friend in a nutshell confirmed that I was being left out of things by asking me if I was going to the thing another girl is organizing. I didn't know anything about it and told her I wouldn't know anything about it because this group of people have been leaving me out of stuff since my friends birthday (that I introduced them to) in feb. I'm not bothered by the fact that they are leaving me out and purposefully excluding me. What I am more upset at is me, for thinking these people my friends, when they clearly were not. Nothing more irritating than people parading around pretending they are your friends. The worst one of them all the girl I introduced to them.
Inspired by Eni
04.30.09 (5:24 pm) [edit]I was inspired by a website I've been going on to a lot lately Jewelerylessons.com. It is an absolute fantastic site! It was put together by a woman names Eni Oken. She is the one that put together a tutorial I just had to try out. Woven heart. I had a lot of fun making it. I hope you enjoy the picture. The center stone is Flourite and the color of the swarovski crystals I used just played on the color of it.
grrr
04.29.09 (1:27 pm) [edit]Woke up today it looked like it was going to be a nice day for a change. I got ready to go to the gym and walked out to my car to see that the covering on the back of my passenger mirror has been ripped off. Stupid kids around here they just do not have any respect for anyone else's property.
I still got to the gym and had a great work out.
The bank is not going to like me.
04.28.09 (9:18 pm) [edit]I have had it with this bank. They can not seem to get anything right. I have been trying since Feb to get my car loan payment to bi weekly. It was supposed to be done before I quit FS. It still is not done. They didn't take their first payment out at the beginning of the month. I called them and they were going to fix it. They were supposed to take out the payment for the beginning of the month early last week. That did not happen, they called to which I got a phone call saying that they tried taking the money out of the account and it wasn't there. WTF it was there!! The girl I was speaking with saw it there herself. So they were going to try again, still didn't happen. Then it was the day for the second payment to come out. Yep you are right did not happen. I went into the bank because I had to pay the tax man. I spoke with someone there and they saw that there was a scheduled payment to come out yesturday. I looked at my account to confirm if it was taken out and guess what?? Ohh they got their payment twice. Now I am hooped for rent!!! They will be getting an ear full tomorrow.
Vacation
04.28.09 (12:11 pm) [edit]I am on vacation this week. B's work is making him take this week off because essentially they do not have the work load any more with the recession. So I put in for vacation this week too. We've really just been lazying around not doing to heck of a lot. Watching movies sleeping in. Well sleeping in for me is until 8:30 am. There is some sort of construction going on and it is noisy. The cats also demand to be fed in the morning too lol.
B is busy doing his sports stuff, and I'm just surfing the net for ideas and new techniques for jewelery. I also started reading Night World, not bad so far. The weather here is keeping us from going out and doing some outdoor things like going to the zoo.
We do not have much planned other than what we have been doing. Just enjoying that we do not have to go to work. Still waiting to hear back on the other job.
Hiatus from gym over.
04.27.09 (5:54 pm) [edit]I had taken a hiatus from the gym with all the stress I really had put my energy into making my jewelery and watching Charmed. B is learning that is how I create. I like to sit and watch tv shows or movies on DVD and sit and create stuff. Today I finally made it back to the gym. I was talking to the girls about my training sessions. They told me that I had 1 session left. I am pretty sure I have at least 4 more. They said that I signed for them, as soon as they said that I told them that he signed for me I only signed for 3 sessions. As soon as I said that the 2 girls sitting at the desk gave each other a "look" then the one girl said quietly "I can believe that he would do that because he gets paid by the session". It sounds like I am not the only one to complain about this guy. I just don't know why it took me so long to go in and do it. I am waiting for the manager to call me back about that situation.
To ease myself back into the gym I managed to do 25 min on the elliptical and another 25 min running 2 miles. No weights today, maybe tomorrow.
Can never get ahead
04.26.09 (6:02 pm) [edit]I haven't blogged in a while, haven't really had the urge to. Like I said in an earlier post I'm really diving into my jewellery lately. I was so inspired by so many sites I wasn't sure what project to attack next.
I made these two rings last night. The second one is supposed to be a pink cubic zirconia but my camera just will not pick up the color for some reason.
I've been so stressed out with so many things, work, B's friends, money,taxes. I am waiting to hear back on those applications still and I am getting worried as more time goes by. Once I get that job the money problems will go away and I have an excuse to not hang out with B's friends. I have met so many two faced people in my life and I truly just don't want them in my life anymore. I know I won't be able to, but getting rid of the ones that are currently, is a start. I hate fake people. You know the ones that pretend to be your friends when it benefits them, but as soon as it doesn't they stab you in the back. I am tired of meeting these kind of people. A true friend that will be there no matter what, is what I want in my life. I haven't had that at all and starting to feel like I will never. I feel down when ever someone talks about their good friend from high school, I don't have funny stories from high school to share. This really brings me down. B told me that his best friend and his wife wanted to hang out more with us, but they just don't know what to do since I don't drink or do drugs. That kinda got me thinking that maybe that is the reason why I don't have many friends because I choose to not drink or do drugs. What would happen if I decided to get smashed every weekend? Would I have a wonderful group of friends??
I just finished doing my taxes and I am bummed out. More money I don't have that I owe somewhere else. It is ticking me off.
I just spent the bulk of the evening checking out some tutorials on JeweleryLessons.com I got 2 tutorials from there. They are relatively cheap 7 bucks for some instructions to make a fantastic piece. I of course had to go with the one that I drooled over but couldn't figure out a certain part of the piece. So I caved.
After reading the tuturial for the ring I really want to invest in a ring mandrel. I'll have to check out my jewelery supply place see if they have any. Look forward to some pics of these things I create. I am so in my jewelery making element right now and I like it.
wire wrapped earring
04.18.09 (5:29 pm) [edit]I started to think of a new idea for a pair of earrings. I went to attempt to make them last night, but I did not have a thin enough gauge wire to do it. I went to the bead store today and got it and this is the outcome of my idea.
Don't mind the cat hair in the fabric. That stuff gets everywhere, but I still love them no matter what. They fill my heart with happiness.
banks phft!
04.18.09 (9:21 am) [edit]I've been trying to change the frequency of my payments for my car loan since Feb. When I originally called in, the girl said that it was easily done.It is now mid April and it is still not done. It's coming on to 3 months just about. Easily done pft! Because of the dates all I had to do was pay the interest on the loan so that they can postpone the payment. So I did that, and bi weekly payments were to start the beginning of march. Payday in March came along and I noticed that it still was not done. Rang up the bank again and had a lengthy convo again. There was an error and that is why it didn't go. I understand errors do happen so I accept that I need to pay the full amount and not say much. I got the girls guarantee that it was going to go to biweekly right after that. So that payday has come and gone and still nothing. I called them up and the girl goes again there was an error and that the next payday will have to be a full amount again. Upset I got off the phone with her before I start yelling because she is just the messenger. I called back after work and demanded to speak with a manager. She wasn't in so I left a message. "Hi my name is _____ _____ I've been trying to change my car loan payment frequency since Feb. For such an easy task it has turned into a bit of a problem. I'm not asking to miss a payment or anything like that, but there seems to be a lot of errors happening. I'm calling in hopes of getting this problem resolved faster than having to wait yet another month to get my simple request done."
I got a call back from the manager yesturday, She appologized profusely and said that there is a way of getting this done faster. She asked if I still had the funds for the payment that should have come out. Yes I do. So she is requesting that the payment come out next week. Finally someone who is willing to get the ball rolling. She said that she will have to send out memos about how important it is to look at the small details such as dates, because the over looked small detail turned into a major problem. I'm just happy that things are finally going to be changed.
I wanted to change the payment frequency so that it falls on my payday from the lab. It always fell on the payday from FS. I was doing that so that I can eventually get rid of FS. I quit at the beginning of March because I thought that had been changed. Now it is mid April and it is still not done. See my frustration.