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zenobia
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Posted: 31 January 2012 07:14 pm |
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hey mols. yeah, there was kind of some drama between the smoking thing and something else that popped up. but so it goes... such is life.. blah blah blah.
other issues at home... i've been feeling really #%@&! about my body and it's effected other things so i have decided to realy put in more effort. you know, if i don't feel like i can get healthy for myself, i want to do it for him. why not, right? besides, it makes me feel better to have more self confidence... he thinks i'm sexy right now (he is so sweet like that), but i'm not happy and it really matters to me.
as for that, i started a detox yesterday and very happy about it. working out and feeling better about things. at least i am doing something. so it's a 2 week program from GNC and i have done it before. it's pretty cool. kick starts things, you know?
Got tickets to see florence + the machine in april so that is cool, and i have made plans to see the Drop Kick Murphys on st. patties day (along with some other irish bands). i guess this is the year of concerts. super awesome stuff :)
anything else new? not really. the internship is going well- still in training... i'm thinking it's time to send out my resume. i need to get out of this #%@&! retail job. i'm so ready for a normal schedule and actually doing something that doesn't bore me to tears. though it will suck to have to sit behind a desk 8 hours a day... but it would be worth exchange.
so as of right now, i think that's all i got going on.. :)
as of 2, sitting at 500 cals.- wrap, chobani yogurt, string cheese, baby carrots, and sf hot chocolate. not bad
30 min. on the elliptical
Last edited on 31 January 2012 08:47 pm by zenobia
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zenobia
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Posted: 1 February 2012 05:13 pm |
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i woke up with this song in my head today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrrGKR8Xii4
it's old, but still pretty awesome.
anyway.. found out yesterday that the wedding i was supposed to go to in san diego is cancled. like big canceled. lots o' drama... sad, but what can ya do.
day 3 of the detox, going pretty well :) i have a very short shift, so it's cool. going to work out after work tonight.
i got invited to Spain for a big music fest (by the friend who i no longer getting married) and though i would DIE to go, the economics of it... well... if we win the lotto, i'm good to go. sad too, i need a stamp in my passport!
so on friday i'm going to go check out an abandoned dog race track with some friends to take pictures. super excited. it was build in the 60s and closed only like 2 years after opening. it should be pretty cool. i'm really into this whole "urban exploring" thing right now. last week i was pretty much obsessed with looking up abondoned amusement parks. some of them are so skin crawling creepy. there is one in the town of Prypiat (sp?) which is outside of Chernobyl... yeah. creepy on so many levels.
anyway, i'm gonna check this place out and hopefully not get arrested 
guess that's it for now. cals sitting at around 300. sleep sucked... oh well.
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 1 February 2012 08:13 pm |
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Hey Zen - good job on the detox. An amusement park outside of Chernobyl what a nightmare.
What are the Dropkick Murphys not in Boston for on St. Patty's Day? Well, I suppose they done it a few times.
Smoking is tough. My brothers used to bust on me when I came visiting from Europe and was smoking. I couldn't stand it, but the only thing that really made me quit was when I actually started having trouble breathing - and even then it was tough to do.
Don't worry about the long stories - I used to try to keep it short, but as Mols says, it's for yourself. I actually enjoy them.
I'd listen to your song, but youtube isn't coming through at Panera. Just a dead stop. Even Pandora's not coming through, kind of a drag.
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zenobia
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Posted: 1 February 2012 11:14 pm |
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jack- my bad. it's flogging molly, not dropkick murphys. they might very well be in bosten for it. still excited for the concert though!
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 2 February 2012 12:54 am |
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Zen - you're right - they're in playing on Landsdowne St. right next to Fenway Park on the St. Patty's eve. I can see how you mixed them up - both are rowdy, loud Irish style bands.
You got me off on a little youtube exploration of both bands, and I gotta say by the end of it, I could barely tell one band from the other. Here's a good one by Flogging Molly, called, "State of Massachusetts" - it could've easily been done by DKM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbenhxn8Xwo&feature=related
I really get a kick out of all the local references from DKM - it's like reading about Whitey Bulger and his exploits, without the crime but with the visuals.
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zenobia
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Posted: 2 February 2012 04:28 am |
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jack- it's always cool when a band does that (make local references). it's like having a mutual friend with the band.
flogging molly makes me miss my friend Chris. he moved out to Seattle about the same time i moved out to Phoenix (both from MN). we were actually dating for a while (twice actually) right before i met hubs. Chris and I are still close and have one of those friendships that no matter how long we might go without talking, we will pick up like we never left off. he's such of a great guy and any girl would be so lucky to land him. We tried it out and we discovered that we were better as friends than as "dating" (in bed is a WHOLE other thing *wink wink*), but he's a cool guy, loves music, and absolutely adores Flogging Molly.
it's funny, i realized that i lot of my friends are really into the irish thing. personally, i am much more of an Italian fan (have you seen the men??? and the girls are quite sexy too  !!), the language, the general coolness of old school Italians-LOVE Dean Martin (sorry Sinatra, you only wish you were as cool as Deano!)... so i'm not sure where i find all of these Irish lovers. lol- i have heard that the irish and Italians make beautiful babies though. not sure what that has to do with anything, but i just felt i had to point that out...but i'm missing one Irish lover in particular tonight. hopefully i can get out there to visit him sometime.
So i was so totally exhausted today after sleeping like total cr.ap last night. and really had to push myself to go work out. it took about 4 hours of intermittent pep talking, but i finally did, and i did an extra 15 minutes, upping my elliptical experience to 45 minutes rather than the usual 30.
hubs went out to unwind with a few beers so i'm chillin at home. i'm gonna have some tea, wash up, maybe get girly and give myself a facial, perhaps try some yoga (mol, you are the inspiration for that), then try to find a book i have not yet read that appeals to me on my bookshelf and get to bed before 1 a.m. hopefully i will get some sleep tonight.
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 2 February 2012 04:33 am |
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Yeah, Molly is an Irish name y'know.
This whole convo is a bit interesting. Coincidentally, I was listening to this a bit earlier tonight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnvpw9COWCw
Sorry to hear about the drama and your friends' wedding being off. Hope that everything works out for the best.
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zenobia
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Posted: 2 February 2012 05:04 am |
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i do know that, mol :) oh, as long as things don't get worse, things will be fine for her... if that makes any sense at all.... and yup, it's totally for the best. 100% for the best.
lol. i was reading the comments on the youtube link while listening to this song and someone mentioned that it's a great song to sit and drink with a bunch of friends and yell out "ROSIE SWEET ROSIE!" while dancing around. it sounds quite fun :)
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 2 February 2012 05:09 am |
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Hey Zen, you're right, Italian chicks are definitely hot. You remind me, back in the day, I fell for an Italian girl. There was some serious chemistry going on there. She was pretty, had a lot of music in her and was really funny. Irish/italian is a good mix.
Mols, I was thinking it's funny that name of the band includes your handle, Molly. I guess they used to sing at a bar called "Molly Malone's", and were always flogging their albums there, thus the name.
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 2 February 2012 10:54 am |
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Hi Zen,I hope you got in a little girly self-care last night. I'm finding that the more I take care of myself, the better I am for everybody else.  Easier said than done sometimes, but every little bit helps!
I saw that song performed live at an Irish music festival, and it was a rollickin good time. The Young Dubs are awesome...the fiddle player is this tall 6'4" or so bauld guy who looks like he should be in some kind of dark alternative band...and he and the rest of the band are sooooo energized when playing, and the crowd...well yeah its a lot of fun. :) See them if you get the chance of it.
Jack - I didn't know the history of the name Flogging Molly, that's interesting. I always thought flogging was referring to....flogging...but I really didn't really dig into why somebody would name a band that.
And thanks for the nice stuff you wrote in my journal, it was great waking up to that today. xoxo
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zenobia
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Posted: 2 February 2012 05:20 pm |
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hey jack! yes, in my next life, i will be an italian. man, it would be pretty cool... to be a hot young italian chick then grow old into a sweet italian grandmother who cooks pasta all day. sounds like a great life!!
mol- yup, i did get in a bit, though i ended up not doing yoga... i did get some self care in, but for some reason, either the lotion or the eye cream that i have eben usuing for a few weeks now started to really really irritate my eyes. i'm better now, but i hope it doesn't continue to hurt with use. i really like the eye cream...
on to day 4 of detox. yay! for some reason, this is when things start to get kinda rough. especially since it is my "weekend." but i have to push through it. internship stuff today, then a workout, maybe run some errands. i feel like spending money...
oh! finally lost those 2 annoying "wtf?" pounds. good lord... so now i'm to where i normally am when i decide that it's time to start losing weight again. next mini goal is 3 lbs. i think the detox will really help with that.
i think i might actually spend money on a massage. i carry all of my stress in my schoulders. i don't even realize how tense i look. my shoulders are always way up... maybe yoga will help with that. i just have some dvds, but it's gotta be better than nothing..
so, off to get ready for the day. i'll be back later.
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zenobia
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Posted: 3 February 2012 03:56 am |
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I want something else to get me through this semi-charmed kind of life
so i am in a mood today. the day started out all well and good. though i slept like cr.ap again, i was ok. internship stuff was great, talked to a different adviser and she is totally how i want to be when i am an adviser. got home and felt cagey. thought i'd go for a drive, walk around target. listened to some music. then the song which my title above is taken from came on my ipod. i have not heard this song in a long while, at least not while not drinking and as background music. yup, probably considered a cr.appy 90s tune, but the lyrics have always stuck with me... i forgot how this song, um... well, it just kind of brings me back to a past time... not really a good time, but it had its ups. mostly downs, but some ups, too.
so yeah, it's really quite good that i am not drinking right now because i am, as mol would say, in rocketship mode. it would quickly spiral out of control, probably do some drunk dialing, listen to extremely sad songs, and just be overall completely self destructive.... yup. very happy i am not drinking now. being drunk on music is more than enough at the moment.
also, lots of other things running through my brain, my being... feeling excessive, like some Dionysian spirit is trying to take over. i dunno... i get like this every now and then... i don't know if listening to this song (which i did on repeat like 3 times) sort of influenced this feeling... i guess that makes sense, but it's been building for a while regardless. i guess it just sort of fueled the flame by brining up some old memories; times had with another person in another life time... god it was a ... well... an interesting time. one that i have no interest in revisiting, but the memories have just kind of nestled in my head right now..
so i don't know, some part of me is channeling Dionysus and i can't do anything about it but try to direct my energies else where. it's hard... *sigh*
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 3 February 2012 11:34 am |
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| (((Zen))) I so know that feeling...and remembering another time with another person...I hope you got some sleep...you need to get out someplace and get some fresh air and exercise and write or scream or throw rocks or something and just sort of let it out...can you go hiking?
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 3 February 2012 03:38 pm |
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Zen, unfortunately, I never studied Greek mythology, so I had to look up what "Dionsyian" means, and here's the quote: "Dionysus is the god of wine, ecstasy, and intoxication." So I hope you got through your Dionysian mood without too much collateral damage :)
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zenobia
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Posted: 3 February 2012 05:12 pm |
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thanks for the support guys. last night passed uneventfully and i even got a work out in around 10 pm. listened to a bunch of Love and Rockets on the elliptical:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KDnzvGWYCA
and then
some Fiona Apple:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFOzayDpWoI
then some A Perfect Circle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tDP52svWUU
yeah, it was that kind of night... lol- well there were certainly no sad songs in there!
i wrote a bit more in here, but deleted it. it seemed to help a bit, writing here then deleting after some deliberation...
slept a little bit better last night, but not stellar. weird dreams too. i remember there being a bunch of drugs being at the center of the dream, but i don't remember all the details. it was a vivid dream at the time, but it has since slipped away. probably a good thing...
i stayed up reading The Emperor's Babe. it's pretty good- it's written in poetry form, but it reads more as a story and is quite bawdy. it takes place in third century london, but is infused with current lingo and attitudes. it's about a girl who was taken as a bride at a young age and it's her story. Hubs had to read it for a class and he thought it was pretty good, so i thought i'd give it a shot... it's way better than i thought it would be and it reads kind of quickly. so far i highly recommend it.
i wish i would have weighed in this morning, but i guess there really is no point in doing it daily. i think i will do it again in 3 or 4 days...
i think this afternoon's adventure will help spend these squirrley feelings
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 3 February 2012 07:37 pm |
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| Enjoy your adventure, whatever that is! Lordy girl, you sound like you need one!
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zenobia
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Posted: 4 February 2012 03:50 pm |
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well, the adventure was good, but it was cut short by a guy on a bike...
ok, so you guys know i'm kind of weird, and i dig doing random things (or maybe you didn't know that...well now you do). Anyway, me and a friend (Jay) went to an abanded horse race track to take pics. yup. totally random. but i'm kind of enthralled by decaying buildings that have just been left behind. so we showed up and climbed through the fence. obviously it was pretty freaky- in the middle of a desert field, "no trespassing" signs everywhere, random #%@&! and lots of broken glass. the walls were decaying, birds everywhere, lots of graffiti, dark, oddly shaped, and rather spooky. we were creeping around taking pics.. we just started to get somewhat comfortable with our surroundings and were walking outside around the parameter of the building when we saw a guy with a backpack (those hard core kinds with all the straps...) on a bike at the top of the stands. we saw him first and were trying to assess if he was safe or not. then he spotted us and stopped biking and stared down at us without yelling at us or anything. yeah, at that point we decided to go. quickly. he kept watching us walk back to the car across the field... not the safest place for 2 chicks armed with only cell phones and cameras to be... so, i didn't get to see the whole place and i think we are going back. but it was a good adrenalin rush, albeit short.
Jay and i talked a lot (she is the one who called off her wedding last week) and it was good. she is such of a cool chick. super smart, quirky, and she totally digs my oddness. anyway, last week she mentioned that she wanted me to accompany her to Spain for a music festival in july. of course, that would be the best, but it's way too expensive... i told her such but was touched that she wanted me to come with...
well, last night she mentioned it again. she is going to be meeting a freind from Scotland (whom she met in Ireland) there, but she wants a girl to go with too. anyway, she apparently really wants me to go because she offered to pay for my flight and concert ticket. yeah. i mean, that's roughly $1,300- $1,500. i didn't know what to say. but i told her i wouldn't be comfortable with her paying for that much. she kept saying it is the chance of a lifetime (which it totally is!) and how she thinks it would be super fun if i were with.... i said i would talk to hubs.
so i brought it up to him last night and i told him to be completely honest with how he felt. first he said that he isn't comfortable with her paying for everything and we should see how much i could contribute. i told him i wasn't comfortable either, but i knew there was more to it. yeah, he is not comfortable with the situation in general, but he didn't want to be "that guy" and he didn't want me to resent him because he didn't like the idea and didn't want me to go. it was a really good conversation. i told him that i was not entirely comfortable with the whole situation either, but i wanted him to understand how important traveling is to me and that i could see us end up pushing traveling to the back burner until it's too late. he agreed but noted that it will be easier when we are more financially stable and i am settled into my career. this is true. there was no fights and i was actaully pleased that he wasn't comfortable with me traveling to another continent. granted, if i were single, the situation would be different, but it's not Hubs uncomfortable feelings that entirely prevented me from going. it was both he and i and i wanted to take his opinion into account, but it wasn't like i was asking him if i could go, nor was i telling him that i decided to go... so yeah, it was a good conversation and in a weird way, i guess it was kind of a way for me to see what his boundaries are. is that weird?
but... i have to go to work, so i will be back later.
oh, no workout last night... food was eh, but i will get to that this evening...
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 5 February 2012 02:47 am |
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| Great post...I like you the conversation played out between you and the hubs, nice going, both of you. :)
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zenobia
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Posted: 5 February 2012 03:37 am |
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thanks mol. i think we were both kind of surprised it went so well and we had pretty much the same feelings about the situation.
so about last night... after our adventure we grabbed a bite to eat. yup, i am still on the detox, but i look at it as an exercize in moderation. the damage was not all that bad- after much deliberation, i settled on sweet potato fries (not the best but not the worst), had a bit of her spinach dip with some (fried) pita chips. i also decided against using any of the sauce (fortunately i prefer sweet potato fries "naked," unless it is a spectacular chipotle sauce, which it was not). anyway, i also promised myself i could have one glass of wine if i kept it to one. i was very very proud of myself. normally 1=5. and i didn't have any after i got home. now i know i actaully can have "just one." 
no exersize yesterday, but today 35 min. 
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 5 February 2012 04:30 am |
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Yeah, I can see where it might be concern. I was talking to someone, back when I was in Europe. I can't quite recall who or where, but I believe it was a wife who went on vacation to Greece with a friend, and she had definitely gotten busy over there. It's one thing to go on a trip with with the girls for a weekend or something, but a trip to Europe, I mean, that's another lvel. Anyway, it sounds like you guys were both very cool about it and negotiated a potentially tricky situation successfully. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that you're basically happy in your marriage, which is a very, very good thing.
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 5 February 2012 02:46 pm |
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| Nice rebalancing act there, Zen.
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zenobia
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Posted: 6 February 2012 04:04 am |
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Jack- i think it really simply comes down to having respect for each other.
soooo... today wasn't excellent, but it wasn't quite a wash, either. I worked, ate about 200 more cals than i wanted to at work, then came home to watch the super bowl with hubs. we opted against the bar (mostly because the sign up sheet for seats filled up too quickly), but it was a stroke of good luck. we stayed home. this means i dind't drink any wine and food wasn't terrible. hubs got veggies, crackers (wheat thins), summer sausage, and 3 kinds of cheeses. I had like 2 pieces of the meat, some cheese (not as much as i normally would), and crakcers. i focused on the veggies and crackers. didn't need the latter, but i figured i could be doing a lot worse, so i sort of indulged (if you consider generic wheat thins "indulging").
i was going to do the elliptical after the game, but when i got to the work out room there were a few guys running and watching football stuff (highlights, i guess). I'm sorry, but i can handle only so much football in one day. i barely even made it through the game, as i worked on some picture editing i needed to get done during the second half. i guess i didn't really care about the teams who were in the game, so i really couldn't get into it. also, the commercials were lacking... madonna put on one of the best half time shows i've seen in a long while, so that was cool.
anyway, ended up doing turbo jam interval dvd. 30 min with stretching and everything. i sweat more during that than i do on the machine plus it works more muscles, so i'm pleased.
really really really craving wine. i have had 1 glass in 7 days. i think that is a record since i turned 21.
other than that, not too much else happening. oh! the adventure.
here are links for you to see where we traveled, though these are not my pics and i didn't get to see everything she posted because of the stupid guy on a bike... the second link shows the scene from the movie it was used in, plus more pics. and it pisses me off that the explosion killed hundreds of birds... 
http://photostry.com/category/arizona/goodyear/
http://jasonhines.net/tag/phoenix-trotting-park/
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 6 February 2012 04:09 am |
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For some reason, I expected it to look abandoned, but not completely empty...as if there would still be desks in offices under piles of bird droppings and dust. Very interesting, looks like something pretty cool to do...wonder what the guy on the bike was doing there...maybe the exact same thing (photos) but probably a wise idea to get out of there as fast as possible.
Good job on keeping the wine AND the summer sausage to a controlled minimum. That's the way to get some results!
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 6 February 2012 11:57 am |
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It's amazing how a black and white photo can be colorized as it apparently was in the "Bye bye" photo. I have a copy of Photoshop, I'd like to learn how to use it on of these days.
I didn't realize you've cutting down on the wine. That's got to be good trend.
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zenobia
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Posted: 6 February 2012 12:12 pm |
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jack- i think because it is digital, you can change up the filters and pretty much go any way you would like once the shot is captured. also, i know they use like 3 different editing tools (super expensive editing programs) as well.
god, i would love to get a great camera like a nikon- one where i can actually change the lens up. but this will have to wait. for now, i would settle for a decent point and shoot with a high mp setting, one that i can at least manually adjust things like aperture, has a decent optical zoom (10x or higher would be bomb), and a wide scope lens. i will have to do some homework and see if i can fit in a $200 splurge. right now i have an 8 mp, 3x optical zoom, and it's very very basic. it's been a decent camera for the last 4 years, but it's time for something new. the 8 mp is not cutting it any more, and i think my ISO is super low. and it's da.mn near impossible to get clear night shots.
and yes, it would be great to actually buy a program like photoshop. i currently use an online program that is pretty basic, but it is going out of business as of april 14 so all of the premium stuff is free. it's awesome for the price, but yeah, to get something that is a bit more in depth would be cool.
another night of little sleep. at least i don't work until 3:30 so i will be able to catch a nap before work. i think i'm sitting on 3-4 hours. but i am pretty much wide awake now.... *sigh*
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zenobia
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Posted: 6 February 2012 12:30 pm |
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oh, about the wine. yup, i'm trying to cut back on it. weight loss is one reason. i also have been imbibing too much over the last few years and i'm afraid of how it is taking a toll on my body and how it will effect me in the future. alcoholism and addiction run rampant on my mom's side of the family, and from her, it comes from both sides. i don't want to get to a point where i can't stop... and then if i do stop i won't ever be able to have a glass of wine again. so i kinda have to test myself every once in a while. also, i'm pretty sure drinking totally ages a person, so i'm hoping to prevent damage and maybe even start to reverse any damage by laying off. i'm also trying to teach myself about this whole concept of "moderation."
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 6 February 2012 03:53 pm |
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zenobia wrote: i'm also trying to teach myself about this whole concept of "moderation."
Yup.
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zenobia
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Posted: 6 February 2012 05:38 pm |
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so insomnia has been terrible lately. 3 hours of sleep last night. i just can't seem to freaking stay asleep. crashed around 1 last night and woke up around 4:30, so i guess that's more like 3.5 hours, but still. i'm really tempted to call in today because i'm at work from 330-1030 and night shifts are always ridiculously long. and i work with the most annoying person i know. god, i just don't think i can do it today.
at least i decided to workout super early so that is out of the way. but i don't want to waste a day at home with being so exhausted. lol. but work will be he.ll tonight. gah.
35 min elliptical. 450-ish cals... since 430 am. not as bad when i look at it that way...
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 February 2012 04:52 am |
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so it's super annoying. i have had to download firefox 10.0 3 times now becasue it's the only way i am able to post here soemtimes. i will enter the site and i go to reply to any board and this appears at the bottom of the reply box
document.getElementById("initial_message").innerHTML + ''); editor.contentWindow.document.close(); editor.contentWindow.document.addEventListener("keypress", hot_keys, false); editor.contentWindow.document.addEventListener("keyup", save_cursor_pos, false); editor.contentWindow.document.addEventListener("mouseup", save_cursor_pos, false); editor.contentWindow.focus(); }
anyone know what this means? jack? with your computer genius, maybe? or nir? i don't know. it's just annoying...
thanks in advance!
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 February 2012 06:32 am |
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so my weigh in was 143 yesterday mroning. gah.
god, 5 lbs would be awesome.
sad to say, it's been the kind of day where i have had 2 beers. yeah. beers. but i need to sleep and beer usually knocks me out. and hubs got a "beer of the month" club membership as a gift, so he gets 12 beers, 3 bottles of 4 different kinds from microbrews every three months for a year. well, he's not a fan of microbrews. i like trying beer that doesn't taste like swill i.e. coors light, bud light, highlife, etc...). but i only like them on occasion- i'm not one to buy a case of beer and drink it... anyway, i have had a really yummy red and a really hoppy/fruity IPA. good stuff. and i hope it will knock me out so i can sleep.
so i guess that's it for now. might call in tomorrow. haven't i been saying that for ages? lol. i would really like to wake up refreshed and awake tomorrow. i'm not sure how to do that. i thought by nixing alcohol, it would help... not so much. this is not to say that i'm goign to drink to sleep every night, but it's just soemthing that i have noticed. maybe tomorrow iwll involve absolutely no caffeine (not even from green tea), and... i dunno. i have to get this figured out. my body has to wear itself out at some point, right?
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 February 2012 07:57 am |
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so wasn't supposed to have anything after work. i was at about 1400- perfect. since then, i have had 3 beers and wheat thins. while good tasting, it feels like a total waste of calories. gah, especially the beer. i feel a bit lighter afte wine. beer weighs down on me like a brick.
fortunately, i will be able to get a good workout in tomorrow. i can feel it. unfortunately, it will be work towards fighting off tonight instead of getting ahead. i need to "erase" (i feel like i need to put in a citation for mol in here. would she prefer MLA or APA? lol) my mistakes plus drop more. maybe i will do two workouts tomorrow? it seemed to really help last summer... seriously. not much needs to go into dropping 5 lbs.... gah...
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 7 February 2012 02:52 pm |
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| Uhf - I know what you mean about beer. When I read that they give it to sheep to fatten them up for slaughter, I realized just what an effect it can have on you. I don't drink a lot of beer for just that reason. Then again, you need to get your sleep...how about reading a book? That doesn't work for me, if it's a good fiction book, because I stay up all night and read the whole thing. Maybe a novel you've read before? So you know the ending?
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 February 2012 04:27 pm |
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i didn't know that about sheep. interesting. yeah, it's pretty rare that i drink beer it also makes me congested in the mornings... ugh.
well, i read every night before bed and while it chills me out, it doesn't really help in the sleep department. my sleeping pills (herbal) are not keeping me alseep anymore either. i have to figure something out.
man, i need a super awesome workout today...
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zenobia
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Posted: 7 February 2012 07:19 pm |
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40 minutes of tae bo. good, hard tae bo. not the 2 workouts i wanted, but still good anyway.
*whew*
cals are sitting at about 350.
looking forward to weights either tomorrow or thursday... probably thursday.
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 7 February 2012 08:18 pm |
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Zen, I just saw your note about the trouble with the browser window. I've run into that too. Without getting to obtuse, a browser can run a programming language called "javascript". It allows the programmer to dynamically control how the page behaves. However, if there's a bug somewhere, sometimes that code gets displayed (instead of executed). I've gotten it myself. Short of disabling javascript, which might prevent other functionality from occuring, I don't know. You could try explorer/chrome/safari/opera, because sometimes javascript works on one browser but not another.
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Kpoet
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Posted: 8 February 2012 01:48 am |
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| Tae Bo has always been my "go to" exercise. I love it! My knees are a bit wonky now though so I prefer my recumbent bike for cardio. Hopefully when I lose the next 20 lbs I'll be able to get back into it again!
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 8 February 2012 10:31 pm |
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Me three on the Firefox issue. Nir is aware of it.
Ah, the magic eraser...exercise! Beer is so bad ...I drink gin or vodka now (preferably mixed with something "diet")...it keeps the cals and carbs down. I have to admit, the couple of weeks in Jan where I wasn't drinking at all - sure made it easy to get the momentum going in the right direction!
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zenobia
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Posted: 8 February 2012 11:31 pm |
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kpoet- hello! i loooove tae bo. it makes me sweat like mad!
mol- oh totally. i RARELY drink beer. it's just... eh. not worth it to me. the whole drinking situation has been going really really well and it has pretty much helped with making better food choices, but the lack of sleep has made things rough. i'm doing ok and i'm not chosing bad foods, but i still have to get it under control. I am actually toying with the idea of doing wieght watchers. for some reason, a regimented plan usually works best for me, especially one i have not done before. it's like, i know how to make better choices, i know what to eat and what not to eat, i know what to do, but i just need to reign myself in. sometimes a strict plan like that really helps me to get more focus.
so, on that note, i am having some wine tonight... i've done really well and it's my Friday and it's been an exhausting week. i'm just going to chill. plus i have plans early in the morning and i would like to get out and test out my cameras (i got 2 little point and shoot digitals - one 12 mp x5 zoom, one 14 mp x3 zoom. the former is for landscape shots, the latter is for close ups and such. each were on clearance for under $20.) , so i'm not going to over indulge.
anyway, so i have plans... plus i want to clean... and get in my weights tomorrow. so yeah. there it is.
for so far is about 900. wine will add about 650? could be worse... the bummer is that i don't feel like this past week and a half has done a whole lot to get me into gear... on the other hand, i have been the good sore for the last few days and that usually means i'm feeling tighter. i guess, overall, i really have had a pretty good start to everything and i'm gonna be a good girl tomorrow.
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 8 February 2012 11:59 pm |
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Zen - sounds like you got some real deals on the cameras. How long have you been into photography? It's something that I've never done, but a lot of programmers get into it.
Tae bo - I have some old video-cassettes on that - and believe or not, we still have the video player. I think I tried it once or twice. Tough workout. Any of those aerobic workouts are exhausting - I don't know how you girls can do it.
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zenobia
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Posted: 9 February 2012 12:37 am |
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well, i have been a photo tech since like 2004 but i didn't really get "into" photography until around 2005-2006 and even then it really wasn't "serious" but around 2007 or 08 i started to get into it asthetically. one of my best friend's husband is a wed designer/photographer/videographer... i think it has something to do with the whole A/V thing. he is quite amazing.
Anyway, I've really been intrigued by photography for the last 5 years. i would love to get a proper camera, but it just has not happened. i would also like to take a few classes. i've looking into joining a photography group, but i would be the only one there with a little point and shoot and it's just not right. part of it is doing the actual shot 9setting all the details- aperture, ISO, filters, lenses, etc...) . i vaguely remember taking a photography class in 8th grade and doing the whole darkroom thing, but obviously it was even less than basic. it was 8th grade... like 1994...
anyway, love photography. i love editing pics almost as much as i love editing the written word. i guess i just really like the idea of finding beauty in the mundane. taking one ridiculous little "thing" and making it into a focal point. i guess photography fits with poetry quite well... i'm not terrible at finding and taking shots, i just need to give myself more opportunities to shoot and practice :)
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zenobia
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Posted: 10 February 2012 12:14 am |
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so drilling a hole through a 20-sider die is a lot more difficult than i thought it would be...
i bought a set of d&d dice today with the hopes of making a necklace out of the 20 sider (i don't think my old set made one of my moves...). i thought i could just zip a drill right through it slip it on string and be done with it. no such luck. i got it in a little bit, but then it stopped and it looks like it is going to crack. i wanted it to go through the die so it could spin, i might have to figure out a different way to do this. I WILL have a 20-sider necklace, dammit! i probably should have just waited till hubs got home... i should not be allowed to play with power tools...
but the dice are really pretty- purple and black with gold numbering. i was going to put the 8 sider on a ring, but it makes for a clunky piece. i dunno.. i might do it anyway because it would still be kind of awesome.
anyway... food eh. no workout..
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zenobia
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Posted: 10 February 2012 12:30 am |
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the d20 for my necklace, if i don't crack it first, that is... hope you can see it!
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 10 February 2012 12:35 am |
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That's the problem with hobbies. They can get expensive quickly. I think photography's a great idea.
Tough luck on the D&D necklace. Could you put it in some type of container with a holder?
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zenobia
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Posted: 10 February 2012 12:45 am |
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i think i will glue a piece on it that has a loop to string through it. the die wont spin, but at least it will be on a necklace. we'll see what hubs can do with the drill.
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mollymoo24
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Posted: 10 February 2012 12:57 am |
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| Good luck with the necklace, its a cute idea! I hope it works out.
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jackbenimble
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Posted: 10 February 2012 03:06 am |
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| Hey, you're right, it looks cool.
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Sassykat
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Posted: 10 February 2012 05:34 pm |
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My daughter and I got into making jewelry for a while, it did get expensive, but it was a lot of fun. Do you have a table clamp? I don't know if that would work or not, but it seems like that would be the best way to drill a small hole in the dice.
My daughter and I always had this big plan of selling what we made, but I think that turned out be more of an excuse for spending the money on that hobby. We did give them as gifts though.
Have fun!
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zenobia
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Posted: 11 February 2012 12:32 am |
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i did it! the necklace worked! i did not drill through it, but used the hole i created to fill with super glue and put a little eye piece in to string it. unfortunately, i am not good with super glue either and got some on the die, but that is the back part so you can't really see it anyway. now i just have to figure out what to do with the rest of the dice. i might make another one for a friend... other than that, we'll see.
sassy- i really like the idea of making jewelery, but yeah, everybody that i know who does it says it is expensive. i have a place taht would sell the stuff i could potentially create, but i dunno- i tend to get bored with things quickly. but i love going to bead shops - so many colors and textures. i have to touch everything. i would like to try those big chunky necklaces made of hemp and big beads, but i dunno.. maybe someday.
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Sassykat
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Posted: 11 February 2012 12:37 am |
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I love looking in bead shops too. I tell my husband that I'm like a raccoon...I'm attracted to shiny things.
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Scoobees
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Posted: 12 February 2012 11:22 pm |
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Hey Zen - cool necklace idea! What a funny coincidence as I was checking out beads today lol! My very first trip to that store...and...um...think I will be going back. Very addictive! And I like shiny things, too lol.
Didn't have enough light for the pic...but it's purple! 
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