Five Things Tuesday

1.) S i c k i e s 

In light of those with terminal/chronic/life long conditions, I feel great. In light of my current state of health (which has been rapidly declining due to my eating habits) I feel horrid. My teeth are killing me, making my ear hurt, not to mention my sore throat and cough I've been battling ... I've been sipping Garlic Tea like its going out of style, I know what you're thinking, and its really not that bad. As long as you dose it with honey. The water dilutes a lot of the strength AND it makes your sore throat disappear in like days! However, you have to make sure you continue drinking water and reducing your sugar intake or the next day it will be back. Sugar cuts your immune system in half... or so I've heard. And with the amount of sugar I consume on a daily basis its amazing I'm not sick all the time. 

Today's Consumtion of sugar: 1 Root Beer, 2 Handfuls of Jelly Beans - Wow ... I did pretty good for once! Something about the immediate throat ache eating sugar causes. 

2.) 5 K 

I'm sure you've noticed that lack of 5K/running posts around here. That's because I've fallen of the exercise bandwagon. Thank you new job with wacky hours! I'll admit I miss the healthy feeling I had knowing I was eating right, and doing something good for myself. However I'll really be missing it when I'm attempting to pound out 3 miles this Saturday for a race I have NOT prepared for at all. Its stupid really, how I've let myself go, and the only reason I'm going to continue my attempt to do this, is to teach myself a lesson. Just Do It Erin! Hopefully it won't be tooooo painful. I mean all I've got to do is move my feet and breath right, right? I've done this before... I can do it agan ... and I have some pretty cool new shoes! Color Run x2 Here. We. Come!!

3.) H e a l t h y  E a t i n g 

In an attempt to help my "lesson learning" be less painful, I'm trying to infuse my current diet of Junk, junk and more junk with some healthy things like salads, veggies, real foods vs. fast foods. Today's meal was Pizza, Soda and a Salad. This is an improvement because ordinarily it would have been Pizza, Soda and lots of Candy. So we're working in the right direction. 

4. B i r  d s  I n  T h e  H o u s e 
I think I've mentioned a time or two regarding the many birds that have terrorized my house? I have since discovered how they are getting in, and have duct taped that opening shut. However. This has not deterred the birds, they have decided to set up "house keeping" in this new little hovel.

Which also happens to be the fan to my stove. Stove top fan.
The only reason I know they are setting up shop, is because I woke up this morning to a stove covered in bits of trees and leaves and such like. I stared at it for quite sometime before shaking my head and walking away.

Its the lazy thing to do after all.

I came home tonight and stared at it some more, then got up the nerve to lift away the duct tape a bit to see if my suspicions were correct. They were.

Now I've got to figure how to get them of there, and return said fan back to its original use... not that I used it muuuch, but the last thing I is for some unsuspecting house guest to murder a bird family where I prepare my food... not to mention something more horrific ...

BED BUGS!

5. B o o o o o o k s 
I am so behind on my book reviews its not even funny, so I'll apologize now for the inundation of them, that is to come. However I have discovered a sad fact. I "can't" read paper back books any more. Like literally. I've tried and failed. They just don't hold my attention like they used to and it makes me so very sad.  I trust this is just a phase, as for a while my Kindle sat neglected for months on end ...

Weekly Recap

This [Past] Week Categorized: 

Good

1. Making plans to see Rei and her partner this summer!! 
2. Finishing the first week of the Couch to 5K plan 
3. Trying new recipes 
4. Finding out two friends are expecting babies :) 
5. Meeting the cutest beagle mix puppy ever
6. Planning and making dinner/snacks ahead for the coming week 
7. Trips to the Library 

Bad 

1. Starting a fire in my stove
2. Finding a dead bird in my bedroom 
3. Finding out I may need to get screened/assessed for dyslexia 
4. Staying up 'till 4AM and subsequently being late for church
5. Finding out I need to update my car's registration $60 !! >:-(

Ugly 

1. PMS
2. Cutting myself with a butter knife
3. Watching my dachshund eat a baby-rabbit 

At the very least the good out weighed the bad right? :)

Monday Musings

Ways to know its Monday:

(In case you are like me, and are wildly hoping you got itconfused with Friday)

• Waking up at 8:00AM [time you need to be up]
• Waking up again at 8:30AM [the time you need to be in thecar]
• Prying yourself out of bed and almost getting hit by a kamikazebird, IN YOUR HOUSE.
• Standing on the porch, with the door wide open straining tosee (with your near sighted vision) if the bird is still fluttering around inthe house.
• Giving up, and dashing for the bedroom to complete yourmorning toilette

Welcome to my life.

The good news is, by the time I got dressed, and the glassesin place, the bird was nowhere to be seen. I declare, I have never had such anissue with vermin, wild animals, or bugs in my entire life!

Things Are Looking Up!

At the beginning of the month, I started writing a draftregarding my goals and such like for February, [a draft that has yet to beposted] it went a little something like this:

“…I just so much more optimistic about February, like things might start to happen. Perhaps, I'm still just giddy from the fact, that the Judge dismissed my ticket yesterday. (As long as I don't get another one in thenext 30 days) or maybe I'm excited that my puppy will be born this month.. regardless,I believe February will be a good month.”

And things did happen.

Just not in the “good” way I was thinking.

• Losing a loved one?
• Gaining two new bills in a week?
• A fruitless job search?
• Living paycheck to paycheck?

Not exactly the good I was thinking.. 

Last week, seemed to be especially hard, for reasons I can’t explain, it just was. So God knew I needed the ONE of the phone calls I got Friday morning. (The other I really could have done without but whatever)

By 12PM Friday afternoon, I had secured something to fill those lonely, long hours for the next year at least.

Life is Officially Good. 

[You want pictures? Check out his blog here: Chronicles of a Puppy Walker] 

Goal Update: 

• Early to Rise[Otherwise known as my 12 in 12 goal]  - This month I've been working on getting up at least 30 minutes early, as well as attempting to be at least 5 minutes early- on time for things such as work, church or etc..  There were a couple of days were I just couldn't get it going, but for the most part I've done really well on this. 
• Continue working towards my 100 books in 2012 goal. [ 25 down!]
• Continue to drink more water and less soda [ so/so]

Short,sweet and attainable. :)  

November 9: Twitter Thought Tuesdays

This week I'm joining in with Twitter Thought Tuesday at DutchBeingMe!

I had...way.too.much.fun with this post if you can't tell. :) 

First we'll start with the random stuff....

Then for the bird Saga. This is bird #5 that's INVADED my home. 5!!! 

Thank God for Neighbors.
Err.. and start from the bottom up...

And last but not least....my baby preparing to leave me in two weeks, 3 days, 10 hours....*sigh*

Any Takers?

What's bad, is when people start referring to their bad days..as "Erin Days". For instance, I was talking to my friend Rebekah, and she starts the conversation out: "So I had an Erin day today..." I knew instantly it was either bizarre, or had something to do with money. Story of my 2010. 


I knew at the beginning of this year,I stated that this would be a "year to remember" but..I'd really held out hope that it would be a GOOD year. So far...I'm just starting to become paranoid about leaving my home! 


So what's happened now? Well I'm driving to work its 7:55AM I have 5 minutes to get through three stop lights and too work. Only the Lord knows why I decided to take this particular route to get too work. Anyway The first light I come to is at the top of a hill, and is green, I slow down since its been green for a while, but am making it through. All of the sudden, I see this black car, which had been sitting at the light, start making a right turn...directly into me! There was nothing I could do but pray she saw me and stopped moving! 


She didn't. 


Nope ran right into the back passenger door, causing a nice little dent. Truthfully, my gut reaction was just to keep going. But since the car is not mine, I knew I had to stop. So I pulled onto the sidewalk and got out too see the damage. The car that hit me pulled into the parking lot and another car stopped in front of me. The first woman got out, handed me her card and told me to contact her if we needed a witness, as she saw the whole thing. *THANK YOU MA'AM!!* 


I then called my father quickly to tell him what happened, being an insurance agent he told me to file a police report, especially if Party B turns anything in too their insurance company; that way we know clearly who was at fault. After getting off the phone with him, the woman turned to me and started babbling about how she didn't know what happened, what to do, she had a court date and was just a tizzy. 


I will admit I really could have cared less, but that wouldn't be very Christ-like , so I allowed her to use my phone, despite really feeling I should just call the police at that point.  15 calls later, I take my phone back call the police, and then let her try her family one more time. Apparently they aren't early risers.


She finally reaches them, and gets their insurance information. At this point I realize the police will probably want my registration and proof of insurance. 


*cue panic* 


*girl dives into car and hauls all of junk out of glove compartment* 


Nothing. Nada.ZILCH. Citation here we come.


Ok, now what. I call my father just as the police officer arrives. Random Thought: I didn't know woman were on the Motorcylce "troup" cool. Anyway thankfully she was nice, and took what information I had, my insurance info, and my license.....After coming to the conclusion that I didn't have the information I needed. I hung up and just waited for the other shoe to drop. 


Police Officer to Party B: Ok ma'am this is a citation for failure to yield at a stop light, blah, blah, blah
Police Officer to Me: Ok this is for your expired tag and no proof of insurance. 
Me: Man.


After that I left and went on to work, were my co-workers we happy to see I was well, and happy to hear it wasn't my fault. I love them. :)


Then I come home. I walk in and I hear a tapping sound at my window, thinking it was one of my siblings being funny, I walk to the window and open it quickly and reveal...........a BIRD!!!!! 


Completely freaked me out of course. Seriously HOW in the WORLD does a bird get into my house?! So after while of ......snap bird is still in  the house...brb... 


7:00pm - Ok so I had to leave for class before I was able to finish this, but as you may have guessed, the bird reappeared.....however I've been home for approximently two hours and no sign of said bird. Hope springs eternal, but I know its waiting for the exact moment to fly out and scare me to death. Probably literally. 


Class Day 1 (English 1010)  - So that was an interesting experience, one my teacher is very young...30ish, and has annoying way of sound interested yet bored at the same time. But I think I'm going to like him..I don't just yet. He made us tell something interesting about ourselves, and halfway through, one young lady pipes up and says "I'm was home-schooled and this is my first day at real school."


*HEAD DESK*


Here's a tip homeschoolers. Never.ever. announce this. It just makes you sounds like you've been holed away in your home, with no socialization. People already assume stupid stuff about homeschoolers....pretty much like they do with every probably. Blonds, Blacks, Mexicans....you get the point but if you walk right in and fulfill what they are thinking...then you will just have to...."deal with it".  


That's just my opinion of course. 


So of course I had to break the stereotype a little, not that I have to try hard to do so...as far as I know there aren't too many black people being home-schooled, that and I'm not exactly whatcha call shy (anymore) and we were very very very involved with our community  through 4-H and the Guide Dog Foundation and our church, other homeschool groups..you name it we were probably in it. 


I typically don't volunteer that I'm a ex-homeschooler right off the bat, I'll let people get used to me, before I "break it too them" then its just "Oh ok" verses..Oooohh......ooookkk. See the difference?
Yeah.
I did feel bad for the girl, as there were some snickers and giggles to that statement, but she'll learn. The hard way unfortunately. *sigh*


Anyway I think I'm all out of words now. 


BTW- If you need me, I'll be in my  bed, with the covers over my head. I don't plan on coming out anytime soon. 


TA TA!