Random Ramblings

After last weekend’s “bearing of the belly” I really don’t have anything exciting going on.  Sadly, I’m going to ramble at you.

 

It’s cold here this week.  When I say cold, I mean freakishly frigid.  The high today is supposed to be in the negative teens.  Why do I live in a place where my skin hurts and my nose can freeze shut?  I keep saying that someday I will move to a warmer climate.  I am sure that my friend, Nicole, has the perfect place for me.  We have trouble with the thermostat at work.  It seems to be possessed.  Last week it was set at 74 degrees and it was hotter than hell in the office and then the air would come on at 4 pm. This week it has reset itself so that the air conditioning keeps coming on and when I get there in the morning it’s very chilly.  Today my toes were even cold!  I wrapped myself in a blanket for most of the day.  Pretty sad when you have to unwrap yourself and brave the cold to go to the copier.  I put the blanket away with an hour and a half left of my day and felt the chill on my legs instantly. 

 

I had Gramps looked at this week and some work done on him.  For those that are unaware, that is what I affectionately call our car.  I won’t tell you the things I UN-affectionately call him.  I have a love/hate relationship with both vehicles that currently reside in our household.  The last 3 vehicles that I drove I really loved.  They are gone and my choices are either a truck that is much too large for me and therefore horribly uncomfortable, not to mention that I couldn’t scrape it’s windows if I wanted to, or Gramps who I drop into and climb back out of and am pretty sure that from behind it looks like no one is driving him.  Neither suits me and I am not particularly fond of either.  I am sure that the feeling is mutual.  I am also pretty sure Gramps has feelings.  He might even hold grudges but we are trying to work that out.  But Gramps was due for an oil change and I could feel something wrong in the right passenger side wheel area.  Turns out his tires were low on air.  They also rotated and balanced the tires along with giving him his oil change.  Now he pulls sharply to the left.  I am never satisfied!!  But I have a date for a new windshield!!  Gramps will be spiffy when I am all done!  Our youngest will have her license soon so we are going to eventually have to gain another vehicle.  Maybe I will get along better with that one.  There’s always hope, right? 

 

I’m not a huge church-goer but I try a little.  I can honestly say that I am better at it when I am working with the youth.  I try harder to get there and be seen and to see them.  I bring this up because it is Ash Wednesday, we are donating a hutch and some crystal to a youth sale and I met with my confirmation group from last year this week.  I have been thinking about church more and I am planning to go to church tonight and get my ashes.  I haven’t been to church in what feels like eons.  I have 2 co-workers in my office.  One is dieting and the other is, quite simply, a much better church-goer than I am.  One has given up all fun food for the sake of calories and the other is giving up things for Lent.  I understand the reasoning behind giving up things for Lent.  In the past I have given up things for Lent, but I always take the safe route and give up things that are easy for me to give up.  Chips, French fries and $5 coffees; for example.  Not this year.  I am still going to give up the $5 coffees, but I gave up pasta.  Keep in mind that this may just kill me.  I have had pasta more times in the last 3 weeks than I can even count.  But maybe I will slide a few pounds lower if I cut out pastas.  Not sure what I plan on eating at this point, but I survived on nothing for 2 months, I can easily do 6 weeks.  A little self discipline is good for the soul.  Or so I am told.  Now to empty the candy hearts and M&M’s out of my desk! 

 

All this talk of food makes me hungry.  And to make matters worse, my oldest just sent me photos of the tie-dye cake that she made for a friend and my co-worker brought me cherry M’s!   I am trying to eat smaller, more frequent meals or snacks.  I have crackers in little baggies in my desk hoping to fight off the hungries.  I’m glad I put a roast in the crock pot for supper.  I just had to cook up something to go with it –not pasta- and supper is ready!

 

Potatoes are almost done so I am out of here for today.  Love you all!