I survived Thanksgiving!

I only ate one plate, (okay, I had a second helping of the sweet yams, about a tablespoon)! My sister gave me very, very scanty leftovers to boot! Who can blame her, she doesn't want to pick me up again from the ER. Dinner was wonderful.

A very strange thing happened. Their standard guest, who has never demonstrated interest in me over ten years, kept looking at me! I would glance his way, discover he was staring at me and then he would quickly glance away. Over and over! I don't think he has ever seen me as a brunette, with short hair.. Go figure. It would never, never work, even thought he is a extremely nice man, because he is allergic to cats! Enough said.

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Saw my doctor again. She was very pleased with my blood pressure, 117 over 79! She says that shows I have been working out. I told her I didn't get my mammogram as I came at the scheduled time, only to be informed that my appointment had been 3 hours before, and my order hadn't been faxed over, and there was nothing that could be done. My doctor (actually a physician assistant) apologized and said it would be rescheduled. Like it's her fault!

As a special birthday present I got a flu shot! Hurts like a tetanus shot. My arm still hurts a bit and it's been 5 days!

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BF has seen therapist. Therapist should be disbarred. However, BF has realized she needs to be proactive in her own care and is planning steps to help herself.  That is the good. The bad is, she has her prescribed anti-depression meds, but isn't taking them. She is coming out with two view points about them that don't agree. I'm going to talk to her about this.

So still going to gym

And I love it. I've really gotten in to sweat equity. I start out on the ab coaster, which is a device you kneel on and place your arms in a upright position on a holder and grip the handlebars. Then you contract your stomach muscles and lift your knees up and then slowly dropped them back down. I always feel like I'm just swinging (and a lot of people using it ARE), and only do 3 to five reps. However about four hours later I start thinking about throwing up, so I am doing something.

Then I do 30 minutes on the rower with the dial on 20. I decided to go back down to 20 because it was bothering my neck and shoulders. I have also decided to stop waiting for the wheel to stop rotating and I just do it as fast as I can. This causes an increased caloric count, and no tugging on my neck. I start to sweat ten minutes in.

Then I do thirty minutes on the ellipsis machine. I don't use the arms right now. I prefer to read my book instead. I'm on level six. This does bother my knees a bit, but not enough for me to go back down to level 5.

I know I'm having an effect on my body. My bra is winkling again, even on the second row of hooks. My boobs don't touch anymore, in the bra or out! The new regular pants fit right out of the dryer. I can zip and button them up with out sucking in my gut. My new shirts are baggy! My towel now touches at the edges when it's wrapped around me. When I started it had a 3 to 4 inch gap. I'm cycling lower and lower on the scale. Last week I hit 203.2!

So this week went I went and exercised for 30 minutes (had to go to work and had left the house late), I understood the look I got from a woman in the locker room. She was a very large lady and I had seen her exercising. I changed into my towel to shower and placed my gym bag back in the locker. As I walked up to the locker to do this, I heard her say, "I don't weight my self to often because of the water loss." As I walked by her she glared at me for being skinnier then her. I pretended to take no notice. I have never been mad at someone for being smaller then me. It's stupid and a waste of time. But it's really weird for me to be the target of her anger. I still need to lose around 60 more pounds. I'm FAT! I have an apron for God's sake! It's so sad, because what she's really anger at is herself.

Daniel Craig Movies part 4?

You know that I am Daniel Craig mad. You know I have been buying his movies used on the internet. Well there are some I can't get as they are region 2 only. One of these is Some Voices. I am not alone in this. The other people on DedicatedtoDaniel.com's forum either want it or live somewhere in region 2 or have a region free DVD player. But Amazon started offering it as produce on demand DVD for any region. Since this is one of the two holly Grails I don't have, the other being Hotel Splendia, I decided that the $19.00 movie would be my birthday present to myself. I promptly posted on the forum that it was available. Another member posted that she has seen it as well and had already ordered and received it! However her copy cut off at 52 minutes. The movie is 101 minutes long! She told Amazon and they sent her another copy. Same problem.


So I was aware I might have the same problem. I got it yesterday. I put it in and ran it on fast forward twice. Yep, cuts off at the place as the other member's. So today I get to contact Amazon and tell them.

I'm so worried

BF is having a really hard time. Everything has combined in her life to knock her down. It's so bad her therapist wanted her to put herself in the hospital! But she declined because she can't make it financially on disability.But I'm afraid she does need to go in. I don't have any of her family's telephone numbers. They were on the phone I lost. About the only thing I could do is go to the street where her mom lives and start knocking on doors because I don't remember exactly where she lives. I don't know whether I should do this or not. The only good and bad thing is, she has given up on the "boyfriend". Just about everything he told her was a lie of some sort, but she feels so low she wanted to still have a relationship with him. But he's off/on as to seeing her and she can't take it. The bad thing is that this makes her feel even worse.

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The cousin came back on Face book and yes, the marathon chat sessions have started again. Poor dude, I know he feels all alone by himself in that house. And he's uses to a busy household. The only thing he really has to occupied his time, (besides work) is helping the partner do research. He helps out by gathering material for her.