Tags, new toys and more

I have been terrible about blogging lately. Reading as well as writing. I don't know if it is the fact that I am glued to a computer most of the day or what. But I do have things to write about so brace yourself this will be a bit of a long post.

First things first - I GOT A NEW TOY. Isn't it cute????????? I am totally in love with it. Its the T-mobile wing. My company really wants us to go blackberry but I just can't go from smart phone to blackberry so after an hour or debating in the store the Wing is what I got. Its so great it even talks to me and tells me whats on my schedule and the titles and senders of emails. I love the touch screen (stylus included in the phone) but the hideaway keyboard makes emailing so much easier.

I also downloaded this new program I found - MyPersonalDiet. This program is great to keep track of calories and exercise. You enter your goal, pick a diet and then enter what you do and eat all day. It tells you after each entree if you need to lose calories or gain more. I ended up going to the gym twice the first day because it told me after dinner i had to burn 800 cals to stay on track. It has a lot of food preprogrammed but also lets you enter your own stuff. That feature is good for me since most of my foods / meals are not found in there. I tell you the program has been an eye opener to me you don't realize how much calories you truly eat and how much calories some of the foods have.

On other news I finally finished my wedding album and honeymoon album - or so I thought. I did finish the honeymoon one but as I went through my box of photos to decide on my next project I realized I still had stacks of wedding pictures. So when I go back to "craft club" later this month I will try to finally finish the wedding album - I mean its been 3 years!!!!!!!!!!

Lets see nothing much new from the job - still love it and I found out the other day that I get to have a new site in Las Vegas and I am to be the back up for one of the other girls in my team that is to have a Hawaii site starting late this summer. How cool is that, I get to go to Vegas once a month and potentially Hawaii everyso often!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to the tags

Angel had tagged me eons ago - I can't find her post so I have to go by memory - it was to post a screen shot on what your desktop looks like so here it is - this is what the desktop of my home laptop looks like


Eternally Curious tagged me this weekend via comment. I am not sure for what the tag was but her latest is the 5 Things so I figured that shall be what it is.

List 5 things in my bag:
Wallet, PDA, T-mobile wing, pens, Garmin Nuvi


List 5 favorite things in my house (sorry there aren't enough favorites in my room):
my pets, my TV, my books, my magic bullet, techno gadgets


List 5 things I've always wanted to do:
skydive, vacation on a horse ranch, drive a motorcycle across the US & Europe, learn to scuba, go along on a mission to help the third world

List 5 things I am currently into:
scrap booking, blogging, working out, watching TV, reading

So there you have it. Anyone what would like to be tagged - consider your self tagged for either or both.

I am off to the gym I need to work off some calories so I can actually have dinner! After that its off to wash clothes and pack since I will be in Charlottesville most of next week.

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Grumpy and I are going over to some friends here is the dessert I am bringing. But first I need to go to the gym since I snacked to much while making it.

Its really easy to make - I cut the strawberries the night before and then put some splenda on them. I don't like the store bought pastry shells but they do okay - the next day I mix cream cheese and marshmellow fluff place it in the shells and then top with the strawberries and voila easy dessert to take somewhere.

THERE IS A MOUSEEEEEEEEEE

So there I was sitting in my office this morning checking my emails before heading off to the gym to be tortured by Brandon (I think its funny that I pay to be tortured) when I looked over and there it was - a mouse so I went screaming upstairs waking up Grumpy so he can go and take care of it. He has to go get some poison first so I took my laptop with me to the couch after I got back from the gym.
Speaking of the gym I have been going religiously but I don't feel like I am getting results. I meet Brandon twice a week for an hour and the other days I do either an hour of cardio or a class. I mean I can tell I get better at the cardio thing but otherwise I don't see anything which is annoying.

The weekend was pretty low key. Friday I was at a dinner party at one of my new coworkers - it was fun - her hubby is a motorcycle mechanic and there is a good chance I get to go riding with him this summer as he has several bikes. Saturday I met with one of my host mothers to help her with a web site and then Grumpy and I went to the gym. Sunday two of my formers au pairs stopped by. One had come as an au pair in 2004 - she is back on a work visa. The other had come in 2005 and just got back on a tourist visa. It was fun to see them.

It looks like this will be my last calm week. I have most of my assignments and have to go to different meetings in the next couple of weeks all while trying to have some off time and all

Hi from Charlottesville

Well I am back on the road. I am at my Charlottesville site for 2 days and since its to far to drive back and forth (3hs one way) I stay overnight. I tried the Marriott last time which was the last time but the Doubletree I am at now is pretty nice however its on the other side of town so next time I'll stay at the Hilton Garden Inn they just opened not 2min from the site.

Two good things about the Doubletree - the food I got from room service was surprisingly good. The soup was a creamy potato soup that was to die for. The Raspberry white chocolate cheesecake was pretty good so was the pasta.

Of course after all those carbs I had to hit the gym - besides I am still trying to be good and go every day. The gym is small but all new machines so I did 30min on the cross trainer and 30min on the treadmill. Now I need to hit the shower and go to bed its going to be a long day tomorrow. I wont get back till 6/7pm and then I am meeting with my personal trainer at 9pm so he can "make me suffer" isn't it great that I get to pay someone to inflict pain on me??????

Grumpy sent this picture of Misty earlier - she looks like she is ready to punch someone.

pardon me

man i am such a slacker these days.

So while i was down in Florida for training I went and stopped by my mom for a couple of hours and met her newest baby - Senta. Isn't she a cutie. She is so tiny- to tiny for me to be honest I like big doggies that you can hug. But Misty is happy that she has a playmate. See after my mom and Misty were at our house for nearly 5 weeks Misty was really sad to be alone - not anymore. Senta keeps them both busy she was only 9 weeks when my mom got her.

Otherwise there is not much new to write about. I am starting to get out of training mode I got my first protocol assigned and have two sites for that in Charlottesville so once they start enrolling patients I will be there once every 4 weeks.
Grumpy and I joined Golds Gym this week. We both want to loose like 100lbs. I am trying to go every day and have done so far I also signed up with a personal trainer so I have someone kicking my butt twice a week. To make sure things don't get to boring I am trying to change things up so one day I do cardio the next a class then cardio and then work out with the trainer. Yesterday I went to a Pilates class and I am still suffering from that. I feel muscles I hadn't know I had. I do prefer that over the curves thing where I never felt anything the day after. At least this way I know I did something.

so that's all for now I'll try to pop by all your blogs tomorrow.