MOTIVATION

I need a good swift kick in the Ass! My motivation level has plummeted! I force myself to get out of bed to drive to the pool and then I practically have to force myself to get out of the car! One would think that once I am in the pool that my thought process would go something like this:

I am here, I am wet, get it together and swim!

Ok, yes, that is what I think to myself, tell myself but does it actually happen? Absolutely NOT, I have to whine and complain, swim extremely slow and sloppy for the entire time that I remain in the pool. However, I do end up swimming 2300 meters, that's better than nothing right? I don't know, "experts" do say to listen to your body. And I was listening to my body, I just wasn't' listening to my mind.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Things I am gonna eat after my CLEANSE!! 1. Probably lots of fresh vegi's and fruits! 2. Organic Pita Chips-My Ayruvedic counselor gave me a serious tongue lashing for even fantasizing about these yummy little nuggets. 3. COFFEE-My first 24 hours without coffee I had a horrible caffeine headache, which is gone now so perhaps I shouldn't lapse back into the habit? I don't really drink it for the caffeine, I drink it for the taste. 4. Toast 5. Crackers 6. Cheese 7. A glass of red wine-again, part of the reason I am cleansing but I have learned about Aloe Vera Gel or Juice. It helps with digestion and eliminating those toxins associated with wine drinking!! 8. Marinated artichoke hearts-I could probably eat these on my cleanse but I am feeling stonger today and I think I can stick to the beans and rice for at least another day. 9. Sushi 10. Garlic Fries-I have a bag of garlic fries in my freezer that I got at Trader Joe's, oooh soooo yummy. 11. Red Bull or any other energy drink-I just like the flavor, really I do. 12. Something chocolately, anything with some chocolate. Or even the candied ginger that is in the trial mix I had a coworker pick up for me at Trader Joe's (wonderful store!!). 13. Last and most likely the one item I will not be eating when I am finished with this cleanse is a TACO TREAT CHEESE CRISP or a TACO TREAT TACO. My dad says he is gonna come to visit me, I wonder if he could pack a couple with him??? Would they survive 1000 miles? I am salivating. <

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Fading Fast

Well, my strength is fading fast! I am seriously a pussy in the brain! Or, am I a slave to food? I think addict should fit the picture!

I am hungry but I don' t want to eat what I am suppose to eat. I guess this is what it could be like if I were stranded in some remote strange place with no food except for the bowl of something squirmy and wiggly that the local people handed over in a bowl, all the while motioning you to eat. You gag it down.

Time to check those reflexes.

Weakness

I am weak! My mind is very very weak! I am only on day 2 of my Ayruvedic cleanse and I want to quit! Breakfast is a basmati ricemeal, sort of an oatmeal subsititute.
My other meals consist of yellow mung beans and basmati rice. One of my best friends call it "The Stinky Bean Diet" because another one of my best friends has already performed this cleanse and had opened a bowl of this concoction on a road trip.

BORING.

I want the explosions of flavors I am used to eating, yeah not always good for me but oh so yummy. My friend who has completed this little endeavor assures me that I will soon be craving this dish and all of the flavors that it has will explode for me! I hope she is right.

I want to quit, but I think I am too stubborn to do so right now. I am not quite at my breaking point just yet, which means I shall continue. I just need to not listen to my mind.

Blog You

So, I was sitting downstairs thinking:

"I should go and blog, but what should I blog about?? Blogging only on Thirteen Thursdays is kinda cop-out to the whole blogging thing............"

I marched up the stairs to my computer room and sat down at the computer and kinda got distracted writing emails. I must have written 1000 words in emails, why is it I can't think of a decent topic to blog about?

Sometimes I am tempted to just post my emails, they are sometimes very entertaining. My friend, Renee, and I exchang emails daily, multiply daily. I have grown to expect an email from her and get upset when I don't see her name in my "inbox".

Sometimes I am tempted to steal a good blog from someone else. Oh, wait a minute I already do steal them............Well, I steal their ideas and copy them, but sometimes I am tempted to "copy" and "paste" the entire entry!

Most of the time I just don't write and it is usually because when I write I want whomever to read my whole posting. When I am blog hopping and I stop to read something and I just read the first line and think to myself "BORING", I am hoping that my blog isn't boring and people aren't skipping to the NEXT BLOG!


So, I just don't write..........

Thirteen or less Things about National Bike to Work Day. There are a few of the responses I received when I told people that tomorrow is National Bike to Work Day and or when I told them of the local Ride your Bike to Work Day on May 24, 2006 here in my area. 1. "Umm, I don't have a bike." 2." Do you know how far away I live?" 3. "You'd have to give Jayjo mouth to mouth if he rides his bike to work tomorrow." (Jayjo has been sick all week!). 4. "Excuse me? What did you say? Ride my bike, like a bicycle that you peddle? 5. Or they say nothing and just roll their eyes and walk away. 6. "If you can get our manager to ride her bike to work, then I will ride mine!" 7. "Yeah, you're funny!" 8. "I think I would be dead by the time I made it to work." 9. "Naaa, but thanks for the offer." I believe that I will be the sole person to ride their bike to work out of all the people that work in my building tomorrow and on Wednesday May 24, 2006. Oh well, one person at a time I suppose.

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Tea

So, have ya been shopping for tea lately? The grocery store isle is loaded with all kinds of tea. Even the natural foods isle is jam packed with tea. Who knew there were so many different kinds of tea? Right now I am enjoying a cup of lemon ginger tea, it aids in digestion.........

I made cabbage rolls for the first time in my life tonight! Meatless of course. I don't know why I decided to make this dish, it sounded good and I do like all of the ingredient but they just didn't do it for me. Oh, there is one thing I don't really care for with cabbage rolls and that is the red sauce they are baked in. Perhaps I could bake it in something else, like cream of mushroom soup?

Cream of mushroom soup rocks! Yesterday for dinner I made Tater Tot Casserole, which is the most simplest dish in all the land.... tater tots, that famous cream of mushroom soup, broccoli, water chestnuts (I could do without those next time, some cream of mushroom soup, and cheese. Bake until hot and bubbly, then serve!! Yummy.

My PK starts next week. Binge before the purge........

Thirteen Things that:are on my desk!! 1 . Carson Hot Springs 10 punch pass card. I have 7 more soaks left on this card. Carson Hot Springs is located in Carson City, Nevada on Hot Springs Road. 2. Birth Control Pills. I have them here because I check my email every morning and every night so I have two opportunities to remember to take them. 3. 2 Title Nine catalogs. I really want to order some capri pants from this catalog but I am afraid that they won't fit, which will indefinitely lead to some disappointment. 4. 100$ gift certificate to a Bikram Yoga studio here in Reno or Sparks. I received this as a gift from my former coworkers when I left my job. I am not sure if I will ever use it since I have lost interest in that yoga studio! 5. A bumper sticker for Amoeba Music. It is a second hand music store in Berkeley, California that has CD's incredibly cheap! 6. My cat is currently sitting on my desk making this extremely difficult to finish my list. 7. I have my work id badge sitting here too. I usually keep it in the kitchen so when Monday rolls around I will most likely be frantically searching for it at 0745. 8. There is a fake million dollar bill that a friend gave to me because I always say..."A million dollars and every thing free" whenever someone asks me what I would like. It happens to be something I picked up from my mother, she used to say it. 9. Patient evaluation/personal information form from my gynecologist's office sent for me to fill out before I come to my appointment which is in June. 10. The recipe for Zucchini Ribbons with Caramelized Spring Onions is still sitting here. I did buy the zucchini for this recipe. I do have the intention to make this dish. 11. A torn out page to one of my Yoga Journal magazines. It is an advertisement for Prana clothing but I liked the tattoo that the female model has on her forearms. I have been holding on to this page for over 2 years. 12.An invitation list to a baby shower that I am suppose to be planning. It isn't until August but there are some out of town guests that need to know. This is something that is on the top of my "to-do" list. 13. American Vertigo by Bernard-Henry Levy. This book belongs to my husband and it is under those Title Nine catalogs and an Ode magazine. I wonder if he knows where it is??

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**** Me

F*ck Me Running Naked!!

I accidently let this roll off my tongue yesterday at work. I don't know where I picked up this saying or if I made it up myself but someone heard me.

Think of hearing it with the emphasis on the first word and drawing out the me part then adding on the running naked as a quick afterthought. So, it's not like really swearing, more of a simple outburst like "Oh Great".

Luckily for me the recipient of such lovely words found the saying hilarious. She claims I am teaching her stuff, mostly potty mouth language.

Do I really have that dirty of a potty mouth??

Thirteen Things about Nothing in Particular 1. I just finished snacking on Trader Joe's Mango and Ginger Go Nuts. 2. My husband has walked in the door with a bag of groceries and I get to go and make guacamole for his pot-luck tomorrow. He works in an office of 4 men-they are having a pot-luck??? 3. I am thinking about getting an IUD. I just don't like taking hormones. 4. I have to think really hard about what sort of random thoughts to put in this Thursday Thirteen thing. When I finish I always tell myself I am gonna think of a good one for next week and what happened?? I completely forgot about this until I checked out my sister's blog. 5. Mom's not in a grave, you are safe on the preposition thing. 6. We have spray paint across our front yard leading 3/4's of the way into the street. Plumbing issues to the tune of 7500$. 7. I have been invited to 2 birthday parties this week. One for a 12 year old and I am suppose to play Dodge-Ball. The other for a 55-ish year old that I see maybe once a year and usually only when another friend is there. 8. I have ridden my bike to work twice this week, I have a serious case of "bike-butt" from my first ride of the season. That was last Saturday! 9. What should I have for dinner tonight?? I should be fixing that instead of racking my brain for 4 more things to add to my list. 10. My husband and I are going to the Winnemucca Mule Races the first weekend of June. We are taking the train! 11. I am gonna try a new side dish recipe this weekend-- Zucchini Ribbons with Caramelized Spring Onions. 12. Jeeeesh, how hard is it to think of something abigious to say in this? 13. Ok, gonna go whip something up for supper.

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Neurosis

I am very sleepy! I was kept up by a very neurotic dog last night. At 430 this morning I had had enough and walked him back home! My patience level was non-existent. It is a good thing I don't have kids.