Millcreek Canyon

The weather will be cooling off soon. Actually, it already is. It was in the mid 70s today and it was so nice! I love this temperature. Blue skies and cool. Aaaaah I wish we had more of this. It actually felt like fall today. Maybe we’ll get a month or so of fall. I can only hope. Usually it doesn’t work out that way.

Anyway, things are the same by me, I don’t have a healthcare job, I have my regular programming job. And the dogs and the husband and the house. So far, so good. My body is equalizing from my lack of meds and the sucky thing is that I cry again. Bleh. I haven’t cried for three years (well I have, like when Angel died, but still). I’d rather have the lack of emotions. Alas, I guess now I’m just human again. I’d rather be Vulcan or Android.

Jet in Idaho Falls

Today I feel better, not quite as sick. But then Friday I felt pretty good, too. Saturday, yesterday, I felt rotten again. I really don’t get sick very often. Maybe twice a year… but when I do get sick, it wipes me out and it takes me a really long time to recover. And I tend to get sick when I start exercising again… like with my jogging and swimming. Probably I’m just overtaxing myself and my body shuts down. Bleh.

But anyway, about being Dizzy… I have been dizzy a lot lately. I went to the store and got some Dramamine to see if that helps. Dizzy and nauseous, I’ve been both. And yup, the Dramamine actually has helped. I think it’s time for me to go to the Ear Nose Throat doctor again and get my ears tested out. I think they have been stuffy again, and yesterday I thought it was raining when I woke up because I heard a crackling in my left ear. So.. tomorrow I’ll call the doc and see what they say.

Now I’m going to take a nap. When I get up I’ll check my scanner software and my websites and see how they are holding up. Been doing some changes that I’ll post about in a while. Computers… bleh. They can be fun, and they can be downright tedious.

Oregano

Well, it’s been… um… about six weeks since I’ve been back from Denmark. How the time flies! When I was there it seemed like it was lasting for longer than two weeks. But now that I’m home, time is flying again.

So anyway this weekend I’m going up to Idaho Falls with a friend, her two dogs, and Chase, Tatum and Jet. We are going to do some obedience. Should be fun. I love this trip, it’s really beautiful up there. The park we trial in is super nice and quiet and shady and cool. And then we walk along the Snake River and take a couple hundred pictures of the dogs. LOL. Always fun!

Hopefully the construction jobs are just about done for the year and the drive will be okay. Though it’s been raining like crazy today here so I hope it’s not an awful wet rainy drive tonight.

It’s true. I just don’t do very well with things I have to do over and over again. For some reason I my anxiety gets higher when I have to things over and over again. Like mowing the lawn, or vacuuming, or washing the dishes or doing laundry. Or dusting. Gads, the list is pretty long, isn’t it? LOL

I like things that change frequently like dog training. Going out and teaching the dogs something new, and learning with them, is a lot of fun. Going new places is fun. Even finding new multi color led christmas lights for decorations is fun. Though the last couple of years I haven’t been really too excited about decorating for the holidays, either.

Anyway, I’ve just been thinking about this for a while. Strange me. Another one of my oddities.

Flowers

So I’ve been swimming lately… I have been liking it so much that I bought the year membership to my local pool. It was expensive, $190 a year. But it’s $4.50 to go each time, and so buying the year should really pay itself back pretty soon.

I went to the doctor today to have him check out my sprained Ankle. He didn’t seem to address any soft tissue damage really. And my left ankle has been hurting since 2007. And it’s gotten worse again. He said I have some mild bone spurs and some mild arthritis… but I should keep weight bearing on the ankle (walking on it) but reduce my activities. So I need to cut back on agility. Even obedience can be a lot of stress on an ankle, so I might take a break from that, too.

Oh well. Life goes on. Someday we’ll be able to replace most of our bodies with metal or something stronger. Not cheap laminate flooring though… that’d just be a bad thing. I’d just love to be an android. No emotions, just logic, and a very strong body. Though of course I would miss the love and bonding with my friends, family and dogs. So maybe that’s no ideal either.

So yesterday, August 1, 2010, was my 22 year anniversary with the State of Utah. I can’t believe it’s been so many years. Where did all the time go? I think the first 9 years went by a lot slower than these last years. The first 9 years I worked in Welfare. Got burned out, and so went to the Salt Lake Community College, got my degree in Computer Information Services, and got a job as a programmer. And I’ve been there ever since.

The good news is I only have 3 more years before I can retire. Well my official permanent hire date was sometime in September, so I plan on retiring the end of September, 2013. But still. 25 years is a long dang time.

August 1, 1988 is when I started. That seems a lifetime ago. But in a way, it seems like it was just yesterday.

Hermit Crab Crabitat

Well finally, after over a year, I have redone the Crabitat. From what I’ve read you are really supposed to do a deep clean, which means to remove and replace the entire substrate, about every six months. Well that’s not gonna happen with me… sorry crabbies! My Hermit Crabs will get that about once a year, probably in the summer when I can take the thing outside and rinse it in the grass.

This isn’t a very good picture and I’ll try to get some more tomorrow.  My camera battery was out of juice and I needed to put the wide angle lens back on before taking pics of the whole tank. So now that the tank is clean and nice, my house feels like a mess. Oh well. It’s a mess, I just have to live with it.  Can’t afford to hire my friend to come clean. And I have too many dog things to clean myself. So the dog-fur dust bunnies are running rampant.

I thought I had eight crabs in the tank, but I only found seven of them.  So either I miscounted or one of them died and disintegrated or something.  I dunno.  Otherwise they seem pretty healthy.  All the shells I dug up didn’t have crabs in them, so no one seemed to be molting so that was good. I worry about that when I change out the substrate.

Sorry, I’ve been slacking at posting these.   But alas, I am too busy lately!

I have other stuff to post too but haven’t had the time.

So here is Denmark day four, enjoy!

Okay ready for another video of Denmark? I hope so. Here is day three. I’ll be putting these up occasionally as I get them done. I have a few done now and so I need to get them up!

Denmark was so very fun. I want to go back and my sister and I are planning a trip to Germany and Austria in 2012. I really hope that we can get it going. Depends on money, of course. Bleh, I wish we had more money. Maybe some thermogenic fat burners would help too… then we could be skinny when we go!

Okay I’m loosing weight. Thanks goodness. Finally. I am sticking with Eat To Live, it’s the only way I can drop the weight. It’s a very healthy way to eat… lots of fruits and veggies and beans. And I can fill myself up with them so I’m not hungry. It’s a low calorie way to eat, too, which is actually good. Studies have shown that reduced calorie diets actually cause critters to live longer. Mostly mice. And probably humans, too.

So good thing I don’t have to worry about eczema, but I do have to worry about my food intake. And as long as my stomach is full, my body doesn’t seem to get hungry. It’s not the amount of calories that I eat, it’s being full and being healthy that counts.