Back to the Routine

I certainly didn’t miss this working thing. Actually I’d kind of forgotten that 5am even existed.

Ah well, I have next friday off (the 23rd) and of course Memorial Day so it’s not too long before we have another vacation. 🙂 May 22nd is our 4th wedding anniversary, normally we take the Friday before Memorial Day off and go to Maine, this year we’re staying home. We’ll probably hit the beach at least once on our vacation though. I absolutely love the ocean. Hubby was talking about going on a whale watch sometime and I told him he’d never get me back off the boat. 🙂

I am so excited about our Oklahoma trip, it’s not the Oklahoma part so much as the road trip. There is NOTHING in this world like being on the road, hundreds of miles from home. Watching the people going about their daily business, wondering where other travelers are headed. Being free from everything and everyone. The only thing I miss when we’re on vacation is the cats. Sometimes in a hotel I’ll go to carefully stretch my feet out, making sure not to kick a kitty then I realize there’s not going to be any kitties there to kick. Luckily they’re in good hands while we’re away, our neighbors love our cats and they take good care of them. I noticed a big difference in our cats after we left them in the care of our neighbors. See, before we just left a lot of food and water and had someone check on them every couple of days. But these people said they’d be more than happy to come in a couple times a day and play with them and give them attention. When we come home the cats are happy to see us but not too attention starved.

There are a lot of things I miss in Oklahoma too, like Taco Bueno. Those only exist in Oklahoma and Texas. I don’t know why because for fast food mexican it’s really good. Y’know, that’s one thing you can’t get a lot of up here, fast food. Fast and or cheap food around here consists of Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King and KFC, plus like 2 inconvenient Arby’s. Leave Connecticut and you’ve got all kinds of shit including some of my favorite’s. Arby’s, Steak and Shake and Long John Silvers. I love traveling because you get to eat all this yummy food you don’t normally get here in CT. Most of the restaurants here are like Olive Garden and stuff, they’re good but they’re not cheap. I guess it’s good though, otherwise I’d probably eat out a lot more and that’s just not condusive to losing weight.

I’m hoping to lose a good amount of weight before we go to Oklahoma. I’ve been unhappy with my weight since my Senior year in high school. Once I got out of the hardcore practically military style marching band I gained a lot of weight. When I was running laps around the football feild, doing our short excersize routine every morning, doing probably close to 100 pushups a day along with marching I was lookin good. Hell, I could even wear short-shorts. 😉 Now I won’t even consider knee length shorts. 🙂 My eating habits aren’t that bad. They were for awhile right after I moved out of my parents home, I think we all kind of go through that “Hey, I can eat whatever the hell I want” stage. I’m out of that stage though and just lazy. Sitting at the computer is making me fat.

Walking with Sara should help the lazy part plus hubby and I are going to plant our garden soon. We’re going to do it the old fashioned way. We’re talking tilling with a pick and a pitchfork. The same way we tilled and leveled 75 square feet for the pathetipool last night. I swing the pick to break up the ground and hubby clears it away. My arms feel really good after doing that. Hell, I can feel it a bit in my back, stomach, and thigh muscle’s this morning too. 🙂 Gotta love the worked muscle burn. 🙂 We’re considering growing our own hay too and cutting it down not with a machine but with a sycthe. Do it the way they would have done it “back in the day” as I like to say. Get some muscle’s built up, get healthy. We’d buy one of those motor free mowers too but uh, we’ve got three acres to mow on a weekly basis and our grass grows like a mofo. So we’ll err on the side of practicality in that department. 🙂

I can’t wait to have our garden going. Fresh, chemical and pesticide free vegetable’s to go with our fresh eggs. I’m not much of a vegetable person myself but I’ll cook them for hubby and eat the one’s I like. Potato’s, corn, tomato’s, peppers, onions, stuff like that. Hubby can have the carrots and celery. I want to grow some spices too. Oh yeah and some watermelons and pumpkins although those are a little more difficult for inexperienced gardners. I’ve heard it’s really hard to tell when a watermelon is actually ripe. I considered trying peanuts too, I LOVE peanuts but I dunno, I’ll have to look those up. We’ve got blueberries and a whole orchard that needs to be cleaned up too.

Speaking of farming type stuff I was hoping our chickens would go broody this year and hatch us some baby chickens. I’d like to raise some baby chicks just to see what it’s like, they’re so cute! We don’t have much room in the coop for more chickens (and we don’t eat our chickens or anything like that) so we’d end up selling most of them but they’d be fun to raise. It’d be hard to part with them probably but we’ve parted with chickens before. Had to sell off 5 roo’s last summer.

So anyway, how’d I get on this topic? Oh yeah, weight. hehe

Anyway, *looks at clock* wow, 8:30 already.

Clyde is constipated again. Who ever heard of a fish getting constipated right? Bettas are notorious for it. I think it’s because in the wild they eat a more varied diet of insects and things. You can feed them live foods and stuff but live foods tend to carry parasite’s so most betta keepers that aren’t using their fish for breeding feed a high quality pelleted food like Hikari Betta Bio Gold. My Clyde gets constipated A LOT so he gets a lot of pea’s. Pea’s help them get unconstipated and I noticed putting a mirror up by his tank gets him excited and usually makes him go. 🙂 So yeah, no one probably really needed to know about all that huh?

Well, I should probably get going. I’m down to 1,100 characters and although that seems like a lot it’s really not, it’s amazing how fast the counter goes down. Guess I’ll go do some work or something. 🙂