Wednesday Morning Ramble

The insoles are not going to help my foot totally, at least immediately.  So I got some tape.  See if that works.  Took an Aleve, put some  Arniflora Arnica Gel on it last night and all was good.  It's not horrible, just "there", a dull ache.  Feels better if I walk on it.  So I'll try a few more things and if they don't work will seriously check into getting it looked at.  With being "insurance free" that is a big investment so I will try other things first.

Feels fine this AM.  So perhaps I am rushing to judgement too soon.

Yesterday when I stopped to pick up groceries I dug around in the bike area.  I want to get my bike on the road again, do something different besides walking. I get bored real fast with walking out here and once the ticks are out my options shrivel down to road only which we have very few of!  So my choices are the same section of road or travel to another area by car.  So I splurged and got a meter for my bike and a little bag for the bars.  I haven't hardly ridden the old thing but to the mailbox and back last year.  Lazy.  I will pull her out and maybe Benjamin too (my 1978 Schwinn Continental II road bike) and get my fat butt on the post of a seat.

Can anyone else hear it now?  Queen's Bicycle Race?

Bicycle races are coming your way
So forget all your duties oh yeah
Fat bottomed girls they'll be riding today
So look out for those beauties oh yeah
On your marks get set go
Bicycle race bicycle race bicycle race

 

Okay, here is something fun.  Go to http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/, put in the area you want to track and see what your walking/biking/running path milage is!  I did my road and driveway and it came out to 1.8 miles!  Whodathunk?  My road is a half mile long so doing it twice plus my driveway twice and voila!  There you have it.  How cool is that?  I just guessitmated a mile and maybe 1/4.

So now once I get beyond my road it shouldn't be too difficult as our roads are blocked out by the mile but still, this was a surprise so who knows were more lurk.  Plus if I travel somewhere else I can figure that one out!

I also got a pack of those shiny stars to put on my calendar when I exercise.  I think that will motivate me somewhat.

Today is the last day to sign up for the 2 mile walk.  I am debating whether to sign up for the walk or to volunteer to help with it.  The ITC is sponsoring it.  Tonight is the meeting.  I wish it wasn't over an hour away!  :(

Shock of Shocks

Down another 1.4#!  I don't know what I did right.  I'll take it.

WW Walk It

I got this promo with my card this week.  I looked it up, closest one to me is Milwaukee and that is a good 5 hour drive away.  I could go to the twin cities I suppose but eh, why when I can stay home.  It just sounded like fun to walk with other WW members.

Morningstar Farms Sausage, Egg and Cheese Biscuits=WIN!  Yummy!  7 points.  They are small so be prepared to fill with fruit but oh they are very very tasty.

I am hungry but only because I was naughty and didn't eat like I should.  Husband is home which throws my whole routine off.  Now he's gone to work.  So I had this biscuit.  That will tide me over until I can have dinner, after weigh-in.  I still have half my points left.  Not good.  I suspect I will be staying the same but after my pizza and Oreo Cakesters binge (yes, I am shame faced) it is more than I can expect.  I even thought of skipping weigh-in and just go to the meeting. I just fear if I have one fail I will say why bother??  But I got on the scale here and it said the same.  Mind games. Another half hour and I have to hit the road.  It is a PITA to have to drive a half hour there. You know I thought I'd like living in the boonies but all this driving gets old.

A Walk

My lonely dirt road.

I actually got off my bootie and took a walk.  I walked our whole road, don't know exactly how long it is.  Maybe a half mile long (walked up and back) then our driveway which is also fairly long.  As you can see above it ain't much.  We have only patches of snow (this was taken earlier this year) and the north half of the road is mushy mud. South half is pretty dry but of course it was still froze up this AM.

I wore my new running shoes and put my $49.99 Dr. Scholl insoles in them.  I need to figure something out for my "bunion" (I think that is what it is on my right foot) as this isn't helping.  But hopefully will help in other ways.  At least they fit into these shoes.  They don't in my cross trainers.  When I put them in the shoe gets real tight across my toes.

Bluebirds are back.  I checked my houses. I need to relocate one but the others are ready and waiting.  Here is hoping for a nesting pair.

Try on Session

Husband worked late last night so after I was done with all his work too I decided to try on my outfit all together.  I had traded the sweater in for an 18/20 as at the wedding it kept falling off my shoulders showing my knarly bra straps until I shoved them over too.  This one is a bit tighter but it will stretch a little and it didn't bother me anyway.

I tried to get pix in my bathroom mirror which is like forget it.  The mirror is off my Grandmother's old vanity (kinda' like the one Bitch Cakes has but she is smaller so it is more useful for her.  I am too tall and to sit at it my knees are in my eyeballs) and so old and fogged a little and I had to stand on a box to try and see what the skirt looks like on me.  Fail.  I took pix anyway but they only thing they really showed me was I have no waist. I thought maybe a belt?  Would that be too much?  I don't know, maybe I'll pick up a cheap one and see.

But putting the clothes on does make me want to keep going on the WW.  And I have decided that when or if I ever get a real bedroom and a closet I want good full size mirrors on it!  Or somewhere!

Rest of Saturday

After finding out the clinic wasn't going to happen I went to the city to get some stuff for cows and now had three hours to just do whatever.  I went to the bookstore where I finally found a copy of Sheep! magazine.  I haven't been able to find one and am thinking of getting some to raise.  I have a book on them just to read up on what is all required.  I have had sheep before but they were just "pets" given to me after our neighbor died.  There is a lot more to sheep than just going hiking with them, esp. if one wants to sell a few.

I then went to the SVdP (St. Vincent de Paul) which is a pretty good one for the most part.  This town is a big hospital town and you'd think there would be some money but not really.  It always surprises me that there is no craft store or decent shopping in this town.  This is the same town that the Fashion Bug closed in and the mall is so empty it is mostly used for walking.  Anyhoo, the SVdP sometimes coughs up some good stuff.  I went and found little to nothing but decided to dig through the plus size clothes to see if there was any Lane Bryant.  I came across some black skirts, not LB but plus size.  I had been looking at some on eBay thinking it would go with my sweater set I bought for the wedding. So I tried three on, two sz 24 (no go) and a plus size brand, Size Appeal, that fit pretty darn good in a 20!  For $3.95 it came home with me. 

There is a dinner theater in EC that has a hilarious show on now about old Yoopers at a hunting cabin and I really want to go.  Tickets aren't cheap and if I spring for them I'd like to actually dress up.  And use that sweater set I spent so much money on! ($80!).  And wear my LB undies, LOL.  God they are PRICEY but I really like them over the granny panties :).  I know, TMI.  Anyway, so now I have an outfit.  Just need shoes and hose (yuck!!!).

I'm sick of living a dowdy farmers wife life!!!!

Well lo and behold, I get home and husband suggests a "date"!  WTH?  He hasn't done that since we got married 22 years ago!!  If we went anywhere it was because I set it up and told him he was going, ignoring the questions like "where is it?"  "what does it cost?".  Um, it is going to cost you your marriage if things don't change.  And I learned to just do stuff on my own and leave him home. 

So he suggests dinner and a movie.  I said what movie?  I don't keep up with movies, I hardly watch television even, LOL.  So I asked the kids.  They suggested one which wasn't playing at any theaters in EC.  So we sorta' eeny meeny miny moed our way into to "Limitless".  10 pm!  Ugh!  So we had to find a place to spend an hour as the mall closes at 9pm so we went to the bookstore and I read a book in a corner getting evil ideas on photo projects.

By the time we got home it was after one.  But we don't know the schedules of things anymore because we don't do these types of things.  Old farts we are, LOL.

For a spur of the moment thing it was fun.  We ate at a typical Wisconsin Man restraunt, "Heckels Big Steer" which we have never been at.  Not a lot of choice for diet (typical tuna or cottage cheese plate like you saw in the 70's) so I enjoyed the special and felt a little guilty doing so.  The veggies with it were chives on the mashed potatoes, ha!  Oh well.  I told him next time let's plan this a little better and go to the Norske Nook which we have never been to either but I have been wanting to try for 16 years.  And I want all my extra points for that one so I can enjoy guilt free.

Running Clinic

Today I made the 45 minute drive to the place I take my bellydance class at.  It was for the running clinic that was scheduled for the whole day, four seperate subjects.  As I pulled in there on their outdoor sign was information about the all day running clinic.  I was excited!

I go to the desk to sign up for the middle two clinics.  The girl looked at me like I was lost.  I told her you know, the all day running clinic.  Flashes of  "oh no I screwed up" going through my brain.  I said "you know, it is on your sign."

She says she thinks that is every Saturday.  Well could be but I was here for this Saturday.  She gets out a flyer and says she thinks it was canceled.  She calls the woman who was doing three of the clinics and sure enough, the limit wasn't filled (4) so it was canceled.  I said there was nothing in there that said to RSVP.  She says the next one is NEXT SPRING!

To say I was a little miffed is an understatement.  I mean, if you need at least four people then put in there to call to acknowledge you were coming.  I don't know that area real well and after the 40+ people who showed up to cram the back room for the bellydance thing I figured a lot of people would come to this too.  It is near a couple bigger cities.

I feel like writing them a letter saying I was very disappointed.  This would have been perfect for someone like me who wants to run but isn't there yet.  What better way to start than to have someone who has been there done that give you ideas, advice etc.?  It was a huge disappointment although after seeing how other  things are run there I shouldn't be surprised.