forest

January 16, 2009

friday 5…

Filed under: friday 5 — forest @ 9:16 pm

the good

1. It’s Friday. This week has seemed very long for some reason.

2. I get to hang out with my friend Beth tonight. It’s been a long time since we’ve done something and I’m looking forward to catching up with her.

3. Tomorrow night some friends are coming into town. We’re going to celebrate Ashley’s birthday. I love hanging out them, we all have fun and get along so well (I guess that’s why we’re friends?!)

4. The last 3 days I’ve hit my goal of 64 oz of water.

5. we got a nice dump of snow and you all know how much I love snow!

6. got my nails done last night. I picked a purple. After having 2 coats the purple is so dark it looks almost black. it’s kinda cool though

the bad

1. it’s negative digits weather wise out there.

2. Ryan has to work tomorrow which means I won’t see him til tomorrow night

3. I’m really tired today

4. next week is going to be pretty busy at work

5. can’t think of a #5

what’s your good and bad?

January 15, 2009

how do I?

Filed under: Uncategorized — forest @ 10:08 pm

Is there a way to make my posts from blogger appear in journalspace? I got the older blogger posts to appear in here but I wondered if there was a way so that I could just write in blogger and it’d automatically appear in journalspace also (without me having to actually come here and copy/paste from blogger)

 

this make sense?

January 14, 2009

moving around

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — forest @ 5:37 pm

I’m not complaining but I miss the favorites vs friends. Maybe I just have a problem with using the word friend on here. Some of you are my friends but some others I don’t know who you are. I don’t know. It’s just a word I guess - but to me friend means more than acquaintance or more than just a blog I want to be let known that they’ve updated. bleh! it’s just a word. I’m not complaining, just throwing out thoughts.

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Last night I made popcorn. Oil-popped. With lots of butter. And salt.

I ate 7 cups. Once you pass the 2 cup mark, why even keep track of how many cups you’re eating? :)

Still can’t drink the eight 8 oz of water. I have to pee just thinking about drinking my weight in water like Bobby says he does. *crazy man* - hey isn’t that what fijufic means? I think he said it means crazy something or other, if not it should.

I have turbo tonight. whopieee.

January 13, 2009

turbo challenge and a thought

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — forest @ 5:04 pm

I think I may post in blogger and here til I decide which one I like *better*. Still navigating around both.

So in our turbo kick/jam classes they’re challenging us. We’re all a bunch of fat slobs - well some of us are, there are quite a few fit and trim chickas - I am not one of them.

So we have to write out 3 goals and each week they’ll give us another challenge. This week’s challenge is fairly simple (or is it?) drink eight 8 oz glasses of water a day.

Do you know how hard this is? *retorical question* I dislike water unless I’m working out (which happens twice a week) it’s just bland. I’m not really a soda pop drinker either, I like coffee and tea. Heidy actually suggested replacing our morning coffee with water *gasp* I’m kidding, I mean she really did say that but I’m getting a headache just thinking about the headache I’d have without my morning joe so I compromised with myself and bought “half-caf”. baby steps.

I’ll *try to* replace my afternoon iced teas with water though. Baby steps.

Each class we attend allows us to put our name in a box, each challenge we attempt gets another name, bring a friend - another name. At the end they’ll draw a name and you win something *don’t know what yet*

I’m excited if only for the accountability of it all. I really would like to be down to my goal weight by the end of May.
4.5 months. 
19 weeks. 
133 days. 
I can do it.

January 12, 2009

the new JS

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — forest @ 8:09 pm

Ok, this is weird. I guess I thought when/if JS would be back, it’d be just like old times. It’s not. That’s ok I guess. It seems strange navigating around here. I think it’ll take awhile to get the hang of it….

I wonder if all my old JS people will be back.

You know what was really weird is that when I typed in www.journalspace.com up popped my user name/password in the UN/PW spots but obviously it didn’t work since I hadn’t signed up yet. That’s just kinda crazy.

At least I can be forest here and not -2 or -3.

I also noticed that in the permalink (between the title and post when you’re writing) it says the-new-js

I’m excited (I don’t know that I’d go that far I guess) I’m happy to see what the-new-js will entail.

Hope to see you all around.

facebook

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — forest @ 8:09 pm

I have this problem on facebook of people adding me to their friends list - people who DON’T know me. I’m selective about my friends list (now). If I don’t know you, you’re not getting in.

I had a friend who I didn’t know but I accepted her friend invite b/c I was new there and well I don’t know really why I accepted. We have 46 mutual friends so she must think that means we should be friends. We were in Turbo together but I only knew that b/c I recognized her picture. Still she never talked to me in class (we have 3 of our 46 mutual FB friends in this class).

Around Thanksgiving I wrote this thing on my wall asking what everyone was thankful for and that I know you all are going to mention family, friends etc and so on so let’s say something we’re thankful for outside of the normal things that we are ALL thankful for.
So this chick writes “family, friends, Jesus, and *church*! Can’t help but mention that. sorry to break the rules…..”
I de-friended her. She broke the rules, she’s gone. 
I wasn’t sad about it, apparently neither was she, she still doesn’t talk to me in Turbo.
So I’ve gone through my friends list and de-friended several people that were more friends of friends than MY actual friend.

It just got me thinking about it this morning when I had a friend request from someone I didn’t know. He is friends with my sister so I asked her who he was. She thought he was someone else so she de-friended him. I denied him. Life is good.

Another chick asked to be my friend b/c *I assume* she’s friends with my other sister. I asked my sis “do I know her and just don’t remember?” she said “no she probably is just inviting you to be her friend b/c she and I are friends.” She and I have 57 friends in common.

You would think that I would know these people having that many friends in common. I don’t. Denied.
I love power.

Hello world!

Filed under: Uncategorized — forest @ 7:39 pm

Welcome to Journalspace.com Blogs. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

facebook

Filed under: facebook — forest @ 5:23 pm

I have this problem on facebook of people adding me to their friends list - people who DON’T know me. I’m selective about my friends list (now). If I don’t know you, you’re not getting in.

I had a friend who I didn’t know but I accepted her friend invite b/c I was new there and well I don’t know really why I accepted. We have 46 mutual friends so she must think that means we should be friends. We were in Turbo together but I only knew that b/c I recognized her picture. Still she never talked to me in class (we have 3 of our 46 mutual FB friends in this class).

Around Thanksgiving I wrote this thing on my wall asking what everyone was thankful for and that I know you all are going to mention family, friends etc and so on so let’s say something we’re thankful for outside of the normal things that we are ALL thankful for.
So this chick writes “family, friends, Jesus, and *church*! Can’t help but mention that. sorry to break the rules…..”
I de-friended her. She broke the rules, she’s gone.
I wasn’t sad about it, apparently neither was she, she still doesn’t talk to me in Turbo.
So I’ve gone through my friends list and de-friended several people that were more friends of friends than MY actual friend.

It just got me thinking about it this morning when I had a friend request from someone I didn’t know. He is friends with my sister so I asked her who he was. She thought he was someone else so she de-friended him. I denied him. Life is good.

Another chick asked to be my friend b/c *I assume* she’s friends with my other sister. I asked my sis “do I know her and just don’t remember?” she said “no she probably is just inviting you to be her friend b/c she and I are friends.” She and I have 57 friends in common.

You would think that I would know these people having that many friends in common. I don’t. Denied.
I love power.

January 9, 2009

friday 5….

Filed under: friday 5 — forest @ 6:47 pm

Ahhh, feels good to be back to normal. I still don’t feel at home here but I suppose home is where you make it.

the good

1. that while we still have some missing favorites (southerncharm anyone?) we have managed to find a majority of our friends and favorites from JournalSpace.

2. the weather*person* is insisting that we’ll be receiving 6 inches or more of snow this weekend. Clearly I am ecstatic over this.

3. Today is my brother-in-law Seths’ birthday. He informed this morning that getting older means drinking Metamucil so he was having that with his breakfast. I’m sure that’s what Sally gave him for his morning present - Metamucil all wrapped up.

4. For Christmas I bought Ryan a Craftsman tool chest/cabinet. It’s pretty nifty and I knew he’d be surprised! plus I did NOT pay this price for it. I got a much better deal. However, I was told it would be in the Tuesday before Christmas and here it is January 9th and just now in.
For Christmas I wrapped up a picture of it. He was so excited that he went to the garage and spent half a day rearranging and cleaning the garage to make room for it.
I feel bad that his present wasn’t in. The other day he was all in “I’m so over it…” mode but I said “hey look at this way, it’s like you get 2 Christmas’s” He’s so excited now that it’s here that he’s trying to get off work early today so he can run home and get it. Ok that makes him sound stupid but he’s really happy that it’s finally here.

5. This week has been the first week of my “diet” (it’s not a diet per se) and so far I’ve done really well. I’ve stayed away from the candy drawer (which my sister can attest to as being a very large drawer full of candy. In fact so far the only time I faltered was last night, we had wings, fries and I had a beer (michalobe ultra though) BUT I only ate 5 or 6 wings a 1/4 of my fries so that’s better than normal.

the bad

1. that there’s a possibility the weather*person* may be wrong. I want snow, lots of snow.

2. I didn’t get to have lunch with my mom today :(

3. my lips are chapped. I seriously think there’s something in chapstick that doesn’t totally clear up chapped lips so that you become dependent on the stuff. How else would they make money?

4. Some really good friend’s of my sister and brother-in-law, their little 2 year old daughter has cancer. This is just a really sad thing. She’s going through chemo right now and the cancer is just in her arm, but keep them in your prayers.

5. I’ve come to realize I get on the defensive really easy and I need to start counting to at least a 100.

And just like old times: what’s your good and bad?

January 8, 2009

one of my sisters

Filed under: sister — forest @ 4:25 pm

Any of you remember my sister? Well she transplanted to blogger as well, go say hi.

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Speaking of my sister….

So I was at the local grocery store Monday night after Turbo Kick - you know to buy healthy food. New year, new food, new blah blah blah. So I’m standing in line a little agitated b/c there is only 1 cashier and I’m like 5th in line. I understand it’s a Monday night and that it’s 8:30 and they close at 10pm. I know Mon nights are slow I used to be a cashier at this particular store - but it makes me grrrr! mad when I have to wait in such a long aisle while the service center chicks are standing there giggling.

Anyways, that’s a side note. So I’m standing there counting to 100 and half trying to read the magazine covers and the lady in front of me turns around and says
“what’s your name?”

I think I gave her a very quizzical um….why? look

“you’re from ****** high school, you played volleyball”

ahhhh I thought while nodding my head, I’m Sarah

“yea you played volleyball with Carrie”

I’m thinking to myself Carrie. Carrie. Carrie. I don’t remember a Carrie and I’m not placing these people’s faces either. They looked like nice people though.

how’s she doing?

“oh, she’s due in 8 weeks”

oh really! congratulations. Who did she marry, I forget?

“R. K.”

Ohhhh, how’s he doing, I haven’t seen him in forever?

*I’m still not placing Carrie but I know RK b/c he was 2 years ahead of me and I semi dated one of his friends*

then I said you have another one right? *totally guessing on this*

“yea Sydney, she’s 10″

ok, now I’m thrown all off, she has a daughter who played volleyball with me and a 10 year old too????
I think she saw my confusion and said “she’s Jamies’”

ohhhhh, how is Jamie *still not knowing who these people are*

“good. married. lives out on *****ville Ridge”

Then it hit me, she thinks I’m Betsy, my younger sister who a lot people say we resemble each which back in time we did but not so much anymore.
And if I remember correctly, I think Carrie is Betsy’s age (Betsy played v-ball, I think) and Jamie is Sally’s age.
So Carrie was like 5 years behind me in school and Jamie was 3 so while I vaguely remember Carrie, I do remember Jamie. I thought it was funny that she obviously thought I was my much younger sister.

I did have to apologize for my looks *and probably smell*, after doing turbo for an hour I am not at my prettiest. It made me giggle b/c if she thought I was Betsy and I looked all sweaty and sans make-up then I wonder how she thought Betsy looked backed then ;) (I’m kidding sis!)

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