It's been a busy week here at Chez Moogie. There have been alot of different activities going on with the kids and just life in general. In an effort to minimize the essay like quality of this post (read this as "I take way too long to explain things," I have listed some of the more important things.
- My neighbors moved out to California. Their last day here was Wednesday, and one of the families down the street gave a little dinner. I mention this because I had to work late that night, AND I already had dinner in the crockpot. As you probably can deduce, this was a last minute effort. I wasn't upset about this in the least as that just meant that dinner was done for the next night, and someone else cooked it on Wednesday. How cool is that?
- My eldest daughter did all of her homework and (presumably) turned everything in this week. She even turned in her Math warm-ups, which they have to do every week. The only thing she missed was her reading log. This story is for another post, because I am going to write a book about it, and then force her to read it and LOG it.
- I signed up at Curves today. It's time. I am tired of being tired. I want to play with my children and not sound like a 75 year old 3 pack a day smoker with emphysema. After 2 minutes. I'm really stoked about it. I guess that means I'm ready to take my life back, and get on track to a healthier me. This also means that I'm going to quit that nasty smoking habit (hi Mom!) if it kills me. Or I kill my husband, whichever comes first. To top it off, I have a discount card that gave me a 66% discount of the initial registration fee, as well as the first month free. It's all good. The bad part is that the lady weighed me and measured all of my body parts, as well as measured my BMI (I think that's what you call it). So watch this space as I will give you periodic updates, providing I'm able to move after exercising, and I'm fit for human company.
- I received a link from this man's blog and I'm not entirely sure why I did, but I am flattered. He's got quite a bit of interesting stuff that he writes about. Thanks Basil. Now, what do I need to do to get an interview?
- I would like to pose a question for my peeps. What do you think of a book blog? Perhaps book of the month, or some place where you can talk about your favorite authors or a good book you just read. Would you participate?
[On a side note here, this child reads everything she can get her hands on. The problem? She doesn't like filling out the log, so she doesn't. She has to read 100 minutes per week, which is nothing for her. She owes me two logs this weekend to make up for what she didn't turn in. I just haven't told her yet.]
That's about it for now. I have answered two of the wonderful questions posed by both this lady, and this lady and plan to answer more of them this weekend. There is still time to post your questions. Just go here and post them in the comments, or email me. Can you feel the linky love?
Comments
I was involved in a book blog for a bit but it got boring. I would love to give it another shot though! Congrats on the Curves - we did it for about 1 month - but we are slackers! lol Keep up the good work!
Posted by: debby at February 24, 2006 6:02 PM
Moogie -- you CAN do the Curves. More important, however, is good for you for deciding to quit smoking.
I had smoked all my life and decided to quit when my daughter was pregnant with our first granddaughter. The day I decided to quit (04/04/01), I went to the drigstore and bought a box of Nicorette gum, 4 mg, came home and smoked my last cigarette at 7:00 p.m. sitting at the kitchen table.
I then got up, found every ashtray in the house, washed them, and hid them up in a high cupboard. THEN, this is important, I THREW AWAY EVERY CIGARETTE IN THE HOUSE IN THE TRASH AND BAGGED UP THE TRASH. I vowed never to smoke another cigarette as long as I lived. So far, I have wanted to, but I have never smoked again.
I did have a problem with the gum. The 4 mg was too strong so I switched to 2 mg. The next problem was that I became addicted to the gum and proceeded to chew it until the end of last year when I decided that I was throwing about $150/mo away on this stupid gum. I stopped buying it and now I'm completely free of nicotine.
The moral of the story is, you can quit smoking. Eventually you will realize that your body, hair, skin, lungs, and breath no longer smell like an ashtray. You will be able to smell and taste again -- and it's wonderful. Your house and car will smell better (be sure to use a lot of Febreeze). You will be a new person. Your husband, family, kids, friends, co-workers, and everybody else will love you. You will no longer have to constantly run outside to smoke at work.
End of lecture. Just let us know how you are coming along with your exercising and your non-smoking. We're behind you all the way.
Posted by: motherkitty at February 24, 2006 10:38 PM
The patch helped Chase quite and I'm sooooo glad he did! I'm going to pull for you on that one, and I wish I could get motivated to start exercising again too, but alas...
I've got a question for the game now.
are you going to the BlogHer convention in San Jose? I'm still groveling over at my blog, to get Ellen to sponsor and have reduced to begging people to send in to the show l via the link. BlogHer really needs the sponsorship, and it seems like a cool thing for her show to do.
Posted by: Suzanne at February 25, 2006 6:24 PM
Good luck with the smoking, Moogie. That's a demon that I've never had to fight, thankfully...
Posted by: That 1 Guy at February 26, 2006 4:07 AM
Looking at the previous two posts, I think, dear Moogie, that you just got spammed by the nastiest of the nasty. I'd go look at them but I'm afraid the cops would probably come to my house, bust me for looking at porn, and confiscate my computers to see if I had downloaded any onto my hard drive.
Posted by: motherkitty at February 27, 2006 9:55 PM
