Where did I leave off?

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Lazy Wednesday
I had today off, or at least the afternoon anyways, and I had all of these plans to come home and get right to work and be really productive. Had lunch and worked for about an hour, got really frustrated about the stupid magic_quotes thing, lay down for a nap and the next thing I knew, it was 9pm! Oops…

Although I do have to work tomorrow, I’m training at our new facility which is only a couple of miles away, so at least that’ll give me another hour or two from the commute to call my own. I’m off again Friday so everything will get done one way or another. Meh…

Doctor’s Appt. Update
So I’m not going to die…at least not yet – it actually went better than I had expected. My blood pressure was 144/82, which means that although the diastolic isn’t too bad, systolic is somewhat of a warning (normal is 120/80). So I’m going back for some blood work in a few weeks and in the meantime, he just wants me to continue exercising regularly and do a little tweaking to my diet to make it more effective – basically stating that while I might eventually have to be on medication for high blood pressure because it runs in the family, a healthy lifestyle should postpone that for another 25-30 years or so. And while the details from the blood work might come back differently, so far that’s good news in my mind…

But the diet’s going to be tricky…basically he suggested that I start counting calories because ultimately that’s the healthiest way to lose weight. He said to forget about all of the fancy weight loss pills and carb diets because they’re harsh on the body, which I wasn’t really going to consider anyways, and it was a little encouraging to hear someone who doesn’t know me say that I was doing a good job so far. Since last summer, I’ve lost between 20 & 25 pounds and apparently on an average of about one pound per week, that’s about right. I still need to sit down one of these nights and break down everything that I’m eating so that I can make a spreadsheet of how much I can eat in a day … not really looking forward to it, but such is life sometimes. He also gave me some common sense tips for exercising that I plan to start following, too.

Hmmmm
I could’ve sworn that I had a third point to talk about when I first sat down to do this, but at this point it’s pretty much escaped me and I’m ready to go to bed! I’m sure that it’ll come to me later, but I’ve got a big day ‘o learning ahead of me tomorrow, so until then…

Arrrgggh…

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Man, I love it when somebody makes system changes to our server and never bothers to tell me about it! Here I’ve been scratching my head for hours trying to figure out why the mysql interface that I’m writing in PHP for Just Laugh and Comedic-Genius suddenly isn’t working anymore, then I notice that, oh, somebody just up and changed the values for magic_quotes and that’s why the fix I’d written for it isn’t fixing anything anymore.

…and that didn’t mean a thing to anyone who doesn’t work in PHP, but for the record, it’s a big pain in the ass. I’m gonna go work-out now. 🙁

So it was another one of those lazy weekends…

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Last night I watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD, tonight I put in some quality time with the latest Dave Barry book, and overall, the weekend was pretty much just spent lying around, relaxing, and trying not to think about everything that’s been stressing me out over the past couple of weeks. I didn’t make it over to the park like I had wanted to…maybe tomorrow after I finish baking…but I can’t really complain too much…

  • Got a decent amount of writing done over the course of the week (mainly humor columns) and spent a good bit of time trying to find a new design for my professional site that I can be happy with. Unfortunately, I had to scrap the “lined paper layout because it was just too confusing and it’d have been impossible to get the text to line up with the background, but now I’ve got something better and I’m VERY happy with the way that it looks! Hopefully it won’t be more than another week or so until I can unveil it because I’m really proud of this one – the biggest step is probably going to be converting 300+ columns over to a new format (…again…), but ultimately I think that it’ll be well worth it.
  • Came across an interesting find this evening that I may or may not put up on the new site when I get that far – some of the very first columns that I ever wrote, circa 8th grade, which would’ve made me about 14 at the time (1994). Apparently I was a bit racier then than I am now and I don’t know if I want to go there or not, but it’s still kind of interesting to see where I started with all of this. Then again, I’ve always said that one day I’ll put up the big “novel” that I wrote around that same time, so we’ll see…
  • Need to go over to Disney either next weekend or the one after because I guess the blockouts for Easter are coming up soon. It’s kind of hard to believe that I haven’t been over once since I renewed it, but I know I’ll get my money’s worth eventually, so that doesn’t really bother me. Man, would it be great to find someone around here that had the money to go every now and then, though! 😛
  • Finally got Mom’s taxes done this evening, and Lori’s will be soon to follow, but I haven’t even touched mine…and I’m a little afraid to! I can’t possibly owe what I did last year because, well, I didn’t make as much money, but I suppose either way I really should get it done soon at least so I won’t be scrambling for change at the last minute…
  • But seriously, the truly scary post – being included here not to freak everybody out, but more so I can look back on it later and such – is that tomorrow I’m going to the doctor’s before work. I’m doing it under the cover of a “routine check-up” because I haven’t had one probably since I graduated from high school and that was seven years ago, but more so I’ve decided that it’s finally time to find out if I’m going to be following in my family traditions of high blood pressure, diabetes, etc… I know that I’m still a little overweight, even though I’m trying, but a few things that I’d rather not talk about here have happened lately and frankly, they scared the bejesus out of me enough to where I actually made the appointment last Friday. Hopefully it’ll all just be attributed to nervous anxiety … lord knows that’s caused me enough trouble in the last month … but I just don’t want to have a heart attack (or worse) at the age of 25.

I tried to convince myself tonight that I was too young for that to happen, but with the rate that today’s society is going, I’m really not. I know a girl younger than me who has to check her sugar every few hours for diabetes; another good friend of mine cut caffeine completely out of his diet altogether last year after he started having heart palpatations, so anything can happen. I can handle taking a pill or something everyday if it’s just hereditary and there’s nothing I can do about it, but I just really hope that I won’t have to do anything too drastic because although I really am trying with the diet and exercise, I’m going to be miserable if I have to cut out the things that I like altogether. I guess we’ll just have to see what happens…

New Super Mario Bros.!!!

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Almost makes me want to go and buy a DS, but I just couldn’t do another handheld … my eyes are bad enough as it is! Show me a port on the Revolution, though, and I might have to do some rearranging in the old stereo cabinet…