So it looks like I got pregnant and immediately stopped posting here. Interesting pregnancy effect! I went back and read everything I've written on here before and it was really nice because there were a lot of things I had forgotten. So I'm going to try to be good and write in little bits here and there again.
Just for an update - I am still unemployed. I am still trying to eat raw foods (though I did horrible first trimester and couldn't stomach a single fruit or vegetable the whole time). I will make my raw food updates on my raw food blog though, not here :)
And I still love Disney World :D
Friday, April 3, 2009
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Weekly Menu
Mon L: LO D: Chili fried rice, Cauliflower 59965
Tues L: LO fried rice D: Frozen Chkn & Rice, Broccoli 155018
Wed L: LO Ckn and Rice, D: Fish Taco 216778, veggie & rice side
Thurs L: Out D: LO's
Tues L: LO fried rice D: Frozen Chkn & Rice, Broccoli 155018
Wed L: LO Ckn and Rice, D: Fish Taco 216778, veggie & rice side
Thurs L: Out D: LO's
Fri L: LOs D: Tilipia 129996, Green Beans 31403
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Meal Plans
I've wanted to go back for a while now and track what my meal plans are so I know if I'm making too much of something, or repeating things too often, or if I just want to look back because I vaguely remember having a great pot roast and can't remember what the recipe is.
So.. starting from a while ago
Wed L: Veggie soup with chicken D: Beef Stroganoff 73922
Thurs L: Beef Strog LO D: Tilipia 251802 and Green Beans 294141
Fri L: Veggie Soup LO D: Rotisserie Chicken w/ Stuffing
Sat: L: Beef Stew D: Tilipia 251802 and Green Beans 294141
Sun L: Veggie Soup w/chkn D: Chicken and Rice 12458, Salad
Mon L: Roast Ckn & rice D: Tilipia 57474, Zucchini 307575
Tues L: Mushroom Soup D: Taco Soup 81029, Frozen Pizza
Wed L: LO Pizza D: Pasta with jar sauce, Broccoli 61830
Thurs L: Out D: Tilipia 22639, Cauliflower 94989
Fri L: LO Pasta D: LO's
Sat L: Pizza/Chkn & Rice D: Enchilada & Sauce
Sun L: Out D: Tilipia 192282 w/rice and veggies
Mon L: Enchilada LO D: Pot Roast 27208, Mashed Cauliflower
Tues L: LO Pot Roast D: Pasta w/jar sauce, steamed broccoli
Wed L: LO Pasta D: Tilipia Taco 216778, veggie/rice side
Thurs L: Out D: Chicken & rice
Fri L: Out D: LOs
Sat L: Chkn & rice D: Out
Sun L: Mexican Casserole 16328 D: Shepard's Pie 63355, steamed broccoli
Mon L: Shep Pie Lo D: Tilipia 169764, Cauliflower 19710
Tues L: Mexican Casserole LO D: Bourbon Ckn over rice, Green Beans 294141
Wed L: Bourbon Ckn LO D: Tilipia 129996, Broccoli 69501
Thurs: THANKSGIVING :)
Fri L: LO D: LO
Mon L: LO D: Tilipia 169764, Cauliflower 19710
Tues L: LO pasta D: Turkey 30887 & Salad
Wed L: LO Turkey D: Turkey 25700 & steamed broccoli
Thurs L: LO Turkey D: LOs
Fri L: LO D: LOs
There, now I can keep track better :)
So.. starting from a while ago
Wed L: Veggie soup with chicken D: Beef Stroganoff 73922
Thurs L: Beef Strog LO D: Tilipia 251802 and Green Beans 294141
Fri L: Veggie Soup LO D: Rotisserie Chicken w/ Stuffing
Sat: L: Beef Stew D: Tilipia 251802 and Green Beans 294141
Sun L: Veggie Soup w/chkn D: Chicken and Rice 12458, Salad
Mon L: Roast Ckn & rice D: Tilipia 57474, Zucchini 307575
Tues L: Mushroom Soup D: Taco Soup 81029, Frozen Pizza
Wed L: LO Pizza D: Pasta with jar sauce, Broccoli 61830
Thurs L: Out D: Tilipia 22639, Cauliflower 94989
Fri L: LO Pasta D: LO's
Sat L: Pizza/Chkn & Rice D: Enchilada & Sauce
Sun L: Out D: Tilipia 192282 w/rice and veggies
Mon L: Enchilada LO D: Pot Roast 27208, Mashed Cauliflower
Tues L: LO Pot Roast D: Pasta w/jar sauce, steamed broccoli
Wed L: LO Pasta D: Tilipia Taco 216778, veggie/rice side
Thurs L: Out D: Chicken & rice
Fri L: Out D: LOs
Sat L: Chkn & rice D: Out
Sun L: Mexican Casserole 16328 D: Shepard's Pie 63355, steamed broccoli
Mon L: Shep Pie Lo D: Tilipia 169764, Cauliflower 19710
Tues L: Mexican Casserole LO D: Bourbon Ckn over rice, Green Beans 294141
Wed L: Bourbon Ckn LO D: Tilipia 129996, Broccoli 69501
Thurs: THANKSGIVING :)
Fri L: LO D: LO
Mon L: LO D: Tilipia 169764, Cauliflower 19710
Tues L: LO pasta D: Turkey 30887 & Salad
Wed L: LO Turkey D: Turkey 25700 & steamed broccoli
Thurs L: LO Turkey D: LOs
Fri L: LO D: LOs
There, now I can keep track better :)
Monday, December 1, 2008
December personal challenge
My parents already gave me my Christmas (and Birthday) presents for this year - a beautiful new digital piano with just about every feature imaginable. My old one broke around the end of the summer. It just wouldn't turn on any more out of the blue one day. I've been without a piano for 3 or 4 months now and really have been missing it.
So now that I have a piano again, I've been reading stuff on line about the best ways to practice to get better. One site I found said that the best way is to memorize all the music as you go, so you end up with a whole bunch of stuff you can play from memory. I've decided to try that out for a bit and see how it goes.
Well, it turns out I absolutely suck at memorizing music :P I guess there is a reason I don't have a single other song memorized. I sat down to learn Somewhere Over the Rainbow and it's taken me days but I just about have it now. I am also so bored with that song I can't even begin to tell you (though with the sheet music I can now play it perfectly which is saying something at least!).
This morning I was thinking that I should really be using this great time in Dec to learn Xmas songs instead of just random ones. I have about a billion xmas sheet music books so I picked one and by Dec 25, I plan to have 8 songs memorized. That is my challenge to myself!!
I hope I get better at this memorization thing. I couldn't believe how bad I was at it for Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
My first Xmas song on my list to memorize is Away in a Manger. So far, I've got 1 line down already. I'm on my way! :D
So now that I have a piano again, I've been reading stuff on line about the best ways to practice to get better. One site I found said that the best way is to memorize all the music as you go, so you end up with a whole bunch of stuff you can play from memory. I've decided to try that out for a bit and see how it goes.
Well, it turns out I absolutely suck at memorizing music :P I guess there is a reason I don't have a single other song memorized. I sat down to learn Somewhere Over the Rainbow and it's taken me days but I just about have it now. I am also so bored with that song I can't even begin to tell you (though with the sheet music I can now play it perfectly which is saying something at least!).
This morning I was thinking that I should really be using this great time in Dec to learn Xmas songs instead of just random ones. I have about a billion xmas sheet music books so I picked one and by Dec 25, I plan to have 8 songs memorized. That is my challenge to myself!!
I hope I get better at this memorization thing. I couldn't believe how bad I was at it for Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
My first Xmas song on my list to memorize is Away in a Manger. So far, I've got 1 line down already. I'm on my way! :D
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Olympics
I've never really cared for the Olympics before but some how this year I totally got into them. I can't get enough!! I'm not sure what changed in me to suddenly love them but I'm having a good time cheering on the Americans.
It is really making me want to do all sorts of athletic things now though. I bought a new 1-piece swim suit that I'll be able to go to the gym and wear to do laps at the pool. Thanks Michael Phelps, lol. At least the suit was on sale. It was only 30 dollars when it was originally 120. Not a bad deal!
I'd also like to do Gymnastics but at this point in my life I think I can safely say I am not flexible enough for that kind of thing!
Then we watched the women's marathon and now I want to run super far and fast. Not because it looked like fun like the swimming or gymnastics, but because of how awesome their stomachs looked! They were so flat!! I really do need to add some distance to my running though. Doing 2 miles a few times a week doesn't really make me much of a runner :P
Oddly enough, while the Olympics make me want to work out, they make my husband want cake and ice cream. So one night we made a late night run to Jewel and picked up some, and stuffed ourselves while we watched our girls gymnastic team. Hahaha :)
It is really making me want to do all sorts of athletic things now though. I bought a new 1-piece swim suit that I'll be able to go to the gym and wear to do laps at the pool. Thanks Michael Phelps, lol. At least the suit was on sale. It was only 30 dollars when it was originally 120. Not a bad deal!
I'd also like to do Gymnastics but at this point in my life I think I can safely say I am not flexible enough for that kind of thing!
Then we watched the women's marathon and now I want to run super far and fast. Not because it looked like fun like the swimming or gymnastics, but because of how awesome their stomachs looked! They were so flat!! I really do need to add some distance to my running though. Doing 2 miles a few times a week doesn't really make me much of a runner :P
Oddly enough, while the Olympics make me want to work out, they make my husband want cake and ice cream. So one night we made a late night run to Jewel and picked up some, and stuffed ourselves while we watched our girls gymnastic team. Hahaha :)
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Semi-Charmed Kind of Life
My husband and I were driving the other day and some woman pulled out into traffic right in front of us. We were driving straight on a busy street and I just don't think she even ever looked in our direction. She just pulled out as she felt like it and we had to hit our brakes so we didn't hit her. I commented how it must be nice to live such a charmed life where everyone just looks out for you all the time.
Then it kind of hit me. I sort of DO have that kind of life. My friends and family look out for me all the time.
Phil recently heard of a job opening at his company and he told me about it and then emailed me the link for the site. Elise's friend had an opening at her company and Elise called me about it and put me in touch with her friend. Neither job really seemed quite right for me at this time, but how awesome to have eyes and ears out like that into the world. My husband's parents also submitted my resume in with their companies. My parents' friend has emailed me about job openings in my area at her company as well.
As soon as I started thinking about all of these things, I really started to feel like the luckiest person is the world. It wasn't that I didn't appreciate these things previously, but thinking about all of these instances together in a big pile made me realize just how charmed my life is right now. And it IS nice! :)
Then it kind of hit me. I sort of DO have that kind of life. My friends and family look out for me all the time.
Phil recently heard of a job opening at his company and he told me about it and then emailed me the link for the site. Elise's friend had an opening at her company and Elise called me about it and put me in touch with her friend. Neither job really seemed quite right for me at this time, but how awesome to have eyes and ears out like that into the world. My husband's parents also submitted my resume in with their companies. My parents' friend has emailed me about job openings in my area at her company as well.
As soon as I started thinking about all of these things, I really started to feel like the luckiest person is the world. It wasn't that I didn't appreciate these things previously, but thinking about all of these instances together in a big pile made me realize just how charmed my life is right now. And it IS nice! :)
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Ahhh @!#P$ insurance companies!! Part 2 and 3
So when we left my story, I was waiting for my HR person to call me back.
Part 2:
I did get a call back while I was in my car driving on the highway, not from the rep I called but someone else in my HR dept. She said she wanted to help me but she didn't understand my problem. I tried to explain that I just needed a paper from Blue Cross Blue Shield saying my coverage with them was over. She was very nice but still confused. How could I need that from them when I didn't have BCBS insurance in the first place? I told her I DID have them for insurance. She said I couldn't have them because they weren't an option offered through our company. ?@?!?!?@#:#!P!?! HUH ?? ?!?!!?!?! I KNOW I have BCBS insurance, I've been dealing with them for weeks over this other problem with my doctor's office I'd been having. The lady just kept insisting that I couldn't have them and I needed to find out who I did have because even though she's HR, she doesn't have access to my records so she couldn't tell for me.
Part 3:
I had to give it a day off between dealing with this to calm down. I devised a new plan though. I'd call up my insurance company, ask when was the last day I had coverage with them, and then when they tell me, I say, Great, I want it in writing! Ha, it's fool-proof! ....
So I try out my new plan, and they tell me they don't have an end date for me, I need to contact my HR dept. Okayyy... I call back the lovely lady from HR I spoke to the day before. I tell her that my insurance, BCBS, doesn't have an end date for me and needs her to send it to them. She still says I don't have BCBS but that it's not her side that sends that sort of thing, it's another company my HR works with called Connect One. Great, I get that number and I call them to tell them to send my end date to my insurance!
Well. This part turned out to be pretty much pure hell. It was more menus and options than I have ever seen a phone system have before. Plus it was voice activated too so if I so much as breathed gently into the phone, it took that as some crazy answer from me. Once it suddenly switched into Spanish because I sighed too hard. There was supposed to be some number to dial to turn it off and I tried it but then it said that was not a valid code. So I pushed all sorts of thing and listened to all sorts of menus. Finally it said connecting you and by the way, here's the number we are connecting you to, and it was THE PHONE NUMBER FOR BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD THAT I HAD BEEN CALLING ALL OF THIS TIME AND BEING TOLD THEY COULDN'T HELP ME. WTF?!?! Now I was pretty much losing it. Plus I was no longer covered by insurance so if something happened today, I was going to be SOL. I needed to get this resolved URGENTLY.
I hung up and called the number back and tried another set of menus that I hoped wouldn't just connect me to BCBS. I reached a person!!!! YES!!! She answered, Retiree pension and benefits, how can I help you? Noooooo!! I told her who I was trying to reach and she said all she could do was put me back into the menu system, but I needed to hit 4 for medical. I told her I DID hit 4 and that's how I got to her!! She said sorry and dumped me back into the menu, but something went wrong and it hung up on me.
I called the number back and tried MORE menus that sounded right. This time, at every new menu set of options, I immediately tried to hit 0 for an operator or any human at all. Every time it told me that it was not a valid selection. Finally, finally, finally, I got through to someone who sounded like she might actually be in the right area to help me!! I tell her my problem and she GETS IT!! She's nice, she's polite, she's smart, she's understanding. She looks up my records and........ I have no end date in the system with them either!! She says I need to call HR and have them send the end date to Connect One so they can send the end date to some other company called ADP so they can send it to BCBS. REALLY??!???? Oh . My . God . So.
I called HR back and left a message with this new information............
I still have not heard from HR again.
BUT. There is good news :)
My husband was able to go into his HR office and plead my case about how I couldn't get the paperwork from BCBS and his insurance WILL be able to add me on, effective immediately, and I can just get the paperwork whenever I can get it. YES!!! :D So it's a happy ending, even though I don't have 100% of what I need and I will apparently have to deal with these bozos for a while longer.
Part 2:
I did get a call back while I was in my car driving on the highway, not from the rep I called but someone else in my HR dept. She said she wanted to help me but she didn't understand my problem. I tried to explain that I just needed a paper from Blue Cross Blue Shield saying my coverage with them was over. She was very nice but still confused. How could I need that from them when I didn't have BCBS insurance in the first place? I told her I DID have them for insurance. She said I couldn't have them because they weren't an option offered through our company. ?@?!?!?@#:#!P!?! HUH ?? ?!?!!?!?! I KNOW I have BCBS insurance, I've been dealing with them for weeks over this other problem with my doctor's office I'd been having. The lady just kept insisting that I couldn't have them and I needed to find out who I did have because even though she's HR, she doesn't have access to my records so she couldn't tell for me.
Part 3:
I had to give it a day off between dealing with this to calm down. I devised a new plan though. I'd call up my insurance company, ask when was the last day I had coverage with them, and then when they tell me, I say, Great, I want it in writing! Ha, it's fool-proof! ....
So I try out my new plan, and they tell me they don't have an end date for me, I need to contact my HR dept. Okayyy... I call back the lovely lady from HR I spoke to the day before. I tell her that my insurance, BCBS, doesn't have an end date for me and needs her to send it to them. She still says I don't have BCBS but that it's not her side that sends that sort of thing, it's another company my HR works with called Connect One. Great, I get that number and I call them to tell them to send my end date to my insurance!
Well. This part turned out to be pretty much pure hell. It was more menus and options than I have ever seen a phone system have before. Plus it was voice activated too so if I so much as breathed gently into the phone, it took that as some crazy answer from me. Once it suddenly switched into Spanish because I sighed too hard. There was supposed to be some number to dial to turn it off and I tried it but then it said that was not a valid code. So I pushed all sorts of thing and listened to all sorts of menus. Finally it said connecting you and by the way, here's the number we are connecting you to, and it was THE PHONE NUMBER FOR BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD THAT I HAD BEEN CALLING ALL OF THIS TIME AND BEING TOLD THEY COULDN'T HELP ME. WTF?!?! Now I was pretty much losing it. Plus I was no longer covered by insurance so if something happened today, I was going to be SOL. I needed to get this resolved URGENTLY.
I hung up and called the number back and tried another set of menus that I hoped wouldn't just connect me to BCBS. I reached a person!!!! YES!!! She answered, Retiree pension and benefits, how can I help you? Noooooo!! I told her who I was trying to reach and she said all she could do was put me back into the menu system, but I needed to hit 4 for medical. I told her I DID hit 4 and that's how I got to her!! She said sorry and dumped me back into the menu, but something went wrong and it hung up on me.
I called the number back and tried MORE menus that sounded right. This time, at every new menu set of options, I immediately tried to hit 0 for an operator or any human at all. Every time it told me that it was not a valid selection. Finally, finally, finally, I got through to someone who sounded like she might actually be in the right area to help me!! I tell her my problem and she GETS IT!! She's nice, she's polite, she's smart, she's understanding. She looks up my records and........ I have no end date in the system with them either!! She says I need to call HR and have them send the end date to Connect One so they can send the end date to some other company called ADP so they can send it to BCBS. REALLY??!???? Oh . My . God . So.
I called HR back and left a message with this new information............
I still have not heard from HR again.
BUT. There is good news :)
My husband was able to go into his HR office and plead my case about how I couldn't get the paperwork from BCBS and his insurance WILL be able to add me on, effective immediately, and I can just get the paperwork whenever I can get it. YES!!! :D So it's a happy ending, even though I don't have 100% of what I need and I will apparently have to deal with these bozos for a while longer.
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