Slim Fast Optima

I was very happy when I found out that Slim Fast Optima had a appetite suppressant that lasted 4 hours because I needed an appetite suppressant. I'm usually so hungry all the time and I needed something that would keep me from eating all the time so I can lose some weight. However, I was most unhappy to find that I was unable to go to sleep at night. I would take a sleeping pill and it wouldn't even take effect at all. I would end up taking another one and still nothing. I would take 4 sleeping pills and still no effect and it would keep me up until 3 or 4am and I would be laying in bed wishing I could go to sleep but I had so much energy even at 4am. This stuff is like speed lol. However I didn't put 2 and 2 together right away, I had no idea it was the slim fast until I stopped using the slim fast all day yesterday and I was able to go to sleep last night with no problems. And today around 6pm I got sleepy so I took a nap and was asleep until 9pm. Which is good because I missed dinner. Well, I wanted to because we ate Hometown Buffet for lunch and I ate more than I should have. I had a salad and then my 2nd plate I had roast beef, turkey, mashed potatos and gravy and corn. Then I had a little bowl of non fat ice cream with a little piece of mouuse which I couldn't eat all of because I was so full. I guess I will try to lay off the Slim Fast for awhile or maybe take it early in the morning for breakfast and then again for lunch then that's it for the rest of the day, see if that helps.

Doctor Who

I'm so happy that I'm able to see Doctor Who the day after people who live in the UK are able to see it instead of waiting 3 weeks to see it on the Sci-Fi channel. But I was upset to see the very end of this weeks episode (the stolen earth). I look forward to next weeks episode although I will be very sad when I see what happens. Don't worry, no spoilers here.

The Secret Life Of A Call Girl

I watched The Secret Life of a Call Girl tonight on Showtime. It was pretty good. I was very surprised to see Billie Piper in such a risky role but she played it very well. I'm glad she is still working after Doctor Who too. I really wish that she was still on Doctor Who but that's ok. I'm also very glad that we are getting that show here in America. I love british tv shows. I've always loved the comedy shows on PBS and Ab Fab and Doctor Who and it's many spin-offs. And I understand why this show is on Showtime instead of CBS or NBC hehe.

Diet

Today Chip went to the grocery store and bought a few things and one of those things was a bag of 8 pieces of fried chicken. OMG it smelled so good when I first smelled it. I resisted and went back into my bedroom. Although, around 9pm I started to get a little hungry and so I went into the kitchen and opened the fridge and saw the chicken bag so I took out 1 piece and heated it up in the toaster oven. OMG it was so good. Hey I've been so good the last couple months. Sometimes you are allowed to sneak something good even if it's bad hehe. And it was oh so bad. But 1 bad thing wont ruin my entire diet so who cares. Tomorrow it will be diet as usual.

Weight Loss

When I quit smoking in 1996 I gained weight. A lot of weight. About 50lbs. And over the years it has grown. I've gone on diets and I've never really lost that much weight and when I did lose it I ended up gaining it back. One time I lost 40lbs and didn't even realize it until I weighed myself and then I started gaining it back. Well, I've gotten so heavy that I went to 243lbs. I was originally 150lbs when I first quit smoking. I was very comfortable at 150lbs and I was happy but 243 is just too much so I went back on a diet. I've so far lost 20lbs and hope to continue this quest of losing weight. I'm using 2 different programs, SparkPeople.com and Slim Fast. I like the slim fast optima because it curbs my appetite for 4 hours. I dont get up early, I get up at noon I don't know why. But I do and so I wake up and have a chocolate shake then 4 hours later I have vanilla shake then at 6pm I eat dinner that is usually a recipe from Spark People. Then at 8pm I will have a strawberry shake because I'm usually hungry again by that time so the shake controls my appetite until it's bed time. Unfortunately I can't go to sleep until 2am. The last shake would normally wear off by midnight but I try my best to not eat. If I have to I'll eat a Slim Fast candy bar hehe. Those have the optima too. Well, I'm hoping to be 200lbs by the end of summer at least and then 150lbs by my next birthday. If you want to see my progress look at the scale on my spark page (look at the menu on the left).

Healed

On Friday June 6th I went to the E.R. because I cut my hand with the blender. Well I'm happy to say that it's totally healed up. The glue is all gone, most of it fell off but the rest got wet and melted away (oops) but I've peeled off the last of the glue as well as the excess stuff and the skin underneath it is completely healed. I'm glad too because I hated having to wear that tight yellow glove that people use to do dishes with. It was cutting off the circulation to the rest of my arm lol.

New Sewing Machine

Chip bought a sewing machine the other day at Sears because we really need one. I hate to sew things by hand. I have these pajama bottoms that have holes in the left leg for some reason. It's only the left leg in both pajama bottoms too, Anyway, I don't like to wear them because of the hole because everytime I put them on my foot goes into the hole making it worse. So I wanted to cut the legs off and make them into shorts. They would actually look more like boxer shorts than anything. So I was able to finally do it and the ones I did look funny lol. 1 leg is higher than the other. That's ok. It was my first attempt. I didn't use pins or iron them where I need to sew them, I just cut and went from there lol. Next time I will do it right.

New Afghan Project In The Making

A few nights ago I was watching tv, mainly flipping through channels and I came across a british comedy show on HBO. I don't recall the name of it but the two characters were in bed (twin beds in the same room) and one of them had a crocheted afghan on his bed. They were squares and I was able to see the pattern when they went close up on the guys face when he was talking so I pretty much know what to do. Each color was different and the squares all had a black border (used to sew the squares together). I thought it was so interesting and I have tons of yarn that are all different colors so I thought that since my hands are doing much better that I would do 2 squares a day until it's all finished then I can sew it all together. I'm sure that it will be finished by the time it starts cooling off after summer. And since they are squares I wont worry about crocheting for too much time per day because it doesn't take that long to make a square. I can't wait to see the finished product.

My Lego Indiana Jones Progress

Well, I've almost completely finished the Raiders of the Lost Ark part of the Lego Indiana Jones game. I am just missing 1 artifact in the 6th level. I know where it is but it wont let me get to it so I will deal with it later. I've unlocked the Young Indy level in the Artifact room which is a scene from the new movie. I just turned the game on and it says I've played it for 17 hours and 39 minutes. That is total time since I got it on June 3rd, what 7 days ago? Hehe 17 hours is a lot in just 7 days.

Emergency Room

We went to the store tonight and I bought a can of Slim Fast Optima because it controls your appetite for 4 hours it says. During the day I really don't have much of an appetite, it's typically after 6pm when my appetite comes at me. I will eat dinner at 6pm but an hour later I'm hungry again and I keep wanting to eat until about 1am and that's bad. You aren't supposed to eat past a certain time, I think 8pm or something. So I needed something to help me out with that so I bought Slim Fast. Well, so I got out my slim fast shaker cup and filled it to the 8oz line with some lowfat milk then I put a scoop of slim fast in it then shook the cup. Then I looked over at my blender and thought oh I should put it in there and add some ice to it and I got a real milk shake. So I went over to the blender and it's not a big blender. It's a 1 glass blender so it doesn't make a pitcher full of drinks, just 1 glass at a time. So I went to unscrew it from the unit and when I did that I unscrewed the glass from the blade instead of the whole thing from the unit. So I sat the glass down and grabbed the blade part and tried to unscrew it and I was turning it the wrong direction and completely forgetting that I had it plugged in, I was holding the unit with my right hand and accidentally pressed the button on it and it blended my left hand. Well, thankfully it didn't do a lot of damage. All it did was it made a half round mark on the palm of my hand, it cut deep enough into my skin that I had to go to the E.R. The cut near my index finger was superficial compared to the cut near my thumb. I didn't have to wait that long and I got seen and they cleaned it up with iodine and the doctor used Dermabond to glue the cut closed instead of stitches. It doesn't hurt or anything, I just gotta be careful and not get it wet for the next 5-10 days which is how long it will be on before it falls off. I was very, very extremely lucky that it wasn't worse. I could be missing a finger.

Neurologist

Well I went to the neurologist today for a follow up appointment. My first appointment was to find out what was going on with my hands. At first they started getting numb when I would crochet and I got to the point where I didn't like to crochet anymore or do any crafts for that matter. Then they started going numb for no reason and next thing I knew my hands were constantly numb. When I would crochet I got this pinching in my right hand and sometimes in my left hand too, that's when I knew for sure I couldn't crochet anymore. I told my doctor about 3 or 4 times which was in a row, everytime I saw him, that my hands were numb and he would tell me it's because of this or that or the other. So finally I told him that my hands are numb constantly and I get a pinching in my hands too so he sent me to the neurologist. Well I went, he gave me a prescription for wrist splints for both hands to wear to bed so I do. A couple of weeks ago I went to get the nerve test which means they wrap these wires around 2 fingers then they take this thing that looks like a stun gun and they zap you on certain spots for a few seconds at a time and the computer does all the work. So today was the follow up to that and he said I have a very mild case of Carpel Tunnel syndrome but because they are not numb all the time (thanks to the wrist splints) that I don't need surgery, in fact he said it would be the very last resort so I have to see him in 2 months to see how it's going. I'm really happy I don't need surgery and my hands are good again as if nothing happened.

Lego Indiana Jones

I got my Lego Indiana Jones for PSP game today and got a free t-shirt. This game is fun just like Lego Star Wars is. I'm really glad I got a PSP because it's so cool. I also bought some artist stuff at Michael's. I bought Cartooning Kit for Dummies and it came with 6 colored pencils, 6 markers which are basically the same colors, an eraser and a pencil sharpener. I was disappointed in the pencils because they were very difficult to erase. A regular pencil works better. It also comes with a little 5x7 sketching pad with 50 sheets. The book is lame, it's not even a book it's more of a piece of paper folded a few times. I also bought a book called Superhero Madness which has "45 basic lessons for drawing cool heroes and vile villains". It's pretty cool. They also had these booklets that were totally blank so you can create your very own comic book. I bought 2 sizes, a regular typical comic book size and a pocket book size. Each with 28 pages. I don't know what I'm going to draw in them but I probably wont use them for a very long time, long enough to know what I'm doing first hehe.

My Birthday (Part 2)

Well this morning I woke up with Chip singing the Happy Birthday song and he was holding a German Chocolate cake which was what my mother always made for me for my birthdays. He knew that, that's why he bought it for me. We went to the movies today and saw Iron Man which I really loved. Afterwards we went to Sears and Chip bought me 3 pair of cartoon lounge pants (pajamas hehe). His cousin Vedra and Venda gave me a black t-shirt with HWOODCATS on it and a box of Dewars candy peanut butter flavored. They are really good. Tomorrow I absolutely cannot wait to get my Lego Indiana Jones game for my PSP then we're going to DQ for blizzards which I have a coupon that they sent me for my birthday for buy 1 get 1 free.

MY BIRTHDAY!

Yay another birthday has come. This will be my 38th birthday and I've been bombarded by emails from all these websites that I've joined over the years wishing me a happy birthday. I really love it. However I know it's the "computer" that told itself to email me these standard birthday wishes, templates if you will that they send to all their members. In fact they probably send at least 10 or 20 of those on a daily basis. I don't mind the impersonal greeting from a robot and the fact that nobody except for my very good friend Chris has sent me a birthday card and I haven't gotten a card from my entire family. Maybe it's Karma since I forget everyone lol. That's ok, I really don't care. In fact I do much prefer getting a email greeting saying hey mike, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. A e-card isn't required. It's the thought that counts you know? Now I do know for a fact that tomorrow morning I'm going to wake up with the phone ringing and it will be my aunt Betty calling to sing the happy birthday song in my ear. That is going to happen, I already know that. I can't wait. I would much rather get an email or a phone call than a present or even a card. I just want someone to say hi, I'm thinking about you today because it's your special day. I used to tell people on a daily basis that there are so and so amount of days left blah blah blah but I stopped doing that and nobody ever remembers anymore. Maybe that's my bad lol. Oh well it's cool. Tomorrow were buying a cake and were going to cut it in half and bring the other half to Chips cousin Vedra and then we will eat our piece and have an extra piece for dessert for later. Then on Tuesday were going to pick up my birthday present that I pre-ordered from Game Stop called Lego Indiana Jones for the PSP. And while we are in the mall I have a coupon I got from Dairy Queen website from their Blizzard fan club to buy a blizzard and get one free for me. That will be my birthday itinerary hehe.