Treadmill Report

One hour, 18 minutes, 54 seconds; 4.43 miles; 570 calories burned.

The dogs got a bath again today. Fritz took off outside and hid from me to avoid his bath. But I finally caught him. I made a cobbler for dad from blackberries he picked a year or two ago and froze. He will have to tell me how good it is because I don't eat cobblers. I still haven't watched any of the season 4 episodes of Andromeda, despite getting the dvds on Monday. Right now I'm watching golf and Vijay Singh is leading at 20 under, and currently Tiger is 11 under. Do you see my smile :)

Work is really starting to tick me off. The evil adjustment unit has decided that even if they are wrong, they won't fix what they are wrong about. Must be nice. Oh well, Charlotte knows so I'm sure that has spurred many a new email to the people down there. She loves her forward button on those emails.

Treadmill Report

58 minutes, 44 seconds; 3.25 miles; 419 calories burned.

Traffic and small towns

After work today I went to the bank, Rite-Aid, Walmart and Krogers. Traffic was backed up all through town, a combination of regular Friday traffic and County Fair traffic. I spent 20 minutes trying to get home after I was finished with my shopping. I finally went in the opposite direction, got on the interstate and went 10 miles out of my way just to get home. I can't stand sitting in traffic. If I'm in my car, I expect to be moving. My main question though is: How will my town survive Superwalmart traffic, if it can't handle this traffic? Tonight they had every police officer in the county directing traffic.

No treadmill tonight. I figured I walked enough in the stores today after work.

Treadmill Report

46 minutes, 56 seconds; 2.66 miles; 342 calories.

Horoscope

I can now see why my horoscope said I would get back to working out after July 28th. Last night it was too hot to work out. Tonight I had to stop at the store and pick up ant spray. I'm guessing there will be some reason why I don't work out tomorrow night (probably golf) and that may be the same reason for Friday night - that and going to the store.

Big news from the comic book industry: Well, it's probably not news for followers of the Captain America book, but I just read in the Wizard magazine that Bucky is back and is a major bad guy. Bucky was Cap's sidekick many, many years ago and was killed. But not really. He's apparently been controlled by some group somewhere and became an assassin who is put into stasis until they need him to kill someone. In the Wizard magazine some comic book guy said bringing back Bucky was a bad idea, but I'm actually thinking of picking up the comic book now because of the story.

Still haven't gotten any brownies. I read the nutritional information this morning on some low fat brownies at walmart, but one brownie had 200 calories in it and that's about a half an hour on the treadmill. So, I decided I was too lazy to eat the brownie and didn't buy any.

Hot, Hot, Hot

No treadmill tonight. It's just too hot. Mom said the weatherguy on the news was reporting 97 degrees. Ugh! We're supposed to have a cold front moving through tonight that will drop the temp some. I hope so. Now if I could only escape the brownie craving I've had for two days. Last night I ate everything but brownies because we don't have any. I think I may need to do some baking in a little bit.

This morning I woke up to tons of ants in the kitchen. I think the storms we had yesterday evening shook them up and brought them in. It looks like Mom's gotten rid of them though. Yay!

I may actually watch some of the season 4 dvds of Andromeda tonight. I got the dvds yesterday but golf was on last night so I watched that.

Treadmill Report

31 minutes 18 seconds; 1.71 miles; 220 calories. It was just too hot to try for the whole 300 calories tonight.

Commercial Observations

While watching golf today, I was inundated with a lot of repetitive commercials. Three that stood out are the ones for Just For Men hair color, Crestor, and Levitra. After seeing these commercials for about the 20th time, I started noting a few things: Why can't women's hair coloring products be done in 5 minutes? Mandy Patinkin, the spokesman for Crestor, is not a doctor, but he played one on tv. And, it's interesting to note that a side effect of Levitra, the erectile dysfunction drug, is a stuffy or runny nose. That's just odd.

Treadmill Report

52 minutes, 44 seconds; 3.01 miles; 387 calories burned.

Why don't they have puppy shows like they have dog shows? I would much rather see little puppies playing in the show ring. Animal Planet needs to invest in puppy shows. They had one puppy show (the football thing) but it was full of golden retriever puppies and you didn't get to see all the other different breeds.

Treadmill Report

1 hour, 11 minutes, 51 seconds; 3.92 miles; 504 calories burned.

Treadmill Report

44 minutes, 54 seconds; 2.47 miles; 318 calories burned.

Month 2 stats

I am now officially 2 dress sizes smaller. I went and bought new jeans today and a new pair of shorts and a skirt. For the second month (6/22 - 7/21) I walked a total of 67.81 miles and burned 8719 calories while doing it. Hopefully, I will continue and finish Month 3.

Well, Now I Can Move On

Ever since that new Harry Potter book was released, I have been dying to find out who dies. I'm not going to say who it is, but thanks to the internet, I now know. So, now I can move on to something else. Yay! I haven't read any of these books and really don't plan to but the mystery was very powerful.

Well, I hurt my back a bit working out the other day so I took a couple of days off from the treadmill to give it a rest. I'm back to normal now. I have tomorrow off from work. I plan to go shopping. Tonight I sprayed the dogs with flea spray again.

Treadmill Report

36 minutes, 31 seconds; 1.94 miles; 250 calories.

Furby 2.0

The new furby will be released to the public on August 8th. I want a gray and pink one.

You would think I wouldn't get tired from work if all I do is sit at a desk all day. But tired I am. And it's all because of email. I had to deal with horrible policy and in-fighting email today and it is exhausting. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. I did have a thought to stop at McDonalds on the way home for a cheeseburger and fries, but I was a good girl and came home to my baked chicken.

Treadmill Report

43 minutes, 39 seconds; 2.38 miles; 306 calories burned.