79pounds's Journal

"monitoring someone is a form of abuse" from the john tesh show.

ds is slow like usual.  i just wrote an entry and lost it and the same thing happened when i was on ds at the library yesterday, so its not the computer or brighthouse over here, its ds.  though the losing it today is also from michele knocking into the cord.  it is raining over here and windy outside so the animals are all kind of freaky.  pretty penny, the tortipoint  is asleep behind me, i am sitting on the couch with the laptop.  chompy is in one of the big barnes and noble chairs that we have.  princey is alseep in the spare room bath's shower.  and biggy is under the bed in the spare room.  i guess the weather is getting worse because michele kind of freaked and wanted into the cat room and was going to get in there no matter what, which included knocking into the computer cords.  lol.  so after i finished cursing at her and being mean since i was working on here i also discovered everything i wrote on ds is lost.  what else is new.  

had a really busy day yesterday, instead of staying in and chilling which is what i normally try to do on mondays.  put on a bathing suit straight off to go to timeshare in the a.m. and then never got there anyway.  would have used the baby pool on the deck and done exercises while in it, except i haven't been able to get it blown up, its plastic and  NOTHING happens when you blow into it.  pretty weird.  i'll have to buy another one, even though summer is basically half over.  

went to fifth third bank to take care of banking and realized after i left she didn't give me a receipt.  i hate when i get all airbrain like that.  i was dealing with their vp because it is complicated and she seemed kind of out of it herself.  i'll have to check it again later or tomorrow.  paid off some things and found out fifth third has also closed off their reverse division just like wells.  picked up my paperwork from my safedeposit box which i am not renewing i don't think and i want to clear out storage as well and use our spare room or a couple of locked trunks in storage downstairs for it, if there will be space.  what do i have in storage?  lol.  i keep trying to get rid of books and then i buy more books.  they had a sale at the library and had some children's classical literature, so i couldn't resist and just recently i ordered favorites of mine that were lost in a move (or stolen.  i never knew people steal books, but they do, and its sad because they only get a small fraction back on them.  my MUSIC books were stolen several years ago, and i discovered that only because the woman who stole them brought them to a pawn shop.  what an asshole.)  winchell and random family were recommended on the internet but the library didn't have either one.  then i picked up kfc grilled, which is nothing great.  the skin is still on it so its waaay high in calories.  then i went to the jacuzzi place for an appointment.  then i went to k's for lunch/dessert (mostly alcohol.  lol).  coffee with baileys and a soup he just made with blueberry squares.  he is such a good cook.  he is the best cook down here and jf is the best cook up north.  pat used to also be a good cook down here, except she will mix old food with new and one time we all got sick off of it which according to her kids happens a lot.  i'll never understand why she does that.  she was the one who's husband would have to call you and warn you NOT to eat it if she sent over food.  i never understood it until we all got sick.  but her husband died a couple of years ago, so now its just iffy around her. 

(people and their quirks and then its a matter of can you handle their quirks, because i won't always remember that they do that kind of thing.  now i just won't eat with pat at all.  i'm afraid i'll forget, so i just avoid.  its easier.  k is upset and wanted to talk and i wasn't in a talk mood.  i still don't know what he was upset about and i didn't realize until today that i wasn't really listening, which i know pissed him off.  plus he was drinking martini's, wine and bailey's so who knows WHAT was actually going on.  oh, we also tried mc'donald's fresh fruit and yogart salads and they are good.  would never expect mcdonalds to have healthy food.  it was like cut up apple, walnut and yogart in a small plastic tray.  another high end restaurant just closed over here.  they only opened 3 years ago, and i remember thinking they were crazy to open at that time when everything was already turning bad.     

still working on that loan.  i was on the phone with the appraiser for 20 minutes explaining we need the reinspection report with the cover because the number sequence is wrong, it begins at page two and they want a page one.   ANY cover page would do.   she has sent us the 13 page appraisal over and over again instead of the four page reinspection and i'm like, NOT THE APPRAISAL and then she starts READING me the appraisal.  if it was natasha, our processor on the phone, natasha would curse at the appraiser because that is the first thing natasha did when i told her about it.  k was also calling the appraiser names.  she is actually very nice.  i have no idea why she doesn't comprehend this, though that is what it is.  before computers, i could have just thrown a cover on it myself.  all paper looks the same and it would be like okay this cover is page one.  over and done with.  wouldn't even CALL the appraiser.  but the way everything is now, it has to come from them and it has to be e mailed from them.  even five years ago it wasn't like this.  if i get to close this this week i will be amazed.  

did a bunch of billing, but haven't picked up mail yet.  just started the book by patty boyd and penny junor, "george harrison, eric clapton and me"  its a biography and has a bit in there on page 289 about osteoporosis.  i'm including it mostly for bonny because patty boyd says she reversed it with nutrition!!!  "I heard a lecture...about what the drug companies are doing to women --with the pill, hormone medicaitons and diuretics --and how we get into a vicious circle and end up with osteoporosis, needing yet more pills.  Don't take this stuff was the message.  Then i heard of a brilliant nutritionist on the Isle of Wight.  She agreed to meet me at Gatwick and suggested I take Osteocare, which is an alternative calcium and multivitamin supplement, and do weight-bearing exercise.  I went to tai chi classes and Pilates, which i love -- after two years my doctor couldn't believe it--there was no sign of osteoporosis."  sooooo amazing what vitamins/nutrition and exercise can do and its allllll natural. 

if anyone is doing the soup diet there should also be a head of cabbage in there and i have something on that from cypher.