Mid Year Roundup?

IT's been since, february? Yeah, i've fallen out of the blogging thing. I guess I spend my time idly making videos for youtube, and my latest hobby has been 'photoshopping', although ha-ha I don't actually own Photoshop. But another program gets the job done pretty good.

I suppose I don't have anything to add on on the jobfront, other than things have been changing and growing increasingly stressful. I don't let it bother me tho, I've learned to manage stress quite well. I have a job, and if anything job security.

In fact, I was asked to sit in on a meeting with some directors, supervisors and managers that were visiting from our headquarters in another state. I created a powerpoint (first time!) presentation and as only a Unit lead I briefly touched on what I did. When it was all said and done, the director was at the table and said "Well this is all really great, we've learned a lot and i don't want to downplay the importance of what we've all been discussing with the systems and flow, but what i'm REALLY excited about....is what YOU do." She leaned over the table, pointed at me..

and my manager began to catch flies with his mouth.

Yeah - take that ;-)

So a MONUMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT (alert alert). I've been bitching about this for years..eons, decades, centuries!
I have finally lost weight. How much you ask? Try 15lbs and going. Well, I'd only really go 7 more at the most, i don't want to blow away, or be mistaken for a cracker. ;-)

Diet? Lipo? Stomach stapling? Brain transplant?

By the gods no. But what I did do was I started walking. Walking! Imagine that. Back in March since we moved into our new headquarters, I decided to walk on the 2nd floor. 11 laps = 2.5 miles. So, I walk 4 in the morning, 4 in the afternoon. Soon that wasn't enough, and I found that I was excited after work to do more rounds - usually around 6-10 before I leave work. I"ll shut down my pc, put on my tennis shoes and do my laps, then sneak back up and grab my stuff and go. I have my MP3 on, it gives me a chance to escape from the stress of work. So, win-win!

Anywhoo, I started walking on lunches too, not everyday of course but at least twice a week. I'll do a few rounds (usually 4-6) and then grab a salad or meal from the cafeteria and eat at my desk. Now, my portions are smaller, I don't cook whole pizza's anymore at home and gorge on them in 2 days. But I'm eating chocolate, fast food, health food, salads, basically I'm eating whatever I want. So i'm not dieting.

I'm just walking.

And somehow, I managed to walk the pounds away. I am at a weight I haven't been since my 20's, and it took what seemed like forever to get here. But I'm thrilled, unfortunately ALL my clothes are too big now. Sighs.

I put in about 20 laps a day at work. Which is what, somewhere under 4 miles...round that? I don't do math. I feel healthier, I have more energy, and I am able to continue doing this every single day because now I like walking, and listening to my music, and geting out of my cubicle for a little cathardic stroll.

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I'm sorry to say I won't be keeping up the blogging anymore. It had it's time, it was a lot of fun to share my life with everyone, until the real life clashed a little with this life and my old blog was shut down and this one came up and...well it just wans't the same anymore now was it?

How's Mia? Bad as ever. And my fish Frankie is still hanging in there. Barely. I also have a poltergeist in my apartment. Swear to god. I hear someone whistling a tune every night outside, but i never see anyone. Last nite there was a strange GONG noise (like in the changling) coming from my bedroom that got louder and louder and LOUDER. The cat's eyes turned to saucers and I stared into the room from the sofa thinking "Bedtime should be fun tonight."

I got a ticket from a cop a couple of months ago, you might have loved to hear my rant about that one. Or did you? I don't know what was in my last post.

I'm writing a book now, just for fun of course but somehow I'm already on page 80 in just a week. Why am I forever seeking creative outlets?

I had an author of a series of books I read leave me a wonderful comment on a fanmade picture I made on my editing software for two of her characters, a book in particular. She was completely thrilled by it. I mostly started doing it for friends, we all read some of the same books so I started making up pictures of the characters based on how i envisioned them in my head, everyone was thrilled so now I just do it because it's fun. Yeah, can you hook me up to do book jackets lady? I would so love to do that.

I got no mad skills. I just love the idea of creating, in any medium.


I miss you all, and hope you are well.