new blog..

I have decided to take a break from One Step Forward for just a little while, I started a new weight loss blog entitled "weight and see"...

This is the address, please join me there!

http://tonjiat-weightandsee.blogspot.com/

WIND! watch out Kansas!

Here we come!!

We are having HORRIBLE winds here today. Winds from the west, winds that insist on blowing Utah over into western Colorado and obviously will be blowing Colorado into Kansas...

Frankie says the National Weather Service has issued a "small pet advisory"! This means that your small pets could:

1. blow away????

or

2. be hit by blowing objects

We arent sure which. But he is sure either one is not good for a miniature dachshund. Even a "husky" one.

Today I shipped a package to one of my coworkers who is deployed (with her husband) to Iraq. Erin is a 24 yr old mom of 3, Army medic, who is in the Army Reserves. She and her husband are both in the same battalion, and were both deployed in January to the middle East. Right now they are both in Baghdad, Erin just moved from Mozul back to Baghdad on Saturday.

These 2 young soldiers are true hero's. They agonized over leaving their children behind, but secured responsible temporary guardians for the kiddos, and they stepped up to do their duty.

May God Bless them both. Erin and I became very close at work, and she knows that I understand, as a mom, what her obligations are and why she has to do what she has to do. Her mom is not quite as understanding... I am keeping both Erin and Jose in my prayers, please do the same. They are amazing individuals.

I will post more later, right now I have to go see if Frankie has blown out of the yard!!

Blogs! and Bullies!

I saw the movie Julie/Julia today and it reminded me that I havent blogged in a while.

So, here I am!

I have been thinking a lot lately about bullies, and how we run into them in all walks of life.

I work with a bully. She is a grown woman with grown children who is plain and simple a bully. I am guessing that she has been a bully all her life, she is SO darned good at it!

She makes a special effort to bully and belittle those who are less educated than she is, (she is an RN) so that means that our techs and clerks suffer miserably. She tries to bully some of us, without success and that makes here even meaner to those whom she does bully....

She has been known to call our doctors "stupid" and our nurses "morons". To be honest with you I cannot understand WHY she is even still employed at our hospital. Maybe if we are lucky she wont be soon.....hehehe

SO, Ms Bully, if you are reading this, (and I am sure she isnt) you can Kiss My Ass!

And life will go on.........

Menopause!!

I hate it! I never thought I would care one way or the other, I am fairly active and dont let things slow me down. I even thought, as I started through menopause, that it isnt so bad, the night sweats, the hot flashes, not horrible. I can do this... right??

OK I WANT IT TO BE OVER!!!! Over the last 3 months my symptoms have peaked, I am pretty sure. It cant get worse, or can it? Now I am having these blasted palpitations that are just driving me insane.

I even put myself on the cardiac monitor last month to make sure they are nothing serious. they arent, just annoying. Heart skips a beat and it can last from 10 minutes to 4 hours or more, there is no rhyme or reason to this and my inner nurse wants there to be a rhyme and reason. But there is none.. It is hormone related and I want those damn hormones GONE!

OK Mr Men-o-pause (has anyone ever noticed that the word starts with "men") I can deal with the hot flashes, the mood swings (better living through chemicals) the water weight gain, the metabolism slowing down to the speed of dead, but once you screw around with my heart beat, then thats enough!!

How is my bodybugg supposed to record my heart rate???? :-)

Have a great day everyone...