Water is the enemy!

I love water! I love the sound of it, I love drinking it, I love swimming in it..... But I need to remember that I am a fire sign...and therefore, water is my enemy!!

In the last 24 hours, I have had two bad water experiences. :)

Experience #1
Last night I took a shower. Instead of running around the house naked (which I totally do all the time so don't ever just walk in, mm-kay?!) I thru on a long shirt because my brother-in-law was over playing the Wii all night with my husband. I wanted to get a drink of water before I went to bed, so I headed for the kitchen. I made it maybe 2 feet from my bathroom when I suddenly did the splits next to my couch. haha Yea...apparently I tracked water with me...and water + hardwood floors= slip n slide. My left leg bent backwards, though and I wrenched my knee, wacked the inside of my left foot pretty hard AND wacked my right knee on the wall. OMG...I'm so bruised and the left knee hates me every time I have to climb the 3 flights of stairs to my condo. :)

Experience #2

We had a HORRIBLE storm last night. I mean torrential downpour, constant lightning, do not drive in this or you will die kinda weather! It was still raining this morning and I had to open the school I work at, so I left early because sometimes it floods around here in weather like that (we live next to a river). I get to the school, open the door and it was dark but looked like there was some water on the floor. My first thought was that the toilet over flowed because we have a problem toilet that will run and run and I have come in to find a flooded bathroom before. lol So I flipped on the lights....and there was a yellow lake in half the school....and mushy ceiling tiles on the floor. Roof leak!!! 3 rooms had pools of a good inch of water and more was coming in. Aghhh! So, I spent an hour with students moping the floors up and taking down tiles that were about to fall, moving around furniture, doing laundry, etc. What a mess! But...I got the rest of the day off. :)

Maybe you've never been informed how this works....

Today, I went to a wedding shower for a former co-worker of mine. Other than the fact that I couldn't eat anything because of my current self imposed diet restrictions, it was a good time. That is, up until the later part of the event.

A man...in horribly see thru white pants... was walking around with a giant cardboard box handing out what appeared to be shower favors to the guests. I didn't really pay much attention to him until I realized that he was suddenly standing next to our table with the Mother of the Groom. I looked up and saw that she was helping pass the favors out...and EVERYONE had one....except me and the two other girls (also former co-workers) at my table. "See thru pants" and "MOG", while standing DIRECTLY in front of our table are going over the fact that they have each covered all of the tables...and so they are done. They walked off...like we didn't even exist!

Now, granted....the favor was a crappy little silver candle holder whose base spelled the word "LOVE"....and I really don't need another crappy little knick knack in my house when I really should be getting rid of crap I already own. But the three of us at the table were really kind of insulted. We each spent a huge chunk of cash on a wedding gift only to be insulted by these two schmucks! See...that's how it works people. I give the Bride and Groom an expensive gift, and then the host of the shower is supposed to give me back some crappy Dollar Store item in return. Where is my Dollar Store candle holder? It's still sitting in the card board box of an incredibly poor dresser.

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Why is it that eating healthy costs so much more than eating un-healthy? Why is it that an apple costs me $3 but I can get an entire meal off of someone's value meal for that...INCLUDING a drink?!!

I gave up on "dieting" a lot time ago....tried to just eat healthy, which is nearly impossible in Chicago! Why on earth did I choose to move to one of the fattest cities in the nation while trying to get my weight in order? Booo....hiissssss!

Well, I jumped on the HCG bandwagon a while back. If you don't know what that is...look it up....it will do your brain some good to go on a google quest. What I will say is it involves taking a hormone women produce while pregnant....and unlike "diets", there is a plan to help you keep it all off easily.

How do you take the hormone? Two options...under the tongue or....injections! I did the former already and now I have moved on to the latter. I never thought I would be talking myself into shoving a needling into my stomach....EVER. But, once I got past the mental part of it...what a breeze. Seriously...you don't want to mess with me....I stick myself with needles, which pretty much means I'm a total bad ass. Okay....so you can't even feel it. But give me credit for being able to do this...I can't even look when I'm being stuck by someone else for a blood test.

So, here I am...shrinking down before everyone's eyes. What a great excuse for shopping! I might have to take another job (putting me up to....FOUR) just so that I can have the extra money....maybe it will have to be one of my fav clothing stores just so I can work the system for the discounts.