I've really got switch my exercise dvds around more. As much as I don't like The Biggest Loser their yoga dvd isn't that bad, even though I find Bob Harper extremely annoying I can choose the Music-Only Option and I don't have to listen to him. Though to give him credit so-to-speak at least I've found he isn't like the chipmunk-lady (aka Chalene Johnson). Chalene's turbojam is supposed to have a beginner/intermediate level 'person' visible just off to the side. Instead the person she has for intermediate level is so far off the screen it isn't funny.

Okay... enough about exercise and workouts....... on to other ramblings


Earlier tonight, I went the Freddy's Network planning session. The meeting itself was supposed to run from 18:00 to 20:30, but instead of ending at the appointed time we actually had everything planned in less than an hour. So, for the remaining time we relaxed and had a bit of a chat - nothing too major or earth-shattering - just a 14 adults talking about absolutely random things. Than after everything was said and done, I spoke to another staff member at the MFRC asking for a volunteer application.

I figured why not, I'd be volunteering during school hours and be back home in time for Bilbo when he gets home at 14:30. So, now I have to contact the same people I asked as references this past spring for Guides if they would do it again - I don't think they'd say no, but it's better to ask than assume.

• I am: sceptical... unique... spontaneous... unbiased... repetitive... un-caffeinated :o
• I think: that this migraine will never go away.
• I want: certain people to grow up
• I know: that I seem to get the short end of the stick
• I have: drawn a blank
• I wish: that I wasn't taken for granted
• I hate: not having someone to talk to about the "old times".
• I miss: my friends from elementary school
• I fear: spiders and needles
• I feel: alone.
• I smell: nothing since my nose is broken
• I crave: a slice of cheesecake
• I will: keep plugging on
• I wonder: where I'm going to cram all my holiday shopping without the kids snooping
• I regret: a lot of things.
• I love: my husband and children (the bunch surly sots :P)
• I care: too much sometimes
• I am not: impressed
• I believe: that this headache will go away someday
• I sing: when no one is listening
• I cry: no comment
• I fight: with the husband for the blankets late at night in the middle of winter when he's home
• I win: what did I win? What did I win?
• I lose: the other sock inside the washer
• I never: get to finish my meal before someone wants something
• I confuse: all the people, all the time
• I should go: gets some sleep
• I need: a cup of coffee

*starts randomly singing* C is for cookies, that's good enough for me. C is for cookies, that's good enough for me. Cookies, cookies, cookies starts with C.

Why would I make comments about these facts? Something compelled me too. I couldn't help myself. Hay, it wouldn't be me, if it wasn't random.


1. A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. **Ask my husband, he'll tell it's more than that. I tie my hair back (in a ponytail or braid) and he still manages to come up with a wad of my hair on cleaning day.
2. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds up to 60 mph. **boom!
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. **No calories? What's the point
4. A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. **That I didn't know.
5. A sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph. **sonic-boom
6. Every person has a unique tongue print. ** Really? Let's go as Gene Simmons if this is true.
7. According to German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other day of the week. **It's Monday! No bloody wonder people have heart attacks on Mondays.
8. After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink. **ooh prudy colours
9. An average human drinks about 16,000 gallons of water in a lifetime. **Anyone want to put out a small forest fire? That or lock the door to the loo?
10. A fingernail or toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip. **Funny, it seems to take forever for mine to grow.
11. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. **Look at #1.
12. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. ** Nah it doesn't. Only 2 for each, see - :) :(
13. Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies. **I thought it was304 bones? Oh well, shows what I know.
14. Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime. **Aren't beards great - for those who can grow one. I mean really, it's a great place to hid snackage when watching a movie.
15. By age sixty, most people have lost half of their taste buds. By the time you turn 70, your heart will have beat some two-and-a-half billion times (figuring on an average of 70 beats per minute.) **Why wait that long? I've heard some people who are younger than that and have no taste
16. Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels. **If you cut them, will they not bleed
17. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. ** ~~playing fake trumpets~~ It's a blood platelet? Is it a vein? No, it's Amoeba Man.
18. Every person has a unique tongue print. Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it. **Okay… was buddy who thought this one up listening to Jonathan Coulton?
19. Fingernails grow faster than toenails. **again with the nails...
20. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour - about 1.5 pounds a year. By 70 years of age, an average person will have lost 105 pounds of skin. **That's almost as bad my response for #'s: 1 & 11

This really should go under the subject line of 'Random babbles', but it's past my bedtime.

I can't sleep. It's not for the lack of trying. I just can't fall asleep :P

Shortly before making this entry, I went upstairs to checked on the human cocoons - they're snoring *heh* I just hope I won't be overtired for the Deployment Zone activities tomorrow.

Anywhoo.... I had typed out this long-ass entry about my week - the kids are doing fine in school, I'm doing a little better on the treadmill, other random stuff like when I was at Guides Thursday night. The fact that no one has been sick with either H1N1 or the regular flu, though there's still a long waiting list for the shot *rab* But somewhere along the line technology ate my post.

I had mentioned to the other Guider (in my new unit) that there are more than likely some Thursday nights that I'm not going to be able to attend; there are Ship's Network meetings (mini discussion group on activities that the families left behind can do while the ship's away), if Stickboy happens to call home - definitely don't want to miss that especially since the calls are very limited to begin with. Not to mention, I or the kids don't want to be sitting in the house doing nothing for the next 6 months.

When I happened to mention the possibilities of phone calls, she told me to tell Stickboy that I'm to tell him to call home when it's a little more convenient. Convenient for whom? Her? Yeah... I don't think so. I looked at her rather funny then explained, "The ship's compliment is something like 245 personnel, and everyone's vying for the use of the phone and at 10 mins (per person) that not a whole lot of time to talk - it's long enough to say 'I love you, the kids are driving me insane and it's snowing' and with the kids they'd want to talk with Dad, etc... if you get my drift. Her sister isn't too swift either. I know I've had my moments of unclarity, but this chick takes the cake. *facepalm* Her ol' man was taken off the Freddy for "so-called medical reasons" and "sent the Fleet School because it would be too much of a hardship for his family if he went" - her words, not mine. WTF?!? I still feel like telling her to grow up and grow a pair. She knew what she was getting into when she married. *shakes head*

(Back to Guides & the parents) Funny thing, when I happened to mention to the parents that if during this deployment, that a meeting was shortened by say 10-15 minutes, would they have a problem. I had one father ask why and I told him since I have no need to lie nor did I go into great detail, his reply blew the other leader away. He said, "Lady, if my wife was gone for as long as your husband and his co-workers, I'd rather be home sitting by the phone waiting for the call. It wouldn't even matter if the call came in the middle of the night." Come to think about it, the rest of the parents agreed with him.

Anywhoo.. before I head up for the night ...er morning. I want to say, *slaps self in case of really bad translation* Danke myth_adventure. Sie sind eine Puppe. Ich bekam Ihr Paket spät gestern.



Sweet dreams all

Never before has anyone uttered the word Decafe here in Imladris.

I know I've been posting a number of lolcats/celebs pics. It's not that I don't have anything to post, pretty sure I can bore you all with my last minute stressing out with the 'is there anything else I'm forgetting?' ramblings.

So instead I've decided to amuse myself and for those who have recently joined me (within the last 4-6 months or so) little things amuse me greatly. So not all my posts are venting/rants and other stress's.

I've just completed my first batch of blueberry muffins and now waiting for the oven to cool completely off before heading up to bed. In the meantime, I figure I'd bore you with a few more random facts.


1504 - Michelangelo's 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1760 - The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British.
1760 - The Marquis de Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France, surrenders Montreal to the British.
1775 - Nova Scotia hit by the 'Hurricane of Independence,' which started a week earlier in the West Indies; an estimated 4,170 people from North Carolina northward die in the storm.
1903 - Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops.
1906 - Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage.
1915 – A German Zeppelin, the largest airship ever constructed in its time, hits London killing 22 people and causing extensive damages
1921 - Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America.
1941 – Nazi Germany army begins their siege of Leningrad, this attack on the USSR’s second largest city that killed approximately one million people by its end is more commonly known as the 900-Day Siege
1954 – Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established creating a military alliance among many countries in Southeast Asia
1972 - Arab terrorists kill 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
1974 – US President Ford pardons Nixon for all criminal activities committed in office

1701 - England, Austria, and the Netherlands form an Alliance against France.
1762 - William Colville, Lord Amherst sails with about 1,500 British and American troops to retake St. John's, Newfoundland.
1776 – Submarines were used for the first time in war when an American submarine tries to bomb a British vessel in the New York harbour
1813 - The earliest known printed reference to the United States by the nickname "Uncle Sam" occurs in the Troy Post.
1864 - Samuel Leonard Tilley 1818-1896 argues that Maritime provinces can get better terms under Confederation than by themselves; as Maritime provinces discusses purely Maritime union.
1888 - An incubator is used for the first time on a premature infant.
1892 - The first heavyweight-title boxing match fought with gloves under Marquis of Queensbury rules ends when James J. Corbett knocks out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round.
1916 - The U.S. Congress passes the Workman's Compensation Act.
1940 – German troops bomb London starting the bombing blitzkrieg, in English its meaning is lightning war, which terrorizes London with bombings for 57 nights in a row
1942 - The Red Army pushes back the German line Northwest of Stalingrad.
1965 – Operation Piranha occurs when US and South Vietnam attack the Batangan Peninsula
1977 – Treaty signed between Panama and US leaders restoring control of the Panama Canal to Panama

I've had a craving for chocolate-covered coffee beans all day long. Sadly I haven't any *pouts* and the nearest place is at the mall (which is closed). Even though the mall is open tomorrow afternoon, I'm not going to get some.

Sounds kinda pointless mentioning that I have a craving but don't want any - ah well it's been a funny kinda day.

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'Is it as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on and is now working for the U.N. at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning?' ~ Baldrick

While going through some of my other journals, I answered a post that a online friend gave me a while back. Here's the questions and my answer.

Q: Describe yourself in the most humorous way.

A: I have the mind of a fox, patience of a Saint and the body of the Michelin Man.


Though the other 'friend' didn't get the fox or the saint ref, she got a kick outta the Michelin Man since I've been trying to keep a record of my weight-loss and unfortunate weigh gain (she too has a weight problem so I'm not offended by her bemusement). But for those who have been keeping up with me, know that the crap that I've been going through (with my mother and her family) will probably understand than someone who new to my council.

Nothing much going on other than trying to play catch up on my flist, also keeping my eye on the weather report. So far Hurricane Bill is now currently downgraded to a Cat 3 and is north of Puerto Rico and is supposed to be a Cat 2 when it heads in my direction Sunday.


Advisories Courtesy of Google Earth:

( Don't Mess with Bill )

Every woman's dream. Too bad it's only a stuffed shirt. Or is it? And why is Boss Elf so happy? Hmmmmm.....? *heh*

Nothing much is going on, just running a few errands before heading home. Still haven't been able to get an answer from VIA - seems ewveryone is either out to lunch or skipped work to go see Sidey Crosby (and the Stanley Cup).

Anywhoo... on my lj front. I added some new people to my flist last night, some a few that I added that I had to readd because of the glitch that happened yesterday (not to mention I'm now receiving notices that were timestamped from late last night).

Well... I must be heading back home soon (Bilbo has to be picked up by 1430 hrs - yeah I know I still have time, but I have to travel by bus and it's slow as hell) and it looks as if it's going to rain *crosses fingers* soon and unfortunately I didn't bring a jacket and not really fond of getting wet. :P

tara!