Just Do It, Already

by Amy on October 30, 2007 in Star with 5 Comments

I’m annoyed, to say the least, to have to weigh myself daily. It’s worked, it really has, but I’m ready to be done with it. I stopped for a while and the freedom was amazing. But then I decided to go down a bit more and so until I get down another 13lbs I’m back on my winning plans. I call them winning plans because I lost the first 50lbs with those plans. The next goal was to lose 13lbs (which got me to an even number), to which I have 3 1/2 left. I’m considering just doing whatever it takes to get those 3 1/2 off so I don’t have to weigh anymore! Then start up again to lose the last 15lbs in the spring. It’s too cold now and most of my plan was to get outside and be more active.

I wanted to really “WOW” everyone at Thanksgiving this year, so I had a goal for that day. My Hacker’s Diet tells me I’ll reach that goal about a week late, but I think that if I kick my butt into gear I could have it done in 2 weeks and be free of my scale. On Thanksgiving day, if I reach my goal, I will have lost 61lbs total this year.

I weigh less now than I have in 8 years. The last time I weighed less than I do now was before I had my first son, Michael. I didn’t gain it all with the kids, I gained it by sitting my ass on the computer, eating crap, and feeling pathetic. I made a lot of changes that will help me maintain my weight so I just need to get down to where I want to be. I can’t explain to you how happy I am about being able to run and play with my kids and do things without having to worry about breaking stuff (like those trampoline jumps and wall climbing). It’s very liberating.

Forget Cable

by Amy on October 27, 2007 in WTH? with 9 Comments

I just wanted to update you guys on my dealings with Charter because I think it’s really interesting. Does anyone want to know how Charter cost me over $1,000? I bet you do.

So, let’s see, where did I leave off? I told you about how I called twice and they promised to send someone out. Well, they never did. Finally on Sunday I called them. I got ahold of someone who transferred me to another department. The guy in that department didn’t speak English very well so I asked him to send me to someone else. He told me I’d have to call back, which I did.

I went to the same place and was transferred to that same department. I tried to explain my situation to the lady there who had no clue, and transferred me to another department. Then I spoke to a guy there who transferred me again after he figured out what I was trying to say. At this point I was disconnected.

I called back again and was transferred again. For some reason they have no direct number for the department I needed to talk to. So I told this lady what was going on and she decided to read what was written about my account the first times I called. She came back after about 10 minutes and told me she was still reading, but that she’d be back. 20 minutes on hold and the line gave me a busy signal.

So I called back. I was transferred. I found someone who had a clue and told them I just want them to take their shit back. I’m done. She gave me all the credits ($200 worth) and cancelled the internet. So I took the wireless adapter they sent for my son’s computer and I hooked it into my DSL wireless. FLAWLESS. Everything worked perfectly. It was so amazing. So I was thinking about keeping that adapter ($50) and sending back the other stuff. I decided, first, to look online and see what I could get one for. I found one at Circuit City that was better and cost $10 less, so I went out and bought it and returned all that crap to Charter.

So, how did this cost me money? Well, I went back to my work computer and secure websites (like my Modernbill) wouldn’t load. What? Well.. I had a virus and some spyware that wasn’t there before the cable. I don’t know what the difference was, but when I had the cable it messed me up. So I went out and got a new computer (it’s that time) and I’m working on transferring everything over. It’s a really nice copmuter, though. But I have to agree with the rest of the world, despite it’s beauty, VISTA SUCKS. There, I said it. Did you even read this far?

What’s Going On?

by Amy on October 19, 2007 in Star, WTH? with 10 Comments

Michael’s new birthday computer is all set up. In fact, I’m on it right now. Not only am I on it, I prefer to be on it. Is there something wrong with that? Maybe. I really don’t like my computer and I love his to death. There’s nothing to do on here, but I keep sitting down at it.

So there’s no way to connect to the internet from his bedroom. I thought about setting it up wirelessly, but I consider myself to be retarded in that area. I called the cable company to complain about my DVR and found out they would give me a deal if I switched over my internet and telephone and it wouls save me $80/yr. Booya, right?

So the guy came and set it up yesterday and it’s the shittiest internet service I’ve ever had. And I’m including AOL in this. Back when you had to dial in 900 times just to connect because it was so busy? Yep. It’s pissing me off. It won’t stay connected and if it does, it spends most of its time at 1Mbps. I called them and they told me it was an incomplete installation and they’d send someone else out. Well, I had to go somewhere and they called while I was gone, so I missed them. I called today and they said they’d try to find time to come out, but definitely by Monday. He also told me that the guy they sent out to set it up wasn’t a high speed tech, so that’s why he botched the job. No kidding..

Other than that, though, everything’s going great. He loves the computer and it’s actually pretty nice. When I bought it I put specific instructions not to install any bullshit on it because I can install it all myself, and I think that’s a major plus. It didn’t have any preinstalled crap weighing it down. It’s pretty fast, too.

Oh, Michael’s birthday party? Well, this post is too long so I’ll have to post it later. But FYI, it was f*cking awesome.

Happy Halloween Birthday

by Amy on October 8, 2007 in Family with 9 Comments

Michael’s birthday was on Friday, he’s 8 now. No more booster seat, yay!

We’re having a Halloween birthday party for him and, let me tell you, it ain’t cheap. Basically all the cost is for the Halloween decorations to dress up the house. And I haven’t even gotten balloons or anything yet. For Michael’s birthday I bought him a super cheap Dell computer. He needs a TV in his room but we can’t get cable in there so for just $100 more the computer comes with a DVD players and a bigger monitor. I just hope it works out. I’ve heard terrible things about Dell computers.

So I think we’re going to have a costume contest, bobbing for apples, Halloween coloring, and musical tombstones. I can’t think of any other cool things to do, can you? We were thinking about the touch-testing, you know where you’re blindfold and you put your hand in spaghetti and such, but I can’t think of enough things to touch. Have you done it before?

And I didn’t even think about the cake! Not sure what I’m going to do about that. *sigh* I’m still tired from Corey’s birthday party, I’m really not looking forward to this one.

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