Finding ONEderland

What a crazy day this has been. I woke up with a sore throat and drug myself into work to find that the a/c had messed up and flooded part of our server room, the hall leading to it and my boss's office. So I turned off the a/c, called the repair guys and they came. Said it was a clogged drained and fixed that. Well several hours after he's gone we are STILL cleaning up water and realize it wasn't from before but still coming from the unit. So we call them back in. They are working on it now. In the mean time it came a total pour down of rain outside blowing nearly side ways and came through the front doors flooding the reception area. At least the rain has cooled it down some...being in a metal building with a/c on the blink is NOT a good thing. Maybe the grass will turn some other color than brown now...if not we could always plant it in here...sure if enough water for it.

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The ninety degree heat has had me skipping out on my workouts something bad. In fact over the last three weeks I think I have only worked out three times. That is really bad and I need to do much better at it. A look at the weather forecast only shows two days coming up that are in the mid eighties and then back to the nineties again. Today they are calling for ninety-nine.

I am wishing I had one of those jobs with flexible hours where I could come in anytime between two times and work my eight hours. Say like between seven to ten. That would work so well but I don't have that luxury. I have to be at work at seven in the morning and I can't bring myself to get up early enough to work out and get ready too. The mornings are so nice and so much cooler and would be perfect for a work out.

I am going to have to find some kind of solution to this problem. Not sure just what it will be but it will be something.

~ Yours Truly,
Longing for Fall~

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Well the mammogram went ok and wasn't anything to worry about like I had been doing. Least once I got there it was quick in and out and the ladies were sooooo nice.

My weigh-in Saturday also went well. I lost half a pound. I would have liked to have seen something bigger gone but then my trip to DQ the night before kinda stopped that from happening. I need to tell my husband no when he starts these what we having for dessert things. Either that or tell him I am not having dessert but he's more than welcome to go alone.

I hadn't been in a great mood today but feel better after an unusual visitor I had. The visitor came in a dream. I took a nap a little while ago and in my dream my younger self (about 19 or so) came and I saw something in her that I haven't had in a while. The true desire to be doing this just for me....completely and wholly for myself. It's really hard to explain but I will just say it was very powerful "vision".

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I'm a little nervous this morning. I have my first mammogram around midday today. I am not looking forward to it. I am wanting to get it over with and wish I could just go now and be done with it. I wasn't really thinking that much about it till my last doctor visit and she was talking about getting a squish pad so that it would cut down on the pain and not to be freaked if they had shadows on it and needed to do another one or if they had to do an ultra sound. Pretty much I hadn't thought about it in that detail. I figured I would have it done and be that. Not that I might have to stick my boobs in the vise more than once or anything. I would rather have got that talk if they had to do another time and told me why then.

I am still hoping it's not going to be bad. I had not really thought it would be but then after that talk there is this little feeling in my stomach that I wish would just go away. I think it's called worry. I am not use to dealing with it. I might deal with high stress levels over things in my life but I don't normally have worry like this. It's only 7:30am....it's going to be a long morning.

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Things I have done to make my office more health friendly for myself

• put a bowl of mixed fruit by the coffee machine
  
• put some sugar free hard candies in the candy dish
  
• brought my pedometer each day so that I can keep up with my steps
  
• stocked bottled water under my desk
  
• keeping low calorie snacks in my filing cabinet
  
• wore my walking shoes and comfortable clothes to work
  
• got my co-workers thinking health -wise too
  

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I usually stay away from forwards and posting meme and stuff like that and only post my own thoughts but I feel very strongly about this issue and wanted to share it with you. Please take the time to fill out the petition...it could make a huge difference in someone's life.

From a nurse:

I'll never forget the look in my patients eyes when I had to tell them they had to go home with the drains, new exercises and no breast. I remember begging the Doctors to keep these women in the hospital longer, only to hear that they would, but their hands were tied by the insurance companies. So there I sat with my
patients, giving them the instructions they needed to take care of themselves, knowing full well they didn't grasp half of what I was saying, because the glazed, hopeless, frightened look spoke louder than the quiet 'Thank You they muttered.

A mastectomy is when a woman's breast is removed in order to remove cancerous breast cells/tissue.
If you know anyone who has had a Mastectomy, you may know that there is a lot of discomfort and pain afterward.
Insurance companies are trying to make mastectomies an outpatient procedure. Let's give women the chance to recover properly in the hospital for 2 days after surgery.

It takes 2 seconds to do this and is very important .. Please take the time and do it really quick!
Please send this to everyone in your address book.
If there was ever a time when our voices and choices should be heard, this is one of those times.
If you're receiving this, it's because I think you will take the 30 seconds to
go to vote on this issue and send it on to others. You know who will do the same.

There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require Insurance Companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the 'drive-through mastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.

Lifetime Television has put this bill on their Web page with a petition drive to show your support. Last year over half the House signed on.

PLEASE!! Sign the petition by clicking on the Web site below. You need not give more than your name and zip code number.

http://www.lifetimetv.com/breastcancer/petition/signpetition.php

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After much thought I have gone back to weight watchers. The things that were turning me off of it in the spring are gone now. First there are no crowds...the place was nearly empty. Also even if there were to be more people there they have rearranged the layout so now the seats only go back 3 rows deep (they turned it here it's wide rows going back only short, instead of using it with narrow rows that went back deep....just a 90 degree turn of the room). No more having trouble seeing anything cause of being stuck in the back. It feels more personal now and that is what I enjoy.

I also really needed to get back to writing down what I was eating. I was loosing count of too much stuff and letting way too many things slip. Though I hadn't done back and had only gained a very small amount. Guess a lot of that is that since I first started WW back years ago I have never been able to view food in the same way. Where as before I went I never thought about the calories that might be in something. I use to eat whatever I wanted without thought....now are several things on a menu that I won't even think about eating.

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I'm really trying to get to where my mornings are running a little smoother and I can get done all the things that like to do....like catch up on the latest posts, enjoy a cup of coffee and post an entry myself. It seems to be a struggle to get started doing something regular....least at the moment but I am working on it.

I started my morning off with a very ripe necterine....it was sooo good. And now I am having my coffee. I love the quiet time of the morning. It usually lets me get a lot done. I normally don't have much happen for the first two hours I am at work. At one time I thought about hinting at the wasted money spent to have me just sitting here "just in case the phone rings" but then I decided I actually enjoy this time even though I do have to be up early to get here. I have nearly two hours of peace each morning. I catch up any work that might need it though normally there isn't any because I am one of those type of people that does stuff soon as it hits my desk. I can't stand to have stuff pile up on me. I am a firm believer of do it now and you'll have spare time later.

Going to go do a little reading. Hope everyone else is having a lovely morning.

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