The Attack of the Treadmill

Yes, I know...two posts in one day is a little unusual (and possibly excessive), but I just had to share my day with you guys.

So, with my Christmas money this year, I decided to buy a treadmill. I had ordered it before Christmas, but they shippers weren't going to be able to deliver it until today. When I purchased it, I upgraded to the Silver Delivery Service package so that I wouldn't have to worry about putting it together, unloading it, etc.

This morning, the delivery company called and gave me the delivery window of noon to 8pm. They were actually on the front side of the window (about 2pm). When they came, though, they said they weren't going to take it out of the gianormous box, and they weren't going to put it together. They simply sat it in the center of my living room.

So, I worked for about an hour. I got it out of the box, and I assembled it. I was acutally quite proud of myself. I stepped back and figured out where it would best go in my living room area, and set out to move furniture around.

In the process of moving the treadmill, I pulled it up, onto, and over my big toe. After writhing on the floor in pain, I wiped away the blood, and looked to see that my big toenail was much more unattached than attached to my toe. After a trip to the Urgent Care Center, which was closed (wouldn't you think New Year's Eve is the day that might warrant urgent care more so than any other day of the year?), I am now sitting on my couch, with a bandaged and swollen toe, and a VERY LARGE treadmill in the floor that I am a little scared to move.

I guess my new exercise plan will have to wait until I can actually put a tennis shoe on my foot. On the plus side, I can legitimately wear slippers to work tomorrow.

2007 Year In Review

**Well, I typed this post earlier today, but somehow managed to not post it correctly. So, here it is.

Since 2007 is coming to close, I thought I would do a 2007 Year In Review of my favorite blog topics. However, after the blog incident, I no longer have my past few years of blog posts.

So, I decided to do a Year In Review of my favorite tracts.







(Roxanne, the last one is for you, and no, it is not an instruction manual.)

Hopefully, 2008 will bring more tracts.

Books...Books...Books

I love books. I very much love to read. One of the things that I love about the holiday season is that I have a chance to read through quite a few of the books that pile up on my nightstand throughout the year.

I have already made it through all the books that I brought with me, and so I had to go to Barnes and Noble yesterday to purchase some new books to read. I spent a good bit of time browsing and figuring out what looked interesting.

I purchased a Nick Hornby book that I hadn't read, and I purchased "No Country for Old Men" because it had been recommended to me.

That got me to thinking. What are some books that I absolutely have to read. (I know I did a post similar to this on the old blog, but since I had to pull it, I lost all of that info.) So, the question I am asking is what book(s) would you say I need to read?

Merry Christmas To All...

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Mine was really good. I was able to take a few days off and fly to Lubbock to spend time with my dad's side of the family.

It is always a lot of fun, and there is quite a bit of laughter. So, here is a brief rundown of the trip (some pictures are included).

I flew from Houston to Lubbock on Sunday afternoon. HOWEVER, the flight stopped through Dallas on the way to Lubbock. By the way, Southwest does not advertise this as a flight that stops. When you purchase your ticket, it says that you are going from Houston to Lubbock, and technically you are. You just have to stop in Dallas first.

Since my grandmother has been sick as of late, we put up a simple Christmas tree when we got there.


Here are my cousin's kids--Isaac and Evelyn. They are currently the two youngest of the family, and are quite obviously the cutest of the family, too.




My dad made my Granddaddy a model airplane for Christmas. He loved the the gift!



Although I realize the pictures don't tell you much, it was a wonderful Christmas. My grandmother is not doing well, and that was much more evident than ever before. So, it truly was nice to be able to spend this time together.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight.

Fruit Basket

Fruit Baskets. I love fruit baskets. However, this year, I have received MULTIPLE fruit baskets. Here's the problem, I jetset off to Lubbock on Sunday afternoon, and although I have been eating on them nonstop for the past week and a half, I still have 14 bananas, 4 apples, 6 oranges, 9 pears, 3 grapefruits, and a multitude of assorted nuts, meats, and cheeses to try to eat up before I leave. I realize that I don't know much in the way of domestics, but I am fairly certain you can't freeze apples and then expect to eat them at a later date.

So, my next plan is to figure out how to pack all of this extra food and take it with me. Do you think I could make one of my suitcases a cold storage unit (I have frozen meat loaf I need to get eaten too)? Also, I purchased a spiral ham and turkey breast from one of the kids at church who was doing a fundraiser, and now amidst all the other food, I don't have a place to put them (I have a dinky, apartment-sized refrigerator).

I have included pictures below of the baskets I received. Feel free to place an order if you would like for me to send you any of my remaining food. Items not shown in pictures are the frozen meatloaf, 4 Healthy Choice frozen dinners, 3 bags of frozen green beans, and 2 Hot Pockets.






The one gift I did receive that NOBODY is getting are my Williams & Sonoma caramel apples. Uuum uuum good.

Dream Car

Oh. My. Goodness. As I was driving down I-10 today on my way to work, I saw my dream car. It was absolutely PERFECT. I desperately wish I had had my camera with me at that moment so that I could take a picture.

It was a silver Ford Focus with a bright orange horizontal stripe and a bright blue horizontal stripe going all the way around the car. Plus, it looked like someone had gone to Home Depot to buy their paint for this because it was chipping and wasn't very shiny. It was ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. I now desperately want my car to look like that! Can someone buy me a Home Depot gift card so that I can go purchase my paint????

Two...Two...Two Posts in One

Good morning, bloggers. I have two exciting (well at least it is exciting to me) items to report this morning.

First off, I got my Christmas Cards purchased. The reason that this is exciting is because this year, I decided not to go with the standard box from the store. Those have begun to all look the same, and I wasn't real thrilled with them to begin with. So, I decided to do a picture card. Anyone who knows me knows my ultra-extreme aversion to pictures. So, a card with my picture on it was out of the question. Therefore, last night I sat my dogs down for a photoc session. This photo session was basically me covering a living room chair with red fabric and a Christmas Tree skirt. I then sat it front of them for about 30 minutes just snapping away. Here are some of the photos that came from that (you'll have to wait until you see the Christmas Card for the "prize" photo).







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My second interesting news is that I cooked last night. I have discovered a wonderful new cookbook--it is the Jessica Seinfield "Deceptively Delicious" Cookbook. I know there have been many people poo-pooing the originality of the recipes, but I am here to say that they are easy, good tasting, and encouraging towards eating your vegetables. And the fact that I have actually gotten out pots and pans and prepared some of these recipes is a testament to its ease. So, if you haven't checked it out. I would.

Hello Blog

Well, my blog is back up and running, albeit in the private blog world. When the mess with my old blog happened, I just deleted it, so I don't have any of my old posts, but let's be honest, they weren't that interesting to begin with. Thanks for joining me at my new blog site.

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Now, on a new note...what has been happening since I last joined everyone in the blog world. Well, just the "normal" stuff at church, I got to go home for Thanksgiving (where our Thanksgiving meal was sandwiches), and Santa Claus has already come to visit me (he got me 4 new tires).

However, the only thing of significance is that I have had to spend an inordinate amount of time on the phone with the phone company. Yes, for some reason they once again think I am a hispanic male. Since I do not have a cordless phone at home, I have taken to just laying in the floor (the cold kitchen floor) by the wall with the phone mounted on it while I listen to hours of horrible musak and speak to yet another person on who I really am. One day they will finally have this straightened out. In the meantime, I'm thinking of moving my couch in the kitchen.