helllooooo!! (((echo))) (((echo))) January 29, 2008

hehe, HI!!!

now dontchoo go thinkin i’ve ditched my blog!!!   (remember, i PAY for my hosting services. HA!)

january’s been a bizzy month.  not only that, i needed some time to get off my butt and get my nose out of my blog and get back on the track of life.  i have work and goals and stuff and a house to clean and manage (5 pets and a husband…haha!)…and it just wasnt getting done. hehe!  i’m sure you all understand—balance and moderation!!!

im feeling a bit more motivated, energized and HAPPY.  i’ve been exercising consistently for over a week—a HUGE accomplishment for me—and its helping me sleep sooo much better, and my mood has evened out nicely. whew!

i do have to thank my good ole buddy amy for her motivation and encouragement!!  we check in with each other every day and have our geekynerdy excel spreadsheets we share with each other with our daily goals and stuff.  its awesome.  i love the accountability!  thanks, amy!!!!! (who btw, has lost 3lb!!  go tell her you’re proud of her at her quest blog!!)

i’ve also been very active in my sparkpeople team for folks from Wisconsin.  they are a HOOT!  we’ve got people trying to lose 10 pounds, and people trying to lose well over 100.  but ya know, we’re all in the same boat really.  its great to mix it all up! 

anyhoo, last friday i did a natural resources program with 35 inner city 4th graders.  you wanna talk about wild!  we had a blast.  they were split up into 3 groups and everything was running quite smoothly until they were all in one group…in the SAME ROOM. heh.  then the behavior went out of control! :-O 

i’ve done this type of thing before in the same manner, but with different teachers/chaperones.  but this group of leaders weren’t quite as competent; you could tell the kids didn’t respect them.  and it didnt help that one of the chaperones was literally screaming her head off, rudely scolding the kids…it just riled them up more!  ah well…hopefully she was stressed out enough that she wont come back with another group. teehee!

everything else is just dandy here!  we’re gearing up for another freakish weather change tonite.  a week ago it was in the single digits, today it was 44…and tonite it will be -4.  its currently sleeting and we have a winter storm warning for overnite.  ahhh the joys of the upper midwest! hehe!

i hope i havent lost all my readers and that you’re still lurking about!!  i’ve been reading your blogs, too, just not commenting much for now.  i would like to consistently check in here a few times a week—we’ll see if i can get my blog-groove-thang back. haha!

have a SUPERB tuesssdee evening!

~josey~ 

p.s. oh and here’s a little giggle for ya…anyone who has cats has experienced this! i know i have! LOL…(only my cats will knock the boxes on the floor, open them and eat the pizza!)

 

helllooooo!! (((echo))) (((echo))) January 29, 2008

hehe, HI!!!

now dontchoo go thinkin i’ve ditched my blog!!!   (remember, i PAY for my hosting services. HA!)

january’s been a bizzy month.  not only that, i needed some time to get off my butt and get my nose out of my blog and get back on the track of life.  i have work and goals and stuff and a house to clean and manage (5 pets and a husband…haha!)…and it just wasnt getting done. hehe!  i’m sure you all understand—balance and moderation!!!

im feeling a bit more motivated, energized and HAPPY.  i’ve been exercising consistently for over a week—a HUGE accomplishment for me—and its helping me sleep sooo much better, and my mood has evened out nicely. whew!

i do have to thank my good ole buddy amy for her motivation and encouragement!!  we check in with each other every day and have our geekynerdy excel spreadsheets we share with each other with our daily goals and stuff.  its awesome.  i love the accountability!  thanks, amy!!!!! (who btw, has lost 3lb!!  go tell her you’re proud of her at her quest blog!!)

i’ve also been very active in my sparkpeople team for folks from Wisconsin.  they are a HOOT!  we’ve got people trying to lose 10 pounds, and people trying to lose well over 100.  but ya know, we’re all in the same boat really.  its great to mix it all up! 

anyhoo, last friday i did a natural resources program with 35 inner city 4th graders.  you wanna talk about wild!  we had a blast.  they were split up into 3 groups and everything was running quite smoothly until they were all in one group…in the SAME ROOM. heh.  then the behavior went out of control! :-O 

i’ve done this type of thing before in the same manner, but with different teachers/chaperones.  but this group of leaders weren’t quite as competent; you could tell the kids didn’t respect them.  and it didnt help that one of the chaperones was literally screaming her head off, rudely scolding the kids…it just riled them up more!  ah well…hopefully she was stressed out enough that she wont come back with another group. teehee!

everything else is just dandy here!  we’re gearing up for another freakish weather change tonite.  a week ago it was in the single digits, today it was 44…and tonite it will be -4.  its currently sleeting and we have a winter storm warning for overnite.  ahhh the joys of the upper midwest! hehe!

i hope i havent lost all my readers and that you’re still lurking about!!  i’ve been reading your blogs, too, just not commenting much for now.  i would like to consistently check in here a few times a week—we’ll see if i can get my blog-groove-thang back. haha!

have a SUPERB tuesssdee evening!

~josey~ 

p.s. oh and here’s a little giggle for ya…anyone who has cats has experienced this! i know i have! LOL…(only my cats will knock the boxes on the floor, open them and eat the pizza!)

 

space cadet! January 15, 2008

i’m sitting here staring out the window.  there’s a frito lay truck…now an “eggpress lane” mcd’s one…a van with a pig picture on the window…yikes, there’s a huge flatbed tow truck carrying two crunched up SUVs…

*sigh*  yep, im spaced out.  i’ve pretty much been like this the last week.  i wanna chatchatchat on my blog but i just cant seem to coagulate a cohesive post into something interesting to read.  

ever since my detox has kicked in, i feel like a robot.  one that’s malfunctioned. LOL!!!  i just sleep, eat, sit at the puter (not being productive), stare out the window, hurt and feel dizzy off and on.  bleh!!

my house is a mess, my plants need watered, my hair needs washed (LOL), my poor dog is bored out of her puppy mind.  some days i wonder how my sweet hubby puts up with all this junk i’m goin thru.  (i’m so thankful, tho!)

i have, however, managed to do some laundry at least!  woohoo? hehe.   

yep, im whining.  i dont do it here much—i mean, who wants to read whinewhinewhining?   but, hey, im human and i’m not ALWAYS sillygolucky. 

i suppose there’s really not much more to say right now.  i just wanted to check in with all you folks who stop by to see me   i’m here, not gone forever, just floating around…LOL…we all have times where life just calls for more staring out the window than blogging  

i’m sure you know what i mean! 

 

*lonnnggg pause*

 

*battle in brain*

*guilt*

 

GAHHH! okay, i cant do it!  i just cant do it!  i cant sign off on a blog post where the happiest thing i say is that i did a load of laundry! ROTFL!!

so here, here’s a picture of my cat, snax.  i have 4 cats, if you didnt know.  i love them ALL very much!  but, shhhhhh…she’s my fave.  she’s just special.  she’s gotta silly attitude and she’s really smart.  she likes to run from you and act like she doesn’t love your attention.  but then, at other times she swishes her tail around and wiggles her kittybutt back and forth and loves on you…and snuggles and purrs soooo loud…and her fur is satiny soft…!

snax, one of my kitties she always makes me feel better!

and by this pix, she seems to have the right idea, hey?  just chillin!  takin life one day atta time…and sleepin thru it if necessary LOL.

(yep, that’s a box on my desk…she sleeps there a lot and she’s right at my disposal for petting all day long. haha!  oh, and we call her “snax-in-the-box” all the time…cause she’s ALWAYS in boxes!  way more than the other cats. hehehe. click on her pix for more!) 

 

 

 

 

baby crazy snax i bet she’s butt-wiggling in there, preparing to SPROING!ohhhh and here’s another one i just found…just a kitten! hehe!  can you tell she was getting ready to SPROING out of that box? LOL!  look at the wild eyes. HA! 

i love pets—they make me smile!!  i hope you did, too! =D

 

 

okay, i am now concluding my cheesey-happy portion of the post!

oh wait, since i DID use my cat cadet’s name in my post title, i’ll at least give him some credit.  click HERE! (do it, you’ll crack up!) 

talk to you soon

~josey~ 

(WI)nter wonderland December 31, 2007

we gotta BUNCHa snow the other day!  hubby and i played outside a little, and guess what—made a snowman together this year! LOL! (btw, all these pix are thumbnails so click on them for a better view!)

ken & maizy (stick hunting. lol) and the start of the snowman!

 

don’t move…this won’t hurt a bit! (installation of cranberry mouth)

 

look’s like he’s dancin, huh? hehe! pretty cute i think…fig eyes, carrot nose and cranberry mouth and buttons. perfect squirrel fodder. LOL.   no hair this year—we like him bald!

 

ooooh he’s snuggly.  and tall. LOL.
(hey, dont laugh at my hat!!) 

this is my fave tree in our yard. all year round! its gorgeous with its boughs laden with the heavy snow. 

my lil herb garden angel, bearing the weight of the snowy world on her wings! 

hope you’re enjoying the season—wherever you are!!

~josey~ 

 

(WI)nter wonderland December 31, 2007

we gotta BUNCHa snow the other day!  hubby and i played outside a little, and guess what—made a snowman together this year! LOL! (btw, all these pix are thumbnails so click on them for a better view!)

ken & maizy (stick hunting. lol) and the start of the snowman!

 

don’t move…this won’t hurt a bit! (installation of cranberry mouth)

 

look’s like he’s dancin, huh? hehe! pretty cute i think…fig eyes, carrot nose and cranberry mouth and buttons. perfect squirrel fodder. LOL.   no hair this year—we like him bald!

 

ooooh he’s snuggly.  and tall. LOL.
(hey, dont laugh at my hat!!) 

this is my fave tree in our yard. all year round! its gorgeous with its boughs laden with the heavy snow. 

my lil herb garden angel, bearing the weight of the snowy world on her wings! 

hope you’re enjoying the season—wherever you are!!

~josey~ 

 

weighin’ down & chillin’ out :) December 3, 2007

welp, here it is 3 days into december and i’m still posting every day.  what in the heck? :-O 

it just feels weerd not to stop in and say hi, when i’m already lurking about reading all of my bloggy friends’ loverly posts.  plus, i dont have anyone else to talk to anyhoo—so i might as well entertain myself! LOL!

well GUESS WHAT!!!  when i stepped on the scale this morning…

it said i lost 1.4lb since last monday!  YAYYYYYYYYYY!

and GUESS WHAT else?  i have to fess up that i didnt stick to my exercise plan last week. AT ALL. *hides under my desk*  i didnt produce one drop of sweat. for nothin. hehe.  oopsie.  however, i did eat pretty durned well and im sure that is where the 1.4lb loss came from.  so give me HALF a pat on the back! hahah!

we even ate at home ALL weekend, except friday nite (cause we usually go out friday nites).  even then i didnt do too shabby—i had breakfast food! hehe!  eggs, bacon, toast, decaf, and hash browns.  no pancakes or french toast loaded with syrup or anything like that!  i think just eating homecooked food all weekend in itself helped me drop that little bit of weight.  usually the weekend screws me over.  

soooo last nite i did up our menu again for the week.  i also reminded myself that if i REALLY TRULY want to reach ONEderland by new year’s, i better get my butt MOVING.  literally.  especially because my (short term) goal requires me to lose at least 2lb a week!

i NEED to be exercising anyway, even if i wasnt overweight.  with the endometriosis/thyroid/hormone issues i have, exercise helps keep things in check.  the most noticeable is my MOOD!  which, by the way, hasnt been too bad in the last week and a half or so.  which is NICE.  i dont think i’ve cried once! LOL!  yay me? hehehe.   

right now i have a cali cat on my arm.  she is such a desk hog!  she’s always laying between me and the keyboard and puts her little head and arms (yes, i call their front legs ARMS. lol.) over my forearm.  sometimes it makes it hard to type, but she doesnt care if she is blipping up and down.  she’s sucha lazy cat, not to mention our worst shedder!  she’s only here because i have a space heater blowing on me! LOL.  oh well, i love her…she is a very loud purrer and super snuggly, so that makes up for the desk hogging.   i’m sure all you cat owners will nod in understanding! hehe.

on another note, it is FREAKIN cold here in WI!  when i got up this morning it was about 14 degrees.  EEP!  i dont plan on leaving the house today if i dont haveta   and thank goodness the sun is shining through the windows to provide some much-needed warmth.  chillin’ out isnt ALWAYS fun! hehe! 

alright, i spose that’s enough ramblin on for one day.  does anyone else have a fitness/health/weight loss goal they’re trying to reach by the end of the year?  if so, let me know so i can cheer you on!!

have a HAPPY monday!!! =D

~jos~
 

weighin’ down & chillin’ out :) December 3, 2007

welp, here it is 3 days into december and i’m still posting every day.  what in the heck? :-O 

it just feels weerd not to stop in and say hi, when i’m already lurking about reading all of my bloggy friends’ loverly posts.  plus, i dont have anyone else to talk to anyhoo—so i might as well entertain myself! LOL!

well GUESS WHAT!!!  when i stepped on the scale this morning…

it said i lost 1.4lb since last monday!  YAYYYYYYYYYY!

and GUESS WHAT else?  i have to fess up that i didnt stick to my exercise plan last week. AT ALL. *hides under my desk*  i didnt produce one drop of sweat. for nothin. hehe.  oopsie.  however, i did eat pretty durned well and im sure that is where the 1.4lb loss came from.  so give me HALF a pat on the back! hahah!

we even ate at home ALL weekend, except friday nite (cause we usually go out friday nites).  even then i didnt do too shabby—i had breakfast food! hehe!  eggs, bacon, toast, decaf, and hash browns.  no pancakes or french toast loaded with syrup or anything like that!  i think just eating homecooked food all weekend in itself helped me drop that little bit of weight.  usually the weekend screws me over.  

soooo last nite i did up our menu again for the week.  i also reminded myself that if i REALLY TRULY want to reach ONEderland by new year’s, i better get my butt MOVING.  literally.  especially because my (short term) goal requires me to lose at least 2lb a week!

i NEED to be exercising anyway, even if i wasnt overweight.  with the endometriosis/thyroid/hormone issues i have, exercise helps keep things in check.  the most noticeable is my MOOD!  which, by the way, hasnt been too bad in the last week and a half or so.  which is NICE.  i dont think i’ve cried once! LOL!  yay me? hehehe.   

right now i have a cali cat on my arm.  she is such a desk hog!  she’s always laying between me and the keyboard and puts her little head and arms (yes, i call their front legs ARMS. lol.) over my forearm.  sometimes it makes it hard to type, but she doesnt care if she is blipping up and down.  she’s sucha lazy cat, not to mention our worst shedder!  she’s only here because i have a space heater blowing on me! LOL.  oh well, i love her…she is a very loud purrer and super snuggly, so that makes up for the desk hogging.   i’m sure all you cat owners will nod in understanding! hehe.

on another note, it is FREAKIN cold here in WI!  when i got up this morning it was about 14 degrees.  EEP!  i dont plan on leaving the house today if i dont haveta   and thank goodness the sun is shining through the windows to provide some much-needed warmth.  chillin’ out isnt ALWAYS fun! hehe! 

alright, i spose that’s enough ramblin on for one day.  does anyone else have a fitness/health/weight loss goal they’re trying to reach by the end of the year?  if so, let me know so i can cheer you on!!

have a HAPPY monday!!! =D

~jos~
 

weighin’ down & chillin’ out :) December 3, 2007

welp, here it is 3 days into december and i’m still posting every day.  what in the heck? :-O 

it just feels weerd not to stop in and say hi, when i’m already lurking about reading all of my bloggy friends’ loverly posts.  plus, i dont have anyone else to talk to anyhoo—so i might as well entertain myself! LOL!

well GUESS WHAT!!!  when i stepped on the scale this morning…

it said i lost 1.4lb since last monday!  YAYYYYYYYYYY!

and GUESS WHAT else?  i have to fess up that i didnt stick to my exercise plan last week. AT ALL. *hides under my desk*  i didnt produce one drop of sweat. for nothin. hehe.  oopsie.  however, i did eat pretty durned well and im sure that is where the 1.4lb loss came from.  so give me HALF a pat on the back! hahah!

we even ate at home ALL weekend, except friday nite (cause we usually go out friday nites).  even then i didnt do too shabby—i had breakfast food! hehe!  eggs, bacon, toast, decaf, and hash browns.  no pancakes or french toast loaded with syrup or anything like that!  i think just eating homecooked food all weekend in itself helped me drop that little bit of weight.  usually the weekend screws me over.  

soooo last nite i did up our menu again for the week.  i also reminded myself that if i REALLY TRULY want to reach ONEderland by new year’s, i better get my butt MOVING.  literally.  especially because my (short term) goal requires me to lose at least 2lb a week!

i NEED to be exercising anyway, even if i wasnt overweight.  with the endometriosis/thyroid/hormone issues i have, exercise helps keep things in check.  the most noticeable is my MOOD!  which, by the way, hasnt been too bad in the last week and a half or so.  which is NICE.  i dont think i’ve cried once! LOL!  yay me? hehehe.   

right now i have a cali cat on my arm.  she is such a desk hog!  she’s always laying between me and the keyboard and puts her little head and arms (yes, i call their front legs ARMS. lol.) over my forearm.  sometimes it makes it hard to type, but she doesnt care if she is blipping up and down.  she’s sucha lazy cat, not to mention our worst shedder!  she’s only here because i have a space heater blowing on me! LOL.  oh well, i love her…she is a very loud purrer and super snuggly, so that makes up for the desk hogging.   i’m sure all you cat owners will nod in understanding! hehe.

on another note, it is FREAKIN cold here in WI!  when i got up this morning it was about 14 degrees.  EEP!  i dont plan on leaving the house today if i dont haveta   and thank goodness the sun is shining through the windows to provide some much-needed warmth.  chillin’ out isnt ALWAYS fun! hehe! 

alright, i spose that’s enough ramblin on for one day.  does anyone else have a fitness/health/weight loss goal they’re trying to reach by the end of the year?  if so, let me know so i can cheer you on!!

have a HAPPY monday!!! =D

~jos~
 

little things December 2, 2007

i’m feeling all warm and fuzzy today.  (and no, its not because i need to shave! ROTFL!!)  this last week was just so mellow and normal.  and now that the hustle and bustle of thanksgiving is over, i realize how thankful i am for the little things… 

 

 
“just because” roses…

 

snowy whiskers and noses… 

a winter sunset’s firey show… 

our christmas tree (and spirits) aglow.

what a great week it was*.  here’s to the first whole week of december!

~josey~ 

* DISCLAIMER: except for the fact i am still weeping for missing ONE FREAKIN DAY of posting after working so hard to post meaningfully all month. (does posting a comment on my own blog count?? LOL. dang.)  *sigh*  okay, no more whining about it!

lots of newbish bloggy questions December 1, 2007

hey everyone! (happy december!!)

yesterday i was messin around with my blog, just cleaning things up on the main navigation bar and such. 

i thought i’d try to use feedburner to make it easier for folks to subscribe, because i like using it on others’ blogs.  so but well, previously i had used my host’s RSS subscription set up and they had it so peeps could subscribe to my content as well as my comments.  im not sure why they do it that way, cause i dont see a MAIN subscription for comments on most other blogs.  maybe because the level of blog hosting i pay for doesnt include the ability for people to subscribe to comments from a specific post?  i’m not sure

anyhoo, i made two feeds on my feedburner account—one for my content and one for my comments.  it doesnt seem to be working as far as stats, tho it appears the actual subscribing works. i dont know!  lol! im sure there’s something simple im missing.  anyone have any suggestions or just general info about stuff like that?  i just wanna have the right up-to-date tools on my page without being all cluttered up.

i guess another thing is the “you comment, i follow” thing.  i dont quite understand it all.  ive read some stuff about it, but its just not clicking in my newbish brain   there’s too much techie language and i cant get past that *lol*  when someone leaves a comment on my blog, they can enter their URL, but once the comment is complete it’s not a direct link back to their site ,but instead one to mine and then it lists theirs.

to me, that doesnt seem like theyre getting any benefit from commenting!  i just wanna make sure those who comment on my blog get their linky love! (and speaking of, i’m actually a little foggy on the link love, too!  oh, the shame.  does it have to do with google ranking or technorati authority or what?) 

i’ve been a little afraid i chose the wrong blogging host and its just not newbie-user-friendly enough for me.  but then again, maybe i just need to study up!?   HELP!

oh yeah, and how do you get those kewl little tags at the end of your post for digg, technorati, etc…?  is it simply a CSS thing or whatever that you have to add to your style sheet?  cause i dont know how to do that. LOL.  is it redundant to have them in your sidebar AND at the end of your posts? 

one last thing…google reader.  is it just me, or did they change it or something last week?  i cant seem to be able to add a subscription manually anymore, but instead am forced to use some button i had to drag to my toolbar.  this is an issue cause now i cant seem to add, for example, speedcat hollydale, to my reader—it says it cant find a feed!?  if i click his subscribe button, it takes me to my yahoo (should i just be using yahoo? is that the problem? lol.).  previously, i was able to go my google reader page and simply type in ANY URL.  *CRIES*  i dont get it!! 

so, if someone could please enlighten me on the whole reader scene i would be forEVer grateful!

FYI for all you whom i have subscribed to (which is pretty much anyone on whose site i comment!), i simply use the reader to find out when you have posted something new.  then i always GO TO YOUR BLOG and read up! that way you get the satisfaction of another hit   plus, i’d just rather “feel the ambience” of the page you’ve created to express yourself.  maybe that doesnt matter, but i personally think its a nice thing to do. hehe.  i suppose its like going to a friend’s house to see them instead of just emailing or something, right?  RIGHT! =D    

okay my brain hurts now :\  hehe.   i’ll watch for your educational comments *crosses fingers*…and i’ll check in tomorrow for Simple Sundays!!

have a superiffic saturday   im putting up my christmas tree today!! 

~jos~ 

ooohhh p.s.  i just had to post this, it made me giggle.  i love kitty commentators! i just imagine this one whispering, with a British accent. LOL!!

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