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1) Finally bought a scale.
I've been dieting since Christmas. Have been doing so by eating healthfully, tracking calories, and not looking at the scale. But, I decided that I wanted to know whether the needle was heading in the right direction so, I broke down, and bought a scale.
That was depressing. Turns out, the weight I am now is the weight I thought I was to begin with! That's just sad. So, turns out I have as much weight to lose as I started thinking I had to lose... and I'm three months in on a diet. (ETA: And on re-read I realize that this might sound as though I have not lost weight. The sad part is that I definitely have. I'm two clothes sizes smaller, and it's noticeable. I've had co-workers ask what I'm doing. So what I meant was that I was more overweight than I thought to begin with. )
2) On a brighter note, my general health has improved in that, my blood pressure, which was never out of the normal range but had inched into the higher normal range, is now actually at a really good number.
Also, after my father's heart surgery a couple of years ago (genetic malformation not heart disease) my Dad's doctor prescribed him one of those blood sugar home test thingies. (He hasn't developed type II diabetes, but they want him to keep track of his blood sugar so as to know whether it escalates). Every now and then when I visit my parents my mom decides to test my blood sugar... just cause. She tested it this weekend and it was the best number I've ever had. So depressing weight issues aside, my health has improved on my "eating healthy' plan. That's good, right?
3) I ordered shallot bulbs to plant in the garden for summer. I also ordered cubanelle peppers. Both of these plants have been difficult to find around here in the past, and I wanted to give them a try in gardening. I like trying to grow stuff that I regularly use but which isn't as demanding as most vegetables...which means I mostly grow herbs and tomatoes. Will see how this turns out.
4) I was trimming puppy's nails this weekend. She squirmed at a bad moment, and I ended up cutting one nail back further than I had planned. It hurt poor puppy and she bled! A lot. I feel so GUILTY! She doesn't behave as though it hurts now and she's happy enough. And I gave her guilt-induced pimiento cheese (which she freaking LOVES), but I feel terribly guilty for (accidentally) hurting the sweet thing. *sigh*
5) Watched "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" this weekend. Enjoyed it.
6) Liked this week's episode of "Once Upon a Time" which was mostly (though not entirely) a flashback to when Regina enacted the curse, so it was just after she "won" in 1983. Turns out winning isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Anyway, good episode.
7) Watched the season finale of "Girls."
Someone explain to me why in the hell I continue to watch this show. Even "hate watch" this show. Most of these people are not only contemptible, but are also gross.
Hannah ruptured her eardrum last week and was freaking LICKING the pus-covered cotton swab that was stuck in her oozing ear... and then she STUCK IT BACK IN HER INJURED EAR!!! (And don't get me on what's-her-face the obnoxious British girl who pretends to be a 'free spirit' who hocked a lugie in the bathtub that she was sharing with Hannah in that FILTHY apartment (and I meant sharing the bathtub, not just the filthy apartment).. Who in the hell spits into their bathwater while. they. are. sitting. in. it.?
And then Adam and that awful sex scene with Liz from 'Roswell' (who is looking good after her cancelled CW show where she was cast as the mother of a teenager.) He practically forced her onto all fours in his filthy, filthy apartment. I'm not exactly the world's neatest person. I don't have big hangups about cleanliness. But other than Shoshanna and Marnie, these characters seem to live in remarkable filth and look like they smell (and we hear Adam claim that he taught Hannah how to use SOAP! Which would be an outrageous claim if we didn't also see her still wearing nothing but the t-shirt and panties she had been walking around (outside!) in Brooklyn in last week (with several days having passed! BATHE Hannah! And not in saliva-augmented water!)
And, is it wrong to hate a protagonist? Especially one as tragically ill-prepared for life as Hannah? Hate a protagonist who is tragically ill-prepared for life and who is legitimately mentally ill?
Seriously, the girl was getting called out for not having her shit together by a heroine junkie! I'm nodding as the molesting junkie tells Hannah that she is the most narcissistic, self-pitying person person that he's ever met, and that he used to feel sorry for her but once he got to know her he realized that she is actually a horrible person. And she is.
The girl is self-harming, self-medicating with anonymous, unprotected sex with everything from middle-aged men to teenaged boys (and that experiment with cocaine), and in full OCD meltdown (but never takes her medication)... I feel sorry for her EXCEPT I'm agreeing with a junkie that she's also a horrible, self-centered, whiney, lazy, jealous, passive-aggressive, pretentious spoiled brat...because, legitimate psychological issues aside, she's all of those things too!
This does not cause me, as a viewer, to feel either good or entertained.
( Girls ranting and finale spoilers behind the cut )
Any noticeable difference? Okay, okay, on the show there were garbage cans and a 45 year old doctor... and subsequent a bladder infection with public unination, but still...
*Awwweee. Megamind is playing on FX. I like that cute little animated superhero spoof. :)
I've been dieting since Christmas. Have been doing so by eating healthfully, tracking calories, and not looking at the scale. But, I decided that I wanted to know whether the needle was heading in the right direction so, I broke down, and bought a scale.
That was depressing. Turns out, the weight I am now is the weight I thought I was to begin with! That's just sad. So, turns out I have as much weight to lose as I started thinking I had to lose... and I'm three months in on a diet. (ETA: And on re-read I realize that this might sound as though I have not lost weight. The sad part is that I definitely have. I'm two clothes sizes smaller, and it's noticeable. I've had co-workers ask what I'm doing. So what I meant was that I was more overweight than I thought to begin with. )
2) On a brighter note, my general health has improved in that, my blood pressure, which was never out of the normal range but had inched into the higher normal range, is now actually at a really good number.
Also, after my father's heart surgery a couple of years ago (genetic malformation not heart disease) my Dad's doctor prescribed him one of those blood sugar home test thingies. (He hasn't developed type II diabetes, but they want him to keep track of his blood sugar so as to know whether it escalates). Every now and then when I visit my parents my mom decides to test my blood sugar... just cause. She tested it this weekend and it was the best number I've ever had. So depressing weight issues aside, my health has improved on my "eating healthy' plan. That's good, right?
3) I ordered shallot bulbs to plant in the garden for summer. I also ordered cubanelle peppers. Both of these plants have been difficult to find around here in the past, and I wanted to give them a try in gardening. I like trying to grow stuff that I regularly use but which isn't as demanding as most vegetables...which means I mostly grow herbs and tomatoes. Will see how this turns out.
4) I was trimming puppy's nails this weekend. She squirmed at a bad moment, and I ended up cutting one nail back further than I had planned. It hurt poor puppy and she bled! A lot. I feel so GUILTY! She doesn't behave as though it hurts now and she's happy enough. And I gave her guilt-induced pimiento cheese (which she freaking LOVES), but I feel terribly guilty for (accidentally) hurting the sweet thing. *sigh*
5) Watched "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" this weekend. Enjoyed it.
6) Liked this week's episode of "Once Upon a Time" which was mostly (though not entirely) a flashback to when Regina enacted the curse, so it was just after she "won" in 1983. Turns out winning isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Anyway, good episode.
7) Watched the season finale of "Girls."
Someone explain to me why in the hell I continue to watch this show. Even "hate watch" this show. Most of these people are not only contemptible, but are also gross.
Hannah ruptured her eardrum last week and was freaking LICKING the pus-covered cotton swab that was stuck in her oozing ear... and then she STUCK IT BACK IN HER INJURED EAR!!! (And don't get me on what's-her-face the obnoxious British girl who pretends to be a 'free spirit' who hocked a lugie in the bathtub that she was sharing with Hannah in that FILTHY apartment (and I meant sharing the bathtub, not just the filthy apartment).. Who in the hell spits into their bathwater while. they. are. sitting. in. it.?
And then Adam and that awful sex scene with Liz from 'Roswell' (who is looking good after her cancelled CW show where she was cast as the mother of a teenager.) He practically forced her onto all fours in his filthy, filthy apartment. I'm not exactly the world's neatest person. I don't have big hangups about cleanliness. But other than Shoshanna and Marnie, these characters seem to live in remarkable filth and look like they smell (and we hear Adam claim that he taught Hannah how to use SOAP! Which would be an outrageous claim if we didn't also see her still wearing nothing but the t-shirt and panties she had been walking around (outside!) in Brooklyn in last week (with several days having passed! BATHE Hannah! And not in saliva-augmented water!)
And, is it wrong to hate a protagonist? Especially one as tragically ill-prepared for life as Hannah? Hate a protagonist who is tragically ill-prepared for life and who is legitimately mentally ill?
Seriously, the girl was getting called out for not having her shit together by a heroine junkie! I'm nodding as the molesting junkie tells Hannah that she is the most narcissistic, self-pitying person person that he's ever met, and that he used to feel sorry for her but once he got to know her he realized that she is actually a horrible person. And she is.
The girl is self-harming, self-medicating with anonymous, unprotected sex with everything from middle-aged men to teenaged boys (and that experiment with cocaine), and in full OCD meltdown (but never takes her medication)... I feel sorry for her EXCEPT I'm agreeing with a junkie that she's also a horrible, self-centered, whiney, lazy, jealous, passive-aggressive, pretentious spoiled brat...because, legitimate psychological issues aside, she's all of those things too!
This does not cause me, as a viewer, to feel either good or entertained.
( Girls ranting and finale spoilers behind the cut )
Why in the hell am I watching this show?!
To be perfectly honest, The Onion's snarky "Next Episode of 'Girls' To Feature Lena Dunham Shitting Herself During a Gyno Exam While Eating a Burrito"* was funny because it's a fairly accurate description of what passes for "plots" on this show.
Why did I watch this overhyped, overpraised trainwreck again? I swore I wouldn't but then nothing else was on, so I did.
But I'm swearing again. I will not watch this show next season. It makes me feel bad rooting for people to lob truth bombs of reality at a mentally ill twenty-something.
For giggles I'm adding the Onion article as it captures both the essence of what Girls' episodes have become AND mocks the fawning praise heaped on the show:
Here is a REAL review from TVGuide:
NO MORE Q-TIPS! After last week's harrowing episode of HBO's Girls, in which the neurotic Hannah damaged her ear with a Q-Tip (I'm not sure whose scream was more bloodcurdling: hers or mine) and her unstable ex Adam reverted to barbaric type with a degrading sexual interlude with his bewildered and grossed-out new girlfriend, we're almost afraid to watch the second-season finale (9/8c) of this raw, remarkable dark comedy.
And THIS is The Onion's "snark"...:
Any noticeable difference? Okay, okay, on the show there were garbage cans and a 45 year old doctor... and subsequent a bladder infection with public unination, but still...
*Awwweee. Megamind is playing on FX. I like that cute little animated superhero spoof. :)
