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The only reasons I can think of to search for this are potentially less than legal…..

I had to laugh a bit at Brigid’s post this morning.

See, I just had a physical done, and all the assorted bloodwork that comes with that.  And I’m about 50lbs overweight.  Now mind, I hate being this much overweight, it does things to my knees (which are already screwy to begin with), it slows me down, and it gives my mother another thing to get on my case about (which again, she has no room to get on my case about, but thats a mother for you).

And yet, my doctor has never seriously gotten on my case about my weight.  Why?  Well, I do get daily aerobic exercise in the form of chasing the dogs around the yard, but thats not really it.  What really keeps my doctor off my back is the bloodwork results she gets back every year:

Complete blood count: normal
Chemistry Panel (kidney/liver function, etc): Normal
Thyroid: Normal
Total Cholesterol: 179 (should be under 200)
Triglycerides: 87 (should be less than 150)
LDL: 119 (normal should be less than 130)
HDL: 43 (normal for a male is 40 or higher, female is 50)

So this year my LDL is a hair higher than it was last year, and my HDL a bit lower.  I’ll look into what I can do to fix those, but even then the only thing thats “out of the ideal range” is my HDL, and that only barely.

Would I like to loose at least some of that 50lb?  Sure, and I keep plugging away at it.  But you know what?  I’m healthy despite it.  So phooey on all those major political figures who keep insisting that any extra weight is GOING TO KILL YOU, and *blows raspberry* at Michelle Obama.

My closest Starbucks is in a Barnes and Nobles, so although the receipt does say B&N I promise it was a Starbucks counter.

And of course I was at a book store so I had to buy a book…..and was reminded of WHY I stopped buying books at my local B&N (besides the damage to my bank account….) was because their sci-fi/fantasy section has been cut by over half and it totally sucks now.

And yes, I paid cash.  Guess that makes me a terrorist.

Edited: almost forgot, no protestors, but I got out of my car to realize that I was parked between a minivan with a “Pass National Healthcare NOW” sticker, and a Subaru with an “Obama ’08” sticker….

….when I forget to bring my own bandaids to the doctors office with me.  You’d think that by this point in my life that would be ingrained…..this is the inside of my right elbow after having blood drawn and a bandaid left on it for about 3 hours:

BTW, the picture doesn’t do it justice, one of my co-workers caught me inspecting it and demanded to know what I’d gotten into that I was allergic too.  All that kinda pink was really BRIGHT RED, and burned like hell too  (I really am that pale though, sorry).  Thankfully the worst of the burning/itching went away after about a half hour or so, so I could pull back down my sleeve, cause our office is fricking COLD.

Craig Miller sent me another Leibster award! Wow, I’m delighted that people are enjoying my blog enough to want to tell me! I do however politely refuse to come with another five blogs

REALLY!!!  I HAVE A PICTURE!!!!!  SEE!!!! 

Ok, not really.  I was taking pictures of the stunning moon last night and while I was futzing with my camera settings (cause taking pictures of the moon is HARD, especially when I can’t operate the camera with gloves on and its 9 degrees outside and I was too stupid to grab the tripod and the remote trigger) I accidently set it to a really long exposure and that picture was the result.  It does look kinda cool though….

As for a decent picture:

This was hanging not to far over the horizon last night as I was taking the dogs out.  (the line across is a power line, I tried to find an angle where the line wasn’t in the picture, but then I ended up with trees in the way….)

(you can blame the first part of this post on the increadibly disheartening news that I found in my mail box when I got up this morning and that I just posted on a few minutes ago, I needed a laugh)

….when you get bored and tune into Head Rush.

Tape emits x-rays as you pull it off the roll. Ok, thats cool.

Well cool, JOATed over at Compass Points sent me this blog award thing last night.

I’m thrilled people are reading here, horrified that I’m now going to participate in what is essentially one of those annoying email forwards (where you better forward this to 5 people or someone’s going to DIE!!!!), and desperately trying to decide who I should nominate (who hasn’t already been nominated, and who might appreciate it).

Anyway, here’s the rules:

1. Copy and paste the award on your blog.

2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award

3. Pick your five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received the award.

4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs.

So here’s my picks:

BogieBlog

DaddyBear’s Den

DIY Housewife

Lucrative Pain

Burnett Homeplace

And in the process of doing this I realized I really need to add a couple of these folks to my blog roll…..

Other folks have already done a better job at this, but….

If you somehow missed the car commercial with the vampires you’ve got to go find it, we laughed and laughed!!  I don’t even recall which car company it was, but I loved the commercial.

The Coke polar bears might be cheesy and stupid, but I like them, I can’t help it.

Budweiser, seriously, where’s the Clydesdales commercial??? However I’ll forgive them, cause they did the Weego commercial.  If you thought Weego was adorable (and have a Facebook account) please follow this link and LIKE the page, Bud is donating $1 for every like (up to $250,000) to an animal rescue.

The greek yogurt commercial, it probly says something really bad about me as a person that I had to laugh and laugh at it.  And I don’t even like the stuff!

I have no interest at ALL in watching The Voice, but Betty White can pull off any damn thing she feels like and make it look good.

Sketchers, adorable Frenchie!

Of course the two Volkswagon commercials, The Bark Side and the poor pudgy dog. 

I’m probly forgetting some, and I missed a few cause I took the dogs out so husband wouldn’t miss any of the game, but thats ok.