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<\/p>\nSo, today has been a righteous pisser on most accounts.<\/p>\n
First of all, Zliten took our Iguana Donna to the vet because she has not been eating or pooping lately.\u00a0 I thought the idea of pet health insurance was stupid until today – she cost about 650 dollars today, and will cost somewhere between 200 and 1200 tomorrow depending on if she needs surgery.\u00a0 Silly thing apparently ate something that’s just not passing, so she’s had everything from\u00a0 an enema to barium and x-rays to fluid shots.\u00a0 If she poops tonight, they just need to do some follow up care with her.\u00a0 If she doesn’t, it’s likely she will need surgery (hence the large dollar range).\u00a0 As grumbly as I am about the cost, it will be worth it as long as she’s ok.\u00a0 And we are DEFINITELY going to look into pet health insurance.<\/p>\n
Here she is on the scale at the vet – she is 2 lbs exactly!<\/p>\n
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Probably about five minutes after Zliten drove by the area in the way to the vet – if you haven’t heard already – a plane decided it wanted to come to work<\/a> in a building very close to where I work\/live.\u00a0 Silly plane, you can’t go to work, you don’t have a job, you don’t belong there!\u00a0 Before I get a bunch of hate mail about being completely insensitive, I know it’s no laughing matter, but honestly, when it’s so close to home, all you can do is make light of it.\u00a0 Because the other option is being scared of this kinda crap happening and freaking out about leaving the house, and I am not having that.<\/p>\n If you haven’t actually read the fuckwit’s manifesto, feel free to try here<\/a>, but honestly?\u00a0 Let me sum it up – “I don’t understand how to pay taxes and it’s made me make poor decisions and my life sucks and instead of learning from my mistakes, I’m going to instead burn down my house, leave my wife and kid without anything (as I’m sure arson isn’t covered with insurance and neither is suicide), and kill myself in an act of domestic terrorism because I am the adult equivalent of a rebellious teenager and I’ll show them!!!”\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 Dude?\u00a0 Grow a pair and deal with your problems in a way that doesn’t cause property damage and screw your family’s future.\u00a0 Kthx.<\/p>\n We drove by the building again on the way to dinner (after this kind of a day, I’m only human – I ditched the run in favor of some chicken fajitas and a margarita), and it’s just wrecked.\u00a0 You can see the plane hole from the freeway and instead of the black mirrored exterior it’s just all shattered and broken on that side.\u00a0 Thank goodness that only 2 people sustained major injuries, 1 is missing, but the current thought is the dude was playing hookey as no one thought he had actually shown up to work.<\/p>\n In other less important but more personal news, I’ve been tracking my calories and seem to come in right around 1800-1900.\u00a0 So that’s good as a) I’m definitely not eating as much as I was before, so I was FOR SURE sustaining my running this race and not undereating (yay!) and b) I’m naturally eating right around maintenance calories, which makes calorie reduction to say, an average of 1500 per day make sense.\u00a0 If I had naturally settled around 1500, then I’d be a little frustrated, as reducing from there makes me cranky.\u00a0 It’s gonna take some calorie detox time, but I should be able to get back to where I was eating a few months ago.\u00a0 Maybe my metabolism just took some extra time to repair?\u00a0 Only time will tell.<\/p>\n I am also now 12 days without a cigarette.\u00a0 I hadn’t intended to quit for good, but the Sunday before the race, I quit until after the race (for a week).\u00a0 Then I got sick.\u00a0 After the race, I was still sick, so I didn’t just go light one up.\u00a0 It occurred to me that I might be best served by making a go to quit entirely.\u00a0 Oh, I’ll probably still slip up and suck down a delicious American Spirit Yellow occasionally while drunk.\u00a0 I’m just going to attempt to not NEED it.\u00a0 I’d like to be one of those people who can take it or leave it and most often?\u00a0 Leave it.\u00a0 And the only way to do that is practice having some alcohol without cigarettes.\u00a0 Today I had a glass of wine and a margarita and didn’t really crave one.\u00a0 That’s huge for me.\u00a0 I believe there will be some imbibing tomorrow.\u00a0 It will be another test.\u00a0 I think if I make it through the first few drinks without and have less than I can count on one hand all night, I’ll say I passed.<\/p>\n …and hey, it’s almost a post.\u00a0 Next week, I promise some more coherent topics, I have some questions to answer, my workout and eating plan post-race, and much, much more.<\/p>\n If you wish to ask me a question, you can comment below, or you can use this handy dandy formspring<\/a> ask-me-anything-page (hey, everyone is doing it, I might as well).\u00a0 Have a great weekend!\u00a0 Think poopy thoughts for my leezard, healthy thoughts for me and Zliten (as we are both getting over our respective plagues), and comforting thoughts for some poor, freaked out people who had a plane try to join their conference call this morning.\u00a0 Good night, good weekend, and good days ahead if’n karma will please.<\/p>\n