Random facts (because my brain is broken today)

I only recently realized that, in my personal email account, I can delete more than one email at a time.

I have the best friends ever. You may think you do, but you don't. I do. (Unless we have the same friends, of course).

I think I just realized that I know someone is my true friend if they'll talk about poop with me. I've had three conversations about poop with three different friends in the past two days.


I love her.

This brightened my morning

I can look past the bad punctuation because of its awesomeness.

Getting into the shower this morning, I stubbed my toe. On the tub. I am the queen of undesired talents.

I get anxious about the drive to work. And the drive home from work. And just about any other drive. The fact that I drive at all is a mystery to me.

I have an impending feeling that something is going to change in my life soon. I have filled out paperwork for a community home trust in the area and as much as it scares the balls out of me, I'm thinking of turning it in. I am pretty sure they're going to tell me I am too poor, but that would sure put my comfort zone out of whack.

And also?

POOP

A weekend of apps and Cheerios

What did I do this weekend? A lot of my new game obsession: Draw Something Free.












This had me laughing this weekend. If you have a smart phone, come play with me! (No, I'm not begging. Well, not really... ok, I really am).



















This is one clue I couldn't wrap my head around. In order to get three coins I'd have to draw a "raekwon". Umm...WTF? (I get that he's a rapper, but still. WTF?) I opted to draw "homerun".

You know when they advertise something on tv and you really really want to try it, but can't find it anywhere? Ever since I'd seen Peanut Butter Cheerios advertised, I knew I had to have them. I FINALLY found them at Target!

Amazing wrapped in amazingness, with a side of yumm.

My dinner on Saturday was two bowls of it. Delicious!


Today I'm working from home and I'm getting ready to take on a lunchtime workout. I was going to get some miles in, but since I'm the only one home, I figure it's as good a time as any to try my Nike Training Club app

I downloaded it months ago and have yet to try out. It looks pretty awesome. I'll fill you in tomorrow.


What are the dogs doing while I'm working at home?

They're extremely busy keeping the house from blowing away.

When was the last time you tried a new workout? Did you enjoy it?

Never-ending airplane ride

Last week I went to the ENT to get a second opinion about the cause (and hopefully, someday, also the cure) for what's causing all this dizziness. To make a long story short, he doesn't know. Shocking, right? One thing I found to be disconcerting is that he didn't even mention Patulous Eustachian Tube.

As luck would have it, this week has been a pretty dizzy one I had to cut two workouts short because of it. And, something new: all day yesterday my ears kept popping. I felt like I was on an airplane that NEVER LANDED.

The doctor gave me two options: I could believe his theory that I might have migraine-associated vertigo (which I'm not buying because apparently the type of dizziness I'm experiencing isn't considered vertigo), or I could have a procedure done called a videonystagmogram (VNG), which the doctor referred to as a "balance test".

Looks like torture to me.

While I'm a little concerned about yakking on the doctor during this test, the list of pre-VNG instructions makes me nervous as well:

1. Wear flat shoes
   So running shoes? Done.
2. Remove contact lenses
   I don't wear them. Wee!
3. No eye makeup
   Show up looking dead. Got it.
4. No solid foods, except toast or bread, four hours prior to test
   I'm most scared about this one. I wonder if the doc has a barf bag.
5. Drink only non-caffeinated and non-dairy products 12 hours prior to test
   It's a good thing I've pretty much already given up caffeine.
6. No alcohol after midnight
   So much for my early morning shot of tequila.
7. Discontinue use of all medications one week prior to test
   Yeah, I'm not doing this.

So, that should be fun. My appointment isn't until the end of March so no more news until then. This all started last June. I'm ready to figure out the problem and fix it already. I so took for granted the days when I could run without feeling like I'm going to fall over.


In other news, I had to give up my Lego iPhone case because, well, like me, it was cheap. It cracked in a few places and didn't cover the edges of the glass on the front, which concerned me (read: I'm clumsy). I have since ordered a more sturdy case, but it's boring. The only problem with buying a case of any kind for me, is that I get bored easily and want to switch things up often.

I found a great solution on Pinterest (surprise surprise).

A clear case with "inserts"

(If you want a good laugh, go to the link in the photo caption and check out the title of the blog.)

I love this idea! The only problem now is finding a clear case that covers more of the phone, including the edges of the glass on the front. If you have any leads, let me know :)

A designerd's dream

Ever heard of a Wordle? No, it's not a word created by Dr. Seuss. It's something that came up at work recently and I'd never heard of it. Wordle.net defines it as

A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.

Basically you can go to the website and either type/copy&paste in a bunch of text or you can enter in a website, and it will create a "word cloud", or a wordle, from the text/site. I decided to test it out with my blog, and this is what I got:

...which is kind of funny, because that's basically all the things that are on my mind right at this very second.

I'd also like to point out that capybara shows up nowhere in this wordle. SARAH!