4 July 2006, Tuesday

My friend Sandy and her twenty something son Rick are coming over for Independence Day. We are going to have a picnic in our backyard. This is the first time in a very long time we have had company to the Hermitage.

Origins was fun. I ran around the Columbus Convention Center all weekend playing games and having a great time. This year I actually bought a few things in the merchant hall. I got three bouncing bat balls that I am going to practice juggling with. I had purchased only one of them and then decided they were just the right size and weight for juggling so I bought two more. I also have a nifty Yoda backpack. It looks like Yoda is clinging to my back like he did to Luke in The Return of the Jedi. I can use this at SCA event to carry really important things like my sunscreen and lunch. I also bought a few more dice. When you are a roleplayer you cannot have too many dice, can you?

Then again, I gave away a lot of my old dice that I don’t use while I was at Orgins. Brian and I are trying to live by the rule of use it or lose it. We feel that we have too much stuff in our house we don’t use so we are in the process of either donating the stuff to charity, recycling the recyclable and selling a few items on eBay. There is no way I want to have a yard sale. Besides, this way we can make some money that we can spend on eBay for the things we want to purchase.

5 July 2006, Wednesday

Well, I finally know what I’m changing my business Chaos Control’s name to. After much discussion and deliberation I am filing the name as Layers Deep, formerly Chaos Control. I’ve registered a new website: layersdeep.com and will be moving my organization business over. I’m going to refile the business name Chaos Control for my science fiction buttons, costumes and such. This way no one else will try to use Chaos Control as an organization business in Ohio.

6 July 2006, Thursday

Oh the joy of it getting dark so late. I finished my paper route late last night. It is really nice to do my paper in the cool evening as opposed to the heat of the day. I’m off to Michigan to work again.

7 July 2006, Friday

Why is it I’m only thinking to weigh myself when I’m on my period? It has been nearly a month since I thought to weight myself. I’m decided to step on the scale anyway. This morning my weight was 278.0. I’m grouchy, bloated and not pleased. Then again, I’m bloated and only up a pound and a half? That is not actually all that bad.

I think the doldrums of summer are here. I will be shocked if my weight actually goes down any significant amount until August or September. Brian says that I always plateau in the summer and winter. Only during the spring and fall do I seem to loose weight. I want to prove him wrong. Please make a donation and send me off to the gym more often so I can actually loose weight now.

I actually have not been going to the gym all that much lately. I have been working so many hours that I have not had the time to get there. I have been doing my at home exercises faithfully. However, it would be nice to get back to the gym and play on all the nifty equipment they have.

11 July 2006, Tuesday

I, the terrible cook that I am, baked a breakfast custard today. It did not burn! I just really carefully followed the directions in my new cookbook, Laurie’s Low Carb Cookbook and it looks like it is perfect.

Starting tomorrow morning I’m going to have a precooked breakfast ready for me. I have not been doing a great job on eating a proper breakfast and this way I will have something with protein in it ready to eat with only a little microwaving needed. I keep stating work and forgetting to go eat breakfast. If I don’t eat my body is not going to lose any weight. I know that the secret for me to loose weight is to eat lots of little meals. However, since I rarely get hungry I keep forgetting to eat. I thought I had this problem licked. I was doing so good at eating lots of small meals. Suddenly, I reverting to old bad habits of ignoring my body’s need for nourishment. I am going to make an effort to stop this bad habit, again!

12 July 2006, Wednesday

Gadget and Gizmo went back to the vets for their final feline leukemia shots today. They did not actually see the vet, just her assistant. I feel like such a good cat mommy. These are the first kittens I have had since I was a child. All the other cats I have adopted were a good year old or older when they moved in.

13 July 2006, Thursday

Last night I really did not enjoy my paper route. It has been becoming a chore and not fun. The heat of summer is definitely not helping. Even in the evening it is hot. I am seriously considering quitting my route. I have a gym I can go to for nice hours long workouts. It has the advantage of being never muddy and there is always a water fountain and bathroom available.

14 July 2006, Friday

My naked morning weight is 274. Well, at least I have actually weighed myself when I was not bleeding. I went to Victory for several hours this evening. I worked all day and decided that I deserved a fun break. Playing at the gym for three hours definitely counts as fun to me.

I’m trying a new recipe from my low-carb cookbook. Right now I have a Florentine omelet in the oven. I’m going to be eating it for breakfast for the next week. The breakfast custard was really good and I’m going to try more recipes.

I’m off to go to Victory for the first time this month. I have been traveling for work and could not get into the gym even once.

14 July 2006, Friday evening

Today I had a wonderful time at the gym. I walked on the treadmill at the fat burning setting for an hour. Then I did a abdominal workout until I couldn’t do another curl. I think I did over three hundred of them. Then I did the recumbent bike for twenty-four minutes. This is so much more fun than my paper route in the summer. I like it in the winter, but in the summer it is getting to be much too much. I already have a substitute for my route for two weeks from now as I’m heading out of town for work again. I have decided I am going to quit my paper route.

15 July 2006, Saturday

This evening I have been baking a cheesecake. Well, it is baking right now while I type. I am really not a good cook. I tend to burn things. My previous husband used to say I treated him like a god. I gave him burnt offerings on a regular basis.

I have been to Victory again today. I started with a nice half an hour of cardio. Then I did upper body with the dumbbells. Since I was feeling so great I did another half hour of cardio. I think I like the cardio much more than the weights. I finished off my time at the gym with a nice long deep breath in the inhalation room. I still maintain that this room alone is worth the cost of my membership. I love the way that it opens up my sinuses.

More cute kitten photos were taken this evening.

First we found the kittens in the window.	When the window was shut they moved to a box.
Gadget moved to the telephone table .	Gizmo almost made it back to the cage.

16 July 2006, Sunday

I am a total grouch today. PMS is officially here and I am so incredibly thankful that Premsyn PMS pills exists. I don’t like the person I become when this time descends. I wish the gym were open on Sunday. I could really use a nice multiple hour heavy workout to march this grouchiness out of me. However, it is way too hot out to even seriously consider going to for a walk outside. I’m going to go climb the stairs in our house. I can aim the fan from the window at the stairs and it will be better than feeling this grouchy.

17 July 2006, Monday

What a busy day today has been. If I had not gone to the gym first thing this morning there is no way I could have gone. I returned library books on the way and got my haircut on the way home from the gym. Next was bookkeeping. Then I was off to a client's house. Brian and I did Pizza Hut for dinner. I just get the salad bar. I really like the cottage cheese and peaches they have on the bar.

18 July 2006, Tuesday

I flunked food today. Brian and I drank half a gallon of milk as our dinner. Thank goodness I have been making those breakfast squares or I would not get a decent breakfast. Plus, they make eating before I run off to the gym in the morning tremendously easier.

19 July 2006, Wednesday

Well I can’t have Layers Deep, formerly Chaos Control. It appears that you cannot have the word formerly in a business name. I had to come up with some other name. This took hours of thinking on. I finally decided to file Layers Deep Is Your Chaos Control. This way I can use Layers Deep as a shortened version of the name and it still has my former business name as part of it.

My papers did not arrive today. I just called this evening and found out that my route ended. I already had a substitute arranged for July 26 and August 16 and 23. I guess the substitute decided to just take the route immediately on a permanent basis. I hope they enjoy it. I used to love doing it. However, the heat of summer and me are not getting along. I’m going to go to Victory tonight. They are open until 10 and I can put in several enjoyable hours.

20 July 2006, Thursday

I’m off to Michigan for work and going to an SCA event on the way. But first I’m going to stop and see the gentleman at Loss Creek Arrows about some arrows for me. I have lost most of my old arrows and want some new ones that are correct for my bow.

It will be a while until I can write again. I am going to be up in Michigan until the end of the month.