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Way Back Wednesday

Maaaaaaan, I loved this show when I was a kid. Yeah, parts of it were sad (I don’t really remember it as such, but looking back at it and listening to the lyrics, yeah, it was sad) but I still loved it. They stayed drawing my man like he was high as a kite too.

This wasn’t even the video I was going to start with today. I was leaning toward another song that was John Denver and then Peter, Paul, and Mary showed up and I knew I had to hear Puff. Cue the Barbara…*memories…of the times we left behind…*

It’s another rocking busy day here in SpinzLand. What do you think of that to encompass everything? Or perhaps SpinzWorld. I kinda like that. The brand is always at the back of my mind, y’all! So the busy and the John Denver come together with leaving on a jet plane. Typically, I wouldn’t say hey I’m going on vacation and my house is empty, but the way we are set up here, we basically can’t fart without the neighbors hearing it, so I am unconcerned about anyone trying to get in. Also, none of you know or care where I live.

Today, I’m going to try to make my packing lists and then get stuff in bags. Of course, finish this post. Make sure everything is charged up. Gonna throw some work in there as usual. Ah, and some WordPress. Oh, and the chiropractor because my hips and knees are on my last damn nerve. That should pretty much push me right through to 5 o’clock when I chill for 45 minutes before diving into making tonight’s beef and mushroom risotto. Hardly ever sitting still. Ooooh, I also need to restring my leviwand because longstring love!

Ok, back to the natal chart from yesterday. We talked sun and moon. Today, let’s look at some planets, namely Mercury, Venus, and Mars. Everything has its own meaning. Mercury is about communication, Venus is about interests and attractions, and Mars is about that action. Let’s dive on in.

Mercury, as I mentioned, is about communication. Your style of it and your negotiation skills/tactics. Here we go with the good:

  • Humorous
  • Believes everything teaches you something
  • Detail-oriented
  • Great organizer
  • Good manual dexterity
  • Enjoys speaking and writing
  • Loves to debate
  • Prone to exaggerate

The meh:

  • Mind always “on”
  • Misses bigger point
  • Hypochondriac
  • Critical
  • Argumentative
  • Provoking

Now, I don’t know what my manual dexterity has to do with my communication style unless it’s directly related to my middle finger. But yeah, the meh stuff is correct again. I do like to poke the bear for shits and giggles. But let’s not dwell. Moving right along to Venus. The goddess of love. Which then makes sense that Venus is about the emotions. That encompasses a really broad range of stuff, but values and desires kinda sums it up. Let’s see where we stand with the good:

  • Happy abroad (NOT a happy broad, lol)
  • Passionate
  • Highly creative
  • Generous
  • Approachable
  • Trustworthy
  • Reputable

And the yikes:

  • Appears standoffish
  • Rule breaker
  • “Grass is greener” mentality
  • Socially awkward
  • Need to learn moderation
  • Frivolous

Well, I mean, yeah kinda? Forever generous with my money but very stingy with my time. I’m not gonna go point by point and explain how these things fit me, but just know that they do. Let’s finish up for today with Mars. The god of war. Knowing that really makes it fit that these traits are about how I take action and all my crazy energy. Ready to rock:

  • Spontaneous
  • Enjoys challenges
  • No hidden agendas
  • Resourceful
  • Has strength to overcome hurdles

And the maybe take a nap:

  • Impulsive
  • Bad at follow through
  • Impatient with slow action
  • Rude/impatient
  • Lacking desire to put myself or my interests first
  • Erratic energy levels

Yeah, well. I am who I am, lol. There is a lot of truth in these words. A LOT. It’s amusing to me that when I’m typing this out, different scenarios come to mind that relate. I’ve lived a LIFE lemme tell ya. It probably deserves a book. And maybe I’ll even write it one day. I guess blogging regularly is the best way to go about getting the writing juices flowing again. The ideas are there, just that fifth bad bullet point for Mars is kicking my ass all the time.

The list of things to do isn’t getting any longer as I sit here chatting with you, so I’ll likely see you tomorrow. But no promises, because vacation.

Remnants of 1 and 2

Well, here we are on Tuesday morning and it’s time to get back to reality, but first let’s wrap up 1 and 2 before we start 3 and look ahead to 4-31.

New Year’s Day

A fantastic day! No hangovers because we didn’t drink ourselves into oblivion the night before. Up early to finish up brunch preparations. Boy, did we eat. Grits fritters with ham and cheese, bacon cheddar deviled eggs, Mexican potato omelet, mimosas, Bloody Marys. Yum-tastic. We had company over and watched football and just had a lovely time. Probably should do that more often. If nothing else, it would help keep the house clean. Why, you ask? Well, because I get a little OCD when I know someone is coming over so I go on a cleaning rampage. It isn’t as though our house is so dirty – mainly dusty, but I get nuts.  But…my house is clean. I like that very much.

January 2

So much of this day was spent going back and forth on whether or not to go to the football game on Sunday. I’m pretty spoiled and now that I’ve sat in club seats, I don’t really want to sit with the masses. I also don’t want to drop $600 on a ticket. I’m leaning towards watching it from home in my nice warm house (it’s going to be cold) and my nice clean bathroom where there’s never a wait. Even if Hubby’s in there because we have two more, lol. Also, I just found out that the Steelers are coming here for regular season next year. That’s leaning heavily on my decision. Additionally, Hubby keeps giving me all of these ideas of what else I might do with my Christmas money. Like, perhaps, buy my gun. I’m thinking that the gun might be the better option. I’ll have it forever and it gives us the chance to go to the range together. Have I mentioned that I absolutely LOVE shooting that handgun?!?!  Ooooh, mmmmm, BANG! Love it.

Looking ahead

Yesterday in our out and abouts, we got some nice resistance bands that came with a DVD with some exercises. I did one of the videos this morning. It wasn’t awful. The handles will hold up to three resistance bands, but this morning I only used one. It’s a 30 pound band, but I think I’m going to need to put another on. The plan here is to alternate the resistance band and ab workout with stretching. Fortunately, the resistance band workout only takes about 15 minutes. Seems awfully short, but it’s pretty interesting and a new concept for me. Bursts. 15 seconds on, 15 seconds off for 10 minutes. It makes you say uggghhhhn. (Na na na na!)

January has lots of stuff in it. Steelers in town on the 8th, but not before I get to try out aerial yoga that morning. Either Hubby’s holiday party for work or the Heat game on the 13th. Class creation deadline on the 15th. Brewfest on the 27th. Showcase at the studio on the 28th. Madness! It’s going to be a busy month but I’ll survive. I’ll come out even stronger. My routine is going to be awesome! (Probably. Hopefully. No, it will be.) I’m going the distance. I’m going for speed.

Well, that’s all I’ve got today. It’s about time to giddyup. Let’s get it!