Into The Thick of It

Man I love this!

I love this new blog theme. I love Lauren who helped me get it all set up. I love the colors. I love that I could import the other blog entries into this one and have it all in one place. All of this makes me so happy I can't sleep - which is better than being so worried about something that I can't sleep.  But now I am going to try to go sleep.

Happy Birthday Brian! Almost 40 has never looked so good!

Guitar Hero-itus

If you know me, you know that I am a piano player. I’m not the best in the world by far, but I played fairly often up until recently. My hands have been trained to curve a certain way since I was 3. I am now….older than that. 34 and three quarters. That’s a lot of years for one’s hands to be trained to curve that way. I’m comfortable in my curving hands. Then along comes Guitar Hero World Tour for Christmas. I figure, this shouldn’t hurt me – it’s just little buttons, and even though it curves the way a real guitar does – which hurts me whenever I play the 3 chords I know – I figure I could do this. I was wrong. Part of this is because I’m OCD, and I redo things over and over until I get 100% accuracy on them. Part of it is because I get too excited and push the dang buttons too hard when it goes fast. But I am now crippled on the pinkie finger. It’s knuckle is blue and black and swollen, and it hurts to bend it. It hurts at night, and it hurts during the day. It just hurts. I have Guitar Hero-itus. And Brian thinks it’s hilarious. In other news, the Wii fit is a hit in our household.  I’m down almost 10 lbs, which is very encouraging, and Melanie loves it too. Here’s a few videos of her – she loves the strength training!

Needless to say, there will be no videos of me doing the hula hoop nor the strength training. Trust me on this one. Also, sorry for the lack of quality. It’s from my phone :) The most disturbing thing about the wii fit is that Brian is the best at it. He is the Yoga Master, which is strange stuff. And he is just good at the other stuff too – I mean, the balance and the strength training. The only thing he’s not the best at is the step aerobics. That one confuses me too, so I guess I have no comment there. We’re about to get snowed in! So I’m to maybe start a pot of soup.

Cow Racing and other such nonsense …

Are all part of Wii. Wii Play, specifically, which Melanie LOVES! She must have raced cows after school today for an hour or more without stopping; stooped down in her little racer stance and jumping with the remote when the cow had to jump (instead of just moving the remote up and down).  I think technically the thing is called a wiimote, but that just feels weird to type and plus it adds another red underline to my blogging thing which confirms to me that I am a bad speller.

Today I have been doing some cyber housekeeping. Organizing some files, updating some profiles and pictures, and other such things. I was hoping it would be a part of this whole fresh start thing and get me motivated to do more of it in the house as well. So far that has not worked for me. But I now get updates from Twitter and Facebook onto my phone, which is nice…there are a few things on my phone I still need to fix. For instance, I cannot get onto a browser for anything with it – I keep getting this 404 error, and it is driving me crazy. So my goal tonight is to try to figure that out and fix the little booger.

I still am trying to figure out how to fix this blog. I don’t like the way the header is. I’m probably going to end up remaking that, and then trying to get things aligned up. I might need some typepad expertise here – but I don’t know any typepad experts, nor do I have a lot of money to pay said typepad experts if I were to find them. So I will try to fiddle till I get it right.

We found out last night that we can actually BUY songs on the wii store for Guitar Hero – like songs from The Killers, whom I really like a lot – including some from their brand new album, Day & Age. Most of the songs on the game I really like – but there are a few that have no feel-able rhythm or beat, and those drive me CRAZY. I am an open minded musical genre kind of girl, but seriously – if you can’t keep a beat, you should not be playing music. Or at least your music should not be on guitar hero. Anyway. The Killers had some stuff on there, and there were some other old school things like The Eagles and Boston. When we save up some Wii points, we’ll probably get a few new songs. That will be fun.

I’m in kind of a funk today. I keep waiting for that “woohoo fresh start” feeling to kick in, as it normally does at the start of a new year, but I feel like there are so many things I need to start over with I’m not sure where to begin. Hopefully with the help of God and some other outside sources (secondary), I can get a starting point.

Here’s to fixing my phone and finishing up my cyber housekeeping list!

I have an odd life …

I was sitting here just now thinking how personal and impersonal the www is. I mean, Facebook for instance (which I am completely addicted to) is a look into people’s day to day “stuff” (if they so choose to update their status’s), but you can not remember someone that you have on there at all. For instance – I have friends on there from highschool, and the name rings a bell, but darn if it I can remember HOW I know them. Isn’t that sad? Or isn’t that a sign of how old I am?  And then there is the fact that on Facebook, I am friends (“friends” is used loosely here) with Christy Nockels, one of my favorite vocalists of all times, and she is giving updates to her daily life as well as a new record she is recording. For the record, the day she accepted my friend request on Facebook I just about peed my pants.  That’s a semi-common occurrence these days.

Then there’s Twitter, which I also do. Ingrid Michaelson is on Twitter. She’s another one of those people whom I want to sound like when I grow up. And she tweets (the word they use when one writes a sentence in Twitter) a few times a day.  So again, it’s like this weird look into someone’s personal life without really ever getting personal.

I have a problem with that at the same time that I like it.  I have a tendency to avoid that personal stuff to some degree, then all of a sudden it comes vomiting out. It’s not healthy. I’m working on that.

So we got a Wii Fit for Christmas from my inlaws, and I am so looking forward to stop hacking up lungs so I can play more on it.  Brian is surprisingly good at it – especially the balance and yoga stuff.  You wouldn’t think he would be, as big of a guy as he is, but he does great at it. I’m looking forward to doing the stretching and the strength training on it, because I think it will help me relax and sleep better.  We shall see.

Also with the Wii, we have Guitar Hero World Tour. Uhm. I love it. Totally addicted. I can play most of the songs on Medium at a pretty high point/percentage value, and have started doing some of them at the hard level. That gives me a little bit of a rash with the 5 buttons cause I get all confused…I don’t have guitar hands, I have piano hands. But it sure is fun to play the music (play again being relative – but you know. it is fun!)

Here’s a picture of Melanie (and half of Brian) in her hat and scarf from the Lambs for Christmas. She was trying to smile but the camera phone went off before I got to 3 – so well…you get what you get. :) She’s lost some weight this past week or two with all the cooties going around – but she’s still pretty darn cute isn’t she? And the knitting gifts of the Lambs do rock. Darn that Jamie – loom knitting is addicting!!