How I'm feeling!

Happy Thursday guys! I think poison sums up my feelings exactly. I heard this song last night on my drive home from the gym!



Check-ya later tater

Desi

How I spent my last day of 2010

So another year wound down. I have to say that 2010 had some really great moments and some awesomely bad moments. I won't bore you with a Dick Clark recap of the year of 2010. I will simply tell you how I spent December 31st. I started out December 31st by racing to the post office to by one stamp so that I could mail my rent check off. I wanted to do it on December 30th but grandview post office is stuck on stupid and doesn't have a stamp dispenser in their lobby which is open for 24hours. Now I know what you're thinking. Why not go to Kroger or Giant Eagle to get your stamps. Funny thing about Giant Eagle, they like to hide their stamps at 10pm so that customers can't buy them. So I had to get up earlier than i wanted to and scrounge around for the change for a stamp. So letter mailed, I rushed off hoping to find my text books at half-price books. Sadly, they didn't have them. So I took myself out to lunch at Paul's on 5th-best little Italian restaurant in grandview! Love them. Then I took myself to the thrift store to find some new threads. I wanted to be all sparkly and shiny for the new year. Well I didn't find what i wanted but I did put together a pretty cool outfit. I got cleaned up-very well thank you- and made my way to Ms. A's house. There I enjoyed veggie pizza and a Cesar salad before our party of three traveled to nationwide arena. There we enjoyed watching the blue jackets overtime win over the Ottawa Senators. Jakub Voracek saved the day with his game winning shot in sudden death overtime. After the game we walked downtown and watched the fireworks at cosi and then went back to my friends place for champagne and brownie trifle. I had my first ever mimosa(champagne and orange juice) and had to walk home to my apartment. Yup, I'm a one drink girl. I awoke the next morning and thought my car had been stolen. Then I remembered that I had walked home and would now have to return to the scene of the crime and pick up my vehicle. I really had a blast. I hope you did too!

Happy New Year!

Desi

Can it be I've been away too long!

Did you miss me while I was gone? Just a little Jackson 5 lyric humor. I haven't blogged since like 1985 or something. I have been burning the candle at both ends and sometimes the middle. Not only have I been working at obtaining my bachelor's degree, I have also been working at taking care of my health. One thing that became clear in my quest for knowledge was the horrible cost of diabetes. I took a digital media course and my project focused on type 1 and type 2 diabetes. The course was a blast! I got to use all these cool gadgets like flip cameras,video recorders, Imovie09 and macpros. I made a tiny one minute movie in Imovie called sugar which was alternately about "sugar"diabetes and old adds extolling the virtues of sugar. While my brain and my technical know how grew so did my concern for my own health. Just talking to my father and my Co-worker about the high cost of diabetes had me running for the nearest treadmill. I'm not a rich chick yet and when you figure that a three month's supply of insulin cost you $400 dollars with insurance and that's not including the testing supplies, you start looking for the exit signs to get off highway diabetes 101. Both my parents have type 2 diabetes and I'm trying to avoid it like the plague. So what's a girl to do when she wants to become a newer sleeker model?

Hire a trainer,






















Start drinking wheat grass smoothies





















Sleep in garbage bag pajamas?

















I didn't do any of those things-what am I mishugina? I have the time to schlep my self from class to be tortured everyday by Sven the body beautiful? I started simple- I walked a lot with Ms. A around her neighborhood and we walked by a dance studio that peaked my interest. I took a ballroom dance course and learned to salsa. Salsa made me feel so good inside! It is totally a self-esteem booster! I just loved the music so it was an exercise I didn't mind doing. Eventually I did join a gym that fit my wallet perfectly well thank you! I became more confident in my ability to actually make the changes I needed to see the results I wanted. I also cooked for myself instead of eating out a lot. I'm crazy cheap so this fit me perfectly. You don't want to know how much money I saved by cooking for myself. I am proud to say that I have finally broken the plane. I am for the first time in 15 years below 200 pounds. Was it easy? Heck No! but I found that by focusing on what I wanted in my life it was easier to say no to the things that kept me from obtaining them. I'm still on the journey. I have to keep myself out of the reach of diabetes. I don't have all the answers at all-we all slip up and have issues. You just have to get back up and try again.

You can look at my project for my digital media class.



Des
www.ditigalmedia569.blogspot.com

What's on your Player

I have been sadly slacking on my blog. Not because I have nothing to say but because an evil virus basically destroyed our home computer. Not to mention I've been looking for apartments,cars,and time to read and knit before school starts. So Here's a random list of the music I've heard this summer on the way to....

Chicago:

1. Eye of the tiger
2. My girl wants to party all the time(so weird right, some radio station in Indiana)
3. Super Freak(same weird radio station)
4. California Girls( some Katy Perry song-have no clue gets real old real fast)
5. I want to Sex you up(ever listen to a song when your an adult and think WWIT(what was I thinking)
6. All this Love(still love it)
7. Tick-Tock( annoying to say the least)

This is what comes from being unprepared on a long car trip. You are forced to depend on the radio for musical excellence.

Work to and From:

1. Glycerin
2. Heard about You(gen x station 106.7)
3. Jesus is Love (Still can't find that one on CD)
4. Champagne Life(Love it-or is it Ne-yo that I love-musically that is)
5. Step in the name of Love (still makes me want to move)
6. Back in Black
7. Jumping Jack Flash

Cd's:


1. Forgiven
2. The house that built me
3. Lead Me
4. Gimme Love
5. Cry me a River
6. All of Me
7. L-O-V-E
8. I Just haven't met you yet
You could probably tell that the last 4 songs are old torch songs. I'm beginning to think that I just might love the big band sound. I already like the dances. Now If I could just get someone to pay me to dance hmm..... well anyway Michael Buble is my singer of choice right now.
9. The Best of You
10. DOA( Foo Fighters make excellent gym music. nuff said.

So what artists have been lighting your fire lately? Lets share and by virtue of that sharing become even more musically diverse? I'm always willing to give anything a listen. Now if they would only create a website like Good Read but for Music listeners-how awesome would that be!

Desi

The Traveling Librarian!

Well guys,

I've went coastal now. I have currently been to 4 libraries in my journey out west. I visited a library in South Dakota that had an interesting approach to their lost and found. Once a month they spread items from the lost and found on the table with a sign that says" If this is yours take it". There was a library in Yellowstone national park. Really cute and small, had access to Internet with a guess pass. The second library was in the doubletree hotel in Berkeley California, I "checked out" Angry Agnes and the hit man(yes I brought lots of books but I"m a reader I zoomed through them). The last an most interesting library was in Reno Nevada. I say interesting but the library was located in side the mall. This is the first time I've experienced what it feels like to be a customer waiting on the other side of the gate waiting for the branch to open. Who know what I'll find next.

Des

Trivia Time!

Let's play a game! I'll give you some clues and you can figure out where I've been so far.

I traveled through three states in the first day of my trip. Here's your clues.

State number one is the 19th state to be added to the union.

State number two is home to the white sox and cubs.

State number three has a Mayo Clinic.

Can you guess where I've been?

Tune in tomorrow(if I can find a hotel with a business center) to see where I was and where I went next!

TTFN

Des

always,always read the fine print

Well guys,

I should have read the contest rules completely. I thought you would just submit one of your favorite photos. It actually had to be a photo from a columbus arts festival. So I won't be submitting my photo:(. It's cool- Thanks to all who voted.