Footprints on the Moon

I need a vacation. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. It doesn’t even have to be very long. I just want to get out of town for a few days and get the chance to use my Samsonite luggage. Okay, I don’t have Samsonite luggage, but my dad get me a very nice luggage set for Christmas this year, and I haven’t had the chance to use it! I don’t know where to go though… My one best friend is not really available for travel anymore because of the baby, and I’m pretty sure the other best friend can’t get more time off from work because she just took a trip to New Orleans about a month ago. So I guess I’m on my own… Memorial Day is a long weekend. Who wants an overnight guest?

Alright kids… I’ve basically moved my health/diet talk over to my other blog, but it’s time for a diet review. Obviously the diet plan from the beginning of this year crashed and burned awhile ago, but I still need to do something. Of course, I write this much while seriously considering getting a KitKat bar out of my drawer. A symptom of the problem here, I think!! The desire to change, but not the willpower to put the work necessary in. That’s not true… I’ll put work in, I just want to be able to still eat crap, and that doesn’t work.
I am bound and determined to do something about it though… it’s finally getting warm here, and I was looking for a pair of shorts to wear. I found a pair that I knew probably wouldn’t fit. They didn’t, but no big deal because I have two pairs of shorts in the next size up. Right? Haha. Yeah, I got them on… even got them zipped. But if I’d have tried to sit down, I’d have ruptured something. I am NOT okay with that!! It’s time to stop eating massive quantities of junk. Small amounts are okay… a huge amount is not. It’s time to stop being a bum and get moving in order to shrink the size of my rear end. It’s Spring, and if it’s not raining, I have NO excuse not to at least get out and get around the block. Bonus points for actually getting down to the river to take a decent walk.

I did end up going to bed early last night, though not as early as I thought about. I woke up this morning to disheartening stories splashed all over the news.
The first was that an apartment complex just down the street from me caught fire last night… it was a huge fire that destroyed an entire apartment building. The people living in those apartments lost everything. This scares me because this is one of my big concerns about living in an apartment. Fires that start spontaneously are pretty rare… they are usually caused by someone who did something. The more people you have a in a building, the more likely this becomes. I’m scared that someone in my building will set the thing on fire when I’m not there to rescue my cats. Losing the stuff would suck, but if I couldn’t save my cats, I would be completely devastated.

The other news story was even more sad. Last night there was a candle-light vigil to remember a fallen police officer who was shot to death a year ago. Early this morning, two officers from the same police department were involved in a shootout. One has already died, and the other is in stable condition at the local hospital. That’s really all the press release has said so far. They’ll be setting up the fallen officer’s car in front of the police station for a make-shift memorial. The officers were responding to reports of gun fire… since it happened in the middle of the night, they were waiting for daylight to gather evidence, and further their investigation. The police department is keeping the street closed for at least another two hours. It’s really sad, and very senseless… I’ve been finding myself praying for everyone involved all morning.

I’m seriously considering going to bed early tonight… I’ve just felt all out of sorts for the last couple of days. It’s really nice out, though. I wanted to get out and go walking, but I have a headache that I can’t seem to get rid of, and I just can’t get myself motivated. Once again, if I had the treadmill here, I’d probably get moving, but I just can’t make myself go out and walk down the sidewalk with a million people staring at me. I’m exaggerating of course, but that’s the funk I’m in… I don’t have plans for the rest of the night, there’s nothing I want to watch on TV…. seriously thinking about taking a shower, and going to bed.

Here’s my Self Potrait for this week… taken and posted on Sunday! Woohoo! I look a little rough because it was really hot in here, and I was resisting turning on the air conditioning. I was also getting ready to leave for the afternoon because Steve, Erica, the baby and I all headed out to the outlet mall. That’s Erica that’s on the other end of the phone! I wanted to make sure I got a picture taken for today though… I don’t want to miss any more SPSs unless I have to.
And no, I don’t know why my eye is bloodshot like that.

To play along, take a picture of yourself every Sunday. Post it to your blog, and then visit DigiCass and less us know so we can come see you!

You know what Sundays are good for? Infomercials. I mentioned in my last post that I’ve been sorting the stacks and stacks of junk mail I’ve been avoiding. Well, I’ve been sitting in the middle of my living room floor doing that while watching infomercials. I’m a closet infomercial junky. If I don’t flip off the channel right away, I’m hooked and I’ll watch to the end. It doesn’t matter if it’s for Hip-Hop Abs, Oxy Clean, the Magic Bullet, or Space Bags. If it’s on, I’m watching. And probably considering buying. I’ve purchased a few things off of infomercials, and I know others have different experiences, but I haven’t been disappointed.

I had such good intentions for this weekend, but it’s just not going to happen. I was going to really whip this apartment into shape, most specifically my bedroom which is a complete nightmare. But I spent all night Friday with Erica, and then I wasn’t home at all yesterday either! Erica and I went to breakfast and then out and about for awhile. I was home for about an hour and a half, but I was feeling icky, so I laid down for awhile instead of doing anything. Then Sarah and I were out and about until like 9pm, and she left about 11:30. Now today I just can’t get motivated. I’ve been going through the piles and piles of junk mail and bills into trash, shred and sort piles. So it’s definitely something that needs to be done, just not with the widespread, visual impact that I was going for in my productiveness this weekend. So it started out with good intentions, but it’s just not going to happen today. I did wash the dishes, and clean up in the kitchen, but my back’s hurting and so is my head, so I don’t think I’ll be doing much else that’s really involved.

Part of having a blog is getting your voice out there. It’s kind of hard to do this if the only people reading your blog is your close circle of friends. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’d be very sad if my friends stopped reading, but most people I know who blog are always looking for another way to put themselves out there and get a little more traffic. I know several people who have ordered business cards with their name and blog addresses on there. You know what I want? Promotional pens. You know what I’m talking about… they usually have a business name, address and phone number on them? I want pens that say Footprints on the Moon, http://www.footprintsonthemoon.com. Maybe with a little footprint icon next to that. I think that would be neat. And I just went to the site to check it out. I could get 300 pens with the design I just described for $99. I can’t afford it right now, but if I ever have an extra hundred bucks to spend, I think I know a good place to put it!

I’ve been seeing these interviews all over the blogosphere, so when I happened upon Skeet’s interview, I decided to take the bait and put myself out there. These are the questions she sent me…

1. You work in security. How many lies did you nave to tell in order to pass the background check?

It’s not about telling lies, it’s about not getting caught! Other than saying “Yes I have been convicted of a felony” or “No I have not been convicted of a felony,” my rigorous background check was completed by the state. Apparently flouting the law of the roads is not enough to fail a background check!

2. You grew up in hick, Indiana, yet now your voice is known and heard around the world through your blog. What have you done for the little people back home since fame and fortune have come your way?

I make sure the little people back home always have a voice on my blog. Though, I’m not so sure they’re appreciative of me giving them a voice by writing about how cute my nephews are, and how annoying I find the rest of them! As for the fortune… could you point it in the right direction? It’s yet to have come my way, so I figure it must be lost in a cornfield.

3. You say you are single and looking. Describe your perfect mate and what you have to offer as an attractant for such a fine person.

My perfect mate… hmm… someone who will put up with my B.S. and doesn’t pee on the toilet seat. But then again, this is a man we’re talking about, so that last part might not be entirely reasonable. And what do I have to offer? Just the glory of being with me! Plus, if that isn’t enough, I can cook anything that has the instructions on the box.

4.Your opinion is regularly bought through paid sponsorships on your blog. Why should I believe anything you say?

You shouldn’t. Everything I’ve ever written is a lie. I’m not a 23 year old named Jennifer. I’m really 67, and my name is Shaniqua. Those babies I call my nephews? I don’t even know who they are!!

But seriously, you should believe me because I don’t get paid very much LOL I’m not getting the amount of paid opportunities I’ve gotten in the past. But even if I were, you should rest assured that I’m never going to lie about what I put on my blog. If a paid sponsorship requires me to write positively about something that is icky, I’m not going to take it. All of the opinions expressed on this blog are 100% mine, whether they exist within a paid post, or not.

5. Do you ever do it with your glasses on?

I don’t really do it at all. Unless by “do it” you mean doing the dishes, or write posts in my blog, or squish spiders. Then yes, I absolutely do it with my glasses on.

That concludes my interview with Skeet. If you want me to interview you, do the following:

Leave me a comment saying, Interview me.
I’ll try to crawl into your skin and ask you the right five questions. I get to pick them.
You will update your weblog with the answers to the questions.
You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I’ll give questions to no more than five people, so if you’re person #6 or higher, sorry!! Visit persons 1-5, and ask for an interview from them!

When I first moved to my new position and finally had a desk to personalize, one of my first stops was Bath and Body Works for some of their room sprays. They had them on sale, so I came home with four scents: Sweet Pea, Cucumber Melon, Coconut Lime Verbena, and Mango Mandarin. All very yummy smells. As of today, two of those smells have been vetoed by my boss. Sad. The funniest part is that one of those scents is one his wife wears, and he doesn’t like it!! Heehee!
So there’s still two scents left, and now I have two sprays to have at home and make my apartment smell girly!