ABOUT ME

I wrote an about me page last October but it sucked and no one could get to it anyway because I didn’t have a link on my blog. DUH!!! So this is my new ABOUT ME page.

Update 1-02-12

• I recently got a total knee replacement.  Not that recently anymore.  March 2009
• I  moved to Martha’s Vineyard with my daughter and her hubby Feb 2009
• I recently lost 84 pounds. Gained back 24  but am back on track again
• I still have to lose another 115 pounds, give or take. Oh Lord, who cares how much I have to lose.  Let’s say it’s a lot.
• After having double pneumonia a few years ago, I decided to make some drastic changes in my life.
• I am 60 years old. Not any more.  62 1/2
• I live with my daughter, my son-in-law, my 11 month old granddaughter and my ex husband whom I refer to as Wasband.  Granddaughter is now 2 1/2
• The wasband and I are best friends. He has a great girlfriend.
• I have always been good friends with his girlfriends. He’s only had two long term ones (when he gets dumped he always comes and lives with me). His  girlfriend now is really nice.
• I do all the cooking. I love to cook. You eat weight watchers food here or you eat nothing. My son-in-law is thin and loves my cooking. He just eats twice as much. My wasband has a pot belly and he eats twice as much. My daughter lost 40 pounds when I started weight watcher’s. I pack breakfast and lunch for her everyday.  She’s gained weight but it is all baby.
• I also do her laundry and her errands. She works hard and long hours and I will do anything for her. I gave her my house but the deal is that I come with the house, forever. She loves having her dad and I living here.
• My goal is to lose the weight, get two new knees which I need desperately and be in good physical shape so she can have a baby and keep working while I stay home and take care of it. She loves her work and doesn’t want to be a stay at home mom. She also doesn’t want her baby in day care so I am the perfect solution. Plus I loved being a stay at home mom and I get to do it all over again.
• I just hope that my back pain eases up when I get the new knees and lose the weight. At this point I can only stand for a few minutes. Thankfully, I can walk to my car and walk inside any store with a cripple cart which I have to use. If I go shopping with my daughter we bring my wheelchair which she has to push. She gets her exercise on those days.
• I cook from my wheelchair. I keep burning myself on the stove. I’ve got to stop that.
• I am legally disabled so I can park in handicapped spots. I also volunteer for the police department and can give out tickets to illegal cars parked in handicapped spaces. I love giving out tickets.
• I love feeding the birds.
• I love blogging.
• I see a therapist.
• I take Zoloft, along with high blood pressure meds which I have cut the dosage in half since I have lost the weight. I take prednisone which I hate taking and have cut back to 10mgs but it has increased the pain in my knees. I won’t take any opiate pain meds which I have been offered-way too addicting. I’d rather be in pain then be an addict. I’ve seen what my son went through.
• My memory sucks but I don’t think I have alzheimers. I just think I have a sucky memory.
• My sister used to live one street over and is my best friend. I would be lost without her. We talk everyday, sometimes three or four times a day on the phone. I can tell her anything.
• I love my family more than anything else in the world.
• I have cut down on my TV watching. I used to be a couch potato. Now I only watch it for 1-2 hours a day.
• I love to read and buy way to many books.
• I love Science fiction books, movies, TV shows.
• I mind my own business. What other people do is their business unless they hurt one of my family and then it’s my business.
• I love thunderstorms and blizzards.
• I hate olives, pickles, and cucumbers.
• I love pizza, potatoes, good dark chocolate, cashews and bleu cheese
• I am a homebody. I would rather be home than anywhere else. I have lived in this house for 34 years.
• I am an open book. I wear my feelings on my sleeve.
• I have three black cats. One of them, Yoda, thinks he’s a dog.  Update, I have only 1 black cat now.
• I love astronomy. I can name all the constellations in the sky and many of the stars.
• I owned a health food store for 25 years. I can tell you anything about herbs and supplements.
• I’ve never worn make up-ever
• I’ve never used face creams or cleansers or anything else on my face.
• I have nice skin.
• I’m not a fanatic about eating chemicals or putting them on your skin but I do try to limit them.
• The average person either eats, breathes or puts on their skin about 200 chemicals a day, many of them toxic. I try to cut that at least in half. I’m aiming to cut it back by 3/4.
• My middle name is Anne
• I listed my favorite foods but the only one I eat is potatoes.
• I love all my  blogging friends.
• I despise liars and thieves and people who are rude.
• When I was young my nickname was the Wiz because I could solve any algebra problem. I used to do algebra problems for fun, the way people do crossword puzzles. When I was in high school they gave a logarithm problem to all the students and teachers. I was only one of two who solved it. The other was a teacher. Now, I don’t even remember what a logarithm is. A lot of good it did me learning that.
• I only went to college for part of one semester, then my parents talked me into quitting and getting a job. They didn’t much believe in education. Now I can’t learn enough. I want to know everything.
• I have developed a great dislike for seagulls.
• I like to video dumbasses doing dumbass stuff. I’ve got to learn to get out my camera faster.
• I’m trying not to swear so much.  That is not working out for me.
• I quit cigarettes five years ago.
• 10/23/08  I’ve just decided I’m a crackpot!!!