My Weight, My Garden, My Neighbors
Just a few anecdotes.
There is a secretary on the 10th floor that I occasionally have to meet up with to give or get a contract. Yvonne. We had a rocky start for reasons unknown. Really, I have no idea why she and the other secretary didn't like me. But apparently, things are better now.
She saw me today and said, "How much weight have you lost!?" I smiled and said, "None that I know of." Because that's true. I mean, until last week, I hadn't weighed myself on a scale, but I don't feel that I've lost any weight since I started working here. Quite the opposite, actually. And this past week, I gained half a pound. She continued to insist that I had lost weight. I said, "Thanks," and walked off.
While this should make me happy because I appear thinner to others (I guess), it actually kinda upset me. If she really believes I've lost weight, then that means I was even worse than I am now! And thinking that I weighed more than 214 is kinda scary to me. It makes me sad because I know when I look in the mirror right now, I get upset because I've made bad choice that have led to my gaining weight. To think I looked worse before when I wasn't really paying attention is depressing. *sigh*
Oh well, no big deal. I'm working on it now. That's all that matters! Keep up the good work, savannahjan. Keep achieving your goals, keep eating less, eating better, and exercising. You can do this!
My garden...I have set the goal to not give up on it this year no matter how poorly it goes. But...it's really depressing. My mom suggested this great book to me called Square Foot Gardening. She did it last year and had more vegetables than the family needed. She was giving them away. So, I figured, hey, if Mom can do it, I definitely can! Ha, ha, ha. Oh, poor delusional savannahjan
My garden is constantly threatening to keel over and die. The tomato plants are not flowering. They are alive, they just aren't flowering. The bell pepper plants...they aren't growing. A few of them are trying to produce peppers, but the peppers go soft a week or so after they first appear. Everything I started as a seed has died. The strawberries are about to die. Heck, even the flowers I planted aren't doing so well. How terrible do you have to be at gardening to kill flowers!!??
Meanwhile, on the other side of my fence, my neighbor, who is gardening the old fashioned way, who used the dirt in his backyard rather than spending tons of money on fertilizer and vermiculite and peat moss, has a garden that is thriving! The plants are green, they are tall. It's amazing.
I'm just so disappointed! Why am I failing at this? It doesn't make sense to me. This seemed foolproof! I mean, my mom is no green thumb. And she's not all that gungho about things. But, her garden does great. Her lettuce plants are huge bushes! *sigh* I'll just have to continue on. If it doesn't work, though, I'm not doing it next year. I gave it the ol' college try.
So, our neighbors when we first moved in over a year ago, had a mountain of trash in their backyard. You may or may not remember me talking about this. Anyway, we called the cops on them, and the trash was taken care of. Or so we thought. When our new (recent) neighbors moved in, they discovered that those people had just shoved all the trash in the shed in the back yard. So now, our neighbors have the mountain of trash from the previous neighbors.
When these neighbors discovered this, we immediately offered to help them get rid of it. The plan was, they get trash service and pack their trashcans and then throw one or two extra bags into our trash can. We were trying to be good neighbors. Well, not once have they taken advantage of this offer. Not to mention, they haven't even gotten their own trash service yet! They've been here like...5 months? I think.
So, Tuesday night, Dave put the trash to the curb so he wouldn't forget the next morning. When he wakes up? There are about 20 bags piled in, on, and around our trash can!!!!!!! And these bags are the big black ones, people. Completely full! Dave is running a little late, but he takes some time to pull some of the bags off and throw them back into our neighbors backyard.
He calls me once I'm awake to tell me what had happened. After he'd removed some of the bags, he went and pounded on their door and said, "You guys sure do take advantage of us." (remember the recent truck incident). He told them that we offered to help, NOT to be their trash service. He told them it was ridiculous that they had been there that long without getting their own trash service. And stormed off.
So, I got dressed and went outside. I removed the rest of the trash bags. I wasn't nice about it. I just threw them up into their driveway because I was so ticked at them. I just couldn't believe they'd done this. Now, I don't know how it is for you, but for every extra bag that doesn't fit in your trashcan, our trash people charge us like $4!!!!! That bill would've been insane!
I'm just so angry, annoyed, and disappointed. I really was looking forward to having a good relationship with our neighbors. We love their daughters and want them to be able to come over and play with our dogs. We wanted to have cookouts with the neighbors. To be able to ask them to watch our house when we're away and vice versa. But with the truck incident and this trash incident, it is going to take a long while to rebuild if we even can! How can people be so irresponsible? We've decided to give it another week, maybe two, and then we are calling code enforcement on them. If they'd gotten trash service when they first moved in, the mountain of trash would've been gone by now. We can't have it generating more flies to eat our dogs' ears.
*sigh* So disappointing.
Sorry, this entry was kinda ranty/cranky.
There is a secretary on the 10th floor that I occasionally have to meet up with to give or get a contract. Yvonne. We had a rocky start for reasons unknown. Really, I have no idea why she and the other secretary didn't like me. But apparently, things are better now.
She saw me today and said, "How much weight have you lost!?" I smiled and said, "None that I know of." Because that's true. I mean, until last week, I hadn't weighed myself on a scale, but I don't feel that I've lost any weight since I started working here. Quite the opposite, actually. And this past week, I gained half a pound. She continued to insist that I had lost weight. I said, "Thanks," and walked off.
While this should make me happy because I appear thinner to others (I guess), it actually kinda upset me. If she really believes I've lost weight, then that means I was even worse than I am now! And thinking that I weighed more than 214 is kinda scary to me. It makes me sad because I know when I look in the mirror right now, I get upset because I've made bad choice that have led to my gaining weight. To think I looked worse before when I wasn't really paying attention is depressing. *sigh*
Oh well, no big deal. I'm working on it now. That's all that matters! Keep up the good work, savannahjan. Keep achieving your goals, keep eating less, eating better, and exercising. You can do this!
My garden...I have set the goal to not give up on it this year no matter how poorly it goes. But...it's really depressing. My mom suggested this great book to me called Square Foot Gardening. She did it last year and had more vegetables than the family needed. She was giving them away. So, I figured, hey, if Mom can do it, I definitely can! Ha, ha, ha. Oh, poor delusional savannahjan
My garden is constantly threatening to keel over and die. The tomato plants are not flowering. They are alive, they just aren't flowering. The bell pepper plants...they aren't growing. A few of them are trying to produce peppers, but the peppers go soft a week or so after they first appear. Everything I started as a seed has died. The strawberries are about to die. Heck, even the flowers I planted aren't doing so well. How terrible do you have to be at gardening to kill flowers!!??
Meanwhile, on the other side of my fence, my neighbor, who is gardening the old fashioned way, who used the dirt in his backyard rather than spending tons of money on fertilizer and vermiculite and peat moss, has a garden that is thriving! The plants are green, they are tall. It's amazing.
I'm just so disappointed! Why am I failing at this? It doesn't make sense to me. This seemed foolproof! I mean, my mom is no green thumb. And she's not all that gungho about things. But, her garden does great. Her lettuce plants are huge bushes! *sigh* I'll just have to continue on. If it doesn't work, though, I'm not doing it next year. I gave it the ol' college try.
So, our neighbors when we first moved in over a year ago, had a mountain of trash in their backyard. You may or may not remember me talking about this. Anyway, we called the cops on them, and the trash was taken care of. Or so we thought. When our new (recent) neighbors moved in, they discovered that those people had just shoved all the trash in the shed in the back yard. So now, our neighbors have the mountain of trash from the previous neighbors.
When these neighbors discovered this, we immediately offered to help them get rid of it. The plan was, they get trash service and pack their trashcans and then throw one or two extra bags into our trash can. We were trying to be good neighbors. Well, not once have they taken advantage of this offer. Not to mention, they haven't even gotten their own trash service yet! They've been here like...5 months? I think.
So, Tuesday night, Dave put the trash to the curb so he wouldn't forget the next morning. When he wakes up? There are about 20 bags piled in, on, and around our trash can!!!!!!! And these bags are the big black ones, people. Completely full! Dave is running a little late, but he takes some time to pull some of the bags off and throw them back into our neighbors backyard.
He calls me once I'm awake to tell me what had happened. After he'd removed some of the bags, he went and pounded on their door and said, "You guys sure do take advantage of us." (remember the recent truck incident). He told them that we offered to help, NOT to be their trash service. He told them it was ridiculous that they had been there that long without getting their own trash service. And stormed off.
So, I got dressed and went outside. I removed the rest of the trash bags. I wasn't nice about it. I just threw them up into their driveway because I was so ticked at them. I just couldn't believe they'd done this. Now, I don't know how it is for you, but for every extra bag that doesn't fit in your trashcan, our trash people charge us like $4!!!!! That bill would've been insane!
I'm just so angry, annoyed, and disappointed. I really was looking forward to having a good relationship with our neighbors. We love their daughters and want them to be able to come over and play with our dogs. We wanted to have cookouts with the neighbors. To be able to ask them to watch our house when we're away and vice versa. But with the truck incident and this trash incident, it is going to take a long while to rebuild if we even can! How can people be so irresponsible? We've decided to give it another week, maybe two, and then we are calling code enforcement on them. If they'd gotten trash service when they first moved in, the mountain of trash would've been gone by now. We can't have it generating more flies to eat our dogs' ears.
*sigh* So disappointing.
Sorry, this entry was kinda ranty/cranky.