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Fort Lauderdale,FL 
Today
Sunny High 91FLow 75F
  • Temp: 88F
  • Hum: 63%
  • W: 11mph E
SATURDAY
Partly Cloudy
High 84F
Low 73F
SUNDAY
Overcast
High 83F
Low 67F
MONDAY
Light rain shower
High 84F
Low 77F
TUESDAY
Patchy rain nearby
High 84F
Low 77F

August 25

Run
  • 1h 07m
  • 6.10 miles
  • 10m 58s /Mi

On a 5:1, 4:1 and 3:1. Got lost, asked for directions. Nice run in cloudy skies light rain and NOT in a blast furnace

Things I need to do today
-RUN
-Return router to Target
-Get router the works at Best Buy
-Bring stuff to Goodwill
-Get nubby things to hold up shelves in book case
-call comcast so they make my frigging phone like work
-Organize closet so it doesn't look like a bomb went off and figure out the best way to use new wardrobe
-Continue unpackng the journals from hell
-Get VIN to get car insurance

Well I got about everything done.  I need to get the VIN off the car but they won't do anything til monday anyway so there it is.  Comcast guy came and I gotta say he was the BOMB. Not only did he give me a functioning DVR box, He gve me the channels I am supposed to have made my land line work (what can I say I am old fashioned I lovemy land line and I hate talking on the phone)  AND told me how to make the target wireless router work and IT DOES so I am now WIRELESS!!!  WHOOP WHOOP!!!Plus major unpacking/organizing AND dumped a LOT of garbage out of the apt and MAJOR as in I filled up my SUV dump to goodwill.  YAY ME

Last night the drive back from Miami was just UGLEE.  Hence no workout.  I didn't get to leave til 5 which was stupid but anyway, it was POURING...like rain going SIDEWAYS in rush hour bumper to bumper traffic traveling beteen zero and 60 MPH plus my wind sheild wiper was totally falling off...........Took 90 minutes to go 30 miles................what a PITA...then again I walk to work 2 days a week :) 

  • Health data: Sleep: 4

August 24

I got to sleep in a BED last night....for the first time in a week.  Parents took it weds night.  The air mattress was not bad really but my back is going to thank me today I think.  Yeah I unpacked instead of training.  I have 5-6 boxes for goodwill.  I have dragged all this CRAP from PA to FL to TX and BACCK to FL because when my parents downsized they dumped it all on me.  Its all stuff they got for their wedding FORTY NINE YEARS ago and stuff they did not have room for.  Keep in mind they never asked me if I wanted it they just "gave" it to me  NOW as we are unpacking my mom says "You know you don't have to keep that stuff if you dont' want it" AAARRRRRGGHHHHHHHHH

In other news I found my underwear this morning :)  Internet works but they didn't give me a wireless router.  I got one at Target last night and specifically asked if it would work with a comcast modem and I was told YES.....Nope it doesn't work.  Wrong connections.  Gotta return it I guess :(  Since I have no desk the computer and monitor and keyboard are on a side table nessitating me to sit on a milk crate to use the computer.  Hoping to work on the books this weekend so I am not floor to ceiling boxes in the office.

  • Health data: Sleep: 4

August 23

well my stuff is here.  It looks like a bomb went off in my apt but its here AND I did not kill my parents yet.  Seriously you can barely see the carpet and they want to MOVE THE FURNITURE?  Are you KIDDING ME?  "where are you putting this where are you hanging the picture where are you putting that we should move this over there" AAARGGGHHH How about we find my frigging underwear first?  They delivered the cable boxes yesterday and the DVR one doesn't work so I need to sort that out.  I only have 2 TVS right now so I don't really care that much.  Bottom of the priority list. Also they got my internet hooked up but I can't tell if its work ing because 1-they didn't give me a wireless router and 2-I have to dig out the computer stuff and I have no idea where tha is in the mountain of boxes.  AARRGHHHH

I need to do the FL DL thing and I could do that this afternoon if my parents were not here.  I went to the web site and it says on the DL section you need to get your car registered first and in the car reg section it says you need the DL first?????? WTF? 

  • Health data: Sleep: 3

August 22

So my parents came last night to babysit the movers today.  Movers arrived just before 8 and are well on their way to getting my things in.  Why is it the first boxes you open are the stuff you dont need and never use?  My mom had foot surgery last week and is TORTURED because my dad won't let her move off the couch with her foot elevated.  I walked to work today and my first pt was not until 10....like how crazy is that?  and so I went back and unpacked a few boxes.  I brought my mom some things to unwrap so she would feel useful and not be just sitting there watch the unpacking because I knew she was going nuts doing nothing.  Anyway not sure any working out will occur today as I need to get my stuff unpacked but that is work in and of itself anyway. 

  • Health data: Sleep: 4

August 21

Swim
  • 17m 27s
  • 1000.00 yards
  • 01m 45s /100 yards

Paddles and fins. Sad how out swimming shape I am. Trying to figure out what to do on the step end of the pool. I can put my hand on the second step and flip over it but its hard to get a foot on the shallow steps. Not good enough at it yet to be brave enough to try without fins. I really don't need a broken toe

Bike
  • 45m
  • 16.00 miles
  • 21.33 Mi/hr

Trainer ride. the trainer is making a horrible noise but right now I don't really have a way to do anything about it. I am hoping the chain and cassette are just dirty.

Second day at new job.  First day went really well but its going to take some adjusting to get used to the schedule of coming in later and leaving later rather than coming in at the butt crack of dawn and leaving earlier.  Still no stuff, internet, phone or TV.  Can't really have service set up until I have an actual TV for them to hook it up to.  My parents are coming tonight to babysit the movers tommorrow when they deliver my things.  The other office I am going to I can WALK to.  Seriously I could spit and hit it from the apt.  Makes up for the drive down to the Miami office I guess :)  I didnt' get home tillate last night so no working out.  I will get it eventually.  Need to figure out where to ride around here.

Poor Charlie has a cold.  He gets them occasionally and apparently once they have the virus it will rear its head esp when they are stressed...like being locked in a roomfor 2 days followed by 2 days in a car.  Its pathetic.  He sneezes and sneezes and sneezes and then wipes his nose with his paw like a little kid.  He has to mouth breathe because he is so congested :(  Poor baby.

August 20

First day at new job.  Bike and a swim on the schedule.  Going to have to re-adjust my time schedule for sure and start training in the am more.

New pool is AWESOME.  Shallow end is all stairs which makes turning a challenege but I can live with that for sure. 

  • Health data: Sleep: 3

August 19

Bike
  • 27m
  • 10.00 miles
  • 22.22 Mi/hr

Little trainer ride. Bike making bad noises

Swim
  • 26m
  • 1500.00 yards
  • 01m 43s /100 yards

Swim in my new pool!

David left this morning, sadly.  I am waiting for my new couch to be delivered.  I do not have internet, phone, TV yet because I could not set up the installation until my TVs get here which will not be until wednesday.  the building has a computer room tho which is where I am blogging from.  I start my new job TOMMORROW!  My mom and dad are coming to babysit the movers.  That should be interesting. 

The cats are doing well settling in.  They are good and not too nervous anymore.  Poor babies had a rough week being locked in a room at the house for 2 days then 2 days in a car.  The will get locked up again when my stuff is delvered but it is what it is.  They will live.  Charlie really was an angel the whole way.  Tucker was difficult.  I think he sat onmy 21 of the 22 hours we were in the car.  I only coughed up a few hairballs so far. 

I have all the stuff I have with me and what I have purchased put away. I need to organize the bathroom a little better but Ihave all day.  I am going to SWIM in the POOL that is IN MY BUILDING and I think I will set up the trainer for a ride although I have no magazines to read as they are on the truck and no TV.  That should be interesting.  We spotted a bike trail on the way to the airport this am....BTW the Ft. Lauderdale airport id less than 10 miles from my apt!!!!  WHOOP WHOOP ) easy access. 

  • Health data: Sleep: 4

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