My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease. It’s hard when I talk to her, sometimes she won’t even know who I am, other times she won’t know what year it is. Every year, someone in my family sponsors a walker from the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk so that we can hopefully one day find a cure for this disease. We’ve been doing it since it started up in 1989. We’ve donated about $9000 out of the $225 million that the walk has raised total since starting. And this year will not be any different.

I encourage everyone out there to help with the Memory Walk. If you really want to help out, then sign up as a Team Captain. Spots are going fast so you will want to sign up early. I might sign up as a Team Captain to help other people who are going through the same things that I am. I have even been trying to get Sean to donate some of his time and money too, because his grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease as well. He doesn’t know yet, but when I told his aunt about it, she climbed right on board and is donating some money herself due to the fact that her father is becoming forgetful in his old age. Apparently she didn’t know where she was for a week because he didn’t pick up the phone whenever anyone called.

Please find it in your hearts to donate your time or money to this cause, it isn’t just the people who have it that suffer, it is the families too.

We went to the casino the other night, it didn’t turn out as we had hoped. I’m down $80 and Sean is down $60. Oh well at least we had fun, after we left we went out to breakfast (it was 6AM). While the diner down here doesn’t have the best dinner, it does have okay breakfast.  Nothing as good as IHOP though, too bad they aren’t open at 6AM, otherwise we would have went there.

Tonight, I was able to put the finishing touches on the new theme here on curvy-chick.net. Unfortunately I strongly dislike this template now that everything is said and done. It was sitting on my hard-drive for maybe three days and by the time I came back around to complete it, my joy for it kind of went down the drain. I felt as though I needed something new here. I’m only going to consider this a temporary template for the time being. I’m lacking creativity and it’s extremely effecting me, not only with personal work but with clients as well. I have visions in my head of exactly how I’d like things to look and by the time I connect head to code, it just doesn’t happen for me. Hopefully I can get this resolved soon, I’d probably go bankrupt if I don’t do something about it immediately. Minus the layout, I was also able to get around to writing up my biography, at least there’s some content starting to form around here, right?

I did really well tonight, I only ate about 5 times today and they were a little bit smaller than I’m used to but I woke up late (again) and it was a rather busy day after that. Sean and I threw out our old bed and wound up putting two twin mattresses on the floor, it’s nice to have a little bit more room but this change also had us doing some in-room work as well. A few weeks ago I purchased a shelf system so we could put the TV and all of it’s other components up on the wall. I knew that with the room being so small, a king-sized bed would dramatically decrease the space; even if it, at the same time, increased comfort for us. Hanging the shelf took us a little longer than anticipated, our laser level may claim that something is level but the walls themselves are rather crooked. We eye-balled the first screw and kind of moved along slowly from there with the brackets to make sure we didn’t over-look anything that could potentially destroy the television. This past Christmas my father bought me an LCD TV and considering they’re expensive as they are, having it fall to the floor would be a serious heart-break for me.

Either way the room is done and tomorrow I’ll be outside getting the rest of the gardening completed. I honestly just can’t wait to finish all of this crap. I’m still annoyed with the fact that while we own the land we’re on, the doofuses in the main-office decided that our landscaping wasn’t up to par and needed to be done. The lady across the street has the paint chipping off of her house but us having some extra weeds here and there were considered an eye-sore, yea…riiight. We’re by no means blessed with having a green thumb so naturally if something is GROWING outside, even if it is a weed, we’ll typically accept it and move on. It’s not that they were wildly growing around the house, on the contrary, they literally looked like they were meant to be there and trimming them back at random kept them full and alive so there’s at least some greenery around the house - what exactly is so wrong with that? They aren’t hurting anyone, Bella can’t even kill them off by using them as a toilet, so I don’t understand the problem. This whole complex is up-their-own-butts about vanity. I’m still waiting for the community pool and weight-room that was promised two years ago. The building is there, the hole in the ground is there, what’s the hold up on filling it in?

A few months ago we noticed a branch sticking out from under the porch. Upon pulling the branch we realized it was hung up on something. Originally we thought it was just wedged in there from the previous nights wind but further inspection proved that it was based on a rooted tree growing from underneath the porch. Naturally we called the main office considering they were the ones who build the house here, least they could do is kill the tree. A woman showed up, claimed the tree was dead and that there’s nothing she can do about it. Spring has sprung, the tree is growing and now we had to pay out of our pockets, not theirs, to get the tree taken care of. Now they’re sending letters stating that our house is in desperate need of some landscaping - yep, this makes perfect sense to me. Ass holes.

In any event, it’s after 5:30am and considering I’m exhausted and have a long day ahead of me, I guess it’s time to get some sleep, hm?

I’m continuing to do very well on portion control. Tonight I made Chicken Parm but only had a little bit of it. I know it was fairly high in carbs but that was kind of my big splurge of the week. It was too cold to barbecue and since it’s an electric stove, “oven roasted” just doesn’t taste the same as it would on a gas based stove. So I improvised and everyone was pretty happy with the outcome.

I’m still working, rather slowly, on getting some content up on this site. I also have some comments to return as well, I’ll get around to everything tonight though, I promise.

I’m still playing around with random Wordpress plugins. I’m also working on getting some content up and running as well. I have a few other sites that are priority at the moment but that’s based on the fact that they’re WORK related and not personal things.

I’m off to a slow start today, which is probably why I’m feeling so sluggish. I’ve been up for a few hours and have yet to eat anything, I had my coffee and now I’m working on my second bottle of water. It’s not that I’m hungry, it’s just my body is telling me it needs something at some point or it’ll get very mad at me and mess up my entire day. There’s nothing in the house to eat, however, all I have are my 100 calorie packs and I’d prefer fruit in the morning than cookies for my first meal, you know? I need to get out to the store tonight, no question about it.

I didn’t walk last night but that’s because of how exhausted I was. I did FINALLY sleep about 3AM this morning but unfortunately I was knocked out until 2PM this afternoon. I really should have woken up at 9am like originally planned. I just hope to be in bed tonight by midnight, no matter what I have to get done.