Until the last couple years I always looked 10 years younger then I am…Thank god for good genes right.
Well I have a pic from when I was 21 and then a pic from now at 26 and damn I don’t look like the same person.

Archive for August, 2006

Cutez hair I have today
well need to make sure my hair is 100% of who I am , going to talk to the admissions people at Rob Roy in Worcester tonight. Part of me is like “Hell Ya I want to go to school and do this” and part of me is like “Shit my life will fall apart” But from what Neil says it will be just fine.
See there is this thing about me…I love total control on what I can have control on. I like the house to be in order all the time, I like my relationships to have the time and energy they need to thrive and grow and I need to stick to a schedule all while relaxing on a Monday night. So the thought of going back to school Mon- Thur from 5:30 until 9:30 does scare me, but then again at the end of all this I will have another skill to make myself marketable and I can then be the creative gal that I am .
Tried to explain this to Neil last night and I am sure he thinks I am crazy that the major worries that I have abotu going back to school is my very clean house will be messy. I swear if I start coming home to dirty floors and dirty dishes I will not be a nice gal.
I finally feel like my life is where it needs to be and anything that messes that up will throw me over the boat.
But I will chat with them tonight and go from there.
Back to work my break is over….
Vicadins seem to help my headaches. I take them once a day to curb yet another onset of head pain.
Monday again, always fucking Monday. Happy it is already noon and I feel like the day is going at a decent pace.
Contemplating a walk at lunch time, so I ate my tomato sandwich that I packed, wow the tomatos from the rents garden are damn good. With some light bread and a tad of Mayo makes it perfect. Made it to the gym this morning as planned. Neil and I started this routine and we seem to do alright getting up at 5am to get to the gym at 5:25 and home by 6:20 so Neil can get ready for work and out the door in time for me to get in the shower. Works out ok after a venti iced Americano I am 100%. Today though it is gloomy, rainy and cold. Did the 10am mile walk alone because Jen thinks she is to busy, we are all busy at this time. The new year, new season makes it for interesting issues.
So not sure how this came about, oh wait last week I just for ideas looked at what we can afford in this area if we decided to look for a house/condo here for a year or two then sell it when time to move to Arizona. Neil is looking hopefully for work closer to home, because the commute sucks and if I start school in Worcester then we would both have it made. So we are going to look found a few condos/ restores in the 150k range and then a loft we both like for 180k range. We will spend some time over the next month to look at some places, figure out finances and so on.
I would be the happiest girl in the world if we bought a place, btu we will see. Just looking to see if this is something we want to do or if we want to go straight to Arizona.. If Neil can find work closer to central mass and I stay where I am at, then it would be perfect.
funny we have so many dreams and we know we will make them happen…
It is Friday at last.
Well it is raining and with Neil and I deciding that today would be our day off from the morning routine, I was not able to go for a walk at my 10am break. I am hoping that it will clear up and I will be able to walk at lunch and afternoon break. I have things to do but I am just not much in the mood to do them. I am tired I think the week of gym going at 5am and still staying awake the normal time we do that it has caught up with me. Sunday morning I will be able to be lazy and lay in bed till I am ready to get up.
I have plans with the mamma dukes tomorrow in the morning so I am leaving at 7am to go to Connecticut and visit, go for coffee, go shopping and pick some veggies. I have been living all week on Tomato sandwiches made from the juiciest red tomatoes from mty parents garden. Yummies
Then this weekend we need to get the camping stuff together so we don’t have to do it on Friday before we leave for the weekend. I can’t wait, I don’t think we camped enough this summer. It is always good it gives us 3 days of uninterrupted time together. No TV, No computers and no life getting in the way. Maybe that is why I like camping so much, it is simple and relaxing and we sit around the fire at night just enjoying each other.
I think that I am one of the luckiest gals.Because I found a fantastic guy that may have not done things before he meet me but at the age of 31 he is willing to learn and experience new things. The guy who was not into hiking and camping is all about it now. His love for it seems to grow each time and I think it may be all the fine photo opps he gets or just being able to have a simple weekend. But whatever it is he does it and likes it. I wish I could just get him to try new foods..I am working on it, being the grand cook I am he seems to like things I make enough to try new things. Next is Eggplant rollups….ummmmm
not much else going on in the world of Crystal. Looking into going to Rob Roy in Worcester for cosmotology. I have finally let myself believe there is no shame in cutting hair for a living. As Mandy put it ” Everyone has one” so true and a good stylist is hard to come by and I feel with my flair and energy I will do just fine. It is the thought of having to stay in Mass for another 1 1/2 years. But then again I will have a great tool to market myself with in order to find a job when we move. And of course Neil has been 100% supportive of anything I want to do and he doesn’t think it is an issue to wait if the waiting is so I can go back to school. See why I love him so …..
more...Trying to spread the truth of the “great American made company”
Awhile back Neil and I were watching nightline and there was a program on Dov Charney the CEO and Founder of American Apparel. About the ways he goes about business. This very sexually fueled company has been under a microscope as of late. Here is what knowmore.org is trying to do to make the american people aware.
American Apparel – read this
“It’s been a long time coming… and here it is.After nearly 6 months of work and hundreds of hours of interviews and research, Knowmore.org is releasing its special report on American Apparel, LLC.What began with the CEO of the largest garment manufacturer in the United States screaming at me over the phone and calling me an ‘information terrorist’ has evolved into the most complete Knowmore.org entry to date, and the most comprehensive overview of this controversial company ever published.
Read the report here:
http://www.knowmore.org/index.php/American_Apparel%2C_LLC
This article represents a huge success for the Knowmore community, and a clear demonstration of what a powerful tool the site could be in the hands of some dedicated guerilla journalists. They are hearing Us. Once you’ve read the article, if you’d like to help get it in the hands of consumers searching for American Apparel on the internet, you can take 2 minutes of your time and help us “google bomb” the keyword. For those who need a refresher or are new to the concept, you can find out what a google bomb is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
We’re going to try and google bomb the phrase “American Apparel” with our American Apparel report, and that is done in the following way:
1.) Post the following code on any wiki, blog, or website you can get your hands on (that includes websites you own/run and myspace pages as well) American Apparel
2.) Make sure the site you post it on is registered with google. You can register a site with google by filling out the following page:http://www.google.com/addurl/
3.) Watch our page climb up the search rankings!All in all it takes about 2 minutes. And it’ll put important information in the hands of consumers searching for American Apparel.
We’ve had great luck with these in the past… our Exxonmobil google bomb continues to bring hundreds of people to Knowmore every month.Enjoy, let me know what you think of the report, and stay on the battlefield
p.s. In total, I spent about $1000 of out of pocket money on this research over the past 4 months… including round trip tickets to LA to visit the company’s factory and interview workers and management … if you appreciate this kind of research and would like to see more of it, please consider making a contribution to Knowmore this month. As I said, this article represents hundreds of hours of work … and for me personally, and Knowmore collectively, to continue in this vein we’re going to need your financial support.
Donations can be paypalled to bernard@knowmore.org,
or mailed to:
Knowmore, inc.P.O. Box 23Mapleville RI 02839″
Read other articals related to American Apparel
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more...How come no matter how much you try you can not satisfy everyone, I try to…That is my problem
So today was a day of emotions some good some bad. Chatted with my mom this morning and she decided to go threw with the knee replacement. Which part of me is happy because after the long recovery process there will be no pain in that knee for her for a very long time, but part of me is very scared for her like I was when Pam went for her gastric bypass. Because the thought of any major surgery scares the shit out of me, I told my mom that I am not sure I could decide to do that, like to me the recovery and relearning to walk again would be such a huge deterrent for me that I would probley stay in pain for the rest of my life. I am known for putting things off because I like the ignorance of thinking things are fine. Like with my knees they have bothered me for years and only recently I let myself know that “No my knees are not like everyone else and I need to take better care of them” I am sure if people took the care in there health that I now do that we would realize there is a lot wrong with most of us. But anyway my mom is getting surgery September 25th and I will be there to help with her recovery. She already said that if she is a bitch while recovering to ignore her, I told her I already expected it because I saw the recovery for the last surgery on her left knee. She is reluctant to let me help, she feels I am her daughter and she is to take care of me, not me taking care of her. I worry because even if she can stretch the life out of the artificial knee she will still be in her 70′s when it will not work anymore. So what happens then, I do hope that they come up with something new by that point. Hell at that point I will have a knee replacement also, two crippled old ladies. I forget my mom is only in her mid 40′s…
So that was one thing, seems at least I made people for the most part happy at work today. Just seems my personal life seems to lack me making people happy. My best friend I think is to “busy” to chat with me because she knows how I feel about her relationship and she knows how I feel she should be on her own and not hold onto something she and most people know is not right. I just want her to be happy and to be the Beth I care about.
I try to be everyone’s hero. The brave one, the strong one, the empathetic one, the shoulder to cry on and the person to celebrate with. I would do anything if I could make new friends that were around, that could talk and I could have a good time with. This is the only point in my life where I do not feel I have enough people to just be with. I have made a friend in Joannah my field rep at work. She is cool, fun and real. I am not one to take on many female friends unless they are down, unless I can be who I am without having to fake it. The only catch to that is she lives 1 1/2 hours away….
So int he grand scheme of things my life isn’t that bad, yeah for the next two months I may be living pay check to pay check and I may have a job where my boss is never satisfied with me but I do have a job. But I do have a crazy 6th sense that chimes into peoples moods and when I feel something is not normal I question it. I read people like Jeff at work reads books. I just got to stop trying to be perfect, seems like a theme in my life. Stop trying to be that everything, the rock for everyone when sometimes I need that rock.
Sometimes I need someone there just to listen but I am the one to listen and I need it in return. I just want to be happy and it seems that somehow I am my worst enemy. What is causing this?????Who knows
p.s. my life is not that bad and most things in it are not that bad. But I like my boat with no wakes…..I like to live my life and things run smoothly just for once. It doesn’t take much to put me in this mood, I want everyone happy and when they are not it affects me more then it affects them. The old this will hurt me more then it hurts you.
fuck it I need to stop thinking
So it all started this weekend when I noticed a charge for two of Sammy Davis Jr. Collections on my iTunes. Why is gods creation would I listen to SD Jr. Anyway here is a collection of emails from myself and iTunes, trying to get the situation taken care of.
I will mention that iTunes employees just send generic answers to anyone because three different people kept sending me the same answers and not ever answering my issue.
So enjoy …I tend to get angry when people lack 100% common sense….
And why does iTunes think that nothing can go wrong with there servers, system ect….Why is it their only answer to my questions is someone is using my credit card without permission or my account is getting hacked into. Sorry no one else would be on my computer and why the hell would someone buy Sammy Davis Jr. That would then be downloaded onto my iTunes.
Customer First Name : Crystal
Customer Last Name : A%&%&%&
email : &%^$^%&%
Web Order # : Support Subject :
EmailSub Issue :Invoice questionComments :
iTunes Account Name: mscrystal80
Platform : Windows XPSP1
Comments:Order number : m256029746I never ok’d for the Sammy Davis Jr records to be downloaded on my Itunes. I did not authorize it nor would I ever want it. How do I go about getting my money back.Just in case you have questions I am the only one that uses my computer as I live alone.Please help me
TrackID: 2436628
Itunes customer service-
Crystal,I’m sorry to hear that someone has made an unauthorized purchase on your iTunes account. If you suspect that your credit card is being used fraudulently for iTunes Store purchases, I strongly recommend you change your account password immediately. To increase the security of your account, I recommend that your new account password be eight charactersÂincluding letters and numbers. You can change your password using this website:http://iforgot.apple.com/You can also delete your credit card information from the iTunes Store.
1. Download and install the latest version of iTunes. You can download the latest version, free-of-charge, from our website at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download.
2. Click this link to launch iTunes and view the iTunes Store sign in dialog:http://phobos.apple.com/accountSummary/
3. Enter your iTunes Store account name and password.
4. Click the Account Info button to proceed.
5. On your Apple Account Information screen, click the Edit Credit Card button.
6. Select “None” from the list of credit card types. This will delete your billing information.
7. Be sure to click the Done button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.If you have a concern about a charge that has already been made to your account, please contact your credit cardcompanyy,JuliaiTunes Store Customer Support
Crystal-
thisi did not solve the problem , I don’t think it was used but I do feel I was charged for something I did not order nor want. I do need my money back, this is not linked to a credit card but my bank account and I did not authorize to have two Sammy DavisJrr collections to be purchased. I do need that money back. I will what ever it takes to get this settled. Thank you Crystal
iTunes customer service Â
Crystal,I am sorry to learn of your concern about what may be unauthorized charges to your credit card for iTunes Store transactions, and I regret to inform you that the iTunes Store cannot reverse those charges. I urge you to contact your bank as soon as possible to inquire about canceling the card and removing the unauthorized transactions.If you suspect you are the victim of identity theft, consider following these recommendations provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC):
1) Contact the fraud departments of any one of the three consumer reporting companies to place a fraud alert on your credit report.
2) Close the accounts that you believe have been used without your knowledge.
3) File a report with your local police.
4) File a complaint with the FTC.For more information, visit the FTC website:http://www.consumer.gov/idtheftSincerely,MichaeliTunes Store Customer Support
Crystal-
Ok how many time will I need to email you guys!!!!It is not about charges on my bank card it is about Itunes not being correct and I have two things of SammDavisiJrjr on my purchased list and I am being charged with them and NO ONE IS EVER ON MY COMPUTER OR IN MY ACCOUNT.Andnd why woulSammymDavisiJrjr being downloaded to my account if someone wanted to use my card for something.I need to be reimbursed the amount of 19.98the cost for the two albums. If you can not help me please give me the name and number of someone who can
Thank you in advance
I Tunes Customer Service-
Dear Crystal,If no one is on your computer but your, then this is a fraud matter.If you suspect that your credit card is being used fraudulently for iTunes Store purchases, I strongly recommend you change your account password immediately. To increase the security of your account, I recommend that your new account password be eight charactersÂincluding letters and numbers. You can change your password using this website:http://iforgot.apple.com/You can also delete your credit card information from the iTunes Store.
1. Download and install the latest version of iTunes. You can download the latest version, free-of-charge, from our website at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download.
2. Click this link to launch iTunes and view the iTunes Store sign in dialog:http://phobos.apple.com/accountSummary/
3. Enter your iTunes Store account name and password.
4. Click the Account Info button to proceed.
5. On your Apple Account Information screen, click the Edit Credit Card button.
6. Select “None” from the list of credit card types. This will delete your billing information.
7. Be sure to click the Done button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.If you have a concern about a charge that has already been made to your account, please contact your credit card company.
Sincerely, Dave iTunes Store Customer Support
Crystal Â
IT’S NOT A FRAUD ISSUE……..IT IS AN ITUNES ISSUE…PLEASE READ THE EMAILS LEADING TO THIS ONE….II HAVE HAD 3 PEOPLE NOW NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE TYPED OR SAID AND THEY KEEP SAYING THE SAME THING THAT IS NOT CORRECTPLEASE GIVE ME THE CONTACT INFO FOR A SUPERVISOR
I tunes Customer Service Â
“Dear Crystal,I’m sorry to hear about the problems that you have been having in trying to solve this issue. I apologize for all of the miscommunication, and will do my best to try to clarify any problems you may be having on your account. Based on the information you provided, I understand you have two Sammy Davis, Jr. albums on your library that you never authorized for download. I have done some research on your account, and have found out the following information. The Sammy Davis,Albumslbums were ordered on 8/19/2006, and were included in an order that also included “Broken,” a single by Lindsey Haun. Please keep in mind that anyone can purchase music on your computer if you do not log out of your account. In the future, to prevent unwanted purchases, I would suggest logging out of your account in order to prevent friends, family, or anyone from inadvertently logging on to your iTunes account and going crazy with unauthorized purchases.Crystal, I have reversed the charge for the two Sammy Davis,Albumslbums you mentioned in your previous correspondence. You will see a credit in three to five business days. Please note that the iTunes Store Terms of Sale state that all sales are final, so this is a one-time exception.To avoid accidental purchases in the future, you can configure iTunes to use the Shopping Cart. That way, you can review your selections before paying for them.”
I think I am a tad vain…Ohs well I say to that
I think as people get older you become aware of everything and how your body works, looks and feels
I know this is true because just as my parents had to use the “bathroom” everyday by 7:30am you realize you need to use the bathroom by a certain time everyday.
You notice the way you face changes and how your ass doesn’t quit seem as high as it use to be.
How can this be I am only 26.
So with more recent weight loss, I am down to a size where I do not feel huge anymore and I can find clothes anywhere now and not just in fat girl clothing stores. But I see myself looking at myself a lot, in mirrors, in glass windows and in the rear view mirror. Where is the girl I was a few years ago? Where is the cute girl I was and who is this women looking back at me?
No matter how wrong it may seem but someday I will get work done, face lift, breast augmentation and a tummy tuck. Because I forever want to be 20 years old. Wrinkles will make me cry and to start looking dumpy I will want to kill myself. I have always had a little more weight then I like on me, as must people but it has always been in the right places….
I see people who have skinny legs and a huge torso or people with unportioned bodies. I don’t want that ….
But each day I study my body, to see how it changes and sometimes I love where I am at and other times I am disgusted.
I just wish I knew what I would look like at 45……Will I be cute, will I have already had work done….What and where will I be…
I can’t be everything to everyone.
I try!!!!!!!
Sometimes I wonder why I want to be perfect, why I want to be Miss Susie Homemaker & the Creative genius I know I am…
But last week I was thinking after getting pissed off for the 400th time I have been corrected, not just by the man I live with but everyone I know. My mother, my stepfather, my father my stepmother my friends and other family members, my co workers and bosses.. I have never said I am all that smart, when it comes to common sense I have most of them beat, the school of hard knocks if you would.
I write because I need somewhere to vent, to talk about my life and keep record of it. I have every single journal/diary I have ever kept since I was 12 years old. I like to sit there and read and see how much of me when I was 12 years old is the me now.It makes me smile and it makes me sad. That this is something I have battled my whole life, people always expecting so much out of me and then me trying to keep up with peoples expectations.
I will tell you ( you being whomever is reading this)
I AM NOT PERFECT!!!!
I AM THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE WORLD BUT I DO HAVE A STEALER MEMORY AND I KNOW THAT ICELAND IS AN ISLAND ( SORRY NEIL I HAD TO STICK THAT IN)
WHEN IT COMES TO LIFE SKILLS AND SURVIVAL I HAVE MOST PEOPLE BEAT.
I have learned how to live on nothing and then how to have everything I wanted. I have done for myself for the last 10 years ( how many 26 year olds can say that) I have done anything and everything to live, survive and be where I am today.
I may not have a college degree, I may want to go to school for hair dressing without people rolling there eyes at me and I just want to be what I want to be.
When something interest me, there will be no one but me who knows everything there is to know about that something. I listen, take in all that I can and go from there.
But people always have to challenge me. Why can’t they leave well enough alone.
So here I sit after cleaning the house top to bottom, I wash the floors every week so people may not think I am the smartest cookie but they will think damn ” she keeps one clean house”
I will continue to do what I am good ate and one my own decide what I am not. But at times I think there may be something about me that is not the way it should be. I could have ADD but think that it is so over diagnosed that all I need to do is say to my doctor I think that is an issue and I would be prescribed something. I don’t want that, I would like to know 100% if that be the issue. Most of my life would make more sense if I knew why I tend to be so scatterbrained. Who knows but I do know I am not a bad person and I do the best I can …….
MY BLOG IS ONE YEAR OLD…….
more...So today was the first day to a new routine. So I decided that there are days like today that I will not make it to the gym so I need to start doing something proactive to make sure my butt gets smaller and not larger…
So my morning break I am walking with jen, I can get 1 mile in in that 15 minute time frame.Thean at lunch I am walking this new route from the office to All the way down Forest St then taking a left on Bartlett St and then another left back onto Cedar Hill St . Each time is 15 minutes for just over a mile, includes some nice hills and such to make it a bit of work..
When I got back to the office I found this website called Gmaps-Pedometer.com , the link will bring you to my walk that I did it will tell you how far you went, calories burned and so on….I LOVE IT.
Then in the afternoon I will do another mile with Jen. So this will be 4 miles a day while at work at least 420 calories burned…Not to shabby

Another week begins, I need to figure out how to get the weekends events talked about on he weekend.
Tomorrow is my one year blog-aversary for ” I Heart Peanut Butter” what has happened in the last year is great and I will grow from.
This weekend was for the most part chill. Friday night we dropped my car off at Saturn for the issues that have been occurring for the last few weeks to be checked out. The warranty covered all the little things and the car was in very much need of being aligned. So 80 dollars later the car was ready to be picked up on Saturday afternoon. Neil and I had committed to helping his dad with priming the garage so I was not in the mood to rush things so we had to get back to Worcester by 3pm. So I called the service department and had them lock up the car with the paperwork.
We finished priming the garage while Sandy was making lunch on the grill. We ate, visited for a bit and headed on home.
Friday night we went and seen “Step Up” I am so sorry to my boy for making him go with me. I have always had a thing for dance movies, but this was not far away from “Save the last dance” except no one could act in this movie and it was just plan BAD. To top it off I figured since we were in Worcester to drop the car off we would just go to Worcester North movie theater. Well all the little hoodrats where also there and it was pure ridiculousness of noise, clapping when the leading characters kissed, the lights coming on cause the 14 year old thugs where making to much noise. Neil even got hit on by some 14 year old girl, while she looked him up and down saying ” You are loooking gooooood” in the thugish of thugish talk I am sure. Shaking her little Puerto Rican head. Go back to the GBV girlie…He was graduating high school when you where born…..lol…
Anyway the rest of the weekend included chilling, movie watching, video game playing. Neil bought me Katamari Damacy this weekend, after my friend Jen was telling me about it. I was Rolling things up all weekend….Oh how fun.
But Monday once more……I need to get back to work….
WW friendly Crab Rangoons
Ok this is the trick to making them so they are not that bad for you and they taste good heated up.
1 Package won ton wrappers
1 small package imitation crab meat or one can of real crab meat
2 8oz packages of low fat cream cheese
season to taste
So you take the cream cheese at room temp and mix in the crab meat, you want the mixture to be a 2 to 1 (cream cheese to crab meat mix)
You then take the wonton and put a teaspoon of mix into the center
Fold over the wonton to create a triangle then make the two ends meet.
You will place them on a cookie sheet sprayed with Pam and heat the oven to 350
Place in oven and cook from 16 to 22 minutes. Until brown and crisp.
I usually will flip them after about 10 minutes..
THEY ARE SOOOOOO GOOD
and I want some right now…
Do you ever wish you could take your favorite parts of your life and keep them current.
I mean your adult life.
Sometimes I wish I was as daring as I was when I was 20. People who know me know I am bold, daring and somewhat adventourous. I tend to like things more when I can get in trouble, hurt or it just is plain not good for me.
I do things for the risk factor and the wow your a tough girl now factor.
But I use to be much more, slighty extreme with my choices and some of them would be nice to have now.
I was never afraid of anything, a new city I would move and take on as if I owned it. I moved around never afraid if I would crash, burn or die.
I followed what my step father said in ” What is the worst thing that could happen?” what no cash for food for a week????? No money to go out and play????? But I would survive…I always have
So one thing I want to preserve from the past is my “Fear of Nothing”. I tend to be more scared and I suppose as we get older we become more afraid of every day life and how mcuh we could screw it up when we have a house, car payments and so much more. When we learn what could happen if we fail. Ok more like it I want to preserve the innocents on ignorance. That is it.
Then I was the scenery of the past, reading a friend of mines survey online and seeing how much she misses Denver also. While I was there I always wanted to be home, but now that i am home I want to go back. But to much has happened there for me to live there ever again.
But I miss the midnight walks around City Park, I lived 1 block away from city park, to explain to someone how big city park is it was about 20 city blocks long and 15 city blocks wide. There was the Denver Nature and Science Museum and the Denver Zoo tucked inside and you would never see them, except a few strange looking birds that would get out of the zoo. So nights when you couldn’t sleep put on some shoes and walk around the lake at the park, well until a cop would pull up and ask what you were doing in the park at that time.
I miss easy access to life.
I live in a small town of 10k that is overtaken by townie drunks for the most part and I miss the city. I miss any city…
I miss being able to go get coffee and middle eastern food at 3am.. I miss endless amounts of stores, restraunts and other things that completly by yourself you could stay entertained . I was alone alot in Denver but I was always ok with it, on a lonly saturday I would walk some odd 15 miles in a day, doing errands, shopping, go to the library and so on…
I MISS THAT.
I miss sometimes the young not tarnished Crystal. But I think I am ok with who I am ……
So third day back to work !!!!!!!
interesting and slighty boring because we are on a project which is 99% data entry and 1% calling of schools. I am a sales person and have ADD. Those together put me on edge when I am reading sized 4 font and trying not to miss anything.
So Monday afternoon I went to the Orthopedic Associates of Marlboro and seen Dr. Taylor for my bilateral knee pain.
He confirmed it is premature arthritis and I have DEFORMED knee caps. Thanks mom for making me with a deformity. I guess when my knees bend they go out and not rotate like they should.
Answers to the problem include and will not be limited to…
Getting fitted for knee braces on Thursday that I need to wear when I Hike, play raqetteball, tennis, or do any physical activity. I think these braces will become my new best friend, since I sit for very little time and I am always on the go.
Starting Physical Therapy next week, hopefully they have other ideas to strengthen my legs to help keep my knee strong…I think I know what they will have me do and I figure I can do that on my own.
Keep taking gluclosamine until I die and my knees will slow down on the progression of arthritis.
So that is what is new and exciting.
Get to paint a garage this weekend,that is fun too……