Hubby caught the flu last week and is finally all better. Yay! I also am very happy that I didn't catch it from him. Double yay!!
I found a new app for my phone that is called Noom. It's a weight loss / get healthy type app. I have gotten soo out of shape, that it isn't funny! I plan on getting back down to my "healthy" weight and the plan it has set up for me (which is on easy mode) should get me there by Christmas. Literally. The date they set for me is 12/25/13. It seems simple enough and not too much of a hassle. I just hate having to count calories and mark down all this stuff day after day after day. With this I just scan the bar code or type in what I have eaten. Mark if I did any exercising and then it makes my phone it's own little pedometer! I just have to turn it on and put it in my pocket. If I want it to stop counting step, I push pause. Easy, right?! I sure hope so. I'm even having hubby try it out, being he keeps telling me he wants to get closer to his Army days. Not exactly like back then, but healthy and toned. I'm cool with that.
Hubby and I finally used some movie tickets we got from my Christmas work party of 2011 (they were good until the end of this year) and just hadn't been to a megaplex with a movie that we wanted to see AND the tickets could be used. Finally did. We saw Django with Jamie Foxx. It was really good... other than all the blood. You can't really find a Quentin Tarantino movie that doesn't have and exaggerated amount of blood and spraying in it, though. Some parts of it were really funny. There is one part where this little town has the whole townsfolk out in the street because the sheriff just got shot (he was really this outlaw going by a new name and the bounty hunters got him). There is one towns person that looked to me like she might be one of the prostitutes, and she had a crutch and a really big cast on her ankle/foot/leg. Everyone in the town starts running away and she's just hobbling away as fast as she could. I have no idea why this was so funny to me, but it just seemed really odd.
As a whole, I liked the story. I just wish it didn't have so much blood. I would definitely not recommend this movie to my mom, but my dad might like it.
The last few nights after hubby went to sleep, I stayed up and watched random documentaries that I found on netflix.
One was about the "Silver Pharaoh." He was around not long after king Tut was. He also ruled at the beginning of a time that is referred to as Egypt's dark ages. Dark ages because they don't know a whole lot about that era. His tomb was one of the only tombs they have found that was intact when it was found (i.e. no tomb robbers or other outside forces messed with it!). It was found around the beginning of WWII, which is why it isn't as well known as Tut's. People were much more preoccupied with Hitler. He is the "Silver Pharaoh" because his is the only sarcophagus that was made of silver and not gold. Very odd.
I would totally say check this one out!
Another was narrated by Mr. Spock himself and was about human sacrifice and the religions that practiced it. They cover placed from India to England to Mexico and the Aztecs.
Last night was one about King Herod the Great. I'm sure you know who he is! Think Herod that was the king when Jesus was born. This one talked about how he was a really amazing architect and created rather beautiful buildings. They also say how he went kinda crazy near the end of his life and all his people hated him. They think they found his final resting place, but aren't completely sure. It was an interesting show, too.
What have you been watching lately?
2 comments:
Hi, beautiful, fantastic Meagan. I have counted calories for 50 years. I worked in a doctors' office after I first got married. We had to wear white uniforms, and one day, I said to Dr. Goates, "I think this dress shrunk when I washed it." He said, "I don't think the dress shrunk; I think the person grew." So I weighed myself and looked in the mirror. I had gained about 39 pounds in the year I had been married. I have been trying to keep my weight normal since then. I weigh 15 pounds more than when I got married, but then I have had 6 children too and I don't want to get a lot of wrinkles from being too thin. I count the calories in my head at night to see if I have any left over. I eat between 1400 and 1600 calories a day. On holidays I don't count them so much, but after 50 years my body rather knows when I have reached the goal. I try to eat lots of fruit and veggies. I make a fruit drink every other day that includes a really ripe banana, frozen blueberries, frozen tropical fruit w/strawberries, yogurt and sometimes flax meal when I remember it and fresh lime juice. Larry and I share this drink.
My favorite movie is probably Second Hand Lion. Also, the Muppets Christmas Carol which we watched recently. Sounds like you're learning lots of history.
Have a wonderful day. Glad you are both well. Stay that way. Lots of Love, Your Number One Fan
I didn't know you used to work in a doctors office! That's funny that he told you that.
That smoothie sounds kinda good :)
Second hand lion is a good movie.
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